2004: 401 posts.

Happy New Year.

Recycling Your Christmas Tree San Diego!

Go read this November 2003 article from The New Yorker: War After The War: What Washington doesn’t see in Iraq by George Packer. It’s thought provoking and troubling. Yeah, I’m late to it, but it’s great. It was my father who pointed me to it. Go.

Read this: Your bank account, your liberties We realize that the Fourth Amendment — and the rest of the Bill of Rights — exist for a reason, and that absolute power corrupts absolutely. With H.R. 2417, with the USA PATRIOT Act, with its ability to detain American citizens indefinitely without charge or access to attorneys…

There is no group called softweargirlz. SWGz participated in Happy Hour 9 prominently. WebGrrls San Diego has been closed for a while. Techniquelle is still around though. Times change, I suppose.

UCSD Visual Arts : Undergraduate Program : Majors : ICAM.

Lots of stuff going on. I owe it to myself to do a big long post with all the changes, but not yet. Mom, my goal is to get a full update out there by the end of the week! Love and happiness to all! Onward

Subtly Simpsons made me laugh.

Audio Reversal In Popular Culture is a neat web page all about instances where people reverse, somehow the sound in a song to dramatic effect, or just to be weird. Of course Zappa is included.

I was in Wal-Mart yesterday. The whole joint is a race to the bottom. How cheap can it be done. We don’t care where. We don’t care who. We don’t consider long term economic benefit or harm. We want the lowest price. So Sassy’s predictions, inasmuch as they focus on cheapness – eliminating staff, outsourcing…

Read this: Some more facts: Torture by proxy/How immigration threw a traveler to the wolves. a) Arar was not trying to enter the USA. He was just doing a plane change in NYC coming in from Europe and going on to Montreal. Since then the USA has cancelled the program that let you stay in…

So Bas got a little stinky, Leah let me know. So, I washed him! He was amenable to the process, and now smells of that wacky Dr Bronner’s Eucalyptus Castile Soap. He did not make a sound the whole time, but he was trying to leave the whole time. Luckily I know all about cat…

USA Today reviews Something Deeper Than These Changes: Stew, Something Deeper Than These Changes (***) On his solo outings, of which this is the third, the lead singer of L.A. pop eccentrics the Negro Problem is frequently compared to Burt Bacharach. I find his sinuous melodic twists and articulate but sometimes-oblique lyrics (“lunch box mind”)…

Economic Democracy: Towards a Democratic Economic System and Media — I intend to read this.

Read Leah’s Christmas Tree Salesman post. Totally true story.

Naladahc and Chuck linked to me for the Simpsons thing. Glad ya liked it guys! Also, Janece and Kynn have linked to me in the last while. And look at this, Macedonian.tv has appropriated my Flash Mind Reader thing at http://www.macedonian.tv/artlung.htm. They’ve kept my copyright notice and everything. Hey, don’t steal my stuff! Time to…

From Bruce Sterling: When you get to the future there’s just more future ahead of it. From the audio interview at Massive Change. More: On the WELL and always on his blog.

rc3.org : The iPod Mini: “$249 seems like too much money to pay for the iPod Mini.”

Share Your OPML: Who subscribes to… artlung.com/blog/rss/ … woo hoo!

Remind me to check my grade at Student Web Services Online. What’s up with the system not being online in the middle of the night?

kakistocracy: “Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens”

Macedonan.tv took down their copy of my page, and link back to me! That’s so cool!

And it will make you think. Caltech Michelin Lecture: “Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference…

The First Time Caller website is up! I vaguely know a guy involved with this.

Here’s my hello world moment for the programming language Python: #!/usr/local/bin/python print “Content-type: text/html\n” print “hello” if 1 == 0: print “1 is 0” else: print “1 is not 0” print “” print “word “*10 Which results in hello 1 is not 0 word word word word word word word word word word Expect more…

I’ve been on a tear of posting lots of individual entries with neat stuff I found or stuff that upsets or entrances me. Well, there will be more of that. Soon I’ll take a breath and talk more seriously and at more length about: changes in my personal life, changes in my professional life, and…

This stuff called quorn seems a lot like the “scop” (a commodity single cell protein food source found in novels of Bruce Sterling, particularly my favorite, Islands in the Net. And hey, here’s a site called Technovelgy.com: scop. Nifty. Including some other terms from Sterling works.

The Decline of Fashion Photography — An argument in pictures — by Karen Lehrman in Slate

The hilariously funny (and, please, also not for kids or sensitive adults) The Story About The Baby has been updated with a new series of columns: The Story About the Toddler. The true adventures of a father who looks at things cynically, wittily, and foulmouthedly.

I Love L.A. Crank up the Beach Boys, baby Don’t let the music stop We’re gonna ride it till we just can’t ride it no more (…but I’m staying in San Diego)

Vossa is a new space available to rent for presentations and stuff. Very tricked out, and I may be interested in using this for one of my ventures.

Happy Birthday Leah!

TheSanDiegoChannel.com – Health – Woman’s Skin Falls Off, Miraculously Lives — here’s more on Transcyte: Human Fibroblast Derived Temporary Skin Substitute – Temporary wound covering for surgically excised full-thickness and partial-thickness burns. TransCyte consists of a polymer membrane and newborn human fibroblast cells cultured under aseptic conditions in vitro on a nylon mesh. Prior to…

Leah is making a change in focus for her LeahPeah Blog. Now entitled “ask leahpeah,” and based on the fact that “readers ask the darndest things!”

Read this one on Salon: Homeland Insecurity: The fact that U.S. intelligence agencies can’t tell terrorists from children on passenger jets does little to inspire confidence. Relying on computers to sift through enormous amounts of data, and investigators to act on every alarm the computers sound, is a bad security tradeoff. It’s going to cause…

LocalFeeds has an exclusively San Diego Page — how do they do it? — they use GeoURL data combined with RSS data. It’s also smart enough to list “Nearby Cities” such as El Cajon, Chula Vista, Tijuana, Escondido, Oceanside. So cool!

Last night we had a little party at Corvette Diner in Hillcrest in honor of Leah’s 33rd Birthday. That’s a change. This year I myself will turn 34. That’s a change. Tom‘s wife is pregnant. That’s a change. Janece is pregnant, that’s a change too. I have resigned my position with financialaid.com. I enjoyed my…

Bookmarking for the future… http://www.healthnet.com http://www.bankwi.com/ http://www.ehealthinsurance.com/

Bedtime now. More tomorrow. Er… today, later. Much later. But the laundry is done! (More or less). Many thanks to those of you who have sent well-wishes since my last big post. The positive thoughts are much appreciated.

Sometimes one must Dance. With a trombone.

Jefferson College of Health Sciences is the new name of the former Community Hospital of Roanoke Valley: College of Health Sciences. Here’s a bit more about the history of the College — many former names and colleges that have merged over time to become this new thing — many tributaries, all forming this new river….

Introduction to ColdFusion Components ColdFusion Development Forum: Components MVC for ColdFusion MX CFSCRIPT Tutorial Daily Use: Subversion SQL Server Performance Tips HTML Forms and JavaScript (a minor reference) Ballad of the Sneak

WebSanDiego.org – Search this site is currently down with this error: ht://Dig error htsearch detected an error. Please report this to the webmaster of this site. The error message is: Unable to read configuration file ‘/usr/home/artlung/public_html/_websandiego/cgi- bin/htdig/conf/htdig.conf’ This is another thing I want to add to my list of “things to do.”

The Crypto-Gram for January 15, 2004 is excellent as always. Particularly, read his strong criticisms of current airline security and the color-coded alert system. Also, I will miss it, but the author of the Crypto-Gram newsletter, Bruce Schneier, will be in town Friday night at San Diego Technical Books promoting his latest book.

What do Rover, The Dot, F1, Office Logo, Mother Nature, Links, Rocky, Merlin, Courtney, and Earl have in common?

How to wake up with energy in the morning Chris Ware: self loathing? US Army: Iraq a distraction in War on Terror Genetic sexual attraction – peculiar phenomenon, glad this is not my situation! PHP OOP Ariana Huffington goes off about the conventional wisdom on Dean Two Buck Chuck Songs that mention Comics Do web…

Today will be my last day at FinancialAid.com. I’ve enjoyed my tenure there. I’ll have a major announcement next week about what I’m up to next. I’ve talked about it a bit. But for now, I’ll leave you wanting more. Drop me a note if you’re curious. I’ll be in and out this busy weekend,…

I’m on the road. Back in the box late tomorrow. Southern Utah is beautiful, though dry. More this week. Onward via dial-up!

Man, that ground is red. Fry sauce. Dial-up is slow. It is bad to put cellular phones into washing machines. I gave my copy of The Jefferson Bible to Leah’s parents. I like dried papaya. Many movies and TV shows have been shot in Kanab. Driving through the area where the polygamists live is eerie….

as an INS agent anymore: The former INS and former U.S. Customs Department were merged into the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) division of the Department of Homeland Security. I had not realized that. See: US Citizenship and Immigration Services, US Customs & Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security.

