After months of hounding him, Griffin made me this adorable Tux pengin christmas ornament for his Secret Santa.
Saturday, December 25, 2004
Xmas 2004
Another busy holiday at our house.
After months of hounding him, Griffin made me this adorable Tux pengin christmas ornament for his Secret Santa.
After months of hounding him, Griffin made me this adorable Tux pengin christmas ornament for his Secret Santa.
Monday, December 20, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-12-20
- Chronology of Christianity --
Chronology of Christianity Tagged as: [religion]
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-12-16
- Pierced Eyeglasses [The Publisher’s Ring] --
Who needs earpieces on glasses? Just get a piercing! Tagged as: [strange] - The Cubesâ„¢ --
Funny, sad, oh so true Tagged as: [humor] - ReadyMade: Feature - Boy Scout Napkins --
How to fold a shirt + video. Finally a good use for all that internet bandwidth Tagged as: [humor reference] - Auto complete comes of age - SitePoint DHTML & CSS Blog --
How google suggest works Tagged as: [reference web]
Saturday, December 4, 2004
Want to be noticed? Buy *this* truck
It is time to sell The Beast. We replaced it with a car but didn't trade it in, although we probably should have.
Everyone in town recognized me in that big yellow truck taking the kids to daycare, shopping, going to work and now it can be yours.
Favorite memory of The Beast -- Back in early December 1999 (leading up to big Y2K panic) and when Wendy was very pregnant with Emma, we took the five other kids out to choose their
own christmas tree ornament and look at some christmas tree lights. Driving back down
Contential Blvd, three deer ran across the road and I clipped the little one. There is still
a small dent in the front from where the head it it, but it got up and took off into the woods.
We stopped and called the police in case they wanted to take a look for the injured animal. After about 10 minutes of waiting and assuring the kids that "No, Daddy didn't just hit Rudolf", the
police show up. I roll down the window and the policeman sticks his head in and says: "So I hear you just killed Rudolf." Tears start from the little ones.
The officer was nice enough to explain to the kids that, no, Daddy didn't kill Rudolf.
Ah, holiday memories!
Now go bid on The Beast on Ebay
Everyone in town recognized me in that big yellow truck taking the kids to daycare, shopping, going to work and now it can be yours.
Favorite memory of The Beast -- Back in early December 1999 (leading up to big Y2K panic) and when Wendy was very pregnant with Emma, we took the five other kids out to choose their
own christmas tree ornament and look at some christmas tree lights. Driving back down
Contential Blvd, three deer ran across the road and I clipped the little one. There is still
a small dent in the front from where the head it it, but it got up and took off into the woods.
We stopped and called the police in case they wanted to take a look for the injured animal. After about 10 minutes of waiting and assuring the kids that "No, Daddy didn't just hit Rudolf", the
police show up. I roll down the window and the policeman sticks his head in and says: "So I hear you just killed Rudolf." Tears start from the little ones.
The officer was nice enough to explain to the kids that, no, Daddy didn't kill Rudolf.
Ah, holiday memories!
Now go bid on The Beast on Ebay
Friday, November 26, 2004
comment spam
The daily comment spam is getting worse and worse -- easily 100+ per day. It never makes it to the website because WordPress is setup so I need to approve all postings, but it is a PITA to weed
through the spam to find the occasionally real comments.
I've seen on Jeremy Zawodny's blog that in order to post, you need to type *his* first name in one of the forms. Not rocket science if a human is making the posting, but perhaps just difficult enough for the spammer's script to fail. The other nice thing is you can always change the question to something equally as trival. Say, "what the the color of the sky?" or "3141592 is my favorite number, what is my favorite number?"
Jeff Barr posted an entry on exactly how to do that in Wordpress. The only thing that was a little tricky was the change to wp-comments-post.php was on line 22 in my copy of the file. The difference because the file is a DOS format and emacs displayed it with ^M^M at the end of each line (essentially halving the
number of line Jeff saw.
The changes work for me...
through the spam to find the occasionally real comments.
I've seen on Jeremy Zawodny's blog that in order to post, you need to type *his* first name in one of the forms. Not rocket science if a human is making the posting, but perhaps just difficult enough for the spammer's script to fail. The other nice thing is you can always change the question to something equally as trival. Say, "what the the color of the sky?" or "3141592 is my favorite number, what is my favorite number?"
Jeff Barr posted an entry on exactly how to do that in Wordpress. The only thing that was a little tricky was the change to wp-comments-post.php was on line 22 in my copy of the file. The difference because the file is a DOS format and emacs displayed it with ^M^M at the end of each line (essentially halving the
number of line Jeff saw.
The changes work for me...
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
NH State site with community profiles
This is one of those hard to find, but handy URLs that are so common with government sites.
The New Hampshire Employment Security's Economic and labor Market information Bureau's site has a breakdown useful information about each town/city in the state.
NH Community Profiles
I found this link in the weekly free newspaper, the Merrimack News Connection.
The New Hampshire Employment Security's Economic and labor Market information Bureau's site has a breakdown useful information about each town/city in the state.
NH Community Profiles
I found this link in the weekly free newspaper, the Merrimack News Connection.
Saturday, November 13, 2004
listening to podcasts on a less than optimal mp3 player
Today some of the kids have a 5 hour fencing competition and I wanted to get caught up listening to some podcasts. The problem is the cheap little RCA Lyra 1080B has a couple problems with listening to long mp3s. When you pause playback for more than a few minutes, the device turns off, but on restart it resets to the beginning of the mp3. Also there is no way forward ahead within an mp3.
So looked around google for a way to split mp3s into smaller chunks and found
mp3splt.
This is how I load up the mp3 player with podcasts now:
Copy those 'casts I want to a tmp directory and then:
mp3splt -f -a -t 5.0 *.mp3
Which splits all the mp3s in the current directory into 5 minute chunks.
Then copy those chunks to the player mounted on /mnt:
Off to the competition!
[update: Griffin got 3rd and Trevor 6th in novice Epee 12 and under while
Spencer came in 4th for 13 and older]
So looked around google for a way to split mp3s into smaller chunks and found
mp3splt.
This is how I load up the mp3 player with podcasts now:
Copy those 'casts I want to a tmp directory and then:
mp3splt -f -a -t 5.0 *.mp3
Which splits all the mp3s in the current directory into 5 minute chunks.
Then copy those chunks to the player mounted on /mnt:
find . -name "*00.mp3" -printf 'cp -v "%p" /mnt n' | sh
Off to the competition!
[update: Griffin got 3rd and Trevor 6th in novice Epee 12 and under while
Spencer came in 4th for 13 and older]
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Be nice to me today
I gave blood at work.
Some kind of personal best -- from signing in to heading back to the office -- a total of 1:15m.
And I got a free t-shirt out of the deal.
Some kind of personal best -- from signing in to heading back to the office -- a total of 1:15m.
And I got a free t-shirt out of the deal.
