What follows is instructions to get Railo, and thus ColdFusion support, running on a server stack that doesn't support it out of the box.

A few notes:
To the best of my knowledge and testing, installing Railo will not interfere with the default Apache, MySQL, or PHP's ability to serve pages. Also I am posting these instructions in the event you want or have to put Railo on a DV server. If you’re just looking for solid Railo hosting, I suggest VivioTech.

Also, This guide assumes you have at least basic knowledge of VI or its sibling VIM. If not, head over here to get yourself acquainted.

That in and of itself isn't totally surprising. What is surprising is Jobs' admission that Apple probably would have never even started if he and Wozniak hadn't messed with phone phreaking.

It makes me wonder what Jobs really thinks of Jailbreakers.

I was a fan of Hyetal’s work before I knew his name thanks to Cexman’s brilliant Archbroseph Mix.  The song in that mix, Gold or Soul, is simple yet vast. This track is a level up.

Hyetal - Phoenix

The Secret Sun by Tanya Johnston

I don’t have much to offer right now other than three songs, loosely related.

I love Ffffound, and I love that despite my inescapable cynicism, thousands of people are somehow able to trudge through and make excellent stuff.

Here’s to a rainy weekend.

Yulquen - Autechre
Departures - Closer Musik
Absence - Clark

Sara got me a print of this Chad Hagen piece that had been making the rounds:

I get the general method of how he constructed it, even if I didn’t match it aesthetically:

I had fun constructing this, it was akin to playing with legos. Today on Reddit someone asked, “If your twelve year old self saw you today, what would he say?” He would probably say that that thing was pretty cool. Then hopefully he would get a realistic sense of perspective on his age and enjoy the hell out of being twelve.

Maybe being 25 isn’t that much different.

In supplement, here’s a shot of the print framed and lit:

I’m particularly proud of that lighting solution I’ve concocted. I’m sure it will make Ben proud.* Especially when it falls down in the middle of the night electrocuting my right foot.

*I believe this is one of Ben’s clamps, too.

Do It - Joker
Radiates (Joker Remix) - Primary 1 & Riton
Purple City - Joker and Ginz

Black Friday. I slept in and wiped and updated/jailbroke my iPhone to 3.1.2. What a colossal pain in the ass. I had to borrow Sam’s SIM card 4 times before I got a clean install and activation. Also I made this for my bootup and  lock screen:

Saturday. Migraine,but only a 4 on the Jake scale. Ask me what that means sometime. Also, watched Singing in the Rain:

Understatement of the week: Gene Kelly and Don O’Conner were talented. It’s on Netflix streaming if you’d like to watch.

Sunday. Farmer’s market. Out to Sea with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Not great, but funny enough for a Sunday. Makes me want to watch “The Odd Couple” and call everyone a moron.

Just received this email from Media Temple:

Recently we witnessed some malicious activity on our (gs) Grid-Service platform where a hacker redirected some customer websites to a 3rd-party advertising website. This attacker appears to have illegally obtained some older customer data, which included usernames and passwords stored in clear text. Our newer systems now have this same data encrypted. An investigation into this illegal activity is ongoing, with full details forthcoming.

My reaction upon reading? “THEY FESSED UP! NOT MY FAULT! ”

Except they’ve only sort of fessed up. It’s not referenced on their blog or their status page, which sucks. They do have a KB article which describes the same attack my sites and some client sites experienced. Also, there’s Twitter, I guess. There better be a sweet espionage book deal out of this, and I want my name in it. 4pt font is fine.

They’ve reset the admin passwords on a bunch of my client’s accounts, yet no where in the emails do they tell me which account they’re referencing. Let’s play “Try the login!”

At least now when someone asks what happened I can say with confidence, “Don’t worry, it wasn’t my fault, it was the fault of the hosting company I recommended. Your invoice is due on Friday.”

1. Good news! The Expression Engine HTACCESS nightmare was my own fault. I accidentally uploaded an htaccess file to the parent of all the domains on my shared hosting account. So it propogated down to every site unless that site had a specifically defined its own rules. Sorry everyone.
2. Our sites were hacked! Probably by some drive-by Wordpress exploit but still, it hosed nearly every site on our hosting account and embedded itself into our Wordpress database tables in case it wanted to come back for more.
3. I’ve setup Amazon S3 sync with Media Temple using this guide. It’s slightly intimidating but completely doable. Don’t get discouraged by terminal errors,double check your typing and that you’re in the proper directory for each command, (use ‘pwd’ to find out your current location.) I estimate that backing up this site and its database shouldn’t cost me more than a dollar a month. Allow me to explain using complex maths:
   
   2GB data uploaded @ $0.17/GB + 2GB stored @ $0.10/GB = 54 cents.
   
   I believe that’s called “worth it.”

Those are the questions still dogging me over this Expression Engine URL business.

I can’t ascertain why EE has stopped behaving on my site and other sites on this Media Temple account, the same one I should note, hosting Mr. Domanico. This person, who at this point has what I can only describe as technological Stockholm syndrome, has somehow evaded this curse.

Further, and I ask you directly EE, how can you receive the perfectly reasonable request of www.jakemauer.com and serve http://jakemauer.com/jakemauer.com/html/index.php?/http://jakemauer.com/jakemauer.com/html/ as your response? I asked for a hamburger and you gave me a party sub made out of toothpicks and mayonnaise.

This window into insanity only occurs if I remove my recently duct-taped htaccess file, something I won’t inflict on you the reader because I know that would only result in the harshest of gazes, which is to say, no gaze at all.

