Ulanism

So far it looks rather complete. Nice to see a mobile version that works well on the iPhone =)

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I love my little iPhone application called Shazam. When requested, it listens to the music around me for 15 seconds, queries the internet, and comes back with amazingly accurate results. I was at the Elbo Room grooving to Dub Mission a few weeks back when DJ Sep spun a track by Fat Freddy’s Drop. Shazam successfully tagged it and I promptly forgot about the song.

I had a few minutes to kill today and decided to go through my tags. Most were pretty standard research but then I came across an amazing live video of Midnight Marauders and was instantly hooked. A very happy two hours later
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I love this video! Fantastic stuff. You keep doing what you do Michelle =)

Not to take away from 50 year-olds who still want to dance their far-too narrow behinds off… I was sitting with a friend the other day talking about Madonna’s Hung Up video. She always tries to stay up on the latest urban “Thang” and this piece is no exception. Her dancers include the founder of Free Running, Sébastien Foucan, the stars from Rize along with a crowd of dancers on a Dance Dance Revolution stage.

Maybe it is just me but I think it is weak to try to dance with people who are so obviously better than you while you pull some moves that were lame in the 70’s. I guess she
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So the story goes like this.

I’m sitting at the iPhone Dev Camp 2 in this cool demo by Proximi on how to implement copy and paste on the iPhone. I am simply blown away by the amount of thought Proximi has put into this issue. The slide-show is worth watching for everyone interested in user interface design issues.

It is clear that the answers to multi-touch problems faced on the iPhone will see broad use in the future. I am very happy Apple and the App Store developers are leading the direction of this conversation as I believe we are in good hands. Proximi is an excellent example of how early App Store
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Coconut Bliss - non-dairy frozen dessert.

Sometimes life is just so very simple.

I was loooking over that link and came accross this tiny bit of code that will allow you to display a single category on your front page. So easy… so sweet =)

<?php
  if (is_home()) {
    query_posts(”cat=1″);
  }
?>

A client requested that their entire site be password protected. I thought I could easily use .htaccess but found out that life with Wordpress is a bit more difficult.

Fortunately, the Wordpress developmnt community is robust and found this pluging along with this nice update to make it work with Wordpress 2.5+.

Yeah!

How-To create templates for individual posts using Wordpress

I simply adore stuff like this. While it took me 15 or 20 minutes to figure out what they were talking about, once I did it was both elegant and easy to replicate. Open Source Rocks!

The Problem

Wordpress allows you to easily create templates for “Pages” and entire categories. This is very handy and easy to implement.

Wordpress does not make it easy to create a template for a single post.

In my case, I needed the first post in a category to have a special link for the “previous-link” navigation. Additionally, the last post needed the same link for the “next-link” navigation. (Normally, the first post would
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The Fall Of Conservatism

“In order to seize the Presidency in 1968, Nixon had to live down his history of nasty politicking, and he ran that year as a uniter. But his Administration adopted an undercover strategy for building a Republican majority, working to create the impression that there were two Americas: the quiet, ordinary, patriotic, religious, law-abiding Many, and the noisy, élitist, amoral, disorderly, condescending Few.”

After 40 years, maybe we can try something new…