Thursday, November 4, 2004
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
I voted
Around 10am in Merrimack, it took perhaps all of 15 minutes to vote. I've put some photos over on http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn
Wendy, doing GOTV (Get Out The Vote) for Kerry/Edwards, has been on the road since 5:30am getting signs out to folks, voter rolls to the poll watchers, names and maps to canvasser.
Busy, busy, busy.
Wendy, doing GOTV (Get Out The Vote) for Kerry/Edwards, has been on the road since 5:30am getting signs out to folks, voter rolls to the poll watchers, names and maps to canvasser.
Busy, busy, busy.
Monday, November 1, 2004
Bunch of photos from yesterday's John Kerry Rally in Manchester's City Hall Plaza
I uploaded a bunch of new photos from yesterday's event:
John Kerry Rally, Manchester NH (31-Oct-2004)
Photos include:
* Granny D Haddock
* Red Sox management ( Red Sox co-owner John Henry, who was joined by partner Tom Werner and general manager Theo Epstein)
* Lou D'Alessandro
* Bunch of photos of John Kerry (natch)
* Couple of photos of Senator George Mitchell (here you go Juri of Harvard)
* Spencer in a clown suit with a sign "No more clowns in the White House"
* All the kids in halloween costume
* A photographer (from JK campaign?) taking pictures of the kids after the event (Who are you and where can I get copies?)
* Snipers on the Manchester City Hall Plaza clocktown and building (which Trevor thinks is such a cool job)
John Kerry Rally, Manchester NH (31-Oct-2004)
Photos include:
* Granny D Haddock
* Red Sox management ( Red Sox co-owner John Henry, who was joined by partner Tom Werner and general manager Theo Epstein)
* Lou D'Alessandro
* Bunch of photos of John Kerry (natch)
* Couple of photos of Senator George Mitchell (here you go Juri of Harvard)
* Spencer in a clown suit with a sign "No more clowns in the White House"
* All the kids in halloween costume
* A photographer (from JK campaign?) taking pictures of the kids after the event (Who are you and where can I get copies?)
* Snipers on the Manchester City Hall Plaza clocktown and building (which Trevor thinks is such a cool job)
Sunday, October 31, 2004
Just back from the John Kerry Rally in Manchester, NH
A busy, busy day --- we've been up in Manchester since 11am and just got back with enough time to throw some dinner at the kids and send them out for trick-or-treating.
The ol' digital camera decided it no longer liked the CF SanDisk (blinky 'CF') so I was forced to rely on the limited internal memory and take photos at the lowest quality. Fortunately I had the ol' Minolta SLR, which was working and took three rolls, but those will have to wait until tomorrow.
At this rally I took some notes between keeping a eye on the kids -- Wendy had a 'pink ticket' which means she got to stand up on stage with Kerry and a ton of other folks.
Right now most of the kids are our prowling the neighborhood so a writeup will have to wait unti later. There were a ton of people there!
Head over to flickr to see some kinda crappy photos from the event.
The ol' digital camera decided it no longer liked the CF SanDisk (blinky 'CF') so I was forced to rely on the limited internal memory and take photos at the lowest quality. Fortunately I had the ol' Minolta SLR, which was working and took three rolls, but those will have to wait until tomorrow.
At this rally I took some notes between keeping a eye on the kids -- Wendy had a 'pink ticket' which means she got to stand up on stage with Kerry and a ton of other folks.
Right now most of the kids are our prowling the neighborhood so a writeup will have to wait unti later. There were a ton of people there!
Head over to flickr to see some kinda crappy photos from the event.
Saturday, October 30, 2004
John Kerry in Manchester, NH tomorrow
George W. Bush was in Manchester at the Verizon Center on Monday and word is they were hoping for 12,000 but only 7,000 showed up! The gossip at the kids soccer game today was lots of people didn't bother to go when they heard Red Sox pitcher Kurt Schilling backed out at the last moment. Weakening Bush support in NH!
From the flyer:
- - -
See John Kerry for the final New Hampshire Rally
Sunday, October 31st
Gates open at 12:00
City Hall Plaza, Manchester
900 Elm Street
Featuring:
* Musical Guests Bruce Hornsby
* Children's Halloween Costume Content
* Candy and Free Kerry Gear
Please limit personal items
No Bags. No Signs. No Umbrellas.
For more information:
Manchester Democratic Headquarters
311 Lincoln Street
(603) 622-2549
- - -
I strongly recommend that you call the headquarters and try to get tickets for the indoor portion.
Here are some directions to City Hall Plaza.
![[ Yahoo! Maps ]](http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/mp/gr/mplogo.gif)
Directions to
900 Elm St
Manchester, NH 03101-2007
From the flyer:
- - -
See John Kerry for the final New Hampshire Rally
Sunday, October 31st
Gates open at 12:00
City Hall Plaza, Manchester
900 Elm Street
Featuring:
* Musical Guests Bruce Hornsby
* Children's Halloween Costume Content
* Candy and Free Kerry Gear
Please limit personal items
No Bags. No Signs. No Umbrellas.
For more information:
Manchester Democratic Headquarters
311 Lincoln Street
(603) 622-2549
- - -
I strongly recommend that you call the headquarters and try to get tickets for the indoor portion.
Here are some directions to City Hall Plaza.
Directions to
900 Elm St
Manchester, NH 03101-2007
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Digital photo of last night's lunar eclipse
This photo I took with an HP 318 digital camera came out much better than
those taken with the SLR.
A coworker said "gee, I just used my timer to take the picture so I don't have the jitter". D'oh!
those taken with the SLR.
A coworker said "gee, I just used my timer to take the picture so I don't have the jitter". D'oh!
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Creating an audio blog reply using Festival
I listened to Dave Winer's Coffee Notes for 24-Oct-2004 podcast on the way home tonight and felt compelled to reply to him with an audio reply email about Richard Scoble/Scooble's voice mail. Here is how I created it.
* Get the Festival Speech Synthesis package for your Debian GNU/Linux box
* Create a snappy reply. I like emacs. This is exactly what hi-dave.txt looks like:
Hi Dave!
This is Marc No-zell and I just listened to your Coffee Talk with
Richard Scoble. It sounds like Microsoft's voice mail system is using
a descendant of the DECK-talk system that was created by DECK in the
1980s.
I'm creating this audio reply using the Festival Speech Synthesis
System on my Deb-ian GNU Linux laptop. Neener, neener, neener!
Well, thanks for the Coffee Notes!
Now I did do a little cheating here. Festival follows strict pronunciation rules and sometimes gets words wrong. For example my surname would be said as 'nozzel', so I spell it how I want it to sound. The same is true for DECtalk and DEC, which sounds like 'dec-tork' and 'december' (trying to be a little too clever ;-)
* Convert from text to wave format:
* Convert from wav to mp3 format
* Listen to the result:
* Get the Festival Speech Synthesis package for your Debian GNU/Linux box
$ sudo apt-get install festival
[...bunch of status about installing a festival and dependancies removed...]
