July 2007
4 posts
“Mitt Romney — who recently faced questions about his common sense for strapping...”
– Republicans Terrified of YouTube Debate
FC7 build
Pleasantly surprised to see LSR installed, built as an RPM, and ran without a hitch on FC7. The new default Festival voice is interesting. Updated the LSR in retrospect document. I recently realized I never uploaded the final draft to the website.
Dapper
Problem: I want to track water conservation notices in my county, but ncwater.org does not offer feeds or alerts of any kind. It only has static HTML pages generated via form input. Solution: My very own NC Water Management Dapp. I can now consume notices about water restrictions in an RSS feed, NetVibes module, XML doc, email alert, JSON, CSV, and about seven other formats. I’d toyed with...
Lazy, hazy days
Three days off ahead. Time to cook some dogs and ‘burgs tomorrow, relax with Jackie and Zora. Then time to work on my thesis over the last two days of the week. I’ve spent entirely too much time hacking on mindtrove lately, but I’m happy with where it’s heading. I’m sure it has all sort of issues rendering in non-Firefox browsers since I haven’t had the...
