I was a fan of Hyetal’s work before I knew his name thanks to Cexman’s brilliant Archbroseph Mix. The song in that mix, Gold or Soul, is simple yet vast. This track is a level up.
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The Secret Sun by Tanya Johnston
I don’t have much to offer right now other than three songs, loosely related.
I love Ffffound, and I love that despite my inescapable cynicism, thousands of people are somehow able to trudge through and make excellent stuff.
Here’s to a rainy weekend.
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I get the general method of how he constructed it, even if I didn’t match it aesthetically:
I had fun constructing this, it was akin to playing with legos. Today on Reddit someone asked, “If your twelve year old self saw you today, what would he say?” He would probably say that that thing was pretty cool. Then hopefully he would get a realistic sense of perspective on his age and enjoy the hell out of being twelve.
Maybe being 25 isn’t that much different.
In supplement, here’s a shot of the print framed and lit:
I’m particularly proud of that lighting solution I’ve concocted. I’m sure it will make Ben proud.* Especially when it falls down in the middle of the night electrocuting my right foot.
*I believe this is one of Ben’s clamps, too.
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Black Friday. I slept in and wiped and updated/jailbroke my iPhone to 3.1.2. What a colossal pain in the ass. I had to borrow Sam’s SIM card 4 times before I got a clean install and activation. Also I made this for my bootup and lock screen:
Saturday. Migraine,but only a 4 on the Jake scale. Ask me what that means sometime. Also, watched Singing in the Rain:
Understatement of the week: Gene Kelly and Don O’Conner were talented. It’s on Netflix streaming if you’d like to watch.
Sunday. Farmer’s market. Out to Sea with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Not great, but funny enough for a Sunday. Makes me want to watch “The Odd Couple” and call everyone a moron.
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Just received this email from Media Temple:
Recently we witnessed some malicious activity on our (gs) Grid-Service platform where a hacker redirected some customer websites to a 3rd-party advertising website. This attacker appears to have illegally obtained some older customer data, which included usernames and passwords stored in clear text. Our newer systems now have this same data encrypted. An investigation into this illegal activity is ongoing, with full details forthcoming.
My reaction upon reading? “THEY FESSED UP! NOT MY FAULT! ”
Except they’ve only sort of fessed up. It’s not referenced on their blog or their status page, which sucks. They do have a KB article which describes the same attack my sites and some client sites experienced. Also, there’s Twitter, I guess. There better be a sweet espionage book deal out of this, and I want my name in it. 4pt font is fine.
They’ve reset the admin passwords on a bunch of my client’s accounts, yet no where in the emails do they tell me which account they’re referencing. Let’s play “Try the login!”
At least now when someone asks what happened I can say with confidence, “Don’t worry, it wasn’t my fault, it was the fault of the hosting company I recommended. Your invoice is due on Friday.”
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$0.17/GB + 2GB stored $0.10/GB = 54 cents. 
Those are the questions still dogging me over this Expression Engine URL business.
I can’t ascertain why EE has stopped behaving on my site and other sites on this Media Temple account, the same one I should note, hosting Mr. Domanico. This person, who at this point has what I can only describe as technological Stockholm syndrome, has somehow evaded this curse.
Further, and I ask you directly EE, how can you receive the perfectly reasonable request of www.jakemauer.com and serve http://jakemauer.com/jakemauer.com/html/index.php?/http://jakemauer.com/jakemauer.com/html/ as your response? I asked for a hamburger and you gave me a party sub made out of toothpicks and mayonnaise.
This window into insanity only occurs if I remove my recently duct-taped htaccess file, something I won’t inflict on you the reader because I know that would only result in the harshest of gazes, which is to say, no gaze at all.
The weirdest part in all of this as that at some point overnight, EE healed itself partially, allowing me to log into the admin interface without using the specific url. To this I can only say, “???????”
Honestly Expression Engine, I don’t mind that you require your modrewrite woobie, but at least explain to me why I should continue let you suck your thumb when there are perfectly mature alternatives.
It has just occurred to me that my life is currently boring.
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Now look at my nerdiness!
I want to mention that although the content of this post took me 5 minutes to put together, Expression Engine decided to be a huge jerk about a week ago and stop redirecting certain URL strings, which made posting this take 3 hours. I still haven’t figured it out, which is especially frustrating since domanico.net seems to redirecting URL’s fine. (By redirecting fine I mean a URL like http://domanico.net?URL=http://google.com works fine.)
It turned from minor annoyance into a bigger problem when it prevented Windows Live Writer from working properly.
Digging around I found that adding the following line to my htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !URL redirect problem:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(URL=.)$ [NC]
So that my redirect block ends up looking like this:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !URL=.)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5})$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/({ee:template_groups}|members|P[0-9]{2,8}) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]I’m still trying to get my admin panel redirect to work properly. I’ll update when I do.
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Awesome. Times Two. Thousand.
]]>Damon sayz use Akkurat instead. I only use fonts that don’t sound like countries and/or one of their exotic animals. Just kidding, I’m not fontist-I’m cheap.
This was mostly meant to act as a reminder that I have a ton of photos to flickr-ize, Right after I figure out life.
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Right, so this is rather simple but I went for it because A.) I wasn’t in the mood for something complex and more importantly B.) because I think it’s hilarious.
If you’re unaware of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, aware yourself.
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Orignal Page
Original ffffound page
]]>Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day our garlic bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. Ramen.
I spent at least 7 straight hours of my day in front of Google products, specifically adwords and wave, but let’s throw gmail and search in there for good measure.
Yes I got a wave invite and began to use it. First impression? The idea is solid, the implementation needs work. It also needs Chrome, don’t frustrate yourself with it in Firefox.
No ffffound tonight, I’m ready for bed. Mmmmusic instead, depending on the current time of day.
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