$
* Create a snappy reply. I like emacs. This is exactly what hi-dave.txt looks like:
Hi Dave!
This is Marc No-zell and I just listened to your Coffee Talk with
Richard Scoble. It sounds like Microsoft's voice mail system is using
a descendant of the DECK-talk system that was created by DECK in the
1980s.
I'm creating this audio reply using the Festival Speech Synthesis
System on my Deb-ian GNU Linux laptop. Neener, neener, neener!
Well, thanks for the Coffee Notes!
Now I did do a little cheating here. Festival follows strict pronunciation rules and sometimes gets words wrong. For example my surname would be said as 'nozzel', so I spell it how I want it to sound. The same is true for DECtalk and DEC, which sounds like 'dec-tork' and 'december' (trying to be a little too clever ;-)
* Convert from text to wave format:
$ text2wave hi-dave.txt -o hi-dave.wav
* Convert from wav to mp3 format
$ lame hi-dave.wav hi-dave.mp3
* Listen to the result:
$ xmms hi-dave.mp3
Monday, October 25, 2004
Wendy introduces John Kerry at rally in Dover, NH
This morning Wendy had the honor to introduce John Kerry at this Dover, NH rally.
Check out some of these photos:
John Kerry rally in Dover, NH (25-Oct-2004)
He was on fire today!
[update 27-Oct-2004]
Check out this picture on JohnKerry.com -- Wendy looks so serious. Here is a taste:
Thanks to Shannon for this picture:
Some other coverage of the event
can be found on Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar?
Check out some of these photos:
John Kerry rally in Dover, NH (25-Oct-2004)
He was on fire today!
[update 27-Oct-2004]
Check out this picture on JohnKerry.com -- Wendy looks so serious. Here is a taste:
Thanks to Shannon for this picture:
Some other coverage of the event
can be found on Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar?
Friday, October 22, 2004
Installing ubuntu 4.10 on an Compaq Armada m700 laptop
In addition to a work-provided nc6000, I also have personal Compaq Armada M700 and gave ubuntu 4.10 a install this evening.
Absolutely no problem installing or having X properly configured! One nice touch is the installer found the Orinoco wireless PCMCIA card and configured it so the network was available immediately on boot.
Absolutely no problem installing or having X properly configured! One nice touch is the installer found the Orinoco wireless PCMCIA card and configured it so the network was available immediately on boot.
Installing ubuntu 4.10 on an HP/Compaq nc6000 laptop
Here are my notes on install ubuntu 1.0 on an HP/Compaq nc6000 laptop.
Used warty-install-release-i386.iso downloaded on 21-Oct-2004. (md5sum a491903a2d2197651864dec3836d85e0)
The laptop has currently installed WinXP (hda1), Debian/Sarge (hda7) and now ubuntu (hda6).
Booted the laptop while in the docking bay and started install. Complained that it couldn't find a NIC, I told it to continue and not to use a static IP address.
The nc6000 has:
* Pentium M (should do power management, but stock debian kernels don't seem to include it), 1G memory, 60g internal drive, 30G or CD/RW in multibay
* embedded intel wireless -- works with ndiswrapper
* bluetooth -- don't have any other bluetooth devices, haven't tried
* IR -- haven't tried, but should try to get going with my palmpilot
* Broadcom nic -- works
* SD bay -- works under WinXP, but appears to be impossible under Linux
The docking bay pretty much just has a USB breakout, passthrough nic and power. There are 2 multibays which usually have a CD/RW and/or an extra disk.
At the point it asked about installing GRUB in the master boot record, I skipped that and continued
on with the installation. I prefer to let debian/sarge manage grub.
After the ubuntu installer finished, I booted into debian/sarge and added the following to
it's menu.lst file:
title Ubuntu 1.0
root (hd0, 5)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro
initrd /initrd
savedefault
boot
Then rebooted to Ubuntu...
After about 40 minutes it started poking around and found that kacpid was sucking up 95% of the cpu. I did
renice 19 -p 5 (which was the pid of kacpid)
and the install proceeded much faster.
The X displayed looked nice along with the drum sounds.
But the Broadcom or tg3 driver wasn't loaded. Using 'sudo network-admin' fixed that.
Still looking around.
[still installing -- watch here for more info]
Used warty-install-release-i386.iso downloaded on 21-Oct-2004. (md5sum a491903a2d2197651864dec3836d85e0)
The laptop has currently installed WinXP (hda1), Debian/Sarge (hda7) and now ubuntu (hda6).
Booted the laptop while in the docking bay and started install. Complained that it couldn't find a NIC, I told it to continue and not to use a static IP address.
The nc6000 has:
* Pentium M (should do power management, but stock debian kernels don't seem to include it), 1G memory, 60g internal drive, 30G or CD/RW in multibay
* embedded intel wireless -- works with ndiswrapper
* bluetooth -- don't have any other bluetooth devices, haven't tried
* IR -- haven't tried, but should try to get going with my palmpilot
* Broadcom nic -- works
* SD bay -- works under WinXP, but appears to be impossible under Linux
The docking bay pretty much just has a USB breakout, passthrough nic and power. There are 2 multibays which usually have a CD/RW and/or an extra disk.
At the point it asked about installing GRUB in the master boot record, I skipped that and continued
on with the installation. I prefer to let debian/sarge manage grub.
After the ubuntu installer finished, I booted into debian/sarge and added the following to
it's menu.lst file:
title Ubuntu 1.0
root (hd0, 5)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro
initrd /initrd
savedefault
boot
Then rebooted to Ubuntu...
After about 40 minutes it started poking around and found that kacpid was sucking up 95% of the cpu. I did
renice 19 -p 5 (which was the pid of kacpid)
and the install proceeded much faster.
The X displayed looked nice along with the drum sounds.
But the Broadcom or tg3 driver wasn't loaded. Using 'sudo network-admin' fixed that.
Still looking around.
[still installing -- watch here for more info]
Thursday, October 21, 2004
quick anti-Bush joke from the internets
Q: What's the difference between Vietnam and Iraq?
A: Bush had a plan for getting out of Vietnam.
A: Bush had a plan for getting out of Vietnam.
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-10-17
- NHPR News - Bush Campaign Official (James Tobin) Resigns Over Jamming Scandal --
Why hasn't the national press picked this 2000 GOP dirty trick and James Tobin is working for Bush/Cheney 2004? Tagged as: [politics nh]
Friday, October 15, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-10-15
- Program Details for Perversion for Profit (Part I) --
Unintentionally funny video featuring Charles Keating (yes of the Savings & Loan scandel of the late '80s) Tagged as: [video funny] - Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting --
Tagged as: [cool] - The Atlantic Online | November 2004 | Karl Rove in a Corner | Joshua Green --
Karl Rove's antics Tagged as: [politics]
The first year we put out political signs...
We've been in our home 11 years and our mailbox has been fine the whole time. This is first year we put out political signs and our mailbox is vandalized. Hmm.
