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WordPress Timezones

Dates appear to be working correctly in my test environment. There are two steps that I needed to take. The first was to make sure that dates are sent as UTC format over the XML-RPC API. The second step was a handy little Time Zone plugin. Once activated, I entered EST5EDT for my Time zone. I was also able to enter America/New_York and it handled it the same way.

I have been a little concerned over how I would be able to link posts from my blogspot blog over to the new blog. I appended the post identification in a comment in each post. This way, I can send a link over to the search results and search for that tag. Here is an example of one of the tags:

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179070.post-112817586244792334

And this is the URL that I would use:

http://www.lewismoten.com/index.php?s=post-112817586244792334

One other thing that I have been working on is giving everyone credit for there posts. Both my wife and I post to my blogspot blog. She makes guest appearances every now and then, so I created two additional accounts besides the administrative account. I had to promote the levels of our accounts up to at least 5 before I would be able to post via XML-RPC.

I also consolidated my category to list 11 items:
Miscellaneous is the default category here. If a post doesn't fit anywhere else, it goes there.

The last few things on my list of things to do is to muck around with comments and the template. Once that is ready, I'm in business to go public. Comments are going to be tricky since I can't find anything in the XML-RPC file to post them. I may have to do a little programming here, as I can't connect directly to the MySQL database either.

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Turn brains to mush in 3 easy steps

After getting up late today, my mother in law walks into the door with the kids. My nephew takes off and for the next three hours I am entertaining my niece. The Atari Flashback 2 is getting a little boring for her and so we moved on to the Sony Playstation 2.

We played Katamari Damacy, Spyro the Dragon, Spyro - Year of the Dragon, and Spyro - Enter the Dragonfly. She is pretty young so most of the time she was learning how to move around. Her favorite seemed to be Spyro - Enter the Dragon. She stayed in the main world frying sheep for about an hour.

With the simple game play, your brain just slowly turns to mush. Sometimes I just want to take control and play the game for her the way that the game is supposed to be played. I hold myself back from doing it because she is having fun anyway.

I taught her how to take CD's and DVD's out of the cases, how to hold them, and how to load them into the Sony Playstation 2. Her fingers got on the bottom of one and we got a message asking us to put in an authentic Sony PS1 or Sony PS2 disc. I took the disc out and rubbed my shirt on the surface. It was running fine after that.

Most of my games are not kid-safe, so I may have to look into some cheap games that will entertain her when she visits.

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Exporting to WordPress

Since I had worked on a project involving the Atom API, I already have all of the data on my local computer from my blogger.com account. WordPress provides a few standard APIs over XML-RPC. This is great because I also have some code laying around to interface with it.

I've gotten all of my posts exported into a test environment at home. I have been noticing that the dates are not always rite. I've also had problems navigating pages in the month view of the archives. It keeps wanting to go to the main index page rather then the month archive.

I spent most of today working on categories. Since I had tagged most of my posts with Technorati tags, I was able to use them to determine what category the post should go in. I got a little carried away with the categories and now I'm trying to consolidate them into more generic categories to compact the list.

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WordPress Troubleshooting

I'm digging more and more into WordPress. Today I changed my permalink structure to use the mod_rewrite functionality. This helps me keep the same structure of my URLs that appear on blogger. As soon as I saved my changes, my entire site gave me errors.

I downloaded the source code for options-permalink.php in the administration folder and saw that it was writing to the .htaccess file. I can't see this file in my WS_FTP client, so I had to go to the command line of DOS and type the simple acronym "FTP".
ftp] open
To lewismoten.com
Connected to lewismoten.com.
220 ProFTPD FTP Server ready.
User (lewismoten.com:(none)): xxxxx
331 Password required for xxxxx.
Password:
230 User xxxxx logged in.
ftp] cd /var/www/html
250 CWD command successful
ftp] recv
Remote file .htaccess
Local file c:\htaccess.txt
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for .htaccess (3660 bytes)
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 3704 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 3704000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp] send
Local file c:\htaccess.txt
Remote file .htaccess
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for .htaccess
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 3706 bytes sent in 0.00Seconds 3706000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp] bye
221 Goodbye.
So looking at that .htaccess file, I saw that WordPress changed my original text from "ErrorDocument 404 /404.php" to "ErrorDOcument 404 /404.php# BEGIN WordPress". There was a lot of stuff that it added regarding the RewriteEngine, but my concern was focused on that first line.

