Category: geek

Well, I’ve figured out how to make category icons to appear next to my post titles, but I’m still working on making them appear in the category list in the right-hand menu. In any case, I’m having a lot of fun figuring out this database-driven stuff. 😀

Lucky me, Corey Marion at The Iconfactory replied to my email right away, and I’m okay to use some of the Smoothicons on this site. Wheeeee!

I am contacting the fine folks at The Iconfactory about using some of their icons for the blog, to denote segments of the site, such as the forthcoming “What I’m reading/listening to/watching Now” sections. The “Smoothicon” series designed by Corey Marion is gorgeous, even at small sizes, like how it would be used on the…

This is the first post on my new self-hosted blog. Many happy returns!

The very cool software VideoLAN was made for streaming MPEG over networks, but it turns out It’s also rather handy for playback of MPEG video from DVDs and VCDs� which is especially handy if you ever wanted to do an easy screen capture from a DVD.

So to recap: iPhoto, new 14″ iBooks, and new iMacs. Sorta like the iPod– doesn’t look like much at first, but an all-in-one movie studio for under $1800, that’s really quite awesome. Still, no sexbots. Bad Apple!

Well, 2 o’clock, and Apple’s satellite time apparently ran out, in favor of someone broadcasting color bars and jazz from a local radio station. Sure, the jazz is nice, but it’s not the news B-roll (product pictures and interviews) that they were promising before the show.