Well, now in addition to a couple Kerry/Edwards, there are now signs for Pam Green and Deborah Pignatelli
Well, now in addition to a couple Kerry/Edwards, there are now signs for Pam Green and Deborah Pignatelli
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Monday, October 11, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-10-11
- bu!&h� umoC ap!s&� (Upside Down Typing) --
strange, but interesting Tagged as: [reference]
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-10-06
- Spencer's 13th Birthday party - a photoset on Flickr --
We climbed Pack Monadnock Tagged as: [nh] - Wendy was one of four women up on the stage with Elizabeth Edwards for a Town Hall meeting on 'Security Mom' issues. Wendy got 6 standing ovations and a number of laughs. She rocks! - a photoset on Flickr --
Tagged as: [politics nh] - The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News - 05-Oct-04 - Elizabeth Edwards faults Bush on security --
Wendy is quoted! “If I were the mother of George Bush,†Thomas said, “that kid would be grounded right now.†Tagged as: [politcs nh]
Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-10-05
- GOP Convention highlights --
funny/sad video 'highlights' of the GOP convention. Count the number of times they say the catchphrases Tagged as: [politics] - Frontier (cross-platform [well, Windows/Mac OSX] content engine) under GPL --
This could be the engine of next personal desktop content-publishing era; But first they need to port it to Linux... Tagged as: [blog gpl] - Faces of Frustration --
All the faces GWB make, in order, during the 1st debate Tagged as: [politics video] - BAGnewsNotes --
Good stuff lately, like various videos, mp3 remixes of political events Tagged as: [politics] - Open Laszlo -- toolset for rich web-based GUIs --
Requires Flash 5 on the client, and java/tomcat on the server side, released under CPL (and OSI open license) Tagged as: [web] - The Pelican File - Politics and Public Policy Headlines --
Nice roll up of political headlines Tagged as: [politics] - How Bush Did --
Edited video of all of GWB's responses during the first debate Tagged as: [politics video]
Saturday, October 2, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-10-02
- HP/MySQL Database Server Solutions --
This document discusses how the HP ProLiant server is a excellent Industry Standard platform for creating a Linux-based MySQL database server. Scale-out and high availability are possible using Intel® Xeon®, AMD Opteron and HP Blade technologies. Using Tagged as: [hp linux selfpromotion]
Thursday, September 30, 2004
Tonight's Presidential Debate
Or as it is refered to in the article, [Kabuki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki) Debates. Read more:
NPR : Connie Rice: Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates
NPR : Connie Rice: Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-09-29
- Gimp for Photographers --
pointers to various gimp tutorials Tagged as: [gimp photos reference] - MySQL Cheat Sheet --
Handy reference for people new to MySQL Tagged as: [mysql reference]
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-09-28
- Channel9 Forums --
Aggregation of people working for Microsoft Tagged as: [AggregatedBlogs RSS] - Planet Mozilla --
Aggregation of people working on Mozilla Tagged as: [AggregatedBlogs RSS] - Planet Perl --
Aggregation of people working on Perl Tagged as: [AggregatedBlogs RSS] - Planet Sun --
Aggregation of people working for Sun Microsystems Tagged as: [AggregatedBlogs RSS] - Planet Apache --
Aggregation of people working on Apache Tagged as: [AggregatedBlogs RSS] - planet n --
Aggregation of people working for Novell Tagged as: [AggregatedBlogs RSS] - Planet Planet! --
Yet another web-based aggregator. Edit config file to add new feeds, good for set-and-forget sites like PlanetGnome, PlanetSUN, etc Tagged as: [AggregatedBlogs RSS] - Planet SuSE --
Aggregation of people working for SuSE (a subset of Novell) Tagged as: [AggregatedBlogs RSS]
Monday, September 27, 2004
Emma's own "John Kerry" sign
Emma just loves the Kerry/Edwards sign she made Saturday at the headquarters.
She knows the letters are L E 5 4 and E S 5 4 and that it says "John Kerry".
She knows the letters are L E 5 4 and E S 5 4 and that it says "John Kerry".
Sunday, September 26, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-09-26
- Goatse Rescue Floppy --
If you don't know what Goatse is, don't ask and certainly don't download this 'rescue' disk ;-) Not safe for kids or those with weak stomaches. Tagged as: [humor reference]
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-09-25
- 1848 letter from Capt John Bright to brother --
Tagged as: [blog genealogy selfpromotion]
Making signs for Kerry/Edwards
In preparation for Sunday/Monday's visit to NH by John Edwards, the entire family helped the [Kerry/Edwards](http://blog.johnkerry.com/) campaign headquarters in Manchester make some signs. Tomorrow Wendy is attending a NH campaign meeting and help drive some national campaign staff and/or press around.
Griffin, Trevor and Spencer took most of these photos:
Griffin, Trevor and Spencer took most of these photos:
Friday, September 24, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-09-24
- workblog --
My blog at work Tagged as: [blog inside-the-firewall-so-you-cant-see-it wordpress] - Slashdot | New Hitchhiker's Episodes Available Online --
new HHGTTG episodes! Tagged as: [audio mp3] - FOAF-a-matic -- Describe yourself in RDF --
A Friend-of-a-Friend RDF generator, a bot on #gnhlug reads foaf files. Tagged as: [blog]
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-09-23
- Dowser --
multiplatform, client side search engine hack think, probably worth a look Tagged as: [python search sqlite] - MetaVNC -- a window-aware VNC --
I'm a VNC fan from way back. This is worth a look. Tagged as: [system:unfiled] - Mark Lyon's GMail Loader (GML) - Import Your Mail into GMail --
list of gmail hacks Tagged as: [gmail google] - PHP Markdown --
Markdown translated to php Tagged as: [wordpress]
1848 letter from Capt John Bright to brother
Last week I bought an old letter on [Ebay](http://www.ebay.com) from Capt John Bright of Cambridge, MA to his brother in 1848.
[Last year other strangers pointed me](http://nozell.com/blog/index.php?s=gideon+taylor&submit=Search) to an Ebay auction for a [Gideon Taylor/Sarah Burr 1857](http://www.nozell.com/genealogy/gideon-taylor-sarah-burr-family-bible/), I was alerted to the auction by some stranger who suggested that it may be related to my wife's BRIGHT line.
Seemed like a good deal at $15.
Here are some smaller versions of the scans I made tonight. Drop me some email if you want a copy of each of the 9M files.
The seller was nice enough to include a photo copy of some background info from "U.S. Naval Institute" by Carl C. Cutter (1961), pg 484 has a line from the "Queens of the Western Ocean", Center line, Ripley Center & Co, 73 South St., Mobile Agents est 1824. (In Boston? NYC?)
