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After a long time “waiting” (I really didn’t care that much) Wordpress 2.5 is out and trisweb.com is running it. The upgrade went as smooth as any previous one and it’s been very nice to use so far. The admin redesign is beautiful (surprised me, even) and all is working well.

It’s been a very long time since I’ve posted anything here, but I’ve been very busy with my startup and everything else. I’m currently in Boston with my business partner coding away, we’re making huge progress, and I’m more and more confident that it’s going to be the ‘next big thing’ for our market, and indeed maybe a paradigm shift for enterprise software in general. Time will tell, but it takes a lot for me to be confident in an implementation, and I’m finally seeing it come together.

Other things that have been going on… hmm. Zenphoto development is as hot as ever. If you haven’t checked out the latest versions or the new site, now’s the time to upgrade.

Speaking of Zenphoto and Wordpress, despite Wordpress’ having some decent new photo management features in 2.5, I think a Wordpress+Zenphoto plugin to integrate with the new “Add image” pane would be great. I’ll look into it and see if it’s plausible.

Well, this is my april fool’s post then I suppose. I’m not really posting, it’s just a joke. Happy Spring!

Ever gone in a public restroom and seen one of those new-fangled sensor-activated automatic devices? They range from toilet flushing to soap dispensing and everything in-between these days, but some of them make more sense than others. Here’s my analysis.

1. Automatic Sinks – Marginal Usefulness. People touch the sink fixtures before and after hand washing. Before doesn’t matter, because you wash your hands just after turning on the sink, but generally having to turn off the water means there’s risk of post-washing contamination. There are ways to turn off most normal sinks after hands-washing by means of arms, elbows, or feet, so this isn’t a complete necessity, but is still very useful. Also, these save water by only being on when used. Kudos.

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Don’t forget to head to your local 7-11 and pick up a free slurpie! Because it’s 7/11 you know. Though I did hear you only get a dixie cup’s worth (or about 7.11 oz, I think they’re trying to be funny). Anyway it’s still a good excuse to go get a slurpie and get 10% more for your money.

I just returned from a business trip to Montana, I’ll be posting pictures and stuff soon. I’ve got a lot to catch up on…

Lots of stuff been going on with me recently, best covered in list form:

• I took a small vacation last weekend and went Kayaking on Folsom Lake. It was fun. Much more upper-body exercise than I normally get


• I thought of a fun little new site and I need some opinions on it—it would be a repository of CSS style sheets that work with any well-formed XHTML page without modification. Real simple, real useful. Tell me what you think.


• Zenphoto 1.0.9 should be out soon, it just needs more testing. Check out the SVN and get to work! After that it should be no more than a couple months before 1.1 is fully ready, finally. Whew.


• My new computer is awesome. It’s incredible to have 2GB of RAM and practically never run out. I am satisfied.


• I got a featured picture on Wikipedia! Sweet!


• Anyone know of any good albums out recently? I’m getting tired of what I’ve been listening to and need something new…

Yep. That’s pretty much it. More interesting reading later!

I’m a little late to the game, but that’s what the holidays do to you I suppose. Matt and Jason at Slicehost have tagged me in this, so here’s five things you probably don’t know about me…

1. I raised guinea pigs for 4-H when I was really young (though I was mostly in it for the Computer group).


2. I was a partner in a failed startup about a year ago. Some good ideas there (and some bad ones), but it didn’t work out whatsoever.


3. I’m trying again now with another startup and a more concrete piece of software. This one is much more promising.


4. My third home is a small island in the middle of the Tuolumne river in Yosemite National Park. No, not literally…


5. I like girly music, chick flicks, and cuteoverload.com.

There you have it. Happy new year! More thoughts on 2006/7 later.

Oh, and while I’m at it, check out slicehost if you’re looking for a great VPS host. So far I’ve been incredibly happy with the product and the people behind it. Wonderful company and a perfect example of how to do it right. I’ll be switching my domains as soon as I have my email server set up (fun!).

Okay, so this is so sweet I had to share it. Brag about it. Whatever. It’s my blog, so you get to hear the sweetness.

I have Fridays and Tuesdays off (no class) because I switched out of stupid philosophy with stupid boring professor from stupid Stanfurd. Nuff said. Today (Thursday) I have one little discussion section from 10-11, and nothing else. Monday is a holiday.

Put it all together, and I’ve got a five day weekend starting today. I don’t have to go back to school until Wednesday. And I’m turning 21 on Saturday! Oh, happy birthday to me, I have been blessed by the gods of scheduling.

I know you’re all thinking, “Good! He’ll have time to finish zenphoto!” Yeah, I’m thinking that too. But gimme a little break for my 21st.

Also, after much much more listening, Death Cab’s Plans continues to be excellent. It’s one of those albums I just can’t stop listening to. Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens is also amazing; actually better than Plans, I think, but they’re both great.

My site is the top hit on Google for exactly 75 ‘u’s in a row. It’s because of some lengthened expletive I wrote on a bad day some years ago, but I don’t know why Google chose to give me the position for 75 u’s… 74 and 76 go somewhere else.

Someone searched for it and found me, so whoever you are, I hope you found what you were looking for… whatever that was…

(They were probably drunk…)