With a simple request for some titles, i’ve finally delved into apple’s latest motion 4. Amazingly easy and powerful, i had great usable elements even faster then last time. i can’t wait to start playing with some fancier options like motion tracking. for now i’m just toying with ideas for final cut elements i can recycle into silly animations. maybe i’ll make something worth posting.
Month: February 2010
The LHC says goodbye to AMS. Off to space!
from @CERN today departed the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS). After successful tests in the LHC this international superdetector will boldly go beyond the earthly bonds. It’s journey will take it first to Norway for testing and then to space by way of the Kennedy Space Center. (The LHC is presently undergoing a retool for higher power collisions and experiments to come.)
read the press release here:
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2010/PR02.10E.html
Around LA and back again!
drove 170 miles today and didn’t even leave la. just too much inefficient errands that landed me everywhere today, but not for long.
@joedolson maker of WP-Twitter WordPress plugin
after working with and loving WP to Twitter for weeks, it abruptly stopped working for an entire day.
Post generated server error, but posted to wordpress not twitter.
Update: now it appears to be resolved. i am now guessing some resource on my shared host was busy. (Dreamhost i’m looking at you) if it returns i’ll get another change to figure it out. thanks again for your help joe.
Google, what are you searching for?
After watching their superbowl ad, i started searching for something i was very interested in. Me. I’ve had an internet presence since before altavista.digital.com. I’m not hard to find, so i don’t imagine many people googling for me, but i was curious to what i would find.
it made me wonder, what does google really know? They’ve been indexing the internet all day every day for who know’s how long. . . just this week, you’ve visited my website 2400 times (that’s right, more robots then people read this). When i googled myself, i found my twitter profile on top (not entirely surprised), followed by my be3n.com site “under construction” for years. standard. after that, what did i find? Number three on google? Any of my countless profiles on countless websites? Any of my blog posts from here? nah? that’s too easy. google hands you a 3 year old comment i left on a photograph from panoramio.
That comment is listed before any of my more active profiles. It eventually lists my wikipedia user page and my last.fm profile, but that’s later. somethingdotsomething.com barely makes the 2nd page. Only after posts of leetspeak, Even though it is the most frequently updated site i’m involved with. does google prefer consistency to freshness? let me know what you think.
Even Burning Man has fine print!
Did you know that the Burning Man Organization owns the copyright to all pictures taken on the playa? they do. Did you read the fine print when you bought your ticket?
Why would BMO—the organizer of an “an annual experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance”—undermine speech and creativity like this? BMO claims that the terms in the Burning Man ticket agreement are necessary to protect Black Rock City’s unique culture and the privacy of its participants. Furthermore, BMO points out that the limitations are rarely enforced and they only claim copyright if the photos are used in a way BMO doesn’t authorize. By claiming copyright in all photographs taken at the event, BMO can use the streamlined “notice and takedown” process enshrined in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to quickly remove unapproved photos from the Internet.
read more from eff here:
PayPal India Payments Reversed.
In another example of steller business practices, paypal has started bouncing payments too and from indian users. No explanation, just a lot of outrage!
full story <was> here:
http://todayskhabor.com/2010/02/06/paypal-india-payments-reversed-no-payments-to-or-from-india/
Zen cart no more!
After hours of trying to make my zen cart work again with google checkout. I finally threw it away for a simple wordpress plugin. Now i take credit cards again! Super easy solution for anyone thinking of building a simple web store.
plugin site: http://www.jasoncapshaw.com/blog/simple-google-checkout-cart-wordpress-plugin/
(although, somehow his blog has shifted from the geeky)
Go forward to the next song before this.
My mom just said that. #stuffmymomsays
After working with my dad on their travel movies. (mostly teaching pop Final Cut) My mom had notes.
Chicken n Waffles!
I finished a late night at Gower Studios. Now I grub at Roscoes! chicken + waffle = yum!
