Spent the last few months learning nuke. 3D compositing is pretty slick. Gonna work on my python skills so I can do some scripting.

7:57 pm

Some dudes stole my computer with the last three years of my writing and all my artwork. My backup hard drive was in the bag as well. Keep offsite backups, kids. Another lesson learned the hard way. Never trust anyone.

I ordered a new macbook pro. The speed is pretty nice. But now my camera is basically useless without the direct memory interface that PCMIA on my laptop provided. So, guess I’m gonna have to part with that as well. Yay for humanity.

11:40 am

Consolidated my domains, upgraded the primary server to better account. Got carried away with the redesign.

Wrote some new menu code that I’m still debugging. Matched my existing theme using zen for drupal and moved to the video backend. Discovered some hilariously bad html lurking on my server. Enabled compliance. Things turned ugly and I decided to wait for html 5 to stabilize. But then I realized my old code wasn’t so bad. What the site really needed was just some maintenance.

So, finally flipped on a new front page highlighting the different ways you can get the movies. Added a torrent feed. Unified the miro/itunes/rss code for the main page. Hard linked the flash code to avoid redirects. Added SDM to the podcast, bandwidth permitting. Made sure it worked on the AppleTV.

There’s still a bunch of little tweaking to be done but this should hold for a year or two. Like all good updates.

4:41 pm

Been doing a little coding lately. Finally updated my RSS feed to get into the iTunes store. Test upgraded a Joomla install by hand. The bits on the inside were scary.

Decided to play with drupal after reading about it the other day. Got carried away playing with drupal and implemented about half of a new site. The remaining effort is video junk I already know. Goodbye Wordpress.

1:43 pm

Updated the AppleTV, reinstalled XBMC. The new UI is much cleaner. If only they would let proles into the TV store.

1:22 pm

#$*^&@#%$*&#@%^$.

Well at least they made a statement, if it wasn’t the one I wanted to hear. I’ve been researching iSCSI lately so guess I’ll look at it even harder. If I had money I’d buy one either a DroboPro or a Promise DS4600.

2:08 pm

The power supply on my laptop was dying, so I ordered a new daughtercard and spent three hours tearing it apart and reinstalling it. Should have checked the wall wart first, boo.

Been messing around with the AppleTV again, installed samba to speed up the network transfers.

Got a HTML5 version of my movies up and running. However because of battles over royalties, implementing it will require reencoding everything to Theora, for which I do not currently have enough space on my server. A project for another day.

Moved to Los Angeles. Been writing a bunch. Gonna find out the truth, one way or another, shortly.

12:40 pm

A new coat of paint.

9:48 am

Yay.

12:32 pm

Got another hard drive, a little over 8TB now. Decided to move some data about.

One of the drives on my zfs array faulted while I was copying a few hundred gigs of stuff. Nearly had a heart attack when I noticed. I ejected the volume and reimported it. The console came up and told me it was reslivering. I came back a few hours later and it was done. Which means it not only fixed the label mismatch but then rebuilt only the data that had been changed. Color me a believer.

In other news, apple dropped zfs from the snow leopard features pages. People have been getting worried about the project being cancelled. The more probable explanation is that apple split off their leopard zfs efforts earlier this year to work primarily with the snow leopard branch. Since then, they have not released any new 10.5 bits. Meanwhile, the decision was made not to include zfs in the snow leopard release as officially supported. So, the maintainers are sitting on the new bits till snow leopard comes out.

That would be my hope. I have been wrong many, many times before.

12:13 pm