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USB Aromatherapy Diffusers

31 July, 2007 06:20

The last couple of days I have come across a spectrum of essential oil diffusers powered by the little witches that live inside our computers:

Scented USB Keydrive 

This one is an aromatherapy key drive available in 128MB to 4GB of storage.  The fragrances are Strawberry, Orange, Grape, or Apple. 

 USB Stick Aromatherapy Diffuser

The diffuser above is a USB stick-pad type device in which you can put a drop of your favorite oil on it for your witch diffused fragrances. 

 Multi-setting aromatherapy diffuser

This device allows you to adjust the time, duration, and intensity of the applied oils.

 

The USB fragrance oil burner makes you feel pleasant and more relax at work.

 

I finaly found a perfect USB device for my aromatherapy hobby. This little guy uses leaf sized sponges for the application of essential oils, and a USB powered fan to difuse them.

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Evil Squirrel Thursday

26 July, 2007 12:14

Each Thursday I will try to present evidence of squirrel conspiracies and unfold the true nature of there social circle.

The Bushy Tailed Rat web site proves, with evidence, that all squirrels are indeed evil and gives pictorial representation for the reasons why.

IT IS MY BELIEF THAT ALL SQUIRRELS ARE EVIL.  I HAVE CREATED THIS PAGE TO WARN THE PUBLIC.  MANY PEOPLE THINK THAT SQUIRRELS ARE CUTE, BUT I HAVE FACTS THAT PROVE THEY ARE VERY DANGEROUS.  I HAVE NOT POSTED THIS TO SCARE, MY ONLY INTENTION IS TO INFORM AND WARN.

The picture above is featured on this site proving that while not cutely begging for scraps, the Bushy Tailed Rat is secretly involving themselves with alchohol and tobacco.  -- More to come next Thursday. 

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Three Rivers Trail

22 July, 2007 14:14

I took a small hike this morning down to the Mississippi and back up towards town on the Three Rivers Trail.

On the way down the path I ran into this comfy bench where I laid my head down for a rest.

For some reason I had a funny feeling in my stomach.  After searching for a reason why, my eyes came across a GPS equipped spy squirrel. 

Just like one of the 14 implike squirrels that were arrested by Iranian authorities for espionage. 

Random Thought : In the diffuser: 10 drops Bergamot, 4 drops Sage, 4 drops Indian Vetiver, set on low to spew throughout the day.

A year ago I was writing:

GoDaddy, I am impressed

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man throws computer out window

18 July, 2007 12:39

We have all been there.  Some hurl there computer through walls, out windows, or like myself most often gives it a good kick to show all the little witches living inside who is boss.

In Germany the police were called to an apartment complex with complaints of a loud crashing noise.  When they arrived, they found electronic monkey gadgetry spewed along the complex's parking lot.

The reason for the man plummeting the box out his window was frustration, enough said.  The police sympathized and all that was asked was the cleaning up of the once semi-functional pieces of the computer.

Just like the scene in Office Space where the gang of office gangstas destroyed the printer that gave them the most frustration, this man probably had all the right and reasonability to give the machine a whoop ass.  I know I have thought of it many times.  To be more precise, we have a high bluff not too far from my place in which I have imagined dropping what should be subserviant pieces of machinery down the side, hitting a few trees, and proving a point to the gadgetry gods.  Not even Dina would be able to save it from my wrath. 

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string theory

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ditched apache, moved to lighttpd with fastcgi-php and my lifetype, gallery, and other configuration parameters for the move

14 July, 2007 18:42

The default installation of my dedicated server OS was not serving my specific needs and was rather bloated in the sense of default available services and mechanisms used to configure them.  I have slowly been tightening things down a bit, and today I completed the transition from Apache to lighttpd and fastcgi with PHP as my web services provider.

With this move, I can focus more on necessity rather than shuffle through the extremities of a more complicated system, thus personalizing the web service.

For virtual hosts, lighttpd provides two modules to choose from: mod_evhost and mod_simple_vhost.  I chose mod_evhost as it allowed me to use regular expressions when defining virtual host paths.  So in my case I defined the paths with $server_root/domainname.com/subdomain with the root domain and subdomain web files located in public_html.

evhost.path-pattern        = "/server_root/%0/%3/public_html/"

My next step was to insure LifeType and Gallery 2 would run properly.  To do this, I would need the mod_rewrite and mod_redirect modules.

