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07/23/2005 03:22 #32121

Post Programming Painting
Category: design
I had a great day solving this problem that was making me batty and decided it was time to paint something.

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We were gonna go go out butthen we read the flyer and found out it would have been $30 but the three of us to go. Maybe we'll go out again in the fall, lol.

07/23/2005 21:09 #32120

This might look familiar - nokia fix
Category: programming
I stole this image off of (e:shawnr)'s mobile blog

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I was going to make a derivitive work but it was against his license, lol. Anyways, the real reason this is here is to prove that I fixed the nokia picture phone bug. After hours of studying the jpeg format and playing with a hex editor, I wrote a nice PHP class to test for and fix images from certain nokia phones that write bad jpegs. Shame on you nokia for making such nonsense files. Basically any open source program that was based on a certaing jpeg library could not deal well with them including GIMP and GD, as well as, many other programs. At least now people with mobile blogs can use there nokia pics again! You can find it in p:labs if you need a copy yourself.
shawnr - 07/23/05 21:09
bravo to paul. we all bow to your gnawledge.

07/22/2005 21:21 #32119

Searching the web
Category: web
Has anyone seen google directories before, I somehow had missed them completely.

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This totally revolutionizes the way you surf the web.

I am hopelessly working on a jpeg fixing filter for some corrupt jpegs from a cell phone. WHile I was poking around at the structure of a jpeg file I found this windows command-line program that strips out meta-data from jpegs. I ran it on a photoshop saved jpeg and it took 10k off the image. Thats a lot of extraneous data.

Here are some important magic numbers for file types



ajay - 07/22/05 21:21
"Google Directory" is not Google's; it is the DMOZ project, :::link::: . Credit where credit's due.... ;)
uncutsaniflush - 07/22/05 19:31
Paul, the link that I use for Google Directory is :::link:::

The link you provided didn't work for me.

07/22/2005 15:18 #32118

painting the property
Category: renting
We got the giant retractable painting poll. It extends to 12 feet.
So I will be three stories up dangling from a rope weilding a giant
retractable poll? This landlording job seems more dangerous everyday.

So the remaining question remains what color. We decided to consult
with (e:matthew) about that first. They have this machine at home depot
that can take real life objects and tell you what color they are to find
the paint color you need. It judged terry to be deep topaz. It was
about the color of strong chai mixed with chocolate milk. For those of
you that have seen (e:terry), you can appreciate how poor that machine
judges color.


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07/22/2005 13:42 #32117

at skybar and mcmonkees
Category: downtown
This was from last night, apparently, I was too drunk on chippewa to operate the sidekick. So the journal arrives now.

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I can't believe I'm here at McMonkies. Luckily (e:julie), (e:mike), (e:amanda) and (e:terry) are here. Three for one drinksOn Thursday! You order one and you get three automatically for $3.50 (e:amanda) said once before she knew she ordered 3 and got 9. I would die. 6 is enough for me now, I actually had to put one down.

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Where is (e:southernyankee) when you need her. So I am desperate for a cigarettes and no one has one but there are like 10,000 cell phones all blinking and lighting up. It almost looks like cigarettes. This bar is mega crowded.

They are having a ladies hot body contest for a $50 bartab. For some reason going out makes me miss cassie. Maybe I will call her tomorrow. She does just live right down the street.

I saw Aaron from our electronics class. He works at Jade and said we should come out on Friday night for house music. I'm down with that.