Exercised, showered, shaved and washed the dishes. Now, at last, I can do something

here i am

sitting at winebarsf. it's been terrible. nothing has been saving - even locally. yikes!

well, at last, something is working: blogger.com. even google docs offline was not working.

so here i am on blogger. there is no control S. and I have to scroll down to save. thren go to the manager and then come back. wordpress.com is much friendlier. but then again, this is working.

takes your choices.


so i was meant to be writing for artofthenet - on internet bios - biornet -
interbio - webio - autowebio - webiography << yes that's the one!


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back in blogger after WP

does this autosave? not sure. difficult to comparewith wordpress. the big disappointment is google docs. couldn't work offline on my Eee PC for reasons i do not understand.

this cannot save on a control S. Hello what are you supposed to do?

tags but no categories here. lot's of small diffs. which is better. blogger or wordpress. very not easy.

both WP and Blogger versions saved. three glasses of wine. time to go home.

Le Quatorze Juillet! Vive La France!

Sundaying quietly at home. Morning exercises done. Reading the news half-way done. Soon it'll be time to define what this day will be about.

Add This: http://tinyurl.com/6lgyzk

Driving down with Alex and Marissa to Nikki's 21st birthday party

Eating a vegetables with pasta sauce lunch - having exercised, blogged and scanned old data. Yay!

Home Exercises

I'm writing this while sitting at my desk - sweating. OK, it is fairly hot in here. Thermometer says 77 F /25 C degrees. But really I'm sweating because of forty five minutes of exercising quite hard. This is the eighth time I have subjugated myself to a home exercise program. I am over one quarter of the way to 28 days of home exercise. People say that if you do something for 28 days then it becomes a habit. What started as a resolution becomes routine. Twenty eight days is sort of a month with a few times missing. Not perfect but doable. Anyway who decided on the 28 days (or one month as other say) anyway?  Got to look that up.

There are several reasons for home exercise rather than classes  - such as the Pilates classes that I have been taking  at my Golden Gateway Tennis and Swim Club since 2001. First is that I can't seem to make my classes travel to France and elsewhere with me. I can't do classes in San Francisco and home exercise while I'm on the road. At least I have not been able to do this in the past. Even with the best of intentions, my home exercising on the road has only lasted for one or two rather desultory sessions. My hope is that I will soon be so acclimated to my home exercises that It will naturally follow that I continue the routine while traveling. Knock on wood.

I'm out of the stuck elevator. After a while the doorlock released and I was able to pull open year door. I'm on tram on way home.

Stuck in an elevator at UCSF. A lady said she would call for help.

Somebody thinks my eyes are pretty. My eye doctor wants to take pictures of them. Going to his office.

Going home after long dinner. Diana said 7 to me and 8 to Ken. Anyway venison chili was delicious.

Going for dinner at Big Four with Diana and Ken.

Going for a cup of coffee at MoMo's with Philip and Helen.

Three things I'd like to see

1. De-criminalize drug usage

2. Re-purpose the military

3. Fix education and health???

3. More power to the States.

What are the very biggest over-arching objectives for the future?

encourage more smaller companies. family companies like in China? break up the military industrial complex.

Fog is rolling in - very dense. Time to do my laundry.

Still scanning thousands of pages of old paper notes and files.

2008-07-03

More scanning of old files. I've scanned thousands of pages in the last few days. Mostly personal notes and files from the 1990s. Lots of memories of life in Mill Valley and work at Autodesk. Good times and not such good times.

It 's difficult to do anything else while scanning because the scanning requires so much but not all attention. So I'm trying blogging while scanning. Can I do some lightweight writing while I can. Well, for the moment it seems possible.

I just had my first issue with the Fujitsu ScanSnap 300 scanner. It 'lost' a two hundred plus page scan - about twenty minutes of work. I have upgrade to latest revision of the software. I should probably stop the scans at 100 pages and start a new file. it does not seem to be possible to append to an existing file using the ScanSnap driver. On the whole, the scanner is working really well. Ir scans fast. makes small files, and very rarely misfeeds.

I am learning how to hack it. If the top of a sheet - an old fax for example - is ragged, you can open the scanner and insert the paper just beyond the ragged edge. Also if you see a sheet going in slightly crooked, you can gently hold the tail end of the sheet - causing the sheet to straighten. If worse comes to worse and a sheet is being mangled, you can open the scanner in mid-scan to stop the scanning. The you can re-feed the scan and resume exactly where the last good scan finished. The ScanSnap is an excellent product. A nice benefit is that it is quite small and, in particular, not high - making it easy to feed in sheets while it is sitting on a normal desk top.

