Midnight Cheese

Today’s xkcd got me thinking about the Murfreesboro Road/SR 840 interchange near my house. It’s weird in that if you’re traveling south on Murfreesboro, you can get on the 840 onramp, stay straight, and end up right back on Murfreesboro Road southbound. Click on the image for a more visual explanation. Here’s a Google Earth link as well.

I’m finding Coda to be very useful. No more switching between Transmit and TextMate.

I tried to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.04 on my desktop machine using the software update app. Sadly, it completely hosed my install when it errored out in the middle of the update. This was after I had to modify the installer package which was complaining about not having enough free hard disk space on /boot.

Finally I did a full install from CD. Desktop effects are nice. I still had to manually edit xorg.conf to support my widescreen display. So unfortunately Ubuntu is still not ready for everyday computer users.

Take the A List Apart Web Design Survey.

The record industry continues to cut itself out of existence.

When I was a kid my Dad somehow came up with a copy of Mike Jittlov’s short The Wizard of Speed and Time. Recently I came across it again on YouTube. Pretty amazing for 1979.

Last night after rebooting my WRT54G v5 for the third time in less than an hour, I decided that was enough. Not to mention completely ridiculous. So this morning I said good-bye to the Linksys firmware and installed DD-WRT. Everything installed without issue and seems to be functioning. I’ve yet to hook it up to my home network, so the verdict is still out on true reliability. But so far so good.

The web interface is about 50 billion times better than the garbage that Linksys ships.

Lots of good information is provided as well. I can see uptime, load percentage, and even the signal strength of wirelessly connected devices. I was forced to install the micro version of DD-WRT due to the lack of RAM in version 5 of the WRT54G, but even this firmware is way beyond what the router shipped with. I’ll post a reliability update once I get some actual traffic moving through the device.

My brother just recently set up Troothful Tales, a choose your own adventure type story where you are the author. He has multiple stories with an abundance of illustrations supporting the tales.

Helvetica the film, June 1st, Hilton Downtown, Nashville, TN. The official website mentions a Q&A with director Gary Hustwit.

For those interested, you can read more about Helvetica(the font) in my post at the TOL Blog.

For a good review of the film, Speak Up tells us what this film is and what it most certainly is not.

Denied twice in one morning:

From: W——-@nashvillecitypaper.com
Subject: Re: New Subscription Request
Date: April 10, 2007 7:00:44 AM CDT
To: cale——@———-.com

Unfortunately we have recently restructured our circulation and set a limit on our drop locations, so at this time we will not be able to fill this request.

Regards,

Wes ——-
Circulation Manager
The City Paper
624 Grassmere Park Drive
Suite 28
Nashville, TN 37211
615-301-9237

cale——@———-.com
04/09/2007 01:01 PM

To
subscribe@nashvillecitypaper.com
cc
Subject
New Subscription Request

Dear Nashville City Paper Staff,
We have a new subscription request!!!
Cale Mooth has requested office delivery for ———————— Company.
Cale Mooth is authorizing the delivery.
Below is the information you will need to process this request:

Address Line 1: —- —– —
Address Line 2:
Address Line 3:
City: Nashville
State: TN
Zip Code: 37211
Phone: 615———
E-mail: cale——@———-.com
Company name ——————— Company
Business type
Total Employees —-
Number of papers 2
Box or rack: POST
Comments:

Have a great day!

And another from my own hosting company: I already have Analytics installed, but Webalizer still has decent graphs and somewhat different information.

From: support@aplus.net
Subject: Re: Aplus.Net Customer Feedback. Department: 24×7 Support (customers only please)
Date: April 9, 2007 11:50:58 PM CDT
To: cale@midnightcheese.com
Reply-To: support@aplus.net

Dear Cale Mooth,

That is right. The website statistics are general for the entire account (hosting).
This includes all the domains under the hosting.
There are no separate website statistics for each domain available in the control panel.
Please check the following link: http://www.google.com/analytics
There you can submit your site and have the statistics for it.

Best Regards

Peter ———–
Support Technician
Aplus.Net ( http://www.aplus.net ) “Everything for your online business”
Need More Info? Please Visit our extensive Knowledge Base

http://apluskb.com

—– Original Message —–
From: “Cale Mooth”
To: “Aplus.Net Tech Support – Peter ———–”
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: Aplus.Net Customer Feedback. Department: 24×7 Support (customers only please)

> Hi Peter,
> Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve gone through this process and still
> get the same stats even if I’m managing a different domain. Both
> domains point to midnightcheese.com/stats/. A stats folder for
> candorgallery.com doesn’t exist. Feel free to jump into my control
> panel to see what I’m talking about.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Cale
> cale@midnightcheese.com
> http://www.midnightcheese.com/
>
>
> On Apr 5, 2007, at 6:30 PM, Aplus.Net Tech Support – Peter ———
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Cale Mooth,
>>
>> The website statistics are accessable for both of your domains.
>> Please make sure that you accessing them following this:
>>
>> Websites (in the top navigation bar) >> Manage hosting domains >>
>> click on manage for the domain that you want to manage >> Marketing
>> >> Website statistics
>>
>> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Peter ————
>> Support Technician
>> Aplus.Net ( http://www.aplus.net ) “Everything for your online
>> business”
>>
>> Need More Info? Please Visit our extensive Knowledge Base http://
>> apluskb.com

Lots of good stuff this weekend. Did the Art Crawl on Saturday and saw a lot of good work.

Grindhouse is worth every single over-priced penny to see a movie these days. Seriously, the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. It’s just so over-the-top. It’s hilarious. And you can’t beat a double-feature.

Installed beta 3 of VMWare Fusion. Less taxing on the CPU with the debugging turned off. It also ran Fedora 7 test live, although 3D acceleration must only be working with Windows at the moment.

I also received my poster for this year’s Senior Show featuring the seniors in the Graphic Design program at the University of Tennessee.