I used to love Media Grok, and now maybe this will be cool. Though it says “Guest Blog” — which maybe indicates it is only temporary. The Industry Standard: Guest Blog: Jimmy Guterman – Internet Business News

Civics Department: One Party USA? Read this: America as a One-Party State by Robert Kuttner

My cell phone is currently down, making it rather hard to make or take calls. This is one of the hazards of going all cellular: DOWNTIME! Still, AIM works.

Chuck makes the point going to the moon by 2015 is sort of aiming low. I mean, we did this already. In 1969. I see his point, actually.

IDEO Method Cards look like they’re congruent to The Oblique Strategies. The Oblique Strategies evolved from me being in a number of working situations when the panic of the situation – particularly in studios – tended to make me quickly forget that there were others ways of working and that there were tangential ways of…

I’ve been wanting to build a comprehensive guide comparing PHP, ColdFusion, ASP, etc for some time. Something like: Server-Side Scripting Comparative Anatomy, combined with links out to the documentation on php.net, Macromedia.com, and Microsoft.com. Something one can use to know that rawurlencode(), URLEncodedFormat(), and Server.URLEncode() are the three respective ways to do the same thing…

Point, Counterpoint.

So it is looking like I need about 30 units of Community College work (more or less) to get into UCSD. I talked with a super-nice Transfer Counselor and essentially it looks like 30 units or so will get me in there. My current academic state is sort of ambiguous. I have 90 or so…

I’m sitting in the East Village Coffee House, which is across the street from San Diego City College. On further inspection, I have 26 units of credit from 1987-1989 from the San Diego Community College District. Where these random credits which range from A to F put me, I have no idea. The F obviously…

Summary: things good: likely candidates for Spring classes: Spanish, Statistics, Java Programming. So we’ll see. Oh, and more than half of my SDCCD credits transfer. My Virginia units will need to be assessed by SDCCD. I’ve been advised by Sassy to fight for those units hard. Got lots of worksheets and requirements lists on my…

Captain Kangaroo’s “Joseph” Song 45rpm Record — includes audio!

Wow that was fast. My transcripts came from UCLA Extension — really fast. I have 15 units — B in Entry Level Positions in Film Production, and 3 A’s: Digital Backlot: an Introduction to Digital Image Creation for Film & TV; Mac Illustration; and Post-Production for Film and Television. I don’t think any of it…

So I’m taking some classes at City that will apply for TAG and IGETC for later transferrence to UCSD: Statistics, Java Programming, and I’m the waitlist for Spanish. I enrolled and paid online. It’s a modern age I suppose. Like I said (or maybe I didn’t), the counselor at City was very helpful. Okay. Onward.

Macintosh was born 20 years ago

With today I resume regular employment. More in a little while. If you’re out there, and looking for work, I recommend you read this article, by Joel Spolsky: Getting Your Resume Read. It’s really excellent advice. A buddy of mine was doing some hiring recently, and he was astonished by the number of people who…

“Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it” Source: CNN

2 Million American Children Have Their Own Websites

I remember this videogame The Ending of Ecco the Dolphin for Sega Genesis

Google groups, formerly Deja News Groups: artlung at earthlink.net; jcrawford at avencom.com; jcrawford at edupoint.com.

gtm; jamisongold; edupoint; avencom; financialaid; bidland — some of these may be spam from “joe jobs”, so beware for content.

America is Not A Christian Nation.

from The Road Less Traveled, by M. Scott Peck: “Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a profound tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.”

There are some new and cool San Diego pieces over at San Diego Blog. Well, I think they’re cool. Maybe they’re not. Hah.

I’ve just put up a listing of the most recent posts to websandiego using the RSS library for PHP called Magpie. http://websandiego.org/recentposts/ is where I’ve put it. http://websandiego.org/recentposts/source.php is the sourcecode in question. I think it was Steve Eisenberg who noted that YahooGroups provides an RSS Feed for the group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/websandiego/messages/?rss=1 The whole *point*…

Sassy sent me some help for: : “$color = ( $counter % 2 == 0 ) ? $colorOne : $colorTwo; ” — it uses the modulo operator, described . Thanks Sass!

My father had a weather-related car mishap today. The email my Mom sent describes it as prety scary. Back in Virginia, things are icy and cold and I don’t care for that one bit. With some luck, it looks like the car was not lost, and my Dad got out and to work safely with…

Tease, tease, tease. I just ordered some new business cards from iPrint and they should arrive soon. I’m excited about my new venture. I’m thinking about doing a press release and everything. Something I can send to the likes of freshnews and the t sector — or would that be worthwhile? I’m still formulating my…

Sander pointed out to me that the index page of websandiego.org was showing a directory listing. It has now been fixed. The title of this post is the only proper response to the fact that the front of websandiego.org was a directory listing for about 20 hours. Thanks for the QA, Sander!

Testing of publishing of an Atom Feed. You won’t see anything yet. Sorry.

Blogger added support for Atom feeds — read more at AtomEnabled.org — it’s not got the same content as the RSS feed, but hey, it’s simple enough. I’m using PHP code to add Etag and Last-Modified code: header(“Last-Modified: $myDate”); header(“Etag: “$myDate””); header(“Content-Type: text/xml”); I also added this code in the html of my page: <link…

…is http://artlung.com/blog/atom/

Check this, on Many-to-Many — Is Social Software Bad for the Dean Campaign? A quote: The Dean campaign has brilliantly conveyed a message to its supporters, particularly its young ones, that their energy and enthusiasm can change the world. Some of this was by design, but much of it was a function of people looking…

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: Press Release: “Writing Instructor Loses Job for Discussing Iraq War in Class”

Brian Dear sent me this latest silliness of his: Denounce Newswire: Amazon Launches New Social Network Called “Pricekut”: “Customers Can Now See and Comment on the Contents of Other Customers’ Shopping Carts” I guess you have to be pretty geeky to get it though.

Hey, I just ordered TurboTax for Mac. With luck I should have my taxes done in a few weeks, though I’m still waiting on my W-2 from one of my employers. The TurboTax (formerly MacinTax) product is really good. Painless, and easy.

The South Eastern Michigan PHP Users Group seems particularly active. And no, I’m not going to Michigan. 🙂

Backup Brain: Orkut (what’s Orkut?) was down, but now it’s back up again. Not a member but want to be? Ask. Later note: uhhh… I meant ask if you and I actually do know each other, virtually or otherwise. Hee. Yeah, if you know me, ask to be invited, and I’ll let you in on…

Remind me to install a Kwiki.

Check with the The Oracle of Starbucks. Silliness.

Read this: BarlowFriendz: The Counter-Revolution Has Been Televised: “This is especially true in a primary campaign where the leading criterion driving candidate preference is the ability to beat the incumbent. Given the relentless hammering he took from the media, Dean was lucky to get 26% of the New Hampshire vote. Even so, Dean may be…

833786 – Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks “The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar…

Doc Searls says: “Then remember that we’ve only had two primaries so far, and that November is a long way off.”

Citizen of the US? Go read Senator John McCain: In the State of the Union Address just last night, the President called on us to act “as good stewards of taxpayers dollars.” He asked that, when he sends us the new budget plan, we “focus on priorities, cut wasteful spending, and be wise with the…

“Warnock’s Dilemma The act of choosing whether the lack of response to a discussion-list post is because of its brilliance (there’s nothing to add) or because of its stupidity (it doesn’t deserve comment). Named after Brian Warnock, who first described the condition on a Perl list.” ( from Wired 9.10 )

In his latest op-ed, Slouching toward Big Brother, Bruce Schneier asks the questions our politicians and media OUGHT to be asking. Security is a trade-off. It makes no sense to ask whether a particular security system is effective or not–otherwise you’d all be wearing bulletproof vests and staying immured in your home. The proper question…

File under “oh those kids today!” Item 1: Mike Rowe is supposedly making a bundle on eBay by selling legal docs (though ostensibly only got an MSDN membership and an xbox) Item 2: The G5 Kid was a big hoax <Nelson-Muntz>    Ha Ha. </Nelson-Muntz>

I was looking up the word Sedevacantism — a word I had never read before — and I came across another term, I did — Tridentine Mass: “While the Vatican does allow the use of Latin Masses, it insists that the latin version of the new Missal be used rather than the older Tridentine Mass,…

Check out the slow evolution of San Diego Bloggers.: Fool’s Eye Blog Osten.net Joanne “Living Out Loud” Van Meter” urbn NoDice John K. Davis, Technology Advocate KM Blogger TUUN Okie in San Diego etalkinghead Search Visibility Report State of Khoandary My. Syndromes Anita4Real Cuppa Tea Sebastian Holsclaw The Vance Tran Website The Cheese Stands Alone…

about the Janet Jackson Super Bowl “accident”… Does CBS think we’re that stupid? Ever feel like you’ve been cheated? “I’ll wager you anything you like, if American women stopped wearing brassieres, your whole national economy would collapse overnight! ” — J. Algernon Hawthorne, in It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

(I meant to post this a few weeks ago…, but I never finished it… incomplete, but check it out…) The other day I had lunch with an old pal from High School. This was someone with whom I’d not spent any time since the reunion in 1997. I went to school at USDHS, and I…

Pop Review | Stew: A Troubadour Travels in Circles, With Lives Tangled in His Own: “Onstage Stew was as much an actor as a singer. His voice is genial and adequate, but he had the rubber-faced presence to make each song vivid. He set up songs with droll introductions and turned himself into a secular…

I have created an OPML file for San Diego Bloggers. What is OPML? It stands for “Outline Processing Markup Language” — see opml.scripting.com for more information. google for import opml for more information on importing the file into your RSS Reader. e.g.: FeedDemon. In NetNewsWire, one must save the OPML file, then save the file,…

joe crawford dot com is launching. It’s an online business card. An old school “one page” website . it describes my two main professional activities. The “BIG SECRET” I’ve been referring to is basically that I am now an Evangelist for LAMP Host, who is a great hosting company located here in San Diego. I’ve…

SDSUniverse covers a San Diego Blogger: Bernie Dodge Puts His Life Online. Bernie has a SDSU Blog as well as his own personal blog: One-Trick Cyberpony. Bernie’s been linking to SDB for a while. Blogs good he does.

