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:

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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.

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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.

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I decided yesterday that I needed more delineation between work and home, so I set up an additional user on my iBook. Now, when I’m at work, I can log in as “pleonard”, and when I’m at home, I can log in as “devlogic”.

The trouble is, there’s a lot of files that I think I need access to in both accounts. And sorting through everything is kind of a pain in the neck.

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

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So I got married yesterday. No real surprise, since we’ve been planning it for over a year. I don’t really know how I feel about the event as a whole. I love Heather, and I’m glad I married her, but I think when all is said and done, I was happy with the ceremony but disappointed with the reception. Eric’s homily (and yes, I use that term rather than “message”, because I prefer to use the proper words for things) was excellent, and Heather was so beautiful when I saw her coming down the aisle I nearly lost it and busted into tears. Attendance was lower than we’d initially planned, which is both good and bad. Good because it was that many fewer people to have to shake hands with and say “thank you,” (and boy was I physically tired within the first hour of the receptiin) but bad because I really did want to see some of the people we’d invited, but who couldn’t come. I wish I’d been able to track down some of my old school friends, but the years have erased all of our tracks, it seems. My shoulders are hurting from this stupid airplane seat, so I’ll stop writing now. More later, possibly.

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I upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 a few moments ago, and as a result all of the themes I like seem to have broken. So it’s back to the Kubrick variant until I find time to write and/or steal a different theme.

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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).

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Ingmar Bergman is dead; I just saw the obits on Google News. I think that in celebration of his life, I’ll watch The Seventh Seal this weekend. I figure I’ll be up anyway and looking for something to do; I’m switching back to days next week (finally!) and will be enjoying the sleep deprivation funfest this weekend while I try to get my body’s clock to reset itself.

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