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Happy Mothers Day

Robert Douglass — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:04:47 +0200

118, No. 2

Robert Douglass — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:03:19 +0200

Take this music
Peer to it intently
And tremble
Be alone, in darkness, under covers
With tears that taste sideways of vanity
Do not walk away from it
Or leave it to itself
That which gods whispered to men
So that men would know
That God is inside of them

Not right.

Robert Douglass — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:22:29 +0200

Best. Laptop sleeve. Ever!

Robert Douglass — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:37:00 +0200

It's not even my birthday yet, but I was given an early present anyway. My friend Jam made this totally awesome hand-sewn laptop sleeve for my MacBook Pro. It's got the Kölner Dom on it, red-on-white on the front and white-on-red on the back. The material is very thick felt which is sure to provide nice protection. The laptop slides in and out quite nicely, and the cover flap has velcro on it to close. This is easily the best laptop sleeve ever. Thanks, Jam!

(see all the pics)

oDesk - linking freelancers and service providers

Robert Douglass — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:19:38 +0200

This very useful ~~Drupal~~ partly Drupal site is also a good place to go if you are a Drupal freelancer looking for work or a Drupal contractor looking to hire. It isn't limited to Drupal, but there are lots of listings for Drupal jobs and Drupal service providers.

UPDATE: Looks like only the community section is running Drupal.

Jay and Dries, Episode 2

Robert Douglass — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:32:52 +0200

Here is the second part of the interview with Jay and Dries of Acquia. The first episode can be seen here.

A whole bunch of video sharing sites

Robert Douglass — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:32:44 +0200

Yesterday I made this screencast to demonstrate three awesome new themes for Drupal 6. Of course I was excited to share it with people, so today I embarked to do something I had not yet done: upload video to the Internet. Yeah, I know, everyone is doing it, am I behind the moon or something? Not anymore. In fact, my inaugural "first time" provided a great opportunity to test as many video sharing sites as I could find. The best is Blip.tv. Aside from the great quality I especially liked how I could customize the embed code to fit any size I wanted. Here is the video, served by Blip.tv, and below are links to all the other copies, 13 in total (assuming Revver gets their act together and actually publishes it), so you can compare the quality on each of them.

~~Spike.com~~ Spike.com rejected the video as spam. A HOWTO screencast about open source softare. So Spike, you want to compete with YouTube? How's that workin' for ya?

Jay Batson and Dries Buytaert talk about Acquia

Robert Douglass — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:43:38 +0200

For those of you who might be wondering about my new job at Acquia, and what the company is up to.

Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks

Robert Douglass — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:24:31 +0200

All those men were there inside,
when she came in totally naked.
They had been drinking: they began to spit.
Newly come from the river, she knew nothing.
She was a mermaid who had lost her way.
The insults flowed down her gleaming flesh.
Obscenities drowned her golden breasts.
Not knowing tears, she did not weep tears.
Not knowing clothes, she did not have clothes.
They blackened her with burnt corks and cigarette stubs,
and rolled around laughing on the tavern floor.
She did not speak because she had no speech.
Her eyes were the colour of distant love,
her twin arms were made of white topaz.
Her lips moved, silent, in a coral light,
and suddenly she went out by that door.
Entering the river she was cleaned,
shining like a white stone in the rain,
and without looking back she swam again
swam towards emptiness, swam towards death.

Seal hunting

Robert Douglass — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:22:11 +0200

Some images of seal hunting. More information.