Blog-Rific!

Well, I've started the writing for my grant. There are some of you who are wondering why I have started it when I have the rest of the summer (about 5 weeks), and others of you think that I am already condemned by my very own existance to failure because with 5 weeks left to go things are "really down to the wire!" Well what ever you think, I began. I wrote a really crappy one-page outline and spent a really long time trying to figure out how to do things like page numbers on OpenOffice.org Writer (I still recommend it over Microsoft Office; You save yourself $500 (OpenOffice.org is free) and you get a feature set that is in many ways more powerful and simple to use). Then I went hunting for insects, for a while. I was really bad today, I only caught one insect, but didn't take a specimen because it was a female and I already have a specimen of a male of the same species (an immaculate and perfectly mounted specimen I might add). Pieris rapæ, that's what he is.

I finally kind of got my Esperanto radio broadcasts from Poland to go onto my mp3 player. The link for downloading a wma version has been broken for about a year, so I downloaded the RealAudio version (my mp3 player isn't supposed to play rm format) and stuck it on my mp3 player to see what would happed. It took four times as much space as the size of the file, and thought that it was in mp3 with 96k compression (it was actually in rm with 20k compression). But it played, so I don't have too much to complain about. I learned however that my sound editing app, Sound Forge, will save to but not open RealAudio files. How dumb is that? Oh well, not too bad I suppose.

I've expanded my notification list dramatically, so that's why I've been sending out a plethora of notifications to the long term members. I'm trying to quickly expand the horizon of readers. I also apologize to the reader who didn't want me to post any more Esperanto short-story translations. I wanted to post the conclusion to the original one that he/she (English could really use a neuter 3rd person pronoun that could be used for humans. Saying he/she all of the time gets really old.) complained about, but did not me to elicit offense... I am complying with your request. I did not me to elicit offense... I am complying with your request. Well that broke the ice! Now we can all be chum and cheery. But hey! At least I truncated the posts so they're not appearing to take up as much space on this "otherwise good [I mean "decent"] blog." Well that's the news today from Server Closet: AppMagic Inc., where all the programmers are extreme, all the writers are eloquent, and all the children are somewhere inbetween.