I haven?t posted for a while

I’m still alive, just been busy!

To begin with, you’ll see a lot more “bookmark” posts to real-ity.com. It’s because we’re using del.icio.us to organize for the r33tcast and everything I tag for the show also gets posted here. I need to fix that, and hopefully I’ll get around to that.

The time not at work lately I’ve been spending putting updates into PandoraFM. In the past few weeks the changes I’ve made I’m quite proud of. It’s now at a point that I think anyone can run it on their own servers with pretty little customizing if they like. I promised to release the source the other day, but I keep making small changes thinking “why release this to everyone when I know there’s more to be done.” The biggy of course, is the cached submission feature I’ve been working on. The idea is if a submission fails because of last.FM being down, or database issues, or whatever, then the song gets added to a submission cache to be tried again shortly. The trick is it has to be submitted before the next song is successfully submitted because of Last.FM’s spam protection. I think for now I’m going to release current code without any of the cache functionality, and then just release it again to whoever wants that later. Most people are quite happy with how it works now and don’t need/want/care about this extra stuff anyway. On top of that work I’ve added auto logins, no password saving, hashing passwords when using them, custom last.fm submission code, and the mini player pop up. Oh lastly, PandoraFM was brought up in some tech conference just recently.

Phew. Other things going on? Been busy with work, but that’s a good thing most of the time. And Hyphen moves back into Illinois this evening. He’ll be staying at our place for a while. Hopefully we’ll all go out and have some fun coming up.

I don’t usually post about politics and such, but I found this entertaining:

Garrison Keillor: It is painful to look at your father and realize the old man should not be allowed to manage his own money anymore. This is the discovery the country has made about the party in power. They are inept. The checkbook needs to be taken away. They will rant, they will screech, they will wave their canes at you and call you all sorts of names, but you have to do what you have to do.

Another r33tcast will be Sunday. Hope everyone can make it. Check out last week’s show over at http://www.the-cabin.com/podcast/.

Hope all is well. Stay r33t!

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