Michael Jackson

In 1983 Michael Jackson gave the world the moonwalk. May his music and his dance live on forever.

Fleet Foxes & Blitzen Trapper at The Fox Theater in Oakland

This was a really great show. Both bands were great.

Highlight of the show was when Robin Pecknold played one song completely acoustically, that is to say, no amplification.

The whole crowded ssshhhed each other a bit, and then got real quiet. He belted out a song while strumming hard and filled the room with sound. The huge crowd hardly made a peep while they listened intently. It was awesome.

The newly rennovated Fox Theater in Oakland was a great venue too. I'm psyched that I've already got tickets to see The Decemberists there. It's a great venue.

Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes

Blitzen Trapper

Xcode, Snapshots, and corruption

So I really like Xcode's Snapshots feature. While it is really just a poor mans SCM, I like the ability to snapshot my code, make a bunch of changes, but if those changes end up not what I want, I can easily go back to the snapshot.

Being able to do that outside of the checkout-checkin cycle of using a SCM is useful to me.

At least until Snapshots destroys my Xcode project.

Last night I tried restoring back to an older snapshot. Xcode came back with this fabulous message:

Unable to Open Project

Project ... cannot be opened because the project file cannot be parsed.

Lame. Especially since it seemed to break itself after I restored back to the Snapshot, which was missing a lot of new code.

Luckily I was able to find the location of the Snapshots:

~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/SnapshotRepository.sparseimage

Close Xcode, mount that image, and find your missing Snapshot. Phew. I'll be a bit more cautious in using Snapshots going forward.

I like hearing our president swear

http://www.aprilwinchell.com/2009/02/05/barack%20-obama-is-tired-of-your-motherfucking-shit

Obama's Inaugural Speech - visualized

Check out my sweet visualization of the words used in President Obama's Inaugural speech. The Onion somehow came up with a different count than me.

Special thanks to http://www.wordle.net/ that I used to create the word cloud.
Credit to Shepard Fairy for the iconic Obama poster.

Proposition 8 - The Musical

Awesome.

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

Google Reader adds Feed Translation!

Awesome.

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Google Reader

And here's some text that won't be translated.