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did it [24 Nov 2009|01:02pm] Did I mention, a week ago today I spent the morning in the courthouse filling out papers. I paid a marshal $50. I filed for divorce. finally post comment

new & improved photodharma.com [30 Oct 2009|04:25pm] Check out the NEW & IMPROVED photodharma.com All NEW photo and painting galleries! Slide shows! Amaze your friends & family! post comment

web developments [28 Oct 2009|02:16pm] Okay... BaldwinSoftware.com is back online, with the new host. Many pages still need links updated, etc., but the site is functional. TonyBaldwin.info is also now up. This is a new, general site. Photodharma.com is live, but there is only a placeholder page, pointing visitors to other locations where they may see my art & photos, or listen to my music. I will be rebuilding photodhama.com, and continuing to reorganize baldwinsoftware.com, shortly, but, at the moment have a bunch of translation work AND, am attempting to organize and pack for our move this weekend. I likely won't get around to rebuilding until late next week. post comment

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (from the Exorcist) [27 Oct 2009|08:59am] post comment

NICE [23 Oct 2009|02:06pm] The house in which we rent an apt. has been foreclosed (I may have mentioned that before). The bank was just here. They've offered us $2700 to move out my Nov. 5, even though we already have another apt. lined up and planned to be out by the 1st. YEAH! 2 comments|post comment

ughhh...heavy lifting [22 Oct 2009|01:51pm] I'm sitting here downloading and backing up all the relevant materials for http://www.baldwinsoftware.com and http://www.photodharma.com and http://www.uuchaliceart.com, and I'm realizing what a load of work it is going to be to get them all back up and online and gro0vy once the domain transfers resolve, etc. For one thing, I have a lot of images hard-linked to various locations all over, including in the linguasos.org domain, which will be expiring, so I'm going to have to update all the links. I'm going to have to edit nearly every page on these sites. I've decided I'm more or less going to give http://www.photodharma.com a complete overhaul, anyway. It needs it. This is going to be a lot of work, and will take a while, so, I probably shouldn't have decided to get started on all of this right now, while I'm moving, etc., but, at the same time, I think I should have done it all a long time ago. After the initial heavy lifting is done, my online presence will be much simpler to manage, and, I believe, once I've done a bit of reconfiguration, these sites will come out more attractive and useful. My online presence has just been too scattered and schizophrenic for too long. Time to consolidate, simplify, and beautify the whole chaotic morass of scattered sites and disorganized links, etc. post comment

