Technology

Hopefully I will be back online this afternoon at some point. I have moved my music and stuff over to another hard drive, just need to burn Ghost to a CD. I used to have a couple of floppies with it but unfortunately they are gone so I installed the latest version last night and just need to use it 🙂

I have known for several days that I had a hard drive going out so it shouldn’t be a surprise but it certainly is killing me. Back to the irregular programming very soon…

Even with the meeting I made it home at a decent time today, right around 4 PM or so and only that late because I picked the girls up from school. I really need to make sure and go to bed at a decent time tonight. I felt like I was sleepwalking through the entire day. The fact that I go to bed at 11:30 and get up at 4:30 might have a little to do with it.

My head has been freaking pounding off and on for the last three days and today is no exception. I don’t know if I am getting a sinus infection or what but something is going to have to give here before I start pounding my head on the keyboard in hopes of relieving the pressure.

The meeting we were supposed to be having today was to include seven of the nine manager in the division, all of whom have food costs expenditures higher than they should. Mondays are food cost meeting day. If their food cost is high we spend a couple of hours checking tickets from the past week that they should have already checked but obviously haven’t been. Out of the seven, the only ones that showed up were my two that had to attend. I called the other district managers and let them know that they would get to hold their own meetings tomorrow and that I was on the way home. I stuck around about 20 minutes later than the meeting was to start and then left. Fuck them if they can’t get places in a timely manner. One of the managers from a store that is about 30 minutes from me was still in his store trying to get his paperwork together half an hour after we started. I just don’t have the time or patience for people that can’t get places on time anymore.

To aggravate matters my Internet connection is down again for the second time in a week. I am going to refrain from calling Charter as long as possible. It’s not like I can’t type this up offline anyway. I got home shortly before 4 and it was down when I got here, so there is no telling when they will get it back on, the asshats. That’s OK, I have to burn some stuff to DVD as well in order to get all of my stuff off of the HD and ready to ghost. I did come up with a 160 GB hard drive, but the one I need to ghost is 250 GB. Half the stuff on here is junk anyway.

Hey, looks like my connection just came back on. Very nice timing…

I just finished installing Windowblinds 6.0 Beta, here is a screenshot of my current desktop. Nothing major going on right now. Windows Sidebar, 5imple Alpha Windowblinds, animated background.

Thanks to a comment by Matthias I decided to revisit Odiogo and the code that I was using for the link to the audio on each post. They sent me an email about it awhile back and I had forgotten all about it. There is code to add into your sidebar that will insert the player, which works much better than my little javascript. After the page loads entirely a “listen now” button should appear just below the title to each post on the main page. I have not installed it on each individual entry template.

Almost forgot, here is the code itself,

<div class=”module-widget module” id=”widget-Odiogo_odiogo_listen_button_YOUR_FEED_ID”>
<div class=”module-content”>

<!– BEGIN ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON V1.5.4 (TP) –>
<script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript” src=”http://podcasts.odiogo.com/odiogo_js.php?feed_id=YOUR_FEED_ID”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript”>
<!–
function odg_ScanPageTypePad_YOUR_FEED_ID ()
{
    odg_ScanPageTypePad (“YOUR_FEED_ID”);
}
odg_AddEvent (odg_ScanPageTypePad_YOUR_FEED_ID);
showOdiogoSubscribeButton (“YOUR_FEED_URL”);
// –>
</script>
<!– END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON V1.5.4 (TP) –>

</div>
</div>

You can get the code here as well as email support to get your feed ID if you have lost the email from them that contains it.

Technorati : Movabletype, Odiogo

I may have posted about this once or twice before but I just came across it again and thought it was a pretty cool idea. Did you know that White and bright colors such as what I have at TheAppDotNet use up to 20% more power to display than dark colored sites such as Shadowscope? Googleshadow is the dark colored web search engine. Unfortunately it appears to be having problems right now as I just did a search and got an error, but I may just have to change the background colors on my sites that aren’t already dark.

This is another of those chain things that are going around like the Z-List and some other ones I have taken part in to get backlinks.

We all know how important getting link backs is and with this chain, you can get the ball rolling! You don’t have to be an established blogger to take part in this chain.

Here are the rules:
1. Copy this post from the point where it says “Start Copy Here” to the point where it says “End Copy Here”
2. Add yourself and 5 of your favorite bloggers to the end of the list.
3. Post this on your blog

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I finally found a real-life use for twitter that I am going to start using immediately. My Mile Marker is a site that you enter a bit of data whenever you fill up at the gas tank. Right now the site is free. It tracks your fuel purchases and odometer readings. Every time you are at the pump you just enter your current odometer reading, the number of gallons purchased and the price per gallon. You can add it at the web page or via SMS with Twitter while you are at the pump.

This is cool because I have to track my mileage for work as they pay for my gas used, but filling out the paperwork and figuring MPG is a pain that I hate doing just because it’s one more bit of paperwork to do.

You can also use Twitter to send you reminders (such as remember the milk) on a timer as well. Very very cool.

Crossposted to TheAppDotNet