It changed the "o" in document to upper-case, and appended a comment rite off of the end of my URL. I separated it into two lines and restored the ErrorDocument keyword back to its original state. After uploading the file back onto the site, everything worked fine.

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Music to my ears

Ever since I got my free iPod, I've been rating all of the songs that I have imported from my CD's. I currently have 3291 songs in my library, so you can imagine why it took me so long.

Following is a list of 325 songs that I gave my highest rating on. I built the list using an XSL stylesheet on an exported XML playlist. More details can be found on the following article Convert your iTunes Library XML into HTML.

Name Artist Album Genre
The Perfect Drug Nine Inch Nails Lost Highway Soundtrack
I Put A Spell On You Marilyn Manson Lost Highway Soundtrack
Technologic Daft Punk Human After All Electronic
Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? Moby The Next Best Thing Soundtrack
Groove Therapy Universal LTJ Bukem Presents Logical Progression Electronica & Dance
Born Slippy (NUXX) Underworld Y2K - Beat the Clock Electronic
Something Like a Mama Underworld Beaucoup Fish Electronic
Jumbo Underworld Beaucoup Fish Electronic
Phosphorella Trance to the Sun Venomous Eve Rock
Ballet - Dancer Sven Väth The Harlequin - The Robot and the Ballet-dancer Electronica & Dance
Parallel Life The Starseeds Parallel Life Ambient
Pontus Siddal Kindred Spirits Rock
So Long Seb & Lo-tec LTJ Bukem Presents Logical Progression Electronica & Dance
Wild Poe Haunted Rock
Ultraworld Probe Six - Perpetual Dawn The Orb The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld Electronic
High Energy Protons (Orion Mix) Juno Reactor Bible of Dreams Dance
Children Of The Night Juno Reactor Bible of Dreams Dance
Komit Juno Reactor Bible of Dreams Dance
Conga Fury Juno Reactor Bible of Dreams Dance
Jardin De Cecile Juno Reactor Bible of Dreams Dance
Airtight Remix Funky Technicians LTJ Bukem Presents Logical Progression Electronica & Dance
Back to the rivers of belief Enigma MCMXC a.D. Native American
Yulunga Dead Can Dance Toward The Within Gothic
Indus Dead Can Dance Spiritchaser Gothic
Dead Man Walking David Bowie EART HL I NG Rock
Busy Child The Crystal Method Y2K - Beat the Clock Electronic
To Die For The Birthday Massacre Nothing And Nowhere Gothic Rock
Drippy Banco De Gaia Pi Soundtrack Dance
Tha Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Ambient
Gentle People / Journey (Aphex Twin Care Mix) Aphex Twin 26 Mixes for Cash Electronic
The Iron Helix Xorcist The Disease of Lady Madeline Gothic
Track09
Ambient Mix 2 Ambient
Ever After Underflowers Underflowers Rock
Kleine Schwester (Scharfer Zahn remake) Umbra et Imago Call On The Dark Gothic
Falling in Love Ultracherry Violet Kindred Spirits Rock
With or Without You U2 The Joshua Tree Rock
I Still haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 The Joshua Tree Rock
Where the Streets Have No Name U2 The Joshua Tree Rock
Overcome Tricky The Official Movie Soundtrack Strange Days Electronic
Admire This Ascension Kindred Spirits Rock
Burning Down the House Talking Heads Stop Making Sense Pop
Nas Ne Dogoniat t.A.T.u. 200 KMpH In The Wrong Lane Pop
Not Gonna Get Us t.A.T.u. 200 KMpH In The Wrong Lane Pop
Clown Switchblade Symphony Serpentine Gallery Gothic Rock
Bad Trash Switchblade Symphony Serpentine Gallery Gothic Rock
Clown Switchblade Symphony Kindred Spirits Rock
Soldiers Switchblade Symphony Bread and Jam for Frances Rock
Wallflower Switchblade Symphony Gothic Rock Gothic Rock
Deus The Sugarcubes The Great Crossover Potential Rock
Birthday The Sugarcubes The Great Crossover Potential Rock
This Charm Strange Boutique Kindred Spirits Rock
Subspace Radio Signals The Starseeds Parallel Life Ambient
Heavensairportcoffeeshoprestaurant The Starseeds Parallel Life Ambient
