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A shorts

11:30am JST Sunday 21 May 2006 (day 13206)

I've had these shorts since before I came to Japan, so that's three years and counting. My supply of shorts brought over from the US has been dwindling. I had two pair on the PB when we started, and one pair when we ended. During my TJ Bike trip, the remaining pair has developed a rather large + shaped hole near the pocket, where the fabric has worn thin due to being worn with thick amounts of stuff in the pockets.

I forgot to get a photo of the hole before I started to sew it, but perhaps later, I may appreciate even a mid-project photo.

Food

12:44pm JST Sunday 21 May 2006 (day 13206)

I made breakfast for us today; stir fried vegetables with みりん (sweet alcohol flavoring).

Kazzah directed me in cooking rice (without a rice maker which we forgot to bring home from her office), and it turned out quite well.

Kazzah has just made lunch for us: miso soup and tomatoes plus the rice.

Mr Lister

10:07am JST Sunday 21 May 2006

Things to do

Today there is a 5% chance of internet and 95% chance of being outside, so I will focus on non-internet activities:

o = started; * = finished

1. Give props to webquarry for great service

2. figure out what I have transcribed from PB 52 journal

3. o list below what I need to transcribe from PB 52 journal

4. transcribe Japanese journal from PB 52:

   1. page on backside of picture with me and Kin sleeping
   2. page with me and Kin sleeping picture
   3. Kimberly and some guy picture page
   4. next page about Vodafone
   5. buncha pages after that

5. write card to あかね

6. mail November card to Delphine

7. mail card to あかね

8. mail card to Genkiman Dan

9. think about how logfiles can be sent to me

10. Write about my trip from Kobe to the meditation center

11. change website passwords

12. move /travel/Palestine/2005_olive_harvest/one_shade.jpg and two_shades.jpg

13. move pictures out of online /images/journal directories:

    1. 1998/
    2. 1998/flood
    3. 1998/rally
    4. 1998/tree
    5. 2001/07
    6. 2002/01
    7. 2002/02
    8. 2002/03
    9. 2002/05
    10. 2002/06
    11. 2002/07
    12. 2002/11
    13. 2002/12
    14. 2003/02
    15. 2003/03
    16. 2003/08
    17. 2003/09
    18. 2003/10
    19. 2003/11
    20. 2003/12
    21. 2004/10 (after hearing back about recovering the pic I deleted)

14. create more albums in images/need_to_upload

15. Uploading more pictures from my hard drive:

    1. from Kobe to meditation center
    2. those that are in folders on the desktop (marble track, moving from me-an-Wende's house, etc)
    3. the final final ones from PB 52
    4. the final final final ones from PB 49 (unless I did them already)
    5. the ones from Koji's farm
    6. from riding to Koji's farm (unless those are done)

16. Incorporating them into my journal entries from those occasions.

17. decide what to do with /journal/images/kyoto_nara_kamakura

18. Updating iPhoto to iPhoto 6 (if it's a free upgrade, which I think it is)

19. Research photo album software

    http://holocore.com/?PictureSync
    http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Images_and_Graphs/Image_Indexing/index.html
    http://www.view-sw.com/birch/
    http://www.emalbum.com/

    this one extracts images from mail messages with perl. Awesome.

    http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/07/iphoto_perl.html?page=2

20. Testing the output of saving for web and updating (or hopefully scrapping!) iPhoto_2_legible.pl as necessary.

21. write birthday reminder code

22. read email

23. research auto-geotagging camera

24. start looking into how to do googlemaps again. draw that red line!

25. look for official US govt info regarding Airplane Day

    archive it

26. make a note to look again in (each year for) 10 years

27. in 10 years, look up public school textbooks about Airplane Day

28. archive proof against govt version physics911, etc

29. add birthday field to Rob Updates db

30. add birthdays:

    1. Rei, May 2nd
    2. Slavena, 17 February

31. write comic snagger with on/off switch

32. allow Rob Updates to change directory

33. think about writing site_visualizer; look for a free version

34. look in to marketing Francois branded cups and shirts

35. write to Jimmy regarding Francois branding

36. offer to take teddybear Tomoko's teddybear up Mt Fuji

37. login to quicken/turbotax to do taxes.

38. Ask Zach from World of Where if I can get a registration code (I helped him find some bugs in his previous version of the software (and paid for a registration anyway after he gave me one free); perhaps if I can find bugs in the new version...)

39. Write a Rob Update

40. Decide where to go next if I continue TJ Biking: (basic ideas:

    1. ? somewhere near Fuji to see the peeps who I met on the last day of PB52
    2. Odawara to meet Nachiko
    3. ? northwest Tokyo to meet Alice and her husband
    4. back into Tokyo), OR escape the country OR plant myself somewhere.

41. Decide what to do next...

42. comment on http://www.yruuspider.com/

Park

1:51pm JST Sunday 21 May 2006 (day 13206)

Kazzah and I are taking an afternoon off from being inside; we'll still be working on our respective stuffs (me on my A-shorts, and she on her MA), but we'll just be doing it outside.

She also has a Lonely Planet book on Korea that I'll take for educational purposes.

webquarry.com

10:48pm JST Sunday 21 May 2006 (day 13206)

Just want to say I'm really happy with my webhost provider, who offers Linux web hosting - Webquarry!

They are super responsive to all my support requests, most recently recovery of a file I deleted. Replaced within 2 hours of when I deleted it, and that was at 3am their time.

zzz perl photo albums

1:28am JST Monday 22 May 2006 (day 13207)

I've spent the last hours.... like 4 or 5 hours I guess trying to evaluate various photo album software. I found three basic genres (not including non-free software): perl / PHP / wordpress.

I basically decided I didn't want to go with a wordpress solution because I so rarely do anything with my blog. I definitely don't want a PHP solution because I don't know PHP for shit.

I found three free perl versions. Maybe four.

I spent the most time looking at album.pl, which seems pretty powerful, but pretty fucking difficult to set up. I have spent the last few hours digging through the config file and the album.pl file making config changes and spelling corrections (the latter I plan to send him), but in the process of making these changes, I see the code doesn't look like it will actually work as I have it. There are some "hacks" in the code that overwrite variables set in the config file, and are overwritten in a way that is not compatible with how I've set things up. I can't recall for all of them if the default config will work with the hacks, but I imagine they would have.

So, I don't know if I should remove the hacks and let the config file do its thing, or hack the hacks to match my config file, or change the config file to match the hacks, OR to just scrap the whole thing, saying thank you very much, but I've had enough

I also looked at emAlbum, Free Perl Album, and Birch, but they won't handle directory structures I have.

It has begun to appear that album.pl also won't handle my directory structures.

Hmph.

In any case, it's time for bed.

But I've still gotta do dishes; Kazzah made food for us for tomorrow!

zzzz but first

2:03am JST Monday 22 May 2006 (day 13207)

Okay, I just did the dishes, and now I'm having a bit of granola cereal snack, and reading some news articles I downloaded a while ago.

zzzzzz fo' real

2:23am JST Monday 22 May 2006 (day 13207)

Aight. Just gotta wash this bowl, floss, brush, go to bed.