Well, the Radiohead show at Berkeley was awesome! They had a few technical difficulties with some of the speakers or some feedback. Aside from that, the natural fog made for some amazing lighting effects, and the perfect center location for the acoustics made the concert memorable. They are playing again tonight at the Greek Theatre.

Created 98 weeks, 22 hours ago

I don't know long I have been missing the RSS feed for gmail. Unless a site uses the RSS/XML badge I don't typically see the alternate link rss available icon in firefox. It just isn't in a very useful location for however my brain works.

So, if there is RSS for gmail, how about Google calendar? Sure enough, the alternate link rss is available! Too bad it doesn't work for me. I get a 404 error for the service. I even tried a few variations on the path, no luck yet.

So, this sure gets me that much closer to finishing the pop connector.

I just checked Yahoo! mail, and they don't have RSS available. Although they do have a Add to My Yahoo service, maybe that is just an RSS feed? Ill need to do some investigation.

I also checked Microsoft live.com hotmail service and also no RSS. Bummer.

Created 98 weeks, 2 days ago

So, heading to the Radiohead show tonight in Berkeley. Everyone keeps saying the venue is so awesome. Without seeing it, I am comparing it to the sunken gardens theatre in San Antonio. Ill give you a better description after the show tomorrow.

The seats are in the inner ring left-center of the stage. It is an open-air theatre so I don't think there are going to be any bad seats.

The show starts at 7:30. I haven't ever seen Thom Yorke in concert so I am kinda excited about the show. Hurray!

*Update day of concert: Well... I didn't have any Radiohead albums at work. So I am listening to Def Leppard in anticpation of tonights show.

Created 98 weeks, 2 days ago

For the first time since I moved to San Francisco, the fog was gone for longer than a few days this week. I started to miss it. It sure made the evenings nice and it added a certain mystery to the night air when driving or walking in it. It is back tonight and I am glad for it. It was starting to get a little warm at nights and with the fog comes the frigid air that cools the non-air-conditioned house.

Created 98 weeks, 2 days ago

I just realized I was being the 'Where I'm from' guy. Sorry if that was annoying to all my new local readers. I had to get it out of my system.

Because, where I'm from, we like to talk about where we are from.

Also, where I'm from, its hot in the summer and cold in the winter.

Where I'm from, we drive fast and there is sometimes congestion on the highway, but where I'm from it isn't as bad.

Unlike this place, where I'm from we only pay $100 a square foot for housing and we own property that we can park cars on.  Also, men don't push around baby-strollers in the middle of the day and they certainly don't wear pink shirts out to meet the guys unless it is for golf.

So thats it. No more 'where I'm from' from me. Unless you want to ask me something about where I'm from that I haven't told you yet .

Created 98 weeks, 2 days ago

I think maybe my tastebuds aren't doing thier job as well as when I was younger.

On monday, heading to lunch I noticed my Monday morning coffee in the cup-holder of the car.

So..... which coffee I had been drinking at the office on monday morning?

How toxic can a cup of black coffee get?

 

Created 98 weeks, 4 days ago

I found that links to my site from the search engines were leading to category pages (non-paged, very very heavy), or to blog date pages (several posts per page). It was due to the search engines indexing my category and archives pages, and those outranking my individual permalink pages.

This was leading to some serious confusion from visitors coming to my site via search engines. Some links have up to 50 posts per page. Arghh..

Well, now I have implemented some JavaScript that will detect visitor referrals via search engines and give them notice and some options for more discreet searching with my own site search tool.

This is the alert box that a user will get when visiting from a search

So, give it a try with this Google Search link.

This script is based on an original JS search hilite script by Stuart Langridge. 

For the next version, I want to boil it down in order to have it dynamically create the alert box and to better detect the different flavors of search engines. Maybe also do an API call with XMLHttp to gather N recent search results that match your Search Engine phrase.

 

Created 98 weeks, 5 days ago

There. I said it.

Lately, browsing my feeds with Newsgator has been painful.

Reloading the entire page for each folder or view seems pointless and a waste of time.

I am starting to consider using a less feature-rich product (Google Reader, bloglines, anything else) if this experience continues. Good thing my OPML travels well.

Created 99 weeks, 2 days ago

To the MAX!

Now you have it.

Created 99 weeks, 3 days ago

A few of you know that I am working on a project to enable RSS feeds for pop3 services. If you didn't, now you know.

I belive the best solution for POP3 to RSS would be to have the mail server would generate a pure RSS feed and manage the security without having to have an intermediary service such as the one I am working on. However, mail server softwares have been slow to pick up on what I think will be a huge selling point.

It is not the first time this idea has been tackled as a third party service.

Well, I just found a mail server product that creates RSS from your mailbox.

Mailtraq
It isn't cheap, but it looks pretty darn nice. I wish my ISP would pick it up or add this feature to thier web-mail offering.

"Mailtraq's RSS feed from webmail folders makes it simple to send a live summary of email to your RSS news aggregator or to embed your email on your Intranet or your personal web portal such as Microsoft's 'Live' or Google's 'Personalized Homepage'."

Created 99 weeks, 3 days ago

"Jo MAMMA", the burned-out looking dude screamed out to the other patrons and grocery clerks as he excitedly pointed towards the obnoxiously-huge slogan printed on his t-shirt. 

I had decided that once again I had picked the WRONG CORRECT line to stand in.

"It's like... Jo MAMMA, you know? You know, Jo MAMMA!". Again he spun around showing his shirt to all who would look at it.

It was hard to miss the washed out white 'wet-paint-font' eblazoned words on the front of his oversized off-pink shirt.

His groceries advanced on the belt towards the scanner and the clerk began checking him through. 

"That never gets old", the clerk (name tag: Gerrerismo) said directly to the excited patron.

The guy leans in towards Gerrerismo, glances around, and whispers:

"Honestly, I don't even know what it means."

 

 

Created 99 weeks, 4 days ago

Or 2453892.75424 if your nasty.

Created 100 weeks, 5 days ago