Sonne Mond und Sterne The Starseeds Parallel Life Ambient
Timequakes The Starseeds Parallel Life Ambient
Behind the Sun The Starseeds Parallel Life Ambient
Slower than You Think Sparrow Orange Hands and Knees Music Ambient
Liquid Shy Sparrow Orange Hands and Knees Music Ambient
I Remember It All Sparrow Orange Hands and Knees Music Ambient
time baby ii
The Crow Soundtrack
dead souls soundtrack the crow Rock
burn soundtrack the crow Rock
Iris Goo Goo Dolls City Of Angels Soundtrack
If God Will Send His Angels U2 City Of Angels Soundtrack
Soma Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream Other
Cherub Rock Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream Other
Farewell And Goodnight Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Twilight To Starlight) Rock
By Starlight Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Twilight To Starlight) Rock
Beautiful Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Twilight To Starlight) Rock
We Only Come Out At Night Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Twilight To Starlight) Rock
1979 Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Twilight To Starlight) Rock
Candle Skinny Puppy The Process Rock
Rivers Skinny Puppy Rabies Industrial
Riverz End Skinny Puppy Last Rights Industrial
Deadlines Skinny Puppy Brap: Back and Forth Rock
Double Cross Skinny Puppy Brap: Back and Forth Rock
Flesh In My Veins (feat. Peter Field) Silke Bischoff Call On The Dark Gothic
The Passion of Lovers The Shroud The Passion of Covers: A Tribute to Bauhaus Gothic Rock
Witness Sarah McLachlan Surfacing Rock
Adia Sarah McLachlan Surfacing Rock
Sweet Surrender Sarah McLachlan Surfacing Rock
I Love You Sarah McLachlan Surfacing Rock
Building A Mystery Sarah McLachlan Surfacing Rock
Walk This Way Run DMC Entertainment Weekly Greatest Hits Of 1986 Rock/Pop
Godstar 94 Psychic Television Time's Up (Best OV Psychic TV) Psychedelic
Just Like Arcadia Psychic Television Time's Up (Best OV Psychic TV) Psychedelic
Lady Maybe (Dub Me Maybe Mix) Psychic Television Cold Blue Torch Psychedelic
Out of Space The Prodigy Y2K - Beat the Clock Electronic
Hello Poe Hello Gothic
Hey Pretty Poe Haunted Rock
Not A Virgin Poe Haunted Rock
Walk The Walk Poe Haunted Rock
Control Poe Haunted Rock
Haunted Poe Haunted Rock
I Grieve Peter Gabriel City Of Angels Soundtrack
Coming Up Roses Owsley Brain Waves Alternative
Little Fluffy Clouds (Live From Washington DC '97) The Orb U.F.Off: The Best Of The Orb Electronic
earth orbit one - little fluffy clouds The Orb The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld Electronic
Bedouin The Orb Orblivion Electronic
I'm not in love Olive The Next Best Thing Soundtrack
Dread Rock Oakenfold The Matrix Reloaded Soundtrack
Kick It (dr. know mix) Nitzer Ebb Call On The Dark Gothic
Ringfinger Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine (Halo Two) Industrial
Down In It Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine (Halo Two) Industrial
Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? Moby Play Electronic
When It's Cold I'd Like to Die Moby Everything is Wrong Club
Whispers Mistle Thrush Kindred Spirits Rock
A Tout Le Monde Megadeth Youthanasia Hard Rock & Metal
Angel Massive Attack Pi Soundtrack Soundtrack
Dissolved Girl Massive Attack Mezzanine Trip-Hop
Angel Massive Attack Mezzanine Trip-Hop
I Put A Spell On You Marilyn Manson Smells Like Children Industrial
The last day on earth Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals Industrial
Mechanical animals Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals Industrial
This Is The New Shit Marilyn Manson The Matrix Reloaded Soundtrack
This life Mandalay The Next Best Thing Soundtrack
Eccentricity Magenta The Unquiet Grave Gothic
Shanti/Ashtangi Madonna Ray Of Light Pop
Ray Of Light Madonna Ray Of Light Pop
