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  • I have a Rendezvous with Death

    I have a rendezvous with Death
    At some disputed barricade,
    When Spring comes back with rustling shade
    And apple-blossoms fill the air—
    I have a rendezvous with Death
    When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

    It may be he shall take my hand
    And lead me into his dark land
    And close my eyes and quench my breath—
    It may be I shall pass him still.
    I have a rendezvous with Death
    On some scarred slope of battered hill,
    When Spring comes round again this year
    And the first meadow-flowers appear.

    God knows ’twere better to be deep
    Pillowed in silk and scented down,
    Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,
    Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
    Where hushed awakenings are dear . . .
    But I’ve a rendezvous with Death

    At midnight in some flaming town,
    When Spring trips north again this year,
    And I to my pledged word am true,
    I shall not fail that rendezvous.

    -Alan Seeger

    http://www.poemtree.com/poems/IHaveARendezvousWithDeath.htm

    http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/I+Have+a+Rendezvous+with+Death.htm

    I also like how Gears of War 2 tied it into their Trailer:

  • Nike Plus + Ipod

    Left my old Ipod at the hotel in DC a few weeks ago. Of course no one in the hotel could find it. Anywho, I took the opportunity to get an iPod Nano and the Nike Plus Kit. Its pretty neat. I started using it, and it will give you some incentive to make running fun.

  • Bigbelly the solar powered garbage Compactor




    Bigbelly

    Originally uploaded by Declan!

    I found yet another reason why I love California. While taking care of some errands yesterday I came across a strange looking garbage can. What I found is that it was actually a garbage compactor, and even cooler is that its solar powered!

    This is a great for the environment as compacted trash will take up less space in the dumps. The only possible issue I see is the ability to sort through compacted trash for bottles, cans, and other recycleable goods.

    I’m sure its pissing off the hordes of homeless people in Santa Monica that go through the garbage cans for cans and what not.

    http://www.bigbelly.com

  • 5 miles through LA




    Declan’s first race!

    Originally uploaded by Declan!

    Rose and I ran our first race today and it was 5 miles!

    http://inside.nikerunning.com/nike-run-hit-remix

    We ran through the streets of LA with delightful live performances by:

    Naughty by Nature
    Sir Mix A Lot
    The Sugarhill Gang
    Dawn Robinson of En Vogue
    and a Finish line concert by MC Hammer!

    MC Hammer was pretty awesome!


    http://flickr.com/photos/declan12/sets/72157602024401442/

  • My Love

    What a great song and video

  • Apple and the OS marketshare




    MacBook Pro

    Originally uploaded by the_ml

    In the news recently I read that mac laptop sales have take something like 17% or the market. And I think mac desktops have increased 5% or something.


    http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/08/21/apple_seeing_unprecedented_surge_in_macbook_demand.html
    (these stats only show purchasing habits for the past 3 months, but still interesting)

    anywho, looking at awstats on my own personal website (which doesn’t get a lot of traffic), I find it interesting that it almost matches what the stats are saying in terms of OS marketshare. I also posted website OS stats from a year before. This looks like clear evidence that apple’s marketing is working (I just got a macpro for work)

    Another thing I noticed is that I seem to be getting less traffic this year than last. lol I’m not taking enough photos to drive traffic to my website these days. Either that, or I guess I’ve been using Flickr more so the traffic isn’t showing.

    184.33.215.153/ August 2007 stats:

    Operating Systems

    		Hits

    		Percent

    Windows

    		40160

    		73.9 %

    Macintosh

    		10526

    		19.3 %

    Unknown

    		3220

    		5.9 %

    Linux

    		350

    		0.6 %

    BSD

    		18

    		0 %

    OS/2

    		5

    		0 %

    Symbian OS

    		3

    		0 %

    Sun Solaris

    		2

    		0 %

    AmigaOS

    		2

    		0 %

    Unknown Unix system

    		2

    		0 %


    184.33.215.153/ August 2006 stats:

    Operating Systems

    		Hits

    		Percent

    Windows

    		58073

    		85.1 %

    Macintosh

    		5685

    		8.3 %

    Unknown

    		3858

    		5.6 %

    Linux

    		568

    		0.8 %

    WebTV

    		5

    		0 %

    FreeBSD

    		1

    		0 %

  • Mac Tip: How to increase the size of the C: drive for XP running within OsX Parallels

    Parallels

    So I got an MacPro laptop with Parallels from work. While running XP under Parallels, XP keeps telling me I’m running out of space.

    While in XP looking at my partitions:

    my XP parallels install is 26GB total in size – C: partition is 8GB, and D: is 16GB

    I’ve been trying to figure out if there a way to resize the C: partition without re-installing the OS completely and/or XP parallels install. Partition Magic doesn’t seem to run under XP under Parallels.

    The Parallels support site doesn’t have anything official listed to fix this problem. So I figured out how to fix my problem after parsing through the below support thread.

    http://forum.parallels.com/thread1481.html

    To Start with I ran the Parallels image expander tool to increase the total XP parallels hard drive size from 25GB > 34GB

    Within the windows XP disk manager, you will see another 10GB of unpartitioned space.

    So someone on the support thread said to do the following:

    Download the live cd from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
    Setup another
    Boot your VM from the live cd iso
    Select default values until gpartd starts
    Select partition to resize
    Resize and apply
    Disconnect iso
    Reboot

    They however don’t mention that to increase the size of your C: drive the expanded disk space has to be contiguous. (meaning free space right next to your primary partition)

    So the exact steps were to

    1. Make a copy of your XP parallels image (so your data can be restored if something gets corrupted)
    2. Download the live cd from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
    3. Run the parallels disk expander tool (expand your XP diskspace to whatever you want)
    4. Using the windows disk manager, create an E: drive with the additional space.
    5. Reboot XP
    6. Then copy/move all the data from D: to E:
    7. Delete the D: partition
    8. shut down XP
    9. create another parallels VM where you boot of the gparted ISO, add your XP image as a 2nd hard drive
    10. from within Gparted Live CD, a disk manager will start automatically
    11. choose the 2nd hard drive, which you will see the C: and E: partitions defined within windows. There should be 16GB of free space right after the first partition. Expand you first partition to whatever size you want (I just added the whole 16GB)
    12. save and quit
    13. boot into your XP parallels VM
    14. checkdisk will run
    15. verify that your C: drive is now 25GB
    16. reboot XP VM (it will ask you to)
    17. delete the Gparted disk space and ISO when you are done to reclaim diskspace.

  • 4.5 quake rattles L.A. – Los Angeles Times

    Just went through my first Earthquake in California early this morning. I woke up with the bed shaking and the window blinds making lots of noise. I got up and looked out and saw lots of other people looking around to see what’s going on.


    4.5 quake rattles L.A. – Los Angeles Times

  • I want a job here

    Lip Dub – Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger on Vimeo

  • road trip complete!

    I drove across the country with my brother last week. We started in Long Island, NY and ended in Santa Monica, CA. The route we followed was:

    Mineola, NY > Charlotte, NC
    Charlotte, NC > New Orleans, LA
    New Orleans, LA > Austin, TX
    Austin, TX > Tucson, AZ
    Tucson, AX > Santa Monica, CA

    This trip added 5 states I’ve never been to before. Now I’m up to 29 states in total


    create your own visited states map
    or check out these Google Hacks.