Yes, two tickets to Bespin please.
See the entire series in Justin's Flickr photostream.
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Yes, two tickets to Bespin please.
See the entire series in Justin's Flickr photostream.
]]>Here is the very last podcast about Battlestar Galactica which I was lucky enough to join in on.
On the bright side, Brian, the producer of the award-winning Galactica Quorum, has started up a new series with many of the same personalities, aptly named The Geek Quorum (subscribe now in iTunes). Hopefully I will have the opportunity to join them talk about a wider variety of "geeky" television shows like Glee, Fringe and Lost, movies like Avatar, gadgets like the iPad and much, much more -- because if I start talking about this stuff with my wife too much, her eyes roll back in her head.
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The complex required well over 20,000 lego tiles and 160 lights. It is over 6'x12' and takes up an entire garage. Mark Borlase, you have my infinite admiration.
Next up, a site devoted to recreating shots from the original trilogy using the original old-school figures.
As someone who still has a few figures from the original trilogy lying around somewhere, I have to admire the artistry in the photography, the excellent use of depth of field and lighting, not to mention making cheap-o figures look like a million bucks.
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What I remember most from kindergarden: it was the year Empire Strikes Back came out. One's popularity at the time was roughly proportional to the number of times you had seen the film, compensated by how well you could portray one of the characters during play time. I am proud to say that I could do a pretty mean Yoda, even for a five year old. Making my kindergarden years the high point of popularity in school.
And now to play my favorite "old school photo game." Can you find me?
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Harper and Daisy sitting on Santa's lap for the first time together. Not pictured here: Arin crying off camera. The whole experience was priceless.
And that is what I did with Media Manager. I dropped all of my old proprietary Amazon API code in favor of a widely used, well supported CPAN module called Net::Amazon. In the process I dramatically simplified my code base, I incorporated more features that have emerged from Amazon's API since I initially wrote Media Manager, and made the framework easier to extend and use. All in all, it is proving to be a great change for the plugin that brings more features and capabilities to Media Manager users.
However, this change may also mean changes for its users. For a lot of Media Manager users, this new version may mean that your template code will no longer work. This change which breaks backwards compability was unfortunate, but to a great extent unavoidable, especially if I wanted to maximize the end-user benefits for shifting to Net::Amazon. So if you are an existing user of Media Manager and are anxious to restore interoperability with Amazon, then please consult Media Manager's new documentation with its many template code samples to see what changes you might need to update your blog's templates.
You can download Media Manager 2.1 from github, and file support tickets and bug reports in lighthouse. Please, if you have problems, let me know so that I fix them as soon as possible.
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]]>I had in fact began recruiting for engineering talent to contract with to complete the project. But then this weekend, I got an email from Aaron out of the blue informing me that he finished the work on mod_perlite and tested it with Movable Type... and it worked!
This is a tremendous milestone for the project and puts us in a position for the first time to see if the original hypothesis for the project holds water: that we could make Perl applications as brain-numbingly easy to install as PHP-based ones, and that we could also help make all CGI faster and more memory efficient in the process.
Brilliant. Bloody brilliant. Just watch it.
apologies in advance for the ad Hulu makes you watch
]]>Since I was born with Freidreich's Ataxia, I would not be a prime candidate for health care insurance. Fortunately the majority of my medical expenses are covered through Medicaid -- a government run health care program. (emphasis mine)
His remarks highlight for me that the vast majority of people who are against a "public option," those who fear a government run health care system, almost certainly have no experience on which to base their opinion. They simply are afraid. Afraid of what they don't know and don't understand.
Perhaps more Americans should listen to people like Paul, who actually have been the recipient of a government run health care system and who can attest more authoritatively through personal experience that people's fears are unfounded. As he says, "I have good doctors, I see good specialists, and I have great help with prescription medication and other medical expenses." And isn't that what this is all about?
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