Wallstreet caught wind of my exchange with Kodak’s CEO. He should have fixed my camera.
Now listening to… Ain’t No Sunshine – Unplugged by Sting
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Monthly Archives: June 2003
Kung-Log Upload Test
(Now listening to… Martha from the album “Closing Time” by Tom Waits)
Testing upload after MIME-BASE64 intall:
Test two with thumbnail option:
By he way, here’s the XML-RPC CGI URL needed by Kung-Log http://mac.fiveforks.com/mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi.
MIME-BASE64
(Now listening to… Grapefruit Moon from the album “Closing Time” by Tom Waits)
Kung-Log wants MIME-BASE64 to be installed to support file uploads. Not knowing if I have it or not, I found these install steps and preformed them as root one at a time. Everything worked.
# MIME::Base64
curl -O http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/MIME/MIME-Base64-2.12.tar.gz
tar zxvf MIME-Base64-2.12.tar.gz
cd MIME-Base64-2.12
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
sudo make install
Now listening to…
Kung-Log has an iTunes button that will go get whatever is currently playing on iTunes and create a URL… like this one…
Now listening to… Which Will from the album “Pink Moon” by Nick Drake
Nicole should post more blogs using her iMac and Kung-Log. Ted should get an iMac and listen to tunes with iTunes.
Thanks to Nicole for a great CD (and VW who created a Nick Drake revival.)
Mortgage Refinance Calculator
Good refiinance calculator. It calculates the two key things you need to know: How much you save monthly, and how much interest you will pay from this point on with the new loan vs. the current loan.
Going to a 4.75% loan (no closing costs… it’s built into the rate) we will save $180 per month and pay $16,000 less in interest. With Wells Fargo, it is all done by mail.
Now listening to… Simonize from the album “Music For The Morning After” by Pete Yorn
Caste System
Ted’s observation of two human beings reminds me of the caste system described in an article in National Geographic. In one photo, a man is climbing out of a sewer system, covered with human waste, wearing only a loin cloth and no protective gear. It was his job to crawl through the sewer line and manually unclog pipes. He was of the “Untouchables” caste.
I think we have a caste system in America, and while we are free to cross lines, in practice it is difficult to do.
Banner vs. Description Styles
I had a problem trying to get the “building” link to display correctly in the description. The banner has is an “id” style and the description is a “class”. The style for the link kept being picked up from the banner and not the description style in the stylesheet. (Too big!)
I had to eliminate the “span” from all templates replacing it with its own “div”, changing this:
<div id=”banner”>
<h1><a href=”<$MTBlogURL$>” accesskey=”1″><$MTBlogName$></a></h1>
<span class=”description”><$MTBlogDescription$></span>
</div>
to this:
<div id=”banner”>
<a href=”<$MTBlogURL$>” accesskey=”1″><$MTBlogName$></a>
</div>
<div class=”description”><$MTBlogDescription$></div>
By removing the span tag, the link I created in the description (building) would adopt the correct style. Otherwise, it kept picking up the banner style. I don’t understand the difference between “id=” and “class=”…. something to study.
Port Scanner by G-lock
I used this software to scan all ports on our web servers to determine if the SSL port 443 was accessible: G-Lock’s AATools.
See: Snapshot.