I start School today. I’m nervous. I’m excited.

I need to download the Mac version of jGRASP. It went well. Spanish in a bit. Busy busy. Good good.

// This is my first Java Program — today public class JoeCrawford { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.print(“Hello Joe!\n\n”); System.out.println(“\tThis is fun?”); System.out.println(“What is the . . . \1 \2 \3 \4 \5 \6?”); } } and… ¡Hola! ¿Como te llamas? Muy bien, ¿y tu?

(I got to read this in advance — it’s a good one) .. WritersMonthly.US- Puking at 30,000 feet

I’ve gotten two noted from people about iTunes Error: “The iTunes Music Library file cannot be read because it does not appear to be a valid library file” — saying that reinstalling iTunes was not necessary. I’ve added a note indicating that step as optional, but if the instructions fail, to reconsider reinstallation. Thanks internet!

HIGH BIAS — Stew: “Stew didn’t really write this”

Today is so so so busy!

Giving Users A Preference Widget for Opening New Windows

Has been implemented on San Diego Bloggers. I don’t say this often… but… BOO YA!

The Daily Californian interviews William Hung. See also: WilliamHung.net. (via waxy)

Web Design Meetup — Calling all Web Designers in San Diego, CA

First Time Caller

Today I walked to school. Not bad, and much better than what I did this week, which was drive and park. City College stinks for parking. Why I didn’t walk before I don’t know is that I thought it would be easier, and I was lazy. It’s less than a mile from here to there….

Web Design Meetup San Diego, California — only NYC beats us.

Java: Failure or Crime?: “Only one fate can be ignominious enough to expiate Java’s wrongs. Java must be consigned to use as an undergraduate teaching language.”

Socal Free Net is doing some great work to provide free wireless in my neighborhood.

Unmaking of the President – 2004: According to CPI, the three largest fundraisers in the presidential campaign at this time are Howard Dean with more than $25 million; John Kerry with more than $20 million; and, of course, President George W. Bush with $85.2 million (as of Sept. 30, 2003). As has been reported, Bush…

(File under: Posts that were meant to be but never were) COALESCE() – the ANSI standard ISNULL() – the Microsoft T-SQL standard (only takes two values) IFNULL() – the MySQL standard (only takes two values) NVL() – Oracle / Informix PL/SQL standard (only takes two values) Got that from a message board. Basically it takes…

I was able to enjoy good coffee, internet access, and good conversation (not necessarily in that order) via Golden Hill Free Web, available at the coffeehouse. I dug it. (Can you tell that today I’m doing “spring cleaning” on stuff I meant to blog before?)

YouÝCan Make It With Plato – Bush’s difficult relationship with reality. By William Saletan: This big-picture notion of reality, existence, and the world as it is dates back 2,400 years to the Greek philosopher Plato. Plato believed that what’s real isn’t the things you can touch and see: your computer, your desk, those empty barrels…

from diveintomark.org: The myth of RSS compatibility: There are 9 versions of RSS, all of which are incompatible with various other versions. RSS 0.90 is incompatible with Netscape’s RSS 0.91, Netscape’s RSS 0.91 is incompatible with Userland’s RSS 0.91, Netscape’s RSS 0.91 is incompatible with RSS 1.0, Userland’s RSS 0.91 is incompatible with RSS 0.92,…

The Black Commentator – The Awesome Destructive Power of the Corporate Power Media – Issue 75: This commentary, however, is not about the merits of Howard Dean. If a mildly progressive, Internet-driven, young white middle class-centered, movement-like campaign such as Dean’s – flush with money derived from unconventional sources, backed by significant sections of labor,…

Red Door Interactive acquires AVENCOM. NIFTY. I’ve worked with both companies: as an employee for AVENCOM and a contractor for Red Door. I think it’s a good fit.

There are new badges for San Diego Bloggers I found. One by Tim Murphy, and one by Dale Franks. On a related note: Leah has some too.

BoingBoing points to the eTech Wiki, the eTech main page, and BloggingETech.com Of the folks I read: Dori, Doc Searls, and Brianstorms. Also check the Technorati Profile of the main conference page. I had intended to go, but I’m way busy.

Halcyon: Carl cried “Dolphins!” on Sunday. Joanie: said “What Dolphins” on Sunday. And on Monday I was working on a redesign of LAMP Host which includes the MySQL Logo, which features a dolphin. Janece: talks about IMAX Dolphins on Monday. Is it that I’m merely noticing mentions of dolphins? Or are dolphins entering the collective…

The latest Beyond the Beyond has Sterling being rather poetic about wandering in the desultory urbanity of Modern Turkey. I like it…

USPS – Track & Confirm by Email. I recently sent off for a renewal of my passport, and I did delivery confirmation, and I get notifications that they got it. It’s so cool.

San Diego Bloggers now includes Google Adsense Ads. I have pondered including advertising in some of my sites for some time, and now SDB includes them, as of yesterday. I’m curious to see how well they work — or don’t work.

The New York Review of Books: Now They Tell Us: “Since the end of the war, journalists have found no shortage of sources willing t criticize the administration. (Even Colin Powell, in a recent press conference, admitte that, contrary to his assertions at the United Nations, he had no ‘smoking gun’ proof of a link…

My Demonstration of oncontextmenu Event Handler has been updated with the information that the code works under Safari 1.2 and Firefox 0.8. Thanks Joe Xaxo for this information!

Ashes to Ashes Diamonds Welcome to the LifeGem Home – www.LifeGem.com Memorial Diamond: Here you will find everything you need to know about this wonderful memorial. The LifeGem is a certified, high quality diamond created from the carbon of your loved one as a memorial to their unique and wonderful life. Inside you will find…

San Diego’s main newspaper, the San Diego Union Tribune, or rather it’s online arm, SignOnSanDiego, has a moblog — San Diego News moblog. Also they have a sports moblog.

Apropos of my Ashes to Diamonds story: Eternal Reefs, A Cremation Memorial Option (via Meg)

[IP] Don’t snoop on us: In the name of national security and of protecting us from the mad men of our times they spur the Congress to pass laws that strip away citizen’s rights to privacy and civil liberty. The phrase ‘Don’t tread on me!’ expresses the attitude of a mentally healthy public that understands…

Designing for Civil Society: Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism: “Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism” — all these would work on LAMP Host.

Bruce Schneier: Crypto-Gram: February 15, 2004 In the last issue of Crypto-Gram I published a couple of security essays that had a political component. I was surprised by the number of e-mails I received from people accusing me of bashing Bush (or worse). American politics may be getting vitriolic, but I think it’s worth stepping…

George W. Bush and John Kerry both spent their mid twenties in uniform. The similarities end there.

Ashes to Diamonds… Reefs… Space! Send your ashes to space (via Ken)

Great Nations of Europe Lyrics

Blogging Basics with Movable Type

Today my candidacy may come to an end–but our campaign for change is not over…. Bitter taste. Kerry the fait accompli? I like Edwards a whole lot. Maybe Kerry/Edwards. Time will tell.

Happy 3rd Birthday ArtLung Blog It was 3 years ago today that I started blogging. Since then I’ve been blogging about all and sundry: including: work; play; religion; politics; the weather; changing jobs; marital separation; divorce; new love with Leah; … Everything. My life, edited for public consumption and private introspection. And more to come….

Tom Bickle asks: Now that you’ve been at it for a few years, what do you think is the single most useful aspect of keeping an online journal? Self-reflection? A “backup-brain?” Form of expression? What do *you* get out of it that you most value? I think the thing that’s best for me is as…

01 – Voltes V Opening Theme … Voltes V 02 – I am Jullandar Shere … Cornershop 03 – Serenata Nortena … Los Lobos 04 – California … Mylène Farmer 05 – Falsas Esperanzas … Christina Aguilera 06 – I Zimbra … Talking Heads 07 – 99 Luftballons … Nena 08 – Cielito Lindo ……

In the Philadelphia Inquirer: “Squinting at the present”: “I remember [in the early ’80s] seeing posters for the small, semi-portable version of the Apple IIc,” he says. “Quite a lot of what I subsequently imagined in my early science fiction simply came from seeing that ad in a bus stop. I didn’t know anything about…

The instructions here for getting GPG working on Mac OS X are EXCELLENT! Configuring GnuPG (Mac OS X). So slick and so useful when one needs to communicate securely.

