Plaidophile

Somehow things all fell into place. It was very strange. I had only a few hours of sleep last night and I was feeling pretty zen. My wrists hurt like crazy so I only wrote about 10 lines of code, but they were really useful lines of code. I ended up having a couple of conversations with my officemate's autistic son, who seems to live in a world of fantasy regarding entirely mundane things like sound waves (and doesn't want to learn about their reality). Later I discovered I'm a much better drummer than I thought.

Things are working out.

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So spammers started actually posting porn directly to my forum. Hooray. Short-term fix: admin activation of accounts. Long-term fix: made it so no webcrawling robots will ever see anything about the forum (exclude /forum/ via robots.txt, add rules to all pages to remove all links to the forum for a user-agent matching the string '+http' ) because Google, in their infinite wisdom, still lists URLs which are linked from other pages on a site even if the URLs themselves are excluded via robots.txt. What the hell, Google.

Fucking spammers.

The new Google Reader UI that was launched sometime today is just plain AWESOME, and it's exactly what I wanted while also dealing with the main issue with what I wanted in such an amazing "why didn't I think of that?" way.

Time to nuke FeedOnFeeds entirely!

It's worth mentioning that I have a remix up at Remix Fight this week.

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Goodness, it seems that I went into a coma on the morning of July 17 and didn't wake up until now.

Well, okay, actually, the hard drive in my webserver died and my last backup was from July 17. Same difference, I guess.

I've been pretty cheesed off at the acoustics in my studio for a while, so I decided to finally make some deflection panels, which I'd been planning for a while but hadn't gotten around to finishing.

I built three, though when I finished the first one I hung it right away, and alone it made a HUGE difference in my studio, reducing the echos significantly (there's still some but it's not nearly as bad as it was before).