Archive for June 2007

• Yearning for a 1Passwd plugin for my shiny new pocket-phone. And Bluetooth sync, and keyboard support. Other than that I love love love it! #
• Some little kid just called my iPhone and said “Hello, Mom?” i wonder what mom’s old number I got? #
• Mama and Lilly are jealous of my iPhone; Daddy is not. Polar opposite of what I’d normally expect to hear re: family ‘n’ gadgets. #
• First twitter from the iPhone! God this keyboard is annoying, like learning Graffiti on a Palm… #

• It’s June 29th! :-D #
• In line @ the El Cerrito Plaza AT&T store. I’m #23 or something, there’s 3 behind me. #
• I’m lucky number 18!!! #
• Starby’s is giving out mini frapps to linesitters #
• A Dunbar armored vehicle just pulled up!! #
• I GOT IT #
• iPhone works great, I have all-bars coverage inside my house. Note to Verizon: HA HA I TOLD YOU SO, SEE YAAAAAA!! Wouldn’t wanna beee ya!! #

• Searching for the word “iphone” in the Podcasts tab of the iTunes Music Store causes it to ask “Did you mean ladone?” #
• Had fun shooting the shit w/ the 3 guys in line for an iPhone at my local AT&T store. They say they’re saving me a spot. Hee! They are not. #

• Added a “Photos” link on my top navbar. It’s not lining up right with the others; must rewrite the whole thing to get it to sit straight. #
• Making little template-modules outta my code-mess. Added Twitter timeline, removed blue pic & put teeny pic in page header. Getting there! #
• I have achieved a 3-column layout! Still using tables for now though. Later on I’ll be making a discography picture-cluster thingy. #

• $59.99 for 450 minutes AND UNLIMITED DATA!! ::pant pant:: #
• Playing with the Twitter Timeline plugin for ExpressionEngine. Gonna cache that shit on my own server. #
• Me and Jodie have the same birthday! Weird. http://www.djovida.com/jodie/ #
• Another day, another EE build to upload (not that I have to) #

• grooming my categories, gathering my links #
• Getting rid of the bugly sidebar on some of my inner pages #
• Wow, the copyright at the bottom of my website still said “(c) 1995-2004 Edith Frost”! I gotta dig into these templates a lil’ more often. #

• Playing with my EE templates using Coda’s live preview and a tricky little htaccess URL rewrite #

• The CSS tutorial @ tizag.com uses a 3-column layout made with TABLES. I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’… #
• You can write songs and do sudoku at the same time, I have found. Not crosswords though. #
• Aw, they closed the Giant Drop @ Great America in Gurnee, lest it chop someone’s feet off. That ride scares the crap outta me, it’s the best #
• On a harmony joy Emery-go-round ride #

• Wowsers. My label Drag City is dumping Caroline as distributor, piping everything through Revolver & Carrot Top now. Caroline is sooo dead. #
• Brushing up on my CSS for the bazillionth time #

Hi friends!  I know, it’s been almost a year since I moved to California and I’ve barely posted anything in my blog other than show announcements and other self-promotion.  Truth is I’m sick of my website, I want to wreck it and start over with a different layout.  I want to make it less confusing and more user-friendly for first-time visitors.  I want to simplify the front page, make my basic info and discography a lot more front-n-center, and provide more-noticeable links to my pages at MySpace, Drag City etc.  I want to move the messy blog stuff to its own set of sub-pages so I won’t feel like I’m cluttering everything up with my drivel.  I want to figure out a way to better integrate all the content I’m making elsewhere on the web — Flickr photos, Twitter postings, del.icio.us links etc.  So this is what’s going through my head in regards to my website.  Sick of it!!

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• Lotta bird action in the backyard. Twittering for reals. #
• A certain web browser I just registered is now under suspicion of borking up my templates in EE. I’m either wrong or I’m very disappointed. #
• Saving all my EE templates as files on the server so I can play around with live editing in Coda. #
• About to totally miss Merlin Mann’s OmniFocus demo, too wrapped up in futzing with EE templates. I was gonna try to give him a CD too! Nerd. #

• Camped out on EE’s doorstep for 24 hrs now. It’s “imminent” again though. #
• I got the new EE! Yay!! #
• backing up my blog db #
• Upgraded to EE 1.6! Hope nobody gets errors. #

• Excitedly waiting in line @ ExpressionEngine.com for version 1.6 #

• Uninstalling the Office Test Drive that came with my MBP. Begone with ya! #

• Uploaded the last of my 10-year archive of mail to Gmail. Save a handful lost to corruption, it’s all there. That is such a beautiful thing. #