New Header. Thanks Leah for the great photos I can use for my occasional flights of fancy. You can see some other headers based on her photography at: 11/11/2003, 11/02/2003, 09/23/2003. Man am I busy. I guess this latest header is something about fast motion, the deluge, overloading. But classes are going well, LAMP Host…

This Hackles is pretty darn cute. Nerdy fun!

Rare 1968 TV Highlights

Leah and I will never make Hot Dutch Tuna Buns.

I added antry for Atom in the database for SanDiegoBloggers.com and did some semi-automated autodiscovery of Atom and RSS feeds. That was pretty fun. Additionally, there are some interesting new sites in this list. Commentary, a family site, some moblogs, including one for the San Diego Chargers. Good stuff. So here they are San Diego…

9 Days Away? March Mingle will be on the 10th. It should be great. More at SDCFUG.org. We’d like to make this a technology agnostic event that brings together developers of all kinds, a sort of annual “Technology Woodstock” or “Ultimate Geek Happy Hour” for San Diego. To this end, we have gathered together a…

I’m a dog: knowledgeable user. Check for yourself: Hackles Cartoon Archive

online … or at least some of them.

The version on apple.com — wget 1.8.1 – works fine on Panther. wget and curl are my favorite unix utilities.

I maybe could use some of this in my Spanish class… Hispanics with access to English content on the World Wide Web will soon have access to richer, higher quality information through a new initiative announced today by IBM. Working in close partnership with Hispanic non-profit organizations in major urban centers across the country, IBM…

Something from the editorial floor of Artlung.com, a would-be Christmas letter from 2003 that never was. I was fixin’ to delete it, then I thought, why not blog it! So here it is… Who won’t go up on the housetop click, click, click or down thru’ the chimney? It’s good Saint Nick if he has…

At ShareThePassionOfTheChrist.com you can get products tied into the film. Including a Crucifixion Nail Pendant. I have not seen the film yet. By all accounts it is bloody and violent and lacking almost entirely of the “good bits” of the life of Jesus of Nazareth. A movie about Jesus, it strikes me, ought to showcase…

San Diego Bloggers. now has its own Atom Feed. (Don’t click that unless you have an Atom Enabled newsreader. It will only confuse you).

In a search on Google for train from san diego to los angeles, I am #3, and amtrak.com is not, on the page except for a sponsored link. Ha ha.

GLOCOM Platform – Opinions: At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George Bush was a student of mine. I still vividly remember him. In my class, he declared that ‘people are poor because they are lazy.’ He was opposed to labor unions, social security, environmental protection, Medicare, and public schools. To him, the antitrust watch…

My day as an election judge in Baltimore County is a terrific essay from the point of view of an election machine critic who actually experiences how they are used. The take home message: he finds them still too opaque to be trusted, but learns a great deal about how elections are run at the…

radio vox populi: live from the commons (via waxy)

It looks like Cox.net screwed up my free webspace, so the large versions of the Bebe Ads * Advertisements * Advertising Photographs page are now hosted on my dot mac account.

One peril of having photos of me all over the site is that I occasionally get people thinking they have seen me. Here’s an email I got tonight: I’m sitting in Starbucks, and I think I’m looking at you. Or not? Let me know. Sadly, it ain’t so. I’m doing homework and work and freelance…

I’ve added some geodata to the San Diego Bloggers listing, these are from the ICBM and geo.position meta tags as recommended by geourl.org.

The Insidious Culture of Non-Mandatory Overtime. Read it. And may I suggest: ITOvertime. Food for thought, kids.

Are you tired of me talking about San Diego Bloggers? Yes? Well, sorry. But, we’re 5 days into March and we already have 5 new blogs! And check out the Feeds and GeoData and such. 2004-03-04 Oso’s Blog (Atom)(RSS)(+) 2004-03-04 Wagner’s Weblog (RSS) 2004-03-02 karenika 2004-03-01 Chronic Listaholic (Atom) 2004-03-01 The Moderate Voice (Atom) Also,…

There’s some quote about photography — something real snarky and i don’t recall it exactly — something like: “Sure, a photograph is reality — as long as you don’t mind the perspective of a cyclops with an attention span less than a second” Anyone out there know more about this quote? Who said it and…

Back in July of 2003, I wrote: “I watched some footage (abut 5 whole minutes) of a CG Appleseed movie that looked really cool. All action, mind you, but it looked great.” — this was from Comic-Con — now there’s a bit more, and it looks great — Appleseed Trailer, from apple.co.jp. \n\n (quicktime japan…

On this page: 5Cats.Org: Dr. T’s Mathematics Pages — my Statistics class, are scores for the test I took Friday. I got a 98 out of 100. Not bad, but clearly I missed out on some. And others in the class got some 100s. I’ll do better next time. Oh, the codename is so the…

Today Leah and I are working on a major revamp of the office, which was 100% chaos. Working in there has gotten harder, but on Friday we bought some used furniture at a cheap joint in South Park – and so far it’s a major revamp. I’m taking an extended break right now, but will…

Glad to be back, Bill sez… “Some of you may have been wondering where I’ve been the last several weeks. Well, I spent the better part of the last couple of months preparing to sit for the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) exam. That combined with my regular workload left me precious…

Spalding Gray has been found dead. Terribly sad. A suicide. I devoured his work when I was a teenager. I first became aware of him with Swimming to Cambodia in 1987. This was also around the time I saw Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense, Eraserhead, and Laurie Anderson’s Home of the Brave — all at…

2004-03-09 Legal News Watch (RSS) … “Stories that impact your rights” … based in Chula Vista. I like it a lot already!

My oral presentation from last Thursday for Spanish went well. And the program due today in Java went well as well. It was some Swing/Graphics programming. Relatively painless stuff, and I’m enjoying it so far. Things feel pretty good. I like these languages.

The March Mingle put on my Macromedia and the San Diego Cold Fusion Users Group is so tomorrow. If you’re a web nerd, you need to be there. I’ll be in the house representin’ LAMP Host. LAMP Host customers and others, feel free to come say hey!

To get started with Java… which jdk to download? getting started (covers Environment Variables, etc) get jGrasp (a slim multi-platform Java editor) And I really really enjoy the essay How to Write Unmaintainable Code.

If yes, then you should know about an amazing concept where you can take classes at local universities called: Cross Enrollment. Because I have some units from UCLA Extension, I need to do this cautiously, but I could theoretically do this. It’s pretty cool.

New Header here. Leah did this amazing thing today and painted the kitchen. Amazing to watch her work. I also am catching up on scads of stuff. It’s going to be a good but busy week.

SBook5 PorDiBle MorphX MacJournal via MacWorld magazine, which I’m catching up with today

I’m coming to appreciate Web Host Industry Review as part of my role as Evangelist for LAMP Host. And speaking of which, the redesign of lamphost.net is coming along nicely. Major overhaul and rewrite. drop me a line if you want to be notified when the redesign goes live.

Notes from the (Legal) Underground: Federal Judge Sways to Rhythm of Talking Heads… a judge uses Talking Heads lyrics extensively in a decision.

Ryze business networking: San Diego. I heard great things about the last Ryze San Diego networking event. Anyone care to get one of these going again?

I’ve been tweaking the websandiego.org website — still not happy with it, but it is much cleaner html — in fact all the main pages are XHTML. I welcome comment on the content, particularly if people have ideas for making the site more explicable to strangers. Other fun widgets added: a favicon.ico file, geourl, more…

WebSanDiego.org T-Shirts on CafePress

The previous San Diego Ryze site I pointed out is not the *good* one. Anita C-W pointed out this: http://ryze-sandiego-network.ryze.com/. I joined.

wordpress pMachine geeklog (via web405) … and all of which could be installed on LAMP Host

Today, the community/mailing list I founded in 1999, WebSanDiego, turns 5. Tomorrow, I turn 34. On IMDB, you can find movie celebrity births and deaths and marriages by day: 19 March, 20 March. Kinda cool. I don’t have any sage thoughts on getting older or wiser or any of that. Perhaps tomorrow. Have a great…

I’m not kidding about National Corndog Day. Today I’m 34. That’s more than a third of 100. Does this make me “Third-Age” — as in kinda like 50 is “Middle-Age?” The agenda for today is: laundry and a birthday party. Oh, and I want to do my next Java assignment today. I share my birthday…

Thanks for the linkage of late, for my birthday and for otherwise: Leah Peah Tony Pierce Janece Tom Bickle Joanna’s Chefblog Jedimike The week begins. I have a backlog of stuff to do. Wish me luck catching up. The birthday was a smashing success. Kudos to Leah for putting it together.

