Urban Adventures

Kicking off monthly mixes!

Brian — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:05:07 +0000

So I participated in the first month of a monthly mixtape exchange, and while it’s probably too much effort for me to actually burn, decorate, and mail out physical mixes, I really liked the concept of it. Each mix will have a theme associated with it, and while I’m starting it off as a monthly list, I’m hoping to make it bi-weekly or weekly if my schedule allows. I’d love for other people to leave mixes in the comments, or if you have any questions about the artists, feel free to ask!

Without further ado, my (late) mix for June is a “Summer Fun” Themed mix.

1) Seu Jorge – Rebel Rebel
2) Common – Be
3) Lily Allen – LDN
4) Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince – Charlie Mack (1st out the limo)
5) Travelling Wilburys – Last Night
6) Dead Prez – Happiness
7) Dispatch – The General
8 ) Cab Calloway – The Scat Song
9) Billy Joel – It’s Still Rock And Roll to me
10) Notorious BIG Vs. Frank Sinatra – Interlude
11) Mighty Might Bosstones – Hat
12) Lady Soverign – The Battle
13) CSS – Let’s Make Love And Listen to Death From Above
14) Gumar and His Magical Midi Band – Track 7 (Radio Won’t Play My Jam)
15) Aqua – Heat Of The Night
16) Jurassic 5 – What’s Golden
17) Violent Femmes – Crazy
18) Blockhead – NYC Bounce

Can’t get audio working in linux after quitting wine?

Brian — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:13:16 +0000

I have been struggling to figure out why this happens almost every time I exit an application launched in Wine, and it’s so simple I could smack myself.

Without fail, I launch Wine, and my audio stops working in linux. Obnoxious, but not too bad. The real killer is that often after I quit whatever application I was running, my sound still doesn’t work.

…Turns out I hadn’t noticed pulseaudio was running when I started Wine, and not exiting when I quit. Since I use Alsa, it was causing problems (as it’s known to do) and a simple killall pulseaudio at the command line, and I was back in working order. Guess that’s what I get for skimming my running processes when I look for the problem.

Tag Mk 1

Brian — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:56:04 +0000

Took a stab at designing a tag, this is the best of the lot so far. Not too happy with it, and I still gotta come up with some color ideas for it as well, but at least it’s a start.

Isn’t Drupal supposed to be the complicated one?

Brian — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:14:47 +0000

So far, in the battle between Drupal and Wordpress, Drupal is definitely winning out.

Installing them was about the same difficulty level (Create database and user, copy files into proper directory, go to page to set up user stats).

What really surprised me, was when I started trying to theme Wordpress. Now, in Drupal when you create a theme, pretty much all of the files are totally optional. If you don’t put a .php file in there to handle a situation, it has a default it falls back on. The only thing really nessecary to customize the look and feel is a stylesheet and a way to figure out what the divs are named.

Wordpress on the other hand, is much more complex. I found myself having to wade deeply into .php files and create new divs just to change the background of an element, or replace a text header with an image. Not to mention attempting to shift the location of any menus requires massive div placement and css editing that will almost certainly break something somewhere else.

Documentation? HAH. I had to spend 15 minutes hunting through google results just to find out that I didn’t need to write the theme entirely from scratch.

I will admit that the posting page is quite nice for wordpress. It’s feature rich, it’s aesthetically pleasing, and it looks pretty much the same as a word processor. However… It is currently 12:06 am.

Before it’s changed to 12:07 am, I was able to find this: http://www.darcynorman.net/2005/10/19/wysiwyg-editor-in-drupal/

and this: http://www.blogdesk.org/en/index.htm

This one fell after the 12:07 mark, because I got sucked into reading some posts on the drupal site: http://civicactions.com/blog/nicedit_a_new_text_editor_for_drupal

Now, out of those three, all were within the first five results on google, and one I was actually linked to by a discussion on the drupal site.

Frankly, I am not impressed. We’ll see how Wordpress holds up in the race.

Edit: I’ve also had to now come back and edit this post, as the url’s did not become clickable as I expected, and I haven’t been able to get my line-spacing to go more than single. Fail.

Edit the second: I’m a bit stupid, I just hadn’t set the

tag to the proper spacing in css