All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

I just activated the “Permalink Redirect” WordPress plugin. Very nice! (Golf clap: PhotoMatt)

Note to self: Get into Digg. It rocks. Anthony (Digg profile) seems to be into it quite a bit. I hope Justin (Digg profile) starts “digging” more.

“Send instant messages to cell phones via Firefox. It uses the free service Teleflip and the freeware SMTP mailer Blat. Currently only compatibile [sic] with Windows and service areas of North America.” Works with Firefox 1.0.4.

I haven’t tried this out yet, but if it works like it says it does…wow. I can think of some uses for it, but I’ll save that for another post. (Golf clap: Digg)

What’d you do this morning? I watched part of the Memorial Day tribute at Arlington this morning. My mom wanted to get some breakfast, so we went out.

Where’d you go? Denny’s. We haven’t eaten out like that together in awhile, and it was a nice time together. Thanks mom!

So that covers most of the morning…anything else? Yeah, we had band practice today. Hudson couldn’t show up, though - he already planned to go to the beach with a bunch of his friends. It was a good session, and we’re in the process of learning our fourth song. However, we only really have two because I haven’t made a melody for the other songs.

Who’s singing? I am. No way. Way. It’s tough because it’s hard to play and sing at the same time. Couple that with differing beats at certain times, and I’m just a struggling “guitarist”. I’m sure it’ll just take practice, though.

What happened after band practice? I met up at the mall with Javy, Art, and Renzo. Sbarro for a late lunch, and we walked around for a bit. Art wanted to go to Champs, and we ended up buying “Buy one, get one free” shorts (one for me and one for Art). I still need new shoes, so we checked out Vans. But, the one shoe I wanted wasn’t available in my size. So yes, I’m still wearing some crusty shoes.

What’d you do in the evening? J.R. had a BBQ at his house around 6pm. His dad cooked some carne asada, and there was also rice, potato salad, beans, corn, tortillas, chips, and soda. We hung out, played pool (billiards), and blew up some dry ice “bombs”. As people trickled out, and we finished up by watching the rest of “Paycheck“. Not too shabby.

So, what now? I’ll finish typing this up and hit the sack. I’ve got a big day at work tomorrow, and I need to get there by 8am. So I pretty much need to be on the commute by 7am. *sigh*

Did you like the self-interview type post? I won’t do it again if you think it’s annoying.

I’ve had a customer’s computer for about a month now. It was a really old one, but for doing homework, it got the job done. The woman brought her sister’s computer to me, and asked if I could clean install Windows. I accepted the task, but took a long time to get it done. (more…)

One reason why I’ve installed the Greasemonkey extension? Friends’ Xanga blogs. There’s some good lookin’ Gmail scripts, too. Of course, I’m going to drop Gmail soon, but if you’re not, you might as well check those out. It’s all simple, trust me.

I can’t ml_ipod to work smoothly. The live smart playlists wasn’t working out, and the smart playlists weren’t matching up in the iPod and Winamp. Also, importing the iTunes database didn’t correctly import the last played times. It might be that plugin’s problem, though (because ml_ipod is a completely different entity). I didn’t investigate further than that, because it didn’t matter too much for me past that.

So, I’m back in iTunes. I’m not kicking and screaming, but I’m still rooting for Will and whoever else is helping him. If there’s any consolation, Will Fisher (developer) is really nice - at least from my interaction with him in the forums today.

Security update implemented. Thanks for the quick response, Matt and all!

I’m trying ml_ipod, not totally dumping iTunes yet. All is still intact. Other than dynamic smart playlists, if I can’t get it to work “smoothly”, I’ll switch back to iTunes.

What’s wrong with iTunes? Just a bit more bloated than I’d like, and creating smart playlists aren’t as robust as J. River Media Center. If ml_ipod smart playlist creation is closely similar to MC, with boolean operators, I’m more likely to switch it up - especially since Winamp/ml_pod is free!

Any ml_ipod users out there that switched from iTunes?

I retweaked through the robots.txt files just now. I think everything is banned from my whole site, except my forums and blog. From those, I believe I only have Googlebot-Images banned from select folders that contain images.