Apple gets juiced up: “The Senate has also been attacked by computer worms and viruses recently, but those attacks have all targeted Microsoft Corp. Windows users, so Kennedy’s Apple-based office has been unaffected. Panther has proved more stable than the previous version of the OS, called Jaguar, suffering none of the dreaded kernel panics that…

Not particularly a newsflash, admittedly CNN says: “The gray-haired Byrne, 51 and NEWLY SINGLE, is caught in a frustrating career trap.” And the Sunday Herald says: The feelings of alienation were exacerbated by his personal situation. He has been separated from his wife Adelle Lutz, with whom he has a teenage daughter, Malu, for about…

So my friend Steve Kapali got married this month, and is now moving to Hawaii. (I went to his bachelor party which is kind of a fun story — but not for here). Anyway, he and his now-wife Natty tricked out a van to take a cross-country several-months-long trek all around the country. It’s actually…

The Theme Today:Games Started the day with a rousing game of racquetball with my Aunt and Uncle. This is a followup from Thursday, when I played doubles at my other Aunt’s workplace. Very cool. After racquetball I went to the bank and gassed up the truck. The main thing we all did today was go…

in… Bush is a fear president. I’m considering starting a links blog a la waxy, diveintomark, anil. Anyone else think this is a good idea?

For no reason, Cox was just out for 30 minutes. That chaps my hide.

A buddy of mine is tight with these folks… and it’s an interesting concept: Greens for Kerry.

Leah and I May hit this this weekend: S/he’s Crafty Craft Fair

San Diego Bloggers Added in March, 2004 2004-03-17 Minh T. Nguyen’s Blog (RSS) 2004-03-14 Tom Log (RSS) 2004-03-09 Navy Lady (Atom)(+) 2004-03-09 Legal News Watch (RSS) 2004-03-04 Oso’s Blog (Atom)(RSS)(+) 2004-03-04 Wagner’s Weblog (RSS) 2004-03-02 karenika 2004-03-01 Chronic Listaholic (Atom) 2004-03-01 The Moderate Voice (Atom)

Chronic Listaholic added a sidebar link. Welcome to the top level! 🙂

Buddhist monks make and destroy a sand mandala. Here starts the week. Spring break. Here we go.

Today I launch ArtLung Semidaily Links – which you can also see in the right hand side of this blog. It’s a place for me to put miscellaneous stuff. I hope you find it useful and fun!

The Ledger: A Law & Order Blog… this post is more or less for Sassy, who had a birthday last Friday.

reposted from websandiego Greetings WebSanDiegans (and others!): LAMP Host, provider of great developer-friendly web hosting, has set up mirrors of several prominent pieces of open source software. As ourbusiness relies on open source, we believe strongly in supporting developers, and these mirrors are a great way to support the developer community here in San Diego…

Helping make Easter baskets which included saltwater taffy and Botan rice candy. Bodysurfing the day before Easter in the cold waters of the Coronado strand. Drinking Chai and checking RSS feeds at Influx. Getting an 80 on my most recent Statistics test. Disappointment ensues, but I think my A is still secure. Doing a presentation…

Went to the South Bay Drive In with Leah to see Kill Bill Volume 2, which was violent but entertaining. I have not been to a drive-in movie in a decade. Racquetball Saturday was good. Got back Leah’s computer from my uncle, who got a new case, installed a new fan, and did some other…

So today I picked up a friend from the airport. I got there a decent 20 minutes early. So I’m hanging out at San Diego International Airport (san.org is not a bad domain, by the way, “san” is the airport code for San Diego). I’m standing in front of the arrival and departure screens, minding…

When I was first playing with databases I was putting lots of stray stuff into mine. It was pretty fun, actually. mysql> select want_id, artist, title from music_wanted; +———+———————–+——————————–+ | want_id | artist | title | +———+———————–+——————————–+ | 0001 | Anderson, Laurie | Mr. Heartbreak | | 0002 | Cocker, Joe | Greatest Hits |…

rudy sent me a comment about my MySQL post saying: VARCHAR(200) is **not** very silly TEXT has performance issues of course, if you were planning on regularly inserting comments that exceed 200, then yeah, some kind of larger datatype would be required so in that light, VARCHAR(200) is a wee bit sillier than VARCHAR(255) ;o)…

…is the sound of events and projects whooshing by my head. Some things are getting done, mostly school things as it turns out. But lots of other things are getting dropped right now. I hope to pick up more as the week goes on. I’m sitting between classes here at City as I listen to…

Blogger has redesigned. Does this work?

Last week was busy and rough. I’ve been quiet and busy, and successful and unsuccessful. I spent my entire Saturday the Saturday before last working on a take-home test for my Statistics Class. On Dr T’s Math Pages you can see the results. I got a 92 for my efforts. I’d have preferred a 100,…

Blogger: User Profile: artlung – I fed it March 20th, and it’s calling me an Aries. True, I’m on the last day of Pisces, but dude, that’s a bug.

System Information Apple Menu > About This Mac > More Info (Macintosh Hard Drive) > File > Get Info Apple Menu > System Preferences Network Connections Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network Internet Properties Apple Menu > System Preferences > Built-in Ethernet > TCP/IP Map Network Drive Go > Connect to Server Finder >…

The secret to college is to pass. * There are no fractional grades in UC schools, so 92 = 99 * most upper div classes offer little / no extra credit * C’s get degrees, but an A+++++ is still just an A Take it from a man who has spent many a year in…

2004-04-26 both hands 2004-04-26 Frinklin Speaks (RSS) 2004-04-19 HillQuest Blog 2004-04-13 Krassy Can Blog It (Atom) 2004-04-08 Ad Blog 2004-04-07 I’m Just Digital (Atom)(RSS)(+) 2004-04-06 lachan clapisada 2004-04-05 Cameron Childress (RSS) Go now.

]list 10 REM *********************** 15 PRINT “Apple ][” 20 PRINT “Programming by Joe” 25 REM 30 REM Begin the loop 35 REM 40 FOR X = 1 TO 100 by 3 43 PRINT (X * X)” is the square of “X”.” 45 PRINT SQR (X)” is the squar e root of “X”.” 50 PRINT 60…

Finally caught up (and even un poquito de credito extea) with my tedious Spanish Workbook homework. That was nice. This semester is almost over and it looks like I’ll have survived.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another. –Frank Zappa

I’m inaccessible. Two finals today. One tomorrow. And here in Professor Forman‘s Java class he’s discoursing on what he calls: The Zen of Knowing 4. You don’t know you know 3. You know you know 2. You know you don’t know 1. You don’t know you don’t know Spanish later, and Statistics tomorrow.

Statistics Final done today — and thanks to the magic of the internet I have my final grade — I did poorer on the final than I felt like I did — sadly I’ll never know what the results were — but my final grade in Statistics is a B. Also done is my Java…

Friday night, Leah’s kids arrived for the weekend. In good spirits, nearly done with their semester at school. We went to Mr. Frostie in PB for ice cream. It was lovely. On Saturday: Teaching racquetball to two of L’s kids: they did okay for kids aged 13 and 11. My Aunt was stuck in L.A….

Grades for Spring 2004 will be available on 6/7/2004 Good to know.

2004-05-29 Avenge The Fold… 2004-05-27 Denounce (RSS) 2004-05-24 Brandi Babe – The Diary (RSS) 2004-05-23 Banana Tree House (Atom)(+) 2004-05-21 Binary Wolf (Atom)(RSS)(+) 2004-05-21 this is it (Atom)(RSS)(+) 2004-05-20 San Diego Macromedia Users Group (Atom) 2004-05-18 brothers.styn.net (RSS) 2004-05-18 Urban Amy (Atom)(RSS)(+) 2004-05-18 Merge Events 2004-05-17 incitrio 2004-05-15 damon rouse dot blog (RSS)(+) 2004-05-15 vmoney…

I am putting years and years of My Comics for Sale. Check them out, purchase away!

Subject/Course Title Units Earned Grade College Spring 2004 SPAN 101 FIRST COURSE IN SPANISH 5.00 B City MATH 119 ELEMENTARY STATISTICS 3.00 B City CISC 190 JAVA PROGRAMMING 4.00 A City These grades are transferrable. I’m happy about that. See also: Grades

…and I could not figure out the name of the source. “Setting all the captives free.” …is the line. The great thing about the world today is that a simple google search finds it. I remember it from church growing up. At mass on Sunday I could not find it in the hymm book. But…

The latest Header for ArtLung.com.

ProForm: FAQ is a great example of why the internet is so great. Thanks to my big ‘ol truck and $50. Leah bought a new treadmill from a lady up in Temecula last week. She’s firing it up now, and was able to adjust it thanks to that FAQ. Not a bad purchase for $50….

New paper letter I received… May 24, 2004 Dear JOSEPH, Congratulations on completing a successful semester at City College! Professor FORMAN has recognized your outstanding academic performance and has recommended you for the Honors Program at City College. While there are a number of honors classes to choose from each semester, and the additional option…

For 2004 city college language day I made a poster, and now I’ve finally gotten around to putting it online.