Drowned World/Substitute For Love Madonna Ray Of Light Pop
Vogue Madonna Dick Tracy- I'm Breathless Soundtrack
Time stood still Madonna The Next Best Thing Soundtrack
American pie Madonna The Next Best Thing Soundtrack
Kiss (Ra mix) London After Midnight Psycho Magnet Darkwave
Kiss London After Midnight Psycho Magnet Darkwave
The Carnival Is Over Leather Strip The Carnival Within Gothic Rock
Dark Entries Kill Switch...Klick The Passion of Covers: A Tribute to Bauhaus Gothic Rock
Soloution Ils & Solo Logical Progression Electronica & Dance
In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated Ikon The Carnival Within Gothic Rock
Blithe Spirit The Garden Kindred Spirits Rock
Liquid Separation Front Line Assembly Millennium Industrial
Motion Front 242 06:21:03:11 Up Evil Rock
Crushed (Obscene) Front 242 05:22:09:12 Off Industrial
Animal (Zoo) Front 242 05:22:09:12 Off Industrial
Crushed Front 242 05:22:09:12 Off Industrial
Modern Angel Front 242 05:22:09:12 Off Industrial
Everlong Foo Fighters The Colour And The Shape Alternative
February Stars Foo Fighters The Colour And The Shape Alternative
My Hero Foo Fighters The Colour And The Shape Alternative
Monkey Wrench Foo Fighters The Colour And The Shape Alternative
Cars Fear Factory Obsolete Heavy Metal
Sparks Faith and the Muse The Disease of Lady Madeline Gothic
Annwyn, Beneath The Waves Faith and The Muse Call On The Dark Gothic
Anywhere Is Enya The Memory of Trees New Age
Afer Ventus Enya Shepherd Moons New Age
Evacuee Enya Shepherd Moons New Age
Angeles Enya Shepherd Moons New Age
Caribbean Blue Enya Shepherd Moons New Age
Return To Innocence Enigma The CROSS Of Changes Rock
Prism Of Life Enigma Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! Native American
The Child In Us Enigma Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! Native American
Beyond The Invisible Enigma Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! Native American
Morphing Thru Time Enigma Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! Native American
Stan > Featuring Dido Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP Rap
My Dad's Gone Crazy (ft. Hailie Jade) Eminem The Eminem Show Rap
Apparition Sky Emeralde Feare The Unquiet Grave Gothic
Terror Couple Kill Colonel Eleven Shadows The Passion of Covers: A Tribute to Bauhaus Gothic Rock
Bela Lugosi's Dead The Electric Hellfire Club The Passion of Covers: A Tribute to Bauhaus Gothic Rock
Turn Up The Music Dr. Baker Trance In Your Mind Dance
Anywhere out of this world Deep Red The Carnival Within Gothic Rock
Forest Hymn Deep Forest Deep Forest New Age
White Whisper Deep Forest Deep Forest New Age
Boheme Deep Forest Boheme Electronic
Twosome Deep Forest Boheme Electronic
Marta's Song Deep Forest Boheme Electronic
Cantara Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun Gothic
Xavier Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun Gothic
In the Wake of Adversity Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun Gothic
Anywhere Out of the World Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun Gothic
Don't Fade Away Dead Can Dance Toward The Within Gothic
Sanvean Dead Can Dance Toward The Within Gothic
Song Of The Sibyl Dead Can Dance Toward The Within Gothic
Cantara Dead Can Dance Toward The Within Gothic
American Dreaming Dead Can Dance Toward The Within Gothic
Rakim Dead Can Dance Toward The Within Gothic
Ullyses Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg Gothic
In The Kingdom Of The Blind The One-eyed Are Kings Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg Gothic
Severance Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg Gothic
Avatar Dead Can Dance Spleen and Ideal Gothic
Advent Dead Can Dance Spleen and Ideal Gothic
Enigma of the Absolute Dead Can Dance Spleen and Ideal Gothic
Song of the Nile Dead Can Dance Spiritchaser Gothic
Song of the Dispossessed Dead Can Dance Spiritchaser Gothic
