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DrupalCon Paris 09 - Lobster Style

Posted 14 September, 2009 - 13:58 by jam

Add your own language to the Acquia DAMP Installer Screencast

Posted 7 June, 2009 - 14:29 by jam

Want to help spread the word about the DAMP stack installer in your language? Show your friends and colleagues how easy and fast it is to install Drupal.

My first Acquia screencast - in English, German, and Italian!

Posted 28 May, 2009 - 20:55 by jam

It was a lot of work to get this right technologically *and* come up with a presentation that I could live with. So many issues: length, mic, formats, new programs ... In the end, I am pretty happy with it and am really looking forward to making this format my own.

Future plans include experimenting with more eye candy, background music, better microphone work, experiments with screen size ...

Versions in Italian and German included after the jump!

Music makes the difference - Different Strokes Opener

Posted 19 May, 2009 - 11:06 by jam

Really funny how changing the music of the opening credits of "Different Strokes" changes how I perceive the whole set up ... forget unrealistically cheerful sitcom land and enter the creepy zone

April 21st, 2009 - Cotton aloha shirt, origin unknown

Posted 21 April, 2009 - 11:04 by jam

Shirt o' the day:

About my shirt

Brand:

Unknown - label removed

Material:

Cotton, flat weave

Pattern, description, colors:

Red/pink and orange/yellow hbiscus blossoms, variegated leaves and fronds in green/brown/white/mustard on a pale yellow background

Style, cut, collar:

full button down, plastic buttons, straight bottom hem, pocket exactly matched to pattern

Vintage:

Unknown - probably 1980s or newer

Source:

Birthday present from my mother, 2009

The warm weather is back! Another first-time wear today. I like the pattern on this one. Unfortunately, someone removed the label from this sometime in the past so I don't know much about it. Considering the hibiscus pattern, I am willing to guess it is Hawaiian, but the cheap feeling fabric, plastic buttons and relatively sloppy finishing and seams indicate it never was anything special. Still a nice shirt, though!

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April 15th, 2009 - Tori Richard silk aloha shirt

Posted 15 April, 2009 - 11:13 by jam

Shirt o' the day:

About my shirt

Brand:

Tori Richard - Honolulu - Since 1956

Material:

100% silk

Pattern, description, colors:

Sylized hibiscus flowers, fronds in off-white, orange, yellow, green and gray on blue background

Style, cut, collar:

full button down, mother of pearl buttons etched with "Tori Richard", straight bottom hem, slits at hips, pocket exactly matched to pattern

Source:

Birthday present from my Grandmother, 2009

Spring hath sprung.

I have broken the seals on my shirt collection ... I wonder if I can wear them all this year before it gets cold again ... you never know with German weather. A couple trips to Italy and Spain should increase the number of usefully warm days available to me.

Project description: Go through all shirts in my possession. Wear one each day that is warm enough, no repeats until all have been worn. Scan, present ... what about the ones I can't wear? We'll cross that bridge when we come to it, I guess.

Rational behavior

Posted 12 February, 2009 - 18:32 by jam

How do you know if you are reacting rationally or emotionally other than to look down to your hand and see if you're waving a gun?

— Steven Colbert

Ode to Chicken Fried Bacon

Posted 27 January, 2009 - 10:12 by jam

"We don't use ounces in this place, it's pounds."

Old DrupalCon T-Shirts

Posted 27 January, 2009 - 10:10 by jam

If anyone collected these things, these would be collectors' items.

— Robert Douglass - 25.Jan.2009

My first e-mail address

Posted 8 January, 2009 - 21:23 by jam

Cleaning up at home, I just found a dot-matrix (!) hard copy (!!) of an e-mail my folks sent me on January 17th, 1996 at my very first e-mail address.

Keep in mind, in early 1996, I had to take a subway across town to the university computer room (yes, "the", not "a"), and hope that a machine was free to get into the UNIX e-mail system. Still it was cheaper than phones or airmail postage across the Atlantic.

So what was my first e-mail address?

What's been going on:

Bring down IE6

My weird tastes in music ...