I’m listening to James Taylor’s song Fire And Rain and I’m kind of liking it. I’m usually not a fan. Jackson Browne and James Taylor are just too earnest for their own good. You may not realize that there are myths about this song, debunked by Snopes.

Local Blog Jamboree is a roundup of some local bloggers and what they’re talking about. Entertaining stuff. You may also notice that San Diego Blog is getting an extreme makeover, still in progress. What’s changed? Well, we have added upcoming.org events, San Diego Bloggers badge wearers, and other local blog directories. Atom support, RSS support,…

Q: How did you learn all about web design? A: I set out to work in the movie business, but I missed and hit the web. (unrelated: this is the 1776th post on artlung blog)

See: contrariwise From a contrasting point of view. In the opposite way or reverse order. In a perverse manner. source: dictionary.reference.com

“The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank…

Truth is messy, it’s paradoxical. Reagan was a great leader, he didn’t pay attention, he was all flash, he made bold proclamations, he cheated on his wife, he made for great television, he reached out to Gorbachev, he financed Islamists, he brought us out of malaise, he raised taxes, he was against big government, he…

I’ve been having a bit of a rough time lately. I have some habits in my interpersonal relationships that are not very good. I have some passive-aggressive tendencies that take real skill to work on. I also have a tendency to self-criticism that verges on the toxic. I’m working this out in therapy, which I’m…

Joe crawford is a freelance web developer and designer who lives in San Diego. Joe crawford is a forcefully OS-agnostic web developer and designer. Joe crawford is mellowing. Joe crawford is down to Michigan. Joe crawford is visiting Cincinnati Oct. Joe crawford is a Web developer. Joe crawford is 18th. Joe crawford is like Keith…

A new header, me in a cowboy hat, making some sort of funny face. I like that it makes me look like a smart alec.

I just realized, after liking the song for a decade, that the lovely song L.A. County by Lyle Lovett is about a guy driving to L.A. to murder his ex — on her wedding day. Shades of Kill Bill, I think.

Coughing less, mucous no longer yellow. Feeling better!

Minor changes to lab.artlung.com have been made. Still somewhat chaotic, but less so. Also, my Gallery script had been dead, but was rescued with help from http://www.archive.org/web/web.php. Still feeling a bit snotty and sick. Backachey in particular. More mundanities later.

(My friend Erin put together this listing, I just made it into HTML) Alright … off the cuff … in no particular order … Stalag 17 Star Wars <Trilogy>* Lawrence of Arabia * Blade Runner * Treasure of Sierra Madre Citizen Kane Pulp Fiction Jaws Close Encounters of the Third Kind Taxi Driver I’m sure…

San Diego Earthquake!, featuring instant coverage from numerous San Diego Bloggers.

So today was a big quake. I live outside downtown, and this circa 1892 house shook pretty violently. I was surprised that nothing fell down – no pictures or books fell, and Leah and I have plenty of both on shelves and on the walls. It was fun watching the news roll out. NPR had…

Metafilter Network | artlung’s contacts. Sadly, I don’t know that many people on MeFi. Or do I?

Several of my classmakes from Respiratory Therapy school worked at Rocky Mount’s hospital – Franklin Memorial. A bear walked through wednesday… Scare highlights growing problem. I had no idea they even had bears in that part of Virginia (Southwestern Virginia — near Roanoke).

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San Diego Blog: San Diego indy weekly Fahrenheit RIP

Long day, good day. Too tired to blog. Good night!

Yesterday I moved ask leahpeah from b2 to WordPress. I’m really loving that software. And yes, she’s hosted on LAMP Host.

Hoo boy. San Diego Blog has had a whole lotsa work on it done recently. I’m blogging up a storm over there. Some posts: Snopes Covers San Diego SanDog: For Surfers in San Diego Fahrenheit Final Word La Migra Sweeping Up Civil Liberties Again? So long, and thanks for all the mines DUI Hat Trick…

tony p style 2 weeks ago i made enchiladas for leah and the kids which was fun got an amazing gift the other week from my folks for which i thank them my little sister turned 27 last week yowza leah may be moving north far i am considering my options and was angsty about…

“RHINO OFFERS HEADS ON PLATTERS THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS And BEST OF TALKING HEADS Available August 17 LOS ANGELES – Rhino Records is pleased to offer two kinds of overviews of the career of one of the best-loved bands of the 1980s with the release of THE NAME OF THIS BAND…

possibility.

This is worth a read: The rules of thumb Don’t know what you don’t know. Get to a known state and stay there. Remember the triangle. Don’t go dark. Use zero defect (ZD) milestones. Beware of a guy in a room. Never trade a bad date for an equally bad date When slipping, don’t fall….

And what a lovely write-up — 3-Blogs A Day: 1 part green + 2 parts ArtLung, add a dash of Dalton — stir and serve chilled over HTTP://: “ArtLung:Blog: ArtLung, along with blogger Joe Crawford’s website, has to be one of the largest and most extensive personal websites I have ever been privy to. Boasting…

Thoughts From My Broken Brain: “I’m 37 years old and have just been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. I started this blog to chronical my journey.”

“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.” – Frank Zappa (despite that, I am optimistic, says I)

The spacecraft has apparently been taken over – “conqured” if you will – by a master race of giant space ants. It’s difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon…

tonypierce.com: fourth of hollywood blvd: a photo essay

Frustratingly beautiful use of the web: fray: fireworks.

Careful where you type the word “bomb” — I write badly, therefore I am a would-be terrorist (HoustonChronicle.com).

Projects of Joe Crawford has been updated a little bit. Still tweaking.

Translator in eye of storm on retroactive classification (Boston.com): “Sifting through old classified materials in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, FBI translator Sibel Edmonds said, she made an alarming discovery: Intercepts relevant to the terrorist plot, including references to skyscrapers, had been overlooked because they were badly translated into English.” How much…

What is the deal with this url: http://www.google.com/aol/ ?

I love that I started a page on Wikipedia about IPv9. It’s since grown and become quite useful. Collective knowledge is power! Power to the swarm!

Repurposing a message I sent to the “staff” of San Diego Blog. Hi-De-Ho Neighbors. You’re getting this because you’re registered on http://sandiegoblog.com/ For the past month, I’ve made it a goal to have *at least* one post a day on San Diego Blog. Something interesting, something cool, a photo — SOMETHING. I’d really love it…

Offered without comment: Wonkette: We Had to Burn the Democracy in Order to Save It: Last week, Homeland Security honcho Tom Ridge warned that al Qaeda may be planning to a large-scale attack ‘in an effort to disrupt the democratic process.’ So of course what should we do if one happens in early November? Well,…

Curious about some of the characters in the movie and how they appear in the comics? Marvel Directory has more: # # # # # # # # # Two weeks ago Leah and I saw Spider Man 2. It was good.

Lincoln on the 1864 Presidential Election We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

So Francophile TomBickle.com mentions that it’s Bastille Day and refers to the Encarta entry for Bastille, which is to the point, but a little thin. As an experiment I checked out my personal favorite encyclopedia (yeah, I have a favorite encyclopedia) Wikipedia — and Wikipedia entry for Bastille is great — and it links to…

I got this message about lab.artlung.com from someone named andy: cant read links with all the background text, site would be good otherwise. can’t look at your site for more than one min without my eyes blurring Andy is right. I need to rethink the look and organization of that site. I promise to improve…

An iTunes Smart Playlist by Joe Crawford Barefoot Rock — The Blasters Big Rock Candy Mountain — Harry McClintock Block Rockin’ Beats — Chemical Brothers Clash City Rockers — The Clash Cool Breeze On The Rocks — De La Soul Cyclops Rock — They Might Be Giants Don’t Stop The Rock — Chemical Brothers Dr….

So I have been blogging for some time now. And yet I have not blogged in some time now. Leah points out that in writing over here, I’m writing much less here. And that’s definitely true. So what’s new? It might be easier to ask — what is *not* new. What’s new is yes, I…

You could do much worse than URM Cargo, which is a site I made several years ago. Seriously, URMCargo.

The plan today is maybe to hit La Jolla Cove with my family. It looks like it may be another beautiful day. Though it has been hot here in San Diego. San Diegan’s don’t take well to unseasonable temperatures. We like our weather perfect, dagnabbit. So what’s on my mind? Actually, not much right now….

Hilarity ensues.

Featuring the word “Don’t”: Baby Please Don’t Go – Van Morrison Boys Don’t Cry – The Cure Brown Shoes Don’t Make It – Frank Zappa Don’t – Jewel Don’t Be Sad – Dwight Yoakam Don’t Believe The Hype – Public Enemy Don’t Break the Heart – Mono Puff Don’t Bring Me Down – Paul Shaffer…

I made a new header this morning, the grainy photo was taken earlier this month — July 3rd — at Cajon Speedway. It was the first time I’d ever been. Basically a whole lot of crazy guys drove as fast as they could for what they called an “Enduro Race.” Here’s the text wrap-up, and…

Comic Con today was huge. Went with my sister and her boyfriend. It was awesome, and did I mention huge? I have a crazy idea to take a picture of each and every booth, though as I think about it it sounds like an insane and foolhardy idea. Though that makes me want to do…

So it seems Caleb John Clark., sometime San Diegan and all-around-interesting guy, is still out in the world. He’s an east-coaster now — but I forgive him. Caleb’s one of the few people I have met a few times in person to talk about running communities. Others include Dennis Wilen and Matt Haughey, as well…

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San Diego Blog: Comic Con Continues!