Year Vessel Tons Masters
1824 Bg. Susquehanna 207 J. Bright
The column with the "Bg." is untitled, but the other entries are "Sp.", "Sch.", and "Bk." Some type of ship type? (eg. Schooner)
[Last year other strangers pointed me](http://nozell.com/blog/index.php?s=gideon+taylor&submit=Search) to an Ebay auction for a [Gideon Taylor/Sarah Burr 1857](http://www.nozell.com/genealogy/gideon-taylor-sarah-burr-family-bible/), I was alerted to the auction by some stranger who suggested that it may be related to my wife's BRIGHT line.
Seemed like a good deal at $15.
Here are some smaller versions of the scans I made tonight. Drop me some email if you want a copy of each of the 9M files.
The seller was nice enough to include a photo copy of some background info from "U.S. Naval Institute" by Carl C. Cutter (1961), pg 484 has a line from the "Queens of the Western Ocean", Center line, Ripley Center & Co, 73 South St., Mobile Agents est 1824. (In Boston? NYC?)
Year Vessel Tons Masters
1824 Bg. Susquehanna 207 J. Bright
The column with the "Bg." is untitled, but the other entries are "Sp.", "Sch.", and "Bk." Some type of ship type? (eg. Schooner)
Max Cleland at Kerry/Edwards event
I was downloading images off of the camera and found this picture of [Max](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Cleland) [Cleland](http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Max_Cleland)
that my wife took at a [Kerry/Edwards](http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html)
event last week in Manchester, NH.
that my wife took at a [Kerry/Edwards](http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html)
event last week in Manchester, NH.
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-09-22
- del.icio.us --
blog about del.icio.us Tagged as: [blog delicious]
looking for a WordPress, Markup RSS bug
Here is a link: [link](http://www.somewhere.com/With_Underscore/foo.html)
Which is a link to http://www.somewhere.com/With_Underscore/foo.html
The problem is the resulting RSS contains something like this:
a href="http://www.somewhere.com/With_Underscore/foo.html
Where there is an ampersand pound 95 semicolon in the above line which is not valid in
an href.
This is a by-hand link that uses underscore: with real under
Which is a link to http://www.somewhere.com/With_Underscore/foo.html
The problem is the resulting RSS contains something like this:
a href="http://www.somewhere.com/With_Underscore/foo.html
Where there is an ampersand pound 95 semicolon in the above line which is not valid in
an href.
This is a by-hand link that uses underscore: with real under
height="217" alt="Marc and Wendy circa 1989" />
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-09-21
- isnoop.net gmail invite spooler --
Looking for a gmail invite? Try to snag one from here. Tagged as: [gmail google]
IT Conversations and other interesting listening
Yesterday I listened to [Adam Curry's](http://live.curry.com/) Daily Source Code and the Dave Winer collaboration, [Trade Secrets](http://secrets.scripting.com/).
Last night poked around with [ipodder.org](http://www.ipodder.org) and downloaded all the 'stock' content that came with the [get_enclosures.pl](http://www.ipodder.org/) script.
IT Conversations audio is a gold mine! The only problem is not having enough time to listen to everything that interests me.
I don't have an ipod (or an [Apple ipod + HP](http://h10049.www1.hp.com/music/us/en/ipod_flash.html)), but the car does have a CD player, so get_enclosures may need to be hacked to burn a daily CD.
Last night poked around with [ipodder.org](http://www.ipodder.org) and downloaded all the 'stock' content that came with the [get_enclosures.pl](http://www.ipodder.org/) script.
IT Conversations audio is a gold mine! The only problem is not having enough time to listen to everything that interests me.
I don't have an ipod (or an [Apple ipod + HP](http://h10049.www1.hp.com/music/us/en/ipod_flash.html)), but the car does have a CD player, so get_enclosures may need to be hacked to burn a daily CD.
Monday, September 20, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-09-20
- Hiroette.com ||| Japanese Facemarks(smileys) ||| --
Japanese emoticons Tagged as: [japan reference] - Jeremy's Extensions - SwitchProxy -
Firefox/Mozilla plugin to easily switch proxies Tagged as: [firefox mozilla] - StatTraq --
stats plugin for WordPress; I'm thinking of install it, but the results may be too depressing Tagged as: [stats wordpress] - StatTraq - Block your IP from Being Recorded -
a mod to StatTraq so *my* IP won't be recorded. Tagged as: [*later stats wordpress] - Welcome to threetwoone.org -
Graphical way to show relationships of many different things; how states are connected, christian bible development, Bush dynasty, wall street scandals, etc Tagged as: [graphics reference] - J.O.D's Old Fashioned Black and White Clip Art Collection, Joan O'Donovan --
Genealogy-related 'free' clipart; restrictions are for only personal/non-commerical use, no aggregation Tagged as: [genealogy graphics reference]
Sunday, September 19, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-09-19
- SourceForge.net: Project Filelist --
linux app to convert jpg to avi file (better than using ImageMagick's convert?) Tagged as: [graphics linux] - SourceForge.net: Project Info - MakeAVI --
GPL'ed Windows app to convert jpg to avi files Tagged as: [graphics windows] - Fractal Hypnosis --
Cool video of fractals set to Pink Floyd music Tagged as: [music video] - Pixel Perfect Digital 4.0 : Free Image Archive --
Royalty free images, but with some restrictions Tagged as: [graphics reference]
Saturday, September 18, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-09-18
- Marc Nozell's mini-blog Yet Another DailyDelicious hack for WordPress --
A simple little hack I based on dailydelicious.phpTagged as: blog delicious selfpromotion wordpress - PixelZilla Homepage --
Nice theme/skin for firefox/mozilla/thunderbird/k-melonTagged as: firefox theme
Friday, September 17, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-09-17
- initial Trade Secrets show --
A Dave Winer/Adam Curry collaborationTagged as: audioblog mp3 - Yahoo! Groups : ipodder-dev --
ipodder developer's forumTagged as: audioblog mp3 - Adam Curry's Weblog --
Of mid-80's MTV fameTagged as: audioblog blog - Planet HP --
An internal aggregate of all HP blogs (But inside our firewall, so you no soup for you!)Tagged as: hp inside-the-firewall-so-you-cant-see-it - Trade Secrets Radio: --
A Dave Winer/Adam Curry collaborationTagged as: audioblog blog - Examples - HZ37Land --
Get 'Death of Democracy'! An excellent remix.Tagged as: mp3 remix - ::iLL WiLL PreSS:: HOME OF NEUROTICALLY YOURS, 4Y-RECORDS & MORE. --
funny little flash cartoons, but not appropriate for kidsTagged as: humor - ipodder.org --
windows/mac app to automatically download mp3 files mentioned in RSS feeds. I'd like to see a linux version that downloads and burns to CD so I can pop it in the car's CD player.Tagged as: audioblog mp3 - McSweeney's Internet Tendency: This Bible You Sold Me Is Clearly Defective and I'd Like to Return It, Please. --
Tagged as: humor religion - ProFont for Windows, for Macintosh, for Linux --
Little tiny fontTagged as: fonts - Viewfinder Design --
Some wordpress templates. I really should use a better one than the default...Tagged as: wordpress
Yet Another DailyDelicious hack for WordPress
I wanted a nice simple way to mirror my daily bookmarks that I've added to [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us) into [WordPress](http://www.wordpress.org)
Stephen Eyre's [dailydelicious](http://www.dot-totally.co.uk/dailydelicious.txt) was close, but
not exactly they way I wanted it. He used the RSS feed, but that doesn't give a good daily cutoff.