The Carnival Is Over Dead Can Dance Into The Labyrinth Gothic
The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove Dead Can Dance Into The Labyrinth Gothic
The Arcane Dead Can Dance Dead Can Dance Gothic
In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated Dead Can Dance Dead Can Dance Gothic
East of Eden Dead Can Dance Dead Can Dance Gothic
Fortune Dead Can Dance Dead Can Dance Gothic
Black Sun Dead Can Dance Aion Gothic
Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book Dead Can Dance Aion Gothic
In the Kingdom of the Blind the One-Eyed are Kings Dead Can Dance A Passage in Time Gothic
Anywhere out of the World Dead Can Dance A Passage in Time Gothic
Enigma of the Absolute Dead Can Dance A Passage in Time Gothic
Ullyses Dead Can Dance A Passage in Time Gothic
The Hearts Filthy Lesson David Bowie Outside Rock
As the World Falls Down David Bowie Labyrinth Soundtrack
Survive David Bowie Hours Rock
Thursday's Child David Bowie Hours Rock
Battle For Britain (The Letter) David Bowie EART HL I NG Rock
Little Wonder David Bowie EART HL I NG Rock
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Daft Punk Discovery Electronic
One More Time Daft Punk Discovery Electronic
Adrenaline The Curtain Society Kindred Spirits Rock
Treasure The Cure Wild Mood Swings Alternative
Return The Cure Wild Mood Swings Alternative
Mint Car The Cure Wild Mood Swings Alternative
Strange Attraction The Cure Wild Mood Swings Alternative
Other Voices The Cure Staring At The Sea (The Singles) Rock/Pop
One More Time The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Rock/Pop
Just Like Heaven The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Rock/Pop
The Kiss The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Rock/Pop
Closedown The Cure Disintegration Gothic
Plainsong The Cure Disintegration Gothic
Angel Of Night Crayon Death Johns Dad Heavy Metal
Gridlock Crayon Death Johns Dad Heavy Metal
We Got the Gun Clint Mansell Pi Soundtrack Soundtrack
Setting Sun (Radio Edit) The Chemical Brothers Setting Sun Techno
Setting Sun (Full Length Version) The Chemical Brothers Setting Sun Techno
If Only Born for Bliss Call On The Dark Gothic
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything Blade Fetish The Passion of Covers: A Tribute to Bauhaus Gothic Rock
How Can You Forget Love? Black Tape For A Blue Girl A Chaos Of Desire Gothic
Pandora's Box Black Tape For A Blue Girl A Chaos Of Desire Gothic
New World Björk Selmasongs Soundtrack
I've Seen It All Björk Selmasongs Soundtrack
Possibly Maybe Björk Post Rock
Enjoy Björk Post Rock
Hyper-ballad Björk Post Rock
Army Of Me Björk Post Rock
All Is Full Of Love Björk Homogenic Electronic
Bachelorette Björk Homogenic Electronic
Jóga Björk Homogenic Electronic
Hunter Björk Homogenic Electronic
Violet The Birthday Massacre Violet Gothic Rock
The Dream The Birthday Massacre Nothing And Nowhere Gothic Rock
Broken The Birthday Massacre Nothing And Nowhere Gothic Rock
Video Kid The Birthday Massacre Nothing And Nowhere Gothic Rock
Under The Stairs The Birthday Massacre Nothing And Nowhere Gothic Rock
Promise Me The Birthday Massacre Nothing And Nowhere Gothic Rock
Horror Show The Birthday Massacre Nothing And Nowhere Gothic Rock
Happy Birthday The Birthday Massacre Nothing And Nowhere Gothic Rock
California April's Motel Room Black 14 Alternative
Windowlicker Aphex Twin Windowlicker Electronic
Cliffs Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Ambient
Heliosphan Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Ambient
Cailin na Gruaige B ine Aoife Ni Fhearraigh Aoife Folklore
Sexy Boy Air Moon Safari New Age
Inn Underflowers Underflowers Rock
The Passportal Team Sleep The Matrix Reloaded Soundtrack
Athair as Neamh The Taliesin Orchestra - Charles Sayre, conductor Orinoco Flow - The Music of Enya New Age
Ya Soshla S Uma t.A.T.u. 200 KMpH In The Wrong Lane Pop