Comic Con 2004 photos (Friday edition) are up: ArtLung Photos :: Comic Con 2004

“My Beef With Big Media” by Ted Turner: “Today, media companies are more concentrated than at any time over the past 40 years, thanks to a continual loosening of ownership rules by Washington. The media giants now own not only broadcast networks and local stations; they also own the cable companies that pipe in the…

Elfur is linking to me with her new site. I used to be an admin on evolt.org, and Elfur was a fellow admin. A few years ago I met her and many other evolters at SXSW. That was so cool. She’s from Iceland, lives in Iceland, and has a kid and does web design. And…

Tom Bickle is a new daddy. Congrats! And Janece is coming due real soon now. Babies all ’round. Talk about onward man!

So I’m going over the crap I picked up at Comic-Con, and found a promo for Titan Magazines. You know, they have monthly and bimonthly magazines for fans of tv shows. The titles are: Alias, Angel, Bufffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Smallville, and Stargate SG-1, and a catchall magazine called Dreamwatch. At first I was…

One of the cool things about having family here last week and before was being exposed to their tastes and thoughts. My sister’s boyfriend D. has some really cool tastes. Here are some of them: James Kochalka’s American Elf is one. He has an interesting pitch for supporting his site: American Elf: the Sketchbook Diaries…

I keep updating this thread. So many tasty links! San Diego Blog — Con: More. More. More

I like Al’s latest gallery: upwards

…on BoingBoing: Ebook column that gets it all wrong

I swear this is not morbid. Already Dead – Beck Better Off Dead – Randy Newman Daisy Dead Petals – Tori Amos Dead – They Might Be Giants Dead End Job – The Police Dead Flowers – Townes Van Zandt Dead Girls Of London – Frank Zappa Dead Girls Of London – Frank Zappa Dead…

For some time I’ve been making headers for this site. Tonight I redesigned that page to include thumbnails for the individual headers. I strive to make some kind of artistic something with these. I sometimes succeed. Looking back, there are some really nice ones. I made these thumbnails with webkit2png – an awesome command line…

Back on July 27th I made a comment about Shockinis, to whit: Shocker Toys: Shockinis appears to be the copycat of another toy — Stikfas — generic toys you can customize into any kind of figure you want. Geoff Beckett, from ShockerToys, responded via my feeback form just a few days later (yes, people use…

So here’s where we start anew. Afresh. We start blogging with WordPress instead of blogger. Enabling such things as trackback and other niceties. What had God wrought?

Okay. Am i really ready for user comments? I’ve always said I would not.

Go Johan go! 0x.se – Paparazzi! Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OSX that makes screenshots of webpages. It’s written in Objective-C using the Cocoa API and the WebKit framework… It was inspired by webkit2png which is a commandline tool written by Paul Hammond in pyObjC, so all intellectual credit for the basic functionality…

I’m about to import hundreds of entries from my old blogger file into WordPress. Wish me luck.

The ArtLung Blog, which debuted in March 2001, has made a big technology shift today. I expect there will be errors and bugs in these first few days and I check over content to make sure things work. I love Blogger, and will continue to use it for some purposes. But I’ve migrated into the…

lab.artlung.com got linked from weblog tools collection yesterday. And today, with the conversion to WordPress, I can use trackback to “talk” at them. Geeky, to be sure, but interesting.

Captured on hip hop music — Bart’s book report vs. George W. Bush’s Press Conference.

…in this post by Rudy Rucker on boing boing.

Usenix is happening right here in San Diego. Mitch Wagner, local blogger and Editor of InternetWeek is on the case!

Email of the day: ———- Forwarded message ———- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:39:02 +1000 From: [REDACTED] To: joe [AT] artlung.com Subject: websandiego.org Dear Sir/Madam, I was wondering if you were interested in selling your domain websandiego.org. I am willing to pay $100.00 for it. Yours Sincerely, [REDACTED]

Holy crap. How long has it been since I posted? Oh, so much to post. I’ll be updating this as I get to everything. The Ronny Vardy Fansite has been changed a great deal. I saw her briefly at Comic-Con and perused her new book. Worth a look. Also, just added a new header —…

This website is once again undergoing revisions. I have modified the Stew/The Negro Problem pages, as well as the Voltes 5 pages. Also, if you’re reading this blog you probably have noticed that the design is changing. The many many sidebar links to pals, friends, colleagues, news sources, and the like have been moved to…

So today what Leah and I are doing it heading north to Los Angeles, downtown that is, to see Stew perform free at noon. We’re taking the train. Leah’s first time with me on a train. I love trains.

Yesterday I returned to school. San Diego City College otra vez. I’m taking classes, nominally, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I think the reality is that classes are actually going to be Monday, Wednesday, and an evening class on Thursday. I’m enrolled in (and paid for! woo hoo!) my Spanish 102 class, and my C++ Programming…

It’s been quite a week. School and work and work and school. And also the SDOSS meeting about how Sign On San Diego uses open source. I’m happy but tired. I’m way behind on a few things, and just have not found the times to make things right. In some areas, things are great, but…

It was 2 years ago today that I met Leah. I was pretty giddy. She’s wonderful and I love her. She’s not feeling well right now. I hope she gets well soon. We’re gonna get married, but we don’t know when. We’re real interesting. And yes, I’ve been quiet lately here on the blog. Well,…

Agent Orange — Tori Amos Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye — The Black Crowes Bad, Bad Leroy Brown — Jim Croce Ballet For A Blue Whale — Adrian Belew Big Black Mariah — Tom Waits Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open) — David Byrne Black & White — Sarah McLachlan Black & White x 5…

This weekend Stew will be appearing at the Adams Avenue Street Fair. Sunday. I’m gonna be there. Can’t wait. Previously: Stew plays, Joe Mulls. Love that Stew!

Everything’s a bit blurry. But we have new couches as of Tuesday. Leah made Adas Polo Rice the other day. That was great. Classes going well. The rat-a-tat Spanish teacher is still rat-a-tat. Killing ’em in C++ class. Technical writing is good. Enjoying my work (it’s painless and simple) and my freelance too. And Stew…

I came across this C++ Tutorial. I’ll be reading it. It’s nowhere near as useful as Roedy Green‘s Java pages, but it’ll do in a pinch. More work done, another week nearly over. I need to take a couch to the dump and go to work!

So today is coming to a close. Started out with a trip to the dump! Then a drive up to see a football game featuring two of Leah’s kids. Then lunch at the Cheesecake Factory (Cobb Salad). We then saw Mr. 3000 (not bad) and made our way home. Herculean driving of the 170 miles…

So yesterday Leah and I went and saw Stew at the Adams Ave Street Fair as promised. He was wonderful as always. He also mentiond a little fun fact about having a song on TV tomorrow — which is to say today. So here’s the 411, direct from the Stew camp: last time we had…

A few weeks ago I got an email from the people doing promotions of Joel Spolsky‘s new book — they wanted to send me a free copy since I’ve linked to Joel so many times over the years. Hey, I like free stuff. I suppose this is what’s called a “review copy.” Well, I’m happy…

I put my latest pix of stew (from yesterday’s show) up on my flickr site.

The entrails of my self are all over the place right now. My mother comes Friday — she’s going to a reunion this weekend and staying with Leah and me. We’re in a bit of disarray right now, so we have a bit more cleaning to do. Counseling today went well. Learning so much it…

Leah and I went to class in a rush, we had an outline due tonight. But alas! No class. I suspect our teacher played hooky to watch the presidential debate. Ah well, more time to prepare the house for the imminent arrival of my mom, tomorrow.

