May 2007
62 posts
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travis johnson: going to portland for the weekend (via Twitter / travis johnson)
Studio version of “The Thanks I Get”
I got an email today from Wilco saying that I could download the studio version of “The Thanks I Get” by simply putting the new album, Sky Blue Sky, in my computer. I popped the disc and and sure enough I was able to download the song. So simple.
And on another music related note, Cam wrote me today saying that he had found Ryan Adams’ new album online. The mp3s are on the Lost Highway website....
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travis johnson: i caught the squirrel (via Twitter / travis johnson)
travis johnson: there’s a squirrel loose in the house! (via Twitter / travis johnson)
The Programming and Management Blog » PHP... →
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Chris Shiflett: Terry Chay on Rails →
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Open Shortcuts
Today a co-worker pointed me towards Yahoo! Search’s Open Shortcuts and I instantly became a fan. With Open Shortcuts you setup shortcuts for other (longer) URLs. For example, I created my first shortcut with the keyword ’sb’ and it redirects me to http://www.swap-bot.com/. Now I can type ‘!sb’ into Yahoo! Search and instantly be redirected to Swap-bot. The part that makes Open Shortcuts so useful...
travis johnson: eating a pregame meal at mezza luna (via Twitter / travis johnson)
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How to Save $1 Million for Retirement : Weekend -... →
Little Text Hearts
I was just reading through the Swap-bot forums and ran across this thread about little text hearts. Five pages of ♥!
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Hello (mobile) world
For fun tonight I decided to create a stripped down interface to my wordpress blog to allow for easier mobile posting. I’m using the MetaWeblog API to post and as a result can open up the interface to anyone that has a blog that supports the same API. If interested in blogging from your phone log into the simple web app at http://m.mechroboticon.com/ and enjoy.
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Easy Tiger Preview
It might not come as a surprise, but Ryan Adams’ Easy Tiger is the next album release that I am looking forward to. Below is the latest list of songs that made the album and links to any of the songs I could find that have already been performed live.
01 Goodnight Rose 02 Two 03 Everybody Knows 04 Halloweenhead 05 Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. 06 Tears of Gold
07 The Sun Also Sets
08 Off Broadway...
Song of the moment
Eric posted Nick Drake’s cover of Jackson Frank’s Blues Run The Game the other day and it reminded me of one of my favorite Adam Duriz (of Counting Crows) covers. This version was recorded in 2002 at the Shim Sham Club.
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Ad Tags Widget
After upgrading to Wordpress 2.2 yesterday, I decided I needed to write my first widget. Since I also needed to start monetizing this blog (I’ve been leaving big bucks on the table for years!), I created a Direct Media Exchange Ad Tags widget. It’s not the most elegant widget - at this point you have to know your DMX section id and it doesn’t even support combo tags - but it gets the job done. If...
Wordpress 2.2
I saw today that Wordpress 2.2 was released. I went ahead and upgraded (in about 1 minute) and instantly noticed some changes to my sidebar. Version 2.2 somehow enables widgets across all themes or something. I’m not sure how they did it, but it is very cool.
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New Music Tuesday
After work I stopped by Best Buy (sorry, I needed something else that the local record shop didn’t carry) and picked up Wilco’s new album, Sky Blue Sky. She let me splurge and get the Special Deluxe Edition on one condition, that she didn’t have to see or hear the DVD. The previous Wilco DVDs have been great - I’ve probably watched I Am Trying To Break Your Heart at least ten times - and based on...
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O.A.R. in Eugene
….of a revolution will be in Eugene on June 18th. Rachel and I went to see them (and Counting Crows) in Chicago a few years ago at the University of Chicago. I wasn’t too familiar with their music at the time, but in the years since they have become one of my favorites. I’m not […] (via eightfivethree)
travis johnson: burrito boy then survivor finale (via Twitter / travis johnson)
Wilco Shows Pipe
I’ve been wanting to try out Yahoo! Pipes for a while, but never quite knew what to do. In honor of Wilco’s new album being released on Tuesday I decided to create a pipe of their upcoming shows. I don’t quite know how to put the map on my site, so until I figure that […] (via eightfivethree)
Blog Stats
I installed the Wordpress Stats plugin last week and hadn’t seen any data. For the first couple days I wasn’t too surprised, I just figured no one was coming to my site, but after a full week I started to get curious. After a little bit of looking at the code and reading the FAQ, […] (via eightfivethree)
travis johnson: going to see The Ex with Rachel (via Twitter / travis johnson)
travis johnson: middle seat on a six hour flight ouch (via Twitter / travis johnson)
travis johnson: sitting in airport waiting to come home (via Twitter / travis johnson)
travis johnson: getting a shake at the shake shack (via Twitter / travis johnson)
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