http://r3v.com The life and times of r3v of r3v.com. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:35:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick test of the Wordpress for iPhone app. Pretty slick so far. Seems like it's really easy to add photos to the post straight from the phone, but I'm not sure how to control where they will display. (The preview, which is quite nice, indicates the pics ... http://r3v.com/2008/07/22/testing-the-iphone-wordpress-app/ One of my favorite people of all time, George Carlin, has died. He's had his share of health problems, so while it's not the biggest surprise ever... I feel a bit like I've been hit by a truck. Seriously. George Carlin was one of my heroes. No exaggeration. ... http://r3v.com/2008/06/22/shit-piss-fuck-cunt-cocksucker-motherfucker-and-tits/ Bill Maher's got a documentary coming out in October called Religulous. The trailer is out and it looks pretty good. Maher's typical quick wit and no-holds-barred commentary look like it will A) make for an interesting movie and B) possibly get him killed. I will be there on ... http://r3v.com/2008/06/07/religulous/ I followed an Amazon link from one of my favorite webcomics and stumbled across this Justice League movie, pictured on the left. (If you must know, the link I clicked on was for a He-Man animated movie. No, I'm not some sort of closet He-man fan. It's just ... http://r3v.com/2008/04/17/warning-justice-league-teaches-kids-bad-habits/ Recently, I've been getting a lot of "adds" on Digg. I'm pretty active on there, I guess, so a couple, I understand. Whenever another digg user friends (only the web could turn that into a verb) me, I receive an email. It looks like: Hey there! Stonehenge360 is ... http://r3v.com/2008/03/20/linguistic-inaccuracies-digg-friends/ As most people know, a computer can run certain tasks in the background. These are jobs that it's doing behind the scenes and typically hidden from the user, sometimes at the user's request. Most people's brains work like this too, to some degree. I know hardcore coders ... http://r3v.com/2008/03/19/background-processes/ So, we're both feeling like crap. My lungs are bugging me from weeks with bronchitis and she has a massive headache. So, this is the exchange: GF: "I need to put my head in a vice." ME: "I don't have a vice big enough." GF: "Are you saying I have a fat head?" ME: "No... I'm ... http://r3v.com/2008/03/07/its-a-wonder-she-doesnt-kill-me-in-my-sleep/ p.p1DESC {margin: 12.0px 0.0px 0.0px 90.0px; font: 12.0px Courier} p.p2NAME {margin: 12.0px 0.0px 0.0px 234.0px; font: 12.0px Courier} p.p3DIAG {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 162.0px; font: 12.0px Courier} I got into an odd discussion about calendars and leap years, so I did a little wiki research on the topic and stumbled across this tidbit: ... http://r3v.com/2008/02/26/even-leapfrog-is-prohibited-i-hear/ It's 2008. Where's my flying car? Have a good 'un. http://r3v.com/2008/01/01/happy-gregorian-calendar-rollover-day-yo/ If you're seeing this message, that means the new nameservers are doing their jobs. Yay. I've been shopping for a new web host for ages. I found A2Hosting a while back, and liked what the had to offer quite a bit. I was then prompted to pull the trigger ... http://r3v.com/2007/10/26/now-on-a2hosting/ Flash Kit, A Flash Developer Resource for Macromedia Flash 8 and MX Tutorials SWF FLA images clipart Sounds WAVS Animations Help and Support (tags: sound sounds audio effects) http://r3v.com/2007/10/24/links-for-2007-10-24/ Been a while since I made an actual blog post, so I thought I should update in case anyone is still paying attention. (Though, I'm not sure how, since I seem to have borked my RSS feeds.) For the record, there are several causes for the lack of posts here. Primarily, ... http://r3v.com/2007/10/23/generic-life-update/ chadzilla: making vodka pills in 24 hours (tags: cool drinks alcohol howto recipes) http://r3v.com/2007/10/23/links-for-2007-10-23/ Miscellany: Get the Weather on your HP 4200 (tags: hack printer perl) 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.3 (tags: wordpress blog) http://r3v.com/2007/10/19/links-for-2007-10-19/ Miscellany: INSERT COIN (tags: printer perl hack hp hacks humor) Get My FBI File (tags: privacy fbi government identity information) http://r3v.com/2007/10/18/links-for-2007-10-18/ InterfaceLIFT (tags: art wallpaper icons desktop wallpapers themes design free) http://r3v.com/2007/10/17/links-for-2007-10-17/ The Army's New Sniper Rifle (tags: military rifle firearms) Data URL Bookmarks | iphone hints - iphonehints.com (tags: iphone offline safari) Epistemographer » Blog Archive » Page-by-page authentication in MediaWiki (tags: wiki mediawiki security accessControl) http://www.darcynorman.net/files/accessControl.php.txt // MediaWiki extension that enables access restriction on a page-by-page // basis // Added 5/3/05 by Josh Greenberg // [based on ... http://r3v.com/2007/10/15/links-for-2007-10-15/ Radar Online : Meet the 2008 Presidential Candidates (tags: politics religion) http://r3v.com/2007/10/13/links-for-2007-10-13/ Flo Control (tags: automatic camera cat hacks diy) http://r3v.com/2007/10/04/links-for-2007-10-04/ Fwis • Readymech Series 002 (tags: design toys papercraft paper art) Lie Girls... call 212-875-7000 (tags: politics bush humor funny) http://r3v.com/2007/09/27/links-for-2007-09-27/ (Any readers wanting some relgious tolerance in their posts today should look elsewhere.) Archbishop Asshole Chimoio is the head of the Catholic church in Mozambique. There are about 20 million people in Mozambique. The CIA World Fact Book has this to say about Mozambique's population: Population: 20,905,585 note: estimates for this country ... http://r3v.com/2007/09/27/rant-african-archbishop-asshole/ Embraceware Blog » Blog Archive » Out of the box iTunes streaming to your iPhone (tags: iphone streaming itunes video mac simple) http://r3v.com/2007/09/22/links-for-2007-09-22/ I've been getting calls for this Jeanine chick for a 2-3 years now. It's pretty annoying. What's worse is that they come in batches. 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(tags: funny irc movie script) Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex (tags: wordpress howto moving webhosting) http://r3v.com/2007/09/15/links-for-2007-09-15/ Left-Handed Toons (by right-handed people) (tags: humor funny webcomic) http://r3v.com/2007/09/11/links-for-2007-09-11/ Welcome to DerbyDude.com Boss Hog's derby site. (tags: rollerderby) http://r3v.com/2007/09/10/links-for-2007-09-10/ Saturday night, we went to the B.A.D. Girls roller derby bout. I took a bunch of pics, but the lighting was really horrible and it's the first time I've ever shot something like this. (These girls are moving a wee bit faster than children's soccer. heh) ... http://r3v.com/2007/09/10/bad-girls-take-over-the-san-jose-civic-auditorium/ I Can Has Lead Jammer? 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It's aimed at ages 9-11, is 304 pages (in hardback) and is to be the first of three. (Oh how we geeks do love our trilogies.) It's written with his ... http://r3v.com/2007/09/04/georges-secret-key-to-the-universe/ Neatorama » Blog Archive » If Business Meetings Were Like Internet Comments (tags: video humor funny internet forums community) http://r3v.com/2007/09/03/links-for-2007-09-03/ I turned 35 today. That's the minimum age to run for the office of the President of the United States of America. So, I'm in. Let's do this. Just one problem, my fellow Americans. 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