Yesterday we signed for the house. Viv gets the keys tomorrow morning.
I’m deeply unhappy and upset about it. I feel like I’ve just murdered someone, a friend. I don’t really wish to write about it, but it seems wrong to let it simply pass by without a mention.
Local software company Ranchero just sold its’ creamy-smooth RSS reader, NetNewsWire, to RSS agglomeration juggernaut Newsgator. Paid users, TidBITS reports and NewsGator confirms, get a bonus:
As part of this deal, existing NetNewsWire full-version customers will receive a free 2-year paid subscription to NewsGator Online. More details will be announced with the next release of NetNewsWire, which will include advanced features and functions from NewsGator Online.
In theory, wiser persons inform me, that means a full cross-platform blogstream, retaining read state from machine to machine across platforms. Oh man. Two years is surely long enough for Google to shake the crap out of the underwhelming Google Reader.
Thank you Paul for hipping me to NNW at some point in the past year!
The New Yorker’s Peter Schjeldahl runs a long look at the graphic novel, now that it’s all grown up (presumably not having really been so twenty years ago on the publication of Maus, or forty years ago on the publication of A Contract with God.
He opens, more or less, with a paean to Chris Ware, who, possibly non-coincidentally, was granted the honor of the cover of the magazine two issues back.
Michael Lewis entertainingly and at length recounts some of the absurdities of his New Orleans flood, and finds reason for hope for his city.
As a part of my multivalent photo-storage disaster, I am finally exporting from iPhoto to Flickr. The flickrexport iPhoto plugin works OK, but I need to export about 150 albums to Flickr as sets with the same names as the albums. Flickrexport allows one to export more than one album at a time, but it does not automatically create the sets on an album-by-album basis.
I suppose the workaround here involves tagging the pics pre-export, uploading the whole schmeer, and then selecting by tags in the organizr to create the sets. That’s not quite as big a PITA as uploading the albums as sets one at a time, but it creates a problem in that the work of assigning the tagged pics to sets is time-consuming and subject to interruption and abandonment.
Hm.
UPDATE:
PF sez “try flickruploader.”
Something unexpected just occurred as I worked to copy some text files into the ‘albums’ directory of my Gallery install – all the albums directories vanished. Alas!
Uh-oh. Regarding ‘mv’:
As the rename(2) call does not work across file systems, mv uses cp(1) and rm(1) to accomplish the move. The effect is equivalent to:
rm -f destination_path &&
cp -PRp source_file destination &&
rm -rf source_file
Thus the effect of applying ‘mv’ like this:
mv * /path/to/intended/destination/*
will result in the removal of the files in the destination directory.
oddly, the command was not issued with -r and thus I would have expected it to error out on the first directory it encountered. Shit. Hope one of my ancient backups is about.
if not, back to Galleryadd.pl. Or maybe install G2 from scratch and then do the import.
Something unexpected just occurred as I worked to copy some text files into the ‘albums’ directory of my Gallery install – all the albums directories vanished. Alas!
The Greatest Bus Driver in the World takes a moment to note the 50th anniversary of ‘Howl’. He notes that he sports a tatoo dedicated to the pome, something that interests me.
Years ago I noticed that the first line of ‘Howl’ can be disassembled and reassembled, essentially at random, without appreciably diminishing the verbal power of the line. I mused about building a Howl first-line randomizer, but had no idea how to do it. As I sxtarted to write this entry, I realized that now I do know how to do it, easily. But I don’t have the time to do it just this second. Bug me about this and I will execute the project, internets!
I have seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness
I have minded the generated scenes of my madness, best destroyed
I have maddened the best generation of my sight by destroying minds
I have destroyed my mind by besting generations of maddening sights
I have X the Y Z of my foo bar, baz (by) quux
(cf. metasyntactic variables, for the puzzled)
Editor b has released a ‘rough cut’ of his evacuation from New Orleans just over a month ago.
Could be. Howsabout Sunday night instead?