Disconnect

Today feels like a lazy day.

But I really need to get work done.

Time to make a to-do list and stick to it.

O_o

I probably shouldn't be reacting this strongly to something that's not completely life-changing. (Especially since I've been slacking instead of getting work done.) But, man, Pyramid just paid for itself for the last two years with one article.

You know how sometimes things just fall into place, snik snik snik?

My Thursday-night game just did that.

More slacking, but at least it's entertaining slacking.

So, some of you might know that I'm kind of a Disney fan. (I don't mean that "kind of" ironically; I don't have the spare time to be a true fanatic.) In particular I'm fascinated by the various Disney theme parks.

Via Boing Boing, which I read irregularly so many of you have probably seen this already, I found this link. It seems that this fellow, a ham radio operator, decoded the Morse code being broadcast at the New Orleans Train Station at Disneyland, figured out that it was wrong (it had been improperly transferred from tape to a solid-state recorder), tracked down the original, and helped the Disney sound engineers fix it.

Which I think is pretty cool.

Also from Boing Boing, for those of you who are into photography (*coughRyancough*), you might enjoy this flickr photostream of various high-definition, high-speed photography. The photograph linked is of a bullet shattering a rose that had been frozen with liquid nitrogen.

I am posting this...

...from a custom client. It's a single PHP page with a server-side include; it's loading from the web server on the laptop I'm using to write this post. It doesn't actually have an interface yet. I actually have to modify the PHP file if I want to change what I'm posting, and I haven't yet figured out any of the optional stuff like moods or usericons.

But I think it's pretty cool nonetheless.

So why have I spent the last five hours getting this to work? Because posting to LiveJournal from Writely doesn't work, and I'm trying to help the guys who run that site get that particular set of ducks in a row, and so I decided to figure out how to bare-bones post to LJ so I could maybe see what they were doing wrong, or at least help them do it right.

Testing an interface

I've actually written an interface for this XML-RPC client. It's running on my laptop, like the bare-bones was, so it's not available to the public. And I still haven't figured out how to get anything other than title and body, but I'm working on it.

(Seeing if linebreaks work.)