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Brief History of My Time at GlobalStreams
Here is a brief history of my time at GlobalStreams (as I was explaining to Roland at Bandana’s BBQ this afternoon): Freelance – Robin Glass (www.gec-1.com) was contacted by Mike Rechan, Jason Loyet, and Bill Davis (the three original founders of GlobalStreams and he got in touch with me to do the graphics on the…
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First day back on the job at GlobalStreams
Finished the first day back on full-time employment at GlobalStreams. Spent most of it working on getting the G4 and the Sony laptop set up with the applications and my dev environment. Got set up on the G4: Purchased software: Macintosh OS X 10.3 (Panther) Adobe Creative Suite Premium Photoshop CS (8.0) Illustrator CS In…
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Running Bastille Linux
Harden your Linux box with Bastille Linux. This nifty application not only helps you harden your system but it also helps you understand exactly why it takes the steps it takes. http://s92531067.onlinehome.us/mp3/ Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2004/02/14/running-bastille-linux/
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Listening to the Grey Album
It’s pretty good… DJ Danger Mouse remixed Jay-Z’s “Black Album” with the Beatles “White Album” to create… The “Grey Album,” of course. The New Yorker had a little Talk of the Town piece on this, Apparently, Jay-Z created a vocals-only version of his album *explicitly* so DJs could remix it. And many have. This week,…
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Streaming Chiptune music
Listening to Castelvania right now. 🙂 It’s pretty cool. I’m the only one listening to this stream right now. Chiptune music rocks. Server Status: Server is currently up and public. Stream Status: Stream is up at 56 kbps with 1 of 10 listeners (1 unique) Listener Peak: 4 Average Listen Time: 3m 07s Stream Title:…
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Cory Doctorow Presentation Talk at Emerging Technologies Conference, 2004 – Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books
Cory just finished his presentation at the Emerging Technologies conference (which I didn’t go to, though would like to next time…) and gave a presentation on the state of ebooks. I’ve read both of his released novels on-screen, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom just on HTML web pages and his latest, Eastern Standard…
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Welcome to X5 Industries International Party Agenda
“Welcome to X5 Industries International Party Agenda” “Worldwide Party People Manifesto “Our emotional state of choice is ecstasy. Our nourishment of choice is Love. Our addiction of choice is technology. Our religion of choice is music. Our currency of choice is knowledge. Our politics of choice is none. Our society of choice is utopian though…
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WordPress Style Sheet CSS Comptition Closed
The winners have been announced. I particularly liked the Mars-Spirit theme. 🙂 All styles: http://www.alexking.org/index.php?content=software/wordpress/styles.php It will be exciting to see some of these hopefully be included in a default install of WordPress. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2004/02/10/wordpress-style-sheet-css-comptition-closed/
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More updates to the WordPress installation
Working on the template for the blog some more. New background, removed the calendar on the side menu for now, rearranged the links, added the footer <div>, etc… Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2004/02/10/more-updates-to-the-wordpress-installation/
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VistaPrint Business Cards Arrived
The order of cards from VistaPrint arrived today. They look pretty nice, and came about a week earlier than they were initially scheduled to arrive. The color is a little darker than from my inkjet (Epson C80) but overally the quality is pretty good. I ordered the premium cards with my own design rather than…