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The hosting for devlogic.org (and hez.devlogic.org, and logic.cx, and maybe a few others) has been moved. If you’re reading this post, then you’re looking at the new site. If not, um, how are you reading this?

I broke down and signed up for a DreamHost account this morning. At the price I paid, I could hardly refuse. So some transitions are in order, which means the site, my email, and my jabber server may be “in flux” for a few days while I move various services to the new server (and IP address).

I’m about a week late in posting this (at least, I would be, if I cared at all about fake deadlines). On November 3, 2007, I married the love of my life. We couldn’t have had better luck, in meeting each other, in falling in love, in planning the wedding details, or having the best possible weather in early November in North Texas. Our honeymoon in San Francisco was the start of Paul and Heather, Year 1. ...

The main reason I wanted to get it set up was so I could email photos to the blog from my phone. The default WordPress email handler, however, doesn’t play well attachments; it expects plain-text posts. Lucky for me, there’s a plugin called Postmaster that solves the problem very nicely. It handles pictures and videos in emails that are sent to the blog-by-mail address, and embeds ’em into new posts. It even resizes pictures (retaining their aspect ratios) and auto-links them to the originals, and supposedly puts the videos into an embed tag that contains a quicktime player. It looks like it might be ActiveX-based, though, so I might need to test that out and find a linux-based solution if appropriate. ...

Heh. So no mater how much I try to keep on top of this site, I can’t seem to find something to write about on a daily basis. Heck, even my automated del.icio.us posts don’t happen on a daily basis, which means I’m not even finding fun sites to bookmark or articles to read on a daily basis. I have been playing around with QRCodes this morning. They’re 2-dimensional barcodes that are apparently really big in Japan these days. I installed a reader on my phone (which is stupid, and can’t properly decode images that I take pictures of unless they’re 1024x768 and saved to the phone memory instead of to my sd card), and installed a plugin on the site to auto-generate the images. They look like this: ...

So I’m on vacation this week. Despite Heather’s urgings, I never really had any concrete plans for this week; my entire purpose for this vacation was to (a) use up my remaining vacation time from last year before it expired at the end of June, and (b) to not have to go to work for a week. Which, aside from my wedding and honeymoon, is what 90% of my vacations have been like since I started living somewhere other than my parents’ house. I don’t really need to go to another city (or state, country, etc) to have a good time: I’ve been working full-time since I was sixteen; just not having to be somewhere between certain hours, not having specific tasks that are expected to be completed by me, is enough. I like sleeping late (although I haven’t been able to do that yet this week, but it’s still just Monday), I like deciding what to do for myself for the entire day, not just fror the time period between 7 to 10 at night (between the end of dinner and bed time). If I want to sleep late, have an early lunch, and then work on my ren faire outfit from noon until 6 or 7 in the evening (something I may very well do tomorrow), I can. Not having to wake up before 7 AM, not having to be in the office until 5:00, not having to scrape through my email to track down people violating our company’s network TOS: that in and of itself is a vacation. Now, truth be told, I’m not averse to going other places and having fun somewhere that isn’t my usual stomping ground. Far from it: I’ve been to two other continents, and close to 25% of the states in this country. I just have to kinda build up to it. To steal a (para)phrase from one of my favorite webcomic artists, I’m like a starving man, and having too much vacation too fast would result in me dying from the shock. Now, I don’t think there’s a product called “intravenous vacation”, so I’ll just have to take it slowly, work up from “not go to work for a week” right now, to eventually “go to Hawaii and relax on the beach for 2 weeks.” More about the ren faire costume later this week, if I remember. ...

It seems Starbucks has slightly un-Bowdlerized their logo, at least on their new cups. A turn for the better, or just temporary until the religious right notices and starts their newest letter-writing campaign? Update: Looks like it’s actually their original mermaid logo from back in the 70s, just with longer hair draping from the shoulders, to hide the nipples. ‘Cause nipples are evil, ya know. ...

Jeez, has it really been 4 months since my last “real” post? I should do something about that.

http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/ Damn. I so want one of these, but don’t have 400 bucks to blow. But it’s exactly what I want: an iPhone without the “phone” part. It’s a wireless handheld that plays music & movies, and I can see it being VERY useful for mobile chat or just screwing around anywhere that there’s wireless internet (i.e., most of Austin).