I just discovered that all my recent blog posts have the wrong date. Or… the date being set is the post date, but I want the date to be the date I create the entry.
For… it’s misleading… sometimes it takes me a couple days to post the entry…
Maybe I’ll just start my post with the current date and time?…
How’s this format?
Date: 20/01/09 | Time: 1:35 AM
I like it… and it also gives me a way to separate these long entries and maybe make things easier to read.
Nice… Too bad I just discovered all this now. Oh well.
This is going to be a long trip home… the subway is moving very slowly, some technical problem… hopefully I don’t miss my last bus.
Today wasn’t a very good day — just feeling I had no sense of time… time just went by too quickly. I need a good night’s sleep. Maybe I have a touch of the flu that my family has? Or maybe just too much stress recently and need more sleep.
Man… this subway feels like it’s going to get stuck here… very jerky. Ok, we’re finally at Greenwood station now. The announcement, though impossible to really hear well, said something with Chester to Greenwood… ok… finally we’re moving now!
Today I just felt hard to get much done. I did make good progress on these estimates I think. And I installed Windows Server 2003 and got Sharepoint up and running. But I never resolved getting Windows update to work completely — and the last couple updates just always give an error. And the install CD had a few error messages too — something about missing files.
Tomorrow I just need to get one more task analysed/estimated… and then get on getting some questions answered. And also I have 3 or 4 bugs that require some attention this week. All in all, just too busy. I wanted to get home earlier tonight, for my wife is sick — but I don’t know what happened with the time.
I also explored blogging from inside emacs — a cool lisp plugin called weblogger — but it gets the time stamps wrong. It isn’t taking into consideration that my blog is GMT-5 — so, every time it fetches and saves the entry, it shifts the time by 5 hours. I’m thinking maybe I can fix it up… if I do, I’ll post the fixed versions here.
Ouch… what happened… I thought I assigned F1 to insert my date, but now it’s undoing all my typing!!
Date: 20/01/09 | Time: 1:52 AM
Maybe F1 is set to undo by default? Ok… then I’ll set my date macro to use apple-F1 — how to type that little apple clover symbol?
Ouch… bbedit doesn’t remember the key assignments when I restart it!… there must be a way…
In any case… I just missed the 1:50 am Kennedy bus, but there is still one more, at 2:10 am… the last bus tonight. When the subway train is delayed though, they should have the busses wait.
Date: 20/01/09 | Time: 2:03 AM
Ahhh… figured it out… my blog entries are html files, so I just needed to save my clipping macro in the html set. Now it’s there by default when I invoke bbedit as the editor from MarsEdit.
Really I love this workflow I created. MarsEdit + BBedit, to create my Wordpress blog posts wherever I happen to be… offline… and allowing me to post them when I get back online. Very nice. BBedit is a very nice editor — not cheap though. I just happen to have it because I bought it a long long time ago, 10 years?… and just upgrade it every couple years… the upgrade cost is reasonable.
I remember though, about 10 years ago, I needed to buy it twice. Back then they didn’t have download versions and I needed to get a CD shipped to me. I shipped it to my home… and it went missing. I think it came by FedEx, I missed the delivery… and then I signed the card they left, so they could leave it on their next visit. The package then just disappeared.
Someone must have stole it. But it was only a software program that I think most people would have no use for it — not even knowing what it was. Since then, I now always ship packages to my work office.
Date: 20/01/09 | Time: 2:11 AM
Ok… on the last bus now… A long day…
Oh… btw… I placed the bid on the HD camcorder I want today… a Sony HDR HC5… I’ll know in 2 days if I win it!! I hope so :-). It will be one of my biggest purchases from ebay — but the seller is very good with answering my questions. And I’m getting it cheaper than the half price demo sale at theSource.ca here. Plus I’m getting an external mic too.
I studied the various cameras and this looks like the best one. It’s discontinued now though. The new model, HC9, would cost me at least twice as much. I can afford around $500 for a camera, but not $1000!
It’s tape based, which looks like the best choice. I was tempted to get a card based camera, using AVCHD, or a hard drive based (also AVCHD or mpeg2(ts))… but… so many things are wrong with them. I want to be able to edit my movies. The tape based ones — they store in a format called HDV… and it’s widely accepted by practically every program I want to use … like either iMovie or Windows Movie Maker…
I have a 2 year old MacBook and Vista Home Premium. My version of iMovieHD is 6.0, and that doesn’t support AVCHD. And Windows Movie Maker also doesn’t support it. Searching, I found a program that can convert from AVCHD to a format iMovie or Movie Maker can use… but it takes 12 times as long as the movie to decompress it… plus takes 5-10 times the space. That means, a one hour AVCHD movie will take me 12 hours to decompress, and the 8 GB size will grow to 40-80 GB in size!!… ridiculous, if that’s true.
There are JVC hard drive based HD camcorders though — recording in mpeg2(ts)… but, reading reviews — the video quality is no where near as good as Sony or Canon cameras… and there are lots of problems working with the files.
So… that leaves us with tape based, miniDV, HDV camcorders. And they actually sound so much superior. A one hour tape takes just 1 hour to transfer to the computer (and not 12 hours). And it takes just about 11 GB of space. And it’s supported by both iMovie and Movie Maker. And the tape serves as a nice backup of the original (true, it might deteriorate over time). Plus the battery strangely seems to last longer than the equivalent Sony AVCHD cameras.
And while the HC5 is missing some features that the newer HC9 has — like the photo quality is less and less manual controls and no external mic port… it has better low light ability… being that it uses less pixels.
So… I’m happy with my choice and with finding the HC5. And happy I can get it for around $500. Can hardly wait for it to arrive. And I also want to try out the 0 lux infra-red night-shot ability… I’ve been wanting to try that out for years.
I would love to try making some home made porn — like I managed to convince my wife years ago for… but, I don’t think she’ll agree any more…
Mostly though, I want to take some beautiful videos of my family, and my lovely baby learning to walk now. Really she’s growing so fast. She just started trying to walk when she turned 1 year old, and now she can hold onto a chair or table and get up herself. She can’t yet walk without holding something though… but soon.
Really so amazing….
Take care now and stay safe…. with hugs and kisses and love always… time for bed now…
Date: 20/01/09 | Time: 3:23 AM
I actually was curious how one might backdate or futuredate entries instead of it being stamped on the day you actually wrote it. I dont know if that would help me get some blog entries out or what.
Using Wordpress (which I use here), it supports futuredating the entries. I’ve never tried it myself, but a quick google search shows people explaining how to do it.
See:
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/working-ahead-future-posts-with-wordpress/
Also, after an entry has been posted, the date can be changed in a similar way — though a bit tedious…
I prefer to use MarsEdit though — an offline blogging tool on my Mac… But then… because I might write several entries and post them days later, the dates get all messed up — all entries get the same date and seconds apart. I haven’t figured out how to get MarsEdit to use the entry’s creation date instead of the posting date when it updates my blog.