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This is going around, thought I’d stake my claims. Mine are in Bold. My comments are in Italics.

1. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
2. Swam with wild dolphins I’ve patted them from the boat, but we were right out to sea.
3. Climbed a mountain
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Said “I love you” and meant it
9. Hugged a tree
10. Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watched the sun rise
15. Seen the Northern Lights
16. Gone to a huge sports game
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
19. Touched an iceberg
20. Slept under the stars
21. Changed a baby’s diaper
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. Watched a meteor shower
24. Gotten drunk on champagne
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight
29. Bet on a winning horse
30. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
31. Asked out a stranger
32. Had a snowball fight I’ve never even seen real snow!
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35. Held a lamb Hey, I grew up on a sheep farm. I’ve held countless lambs. Jason, no Comments please!
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse
41. Ridden a roller coaster
42. Hit a home run
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard drives for your computer
49. Visited all 50 states
50. Loved your job for all accounts
51. Taken care of someone who was shit-faced
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53. Had amazing friends
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
55. Watched wild whales
56. Stolen a sign
57. Backpacked in Europe
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climbing
60. Lied to foreign government’s official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach
62. Sky diving
63. Visited Ireland
64. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
66. Visited Japan
67. Benchpressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your records
70. Pretended to be a superhero
71. Sung karaoke
72. Lounged around in bed all day
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theater
80. Done something you should regret, but don’t regret it
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who’s not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman
89. Played D&D; for more than 6 hours straight
90. Gotten married
91. Been in a movie
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn’t have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
95. Gotten divorced
96. Had sex at the office
97. Gone without food for 5 days
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest Although, if there ever was a contest, I’d win with my Monkey outfit!
100. Ridden a gondola in Venice
101. Gotten a tattoo
102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
103. Rafted the Snake River
104. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
105. Got flowers for no reason Well, she thought there was a reason.
106. Masturbated in a public place
107. Got so drunk you don’t remember anything
108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
109. Performed on stage

> I'm an ordinary man, Who desires nothing more Than just an ordinary chance, To live exactly as he likes, And do precisely what he wants...

1. Been to Las Vegas Gonna go, and get married by Elvis. True.
2. Recorded music
3. Eaten shark
4. Had a one-night stand
5. Gone to Thailand
6. Seen Siouxsie live
7. Bought a house
8. Been in a combat zone
9. Buried one/both of your parents
10. Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off
11. Been on a cruise ship
12. Spoken more than one language fluently
13. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
14. Bounced a check
15. Performed in Rocky Horror
16. Read - and understood - your credit report
17. Raised children
18. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy
19. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
20. Created and named your own constellation of stars
21. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
22. Found out something significant that your ancestors did Designed the first portable “Iron Lung”, amongst other things.
23. Called or written your Congress person
24. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
25. ?more than once? - More than thrice?
26. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
27. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
28. Had an abortion or your female partner did
29. Had plastic surgery
30. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
31. Wrote articles for a large publication
32. Lost over 100 pounds
33. Held someone while they were having a flashback
34. Piloted an airplane
35. Petted a stingray
36. Broken someone’s heart
37. Helped an animal give birth
38. Been fired or laid off from a job
39. Won money on a T.V. game show Wayne won a Car!
40. Broken a bone Ribs are bones!
41. Killed a human being
42. Gone on an African photo safari
43. Ridden a motorcycle
44. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100 mph
45. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
46. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
47. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
48. Ridden a horse
49. Had major surgery Jaq has!
50. Had sex on a moving train
51. Had a snake as a pet
52. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
53. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
54. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
55. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
56. Visited all 7 continents
57. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
58. Eaten kangaroo meat
59. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
60. Been a sperm or egg donor
61. Eaten sushi
62. Had your picture in the newspaper On the front page!
63. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime
64. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
65. Gotten someone fired for their actions
66. Gone back to school
67. Parasailed
68. Changed your name
69. Petted a cockroach
70. Eaten fried green tomatoes
71. Read The Iliad
72. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read Pick any one of: Heller, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Hawkins.
73. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them Stolen glasses from a pub for said reason.
74. ?and gotten 86’ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
75. Taught yourself an art from scratch
76. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
77. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
78. Skipped all your school reunions
79. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
80. Been elected to public office
81. Written your own computer language
82. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
83. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
84. Built your own PC from parts
85. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
86. Had a booth at a street fair
87. Dyed your hair
88. Been a DJ
89. Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
90. Written your own role playing game
91. Been arrested Been cautioned, and had my Mother visited by the local police (I was underage, see #024, and living away from home).

Last Updated: 31/07/2019.