Just posted this to a mailing list: There’s so much hype and mystique about what the Semantic Web could be, might be, will be — I am particularly taken with a new series of articles (still unfolding) on xml.com about Paul Ford’s work on actually trying to *build* semantic web applications. * Screenscraping the Senate…

My sister wrote me something the other day and I’m going to share it here. I saw Morrissey play at DAR Constitution Hall tonight and I had this welling of emotion when he came out. Anyway, it’s hard to put it into words without it sounding a bit silly, but thanks for taking me to…

Quote of the day: They deceived us about the weapons of mass destruction, that’s true. We were taken for a ride. – ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI (translated) Mr. Kwasniewski is the President of Poland. (via ABC Australia)

Clarity is a gift you can sometimes give yourself. But more often it’s a gift you receive by the grace of others. Thank you Leah. Thank you Mom. Onward

The Cars … Don’t cha stop right here I’d like to melt inside of you right here your kiss is totally new right here your hands are soft and creamy right here your mouth is wet and dreamy and it’s just what I like so dim down the light (don’t cha stop don’t cha stop)…

No, no estoy muerto. Estoy estudiando. I’m chilling out. Thanks for the concern. Man, I had such a week. Monday I kicked ass on a Spanish test. I studied, and did well. A little client work, but not a whole bunch, actually. A bit of friction at the part-time gig. Communication is hard man. I…

My hero, Bruce Sterling (his blog) says in his latest Viridian Note: The going is getting weird. The weird are turning pro. I have been asked to take a year-long guest residency, teaching design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. This school is in the Los Angeles basin, the epicenter of…

A correspondent named Imelda writes: Thank you for helping us solve the flash mind reader puzzle – my two children were starting to believe in the “magic” – and I wanted to let them know it was a scientific/mathmatic solution. No need to contact back. Just a big thanks. It was a delight to write…

My favorite quote from this weekend is from Roger Ebert’s review of Team America: World Police: If I were asked to extract a political position from the movie, I’d be baffled. It is neither for nor against the war on terrorism, just dedicated to ridiculing those who wage it and those who oppose it. The…

“Catastrophisizing” is the word I learned today. It’s a habit, and not much of a real word, but the meaning is clear enough. And it’s a habit I inflict on others, and more, myself. It’s not my job to fix you or teach you a lesson.

Another week is whizzing by at a frantic and learn-a-rific rate. Some new LAMP Host clients upcoming. New changes over at WebSanDiego.org coming up. Doing great in Spanish Class, C++ tambien. Printing a group project for Technical Writing as we speak. My xhtml + css chops are improving daily. The p/t gig is just fine….

I just spent 45 minutes tearing apart a broken $30 Wal-Mart DVD player. It stubbornly stopped working. Stopped playing. Stopped ejecting. Stopped even letting the tiny green LED light when plugged in. It just got broke. So I was going to, you know, throw it away. But I couldn’t remember if I had left a…

On the eve of a national election here in the United States, I feel as though all things are changing. From Wikipedia: Lever: In physics, a lever is a rigid object that is used with an appropriate fulcrum or pivot point to multiply the mechanical force that can be applied to another object. This is…

Leah and I are going to the polls in a few minutes. I support John Kerry I oppose George W. Bush This post is for Technorati Blog Votes [found via Backup Brain ]

This morning I learned that a timbit is a donut hole. In Canada, eh. [via Marry an American.ca]

Yes, It’s been quiet in here. Catching up a little.

just posted this to websandiego mailing list: I don’t know. What it feels like that with my personal involvement down to nominal levels, the feeling of “action” on the list is much less than it used to be. So people simply don’t *think* to post to the list. There’s a pile of to-do’s for me…

Great H.L. Mencken Quote, via the Interesting People List When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men…

This is not really new, but it’s something I want to do more work on. Much of the code is in C++ (the topic of a current class I’m taking), so maybe this is worth looking over very closely. Analysis of an Electronic Voting System from February 27, 2004, by Tadayoshi Kohno, Adam Stubblefield, Aviel,…

Lyrics of the moment (from The Drug Suite by Stew): adams and crenshaw is beautiful and we are laughing in the sun we parachute into church so we can sing before practice is done when we raise our voice stoned angels weep i can feel the holy ghost creeping up on me and suddenly there…

“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.” — Albert Einstein

Leah has four paintings for sale. Wonderful pieces. Check ’em out.

Was it back in June? Dang. Today I’m puttering. Puttering is what Leah calls it when I work on miscellaneous stuff. It may include, but is not limited to: doing dishes, doing laundry, organizing my comics, taking a bath, doing homework, blogging, doing invoices, rearranging furniture, alphabetizing tapes and CDs (not anymore, that’s what iTunes…

Amazing few months. No blogging. Some updates: House-hunting in Moorpark — some good leads! Thanksgiving: wonderful, great turkey Movies: The Incredibles, I Heart Huckabees – loved; Bridget Jones – hated it Classes: quite good, but busy. In C++ I’m one of the last 6 people left. Spanish – doing fine. Technical Writing, really enjoying it….

On the main page of this blog I used to have a giant list of links. Well, that list is no more, and I’m even removing it from the side of the links page. Since it was last updated on 15 March 2004 it’s a good bet I’m not going to maintain any such list…

At one time I was quite the night owl. Used to love working nights. Now I’m up at 12:45am and all I want to do is sleep. Or maybe do some programming. Heh. Good night y’all!

I should have gone to bed. In composing an invite list for a party this month (the 18th) I accidentually sent the list in composition to half the list, with nary an explanation. Now that is a breach of netiquette. So for those of you I confused, I apologize. And if you want to come…

People often ask me how I learned all these magic tricks. The answer is books, of course. The books that follow are the crucial books in my education in the ways of the World Wide Web. There are more books – but these are the desert island books. Web development: Teach Yourself Web Publishing with…

Leah and Sky in 2002 x 2 Originally uploaded by artlung. Have I mentioned that we’re gonna get married? No? Well, we are, in Las Vegas, on the 21st. Partnerships rock.

Lots more site changes happening. Pages removed, some redirects set up. You can still get to older stuff on the excellent web.archive.org, specifically by going to the archive of artlung.com. There’s been so much stuff I’ve put up here on the site for so long, and it’s time to put this house in order. The…

Where I was baptized a CatholicOriginally uploaded by artlung.I don’t often think of it, but I am a Catholic. I am also a Buddhist, an Agnostic, and a Freethinker. But I am definitely a Catholic. What does that mean? Well, that’s part of the ongoing struggle, right? To embrace spirituality without abandoning reason. To embrace…

Leah summarizes our life right now perfectly. That girl, she makes me laugh.

Over on San Diego Blog, you can now easily suggest a site via the new, dedicated form.

I really liked the movie Ray. What an American story! Thomas P M Barnett is a great thinker about geopolitics. Bruce Schneier is a great thinker about security. Mark Cuban is a raucous thinker about business. Pre-marital aka couples counseling was a great experience for Leah and I. Want to listen to some great authors…

So we’re sitting and vegetating a little bit, watching some TV. Leah goofily says “we’re getting married” — with a big ol’ grin. “Everybody says so.” And I reply: “that’s right.” We’re a bit giddy right now, it’s true.

Davenetics checked the alphabet with the new Google Suggest. I had to check the numbers out. 1 – 1 2 – 2004 Election 3 – 3m 4 – 411 5 – 50cent (hollah!) 6 – 60 minutes 7 – 7th Heaven 8 – 89.com (which seems to be some kind of porn portal — likely…

Good, if busy day today. Multiple projects on multiple fronts. My folks left this morning (early!) for Virginia. It was great to see them, even if briefly. The party for the 60th Anniversary for my Grandparents was awesome. Poker til late. I lost money but had fun. Poker game names are bewildering. So much to…

I’ve been slowly migrating content from the smorgasborg to either the blog or to /dev/null. I’ll let web.archive.org handle maintaining all these little crappy bits. Really though, the smorgasborg was a bit of a blog. I just kept adding, and it was random. It was a little like a memepool, but I didn’t keep it…

Joe & Jean Crawford 60th Anniversary Originally uploaded by artlung. That’s so impressive. Check out Leah’s Photo Site for more. Sixty years dude!

I get the neatest email. Here’s one about Christmas around the world: May God bless you keeping an interesting page of Merry Christmas in all languages on your website. This efforts praise worthy and I appreciate it. Please permit me to suggest one very small improvement on your page: http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/international_xmas.shtml It says in Hindi, Christmas…

Three bloggers I regularly read, Andy Baio, Matt Haughey, and Jason Kottke, all linked to this: Too much of a good thing?. The central thesis of this blog entry is there is so much good stuff in the world and it’s depressing not to get to it, and maddening to not get to it. I…

So… If you have previously been to our home for a party, been invited but were unable to show, or think you should have been and did not receive an invitation for our holiday/wedding party Saturday night … like, tomorrow dude… please call or email Leah and/or I for more information. Due to our extreme…

Turnout was great. People were great. Tired this morning. Wonderfulness. Marriage ETA: 54 hours. ONWARDS TOGETHER!

Today I get married. There’s a possibility that technical difficulties will get in the way, but I set up an audio blog over on the right there for developments. Leah and I, and the kids, are all going to Las Vegas, and then on to Utah for the Holiday. Things are good. Blessings abound. I…

Right now I’m sitting in the Kanab City Library. Checking in on email and whatnot for the first time in a few days. They don’t have free WiFi, but they do have a laptop hookup I can use for an hour. I want to swear about [expletive deleted] cool this is. It’s been a wonderful…

I got a nice note from our friend Susan about our wedding, and I thought I’d share it… I almost forgot that today is The Big Day – congratulations!!! How nice that you’re getting married on the solstice. A good omen, as this marks a new phase in your lives with the promise of warm…

Before I left I made some changes over on San Diego Bloggers, leaving it broken visually. Sad. But fixed now! Check it!

The incredible tsunami last week is something I’ve not mentioned at all so far. It’s an astonishing event by any measure. Oso wrote several posts about it for San Diego Blog. On the waxy.org videos thread I found a link to the excellent wikipedia article to catch me up to speed, as I’ve been busy…