{"id":57,"date":"2009-04-18T11:13:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T11:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2009-04-18T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T11:13:12","slug":"random-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/18\/random-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"random updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/iphone.wordpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress app<\/a> on my iPhone seems to be well and truly dead ever since I upgraded it&#8211; it just sits in an endless loop, attempting to contact my blog. Apparently this is a <a href=\"http:\/\/iphone.forums.wordpress.org\/forum\/how-to-and-troubleshooting\" target=\"_blank\">known issue<\/a>.  As much as I move around, this has made it harder again for me to keep posting. Luckily the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evernote.com\/about\/download\/iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Evernote app<\/a> was also recently upgraded, and now has the ability to create and save new text notes right in the phone. (This filled my need for a syncable text editor that is free and doesn&#8217;t suck, a need that should not have been so hard to fill.) So for now it appears that mobile blogging will have a few steps added to the process. At least it&#8217;s still doable.  I need something to do on my commute in between episodes of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/class\/cs193p\/cgi-bin\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford iPhone programming <\/a>podcast.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been two weeks for me at March Entertainment now, and I&#8217;m having a great time. It&#8217;s nice to actually be able to animate, to apply what I&#8217;ve spent the last year and a bit learning at Animation Mentor. Things aren&#8217;t quite settled there yet&#8211; we had hardware upgrades done on Friday&#8211; so next week is when things will likely hop into full gear. We did get to see the latest cut of the movie this week, so everyone has a better idea of how our work fits into the whole.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of work I&#8217;ve actually managed to sleep, a bit. I keep having wickedly strange dreams, some of which have guest-starred people I haven&#8217;t thought about or talked to in years. The one about the truck-sized turkey still takes the cake, but there&#8217;ve been others that came close. I think that as much as I say I don&#8217;t get stressed, I&#8217;m only able to dream when work gets out of my subconscious&#8217; way. I guess that means I&#8217;m feeling pretty relaxed right now.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I wanted to mention the latest album by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedears.org\/news\/\">The Dears<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Missiles-Dears\/dp\/B001EN46ES\">Missiles<\/a>. There&#8217;s a song on it, Crisis 1&#038;2, that I heard on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/podcasting\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBC Radio 3 podcast<\/a>. Soon after it finished I rewound and played the song over again about a dozen times. It&#8217;s been a while since I was hit that hard by a single piece of music. I highly recommend you head out and find it. The rest of the CD isn&#8217;t bad, but that one song is transcendant.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230; One more thing. Anybody know of a good, easy-to-understand tutorial on Direct X shader programming? I have a feeling I&#8217;m going to need it soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WordPress app on my iPhone seems to be well and truly dead ever since I upgraded it&#8211; it just sits in an endless loop, attempting to contact my blog. Apparently this is a known issue. As much as I move around, this has made it harder again for me to keep posting. 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