There are times in life where you just have to sit back, keep your mouth shut and take in the glory of humanity. Last night was one such event.

I had the honor of photographing a monthly event here in Nashville called The Love Drums Community Drum and Dance WhizBang held at the First Unitarian Universalist Church. I wish I could tell you about the history of the event or even something about its founders. But I cannot. Maybe this will come in some future post. For now, here is are the photos!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/themacgeek/sets/72157604870089798/

ORIGINAL POST

Today I went to re-setup my Plaxo syncing with Google Calendars, only to find that Plaxo is unable to authenticate against my Google account. I fired off a message to Plaxo explaining that it was not working and they promptly responded:

Hi Jamie,
Thank you for contacting Plaxo Customer Care.

As I understand, you are unable to sync Plaxo with Google as you are seeing an error message stating that it is invalid. This is a known issue and our engineers are working on it. We appreciate your patience.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Thank you.
Ricky
Plaxo Customer Care

Nothing like a little doom and gloom to start the morning! The folks over at PC World think the sky is falling . It is being reported that there is a major exploitable bug in the Linux Kernal. Apparently, the bug is said to affect all versions of the Linux kernel up to version 2.6.24.1. According to PC World, distributions such as Ubuntu, Turbolinux, SuSE, Red Hat, Mandriva, Debian and others are affected. The problems are within three functions in the system call fs/splice.c

At first I as taken by surprise with this news, but then, fortunately a very witty commenter by the name of Evildave came to the rescue.

I read the comment by Evildave and my world view returned to normal. The sky is not in fact falling and all is well in the nix world. It is always funny to see how things are spun in the glorious publishing world. I wonder how much Microsoft paid PC World for this post.

Their were a few issues with paths not being closed in the Drupal logo along with the lack of proper layering for certain applications like screen printing and sign cutting. The item attached resolves these issues.

Here you will find various notes and thoughts relating to Drupal. Most of the items here are eventually submitted to the Drupal.org website and are here for discussion and brainstorming.

THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS

• uses logic
• detail oriented
• facts rule
• words and language
• present and past
• math and science
• can comprehend
• knowing
• acknowledges
• order/pattern perception
• knows object name
• reality based
• forms strategies
• practical
• safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS

• uses feeling
• “big picture” oriented
• imagination rules
• symbols and images
• present and future
• philosophy & religion
• can “get it” (i.e. meaning)

I have submitted a search button to Google for Drupal.org. This button will allow a user to search Drupal.org from the Google Toolbar search field. Just click the Add Search Type from the dropdown in your Firefox/Google Toolbar and then type in Drupal. Your Drupal search type will be added.

You can also add this search type by clicking the link below:
Click Here To Add This Button Now

You can also search the Drupal.org site via Google with this search type:
Click Here To Add This Button Now

I have been working a bit lately with integrating Adsense into various sites that I maintain. Many of these sites are member only sites that require users to login to see content. Leveraging Adsense against this content has been troublesome until lately.

Adobe Photo Downloader Dock IconI recently updated to the newest version of the Adobe Creative Suite and was pleasantly surprised by some of the great new features to be found in the whole range of Creative Suite CS3 applications.

One of the most impressive that filled a real hole in my digital asset management workflow was the new Adobe Photo Downloader software that comes bundled with Adobe Bridge CS3.

The Adobe Photo Downloader application will for many, solve the issue of how to handle moving photos from camera to computer and keeping things organized. The Photo Downloader will not only pull your photos from the camera, but will also perform several other key functions including the creation of date named folders, rename the files themselves, convert the images to DNG, make a backup copy and apply a meta data template to each file.

Asterisk® is a complete IP PBX in software. It runs on a wide variety of operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Sun Solaris and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX including many advanced features that are often associated with high end (and high cost) proprietary PBXs. Asterisk® supports Voice over IP in many protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.