Migrate!

http://macchiatomind.wordpress.com/

Things I learned today

Time passes by rather quickly when I'm actually focused on work. (duh)

I need to shoot my photos in RAW, get Aperture 3, and switch to an iPhone or get a GPS logger. I went to the Aperture brown bag at lunch today. It's just made of win. The way things are organized, the geo-tagging features, the brushes, and the slide shows. I can't possibly list out everything I have seen in the past hour. They are all things I can use. I really need to finish cataloging my photos and get Aperture.

Damn pants...

I would be kicking myself right now if my pants allow the range of movement. It was a terrible decision to get these and then wear these pants to work. True that I can get myself into them. But can I breath? Think? Rid of the headache it's causing? No. A couple more hours and I can be free of them. If my head doesn't explode first.

Progress!

It was painful and long, but I finally managed to install WordPress on my laptop hosted by my own Apache server. Now that I got the basic setup ready, I can really start to dive in. I'm looking forward to it. In the mean time, I'm running out of battery.

Relative time

I had a brief moment of questioning my reality in the elevator. I went downstairs to pick up the daily mail and the coffee bar was still open. It's around 12 and I had to do a double take. A co-worker rode the elevator up with me. These are all the elements familiar to me at about 9 in the morning, not 12. For a moment I lost touch with when I was. Sorry Doctor, time travel won't suit me.

New Era?

I finally got around to install a development server on my laptop last night. Finally! I just sat down last night, flipped opened my developer books and figured out how to do it. Granted it took forever to download the package I wanted so I would have an easy install, but never the less I finally did it. I installed it this morning and was able to see the splash page before I had to had into work.

I have not started to use WordPress and I already love it. I read that I will be able to import blogs from... well... blogger. That is quite exciting for me because I would love to migrate all of my various blogs over at some point. I know this entry really should go on my "projects" blog, but screw it. It's not going to matter when I start to mash everything together and separate it by tags.

I'm in the process of transferring all of my photos into iPhoto. I had way too much fun with Faces the other night. This will make attaching photos much quicker when I get around to start posting. Things are finally starting to move along. I've had that domain name for almost 3 years now. I think it's time to put some meat on it.

When did I stop having fun?

I might have mentioned this on facebook earlier this week... I was on my way home from work one evening and was at a stop light. I looked to my right and there was this guy, probably in his 40's, sitting in his blue Tahoe and eating a chocolate dipped ice cream bar. My first thought was just general amusement. My second thought was, "I want that, why am I not doing that?" It was just a weird week for me. I had just read David Foster Wallace's Kenyon College Commencement, and it got me thinking. This man's action in relative to me was a fleeting moment of amusement. What led him to the conclusion to procure an ice cream bar to be what appears to be an after-work snack.

To each their own.