All The Things She Said t.A.T.u. 200 KMpH In The Wrong Lane Pop
Gutter Glitter Switchblade Symphony Serpentine Gallery Gothic Rock
Rus'ti-ca'tion Sparrow Orange Hands and Knees Music Ambient
after the flesh soundtrack the crow Rock
Angel Sarah McLachlan City Of Angels Soundtrack
Disarm Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream Other
Cult Skinny Puppy The Process Rock
Angel Sarah McLachlan Surfacing Rock
Good Vibrations (7" Version) Psychic Television Time's Up (Best OV Psychic TV) Psychedelic
Godstar (7" Mix) Psychic Television Time's Up (Best OV Psychic TV) Psychedelic
Angry Johnny Poe Hello Gothic
Toxygene (Edit) Orb Y2K - Beat the Clock Electronic
Porcelain Moby Play Electronic
Boom Boom BA Metisse The Next Best Thing Soundtrack
Bongo Bong Manu Chao The Next Best Thing Soundtrack
Imagine John Lennon The John Lennon Collection Rock
Athair Ar Nearmh Enya The Memory of Trees New Age
I Want Tomorrow Enya The Celts New Age
Marble Halls Enya Shepherd Moons New Age
Shepherd Moons Enya Shepherd Moons New Age
Marble Halls Enya Paint The Sky With Stars (The Best Of ) New Age
Shepherd Moons Enya Paint The Sky With Stars (The Best Of ) New Age
Opening Titles Including Underground David Bowie Labyrinth Soundtrack
Close To Me The Cure Staring At The Sea (The Singles) Rock/Pop
In-Between Days The Cure Staring At The Sea (The Singles) Rock/Pop
2 Pi r Clint Mansell Pi Soundtrack Soundtrack
Spoon Cibo Matto Brain Waves Rock
Toxic Britney Spears In The Zone Pop
Jamming Bob Marley & The Wailers Exodus Reggae
The Modern Things Björk Post Rock
Human Behaviour Björk Debut Rock
Wishful Thinking Underflowers Underflowers Rock
Today Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream Other
Acid F*cker Silent Breed Banging the Box House
Elysium Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard Gladiator Soundtrack
Animal (Guide) Front 242 05:22:09:12 Off Industrial
Tea-House Moon [Instrumental] Enya The Memory of Trees New Age
Book Of Days Enya Shepherd Moons New Age
Break On Through Doors The Best of the Doors Psychedelic
I Can See Now Dead Can Dance Toward The Within Gothic
Chains Of Color Black Tape For A Blue Girl A Chaos Of Desire Gothic
Unravel Björk Homogenic Electronic
Flim Aphex Twin Come To Daddy Industrial
Ainnir Dheas na gCiaghfholt Donn Aoife Ni Fhearraigh Aoife Folklore
Mephisto Walz Alle In Ashe Gothic Rock Gothic Rock
Ariadne Dead Can Dance Into The Labyrinth Gothic
Pi r Squared Clint Mansell Pi Soundtrack Soundtrack
You've Been Flirting Again Björk Post Rock
Breathe Telepopmusik Genetic World Electronic
Breathe (Extended Mix) Telepopmusik Genetic World Electronic
Smile Telepopmusik Genetic World Electronic
Don't Look Back Telepopmusik Angel Milk Electronic
Suzuki Tosca Suzuki Electronic
The Plug Bonobo Animal Magic Electronic
When 6 Loves 9 Only Child Ordered from the Catalogue Electronic
Cafe Coca De-Phazz Godsdog Electronic
Svefn G Englar Sigur Rós ( ) Alternative
One Too Many Mornings The Chemical Brothers Exit Planet Dust Electronic
Satisfaction Benny Benassi & The Biz Hypnotica Dance
I Love My Sex Benassi Bros. Hypnotica Dance
Take Me Away (Into the Night) 4 Strings Believe Electronic
Until You Love Me (The Essence Extended Mix) 4 Strings Ultra: iTrance 2 Dance
Yet Another Day (Original Mix) Armin van Buuren & Ray Wilson Ultra: iTrance 2 Dance
Me Plus One Annie Anniemal Electronic
Underpants Gnomes Remix
South Park Mixes Techno
Clocks Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head Alternative
Firestarter Prodigy
Alternative
I Put Myself Together Charles Brown Blues and Other Love Songs Blues
Only Nine Inch Nails With Teeth Alternative Rock
Purgatory A Covenant Of Thorns Hallowed & Hollow Gothic
Love Crooked Love A Covenant Of Thorns Hallowed & Hollow Gothic
Supergirl morticians
Pop
Tronce (Short Mix) Fabrik Nos
Dance
Elektronik Supersonik Zladko "Zlad" Vladcik
Electronic

