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Just got this awesome Wordpress smiley pack from NoktahHitam here. You can check out the rest of his site here.

Installation

1. Download the pack as above.
2. FTP and overwrite to your “public_html/wp-includes/images/smilies” folder.
3. Enjoy

Codes

Change ≈ to : if you want to use it. E.g. change ≈mrgreen≈ to :mrgreen :

1. – ≈mrgreen≈
2. – ≈neutral≈ or ≈|
3. – ≈twisted≈
4. – ≈arrow≈ or ≈idea≈ or ≈pirate≈
5. – ≈shock≈ or 8 O
6. – ≈smile≈ or ≈)
7. – ≈???≈ or ≈?≈ or ≈?
8. – ≈cool≈ or 8 )
9. – ≈evil≈
10. – ≈grin≈ or ≈lol≈ or : D
11. – ≈oops≈
12. – ≈razz≈ or : P
13. – ≈roll≈
14. – ≈wink≈ or ; )
15. – ≈cry≈
16. – ≈eek≈ or : x or : o
17. – ≈mad≈
18. – ≈sad≈ or : (
19. – ≈!≈
20. – ≈$≈
21. – ≈XO≈
22. – ≈vangry≈
23. – ≈up≈
24. – ≈down≈
25. – ≈halo≈
26. – ≈kiss≈ or :XOX :

Oh yeah baby, I’m getting me a pair of these!

This Wednesday, CMU’s “Sneakerology 101” class is putting on an event called Kicksburgh. They’ll be selling sneakers, art, and other kick ass stuff. There is also a Soles4Souls shoe drive, so bring your unused sneakers if you got em!

Finally, they have 101 pairs of “Reebok Reverse Jams” for sale. Pictured above, these shoes were designed by CMU’s sneakerology students, with heavy influences from the classroom, and Andrew Carnegie himself. I’m gonna try and snag a pair if I can! You can read more about them here.

KiCKSBURGH

April 15^th, from 6 – 9 pm
Skibo Gym, CMU

http://ie6update.com/

My buddy Joe sent this to me today, and I promptly added the code snippet to my website. IE6 Update looks like IE’s Information Bar, but instead of offering your visitors an ActiveX plugin, it offers a browser update. Even if it doesn’t bleed, someday IE6 will die.

Here is all you need to get it going. Just add the following snippet before your closing body tag:

<!--[if IE 6]>
<script type="text/javascript">
	/*Load jQuery if not already loaded*/ if(typeof jQuery == 'undefined'){ document.write("<script type="text/javascript"   src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></"+"script>"); var __noconflict = true; }
	var IE6UPDATE_OPTIONS = {
		icons_path: "http://static.ie6update.com/hosted/ie6update/images/"
	}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.ie6update.com/hosted/ie6update/ie6update.js"></script>
<![endif]-->

Ok, so i’m kind of a noob at this Linux madness, but here goes: This week, I set up Synergy between my Macbook (running Leopard) and my home brew Linux machine (running Ubuntu 8.10 – Intrepid Ibex).

For those of you who have no idea what I just spewed out with my keyboard, Synergy lets you share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems. Its actually ridiculously seemless, just like running dual monitors on one machine.

So, lets get down to the How-to. FIrst, we’ll configure the Mac, as that will act as my server. This means we will be using the mouse/keyboard connected to this machine. For this, I downloaded a nifty tool called SynergyKM, which adds the Synergy setup to your system preferences, as well as displays the connection status in the menu bar.

Once you’ve installed it, run SynergyKM through the System Preferences window. Under the General tab, hit the “share my keyboard and mouse” radio button.

Next you’ll then need to add the screen names of the computers you will be using. These names will be the host names of the said machines.

To find the host name of a Mac, open the sharing preference pane in System Prefs. Whatever you see in the Computer Name section is what you’ll name that computer in Synergy. For the Linux machine, just run the command hostname. This can be run on the Mac as well, but may be appended with the line .local.

Finally, make sure the screens are in the order you want them to be. I have my Mac on the right, but its your preference. Just drag the screens and pick your poison.

Its basically the same deal on the linux box, only instead of synergyKM, I used a program called QuickSynergy.

To install it, just follow the usual command line procedure:

./configure
make
make install

You will need the GTK 2.0 and libglade-2.0 development packges installed on your computer in order to achieve a successful compilation.

Next, slect the Client tab on the QuickSynergy main window. Fill in the field with the server’s (in this case the mac) IP address/hostname and the click Start. It may take a couple seconds to kick off, but you should be able to rock the mac mouse and keyboard on both computers now!

Finally, synergy by default will not run on startup on the Linux machine. In order to do so, go to system/preferences/sessions. Add a new startup program. Call it whatever you want, and make it call the following command, just replace the x’s with the server ip:

synergyc -f xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

In case that was all total freaking gibberish to you try the video or links below, or just comment on this post. I’ll be happy to help you if I can:

http://quicksynergy.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/synergykm

Special thanks to my boy Tomas for showing me the ways of the Synergy Ninja.
_Rob

… Its gonna be a loooooooooooong paddle.

This past Saturday, me and nine other brave souls from AE made it out to Claddah’s in the Southside to have our heads shaved for the St. Baldrick’s charity event.

It was an awesome time. They had live music, beer, and droves of people shaving their heads. Definitely a very cool way to raise some dough for an important issue. They let me shave my hair into a mohawk (I’m the second from the right), and even died it green for me!

St. Baldrick’s is the world’s largest volunteer-driven fundraising event for childhood cancer research. Thousands of volunteers shave their heads in solidarity of children with cancer, while requesting donations of support from friends and family. In 2008, St. Baldrick’s events were hosted in 48 U.S. states, in addition to Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, Northern Ireland, and the United Kingdom and more events are signing up daily as the movement continues to spread. Since the first event in 2000, St. Baldrick’s volunteers have raised over $50 million for life-saving research. Pretty badass.

Definitely doing this one next year.
_Rob

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves.

This award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, widely known as the co-creator of ‘405′. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production. Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based in Kansas City.

Check out more world builder action on Facebook here.

_Rob

Alas, I will be on sandy beaches in Hawaii this week, but everyone else should check this out. Refresh Pittsburgh and On the Fridge, LLC. are putting on this nifty one day conference centered on web design. It will showcase some serious talent from the Pittsburgh area, as all the speakers are local to here. If you want to keep up on the web design scene here in the burgh, this is the place to go.

Info

webdesignday
Saturday April 4, 2009
8:30am – 5:00pm
Left Field Meeting Space
116 Federal St.
Pittsburgh, PA
$40 per person

Looks like they are limited to 85 registrations, so hit it up quick!

_Rob

Welcome to The Pitt

This is unbelievably über kickass. Bethesda’s Fallout 3 has set their next expansion pack, titled “The Pitt” in post apocalyptic Pittsburgh. If you look at the pic above, you can clearly see that this is one of the sister bridges, possibly the Roberto Clemente. It looks like the jacked the city up a bit though, as the Highmark building looks like its too far east, and what is possibly the steel building is way too close to the bridge…

more…

Finally finished this thing!

These are my grandparents on my mother’s side. I hung out a good bit with them when I was little, and they were two of the most selfless people I’ve ever known. I’ve called these paintings Baucis and Philemon, based on the Greek legend, telling of the generosity of the couple. I hope you guys dig, feel free to give me any crits in the comments!

Stats:

Acrylic on wood.
For my Gram’s body, I used a stock photo by the talented Kechake-stock. Thanks!

_Rob