My 18-year-old son was channel surfing Lifetime Televsion (known here as PVN, the Professional Victims Network — All Victims, All the Time) today and came across a make-over show.
“Hey Dad, come here!” he says. “This is a great show. They take these ugly people and, in only 30 minutes, turn them into fully-accessorized ugly people.”
Wow. What a concept.
LifetimeTV. Television for Women. And this is better than “The Man Show” how? [b.cognosco]
Sean Gallagher's trip to church is worth reading:
The experience was everything I don't like about the Catholic church all rolled up into one miserable service.
This is one of the reasons why I fear “organized” religion. Yes, I am Christian and believe in God and Jesus Christ. Sometimes, I don't want to attend church–Sean's experience isn't new, different or unusual. If you want a different perspective on your faith, pick a random church in your town/city/suburb of the same faith and attend a service. Leave your comments here.
Update: Sean's permalink isn't cooperating with Radio's trackback. Here's the trackback URL for Radio to catch.
I woke up this morning to find that my RSS reader had pulled a list of verbs changed in Radio.root–trackback is here! I posted a couple items, worked out adding the macro to the item template and everything is set. It's fast, and most of all it works. The pref page's help text is detailed enought and makes sense to all readers.
Thanks, Userland! Another $40 well spent.
Update: I found that trackback URL autodiscovery works fine.
Update 2: Jake posted the same info on his weblog. Hey Jake, can Radio handle more than one trackback URL?
Mark's wit and humor come through in this remarkable (yet sadly predictable) story about his recent experience with a Windows XP reinstall. While no operating system is without it's pitfalls, driver management is the worst on Windows products–usually a chicken and egg syndrome.
By the way Mark, I carry a 3Com 3C905BTX PCI NIC around, “just for these sort of emergencies”.
Looks like someone's solved one of my major issues with using Manila as a content management system for commerical websites:
Radio/Frontier/Manila working with E-xact WebService
John revised (thanks!) the E-xact WebService to get around the problems (here and here) that we were experiencing when trying to make the E-xact e-commerce Web Service work with Radio/Frontier/Manila.
John simply removed the need for a nested transaction. And presto, now the E-xact WebService works with Radio/Manila/Frontier!
To make this a product all you need (I think) is the E-xact Web Services SDK and a SOAP client that works over https (I think Macrobyte's client TLS implementation for Radio/Frontier/Manila should work but I haven't tested it. It is FREE however).
Email support@e-xact.com if you are interested in using the E-xact Web Services SDK.
(–Code deleted to save space–srk)
[E-xact Developer News]
Original post.
I contemplating buying a copy of Frontier from Userland and running it as a core web design tool. I want to load it on a server and use it's environment to script and render pages. I like the idea that a development environment can be a web design tool. I have three customers right now that want simple, elegant websites (insert CSS here) but want the flexibility to update content on their own. Manila sounds like the answer, allowing the use of technologies like RSS.
Comments, ideas?
Salsa Rossa
This is a recipe from Rafaela, the mother of one of Caroline's students. Serve thinly spread on toast as a starter or party snack with red wine.
Ingredients
Preparation
Notes
You want a slightly sloppy consistency – it's nicely spreadable after being in the fridge a while. Keeps for ages in the fridge. The oil will probably solidify, just give it a good stir before serving. It does seem a lot of bay leaves, but it works. Dry ones are ok, but the fresher the better, same with the parsley. It's obviously based on what you can get from an Italian garden (and supermarket), the only essential ingredients really are the tomato puree and bay leaves. In the north of England you might want to substitute the olive oil and anchovy paste with lard and a sardine.
[Raw Blog]
A Kohler sink that's not a sink…
Justin waxes eloquent about Kohler's sexy, outre and somewhat impractical new line of plumbing fixtures:
…The sink was round and they've proven it flat. They removed soaking from the function of this sink, but when's the last time I soaked something in a sink? Actually, they do have some facility for soaking with the Puristô Wet Surface Lavatory (K-2313) – they sell an optional Purist Hand Basin for $160.
(Thanks, Justin!) [Boing Boing Blog]
thanks, BoingBoing!
I love these! My wife is a music expert; maybe she can shed some light on an answer.
It's time to play “Who's the celeb”. Can you name this 1960's music icon pictured here with me in the early 80s? [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
Ideas?
From Lola Chambers, wife of Lester Chambers — music legend, rock and soul pioneer, 1/2 of the Chambers Brothers (“Time Has Come Today”, etc.):
I am truly heartbroken! My complete collection of my husband's (Lester Chambers of the Chambers Brothers) albums and 45's have been stolen from my home in Tarzana, California. This collection has taken me 25 years to collect and I had intended to pass them on to our two sons. Years before Ebay, I scoured record stores and swap meets to put this collection together. There were over 60 albums and over a hundred 45's stolen. Many were Chambers Brothers' Columbia albums released by Columbia under their many foreign labels and would be needed as proof of their non-payment of years of foreign royalties. These Columbia albums were released under Direction Records out of England, First Records out of Korea, etc. One of their 45's was released in Germany with an abstract orange coloring. Many of their 45's had photo sleeve coverings all in perfect condition. I had their complete recordings from their early years with Vault Records and one of their first albums recorded with Barbara Dane on the Folkways label. I would like to put the word out to all record stores (especially in Southern California), collectors, eBay shoppers, etc in order to try and recover these extremely sentimental albums. Please contact me at (360) 895-7877 or via attorney Lawrence Feldman, leflaw@leflaw.com.
Steve Kirks 