New Website

Listen up folks! I have launched a new website that will replace the current blogger one at dankeenan.org. Nothing new will be posted here, so update your bookmarks accordingly.

Hacked iPod touch Screenshots

After some fighting, rubber-chicken-waving, near-bricking, etc, I got screenshots working on my iPod Touch. They will find a home on my flickr profile.

iPod Server

For those of you who have installed lighttpd on your iPod Touches and iPhones, I have created a few badges for you. Right Now, there is only an iPod Touch one, but as soon as I can get the iPhone one looking good, I'll put that here.

Mockup and...

I just finished making a mockup for an notes app my friend is making. In other news, does anyone know of a good video capture program (that's NOT XvidCap) for linux?

I like this.

For the record, this is good:

Coming Attractions

Look forward to a full VIDEO review of KDE 4. Many things simply cannot be captured with screenshots alone, and I hope this helps somewhat. I don't know when this will be, but assume very end of August to early September.

Shameless plugs

I'm going to give out a few shameless plugs in response the masses (as in 17) of e-mail I've been getting lately. This will become a Q&A, but Blogger isn't fancy like WordPress, and I'm too lazy to convert everything over the WordPress (And yes, I've tried the converter. It doesn't work very well.) Ahem. So here it is: Q: Do you really use Linux? What distro? What Desktop Environment? etc... A: Yes, I use Linux. I am an extremely happy user of Kubuntu, which means I also use KDE. Q: What's your Mantra? A: My Mantra is "Just say no to Microsoft (and Microsoft, and Sony, etc.)" Q: Do you obsess over anything? A: I obsess over potatoes, and anything Linux, Kubuntu, or KDE related. Q: What kind of computer do you use? A: The computer I'm using currently is one that I custom built. The Basic Specs include:

• AMD Athlon X2
• ATI All-In-Wonder 2006
• ASUSTeK M2N4-SLI Mobo
• Seagate Barracuda 200GB Serving as my Home and Media Directories
• Western Digital Caviar 400GB Hard Drive Serving as my everything else drive
• Dual DVD Burners
• Translucent Blue Case with UV Blue Cold-Cathode Lighting

Q: Do you have a life? A: No, I don't :-) Actually, I do have a live, as hard as it is to believe. I do a lot of Lighting and Sound work for my High School Drama Club. We are getting a new theater soon, along with new equipment. One of my current pet peeves about the new theater is that it will not have a catwalk that allows us access to cove lighting. But that is a rant for another day. Q: What are your favorite programs? A: I use to have this all on my sidebar, but the list became too big, so I took it out. I've update this list and decided to add it here. Commence Pixelbuttons! Q: How can I link to you? A: Thanks, I appreciate it! Use one of the following buttons and corresponding HTML Code:

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GIF Animation (And an ethical issue on the side)

In a computer graphics class, one of the projects we were required to do was a GIF animation. This raised a slightly thorny issue as GIF Animations go against everything I have ever learned as a web designer. I started with a Circle Moving around the screen: I then made the circle a ball and made it bounce: For the final project, I used the 4 variants of Ubuntu Linux to make myself feel better about doing a GIF animation in the first place:

New home for Math Drupal

I have moved Math Drupal over to mathdrupal.wordpress.com. There you will find the Development Blog, as well as new releases and bug fixes. Check it out!

Math Drupal

Math Drupal has MathML support using the ASCIIMathML JavaScript library.

• .tar.bz2 (Good for UNIX/LINUX/*BSD)
• .zip (Good for Windows or Mac OS X)

I'm working on creating a live demo of this.

Math Drupal

I plan on creating a custom distribution of Drupal that has built in support for MathML. I will distribute the package in a later post.