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Arttown kick off was a blast

July 02 20080 comments

March 4th was great too. Always fun seeing cars get blocked to watch a parade of drunks and a marching band go by.

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Bash Script to Post to Twitter

May 25 20080 comments

Here is a quick/easy way to post to twitter from the cli.

#!/bin/bash

#############################################

USERNAME="your@email.com"
PASSWORD="password"
URL=http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

#############################################

if [ ! -n "$1" ]
then
echo "Message not long enough"
exit
fi

message="$@"

maxlen=140;
len=`echo ${#message}`

echo $len;

if [ $len -gt $maxlen ]
then
echo "Your message was longer than 140 characters...";
fi

result=`curl -u $USERNAME:$PASSWORD -d status="$message" $URL`L`

Put the script in /usr/local/bin/
Then it is as easy as:


user@river:~$ twitter Your Message Here

Update:
Updated the script. No longer using expr to get the length of message. I was getting errors in OS X.

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Nicole and I moved into an awesome old house in downtown Reno. It had everything on our “wishlist”. Basement for Lunchbox Radio shows and music in general, a garage for my art studio, a 2nd bedroom for an office, and being right downtown. The art studio is ready for me to start working. Which is good since Stilldream is less than a month away! Nicole has her studio space and is way excited to start getting into producing music. It is all very exciting.

We just got internet hooked up yesterday. I have a couple projects that have suffered during the move but I can now jump back on them. Thanks for being patient everyone. I think Nicole was having some serious internet withdrawls. I survived thanks to my iPhone. Gotta get my twitter fix ya know.

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Say Goodbye to Vista

May 22 20080 comments

I tried.

I really did.

But, I had to finally replace Vista on this new Dell laptop. It was just getting in the way. Probably more to do with my limited knowledge of Windows than anything, but I just found it to be lacking in places. It came down to this, if I was using the machine by itself and never had to connect to any network, it would have worked out just fine. Vista is good in a vacuum.

I downloaded Ubuntu 8.04 and am extremely happy with it. Had a couple hiccups with the wireless card and it not having XP drivers for ndiswrapper, but I had a spare USB wireless network adapter lying around that worked “out of the box”. Compiz runs like a champ, Eclipse actually works, I can play DVD’s and MP3’s just fine, I can still do live broadcasting for Lunchbox Radio, and all the hardware works perfect. Well, I haven’t tried to webcam yet, but I never used it anyways.

Funny thing about installing Linux on this machine is that Nicole now wants me to install it for her. She says its way cleaner and simpler than Windows. We will see after she has been using it for a while.

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