I needed this information and had a hard time gathering it from their online catalog, so … here you go. Three ladies t-shirt cuts (Gildan 64000L, 5000L, and 2000L) in their available colors, and with pertinent information.

Judging by the sizes of the women’s arms, I’m guessing the “Junior Fit” is actually quite a bit tighter than the other two. I’m hoping to gather that information as well. In my experience, feminine-cut shirts from American Apparel run VERY small, shirts from Bella run moderately small… and … I’ve yet to try these. So, we’ll see how it goes. I’m also going to try to take a little field trip to the shirt-print place today to see how these fit.

In the meantime, enjoy the chart. Oh, and if you need help getting YOUR shirts printed, let me know

A few days after moving this blog to a different folder, I realized all of my older posts had broken images. Luckily, the fix was a relatively easy find-and-replace in my favorite little MySQL client. Or even my unfavorite client. I used phpMyAdmin, and after making a backup of my database, it went something like this:

UPDATE `wp_posts` SET post_content = REPLACE( post_content, 'yoursite.com/OLDFOLDER/', 'yoursite.com/NEWFOLDER/' )

So, for example, if you blog was at cute.net/nyan and you’ve moved it to cute.net/ponycorns, and now you want to fix the broken image links, you would back up your database and run a query like this:

UPDATE `wp_posts` SET post_content = REPLACE( post_content, 'cute.net/nyan/', 'cute.net/ponycorns/' )

It’s just important to be sure to use enough of the old url that you’ll avoid replacing the wrong things. You wouldn’t want to replace ALL instances of the word nyan with ponycorn, right?

I hope that helps. If you need a geeky sort to do this for you, holla — I’ll take care of it & let you buy me lunch.

Oddly enough, I’d never written one of these before. But after much stewing over the matter, this is what I included:

1) A title that says what I’d do, and a subtitle that summarizes in a few short words, how.
2) Brief introduction to the project, and its current status
3) Goals and objectives. I’d say a goal is the overall… well, goal. Which is typically to make money, or inform, or whatever. The objectives are the measurable steps that help you know you’re meeting that goal.
4) My tasks with timelines and costs
5) What action they need to take to proceed

I spent lots of hours trying to figure out what to say and how to say it, and sadly (SADLY!), when all was said and done, the potential business partner got back with me saying that his investors were very excited and knew of some ways to accomplish those objectives without funding: in other words, without paying me. Now that they’ve got a task list and a great plan, they can hire someone cheaper, I suppose, OR I can keep working until the project takes off. Unfortunately my landlord doesn’t accept stock options.

Since this didn’t actually get me funded, I can’t decide whether this was a success or not, but I hope this information is straightforward enough to help you if you’re writing a proposal of your own.

O hai. I’ve been paying more attention to FB and Twitter than I have to my poor little old blog here, but I figured I’d keep these comments together:

Yesterday I told my friends they should ditch GoDaddy. This isn’t the first time I’ve joined in on a protest against GoDaddy, but this time because of SOPA, it apparently had some traction. Enough to get GoDaddy to back out on their support. So I tweeted something like this. GoDaddy no longer supports SOPA, but they worked for months to make it what it is? So all of a sudden they’ve had a change of heart? We have to remember here that the heart of any corporation is its profits. Of course they’d back out if their SOPA support began to hurt them where it matters most. But I wouldn’t be surprised if profit isn’t also at the heart of the reason GoDaddy was supporting, and indeed helping to craft SOPA, in the first place.

So when one of my friends posted that Nintendo had also backed SOPA, and asked whether we would boycott them, too, this was my reply:

I can see why Nintendo would support the idea of an anti-piracy act. There is a big difference between a non-US video game manufacturer supporting this and someone like GoDaddy working to tweak this bill to their liking:

- As an ISP, GoDaddy should understand that simply playing around with DNS isn’t going to stop the problem, and could lead to a lot more screwups

- As an ISP, GoDaddy (unlike Nintendo) isn’t having their stuff ripped off. At worst, some of their ads might be spread around the net as some kind of soft porn. Do you think they mind? I realize that very good people don’t have to be personally affected to fight for the right thing, but…

- As a huge ISP, GoDaddy could greatly benefit from shutting down smaller ISPs. I worked at a startup ISP years ago. I know how quickly we had to act to keep our services from getting shut down (by our datacenters, etc) in light of a DMCA violation. There are already laws and rules and standards of conduct in place here for US companies that go far to help this problem. The main “benefit” here would be that it could slightly trip up foreign companies who shouldn’t be affected by those same rules, but at what cost? Do we really want the government (or corporations they appoint) to be in charge of what we can and can’t see on the net? That doesn’t affect Nintendo in Japan. It WOULD affect us. GoDaddy knows this, but like any normal corporation, only “cares” how it affects their bottom line.

By the way, from my perspective, here’s how the DMCA violations typically went: We would get an email reporting a violation on one of our customer’s sites. This could be a video, a picture, a book, or whatever. We’d have only so many hours to fix the problem before they’d go over our heads to our datacenter to have our service shut down, so we would immediately contact the customer AND suspend their site. Of course we’d hear back from them right away, and they’d have X hours from us to remove the infringing material.

If they had a problem with repeat infringements, we’d notice and give them the boot.

How would that process work with SOPA, and how would it be more effective than what we already have?

(quoth the girl in the Mario shirt. So take it with a grain of salt if you’d like. I will hold off on buying Zelda Skyward Sword until this mess is clarified — but that has more to do with my personal finances this Christmas ;-p)

A photobooth shot I happened to take two nights ago... in my mario shirt :-p

Jesse’s argument, by the way, was that we should fight the elected leaders who are pushing this through, particularly Orrin Hatch. I couldn’t agree more that this particular senator’s ride should have been over years ago.