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Using MySQL with .Net

Continuing research for porting my blog over to WordPress, I started learning how to interact with a MySQL database with C#. I lack experience with MySQL, so this would be a nice little project. At first, I was using an OleDb provider, but continued to get an error DB_E_NOTABLE (0x80040E37) when I tried to access longtext fields or blobs.

After stumbling many times over, I found that the MySQL development site had an article entitled Exploring MySQL in the Microsoft .NET Environment. In the article, Venu Anuganti states that MySQL doesn't officially support OleDb providers such as the MyOLEDB provider. Fortunately, ODBC was a recommended driver. I was able to download the MyODBC driver and install it without and problems. Running my little C# test, I was finally able to read text fields without any errors.

One other thing that I noticed is that I could add a database connection to VS.Net 2005 with both MyODBC and MyOLEDB. The Oledb provider would only show me tables and columns, and would complain about asynchronous connections every time I tried to access data. With MyOLEDB, I saw tables, views, and stored procedures as nodes and I was also able to see data within each table.

Here is a screen shot of my testing tool:



And here is some basic code that I use for it:
6 using System.Data;
7 using System.Data.Odbc;
8 using System.Diagnostics;
9 using System.Globalization;
...
109 private string ConnectionString
110 {
111 get
112 {
113 return string.Format(
114 CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
115 @"DRIVER={{MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver}};SERVER={0};DATABASE={1};UID={2};PASSWORD={3};OPTION=3",
116 this.Location, this.DataSource,
117 this.UserId, this.Password);
118 }
119 }
120 private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
121 {
122 OdbcConnection connection = null;
123 OdbcCommand command = null;
124 OdbcDataAdapter adapter = null;
125 DataSet data = null;
126 try
127 {
128 connection = new OdbcConnection(this.ConnectionString);
129 command = connection.CreateCommand();
130 command.CommandText = this.Sql;
131 adapter = new OdbcDataAdapter(command);
132 data = new DataSet();
133 adapter.Fill(data);
134 this.dataGrid1.DataSource = data;
135 }
136 catch(Exception ex)
137 {
138 MessageBox.Show(this, ex.Message);
139 }
140 finally
141 {
142 if(adapter != null)
143 adapter.Dispose();
144 if(command != null)
145 command.Dispose();
146 if(connection != null)
147 {
148 if(connection.State != ConnectionState.Closed)
149 connection.Close();
150 connection.Dispose();
151 }
152
153 }
154 }

I am hoping that my web hosting provider will permit me to access MySQL over the internet rather then restricting me to a local connection from the website itself. If I can reach the database, then I may be able to import blogger entries and haloscan comments without too many problems over to WordPress.