With my LifeType installation I needed a way to redirect my custome URL's which was accomplished with Apache's redirection to blog.php.  I also needed bind http error handling to error.php.  These are the two decelerations I used to accomplish this:

url.rewrite-once = ("^/blog/.*" => "/blog.php")
server.error-handler-404   = "/error.php"

 Also make sure to define your document root that is relative to your LifeType installation.

server.document-root        = "/server_root/public_html/"

I then copied my LifeType installation over to my lighttpd document directory.  That was all there was to it.

For Gallery 2 I needed to edit config.php and change the data.gallery.base variable to the appropriate new root of the copied installation.

I also changed the mod_rewrite SQL variable to 0 for inactive.  I am not sure if this was necessary to keep my search engine friendly URLS, but I did not test if it was.  In any case, I used the following lighttpd rewrite declerations to keep these good looking resource locations:

  url.rewrite = (
      "^/pics/v/(\?.+|\ .)?$" => "/pics/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem",
      "^/pics/admin/.(.*)" => "/pics/main.php?g2_view=core.SiteAdmin&$1",
      "^/pics/d/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/([^\/]+)(\?|\ )?(.*)$" => "/pics/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=$1&g2_ser$
      "^/pics/v/([^?]+)(\?|\ )?(.*)$" => "/pics/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_path=$1&$3",
      "^/pics/c/add/(.*).html" => "/pics/main.php?g2_view=comment.AddComment&g2_itemId=$1",
      "^/pics/c/view/(.*).html" => "/pics/main.php?g2_view=comment.ShowAllComments&g2_itemId=$1"
   )

Make sure to replace /pics/ with the directory of your copied Gallery 2 installation.

This was the basics of the transfer.  Feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions or want to discuss the procedure I used. 

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C# in Visual Studio with mono and GTK# bindings, along with my essential oil purchase drool

10 July, 2007 01:20

I might have mentioned here before that I was contemplating developing a couple application ideas using C#..  Last weekend I started to dig into my shinny new C# book which had been sitting in a box for a good four months.  I am finally putting my VS 2005 license to some use, that of which I had no use for before.

Those who know me might have found it strange of me to use C# instead of a more established, or more portable I should say language.  My decision was mostly because of the mono project and it's GTK# bindings.  This will give me a couple choices when porting my applications to the platforms I use most often.

This is no small project.  These classes are extensive and HUGE, but I am confident I will get the hang of the GUI programming libraries, GDK included.  I have all the bindings installed in Visual Studio and am ready to go.  The last few days I have been reviewing basic structure and exploring some of the provided mono/system functionality.

 

I received my essential oils today, Frankincense, Bergamot, and Sage.  I have only purchased Sage once before, so the vial I had was all I had known about the aroma.  I purchased it at a co-op and I was rather disappointed when I realized I had been missing out on a good quality Sage.  What I do is mix 2:1 Bergamot to a little less than half Sage and diffuse it in a ultrasonic nebulizer.  Diffusing this blend helps make my day a little better.

The Bergamot smells delicious, literally.  I need to use up my batch I previously purchased, which I don't have much of.  That is a hard thing to do since a fresh new bottle of essential oil is like heaven.

The Frankincense essential oil I consider precious and I use very little of it at a time.  It is a powerfull resin with the ability to cross the blood brain bearior.

[Software] [Aromatherapy]
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dock any application to the system tray

09 July, 2007 23:14

I use an old 5.5 version of VMWARE workstation that I wanted to run in the background, start minimized, or dock to the system tray.  The command line does not have a --minimize, that I am aware of.  I started a synaptic search and came across AllTray.

Alltray allows you to dock ANY application, no matter if the tray feature is not provided in the application.

With AllTray you can dock any application with no native tray icon (like Evolution, Thunderbird, Terminals) into the system tray. A high-light feature is that a click on the "close" button will minimize back to system tray.  It works well with Gnome,  KDE,  XFCE 4*, Fluxbox* and WindowMaker*

*no drag 'n drop support .

AllTray - dock any application with no native tray icon

This is one of those applications I was living without, but wish I had known about earlier.

http://alltray.sourceforge.net/

A year ago I was writing:

Picture of Dina

back home on the 4th

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integrated Linux and Windows desktop environment

06 July, 2007 19:40

Thanks to a tutorial on VentureCake, I was able to integrate my gnome desktop with Windows XP explorer for a seamless multi OS desktop environment.

The requirments for this trickery include VMWARE, rdesktop, SeamlessRDP, and XP PRO.  Here is a screenshot of my desktop with Internet Explorer 7 and explorer running along side my Linux desktop applications:

Ubuntu Linux, VMWare, rdesktop, SeamlessRDP, and Windows XP PRO: makes for one kick ass integrated linux + windows desktop!

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