so I spent halloween this year napping and listening to new music. fwiw, these bands are particularily nice:
• Minus the Bear
• Sharks Keep Moving
• The Divine Comedy
• South
good stuff all around, though everything sounds pretty similar. I also went ahead and got Peter Gabriel’s Up album - it’s awesome. I’m kinda thinking of redesigning my website as well, to have more swoopy bits and whatnot..
It’s finally turning into winter kinda. Played baseball in mid-50s yesterday and existed in mid 40s today. Too bad it won’t last.
Been getting more into chill-outy kinda music lately - stuff kinda like the music of Mogwai, Boards of Canada (who have a new album out, btw), Engine7 and Mum. Unfortunately I don’t know too many more bands like them. Kinda intrigued at the moment by Hammockmusic though, who I found through CDBaby.
I finally also got the Airport card for my laptop in. I’m honestly enjoying the Titanium; for what I do most of the time, 1GHz is plenty fast. It’s actually replaced my Mac mini for the time being, and it’s a 1.42. That said, Apple did bump the Powerbook line last week.. the 17″ now has a screen that features the same resolution as the 20″ Cinema Display. Too bad the CPU speeds didn’t go up too. And, speaking of Cinema Displays, I’ve been kinda thinking of getting a Dell 2005 or 2405FPW when the prices get insanely cheap again. It would be nice to have some extra desktop space.
Idea I’ve been tossing around: instead of coding your class (assuming PHP here) around a framework (propel, db_table, etc. etc.) or just hard-coding data management into your methods (calling PEAR DB directly, f.e.) why not have a kinda proto-DB wrapper that uses reflection to examine which variables need to be saved, and then does such and makes proper SQL (in whatever dialect) and then passes it on appropriately? The wrapper could thusly be modified to support other storage types including XML or memcached or whatever, or just banging things out in an array. Kinda like LINQ but for PHP and without all the making of the language syntax.
In the future I shall try to be less melodramatic. My PowerBook lacks an AirPort card at all; I confirmed that it was supposed to have one so now one’s on order and I may get it soon. In the meantime I’ve been screwing around with various third-party wireless drivers. There is one called WirelessDriver (imaginative, I know) that is free as in speech and beer, and two others that are neither but support 802.11a/g cards. The pay drivers are fairly inexpensive ($15) and the one I liked actually worked out of the box on my Proxim 802.11abg combo.
The problem I have with this is that both Linux and FreeBSD support most Atheros/Intel/etc. 802.11a/g chipsets (but less so Broadcom), and darn near all 802.11b ones. There’s no real reason why my Senao Prism2.5 card should not Just Work(tm) in OS X. Or why I should have to resort to a pay driver or fairly flaky free one to get support. Granted, it’s a small market - iBooks can’t take PCMCIA cards anyway and OS X supports Airport natively - but it can’t be that hard to port an existing driver. So, that means I’m thinking about trying it. I did at one point have a bit of a replacement keyboard driver working to an extent in OS X. That was 10.1, though.
So I finally got my PowerBook back. I bought a 1GHz Titanium back in august and due to a comedy of errors it took two months for it to come back from the repair center. It’s cool and all but my Airport card doesn’t work. And I was like a day away fromg etting a new machine. Oh well. Getting it going was pretty painless, though. TinkerTool + Growl + Quicksilver rock your boxors.
A project at work is going to lead me into my first forays into AJAX development. Needless to say the fact that I need to interface my project with Campus Standard Database(tm) means that without using AJAX certain choosy elements would be horrific to use. (It’s an inventory thing, you need to choose the building/room and the list of such in the Campus Standard Diddlybobber is like 1300 entries long.) So now I’m looking into which frameworks I want to use for the thing. There are a few frontrunners at the moment. AJAX still doesn’t make a whole lot of sense on the implementation level, though; that’s got more to do with my general lack of understanding of what JavaScript and the DOM can do for me.
or is it still sunday?
I have just realized that the website looks an awful lot like green plastic - same general concept with the header and footer and such.
I have a Linux box in the rack now, which is kinda cool. it’s Ubuntu though. and unworking. and maybe it’ll become FreeBSD later on, but I haven’t decided yet; it’s really just there for screwing around on. the unworkingness is due to DHCP weirdness (it’s getting an IP in a subnet that’s not routable in that building).
Furthermore: Sia is awesome, or at least that one track on the Six Feet Under soundtrack is. I’m trying to decide if I want to merge this blog and the music blog since I never update the music blog and stuff. Voodoo Music Fest is in Memphis this year, and Will Hoge is playing next month, so there’s some shows that’ll be worth going to, which is amazing since local music sucks pretty well lately.
This whole physical exertion thing is kinda odd. Still getting used to that.
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