Well, using my limited AppleScript skills, I’ve created a system for blogging via ecto from my palm. Using the MacNoteTaker Conduit, and a Folder Action Script, ecto creates & posts a new post for each new file in the monitored folder. Now all I need to do is ‘fix’ the Conduit so it handles deleted files a bit better. However, since the Conduit was written for a different development environment, I’ll have to get the original working first. Oh, and this post was done directly from my Palm. Well, the paragraph above was, anyway. Bugs to get rid of:

• Doesn’t do much parsing of the data. Paragraphs don’t seem to exist. Fixed: Used property body text instead of entry body.
• Use an alternate form of getting the date. MacNoteTaker date-stamps all new files. I’ll use this. Done.
• Parse the first line to get the post title. Done.

Well, a strange thing just started happening - when I start the Terminal (OS X), my ~/.profile is no longer executed. I guess there’s something wrong! I can still just do a source .profile and it runs okay, so there’s no problem there. It is being executed for other users, so it must be an issue with me somewhere! Edit Aha! A quick Google turns up the fact that ~/.profile is not executed if ~/.bash_profile is present. I suspect that the PalmOS development tools installer must have created this file - there was nothing new (for me) in it, so a quick rm ~/.bash_profile fixed my problem.

I bought a Palm the other day. I remember when they were still called Palm Pilots, and I really wanted one then. I was in Officeworks, looking, as I do, through the ‘Soiled & Damaged’ section. I got some half-price DVD+R discs the other day, just because someone had opened the packet and used one. Anyway, I digress. There was a Palm Zire 21 for sale at about 33% off, and I just couldn’t resist. I went home and checked that it would sync well with iCal and Address Book, and became aware of the ‘Mobile Phone’ issue (apparently data loss can occur when a nearby phone rings), but decided to buy it anyway. I’m pretty keen to do some developing on it - I’ve got Python on there, but I want to code a nice database front-end for all of my Touch stuff, that interacts with the Address Book details, and another for Roll marking and Marks Book keeping at school. So, I’m currently funnelling a whole lot of stuff, and will spend a bit of the next holidays coding, I hope.

Just as a bit of a test to see how this thing works, I’m posting an image to Flickr, and having it appear here, hopefully.

And while I’m at it, here’s what I’m listening to right now…

To Her Door from the album “Under The Sun” by Paul Kelly

I remember a song a guy I went to boarding school with had a cassette single with four versions of a song called Lately. The lyrics were something like:

Lately I’ve seen that look on your face, And you don’t cry anymore. And I just don’t know what to do, anymore. Oh Baby, Oh Baby, I want you here, with me.

Anyway, I’ve never heard the song since, nor been able to find it on the web. But lately I’ve been rather busy with Touch, and haven’t done much coding, other than entries for the New Scientist enigma, and since those ones haven’t been drawn yet, I’m not going to share the answers. I have played around with some new apps, and I’ll list them here:

• The new version of Ecto, a blogging program is out
• NewsFire, an RSS Aggregator
• OmniWeb 5.0, a Web Browser
• VLC, a movie viewer
• ManOpen, a man page viewer.

Since one of the security updates, Apple ‘fixed’ open so sudo open wouldn’t run the app as root, but I liked the ability to do this. Instead, one needs to actually run the application (located in ApplicationName.app/Contents/MacOS/ApplicationName) with a sudo. I often need to edit text files, and I use SubEthaEdit. So I put the following lines in my .profile:

function edit
{
    if test `echo $TERM_PROGRAM` == 'Apple_Terminal' ; then 
      open -a 'SubEthaEdit.app' "$*" &
    else
      pico "$*"
    fi
}

function sedit
{
    if test `echo $TERM_PROGRAM` == 'Apple_Terminal' ; then
      sudo ~/Applications/SubEthaEdit.app/¬
                  Contents/MacOS/SubEthaEdit "$*" &
    else
      sudo pico "$*"
    fi
}

If you don’t mind the prompt not returning until you finish, you can remove the & from the relevant lines. Why the pico lines? (And the test…) Because I sometimes ssh or telnet into my machine, and I like to be able to just type in (s)edit rather than have to remember another command. Other tips I use - change the background colour of SEE to blue for normal use, and another colour, like red/orange for sudo use. That way, you will know when you are editing a file as a superuser. You will need to sedit first to go through the ‘initial use agreement’. You could also use this trick with another editor…like pico…:-)

I guess I forgot to blog about my new nephew, since it all happened so fast. My sister was due to give birth at the end of August. It happened instead at the start of July. Jack Hamilton Lewis was born (8 weeks early) on July 3rd, 2004. He was a little under 5lbs. My brother in law (who is significantly larger than anyone in my family) suggested there wasn’t enough room inside for him anymore. So, he was a bit early, lungs not quite ready yet, and was flown to Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne. Where he stayed for a couple of weeks, before returning to Warrnambool, and then Hamilton. No-one was expecting him to be ready to go home until about his original due date, but he’s home now, and doing well. Jaq & I (yes, it seems he was named after her!) raced over to Melbourne to see them, and he looks just like Dad!

Funniest thing I’ve seen. Ever.

Just surfing around, I found this site. Some guy has set up his computer so that you can choose songs to cue up on his system. I might just have to try something similar with my Xbox…