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The Rescheduled Lunch

A year ago, my coworker and I would have lunch together every day. It has been a long time since we last had lunch together. Lately, plans have been made only to be broken by unforeseen circumstances. Today was no different.

The lunch planned yesterday was rescheduled to today. Yesterdays plans were thwarted since the whole office was going to a Thai Restaurant. Today our plans were foiled again as it was someone's birthday. The party was supposed to start at noon, but the guest of honor didn't show up until a little later. It was a surprise party after all.

The party only involved a cake. After a half hour, I sneaked out. I had only a half hour before a meeting so I grabbed some lunch from the deli in our building. There really wasn't enough time to go out on our lunch break. We shall see what tomorrow brings.

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Preperation for moving day

I've decided to go with WordPress for my blogging platform. I wanted to test it out at home on one of my computers. I installed MySQL and PHP. I installed the MySQL Administrator to manage the MySQL database to create a user and then give them permission to access a database.

I downloaded WordPress and unzipped it into a directory. Visiting the web site on my local machine told me that MySQL wasn't available to PHP. I spent the next 3 hours debugging the PHP.ini file and googling for help. I tried the following:No matter what I would do, I would keep getting this error:
"Unable to load dynamic library 'c:\PHP\ext\php_mysql.dll'"

Finally I found an answer in a forum post by DoopyNL.
I've copyed the file libmysql.dll from the main php folder to \windows\system32 and the error went away and I could use the mysql functionality in PHP.
I found the file in php-5.0.5-Win32.zip and copied it to the directory. As soon as that was done, WordPress installed itself without any problems.

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The Possessed Radio

I had my own apartment in Moorefield, West Virginia back in 1996. Since I had a job from ten at night to six in the morning, I would sleep during the day. Sometimes this proved hard to do, as my radio was possessed.

In West Virginia, you run into all sorts of odd situations. Mine was due to computer illiteracy. You see, before the internet and even bulletin board systems for that matter, people would chat over CB (Citizens' band) Radio or Ham Radio (also known as Amateur Radio). Today we have the equivalent technologies being used over the internet such as voice chat and podcasting.

At my old apartment, I would hear a one-sided conversation of someone talking on a CB through my radios speakers. It did not matter if the radio was on or off - or even unplugged for that matter! This made it really hard for me to get to sleep even when I would attempt to muffle every speaker in the apartment.

From what I gather, the person on the CB was probably running so much power through there transmitter, that the FCC might raise an eyebrow. I suspect that it may have been the family living above me. I would sometimes hear children being allowed to talk, but it was usually a man and sometimes his wife.

The thing that I hated most about it was when they were looking for someone and just call out for them continuously.
Hey Cosmo!
You there Cosmo?
Cosmo are you there?
Anyone seen Cosmo?
Cosmo
Cosmo
Cosmo
Hey Cosmo!

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Left Behind

Yesterday, my co-worker and I agreed to have lunch today. Later in the day another coworker reminded me that I had agreed (last week?) to eat at a Thai restaurant with the rest of the office. I canceled plans with the first coworker and confirmed with the second that I would be eating at the Thai restaurant.

So today I notice it is 11:30 and I didn't know what time everyone would leave for lunch. I go in search for her and other individuals and discover that just about everyone has gone missing. I have no idea where this Thai Restaurant is.

I sent a message to the first coworker that I initially agreed to have lunch with saying "I think they forgot me". She came out of her office and gave me the bad news that she was already in the middle of her lunch since she had thought I was going to the restaurant.

Oh so sad.

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