I’m a bachelor today. Amy is playing in Columbus, GA, returning Saturday night. Guess I’ll get in all my Halo2/GTA:San Andreas/NFL2K5, eh? Speaking of football games — EA has just announced a version of Madden 2005 for the freaking Treo! It will have an update soon to play over Bluetooth or 802.11b — (guess I have to get that 650 after all).
First Video
Gotta love the technology – but it still seems odd to have no audio. Kinda like a silent movie. Anywho, here is the very first video of our baby, the advanced ultrasound taken at twenty weeks. The little one passed with flying colors, and you can count ten fingers – and ten toes! Baby rolls around a bit, moving hands, legs, and generally just looks like a perfect little one! Click here or on the image to watch the video.
Now Playing with Fire!
In searching out cool things I could do with this blog, I happened upon the concept of using Kung-Tunes, a spiffy app written by a fellow living in Japan. Not being a PHP wizard, I struggled to get this to work correctly. Googling away on the subject, I happened upon a summary which looked intriguing. Damn – 403 forbidden – no help. I checked the Google cache, and viola! A *great* guide to using the HTTP-post feature of Kung-Tunes to send my currently playing iTunes track to a ‘track-back’ url in the blog. Confused? Read on for the background I grabbed from the Google cache.
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1,000 Words
So, I installed the MTPhotoGallery Movable Type plugin today. See the results at the upper left of the home page of the blog. Spiffy, no?!? This plugin allows display of image files based on various parameters. In this case, I’ve set it up to pull a non-thumbnail sized image from our honeymoon photo gallery. There are a few hundred pics in there – so repetition shouldn’t be too frequent. On top of that, I installed the MT-Rebuild module. That let’s me setup a cron job to regularly regenerate the blog, and update the picture. It’s supposed to update just after midnight – but it seems to update more frequently. More reading on CRON required now. Yawn…
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