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Blogger cred
4 Nov, 2005
Blogger cred
Originally uploaded by Usonian.
Five years ago, before anyone knew what the hell a "Blog" was, I carried my trusty HandSpring Visor Deluxe with me everywhere I went, full of content from AvantGo.
The Inadequacy of the Weekend
4 Nov, 2005
It's Friday, but I'm not feeling the all-American euphoria that the TV says I'm supposed to. It's now dark by 5:30, I've got work I really must make myself do over the weekend, and I have about five different projects that I'd love nothing better than to shut myself in a room and work on all day long... the only problem is, all of them could easily occupy a whole day of my time, and with the exception of one of them (which I can't work on because I'm scrimping pennies for materials) I don't have a room into which I can shut myself anyway.
Take Five for 5-String Banjo: Continued
30 Oct, 2005
Take Five for 5-String Banjo: Continued
Originally uploaded by Usonian.
For as many years as I've been using tabs arranged with Tabledit, I've never actually given the demo a try. After 15 minutes I was convinced; I must own this software.
Take Five for 5-String Banjo: Chords Part I
30 Oct, 2005
I got a bee in my bonnet to come up with a 3-finger melodic style arrangement of Paul Desmond's Take Five this afternoon. Partly because it's a great tune, partly because I want to get comfortable with the melodic style, and partly because I want to get more famliar with the fretboard, which will be immensely helpful with number two.
Personal Information Theory
29 Oct, 2005
Amazingly, the Blogger account I created five years ago (five internet years!) is still active, which is as good a reason as any to resume weblogging in a somewhat organized fashion by using this service rather than my own installation of MovableType or TextPattern.
I may be singing a different tune if I get back into the groove, but for now I'm content to let somebody else do the heavy lifting, leaving me to worry about generating content. I do enough heavy lifting at work.
CLI Syntax for Windows Network Connections
7 Oct, 2005
For my own future reference, here is the syntax to use from the DOS command line to connect to another Windows share as a different user and without the “reconnect next time I log on” option. Definitely less tedious than using the “Map Network Drive” dialog:
net use * \servershare /persistent:no /user:username
MySQL Batch Mode doesn't like Mac line breaks
23 Sep, 2005
I had a largeish (7.8Mb) SQL export that I had retrieved via PhpMyAdmin, and I was trying to use the MySQL command-line client's batch mode to import it:
mysdl -umyusername -pmypassword mydatabasename
All MySQL returned was 'bye', and nothing in the SQL file got executed.
I looked at the line-break encoding of the SQL file in TextWrangler and noticed that it was set to 'Macintosh'. (\r). On a hunch, I changed it to 'DOS'(\r\n), saved the file, and re-tried the import. Worked like a charm.
Cycles
10 Sep, 2005
In the end, I may wind up just putting into service the Blogger account that I set up back before anyone (myself included) knew what the hell a blog was, and having done with it.
Dear Yahoo: Please, Please, Please don't ruin Flickr.
16 Aug, 2005
I really hope this isn't the beginning of the end, but it still leaves me feeling sad. I'm not very confident in Yahoo!'s ability to keep their grubby hands off of Flickr forever.
Millard Block
14 Aug, 2005
Usonian posted a photo:
The Millard house was the first of four homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in southern California to use patterned concrete block construction.
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