TMG Studio You think your are ready until you change the first diaper.

Ok, so the recent influx of web traffic to the Notable Drupal Powered Websites posting has made me realize that maybe there is a need for a very simple, very A-List build out of websites. There are multiple other websites out there which list Drupal sites, but I think where many fail, is the ranking based on not just voting, etc, but also on the objective classification of of the sites themselves. More than just things like industry, tone, etc. I am talking more about what sites can be presented as the masterpieces of the Drupal world or at least the ones that are more than a modified theme (though I have seem some of those that were really good too).

Every time I have to do a presentation on Drupal, I have to go on the hunt for a list of Drupal Powered websites. So, rather than looking each time, I am compiling a list here. I am kicking off the list with most of those listed on Dries website. I have excluded some from Dries list as they are not US based sites, which is my audience.

Drupal.org
Spread Firefox
Mozilla Labs
Mozilla Quality Assurance
Windy Citizen - Chicago News Site
DivX Labs
Oxfam International

Caught a post today about the infamous photographer Thomas Hawk being ejected from the San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art and it made me think about my recent run in with art folks at Tennessee Association of Craft Artists (TACA) here in Nashville where I took some photos only to have many of them tell me I was “Not Allowed” to take pictures of their work even though they were being displayed at a public venue. The most annoying was the artist Asia Mathis

[img_assist|nid=84|title=Stupid Digg Error Message on Password reset!|desc=|link=node|align=center|width=425|height=159]So I have a story that I wanted to Digg today and when I went to sign-in I apparently have forgotten my password. Not unusual since I regularly change my passwords like a good geek should. I happily look for the “Reset/ Retrieve your password here” link. Enter my email, wait 5 minutes and then check my mail. Link received as expected! Cool!

Click the link and I am greeted with the message on the right! WTH! I try resetting it again. Same message. This is the kind of thing that ultimately will keep a user from returning to a site and for me is something I will not waste any more time on today.

A great writeup was just posted over at Linux.com featuring Angela Byron from Lullabot. Check it out! http://www.linux.com/feature/143415

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/

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__UPDATE__
This appears to be fixed now! Great work to Plaxo for getting this fixed!

__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

[img_assist|nid=86|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=178|height=320]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.