A Comment?

I am shocked.
I have a comment. (And this one isn't one that I left for myself, although at first I thought it was.)
And thanks to the comment-ator (it seems to be someone connected with stodge.org where Dan Wilson's shows are web-hosted, perhaps they were googling or somesuch thing.) I am now aware of the Resonance FM podcasts. I would like to thank whoever this being is, but alas they will probably never see this.

TextEdit and Links for 30th August 2005

I've been looking at TextEdit "What's new" in the Help files after noticing the "complete" option in the edit menu, which if you invoke in the middle of a word (i.e. after having typed a couple of letters to give it something to go on) will give you a pop up list of words to choose from. This might be good for spelling purposes, or laziness inclination. They keyboard shortcut is option escape. It's something new to play with. These little discoveries are pleasing. Like the discovery that Safari can now import and export bookmarks at long last. Tiger has done well.
TextEdit can now do tables, lists, page breaks and numbering, also clickable weblinks. (I'm not sure if that last one was in Panther). All this is for rich text, bien sur.

A few links I have found interesting:

www.simplebits.com webby blog I had a look at recently

thinkgeek web-safe colours poster

amyjewelry.com jewellery made from everyday objects

www.elsewares.com wonderful shop selling stuff from independent designers - clothes, jewellery, other objects - all sorts

www.spreadshirt.net have your own design put on a range of tops etc.

modsquare.com electronic music site. Looks interesting, I have yet to delve deep into this place. Though I can't delve that deep, I am not a diving duck.

It's been a while

I bought a CD single of Ella Guru. I think it is some kind of promo, "Augustus Golden". Which I like a lot. Twas a pound from the Oasis, a fantastic shop in Birmingham (Corporation Street). It is not Oasis the high street chain a distinction which at times causes confusion. I also found out that there's a shop in there that sells Crazy Color hair dye. I haven't even been able to find this brand for sale ont' net (Ah, having said that, I see they have an online shop). There's also a shop in the Oasis that sells, among other things, plectrum earrings, necklaces, bracelets that kind of thing, they have a shop on Ebay I love kitsch 2004/5?.

Bought some GCSE and AS level books yesterday, maths and fizzics. I haven't had time to look properly at all the library books I have, though I have almost finished the "Networking for Dummies" which is a nice simple read. I am on the last chapter which at the moment is explaining TCP/IP basics. Subnet masking and that kind of thing. There is an O'Reilly book on TCP/IP (or this) but I can't really be that in depth right now with all this other stuff I am to be getting on with.

I ordered The Zen Garden of CSS from Amazon, I've looked at it in Waterstones in town and it looks like inspiring stuff. The Website is there too, with some interesting CSS layouts. Amazon is of course cheaper than Waterstones, though I did spend twenty quid in Waterstones, I'm not just using them as a showroom. The Art of Photoshop is another good looking book that I have my eye on.

Good stuff 15th August 2005

Really, unmediated and their del.icio.us tag are so fine, so fine they blow my mind.

Through them i have made some lovely discoveries. today I found:
DTV (beta) which is a rss video thing. Like videocasting. i am trying this out right now, the video, as you would expect takes a while to download unless it is very short. Oh and it's for OS X 10.3+.

QTAmateur for MacOS X there is another Quick Time thing called amateur which is an uncrippled Quick Time written in Java but I haven't tried this yet. Oh that one aint finished yet. QT Amateur allows you to encode files, which Quick Time non-pro doesn't.

Other things:

odeo Podcast listings

The Mozilla corporation! Mozilla have themselves a corporation.
"The Mozilla Corporation will have approximately 36 employees" and their presence will be at a .com website (as opposed to the .org one)

NetBSD toaster anyone? Very pretty toaster too. Aah embedded software is the future! (heh, heh)

The web really isn't chaotic enough, it's becoming very demographics led I feel. I want more randomness, less organised-ness in areas where randomness would be beneficial.
It's 21:00 and dark already. I liked the long days. and when it is Winter I like the long nights.
I like the idea of a black and white desktop: Black and white Desktop picture with black and white desktop icons. If I get around to doing it I will post a picture.

I need to get in touch with my duck friends soon. I haven't seen them in a while and sometimes this human world is too exhausting and too full of stupid constrictions for me.

Widgets

So Dashboard widgets are just little webpages,
So I've heard said about 100 times.
But here it is, the calculator in Firefox.



Can't use it as a calculator, but there it is. Some of the simpler Widgets you can view and use as if they were webpages, in your browser, Oblique, for example.

Some links 8th Aug 2005

ecto. Very Nice blogging client that I am at this moment trying out. (although the world is already more than aware of it so it seems). kung-foo.tv is the main portal.
To blog is a verb, but to weblog is not... is it?
How to hear digital radio stations with EyeTV 410 (and perhaps the 400)
Dashboard Widgets for Tiger
Wikipedia dashboard widget
Oblique widget (and SeeSS)
Taco Widgets site
Some flickr stuff jimsk mr_fabulous interesting phots on flickr
I have followed this tutorial and have installed Textpattern on my Powerbook still aint managed to get all the stuff working correctly though though this is due to me not the tutorial.
I have been going through some simple tutorials at the W3C Schools online site. There are introductions to all sortsa web things. Like Javascript, PHP, Apache, SQL, so it says, but I haven't looked at that section. With a page where ou can download the internet
Looking again at http://www.unmediated.org/ again, which really is a fantastic site. A true portal... into another dimension? no.

I have been listening to Elliot Smith's song Farewell to a Friend over and over. Though I misheard quite a few of the lyrics I realised when I checked them out, in the usual humourous lyrics mishearing way. Addicted to that song at the moment. I have a habit of not using pronouns which I'm trying to correct. Must be the way thoughts run through my head, though funnily enough I don't think it happens so much when writing by hand.

I really like this link I found on unmediated.org vlogging talking points which the finder discovered through del.icio.us, I am discovering how wonderful it is every day.

Now I've sounded as though I have been active and doing things I can stop and continue doing nothing and trying to call it something. Everything takes me far too long. And that I am a duck in a human world is no excuse.

Changes

I am in the process of making some template changes, the first thing to change is the background, which is now a gradiant bluey thing, whereas before it was deep red.
Other things will follow. I am having to revivify my CSS and Photshopery.