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ch-ch-ch-changes... new in june 2009 06/26/2009 re-arranging the furniture i've been moving bits (and bytes) and pieces of my digital life around. i'd like to share how i've been managing my various detritus and welcome your ideas for filling some of the gaps. click here for more... 06/04/2009 memory lane after seven months, i've finally finished digitizing all my photo prints and negatives, preserving my pre-digital pics from grade school through the late 90s. i've put them on flickr. i'm happy with the amount of information flickr can save about photos and their various ways of presenting it. in addition to seeing them as i organized them, you can poke around and see them according to when they were taken (approximately, in many cases), see a map showing where they were taken, etc. i hope you enjoy, especially if you spot yourself anywhere! maybe someday i'll write some scripts to migrate http://jeffcovey.net/photos/ to flickr. for now, i'll just continue putting any new images there. new in april 2009 04/26/2009 a cat's life my new camera can make time-lapse videos, so i was able to capture 12 minutes in the life of my cat. i should buy a large memory card so i can record several hours of the same. click here for more... new in march 2009 03/26/2009 multiple exposures in the course of cleaning the basement, i found another box of cassettes, including one of this piece of music i thought was gone for good. i'm glad to get a copy digitized while the tape was still in good condition! click here for more... 03/14/2009 live at last the new version of freshmeat.net has gone live. congratulations to scoop and greg -- go get some sleep! click here for more... 03/11/2009 backing up flickr? i'm thinking of moving my photos to flickr, and posted a question to metafilter about backup tools. please let me know if you have any tips to share. click here for more... 03/09/2009 when it rains the fates decided that having glenn in rehab for months didn't keep me busy enough, so they added another course to my plate. after a few years of thinking about it, my boss dug into the herculean chore of producing the next version of freshmeat.net. it's looking great and i'm excited about it, but also a little anxious to get back to a regular schedule. life is upside down -- i'm spending more time online and have gone from carfree to carlite to driving every day! it's a 15-minute drive to rehab, and since how long he'd be there was uncertain, a daily drive trumped as the solution most economical of time and money. i'm looking forward to the end of both situations and to giving the car and my screen-tired eyes a rest. i wrote a series of short articles detailing what's happening with freshmeat. scoop's outdoing himself, as always. click here for more... new in february 2009 02/09/2009 clean hair once more took some photos of the results of our bathroom renovation. click here for more... new in january 2009 01/27/2009 feeds most of my visible online activity is happening in other places these days, so i've added boxes down the right side of my homepage with the most recent items from me-related syndication feeds. 01/25/2009 tweet! i decided i may actually use twitter if i can jott to it from my cellphone, and don't have to bother with sms messages. click here for more... new in december 2008 12/15/2008 pinapog pinapog is not a photo of glenn. click here for more... new in september 2008 09/19/2008 tai chi 2008 thanks again to paul, i have a tai chi video of myself for this year. click here for more... new in august 2008 08/10/2008 conspicuous carsumption i deliquified a big chunk of cash this week. click here for more... 08/01/2008 cellphone advice wanted after a couple of duds, i'm looking for a usable cellphone. please chime in if you have any suggestions. click here for more... new in july 2008 07/07/2008 sailing away again i added a new strategy for spending more time outdoors. click here for more... new in june 2008 06/01/2008 without a net i've posted an article with some thoughts i've had lately about living with (and without) computers. click here for more... new in may 2008 05/25/2008 comment posting i plan to post two articles here soon, so i finally got around to making comment posting a little more abuse-proof and re-enabling it. it's been turned back on for a couple of days and has foiled the spambots so far, so give it a try if there was something added here recently about which you wanted to reply. new in april 2008 04/26/2008 chicago i've posted some photos from a short trip to chicago. click here for more... new in january 2008 01/25/2008 just the tikit hitting the town on my little wheels. click here for more... (you can find older lists of what was new in /new.)

Twitter / jeffcovey 07/03/2009 2:10pm jeffcovey: skipping over the ocean like a storm. [more] 07/02/2009 1:45pm jeffcovey: @cosine What are you missing? Something that used to be on freshmeat and is gone now? Or do you mean a new project which hasn't been added? [more] 07/02/2009 12:08pm jeffcovey: sailing on a summer breeze. [more] Delicious/jeffcovey 06/14/2009 10:58pm Google Docs: Download love the new python script. i can have automated backups of my google docs from cron now! [more] 06/12/2009 2:22pm Twitter Search Results on Google for Greasemonkey this has been surprisingly helpful on a couple of occasions. [more] 05/18/2009 9:35pm Travel full-time for less than $14,000 per year not something i could do now, but worth filing away for future reference. [more] jeffcovey's books from LibraryThing 04/27/2009 2:54pm Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome, 1859-1927 Public Domain Books (2000), Kindle Edition [more] 04/27/2009 2:53pm Three Men in a Boat: to Say Nothing of the Dog (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jerome K. Jerome Penguin Classics (1994), Paperback, 192 pages [more] 03/25/2009 12:16am Eldercare for Dummies by Dr. Rachelle Zukerman For Dummies (2003), Edition: 1, Paperback, 384 pages [more] Netflix Queue 001- The Waltons: Season 1: Disc 6 This disc contains the following episodes: "The Fire," "The Love Story" and "The Courtship." [more] 002- The Waltons: Season 1: Disc 7 This disc contains the following episodes: "The Gypsies," "The Deed" and "The Scholar." [more] 003- The Waltons: Season 1: Disc 8 This disc contains the following episodes: "The Bicycle" and "The Townie." [more]