Cameron's Thoughts

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Which File Extension are You?

Doesn't really seem to be me, but, whatever.

I'm not afraid of RFID technology or anything, I actually think it will be revolutionary technology. But it seems that secretly adding this technology into things, especially something like our money is certain to cause a large controversy.

RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When You Try to Microwave Them

Zakai Hamilton has been working on Screens Environment for a number of years now (previously known as ScreensOS), and every day it's getting closer and closer to reality. Zakai recently posted a FAQ on his website that runs through the reasons why this OS will rock the PDA world and will even make people wonder why they can't have something like this on their desktop.
I was involved with the concept and idea's for this a lot near the beginning, unfortunatly I have not been able to be as involved due to being quite busy at home. Sorry Zakai

There is an all new search feature on this website. It uses the same type of web technology that Gmail uses for it's site, Javascripted XMLHttpRequest requests in realtime. It's showing up on a number of sites and is called LiveSearch. It is supported by the major browsers such as IE5/6 on Windows, Mozilla/Firefox on all platforms and Safari on Mac. This is something that Opera does not support and is one of the reasons that it's getting harder and harder to support Opera. But, if your browser is not supported by the Livesearch, you still have an improved search feature. It no longer uses the built-in Movable Type search and runs off of this script.
But, if you have a supported browser, simply click in the search box and start typing. Your results will appear instantly in real time without loading any new pages.
I am still working out some minor details on how the results are displayed. For instance, if you press the Search but o the enter key to load the results, I haven't got any CSS on that page yet, so the results are just plain text. But if anyone has any comments or suggestions, please feel free to post them here, or to send them to me personally. I would like to make this as good as possible and I don't always have the best design sense. I am fairly pleased with how everything is running so far though.

Check out pics of Brett at his new website: http://brett.bulock.com

Last night Brett was born at 8:34pm. He weighed 6lbs 15oz and was 19.5 inches long. Pictures and more info soon.

Looks like tommorrow will be the big day of having our next baby. Nickcole has been having contractions for over a week now and has had a couple of false labors. But, today her doctor said that they are going to induce labor tommorrow morning since she is almost dialated to 3 and everything else is all set for a good delivery. Plus her contractions are only like 4 minutes apart. She has been very miserable recently, so she is really looking forward to getting this pregnacy over with.
So, I will now be the father of two childern. I am becoming an old man.

Wish I had seen this, TypeMover, before I had moved my MT install from version 2.661 to version 3.11.

This site is now running Movable Type 3.11. I did a fresh install working side-by-side with my old install of 2.661. That way I could test the new install before releasing it into the wild. Good thing as there were a number of minor things that needed to be resolved. The only thing that I haven't fixed is the code that does the 'related posts' on my indivual post pages. So that is disabled right now. That uses Brad Choate's MySQL plugin, and it isn't mentioned on the MT Plugins page whether it's supported my MT3 or not. But I wasn't getting an error though either when using that code, just nothing was outputting, so I might have to research the error a bit more. It's more than likely some minor mistype on my part somewhere.
One thing I realized. Movable Type needs some way to do a complete import and export. It was easy to export and import the actual entries themselves. The templates on the other hand were a PITA. Unfortuantly I decided to make everything on this page in little pieces, so I have a good 25 or more templates. Fortuantly they are all linked to a file so I just needed to create the templates and copy over the links to the template files. Still was not simple though as I also have to reset up the preferences and the archive file templates. At least I could copy this info from my current version 2.661 install. If I had to set this all back up from scrath, I would be screwed. I have backups of all the entries and templates, but that isn't quite enough.
But, after installing all that, I had to move on to the plug-ins. I went through and found out which ones I was using, then had to investigate any possible conflicts MT3. The only one that seemed to have an issue was the Rebuild plugin that could rebuild pages set using a crontab. It seems there are likley easier ways to do this now in MT3 since the backgrounds task feature is built in and there are ways that plugins can do tasks using crontabs. Also, there might be a SQL plugin issue, but can't verify that yet.
So, if anybody finds any issues with anything, please contact me. I have spent a lot of time today trying to make sure this was a smooth transition, but I have no doubt I missed something somewhere.