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nevermind--i see now--it does allow you to import your old joints.

djp -- word man. will it import existing comments, or work along with them?

definitely man. looking forward to a sit down :)

i'm working on it, mate!

i'm finding that wordpress makes it really clumsy to run an environment outside of the production instance--i.e. i think it keeps the "blog name" in the *database*, making it more work than it should be to run a local instance. i spent about 2-3 hours total getting my blog into SVN and getting the database setup locally, only to find out when i hit the local site, it immediately redirects to blog.isaidjon.com.

oh well. i'll run a local WP and work on a theme locally, then bump it up to "prod" i guess...

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i vote for twitter staying *simple*. pownce confused me enough given the time i wanted to spend figuring it out that i abandoned it months ago. pownce looks more like a tumblr than a twitter.

re: JOHN:

whois info

http://ws.arin.net/whois/?queryinput=204.11.203...

World Communications, Inc. WCI-SEA-NET (NET-204-11-200-0-1)
204.11.200.0 - 204.11.207.255
Bill Pierre Ford WCI-CUSTOMER06 (NET-204-11-203-32-1)
204.11.203.32 - 204.11.203.39

great. you're coming in from bill pierre ford, giving them nothing less than a glowing recommendation. sounds fishy to me.

j.

all snow!

yeah i'm digging it. keep track in the spaz user forums for spaz for the development version links, which are a ton better than the released one so far :)

and you are right. i do love you. :)

wow. that's some crazy stuff. guess where we wont' be going...

wow. since this post, i've developed dozens and dozens of rolls of black and white film. the only time i recall screwing up is during the loading process. and these are the primary offenses:

letting light in when i shouldn't have
loading when my hands weren't COMPLETELY DRY
being fumblefingers while loading 120 film, and bending the roll

i think most people haven't tried, 'cos they (like i had) tend to lump developing and printing together. printing takes an enlarger and a running water source (unless you want to do contact printing, in which case, from what i've read is pretty easy, but i haven't gotten myself around to doing it yet).

it's not hard; at worst its inconvenient. you gotta mix the chemicals, and find a place to store your chemicals, is the extent of my troubles...oh, well, i also have to make sure there's not a bunch of other crap in the sink when i want to develop (don't tell anyone but i use the kitchen sink, which gareth was pretty adamant about not using...he used the bathroom instead :)

if you use diafine, you'll mix two jugs of solution, then never deal with it again (seriously, diafine lasts *forever*). and it's super easy to remember--3 minutes A, 3 minutes B. and even from what i've been reading, you can shorten the B developer time to make sure it doesn't push as much! why doesn't the world use diafine? well...personal preference...but i'm not a pro, so i can't tell many of the nuances after i've developed, and tweaked them during the scanning process anyway :)

oh, and diafine just gets kinda gross after a while, too (but trust me, it's still working:)

oh, and check "dev" below, under possibly related posts. it shows a picture of all the stuff i used for my first batch.

j.

thanks y'all and much love.

Leslie -- happy belated birthday dang i don't think i hit up your facebook w/ a greeting. need to.

yeah kathy--when y'all heading out?

j.

i spin much of everything

originally hip hop

but i *love* spinning house
and drum and bass...

j.

go ahead man, no problem!:)

Cheers, bud.

i'll be showing my photos there....now if you heard about djing then that's something else altogether (although i *do* dj :)

you should head out, and not drink. ;-) it'd be great to meet you.

j.

the other way around. why? so i won't have to do it more than once. i don't care which way it goes, actually, just as long as:

a) i don't have to do things more than once.
b) i've a way to keep my posts somewhere as my own (i.e. "cache" or store the myspace posts locally, as a backup)

happy happy to you!!!

somehow none of your words go to bloglines.....I'm glad to hear you are happy at your job! That makes a happier husband all around!

HA! that is classic!

yeah i know right--when these things happen, i keep getting reminded of the old eddie murphy skit, regarding george washington carver & peanut butter. :)

the story of my life:

"Take a peek? Man, you can have it. Who's gonna eat butter made out of peanuts? No, I'm working on a method to compress peanuts into phonograph needles." So, Professor Carver's two dinner guests.. [ Murphy removes his shades for better cue card reading ] ..Edward "Skippy" Williamson and Frederick "Jif" Armstrong - two white men - stole George Washington Carver's recipe for peanut butter, copyrighted it, and reaped untold fortunes from it. While Dr. Carver died penniless and insane, still trying to play a phonograph record with a peanut.

hey shajith! that's cool, fatima got you here!

i'm enjoying checking out your blog...about to subscribe to the feed!:)

hey joleen -- thank you :)