A couple weeks ago I posted about Podpress being broken when I upgraded my blogs to Wordpress 2.6. The fix was disabling the new feature that allows tracking changes to posts. Well I came across another fix today that might just work as well AND allow me to track changes to posts. I don’t know that I even want to track changes to posts, but the idea of disabling rather than fixing bugs, bugs me.

So here’s a sweet little number by Zak Schaffer to check out if the fix works. (Fingers crossed.)

 

 Zak Schaffer - Bar Talk [3:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Have you ever made a mix tape for someone?

Way back “in the day”?

Well for a short while the modern day/Internet alternative was Muxtape. You were able to upload MP3 files to Muxtape and the service would create a nice interface for someone to enjoy your mix. Unfortunately they were shutdown this last week by the RIAA. However, there is an open source alternative that I just heard about and it fills the void and possibly betters the mix tape metaphor. Opentape is a the name of the project and their tag line is “a free way to make and host your own web mixtape”. There in lies the difference. Instead of Muxtape hosting your MP3 files, now you host the files. The Opentape software is easy to install. You basically upload it a directory on your PHP5 enabled web server and create a password. Login, upload your songs and you have a mix tape ready for sharing. I’ve created one out of random songs that I had in the root of my My Music folder on the old work computer.

You can hear it at http://snurl.com/muxtape.

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Did you play Mega Man when you were a kid? I remember sitting in Andy Wenger’s bedroom playing Mega Man on his tiny 13-inch television on a NES system. Good times.

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On Sunday, the family and I took my 92 year old grandmother out for lunch. While at lunch, she pulled out a small envelope. Enclosed in that envelope was a hand drawn picture on it. To my surprise, it was a drawing that I made when she married her second husband, Albert, on 12/31/1979. I was all of 8 years old at the time.

Check out this artwork.

I don’t know what all that shmear is, but it doesn’t really detract from the awesomeness of the picture. Do you have some artwork that you created when you were a kid? Leave a comment with a link.

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I really had no other place to post this little tidbit of news and that’s really what this blog is for.

I live in the city of Long Beach, CA. I received a letter from the Water Department of Long Beach today that they are increasing the water and sewer rates. Bullshit, yes, but even worse was the reason for the rate increases.

Here is exactly what the letter says:

Why are Water and Sewer Rates Increasing?

The core costs of providing water and sewer service are rising in our region at a rate greatly in excess of general inflation. Additionally, the immediate and unavoidable need to reduce consumption of water due to an imminent, prolonged water supply shortage in southern California, has resulted in losses in water sales revenue used to fund core services.

WTF? I have curbed my water usage. My lawn is brown in spots only watering a couple days a week! I get a huge notice in my water bill every month that says “DON’T WASTE WATER” and the byproduct is less money in my pocket.

Thanks City of Long Beach! I’m going to go wash down my driveway.

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I’d like to think that I have the balls to attempt a slide like this, but after a bad sledding experience in the winter of ‘02 I’d probably play the wuss. Very cool.

World’s Largest Homemade Waterslide - Watch more free videos

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I read on the Twitter that Podpress and Wordpress 2.6 were having some problems. I tried it out here on Running in Flip Flops before I upgraded the Fat 2 Fit Radio site and all seemed well. I’m publishing this really as a test. The song, enclosed as a podcast, is from Geoff Smith’s new album One’s and 0’s.

Enjoy!

Update: Oh shit! It didn’t work and fix is not expected for 10 days. It might be in time for the next Fat 2 Fit Radio coming out next Thursday? Shit!

Update: Posting a link to an audio file in Wordpress 2.6 downloads as a podcast in iTunes. Looks like the Fat 2 Fit Radio will go out as scheduled. Disaster averted.

Geoff Smith - Ones and 0s

Update 8-13-08: The problem with Podpress has a temporary fix. Add the following code to the wp-config.php file in the root directory of your Wordpress installation:

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false);

 

 Ones and 0s from Geoff Smith: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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I don’t like driving my Suburban under canopies and I know it’s going to fit. Dragging one of these monsters around is just too much. Hopefully they weren’t hurt.

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They got me. I was sucked into it and all along I was really wondering what exactly I was reading. I’m talking about the Twitter account of Leonard Kendall, Senior Director of Applied Biotechnology. Ingen Bio Corporation - the leading private human pharmaceutical development company in the world. IngenBio started following me a while back and I couldn’t help but reciprocate based on the information on the Twitter account. Plus the picture was kind of freaking me out, which I dug.

I would view tweets as they came in and started to question what I was reading. At first it was tweets like:

Through a single ITC adjuvant, I can strengthen cellular resistance and induce an immediate immune system response!

and

Despite these small obstacles, I am considering Intragen test 40-CFR-05 a partial success.

But soon thereafter, it turned into:

I must destroy all of my work - the risk is too great. I know he will want to test it on humans.

and

I cannot allow them to have this technology. It is far to dangerous in the wrong hands. I created this to heal, not to destroy.

Bells started going off and I was starting to think that I’d been duped. Then last night a tweet with just a TinyURL was posted by IngenBio and I knew for a fact that no. 1, I’d been a sucker and no. 2, I’d enjoyed every bit of it. Here’s the MP3 that was linked to in the tweet.

 

 IngenBio Tweet [0:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Very cool, but way over the top. I started an investigation of what IngenBio was all about and didn’t have to search long before I found a post at Wikibruce and my search for the truth behind IngenBio came to an end. It turns out it’s a viral marketing campaign for a new graphic novel called Infex that’s making a debut at Comic Con. Check out the Wikibruce link for video and links to other media.

So with the information I have now, I think that I prefer this new reality of a marketing campaign for a graphic novel over a rogue biologist creating killer compounds in some lab. Oh, and the network security is so lax that a researcher is using Twitter to spill the beans on that research. Why did I ever think that was was even remotely real? What a rube!

Also, what a great use of social media to get your project noticed. Kudos.

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Geoff Smith just released his latest album, Ones and Os. He did so by using his excellent service Ringtone Feeder. You get the songs, bonus material and an RSS feed that gets you more content in the future. Sweet deal.

There’s also this code, used on the album cover, that contains a secret message.

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00101100
00100000 01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111
00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100100
01101001 01100111 01100111 01100101 01100100 00100000
01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101111
01100100 01100101 00100001 00100000 01011001 01101111
01110101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000
01100001 00100000 01110100 01110010 01110101 01100101
00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011 00100000
01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110000 01110010
01101111 01100010 01100001 01100010 01101100 01111001
00100000 01100001 00100000 01010100 01010111 01101001
01010100 00101100 00100000 01101101 01110101 01100011
01101000 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101
00100000 01000111 01100101 01101111 01100110 01100110
00100000 01010011 01101101 01101001 01110100 01101000

I’m listening to the the album right now and it contains all that Geoff Smith goodness you’ve come to expect from the podcast jingle master.

Decode the message.

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