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So there hasn’t been any posts lately, but I hope to have some soon, there’s more Subversion I could go into, and always some reviews to do on various MySQL applications that I’m never happy with.

This post I’m trying out the “Blogging Bundle”:http://macromates.com/blog/archives/2006/06/19/blogging-from-textmate/ for “TextMate”:http://macromates.com/ where you can write up some “Textile”:http://textism.com/tools/textile/, html, or whatever in TextMate and invoke a command to post it up to your blog. This is kinda neat. So somewhat geeky but what else happens on this blog? Anyway, TextMate is pretty awesome.

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I just played with “Google Calendar”:http://calendar.google.com and I like it quite a bit. It’s simple to add events like in “Apple’s iCal”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/ and has some pretty cool sharing and invitation features. You can subscribe via the iCalendar(ics) standard too, read-only it looks like. It would be awesome if you could edit & view from a calendar app like iCal though. But so far impression is very good.

So I just watched the “gameplay video”:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198&q=spore for “Will Wright’s Spore”:http://spore.ea.com/ which I recently saw linked on “VGCats”:http://www.vgcats.com after “my friend”:http://nismoduck.blogspot.com/ mentioned it. The level of depth in that game just seems too insane to be for real. I’m seriously hoping that will come out for mac right away or I’ll have to fetch me a PC to play that because that just looks like a load of fun.

So I just implemented the usage of “Lightbox”:http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/ on a work project since I wanted to make a full-image-viewer from clicking on thumbnails but did not want to have to go dig up the javascript for it etc. I then realized lightbox would be perfect since it’s usage on my blog. Lightbox isn’t anything new but it’s damn cool I must say. This just after being psyched about implementing “Ajax-powered drag & drop”:http://php.macsaresexy.com/sort/ on the same project, downside is the drag & drop doesn’t have a non-javascript method yet.