I just found the Visibone Color Lab. Wow, that’s one handy tool. As you click the colors, they are added to your pallet on the right hand side, and you can see how the fit together, as well as how text looks on each.

I set up a blog for my little sister this evening. She came over and had the fun of picking out the colors for it. It should be fun for those that know her to read. She writes huge amounts of emails to her friends usually every day, as well as stories galore.

bq. He was explaining to me that Blog is short for Web log. Personally I think it should be called a Wlog. I suppose there is a great history behind why it is called a Blog instead of a Wlog and if I don’t find one I shall write it myself. – Elizabeth’s first post

Why are you telling us your names? Because we take full responsibility for every aspect of the site. If something goes wrong, we’re the ones who will fix it. Also, we’re both egomaniacal masochists. –From the Oddpost FAQ

Yup, putting your name on something is a sign that you care, and willing to stand up for it. It’s odd how hidden most peoples names are on software sites.

Stevenf wonders what kinds of names people give to their computers. Hanging around under my old desk are:

• Sneezy - A duel 500mhz PIII, from back when that was was a screaming fast machine. It never liked to shutdown, and whould hang every time I tried.
• Sleepy - A second hand 500mhz Compaq Athlon, picked up when it’s hard drive died on my younger brother, and he felt the urge to upgrade. Used for playing games on.
• Doc - The office file sharing computer, with a raid inside. I almost never have to mess with it.
• Happy - My first real Linux computer. A 400mhz PII office cast off, it serves as NAT for our home network, and used to be used as a web sever.
• Dopey - Some gave us this computer. It has Bios problems, runs at an incredible 33mhz, and just runs fine as a router under Linux.
• Magnus - The FreeBSD webserver. Identical twin of Sleepy. Used to belong to Dad, until it’s HD died, and Dad upgraded. My first *nix computer that had a reasonable CPU.

The Mac’s don’t really have names, which actually turns out to be a compliment. I don’t think of them of having their own personalities - they are extensions of me. People that name their fingers or eyes are pretty rare. It’s usually just “my fingers”, or “my eyes”. If I’m talking about one of the Macs, I’ll say “MY PowerBook”.

What’s truly about the TouchStream ST (and all Touchstream products) is that key, mouse, and gesture input all occur in the same overlapping area of the MultiTouch surface. This means that when you switch between typing and mouse, for example, you don’t have to move your hand to grab the mouse since it’s always under your fingertips.

I want one of these keyboards. :)

Thursday night, I started to play with Konfabulator. Someone on the forums was asking for a widget to view web cams. It looked like an easy change to an existing widget, so I did it and released it on the Konfabulator gallery. Now it’s had 1,500 downloads in about 48 hours, and the emails are starting to come in with new feature ideas.

Probably the coolest thing about Konfabulator is the speed that it lets you build a little program. It took me all of a half an hour to build my program - and that with never having used Konfabulator before.

“A coward dies a thousand deaths, A brave man only once.” I got the truth of that saying hammered into be today, as I was too scared to even say “hey” to girl I admire. The day was mostly spent in cycling from kicking myself for not saying anything, gathering some courage, and loosing it again. Not fun at all.

It’s odd. I’m not scared of welt-inducing paintballs. I’m not scared of leading a team of people. I’m not scared of quoting or doing a large programming job. I’m not normally scared of losing. But today I was scared of… really nothing, and ran away. Most of today was somewhere near a worst day-in-my-life, from the combination of fear and guilt-about-fear.

In order to never have a repeat of today, I’ve resolved to follow the John Wayne way, “Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway” (And I’m posting my resolution publicly so I can’t back down later. ::grin:: )

Movable Type 2.6 is out, and I’l playing kid in a candy shop with the new text formating options. Here I’m testing Textile.

h3. Test

Now for a pargraph

• Horse
• Dog
• Cat

Also Kung Log, the little program I use to post weblogs, was upgraded. Time to test it too. :)

• A
• B
• C

Test of easy image uploading….

“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties — but right through every human heart — and all human hearts.” —Alexandr Solzhenitzyn

Right on!