You are 36% geek

You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator. Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend. You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You’ll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines! Geek [to You]: I’m givin’ her all she’s got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals! You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

This is pretty cool:

Roll your own barcode. Encode any arbitrary string as a UPC with the barcode generator. Link Discuss (via Everything Isn’t)

[Boing Boing Blog

The barcode for my site was quite long:

Fran Lebowitz. “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” [Quotes of the Day]

Software toys at least. Last night I finally got off my ass and sucked down mysql, the latest php, and phpMyAdmin. Now my laptop is all set up to do development work. This is nice because it means I can work on stuff no matter where I am, even if it in a cafe or something.

This was one of my reasons for getting laptop in the first place. I wanted to be able to work on web stuff on it. OS X has been so wonderful for this too. Everything has worked wonderfully, even MySQL.

Following links from Lyn’s page I found a great post by someone about “Spirited Away” that mentioned it is being released in the states on September 30th. There were also a few links to articles and reviews of the movie posted.

I highly recommend you go check this out if you like animation at all. As I think I said before, I enjoyed this much more then Princess Mononoke and think it is probably within the top 3 or 4 of the Miyazaki films I’ve seen.

Lyn has a great post about Saikano:

Saikano (Saishuu Heiki Kanojo) is breaking my heart. I’ve only seen four episodes so far, and it’s already one of my favorite anime. I can’t tell you what it’s about, exactly, but let’s just say it lulls you into thinking that it’s a sweet and realistic study of adolescent relationships, and then it punches you in the stomach. Hard.

I have to agree. I watched the fourth episode about 12 hours before she did and it really wiped me out. I wish they’d get episodes out a tiny bit faster. On another note. I also saw the second episode of Mao-Chan and it went to the other side of things and made me smile lots.

This morning I woke up early and went into work to pick up my old stuff and drop off my keys. Thankfully, my coworkers had packed everything up for me except my books, since they weren’t sure which were mine.

So I now feel a little bit of a sense of closure with all this. I’m finally able to focus more on things that need to be done. I’ll hopefully be doing a little consulting work while I look for a new job. Thanks those of you who have sent me words of support and event sent me news on possible jobs. It’s helped my sanity quite a bit.

Radio Free Blogistan there’s an entry about archive navigation:

One Movable Type feature I really like is the back and forward links built into the standard template. Since I generally have many posts per day, I’m only showing three days right now on my home page. I’d like it if at the bottom of the page there were always a link to the previous day/post. That shouldn’t be so hard to do, right? [Radio Free Blogistan]

This is something I’d love to see, as well as a better handling of going back to a specific month. I’d love to see an index.html at each level of the archives. One for the year would list all the months that have posts (or maybe just redirect you to the first post of the year). And one for each month that would redirect you to the first post for that month. It would make things so much friendlier I think.

I wonder how often daypop crawls things, and if it crawls all the sites it knows at once. If so it could keep track of when it first sees a link, and then when it sees that link on other sites too and show some kind of chronological sequence to a link flowing from blog to blogs.

A friend of mine pointed me at GoBlogs – Tech Goddess. And it looks to be a feed from The Shifted Librarian. Pretty neat!