found_drama

compiling? haven’t figured that one out yet, but there’s some terribly interesting possible etymologies going on. (Not sure if “etymology” is so much the right term here as just plain ol’ “reference” … but who really cares?)

it’s not the greatest jukebox in the world yet, my boy. not until you exhibit total control.

this is cool. in fact, I want one in my house. And i’ll train a monkey to fill my glass. and i’ll implant the wifi receptor in his brain. rock on.

caught up last night in dreadful condo assoc mtg. ack! it’s funny how so much talking can amount to so little and then it takes so much time to realize that you didn’t accomplish nearly half the things you set out to do. Or something along those lines.

More to follow. I got those Tues a.m. blues. Which aren’t nearly as bad as those Mon a.m. blues but … i’d rather be at home hacking xinsert or something.

“One of these days I’ll actually take a lunch!“

to save myself and everyone else a lot of trouble, I’ve created a quick script for everyone’s (well… my favorite anyway) favorite Creative Commons license: the Attribution•Noncommercial•ShareALike license. This is the part where you ask “How does it work?” and I reply with:

For those of you using an “allscripts” or similar such file to hold all your useful javascripts in one place, add the following code:

function copyleft() {
document.write('<div class="copyleft">',
'<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" border=0 src="http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights.gif"></a><br>',
'This work is licensed under a ',
'<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.',
'</div>');
}

Then in your stylesheet file, add:

div.copyleft {
text-align: center;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: x-small;
}

(for those not using the above methods, email me (rob [at] found [no space!] drama [dot] net) for the workarounds!)

THEN when you post content that you want to include under that license, add the following:

<script>copyleft();</script>

And you’re good to go. See:

there it is. they’re not doing too shabby. it’s no secret i’m a Dean supporter. But there is something dirty feeling about the money-lean here. like we need to reduce our selves and our politics to dollar signs in order to be heard. sadly, our voices are not enough to secure a chance at a decent future. republics suck but governing is a full time job. hence the need for representation, no? well, Dean, we do what we must do, right? can’t win elections without money, unfortunately. That’s my 2¢, I suppose. No pun intended.

So I’ve been on my iBook about a month now and the verdict is in: good move. The caveats?

1. I wish the software fr/ my PC was compatible. It’d ease the transition. But all in good time…
2. The OS may be crash-proof (knock-on-polymer) but some of the apps are still buggy. Interestingly enough though, I’m not surprised that the buggy apps are either
   1. java based or
   2. 3rd party apps ported from Classic.

   So…

Overall the transition has gone well and is quite nice. The OS has a more comfortable feel to it, right down to the terminal window. (BTW– It’s nice to be able to customize the terminal window … makes you feel like you belong there instead of that obnoxious cmd window in XP … alienating and wimpy.) It talks to the PCs nicely, too. The ol’ D-3 box is being slowly converted into a server-of-sorts. And the iBook has no problems seeing it. I haven’t been able to get the shared printer to show up … but I have a feeling that’s a serious legacy issue — the Wintel boxes having a hard enough time with it. (Since when did a printer made in ’97 become legacy!?) The assorted iApps have been nice, too — not that they couldn’t use a bit of improvement. (iPhoto- for example- would be much improved if I had direct control over image size and resolution of imported images. What w/ today’s blog-mania & all…) Safari is an outstanding browser save for its occassionally wonky CSS rendering (well, w/r/t/ Ben’s site anyway…) and total lack of an XML parser. But that’s what v2 is for, right?