web developments [22 Oct 2009|11:17am] Currently, I have own/manage several sites, on several hosts, and with domains registered in with several registrars. That's all in the process of being streamlined, as I type. I've had http://www.photodharma.com (my art/photos/music site) hosted with DWHS Inc., who is a pretty good host, really Ilinux servers, good tools, etc., fairly decent value); I have http://www.linguasos.org (linux for translators) hosted at godaddy.com, who provides excellent service and a great value in terms of disc space, bandwidth, etc. for the dough. I have http://www.transprocalc.org and http://www.baldwinsoftware.com hosted in subdirectories of linguasos.org. The domains photodharma.com, transprocalc.org, and baldwinsoftware.com are all registered with MyDomain Inc., which provides fairly decent domain management features, and good domain reg prices, with two of the domains, as mentioned, simply forwarding to subdirs on the linguasos hosting acct. I have http://www.baldwinlinguas.com (my translation services agencies, and main source of income) hosted via "free" hosting that comes with my paid account at proz.com (a site for freelance translators and language services providers). Basically, I have a mess...and I pay three or four entities to keep all this stuff up on the internets. Now, I'm no longer developing the Linguas OS project, so that domain is simply going to vanish into the ether. But, I have altered my godaddy.com account, and will be keeping http://www.baldwinsoftware.com as the top level on that hosting account, and reconfiguring the site accordingly. Also, since I got one killer deal (150gb space, unfathomable bandwidht, etc, and the capacity to host unlimited domains), and also moving http://www.photodharma.com to that godaddy account. I may move http://www.baldwinlinguas.com over, too. I've also transfered the domain registrations all to godaddy.com. Now I will have one registrar, one host, one bill (and a very reasonable one at that...roughly $6.00 a month for all that disk space and bandwidth and mysql dbs and...oh...it's all so exciting!). A few sites have or are being let go in the process: http://www.altlatina.com - rock en español, a wasted venture; http://www.transprocalc.org will likely fade away, while the project will simply be hosted on baldwinsoftware.com http://www.linguasos.org will fade away, but I will probably keep the old ISOs on hand at baldwinsoftware.com, for posterity. And, I will have three main sites still online for all my goodies: http://www.baldwinlinguas.com - my translation business http://www.baldwinsoftware.com - for all my hackery and geekish tomfoolery http://www.photodharma.com - for all my artistic endeavours, photos, music, etc. This consolidates my scattered web presences, streamlines my overhead, and will make my life a lot easier, all while actually giving me HUGE amounts of online storage disc space and bandwidth. I'll be able to add new sites to the same account, registering any new domains with this same provider, like falling off a log, if I so choose. I should have done this long ago. The only draw back with the godaddy acct is that I don't have shell access (ssh, scp), and godaddy's online cpanel and tools are kind of crappy, but I manage my sites writing pages in a text editor and uploading them via ftp, anyway, so that's hardly significant, since I will have ftp access, of course. Now, with all that glorious disk space, I am tempted to think of new sites to launch, and venture into php and other goodies. I've had numerous online ventures that more or less floundered, so I don't want to waste time trying to repeat mistakes I've learned from already, but, gosh, I gotta do something with all that space...honestly. I think if/once I move baldwinlinguas.com over, I'll probably implement the webservice version of OmegaT right on there, which will be great for outsourcing translation projects. I won't have to send files and deal with various applications, etc., but simply send the provider a link to the OmegaT project on the server, where they can do their work. That would be cool. I'm not sure how complicated that will be, though...we'll see. Some of that can already be done with shared google docs, but, as much as I love google, I'd rather have my work on my own server, and away from the prying eyes of their spiders, or whatever. I'm wondering for how long some of my sites might be down while I move stuff around. Oh, and I've nearly forgotten...I also need to move over http://www.uuchaliceart.com (my Unitarian Universalist related art), and http://www.connecticutportugueseinterpreter.com (obvious, just forwards to baldwinlinguas.com for search ranking purposes, gets me work). All that, and using petrus to semi-simultaneously post to three distinct blog/journals, is seriously simplifying my online activities. post comment

hmmmm.....petrus [22 Oct 2009|09:51am] Okay, as mentioned just moments ago, I've just learned that Petrus does, indeed, now support insanejournal, as well as blogger and livejournal. Of course, as mentioned earlier, it will not post to all three simultaneously, but requires that I login to all three accounts, in three separate windows, and then copy/paste the post to each windows, and click three different buttons to post to all three journal/blogs simultaneously... What it does mean, however, is that I could conceivably dig into the petrus code and work up a way to make it post to all three simultaneously, perhaps....Except that Petrus is written in Java, and have no Java fu. I once successfully wrote a "Hello, World!" in Java, but that's as far as I got. Wish I could find one of these in tcl, perl, or python... I've been looking at the blogger api docs, and I find it a bit confusing. I wrote my LJ/IJ clients to work with simple HTTP posting, not xml-rpc, etc. Basically, there are some simple elements to posting to a blog: a) the handshake (identifying and authenticating with the server) b) posting. That must is cake, really...or so it seems. Sending a post via simple HTTP is rather uncomplicated, basically sending a plain text file identifying certain variables. Not too tough, as witnessed by my success in doing so for LJ and IJ, with my rather feeble hacker fu. But making my app create a suitable xml file will be a bit more convoluted and time consuming, in terms of generating the code. Anyway, I'm about to click three buttons to simultaneously post this to three blog/journals. In the future I may have worked out to do so without so much clickety clicking... post comment