The weirdest part in all of this as that at some point overnight, EE healed itself partially, allowing me to log into the admin interface without using the specific url. To this I can only say, “???????”

Honestly Expression Engine, I don’t mind that you require your modrewrite woobie, but at least explain to me why I should continue let you suck your thumb when there are perfectly mature alternatives.

It has just occurred to me that my life is currently boring.

Now look at my nerdiness!

I want to mention that although the content of this post took me 5 minutes to put together, Expression Engine decided to be a huge jerk about a week ago and stop redirecting certain URL strings, which made posting this take 3 hours. I still haven’t figured it out, which is especially frustrating since domanico.net seems to redirecting URL’s fine. (By redirecting fine I mean a URL like http://domanico.net?URL=http://google.com works fine.)

It turned from minor annoyance into a bigger problem when it prevented Windows Live Writer from working properly.

Digging around I found that adding the following line to my htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^(ACT=.*)$ [NC]

fixes Live Writer and adding this fixes my URL redirect problem:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^(URL=.*)$ [NC]

So that my redirect block ends up looking like this:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^(ACT=.*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^(URL=.*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5})$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/({ee:template_groups}|members|P[0-9]{2,8}) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

I’m still trying to get my admin panel redirect to work properly. I’ll update when I do.

Awesome. Times Two. Thousand.

Damon sayz use Akkurat instead. I only use fonts that don’t sound like countries and/or one of their exotic animals. Just kidding, I’m not fontist-I’m cheap.

Original Blog
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This was mostly meant to act as a reminder that I have a ton of photos to flickr-ize, Right after I figure out life.

Full Instructions on Instructable

If you’re unaware of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, aware yourself.

Orignal Page
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Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day our garlic bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. Ramen.

I spent at least 7 straight hours of my day in front of Google products, specifically adwords and wave, but let’s throw gmail and search in there for good measure.

Yes I got a wave invite and began to use it. First impression? The idea is solid, the implementation needs work. It also needs Chrome, don’t frustrate yourself with it in Firefox.

No ffffound tonight, I’m ready for bed. Mmmmusic instead, depending on the current time of day.

Kaleidoscope (Feat. Jónsi) - Tiësto
Omega Man - Fred Falke
Stop Talking - Memory Tapes

I shot portraits of my friends in 2007 and they’re still as funny as the day we shot them. I’ll find excuses to post more of them soon.

1. Pay attention to both colors at the ends of your gradients, the color affects the gradient even if it’s set too 0% opacity.
2. Use clipping masks when working with vector shapes and gradients or other non-solid color fills. Using pixel based selections and fills will bite you in the ass when you need to resize the whole document.

Original on top, mine on bottom.

Original flickr page
original ffffound page

Fuck. I have a lot of photos. Can I post photos from 2006 on flickr? Would anyone care? Wait…no one cares now. Perfect!

So there, expect old photos, made new again, on flickr.

Original page
original ffffound page

*look at that, Kobun was on flickr.

Original is ze top, mine is ze bottom.

Original Page – Cultural Domain
original ffffound page

No context for this one, just the found page.

Original on top, mine on bottom.

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Also, I desperately need real fonts. I’ve got the fonts I used up there, Wingdings, and a broken font that only makes boxes. And Helvetica.

My nephew Ben is participating in a class project where they send a “Flat Stanley” out to someone across the country or across the globe and hope to receive a postcard back with some interesting info about their friend’s home.

Since a single postcard is lame I took Stanley with me everywhere this weekend.

Stanley arrived last Friday and spent the night in a makeshift sleeping bag.

Ted attempted but failed to eat him.

He hung out while I got a haircut.

And stowed away when I went to the climbing gym.

He heads home tomorrow, a little late, but with way more than single postcard; at least 4 postcards! Yeah!

Original on top, mine on bottom.

Original flickr page
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Originally I wanted to use this but it wasn’t going well. I’ll return to it later.

Instead I went for the easiest shape in the universe: circles. Circles done by Bridget Louise Riley, who until this posting, I didn’t know about. Thanks ffffound!

What I like about my drawing is I ended up making offset circles instead of perfect geometric inlays. Take that, graph paper. 

Original on top, mine on bottom.

Blog page - But Does It Float (fantastic blog)
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I would suggest stopping what you’re doing and viewing these photos that the satellite Cassini took of Saturn and her rings. They are astounding. I want to travel to space more than anything.

I only spent 5 minutes on this one.

Original on top, mine on bottom.

Source from Boston.com’s Big Picture
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The biggest lessons I learned this time are that Illustrator’s system of handling gradient colors sucks. I’m still using the peasant's Illustrator, CS3. I can’t be bothered to jump through the flaming hoops of CS4 activation. However if they improved the damn color picker, I might have to.

Anyways, this was a rabbit’s hole and it took me nearly an hour just to come up with someone that didn’t look like it was done in KidPix.

Original on top, mine on bottom.

Original Creator’s Flickr page
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Original on top, mine on bottom.

Original by Mario Hugo
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So instead of answering with a guilty huff I’m attempting, as an exercise, to recreate a ffffound piece in 5 minutes each day. I spent around 12 minutes on this, and tried not to look back at the piece that often. Actually getting it down to 5 is going to be fun and tough.

The idea isn’t to plagiarize or idolize any specific artist through mimicry. It’s practice. It’s gesture drawing. I need to get it down to just 5 minutes, and not worry about how it looks.

Original on top, my gesture on the bottom.

Original Ffffound page
Original link