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Family Photos from Winter 2007

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:25:00 -0400

I've posted several collections of photos taken over the past few months:

Photos of Luke during December

Luke's first Christmas

Nephew Jack's 4th Birthday

Luke and his Christmas toys

Luke and his new Tigers hat

Luke at nearly 10 months

Backronym Generator

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:15:00 -0400

You provide the acronym, we'll make up the meaning!

I've written a PHP script I call a "Backronym Generator". The purpose of this script is for the user to enter a word that is intended to be the resulting abbreviation of an acronym, and upon submission the script will "make up" the acronym's constituent component words.

For instance, if you enter the word: TEST

The result might be:

Trident Earache Stabbed Twang

(This really was once generated by the script)

You can try out the script here:

http://www.opbarnes.com/revacron/revacron.php

And you can get your hands on the source code here:

http://www.opbarnes.com/downloads/revacron.zip

Family Photos from Fall 2007

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:28:00 -0400

I've posted several collections of photos taken over the past few months:

Luke's first Halloween

Thanksgiving

More pictures:

Pictures of Luke, November 25, 2007

Pictures of Luke, December 2-22, 2007

GrowlMail and Leopard not getting along?! Here's a solution

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:37:00 -0400

Last weekend I upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard, and one thing that doesn't seem to work with Leopard is GrowlMail* (a Growl Extra). After missing Growl Notifications for Mail.app a lot, I decided to search for a solution. After some googling, I found this on Kevin Way's blog:

"I wanted a simple system that would notify me whenever I received an e-mail from somebody "important", but not for every new message that hit my inbox."

"I tried GrowlMail and Mail.Appetizer, but found them both unsatisfactory. I finally decided that what I really wanted was a growl message to appear for messages from selected recipients. Something with the name and the subject of the e-mail, like this..."

This seemed a lot like what I needed, with the exception of the only receiving notifications when email from "important" people arrived part. So, here are my slight changes to Kevin's instructions:

Open Main.app and add a rule named "GrowlMailScript":

If any of the conditions are met:
Every Message
Perform the following actions:
Run AppleScript: ~/AppleScripts/GrowlMailScript.scpt

Careful! When you're finished making your new rule, Mail.app asks you "Do you want to apply your rules to messages in selected mailboxes?" Be sure click the "Don't Apply" button! If you don't, you may be bombarded with a "new mail" notification for every email you've ever recieved all at one.

Open a finder window and create a folder called "AppleScripts" in your user folder (this new folder will be a sibling with "Documents").
Now, you'll need to create the "GrowlMailScript.scpt" script mentioned above. Fire up Script Editor and paste the following script into the edit window:

        on perform_mail_action(info)

            tell application "Mail" 

                set selectedMessages to |SelectedMessages| of info

                repeat with eachMessage in selectedMessages
                    set theSubject to subject of eachMessage
                    set theSender to sender of eachMessage

                    tell application "GrowlHelperApp" 

                        set the allNotificationsList to ¬
                            {"New Mail"}

                        set the enabledNotificationsList to ¬
                            {"New Mail"}

                        register as application ¬
                            "MailScript" all notifications allNotificationsList ¬
                            default notifications enabledNotificationsList ¬
                            icon of application "Mail" 

                        notify with name ¬
                            "New Mail" title ¬
                            "New Mail from " & theSender description ¬
                            theSubject application name "MailScript" 

                    end tell

                end repeat
            end tell
        end perform_mail_action

Save the script (using File->Save As... when the Script Editor is active in the menu bar) in your new "AppleScripts" folder with the name "GrowlMailScript.scpt".

You're done! Send yourself an email to test it out.

* Tested with GrowlMail 1.1.2

Pictures from late summer

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:51:00 -0400

I've posted a bunch of pictures I took later in the summer (August 9 - September 22):

Ben's 30th Birthday Party

On September 22nd, we celebrated my friend Ben's 30th birthday party. We started out at 1999 Tavern, then went on to Sean O'Callahans, then ended up at Doyle's, all in Plymouth. Thanks Becky (Ben's wife -- she planned the night) for a great party!

Labor Day Weekend at the lake

We spent Labor Day weekend at the Lake. Lucas and Aunt Nicole met for the first time!

More pictures:

Plymouth Orchards

Pictures of Lucas September 15-22, 2007

More pictures of Lucas

Some more pictures of Lucas

Mom and Dad Barnes' 60th Birthday Party

Even more pictures of Luke

Caden and Logan's Birthday Party

Grandma and Grandpa Barnes visit Lucas

Yet more pictures of Lucas

My cousin meets Lucas at a turnpike plaza by chance

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:48:00 -0400

On our way home from our summer vacation this year, we happened to run into my cousin Tess on the Ohio Turnpike when we stopped to get a bite to eat. We happened to have our camera on us so we took some pictures; you can see a few of them here.

Pictures from our summer vacation

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:42:00 -0400

I've posted a bunch of pictures I took during our summer vacation at the lake June 30 - July 15:

Mommy with Lucas before we leave for the lake

A day at the lake

Another day at the lake

18 Pictures of Luke chillin'

Drew & Amy, Chris and Caron visit us at the lake

Mom and Dad Barnes visit us at the lake

44 Pictures of Luke chillin'

Sunset on the lake

Neil and Andrea visit us at the lake

Our friends Ben & Becky, Neil & Andrea visited us at the lake on July 8th, but we all neglected to take any photos.

I've also posted some pictures of Luke at home after our vacation July 16 - July 20:

Back home after our Summer Vacation

More picture at home after our Summer Vacation

Pictures of Lucas at home after our Summer Vacation

More pictures of Lucas at home after our Summer Vacation, and with Dr. Hayes

New pictures of Luke posted

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:49:00 -0400

I've posted a bunch of photos taken of Lucas' between May 21 - June 13:

Pictures of Luke and his Mommy

Lucas sleeping

More Pictures of Luke and his Mommy

Lucas and Grandpa D.

Lucas in his swing

Wiegers and Barnes' on the Pontoon

Luke with Godmother Andrea

Luke Sleeping

Lucas: A day in the life

Luke makes faces in his carrier

Luke and his Daddy

A Day in the Life of Lucas II

Comments system fixed

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:38:00 -0400

As a result of the move to dreamhost.com I accidentally broke the comments system. I've fixed that now. If you notice any other problems, please let me know by posting a comment to this post.

I plan on posting some new photos of Luke soon. In the meantime, here's a recent picture:

A new web host for opbarnes.com

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:05:00 -0400

My annual web host fee was about due so I decided to switch web hosting companies. I chose dreamhost.com because I've heard good things about them and they're running a good deal right now. I'm getting 500GB of storage space, 5TB of monthly bandwidth with the deal. They're advertising it on their website, so go have a look.

If you see any problems with the website since the move, please let me know by posting a comment to this post.