So, I present Yet Another Daily Delicious php script: [yadd.php](http://www.nozell.com/marc/blog/data/yadd-1.0.TXT).
It asks for just today's bookmarks using the published api, parses the XML, generates nicely formatted HTML and creates a WordPress entry.
Here is the writeup from the code:
- - -
Stephen Eyre's [dailydelicious](http://www.dot-totally.co.uk/dailydelicious.txt) was close, but
not exactly they way I wanted it. He used the RSS feed, but that doesn't give a good daily cutoff.
So, I present Yet Another Daily Delicious php script: [yadd.php](http://www.nozell.com/marc/blog/data/yadd-1.0.TXT).
It asks for just today's bookmarks using the published api, parses the XML, generates nicely formatted HTML and creates a WordPress entry.
Here is the writeup from the code:
- - -
This is yadd.php V1.0 by Marc Nozell (marc@nozell.com) based on
Stephen Eyre's dailydelicious
(http://www.dot-totally.co.uk/dailydelicious.txt)
See http://www.nozell.com/blog/ for the latest version of
'yet another daily delicious' (yadd.php)
USAGE:
1) Edit the section below. At the very least use your del.icio.us
username and password ($del_user/$del_password)
2) Put there file somewhere on the server where you run WordPress.
3) Arrange for this page to be hit once a day, say 11:30ish your
local time. del.icio.us seems to track UTC so depending on which
timezone you live in, some bookmarks from your yesterday may show
up. Consider using a simple cronjob that looks like this:
30 23 * * * $HOME/bin/yadd.sh
where yadd.sh looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
curl http://www.yoursite.com/yadd.php
4) In the morning edit the entry if you wish. I've tried to generate
pretty HTML so it will be simple to edit the entry.
THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND
Anyone that hits the URL for this script will cause your current
bookmarks to be dumped into WordPress. Clearly this is not
desirable.
You have some options. The easiest is to keep this URL 'secret'.
Name it something unusual and put it in a non-obvious place.
Remember that if you display your web hit stats, the url will be
exposed. A better solution to use .htaccess to limit access. If
you do that remember to update the url wget uses to include the
username/password, something like this:
curl http://someuser:somepassword@www.yoursite.com/yadd.php
Enjoy,
-marc
funny NSFW story
A few weeks ago I was at work reading a blog on Microsoft's developer's blog site about some lessons learned on a particular development project. Boring project management stuff really. The second comment was along the lines of:
"Good stuff. I've just finished defending my masters paper on this same topic. Click here to read it http://www.some-reasonable-looking-site/lastmeasure"
Bam! Tons of popups, moving, resizing windows, really disturbing porn/violent images all over the place, but the best part was the sound -- at the loudest volume -- 'HEY EVERYBODY! I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORN!' repeated over and over and over.
Fortunately I had headphones on at the time and running Firefox on Linux, so killing it was simple.
Sadly, it appears the MS blogger has removed the comment from his site and I've X'ed out the
offending site. However if you are clever with google, you'll be able to find where it has moved to.
Here is the email I passed on to some (now former) friends....
Subject: Hey everybuddy!
Here is a cool new site. Make sure you have the volume turned way
up -- it may be hard to hear.
http://XXX.XX/lastmeasure/
It works best in a work environment.
NOT!
Best viewed NOT at work and with the headphones on.
I got the link from one of the comments
of the article "21 Rules of Thumb “ How Microsoft develops its Software"
http://blogs.msdn.com/David_Gristwood/archive/2004/06/24/164849.aspx
This is a much more obnoxious version of the previous URL --
http://XXX.XXXXXXX.XXX/~lysol/lm.swf
"Good stuff. I've just finished defending my masters paper on this same topic. Click here to read it http://www.some-reasonable-looking-site/lastmeasure"
Bam! Tons of popups, moving, resizing windows, really disturbing porn/violent images all over the place, but the best part was the sound -- at the loudest volume -- 'HEY EVERYBODY! I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORN!' repeated over and over and over.
Fortunately I had headphones on at the time and running Firefox on Linux, so killing it was simple.
Sadly, it appears the MS blogger has removed the comment from his site and I've X'ed out the
offending site. However if you are clever with google, you'll be able to find where it has moved to.
Here is the email I passed on to some (now former) friends....
Subject: Hey everybuddy!
Here is a cool new site. Make sure you have the volume turned way
up -- it may be hard to hear.
http://XXX.XX/lastmeasure/
It works best in a work environment.
NOT!
Best viewed NOT at work and with the headphones on.
I got the link from one of the comments
of the article "21 Rules of Thumb “ How Microsoft develops its Software"
http://blogs.msdn.com/David_Gristwood/archive/2004/06/24/164849.aspx
This is a much more obnoxious version of the previous URL --
http://XXX.XXXXXXX.XXX/~lysol/lm.swf
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-09-16
- initial Trade Secrets show --
A Dave Winer/Adam Curry collaborationTagged as: audioblog mp3 - ::iLL WiLL PreSS:: HOME OF NEUROTICALLY YOURS, 4Y-RECORDS & MORE. --
funny little flash cartoons, but not appropriate for kidsTagged as: humor - McSweeney's Internet Tendency: This Bible You Sold Me Is Clearly Defective and I'd Like to Return It, Please. --
Tagged as: humor religion - Viewfinder Design --
Some wordpress templates. I really should use a better one than the default...Tagged as: wordpress
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Today's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN on 2004-09-15
- dotfiles.com: home --
Nice reference for configuration filesTagged as: linux reference - URLToys/.flux Official Homepage --
Nice way to grab a bunch of files from a websiteTagged as: perl tool web
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Sample of Griffin's stop motion movies
Griffin was the sole director, producer, photographer and set designer for this mini-movie.
All I did was knock down the resolution for the web version (the original is 20M, this is only 2M)
and run the magic command to convert it to an animated GIF image (convert -delay 20 *.jpg output.gif).
[Check it out!](http://www.nozell.com/marc/blog/data/griffin-stop-motion-snake-video-small-format.gif)
Send kudos to Griffin by sending email to his first name @ his last name dot com
All I did was knock down the resolution for the web version (the original is 20M, this is only 2M)
and run the magic command to convert it to an animated GIF image (convert -delay 20 *.jpg output.gif).
[Check it out!](http://www.nozell.com/marc/blog/data/griffin-stop-motion-snake-video-small-format.gif)
Send kudos to Griffin by sending email to his first name @ his last name dot com
Friday, September 10, 2004
making stop-motion videos
This evening Griffin and I made some stop-motion videos using some clay figures he made and my HP camera.
