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Ah,

9:01pm JST Thursday 10 January 2008 (day 13805)

I just realized I ain't written nothin' today, but I've wanted to write several times.

Dream

9:01pm JST Thursday 10 January 2008 (day 13805)

go up a creek and saw a pair of twin women doing some kind of sexy commercial or movie or some such. I put my hand up on the side of my face so I wouldn't see them naked, and they were like, "pshhh whateva," like they knew I wanted to watch. I looked up stream and saw a big huge fish tank being moved across the bridge and the truck stopped so the water sloshed like crazy and gushed out and was flooding the little creek. I yelled toward the women like, "look out!" and we were basically okay, but it was iffy for a bit.

Lunch

9:04pm JST Thursday 10 January 2008 (day 13805)

Went to Akira's office for lunch. He's the owner of several companies including the one that owns the one that owns the one for which I work. I'm not sure wtf he has done to do all that, but he said he just started small. Hmmm.

Basically he said the most important thing for a new company is the team that will do it. The first thing is the idea, but the most important thing is the team.

He suggested I be thinking of ideas and we can make companies for them.

Work

9:07pm JST Thursday 10 January 2008 (day 13805)

Finished fixing a couple of changes that should have been fixed before, but no one had noticed them during the initial project specs. I fixed those, and then I remembered I needed to copy the production server info to the test server because someone (probably sitting across from me now) wrote changes directly to the production server. Gah.

Going over the specs for the new project with Ãæ뤵¤ó and it turns out we had some pretty different visions of how this would work. They were going to give a one time bonus, and I was thinking it would be a recurring bonus. Both ideas have merit, so there will be a meeting tomorrow to choose the winner.

Actually I'm the winner cause I can just read comics and work on my new program ideas until the answer is decided.

cocoa

9:11pm JST Thursday 10 January 2008 (day 13805)

Going through the Cocoa toot for building a currency converter in XTools; I'm not sure if I'll make it through the whole thing til I get to the holy grail of having an actual OS X lookin' program written by me, BUT the idea that started all this is to get iPhoto to write directly to my website. It's been done writing to Facebook and Smugmug and certainly others. Maybe I should look a bit harder to see if someone has already done it.

iPhotoToGallery

9:58pm JST Thursday 10 January 2008 (day 13805)

I found http://zwily.com/iphoto/, which looks quite close to what I want.

Subject: are you using Xtools to build iPhotoToGallery?

HI Zach

Your extension looks quite promising!

I'd like to tweak the code a bit to get it to output to my own
directory structure; I don't want to use Gallery...  I downloaded the
source and opened it with Xtools 2.5.  I clicked Build for both the
iPhotoToGallery and iPhotoToGallery Install targets..  I got several
warnings, but it said it compiled.  BUT I don't see an executable
anywhere.

If you can help me get it to build, I'll be happy to write it up as a
How To on your wiki.

  Thanks!
   - Rob

ps: I should be clear about one thing; I just downloaded Xtools 2.5 today
so I can compile your code, but I haven't actually used Xtools before. :-)
But I'm still hopeful!

2:09am JST Friday 11 January 2008 (day 13806)

His response was fast (3 hours later):

It generates a .iPhotoExporter bundle and puts it in the Build
directory by default I think.

zach

But I don't find the bundle he's talking about; I'll prolly look for another solution.

us society is coming apart at the seams

##17:08 Thursday 10 January 2008

Whether it is the loss of a decent job, impossible conditions at work, rising prices, the threat of foreclosure or bankruptcy, the promise of endless war in Iraq and elsewhere, crumbling infrastructure, the elimination or slashing of social services and programs—US society is coming apart at the seams. None of the presidential candidates of the two big business parties is either willing or able to address these burning problems.

Film and television writers' strike: picketing resumes and so does the political discussion

I've been thinking this for most of the time I've been in Japan; it's one reason I've not wanted to go back. Usually I just say I don't want to support a government that's trying to kill the world. But that it's killing its own citizens is equally good reason not to go back. Killing in terms of letting Katrina victims die; crappy health care system; crappy education system; crappy use of energy; crappy etc.

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