Monty Back, Rommel Still Dead
Bob Montgomery is doing the color for today’s Red Sox game and I can’t figure out how to feel about it. Monty and the late Ned Martin were the voice of the Red Sox (on WSBK TV38) when I was growing up and …
read moreFree to a Harmonix Home, Rock Band Idea
Free to a Harmonix Home, Rock Band Idea
Why doesn’t Rock Band allow you to create additional cities and venues? Nothing fancy, just the ability to set a city name and country, then create some venues. Venues would just let you select from the existing arenas and clubs1 …
read moreYUI Rich Text Editor in Django Admin
YUI Rich Text Editor in Django Admin
This ain’t exactly rocket science, but it took me an embarrassing amount of time to get there, so I’m posting the code for next time. This will turn a given textarea in your admin area into a WYSIWYG. It’s got …
read moreMy Name is Crew
My Name is Crew
I am posting this because I need to keep track of these things. Dreamt last night Michelle and I put on a community event centered around the retirement of some guy that had been a social worker all his life. After the dance crew came off …
read moreExpression Engine if Clauses
Expression Engine if Clauses
This is the kind of thing that’s not worth a blog post except some day it might save one person hours of frustration. Expression Engine apparently doesn’t like it when if statements either span multiple lines or when the trailing curly brace is pushed …
read moreDreams They Complicate My Life
Dreams They Complicate My Life
Had one of those constant dreams nights which I take as indicative of good sleep, though I was awoken by my iPod once. I’ve been listening to the over-my-head In Our Time podcast because, whether it’s terribly interesting or terribly boring, it makes …
read morePHP Excel Exporter
PHP Excel Exporter
A few times a year a client needs to export something from a database table to Excel. There’s a simple hack to do it in most any language. There are actually a few, but having come up as a web developer, my preferred trick is to …
read moreWindows GPG Front-End
Windows GPG Front-End
I’m doing some work with GPG encryption and I always like to have a visual/ gui front-end to use to make sure I haven’t screwed something up in my command line adventures. I came across Cryptophane today and it seems like a nice way to …
read moreMorning Stress
Morning Stress
I want English Muffin insurance, for those times when you tear the thing all wrong and one side is basically not there and the thing toasts completely unevenly because of the difference in girth. And the pressure’s on then, because the damn things come in six-packs, which …
read moreNothing's Coming Out!
Nothing's Coming Out!
You want to know why recycling isn’t keeping pace, why the universe is going to suffer heat death and run out of energy a few billion years from now? I just opened a new container of bay leaves— if you don’t know what those …
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