[Take a look](http://www.nozell.com/blog/data/griffin-video-02.avi)
This is how we did it:
* Set the HP 318 Camera to the lowest resolution, turn off flash
* Screw in the little tripod I got years ago for one of the first webcams
* Have plenty of light
* Take about 90+ photos
* dump onto my Linux/Debian laptop (gphoto2 --get-all-files)
* Convert to an animated gif ( convert -delay 10 IM*.jpg out.gif) with a 10/100 second delay. Realize it is a huge 20M file
* Convert to AVI ( mencoder "mf://IM*.jpg" -mf type=jpg:fps=7 -ovc lavc -o output.avi) which gives a much smaller (~1M) file.
Repeat until the batteries need to be recharged.
[Take a look](http://www.nozell.com/blog/data/griffin-video-02.avi)
This is how we did it:
* Set the HP 318 Camera to the lowest resolution, turn off flash
* Screw in the little tripod I got years ago for one of the first webcams
* Have plenty of light
* Take about 90+ photos
* dump onto my Linux/Debian laptop (gphoto2 --get-all-files)
* Convert to an animated gif ( convert -delay 10 IM*.jpg out.gif) with a 10/100 second delay. Realize it is a huge 20M file
* Convert to AVI ( mencoder "mf://IM*.jpg" -mf type=jpg:fps=7 -ovc lavc -o output.avi) which gives a much smaller (~1M) file.
Repeat until the batteries need to be recharged.
Wednesday, September 8, 2004
Back to School tomorrow!
In honor five of our six kids heading to the school bus tomorrow, I present this picture of me, perhaps the day before *I* had to go back to school.
On the whole, I'd rather read my comic book
Originally uploaded by marcn.
On the whole, I'd rather read my comic books
Have fun kids! Mom & I have been looking forward to this day for about 13 weeks...
On the whole, I'd rather read my comic book
Originally uploaded by marcn.
On the whole, I'd rather read my comic books
Have fun kids! Mom & I have been looking forward to this day for about 13 weeks...
Saturday, September 4, 2004
flickr upload for gnome's nautilus
This evening I noticed that there was a new perl module in CPAN by CPB Flickr::Upload. So I hacked together a Nautilus script to integrate Flickr.com uploads with the Gnome file manager.
If you want to give it a try,
* Install the perl module Flickr::Upload using either CPAN or download from http://search.cpan.org/~cpb/
* Grab this script
* put it in your ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts directory
* edit the following lines for your own use:
It works find on my debian/sarge laptop, but should work fine on any other gnome desktop.
Patches would be welcome.
If you want to give it a try,
* Install the perl module Flickr::Upload using either CPAN or download from http://search.cpan.org/~cpb/
* Grab this script
* put it in your ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts directory
* edit the following lines for your own use:
my $FLICKREMAIL = 'your-flickr@email-address-here.com';
my $FLICKRPASSWORD = 'somesekretword';
my $FLICKRTAGS = 'i like traffic lights'; # space separated list
It works find on my debian/sarge laptop, but should work fine on any other gnome desktop.
Patches would be welcome.
Wednesday, September 1, 2004
HP's Technology at Work Linux edition
HP has a new website to track all things Linux @ hp. You can sign up for Driver, Patch, Security and Support alerts/notifications for just specific products.
[Technology at Work Linux edition](http://www.hp.com/go/linuxnews) (http://www.hp.com/go/linuxnews)
Yeah, yeah, I work at HP, but its still is a handy website.
[Technology at Work Linux edition](http://www.hp.com/go/linuxnews) (http://www.hp.com/go/linuxnews)
Yeah, yeah, I work at HP, but its still is a handy website.
Thursday, August 26, 2004
Kids are really impressed by this video game
Yeah, dad knows all the cool character video games.
Fear my mad skillz.
Fear my mad skillz.
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
festival speech synthesis on my debian laptop
Last night I was mucking around with festival, the text to speech tool (ala the old DECtalk. On my [laptop](http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/321957-64295-89315-321838-f33-367367.html) it was speaking too fast.
The solution is found in the Festival FAQ: Running Festival
On debian, you put those two lines in /etc/festival.scm
The solution is found in the Festival FAQ: Running Festival
Create the file festival/lib/siteinit.scm (if you don't already have it) and add the following
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "sox -t raw -sw -r $SR $FILE -c2 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp")
On debian, you put those two lines in /etc/festival.scm
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Saw some Olympians today at Gymnastics Village
At noon time [Gymnastics Village](http://www.gymnasticsvillage.com) had a clinic taught by three former female Olympic gymnastics team members -- Tasha Swikert, Hollie Vise and someone whose name I didn't catch. Mary Lee Tracy, the Women's International team coach was also there promoting _Rock with the Stars from Athens_ at the Whittemore Center next week. It was really focused on just the girls, so we didn't stay too long after buying tickets to the show for Trevor and a parent to be determined later.
Here are some photos:
Tasha Swikert, Hollie Vise and someone whose name I didn't catch (drop me a note)
Hollie Vise showing the girls how to stretch
Here are some photos:
Tasha Swikert, Hollie Vise and someone whose name I didn't catch (drop me a note)
Hollie Vise showing the girls how to stretch
Thursday, August 19, 2004
John Kerry in Derry, NH today
Wendy and the kids were invited to a John Kerry house party today in Derry, NH. Griffin, the budding artist/photographer took these pictures. Addy was disappointed Mrs Heinz-Kerry wasn't there, but thought she drove Kerry there. (She didn't) Trevor has decided he wants to be one of those cool secret service men, one of which looked like Agent Smith except for his hair.
Here is the press release for the event:
[Kerry Outlines Health Care Plan to Bring Down Costs for Families, Strengthen the Economy and Create Jobs](http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0819a.html)
Wendy estimated there were a few hundred people there to listen. Apparently some of the neighbors were not Kerry supporters and had a bunch of W'04 posters on their lawns
Here is the press release for the event:
[Kerry Outlines Health Care Plan to Bring Down Costs for Families, Strengthen the Economy and Create Jobs](http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0819a.html)
Wendy estimated there were a few hundred people there to listen. Apparently some of the neighbors were not Kerry supporters and had a bunch of W'04 posters on their lawns
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Alpha RIP
[Hewlett-Packard Co. will release the final processor upgrade for its AlphaServer line of Unix servers on Monday.](http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/16/HNendofalpha_1.html)
Goodbye old friend.
[Check out the tombstone generator](http://tombstone.dogcrap.net/tombstone.php)
Monday, August 16, 2004
HP, Motorola, Debian Linux
HP just won a large contract with Motorola which includes Debian running on Itanium.From InternetNews, [HP Get Call for Carriers](http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3395271)
"Virtually each of the network equipment providers is migrating to next-generation platforms based on Linux," Joy King, HP director of its worldwide marketing for its network and service provider business, told internetnews.com.