Last night I went out for drinks at WineSF and dinner at Sens with Pierre Gasztowtt. We talked of the differences between life in San Francisco and Paris, between city and country life. We talked about the in and out of his finite element analysis software. We had a good time.

Blogging Idea

I'd like to start an unofficial Safeway blog. The blog would offer suggestions to Safeway about what products people liked or did not like. There would be a good number of contributors - basically anybody could join. But all posts would be moderated. The idea would not be to dump on Safeway but to offer constructive advice.

I shop at Safeway several times a week. It's my most frequent shopping experience, So I might as well be part of the story to make Safeway even better.

Mobile blogging

Blogging from my BB. It looks like it's better to blog by sending an email. Cannot edit a post. Just create a new one. Well you can keep one going. But feels easier in gmail.

title testing

I can't seem to find out how to get Blogger to use nice URLs. So I am creating a new post to see what happens. ... OK so it looks like this is a good URL for this post: http://theoarmour.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html#title-testing

test

Conceptualizing random endpoints in a access matrix provides reach extensions enterprise wide. Respective divisions historically insignificant, upscale trend lines in a management inventory analysis survivability format.

We've Moved

I have just moved all the data for this site from the Dreamhost server to the WordPress.com server. The downside will be that there is less flexibility in customizing the site. The upside is that WordPress will take care of all the updates, hosting, and protection. Before too long, I hope to get all my sites on WordPress (or Google) and get entirely out of the hosting 'business'.

Art of the Net - Good to Go

I have finally have Art of the Net at a stage where I feel I can show it to people. Today I edited and published What is Web Art? and started and published Read Me. I also updated the tags, and did minor edits throughout. There's still a lot of errors lurking, but now I'm sure that other people will help with proofreading.

Tomorrow I will send the link to Ken Goldberg and Steve Gordon. I am so excited that Ken is so excited. We have lift-off!

New HTC Advantage is good - maybe even delightful. Fits into the pocket and has a long battery life. VGA resolution and quite fast on the Internet. Anyway, I went for a long walk today - quite happy to be out of my 'office' and still very much connected. It's quite a bit smaller than the current UMPC's and has a great battery life - which the UMPC's do not have.

Update 2007-10-10

Several posts on koudachev, evereverland and artofthenet in the last few days. So maybe I am getting in the habit of blogging. I think I would still rather code than blog. Coding is more enthralling, but for the moment I am a blogger.

I'm looking forward to going to the Berkeley Art Museum on Fridayto hear Ken Goldberg and others speak on new media. Will I go to Engadget tonight. We'll see.

Next up is more work on aotn. I want to look at every entry in the rhizome artbase, catalog it and note down as to whether it is a work of web art. I must also start looking for some new sources of works besides rhizome.

Four Posts on Koudachev.com

At last I've added some real posts to Koudachev.com On the Ingres portrait, Berdyaev, Rolland and Norman  & Myra Armour engagement.

08-12

Blogging from my BB using the wordpress.com mobile page.

First Real Posting in AotN

I wrote '100 Years of Cubism' today and I'm quite happy with the writing. It tries to get a point across and it has a fairly entertaining ending. It took three or four hours of writing and research to put together.

The especially nice thing was that when the post was finished and published I had the feeling that I had done my work for the day and it was now safe to do something else. When I've been working on other people's web sites, there always more to do, and the work never has an ending feeling.

So let's go to the Ferry Building for caviar (from Marin County) and tea.

Art of the Net Updated

Art of the Net has been updated from a competition web site into a blog. Tomorrow I will write a post about the 100th anniversary of Cubism.

Changing Course

For several years I have been building web sites for other people. I have learned much - more perhaps than the people I was trying to help. But now it is time to start making web sites for myself. One of those sites is this one.

I hope to write here more frequently than I write in my own private journals. In doing so I hope to question the act of writing a blog. Is this a form of narcissism or is this the creation of data for future data-miners or something else entirely?

I've just looked up narcissism in wikipedia. There are a lot of references - too much to think about for the moment.

Anyway, courage Theo. Come back here often and exercise your writing skills and then use those skills on other sites...