What the custodians at Glenwood Middle School were shoveling Wednesday wasn’t snow.
It was taco salad, chocolate pudding, milk and other items – the remnants of a massive eighth-grade food fight in the school cafeteria.
The extent of the mess was such that custodians used snow shovels to clear it away.
In Mac OS X, it’s NOT necessary to quit all running applications when installing an application like TurboTax, even if it does install its own private fonts. That’s just plain obnoxious. I wish software developers would get with it and stop doing things like that which annoy users.
Here’s a map of the states I’ve visited:
create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide
I’m now running two PHP-Nuke based sites and one Drupal site. Both have their good and bad points, so here are my thoughts.
With PHP-Nuke, Francisco Burzi runs the whole show and he usually seems to ignore suggestions. PHP-Nuke is a big, complex package with lots of source files. Modifying Nuke is tricky, but it’s fairly easy to configure and install without any programming.
Drupal is very small and modular. Many developers are involved and the community is very active and open to outside contributions. It’s not as full-featured or stable as Nuke, and it’s a lot more difficult to configure, but it’s a lot more flexible. To really get the most out of it, some programming work is necessary. There are a lot of existing modules to add functionality, and it’s possible to write your own modules.
I probably wouldn’t be able to do a site like ShareYourMusic.com in Nuke, since it doesn’t let you add new object types (such as tunes) and integrate them as thoroughly with the rest of the site’s content. When you add a module to Nuke, it’s pretty much separate from the rest of the site’s functionality. Nuke modules can’t extend other parts of the system or modify the functionality of other modules. Drupal’s object-oriented architecture makes all of that possible.
PHP-Nuke 7.0 has finally been released to the general public. I’ll take a look at it this weekend and see if it’s worth upgrading MacMegasite and WorldBeatPlanet.
I decided it’s time for a new look for my weblog. Yes, that’s Midnight with a real snake in the picture. I took that picture about a month before Midnight moved in with me. He caught and killed a snake outside my building. I just think it’s a really cool picture 
Today someone submitted an off-topic link for child car seats to MacMegasite, and a few days ago they submitted the same link to WorldBeatPlanet. Of course that’s completely off-topic for both sites. I removed their link and their user account from both sites.
Why the hell do they think a completely off-topic link like that which has nothing to do with the rest of the site would be accepted?
MUDDA (Magnificent Union of Digitally Downloading Artists) is a new initiative by Brian Eno and Peter Gabriel to help transform the music business in such a way that artists are on level terms with record companies, receive fair payments and have new opportunities to be their own retailer when they choose.
I just fixed a bug in my drupal tune module so registered users can now actually upload their tunes to shareyourmusic.com.
It turns out that I had the acccess hook declared as: function tune_access(), which is how it was in the original file module, when it should have been: function tune_access($op, $node)
The result of that was only an administrator could upload tunes, not a regular user, even though upload access was allowed.
It looks like geek-hosting has been down for a few hours. They’ve had quite a bit of downtime, but they’re not nearly as bad as BounceWeb. I’m thinking of moving MacMegasite here to PEHosting.com if this continues. I’m very happy with PEHosting, although I’m a bit reluctant to have everything hosted in one place.
(thanks to iPod Garage)
World Music Central: Under the banner “We Refuse to be Enemies,” several hundred Jews, Arabs, and
community members gathered on a rainy, snowy evening in December to eat, talk,
sing, and dance together. Sponsored by the Eugene Middle East Peace Group, the
event featured several speakers representing the Jewish and Muslim faiths. The
evening fell mid-way between Channukah and Eid el-Fitr, the Jewish and Muslim
holy days, respectively (Eid el-Fitr is the last night of Ramadan).
Music was provided by the Eugene Peace Choir and by
Americanistan, a band which plays
music inspired by cultures of the Middle East. MCs Jonathan Seidel and Maha
Hamide worked with the band to create two new peace songs in three
languages–English, Hebrew, and Arabic–which were sung by the entire gathering.
Israeli dances and Arabic debke (folk dance) to the music of Americanistan
completed the evening’s entertainment.
Q. What is the difference between a pizza and a Jazz musician?A. A pizza can feed a family of four!
What is it about Jazz that makes a Jazz musician stick to a form of music that A&R managers have scientifically and suspiciously proven to be a musician’s surest route to death by starvation?
One good reason would be the fact that Jazz allows me to be myself as opposed to Pop that wants me to be Madonna. I would rather be me than strut onstage wearing conical jocks. I remember a male indipop album released by some genius A&R manager, titled ‘mai bhi Madonna’ (I’m Madonna too). Jazz as you will see, and if you’ve heard about ‘mai bhi Madonna’, helps me retain my individuality and what’s left of my sanity in this big mad world of music marketing.
Someone ported MacPuke to Mac OS X! For anyone who wasn’t around at the time, this was a very old hack that made a disgusting sound when a disk was ejected. It was an interesting trick to play on someone.
I got my file upload/download module working, so I just opened ShareYourMusic.com.
Dave Matthews Band has formed an agreement with Nugs.net, the company that operates the Live Phish Downloads service, New York Times reports. The band has not yet decided if they will sell the music in a format unencumbered by copy protection, as Phish does, or use some sort of DRM. In addition, Nugs.net has struck a deal with Musictoday, a merchandising company spun by Dave Matthews Band management in the late 90s, to provide similar services to over 250 bands that are clients of Musictoday. Vague word of this plan first came out in November, but no new information had come out until now. [nancies.org]
I hope all of their music comes to iTunes Music Store.
drupal.org has an RSS feedfor their CVS commit messages. This makes it even easier to keep up with the latest project changes.
For the past few days I learned how to write a Drupal module so I can support file uploads & downloads at shareyourmusic.com. I finally figured out why it wasn’t working.
The _form hook changed at some point. According to the documentation, it should be
function my_form(&$node, &$help, &$error)
After looking through the source code, I determined that it was actually being invoked as:
my_form(&$node, &$error, &$param)
In order to support file uploads, I had to add an option to $param specifying enctype=multipart/form-data. Once I got that straightened out, my module was able to properly locate the uploaded file. This was the biggest hurdle that kept me from opening the site.
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