http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog Notes, memoirs, and ideas Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:10:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For a new project I've been working on, I needed to pull the image attachments from all incoming mail, store them separately. I couldn't find any snippets online for this so I had to create my own. Here's what I came up with. As always, it's a ... http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2010/03/pull-attachments-from-incoming-mail-with-perl/ I've had a lot of requests to turn some of my Twitter apps into mobile services. Most companies, like Twitter itself, use Short Codes (like 40404) to accept and send txt/sms messages. Short codes are very expensive (the cheapest solution I found started at $500 per month for ... http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2009/09/receiving-and-sending-text-messages-with-php-and-imap-2/ Just to keep my blog semi updated (seems I'm just letting this place collect dust), here's what I'm working on for today. This design won't be used. I liked where it was going, the client didn't. Figured I'd share it before I toss it. Also, I'm working on something new ... http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2009/09/a-design-in-the-works/ After a week or so of very hard work, we decided trying to clean everything up and restore the house was a futile attempt. Everything we really wanted to save/couldn't afford to replace immediately was cleaned up, boxed, and stored at my brother's house. After a couple weeks ... http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2009/08/an-update-on-the-house/ A friend needed to push/send items from an RSS feed to his Twitter account. Here's the code in a nice .zip file. Very simple and rough, but it gets the job done nicely. Feel free to add to/modify. http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/KSDtwitter.zip http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2009/08/push-rss-feed-to-your-twitter-feed/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY[/youtube] http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2009/05/the-vendor-client-relationship-in-real-world-situations/ I've finally had some time to actually look through the pictures and videos I took on the first few days. No video will ever be uploaded, but here are some pictures. Two days after the flood and it was still much higher than usual My side yard with one of my ... http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2009/05/more-flood-pictures/ My house was flooded on Friday night/Saturday morning (around 3am). Nothing much else to say so here are some pictures. More pictures located here: http://hellokevin.com/flood. http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2009/05/flooded/ My friend Aken (@cryode, Cryode.com) pointed this out. Full screenshots: http://hellokevin.com/files/upload/fb_profile.png http://hellokevin.com/files/upload/fb_profile2.png To change yours, scroll to the bottom of Facebook, click English (US) to bring up the language menu, and select "English (Pirate)" http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2009/04/facebook-pirate-edition/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdQj2ohqCBk[/youtube] "Cute, fuzzy...let's show it to a friend!" At this moment, that video has just a dash over 8 million views. That's not really any news for a youtube video. Hell, Avril Lavigne's video for "Girlfriend" has over 118 million views (Most Popular YouTube Videos, Alltime). Back to the kitten video ... http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2009/04/youtube-math/ My latest project, SecretTweet.com, has been getting noticed by a few major names in the world of news. LA Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/02/like-postsecret.html New York Times: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/anonymous-confessions-go-online-with-secrettweet/ And it was on Fox News, too: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRt30l_memw[/youtube] http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2009/03/getting-some-press/ Huntington was recently hit with some fairly harsh snow and I snapped a few photos predawn -- wanted to get pictures before sidewalks were salted and such. And I just returned from NYC. I didn't take as many pictures as I had planned -- too busy having fun and hanging ... http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2009/02/nyc-and-misc-photos/ Here are the two remaining pieces.  I rushed while taking these pics.  The first piece is my favorite.  It has faults all over it but it helps the character.  I put a cone 10 glaze on it but it was only fired to cone 6.  I started to refire it ... http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2008/12/ceramics-part-two/ EDIT: Just realized there's one more piece that I didn't take any photos of. Will include photos of it when I get the other pieces back. Today was the final critique in ceramics.  There are still two or three of my pieces that weren't fully cooled from firing so I ... http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2008/12/ceramics/ Shouts & Hollers is an online "ezine" of sorts that is published by Charleston, WV, area bloggers.  Bill Gardner got in contact with me to answer a few questions regarding a recent sideproject of mine.  Read it here. Thanks Bill! http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2008/11/an-interview-with-shouts-hollers/ Via http://www.polyp.org.uk http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2008/11/word-harder/ Bored and playing with different tools in Illustrator. http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2008/11/unicorn-flatulence/ We've been working with Flash in my Intro to Computers in Art class and I wanted to play with with Flash a bit more than the assignment I've been working allowed me to (even though the assignment has allowed me to play and learn quite a lot, a clock wouldn't ... http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2008/11/awake-time/ My roommate lives off Chinese takeout and McDonalds.  Here's a menu with an amusing typo. Going home for the first time in a while this weekend.  Happy Birthday, Dad! http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2008/11/buffet-all-you-cat-eat/ The assignment: "Create a vector-based self-portrait. Using the photographs we've taken in class as a guide, make a vector-based self-portrait with Adobe Illustrator. The object of this project is to be as visually detailed and honest as is possible while using only strokes and shapes. Illustrator-based effects such as blurs, ... http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/2008/11/vectorized-self-portrait/