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I may be one of a few, but I REALLY want to see a version of Picasa for OS X. Yes, I know there are great image editing programs out there for Mac, and that possibly, many Mac users already have one or more of them installed, however, *I* don't. In fact, I don't even really know how to work with my photos. I suppose iPhoto is a nice program, but I loved Picasa, and found it to be the most user friendly program I'd used in a long time. Other than the fact that it litered those damned picasa.ini files in every damn folder on the disk, it's fantastic. After seeing this article, though, I now have hope.

Please tell me you've seen the best blonde joke ever! It's hilarious!

Wow. 2006. I will turn 31 this year. I will be married. Now, onto resolutions. I will read more. I will lose weight. I will devote more time to activity and less time to computer and TV. I will finish Small Axe 1.0. I will be a better listener. I will learn to keep more focused. I will be more appreciative of what I have. Lastly, I will blog this entire year, and, dammit, I will back up regularly!!

Wow. 2006. I will turn 31 this year. I will be married. Now, onto resolutions. I will read more. I will lose weight. I will devote more time to activity and less time to computer and TV. I will finish Small Axe 1.0. I will be a better listener. I will learn to keep more focused. I will be more appreciative of what I have. Lastly, I will blog this entire year, and, dammit, I will back up regularly!!

How appropriate that I wrote my "last post" of 2005 just as I've cobbled sethadam1.com back together. After my last web host had a server crash, they informed me that all of my data went bye-bye. All of it. All of my websites. Gone. Caput. So I started the ridiculous and laborious task of reassembling from whatever backups I had. I foolishly assumed that web hosts used RAID, which they apparently don't, and that they maybe keep some backups, which.. eh... they apparently don't. So, hours and hours later, I have reassembled as much as possible via backups, my browser cache, Google cache, Google's blogsearch, and surprisingly, an application I wrote myself which pulled my blog info via RSS. Anyway, here is, for lack of a better name, sethadam1.com 7.0. It will hopefully join me in entering into the best year of my life.

Rating the Presidents Interesting to see how these people think it shakes out. Note that the Bush is probably GHWB, not W.

Cool! Javascript Super Mario Bros!

Can I just carry on for a second about some development stuff? I began writing Flip in 2002, when I was a relatively newbie to web programming. Sure, I'd been doing HTML and Javasacript since '99, and I had been playing with PHP for 6 months or so, but I was a novice, plain and simple. Flip 2 and 3 were both steady evolutions, but sometime in between, whether it was writing a helpdesk app for work, or rewriting osnews.com, learning about 0bject Orientation and classes, MySQL, whatever... I believe I learned a lot of cool tricks. When I finally got around to writing Flip 4 - which by the way, will not be called Flip 4, since it's really not even close to the same code, nor is it a "flatfile" PHP Weblog anymore - I started from ground zero. Flip 4 is now mostly functional, I'm going to be testing and packaging the first beta, and dammit, I am PSYCHED. This blog is so much better than anything I've ever written. Pure HTML templates, auto-location, some great JS/CSS tricks for visibility, and the latest acheivement - a great installation script that can build Small Axe for you. There,...

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