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Well

That was annoying.

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2007 01 21 TALlamaSeth A. Roby Uncategorized Comments (2)

Triumphant Return

So, I was finally home for a few hours this weekend and I plugged us back into the internets, so TCB and Exploded Clown are back online.

Where have I been, you ask? What have I been doing? It’s a long story, but here it is.

I was in Dallas for most of last week, and then [...]

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2005 05 09 TALlamaSeth A. Roby Uncategorized Comments Off

Downtime

So now that I finally got this blog up and running, we’re moving apartments and I am told to expect downtime on the order of 5 to 7 days, beginning tomorrow. So, if you don’t hear from me for a bit, it’s because SBC is a bunch of buffoons and it takes them that long [...]

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2005 04 27 TALlamaSeth A. Roby Uncategorized Comments Off

MarsEdit

This post sent from Mars!

MarsEdit doesn’t seem to autoconfigure for Wordpress. It should be able to load the page, look for the Generator, and figure out that it’s a Wordpress blog. Then it should fill in the XML-RPC URL, which is at a standard location, and put something into the ‘Blog ID’, about which I [...]

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2005 04 20 TALlamaSeth A. Roby Uncategorized Comments Off

Internet Explorer

I just took a look at the site design through IE/Win and it makes me cry.

Not only is the transparency effect ruined–I expected that– but the sidebar completely disappears. I don’t know where it goes, but it goes elsewhere.

Really, people: get Firefox..

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2005 04 17 TALlamaSeth A. Roby Uncategorized Comments Off

The ImageMagick Tutorial That Finally Taught Me How to Use ImageMagick.

To get the backgrounds for this site, start with a normal image (bg_dark.jpg) and run this:

convert bg_dark.jpg -modulate 50,30 -level 0%,60%,0.6 -fill gray -colorize 80% bg_light.jpg

This is brought to you by the only useful ImageMagick tutorial on the entire Internet: IM v6 Examples.

Why is this a good tutorial, as opposed to the millions of other IM [...]

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2005 04 17 TALlamaSeth A. Roby Uncategorized Comments Off

Getting to Know You

Hello, everybody.

My name is Seth A. Roby and I wish that I could develop Macintosh software for a living. But I don’t.

Instead, I work as a Sales Engineer at ParaSoft, a company that sells keen testing tools, which I genuinely believe are smart and necessary, but they aren’t exciting. I spend my time telling people [...]

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2005 04 16 TALlamaSeth A. Roby Uncategorized Comments (1)