I have successfully transferred xijio.com to google apps for domain. I’m forwarding all of my email from my other providers to one inbox so that i no longer have three email inboxes to check all of the time. Normally it isn’t bad, but when I’m not on my own PC and have to use webmail I end up opening three different webmail applications (webpine for UW, roundcube for vibrantlogic and gmail for … gmail) which is really annoying. Now all three of these services all go to the same inbox which makes things a lot easier for me both on my main rig and on the go. Gmail is definitely the nicest of all of the webmail interfaces and now that it supports imap i have no reason to not use it (I said I would switch to google apps for domains once it supported imap, and I’m holding to my word).
So yeah, transition mostly complete. I have to keep my work email on the UW servers so that is staying there, other than that everything is going to my google apps for domain account.
Next step is to import all of my old email from all of my other accounts to the gmail. I think I’ll use thunderbird to transfer everything locally and then transfer it back to gmail over imap. Hooray I’m getting more organized!
Once I finish going through my RSS feeds. The internet becomes dead to me. What am I supposed to be doing on the internet once I’ve finished all of my RSS reading?
I have a few things I’ve forgotten to post about so in the next day or to I’ll get to posting about them. I also need to get the rest of my pictures online. I’ve been spending most of my free time working on the new KA site http://uwka.com/blog/ is the staging area. It is still a work in progress but i’d like to get migrated over from the current uwka.com by the end of labor day weekend so hopefully I can continue to find time to work on it.
The Husky football season starts friday and I’m excited. I’m also going to be putting together the summer updates video soon for all the KA’s, I’ll post that here and on uwka.com. It will be the first post of the new site design.
One last thing, I found out facebook has scrabble called ‘scrabulous‘ and it is pretty fun
to play online. I usually do that while working at the same time, it is kind of distracting, but oh well, it is fun 
Anyway, I gotta work at 8 so I should go to sleep.
I stayed up way to late working on the gallery. It now reads from my flickr profile. I’m using a wordpress plugin called slickr that works pretty well. It doesn’t know how to handle tags, descriptions or comments for now but it seems to be undergoing active development so I’m hopeful. It seems like a limiting factor for displaying lots of information is the use of lightbox which is light by design. I might need to extend lightbox to fit my needs if I want to fit more data (like tags, descriptions and comments) on the pic previews.
I got sick of Gallery2 not doing what I want it to do so I decided to go with a hosted solution: flickr pro. I paid for 2 years. With my new 8mp camera I’ll need the removed upload limit and I like the ability to store my photos in full res online somewhere. I’ll slowly add my whole iphoto library to flickr as I get time to tag and describe them all.
http://flickr.com/photos/xijio/
Also, if anyone knows a good wordpress plugin for flickr, let me know. I have seen several and don’t know which one I want to try, any thoughts?
Why is there no good implementation of this? It seems like something tons of people would want to do yet there are no plugins available to get the job done.
Here is what I’ve found:
- WoogleCal is basically a tool that reads google rss feeds and sorts them by date (because apparently google is too stupid to do this) and shows only events in the future (again, google come on).
- Google Calendar Widget is a widget that isn’t actually compatible with wordpress and requires modification of the default wordpress files to work. It is also a widget which doesn’t necessarily fit my needs.
- Alan Gutierrez describes what seems like an elegant solution but, there is no work being done on it from what I can tell.
- Finally, you can use the google provided html to embed a calendar. This is a somewhat clunky solution though
Sigh, if only I had some time on my hands to do some mashing. I’m going to experiment with the above options to try to get something that will fit my needs for a project that I’m working on.
Moodswing is a script that allows me to update my adium, skype, facebook and twitter status with one simple quicksilver command. It is really simple using a quicksilver action applescript and it supports growl. I found out about it reading my TUAW feed, here is their writeup.
My blog automatically grabs my latest tweet. You can see it over on the right in the status area.
Callwave is a voicemail replacement service that I’m testing out. It’s pretty damned cool from what I can gather thus far. Basically you set your phone to redirect calls to a number they specify for you and set up your voicemail there just like any other voicemail service.
It is really easy to set up; it gives step-by-step instructions on what you do to our phone. It even provides simple instructions on how to deactivate the service. Once its set up when a call goes to voice mail it gets sent to the callwave voicemail service which renders the voice data as text and sends you a text message of the recording transcript. It doesn’t work especially well but, it does mange to give some sort of idea of what the person is leaving a message about.
In addition to the text messages, you get an email with an attached .wav of the message. The best part though is the fact that it integrates with dashboard so instead of calling a clumsy voicemail service I can push F12 and see a list of all of the messages I’ve recieved and listen to them in real time.
Basically, it does everything my existing voicemail did but also sends text message transcripts and allows easy access from my desktop.
There is only one thing that holds it back from being perfect in my book. That is that it can’t (yet) import from contact data from the OSX Address Book so most numbers show up with weird caller id data (usually either just the number or the name of the person that pays the bill which doesn’t necessarily correlate to whose phone it is). Other than this I really like the callwave service and hope that they continue to keep it as a free service. Although, I might be willing to pay a few dollars a month to use it if it came to that. Definitely check it out.
Why’d you jack my yahoo account 
Both sites are in serious need of work. I’ll probably get some time to mess with them this weekend. xijio.com probably won’t change much (probably just style and maybe a few layout changes. marshallbjerke.info is where most of the effort will go. It is going to be a resume-type site because I’ll be job hunting starting pretty soon. I’ll post updates once the sites have been updated.
edit: I pretty much failed at accomplishing anything on this front this weekend.
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