posting on and off…works’ whoopin my butt right now. it’s a beautiful struggle, though. :)

my desk — all my favorite valentines

Originally uploaded by isaidjon.

[posted on flickr]

The blackest looking white dude I know. The opposite of Adam Clayton Powell.

I never got to ask him what the world kind of Tiny Camera he was holding.

I did get to get a couple of CDs from him though. And had to let him know we got rid of the TV we were promising him because he took too long to pick it up–wifey was moaning about that one! ;)

UPDATE: listening to a beat CD he fronted me–c’mon man Nickels you been sippin some fresh juice! very nice stuff…i’m sitting here making that face…looking forward to exploiting this stuff!

The phrase “Uncle Tom” is more of a slur on the Christ than on blackness. My guess is that it was the case that many folk were tired of turning the other cheek and decided that *fighting* was the answer, and in doing so, rejected the notion that Yahweh was going to save them (this is always one of the major struggles of our time…and a struggle with people deciding to believe or not…whether or not the meek really will inherit the earth :)

Always interesting to note how different phrases/ideas are co-opted for different purposes, even when not fully appropriate…sometimes its done intentionally to dilute or twist the meaning, and many times it’s done out of ignorance. I even came across an article that mentions “Uncle-Tomism” with regard to some homosexuals and their alleged pandering to the “straight mainstream” (at least that’s how i took it).

References:

On Uncle Tom

Found on a comment from a post at this post from a black republican

whose site was found on Negrophile.

Meat Beat Manifesto – Storm The Studio

i’ll never forget first hearing this album…was at the radio station in college, the label didn’t have the track listings, just the ill pictures…i somehow got to “I got the fear” and was like “what? these dudes are white dudes, and they are crazy hip hop!” they used that break stezo used for “crazy noise” at the same time…dudes knew what they were doing…except they would get too loud and wild with it…and i had to turn it off….

then “wait a minute wait aminute wait a minute”….”reanimator!” woah. crazy hip hop, even scratching rakim…they was on some schprokets stuff and was hip hop.

i found the Wax Trax version (the one pictured, and the one i originally fell in love with) later on, but then lost it again! argh.

Flickr – *please* tell me that you guys plan to create a Flickr
personal edition. I love the community aspect–and even purchased a subscription (your monthly limits–genius–i couldn’t help but get one!)

*however* — i incorporate my photos with my blog, and the purpose of my blog is a personal journal, so that when i die, my family will have this as my datebook/history. That being said, there’s something to be said for the security i have with handling everything on my own server, and being able to archive when i please periodically. Not saying you guys will go out of business (i wish the absolute best! :) but i love keeping things in house, and since obviously you guys have the best gallery technology, i really want to see an edition that will allow us to store on our own servers, as well as still tie in to the community features that make Flickr worthwhile.

Thanks so much for listening, and looking forward to any announcements. Let me know when you guys speak in the area (i’m in/around Seattle).

i would hate to have to stop using flickr–there’s just something inherently bothersome about hosting my personal archives on a site owned by an entity other than myself. so please come quickly flickr personal.

j.

biracial power

Originally uploaded by isaidjon.

i took this on valentines day.
put post titles back in–kinda silly to remove them.

of course i’ve been using gmail for a few months now, but i forgot i asked to be updated. they gave me an invite. i’m sure they’re about to release shortly.

if there’s one thing i’d change, i would allow the user to see as many emails per search result as they choose.

or maybe i missed that option.

UPDATE: got 49 left.

I’m in the process of updating kubrick for gallery–the right way this time (by eating my own dog food, raw).

By the time i get to bed, the zip file will at least have things aligned the way they should be–but i’ll still probably be dealing with an issue with some content floating off to the edges (albeit symmetrical).

gallery and its tables drive me mad–particularly when they’re all defined rigidly in the code.

[UPDATE:
Thanks Michael, for letting me see the kubrick in action at another site. I've found what the problem is, and it was based on an incorrect assumption i made about how gallery chooses which stylesheet to display.

i have a fix, and will implement and have an update by tomorrow. for now i'm going to undo the link above :)
]
update: (not yet; fix available tomorrow).

mods: you no longer have to keep the dir name “kubrick”, it’ll figure out what directory you put the skin under

renamed the stylesheet in use to standalone_style.css — i think someone pointed this out wayyy earlier, and i missed this. this should actually make it *work* for the outside world :)

modified some of the stylesheet to bring things in some, although some items still spread past the background.

added supernav tabs.

a few usage suggestions:

• keep your thumbnails at about 100-125pixels
• keep your images around 500-600pixels

i want to modify this enough so that when you click for a large image, the image opens in a separate window, instead of blowing out of the background. we’ll see if i can modify this behaviour in just the templates. it’s been fun figuring out what *is* possible with templates (although from what i see/understand, it’s a great improvement over 1.4).

j.

In his last post (speaking of–no updates in 2 months!), the code monkey introduced me to copernic desktop search.

i had previously run google desktop search on my machine, but was *not* interested in it connecting to a port to do its thing (apparently a mini http server…i don’t like random web servers running on my machine), and it didn’t know how to search my network drives. quite lame.

around the time of the above post, i installed copernic desktop search on my PCs, and have not regretted it. It indeed is one of the best things since sliced bread. It’s allowed me to be very flippant about how i “organize” my data (why should i have to anyway? which probably leads to another topic–is search making us all scatterbrained and dependent on technology?) — best off, it allows me to continue doing work, for the most part (there are always those occasions where i need to organize data for other parties). It indexes my network drives, which is a *huge* bonus at work; since this means i can now autoarchive my Outlook on my network drvie and save space on the server, and my computer).

one thing i had to do out of the box, however, is tell it about a lot of filetypes that it didn’t know i wanted to search. i can understand .dna files, but .java files? they coulda caught that.

other than that, it’s been a great, productive 2.5 months using this thing.

Copernic Desktop Search — 5 stizars.