HP has modified the Debian Linux distribution to optimize it for carrier grade systems
Also in CNET, [Motorola and HP in Linux tie-up](http://news.com.com/Motorola+and+HP+in+Linux+tie-up/2100-1039_3-5311739.html) and Information Week [Motorola To Incorporate Integrity Systems Into 3G Call Path](http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=29100410)
Friday, August 13, 2004
messing around with tiles
Over on taprats there is a cool java applet that lets you create geometric patterns in the Islamic style.
Here is the original. The app doesn't save to disk, so I did an image grab with gimp and
edited it down.
This is an attempt to get just the minimal tile portion, but it still makes a nice tile on the background.
Here is the original. The app doesn't save to disk, so I did an image grab with gimp and
edited it down.
This is an attempt to get just the minimal tile portion, but it still makes a nice tile on the background.
Donate blood
The Red Cross came to work this week and I've finally had the nerve to look at the needle while in my arm. Okay, so I had the [phlebotomist](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_donation) take the photo and I looked later.
20+ years of donating and the thought still wigs me out.
20+ years of donating and the thought still wigs me out.
Saturday, July 31, 2004
New favorite T-Shirt
Wendy picked up a T-shirt at a yard sale today. It says:
one by one
my children
steal my sanity
Monday, July 26, 2004
Cool, funky mixes
When I was hacking on a way to migrate from [blosxom](http://www.blosxom.com) to [WordPress](http://www.wordpress.org) I was hanging out in the #wordpress channel on IRC and met [drDave](http://unknowngenius.com/) who has made some cool music mixes. I've burned them into CD for the drive home and this weekend the older boys wanted a copy for their CD player. My favorite so far is retrogressive2.mpg, but drDave_MiniMix_I.mp3 is bopping too.
Check it out: [Dr Dave's Blog](http://unknowngenius.com/blog) (Hint: navigate over to the Online Empire section on the right side)
Thanks for the hours of tunes drDave!
Check it out: [Dr Dave's Blog](http://unknowngenius.com/blog) (Hint: navigate over to the Online Empire section on the right side)
Thanks for the hours of tunes drDave!
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
silly email disclaimer from NH Governor's office
A coworker used the NH.gov webform to send a comment to Craig Benson, NH Governer.
Check out this disclaimer that was at the end of the response.
Any use is strictly prohibited? No printing?! Doesn't is seem a bit excessive since this is coming from a government employee?
Check out this disclaimer that was at the end of the response.
This email and any attachments are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the addressee or the person who delivers email to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error. Any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to it and then delete the email. Thank you.
Any use is strictly prohibited? No printing?! Doesn't is seem a bit excessive since this is coming from a government employee?
Saw a hawk in Nashua
These pictures were taken looking through the window of my office building.
I've never seen a hawk just standing on the ground.
It has been a good summer for wild life sightings for the family. We've seen a couple of red foxes in town, a young black bear running across the Kangamangus Highway, a large snapping turtle
in Amherst, garter snakes in our yard, a nest of woodpeckers in a neighbor's tree and even a squirrel raiding and eating a baby bird.
I'll try to dig up the turtle pictures. Too many digital photos to search through....
I've never seen a hawk just standing on the ground.
It has been a good summer for wild life sightings for the family. We've seen a couple of red foxes in town, a young black bear running across the Kangamangus Highway, a large snapping turtle
in Amherst, garter snakes in our yard, a nest of woodpeckers in a neighbor's tree and even a squirrel raiding and eating a baby bird.
I'll try to dig up the turtle pictures. Too many digital photos to search through....
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
HOWTO migrate from blosxom to wordpress
For my piece of mind, please backup your wordpress database before proceeding. I don't want my instructions to cause you to lose data.
- Grab my mt blosxom flavor files and add to your $datadir. Right-click to save these files:
content_type.mt date.mt, foot.mt , head.mt, story.mt - Edit story.mt and change the line "AUTHOR: marc" to whatever
username you will be using. - If you are using the blosxom clicktrack plugin (00clicktrack),
disable it. - Visit your blosxom site using the mt flavor:
http://yoursite.local/cgi-bin/blosxom?flav=mt and save it into a
file named import in your wp-admin directory. You may want to try
this: lynx -dump http://yoursite.local/cgi-bin/blosxom?flav=mt >
wp-admin/import.txt - Take a look at the import.txt file you just created. There are some
things you may want to fix now rather than after the import.- Lines are wrapped at 79 characters, so long URLs or entry titles may be broken.
- If you have a habit of using a bunch of dashes to separate text, the importer
may get confused and think it is the beginning of a new entry. Consider replacing
- with = - All the categories will be something like /nh (based on the pathname). You may want
to remove the leading slash. You can fix this after import and well as build up
a category hierarchy, so it isn't a big deal.
- Follow the standard WordPress instructions for import-mt.php.
- If you don't like your categories named with a leading slash (eg:
/nh), then edit your new WordPress categories. - Start going through your posts and clean up any messes...
I'm migrating from blosxom to wordpress
My webhoster just setup MySQL access for my site so tonight I'm migrating.
Rael has done a great job with Blosxom, but I wanted blogging engine was web-based (del.icio.us shows how nice such interface can be) and that had a large active development community.
The fact that my webhoster doesn't charge extra for MySQL is a plus too.
Once I've migrated I'll post the blosxom flavor I wrote to help the migration. It basically generates a Movable Type export format that WordPress can import using import-mt.php.
Take a look and then bookmark this new location: http://www.nozell.com/blog
Rael has done a great job with Blosxom, but I wanted blogging engine was web-based (del.icio.us shows how nice such interface can be) and that had a large active development community.
The fact that my webhoster doesn't charge extra for MySQL is a plus too.
Once I've migrated I'll post the blosxom flavor I wrote to help the migration. It basically generates a Movable Type export format that WordPress can import using import-mt.php.
Take a look and then bookmark this new location: http://www.nozell.com/blog
Tuesday, July 6, 2004
Let's just say we are happy
Go John Go!
Nozell/Thomas family with John Kerry
Go John Go!
Nozell/Thomas family with John Edwards
Nozell/Thomas family with John Kerry
Go John Go!
Nozell/Thomas family with John Edwards
Monday, July 5, 2004
Alien images from last night!
Some pictures I took last night around dusk.
The Alien's scout ship! (04Jul2004)
The Mothership lands! (04Jul2004)
The best part about fireworks in Merrimack is we can see them from the
neighbor's driveway and walk 30 seconds and be home. The worst part
is always the bugs...
The Alien's scout ship! (04Jul2004)
The Mothership lands! (04Jul2004)
Some unrelated images I took at the same time (04Jul2004)
Okay, so digital cameras don't do a good job catching fireworks (04Jul2004)
The best part about fireworks in Merrimack is we can see them from the
neighbor's driveway and walk 30 seconds and be home. The worst part
is always the bugs...
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