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I just posted my top stories of 2005 at MacMegasite, and my top albums of 2005 at WorldBeatPlanet.

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WordPress 2.0 has been released. I’ll probably upgrade after New Years.

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So far I haven’t found any Mac software to convert video to my PSP that doesn’t suck. Video conversion is painfully slow and I find that it fails pretty often. I’ve tried both iPSP & PSPWare, and both have their problems. iPSP is a little nicer, but still buggy & slow. It’s very easy to [...]

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Via Daily Kos: Josh Marshall brings up a very interesting point. Why have there been almost no terror alerts since November 2004? Did the terrorists suddenly give up and crawl back into their holes after our election?

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Mom’s funeral was today. One good thing about this is I got to see a lot of family I haven’t seen in years. This time I hope to remain in touch with them. Some of my friends & neighbors who didn’t really know my mom also came & I was very glad to see them. [...]

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Mom just died this evening around 9PM. Thankfully I got to see her a last time just two hours earlier, along with a good friend who came with me. I told her not to worry about me and that everything would be OK even though she didn’t wake up. She also didn’t wake up when [...]

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My mom seems to have taken a turn for the worse. She’s now getting hospice care & they’re trying to keep her as comfortable as possible & relieve her pain rather than treating her cancer. When I saw her today she slept the whole time and didn’t seem to realize I was there. Yesterday she [...]

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Today my mom looked & sounded better than she has in a while, but the doctor is suggesting hospice care. He doesn’t think aggressive treatment for her cancer will do much good, so the best thing would be just to keep her as comfortable as possible. I don’t know how her doctor missed the cancer [...]

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MacMegasite Mobile on PSP

I created a new mobile home page for MacMegasite that looks better on small screens like a PSP. It’s at www.macmegasite.com/mobile.

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It had to happen sooner or later. Tim Berners-Lee has a blog and he’s using Drupal.

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My condo had the annual meeting tonight. I’m on the board for the second year, although we didn’t have to vote since we only had 7 candidates and there are 7 board members. We did have to vote for or against reserves, as we do every year. Since we don’t currently have reserves, if that [...]

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PSP Web Browser

Originally uploaded by mike3k.

I just got a PSP. I’m not really into games, but I love it as a video & music player, and I love having a hand-held web appliance. It’s a lot more useful than my old Palm Zire, which lacked internet access & had a much smaller screen. The PSP’s [...]

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Via nancies.org:
DMB’s performance last night at Madison Square Gardens is receiving some of the most glowing reviews that we’ve ever seen. Terms including “magical,” “electrifying,” “amazing,” “unbelievable” and a “life changing force” have all been used to describe the performance, which featured Mike Doughty singing on “Jimi Thing,” Robert Randolph on “Smooth Rider” and [...]

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I’m selling my bricked gp2x on eBay for anyone who’s able to unbrick it or use it for parts.

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I finally went to get a passport today, which I should have done long ago, so I’ll be ready the next time I have to go to Vancouver. It was a lot faster & easier than I expected.

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I still haven’t been able to get my bricked gp2x working again. The firmware was damaged badly enough by the attempted firmware upgrade that it can’t be restored by normal means. Neither Gamepark Holdings ore their US distributor has been able to resolve the problem. Gamepark & gp32z haven’t replied to any of my emails, [...]

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The changes I made to MacMegasite seem to have helped the CPU usage situation. It’s reduced the CPU usage by each execution of PHP.CGI by at least 50% as well as reducing the overall CPU usages. Here are the resource usage stats for the last few days, only counting CPU usage by PHP.CGI.

Date
Total CPU time
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My mom is back in the hospital. This morning I got a call that she was being sent to the ER with possible congestive heart failure. I started freaking out because that’s what my father died from. I was at the ER around 10AM and they wouldn’t tell me anything or let me in until [...]

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Via Boing Boing:
Here’s a six-minute MP3 of reggae hero Eek-A-Mouse jamming with a bunch of traditional Irish pub musicians — fiddles, pipes, etc — at his 50th birthday party. The result is great; Eek-A-Mouse’s schtick is to sing in a high, Chinese-sounding falsetto, but to groovy reggae beats. Add to that some lively Irish [...]

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I’ve cleaned up my code for MacMegasite’s new page by breaking it up into separate include files for the left & right sidebars. The entire code is less than 50 lines and uses only a single database query and no calls to Drupal code.

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