… my plans to become a technologist blogger no longer appeal to me. I’ve put a lot of time and effort into this blog (words, custom skin, and technical semantics) but I find I am way more attatched to my personal blog.
I’ll have to think about what future purpose I want this blog to serve, if any.
It’s mostly done but I’m working on a few tweaks and function hacks to make the site behave more like K2.
Based heavily on the work done by Trevor Turk.
I’m using a modified version of this theme in a client website and I’ll probably come up with more variations in the future.
No word yet from Apple about the retail job (I’m assuming I didn’t get it,) but I’m interested to see what developments are occurring today as the iPhone nears release.
Apple has published some tutorial videos detailing how to operate the iPhone.
iTunes 7.3 was just released, and includes an iPhone preference panel:
Apple has also evidently constructed a web-based news feed reader for the iPhone, at http://reader.mac.com/. (Via Daring Fireball.)
Currently, visitors to that address will receive a pretty error message stating “This Application Is Viewable Only On iPhone.” However, I found that if I changed the user agent (UA) string sent by my browser to anything including the word “iPhone”, it displays a different message:
There have also been some interesting rumors surfacing about performance increases on the EDGE network. (again, via Daring Fireball.)
Personally, I’m not waiting in line to get one, although I would like to go in to the Apple Store in a few days to see if they have a display model to play with. Honestly, as cool and futuristic as the iPhone is, I don’t think I can justify spending that much on a 1st-generation gadget plus contract. I’ll look again once my 3rd generation iPod, outdated cell phone, or hand-me-down Treo 600p (with no phone service) break down.
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A note about the technical weirdness going on with my website:
I upgraded this blog to the most recent Wordpress release yesterday and it broke a few things. Notably, it broke the theme I use, K2. The patch I added to fix the main page wound up breaking my news feed, but I’ve updated to the latest development version of K2 and things seem to be working again. However, most of my sidebar modules are gone, so bear with me while I work on a fix. The upcoming release of K2 will hopefully address this issue. In the meantime, please let me know if you notice anything that’s not working properly.
I am also getting ready to replace my web server with a much newer machine (the new one started as a Windows XP box, whereas my current server came with Windows 98!) I have installed Debian “Etch”, the latest stable release, and it is already up and running Apache. I’m not quite ready to make the switch, but I will start working on a mirror of this server. This should eventually mean an overall speedup of the site and database-backed applications like this blog, although I think it will be mainly noticeable in the various developer services I run on this box for Project Aqua and my own use.
Aside: I used to post this kind of stuff on my old blog without hesitation, but now that this blog is syndicated to Random Shapes and has an audience of slightly more than two people, I don’t want to bore you with technical details that you probably don’t care about. Please let me know if I should post info on server updates elsewhere. 
My first year of college is finally over. What a relief!
The past few weeks have been crazy and I’ve been taking a little time to decompress. Cramming on overdue papers during finals week is not fun. I’m hoping this will serve as enough motivation to kick my study habits into higher gear for next semester.
As for the summer, it’s shaping up to be as interesting as I had hoped. Seeing as how last summer’s plans for ‘a road trip’ and ‘chillaxing’ basically translated into watching a lot of TV, I’ve made an effort to give myself some more strucutre this time around.
I just applied for a summer job in retail at the Apple Store. Some of my friends are working there as well, and it will be great if I get accepted. I’m also gonna work on some required general education classes at community college- needless to say, the unit price is cheaper than Chapman tutition.
In addition, there are several intriguing internship prospects cropping up here in the bay, LA, and possibly New York. And there looks to be plenty of freelance work available for the company that Nate and I are starting (the business arm of Catman do Films, I suppose.) We already have some videography and editing jobs lined up for clients of Addison Olian, and I’m doing some stuff on the side as well. Hopefully we can get our name out there a little bit, and start building a reputation for the quality of our work.
Now that finals are over, I’ll try to update here more frequently. Especially on the progress of our business.
Peace!
(By the way, the iTunes DRM-free store has arrived. Check out iTunes Plus.)
Good news! I have applied and been accepted into the Random Shapes Blog Network, a blogging community full of intelligent and classy young folks. Welcome, people from Random Shapes!
Right now I’m pretty swamped with schoolwork as there are only a few short weeks until finals. However, I’ve been thinking of a few interesting things to write about, including a series on what Mac wisdom I’ve gained, as well as how my efforts go the next few months at getting internships and/or starting a small media production and consulting business with Nate.
I think it’s going to be an interesting summer.
It doesn’t feel like it, but I’ve had my Mac mini for well over a year. I started using it as my primary desktop machine when I moved down to Chapman about half a year ago. I’ve had a lot of time to think about the system as I was mastering it. I think that my background in Windows and Linux gives me a unique perspective, although I think I may be part of a larger trend of Mac neophytes defecting from the PC.
I thought now would be a good time to sit down and air my joys and grievances regarding this interesting platform.
A recent entry on Rex is Excited got me thinking about how people my age are using technology.
Rex writes:
I’m riding the bus down from school right now, heading home. I’m wearing my headphones, listening to a podcast on my iPod from O’Reilly, a discussion panel of non-techies about their experiences on the web. What I’d like to be able to do is to talk about this with someone here on the bus, but the problem is that the people here at UCSC are largely not ‘web people.’
I find this to be true with the students here at Chapman as well. Most of the people involved in the cool new (and often overhyped) stuff on the web are all out of school. So what about my generation?
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