Dave Kellam

I’ve reverted to the default moveable type templates in an effort to get to know the system a bit better. I’ve started tweaking them a bit, rearranged the archives, attempted to implement a site search and started work on some ideas in my head. Figured that I may as well dive into the redesign and make changes gradually, rather than starting something and getting bored/frustrated with it before I’ve finished it all. There’s lots of pictures and things i’ve written for the paper that are sitting around waiting to be formatted and uploaded.

Go watch the 5 minute episode IV. Chewie is cool.

It took me awhile to figure out how to get gnome installed and running but I did. It wasn’t too hard looking back at it. There’s a lot of nice things to help you out, like Fink and the graphical FinkCommander. Here’s a guide to help get the the x11 system running with Fink. I guess the key for me is to read some documentation, i can’t just dive into things and expect to know what i’m doing. All in all, my system is doing some neat things: running OS X, with Virtual PC running WinXP and XDarwin running GNOME.

I ran into some file permission crap when I was doing all of this. I found a nice little calculator to help out with chmod values.

Here’s a good terminal guide for OS X, aimed at people with little knowledge of unix.

An interview with Richard Gabriel, he holds a Ph.D in Computer Science and an MFA in Poetry. There’s some good talk of how the way computer programming is taught should be changed to reflect the creativity necessary to develop software.

I’ve been playing around with some stuff this afternoon, including KungTunes. It allows me to get at the playlist data from iTunes using AppleScript, which basically means I can have this nice page that says what the last 25 songs I listened to were.

This guy has a little bit too much time on his hands.

This afternoon’s task after waking up was to convert the database from DB to mysql. I think all went well, but I could be wrong.

School kicked the shit out of me for a couple weeks. I didn’t see a whole lot of my house or computer. When I did, I seemed to be working on assignments. Exam season is here, which means slacking off for awhile before actually getting down to studying.

I’ve started getting ideas again for websites. It’s like a lot of my ideas were forcibly removed when I lost harddrives in the summer. I’m going to start updating things again and spend less timing staring vacantly at the monitor. I started off by upgrading to Moveable Type 2.51. Next in the pipes are some redesigns and work on various projects.

I seem to forget that I can jot down whatever stupid ideas come into my head. It seems that I’m always opening a text editor to write shit down in. Maybe I could script something between BBEdit and Moveable Type, so I could just do new entries like that. Hmm.

Here’s an interesting interview with Johnny Knoxville, in which he talks about the Jackass phenomenon. From my recent involvment with a Golden Words film, I can understand his perspective: “You could show Jackass without dialogue most of the time. If you run into a wall and fall down, people laugh.” Our audio wasn’t great, neither was the onscreen text, but there was lots of fighting and falling down. I was one of the people fighting and falling down, so I can understand the hurting yourself part. And the shitty filiming on digiital by people who don’t really know what they’re doing. The video will end up online at some point, I imagine when school work dies down.

IBM starts work on computer to rival the human brain

For some reason, I was not informed of the Rock, Paper, Scissors Championship being held in Toronto. I would have been front and centre.