[22 Oct 2009|09:50am] Okay...in this post, I am testing simultaneously posting to my livejournal and my new blogspot, simultaneously, via e-mail. Please bear with me... I've copy/pasted the post, also, here to IJ, using Petrus, which I have just learned also supports IJ (I had used petrus previously, and at that time, it did not...I made an RFP. Perhaps they heard my insignificant voice and implemented on my account?) This is because I have multiple blogs, and sometimes want to post the same articles to all of them. I'm considering taking the code for the blogging clients I have already made (Tickle Therapy for InsaneJournal and TKLJ for Livejournal), and combining them, then adding blogger/blogspot functionality, so that it will post to both the above mentioned LJ, and blogspot, as well as my insanejournal, all simultaneously. Currently, it seems the best way I have to post simultaneously is via e-mail...but e-mail posting on insane journal is only available to paid accounts. To date, there are other, incomplete solutions. Logjam will post to livejournal AND insane journal, but not simultaneously, and not to blogger/blogspot. One has to post to one journal, then reload the entry, change user, and post again. Petrus will post to livejournal and blogger/blogspot, but to do it simultaneously, one has to open two windows and copy/paste the entry to both windows, click two buttons to post. Now, enabling simultaneous LJ and IJ posting with my existing software will be easy enough, but I want a solution that posts to all three, simultaneously, without copy/pasting, and at the click of one button. So I'm going to write my own...possibly. Also, since the majority of my previous hacking efforts have been in tcl, I think I might try to do this in eithe perl or python (with perltk or pythontk for the gui). Additionally, my LJ/IJ clients use the old html posting method. I understand that is not an option with blogger/blogspot, and will have to learn to use the xml method, so I might as well learn and implement that for LJ and IJ, as well... Why not? I haven't dug into a hacking project in a while, and, I have way too much spare time on my hands. Of course, it's not like I couldn't better employ the time adding improvements to my existing software, but I get bored with a project and like to move on, and learning new stuff is always good. I will keep you posted of further developments, of course. :) -- BaldwinSoftware.com tcl yer OS with a feather? post comment

greenville uu used my uu art [29 Aug 2009|07:44pm] Look at this page, and you will MY art work. (they asked for my permission, credit me on the page, and link to my site) 1 comment|post comment

sueles dejarme solo [29 Aug 2009|08:24am] [ mood | no me hinches ] [ music | cabezones ] post comment

current screenshot [24 Aug 2009|11:29pm] [ mood | fuck off ] [ music | cabezones ] post comment

Anthony Baldwin on Last.FM [24 Aug 2009|08:09am] [ music | anthony baldwin - to lay me down ] I'm on Last.FM: http://www.last.fm/music/Anthony+Baldwin post comment

fue embora [14 Aug 2009|09:25pm] My wife called me from JFK airport today. She left the country, went back to Brasil. There's a possibility she won't be coming back. There's a possibility that she won't be allowed to come back, in fact, since her green card was temporary, and expired, and she hasn't been awarded a permanent green card. At this juncture, I don't know if that's good or bad news. I picked up the papers to file divorce today, before I knew she was leaving today, but, now it's about useless to file them, because I can't have her served. I might have to wait for another whole year, and file based on abandonment, rather than irreparable breakdown. post comment

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too funny...Cop calls 911 b/ c he and his wife think they are dying from marijuana overdose... [05 Aug 2009|12:24pm] post comment

foreclosure [03 Aug 2009|05:16pm] The bank has foreclosed on the house I live in. I don't own it, but rent. So, what did the landlord do with our rent money? Also, I don't know what is to happen with us, now.... Will I get my deposit back? We haven't received any official notice from the bank, or anything, but the management company guy told me today, the house is in foreclosure. Apparently we're going to have to move out soon, but I don't know how soon, and I don't know how this whole thing works. This has never happened to me before. 1 comment|post comment

I'm sorry... [01 Aug 2009|12:57pm] post comment

the doors of perception [27 Jul 2009|01:26am] I am a highly sensitive person, and experience certain, mild forms of synesthesia, which can, at times, cause me to experience sensory overload. On the other hand, this combination of phenomema, with the addition of mild OCD, I believe, contribute to my ability to learn languages, translate, create music and art, and learn computer programming languages. post comment

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