I'm playing around with FAlbum, a Wordpress plugin that pulls recent posts from my flickr account. It's nicely done, though the documentation is somewhat lacking. I've added several recent pics to the top of the blog.

A while back I blogged about Mashuptown, the awesome site and podcast that has been showcasing mashups (two unrelated songs mixed together in some clever way) for the last, oh 8 mos, or so.

Quick idea for an OS X app/hack: How about something that would let me embed a terminal window in a splitview in any OS X application window? Then I could attach a terminal to, say, a Safari window where I have reference materials loaded up, or to the TextEdit document where I'm documenting some process.

Seth pointed me to prototype.js, a handy Javascript library for doing a variety of gee-wizzy things in webapps, one of which is performing a variety of useful AJAX functions. After fighting with it for way longer than necessary, I turned to:

When using AJAX, remember that the A is for Asynchronous.

In case you haven't noticed the Quick Links (or haven't cared, as is likely with a large percentage of my reading demographic) I've been working on a rewrite of one of our apps at work, and part of that rewrite is some nifty AJAX-based stuff. I think it's going to make the app quite a bit nicer to use. I've started calling this the "Frankenapp": it's a FileMaker Pro webapp where FMP's template output is post-processed by PHP, and includes several hundred lines of JavaScript, plus the code that handles the XML back-and-forth (also crossing the FMP-PHP bridge) to make it act nice.

Well, the Ivy family is adjusting to new realities. Jodi and I are running on between 2-4 hours of sleep for the last two nights, and Adelina has not had much more than that. Jet lag, plus adjusting to new places, new foods, new everything has left our poor little girl a little worse for wear. But when she's doing well, she's truly a joy. :-)

See the news here... W00t!

A co-worker just sent me this: BSB Want It That Way.

Creating Passionate Users: Kill the television, keep the shows

Trying out a new browser: Flock

It has some interesting features: built in blog editor, del.icio.us integration, flickr integration.

Technorati Tags: browsers, del.icio.us, flickr, tagging

My Linguistic Profile:

Ok, I finally got around to combining my love of music, particularly R.E.M., with my love of tinkering, in this case with GarageBand:

Not sure if this is new in iTunes 6, but on whim I tried dragging a link to Merlin's new podcast onto the "Podcasts" group in iTunes. Boom - it subscribed to the podcast and started to download the most recent show. Apple rocks.

Heh. I found this on Dreamhost's Goodies page:

I just saw one of the new Napster commercials. Slogan: "Own Nothing, Have Everything". They even do that cliche'd "brain-washing" Outer Limits thing.

I took a few minutes to google 'deaf blogs' today, trying to find somewhere to help me understand a bit of what my amazing, beautiful, hard-of-hearing soon-to-be-daughter may go through growing up. (If that was a bit hard to follow, sorry - it's the head space I'm in right now.)

I've just uploaded more pics to our picture gallery on |Jodi|'s site. Check 'em out.

Seeing as I can't seem to put together a coherent post recently, and all the interesting information is on |Jodi|'s blog, I added a "Quick Links" section at the top of this page, for those bits and pieces that I find interesting but can't seem to come up with a good "post" for. Oh, and there's a feed too if that's your thing.

Well, |Jodi| has the happy news... we've found our (Lord-willing) daughter-to-be!!