redkanga

I am moving my blog over to josh.legbandt.org

See ya there…

Please help Save the Internet
The pressure that telecommunications companies can put on Congress is pretty amazing…

Av, a talented guy that I used to work with at EarthLink has a blog and he wrote a great post about Net Neutrality. It says what need to be said in words much more eloquent than I could put together, take a look.

Since I really haven’t posted in a while, here are some happenings.

• Anna & Dorian were here for almost 2 weeks from Italy!
• Katie & I got ourselves early anniversary presents… Disneyland Premium Annual Passes.
• We’ve got grass in the back yard now, and I’ve begun work on a 24 foot long raised planter box.
• Work is going well, but I am busy…

Dateline: Long Beach, CA

At around 10:45pm shots rang out just down the street from my house. I wasn’t sure whether they were gunshots or firecrackers. Ok, I was pretty sure that they were gunshots, but I didn’t want to alarm Katie. She came outside and asked me what they were and I told her I wasn’t sure, but that the ‘noise’ came from down the street, Hoffman and 10th. At least that’s where I pin-pointed the sound to.

About 20 minutes later, the ghetto bird, er LBPD helicopter, was circling the neighborhood. We went out front to see where it was circling. Well, darned if it wasn’t circling, and shining it’s bright light, around Hoffman between 9th & 10th streets. That was when we noticed the LBPD car blocking Hoffman.

That’s when Katie said that it is time to move…

Why is it that every social networking site thinks that you want to use them as a blog? I’ve had my own blog for more years than I care to admit, and really I don’t use it that much. I really haven’t the free time anymore to sit in front of my computer for hours on end and babble about things. I have more pressing things on my agenda.

I do like to keep in contact with my friends. That is why I belong to 3 social networking sites. Friendster, which I have mostly completely forgotten about; Myspace, which is popular and contraversial; Yahoo!360, which is well… new. Yahoo!360 does do something right, well… kinda… it let’s you import RSS feeds. This is nice since it allows me to automagically put things posted here onto my 360 page. It also lets me import my flickr stream, this is nice since I use flickr to store my personal photos.

Maybe someday… nah, nevermind

I found a nice little wordpress administration plugin called WP Tiger Administration that give the wordpress administration area a very clean and easy to use look. I love the fact that it looks very Mac-like. Apple has always had the best looking UI (at least IMHO) and this plugin brings the look to wordpress.

I’ve decided to give FeedBurner a try. We’ll see how that goes.

To accomplish this I’ve installed the WordPress FeedBurner Plugin. The plugin install is easy and the plugin seems to just work. Very nice.

I’m changing the colors again. Yes, again. I didn’t like the top logo. And I didn’t like the colors.

So, I found a nice color scheme over at Return of Design and I’m using one of their schemes to recolor redkanga.

I’m liking the colors a lot better and I’ve got some more work to do to unify the falbum css.

I found an article about Why John C. Dvorak is Wrong About Apple. After reading the article, I had to agree, Dvorak is crazy. Why would Apple give up the one thing that makes Macs so great, the OS?

Admittedly, I only have Wintel PC’s right now. Four even: my work laptop (a ThinkPad T42), Katie’s laptop (a Dell Latitude D400), my home desktop (an eMachines T3393), and a spare laptop (a Compaq Presario 2700) that used to be my primary computer. Add to that the fact that I work in a totally Microsoft shop, and the tally is squarley in favor of Microsoft. To be fair, Windows has come a long way since the days of the Windows run-time environment that I first used many years ago with Aldus Pagemaker.

But the Macintosh… the Mac has always had sex appeal. Even in the days of the black & white original Macs. I’ve had several Macs over the years - a Mac 512k, a Mac LC, a Mac IIvx, a PowerMac 7100/66, a PowerBook Duo 270c. Yeah, they were expensive… much more expensive than their PC counterparts, but they were great and I loved them. I went to PC’s after using Macs exclusively for years because of a project I was working on that required some proprietary motion control software and hardware that was not available for the Mac. I’ve had PC’s ever since because once I gave up my Mac, it was cost prohibitive to go back. I’ve missed my Macs over the years and I lust after them whenever I see one. One day I will ditch my personal PC and go back, switch back even.

Macs are just sexier and way more fun