I’m angry, NuSphere, a company whose distribution of MySQL, PHP, and Apache I’ve used and even helped support with a kind word in a press-release or two is playing dirty pool. Specifically, they’re in violation of the GPL. You can read about it at MySQL.com. I should note also that NuSphere has bought the domain [...]
Still on the old movies kick. Recently watched To Catch a Theif and A Streetcar Named Desire. Too busy to note much more than that.
Yesterday was Jamkat’s birthday. We joined him a JRs for a drink or two. Over the weekend, we hung out with him and his girlfriend Anne and watched Blackboard Jungle which was uneven but worth watching. Gina and I also watched An Affair to Remember and Waiting for Guffman.
I can remember when HTML didn’t have [...]
I’ve been reading Don DeLillo’s latest novel, The Body Artist. So far, it’s great. If you’ve never read DeLillo, check out White Noise. So now I can move one book from the list of things I should be reading to the list of things I actually am reading (and that’s a good feeling).
Finished the Martin Scorsese documentary. Tasty quote from the end of it: “[movies] fulfill a spiritual need that people have–to share a common memory.” Worked quite a bit on Tawn’s site. The demo version is here (this is the IE5/Win version. It won’t look as good on a browser that correctly implements the W3C standards).
Cool things I picked up at the local public library today: Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, Pat Metheny Trio 99 –> 00 w/Larry Greenadier & Bill Stewart, Various artists The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz Vol. 5 (revised), Martin Scorsese A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (two-DVD set), and Sham [...]
While cleaning out some storage space at work yesterday, someone found an Apple IIgs (the complete system with two floppy drives, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and printer). I tried to fire it up, and it does, but it doesn’t seem to be able to find its operating system. I did a little research on the IIgs [...]
Web designers who prefer hard coding to WYSIWYG apps tend to come in two varieties: those who really know their stuff (and hard code because the WYSIWYG app slows them down or limits them) and those who know practically nothing about design or coding but who just think it’s cool to do things the hard [...]
Time to ramp up on Tawn’s project and finish it (fear not, muchacho). I’m going to have a lot of extra time starting tomorow. So all is good. I see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Looks like the lab we’ve been talking about creating for over a year is not only going to [...]
Clever: An anonymous hacker with a good sense of humor hacked one of my pages recently. The page is a guide to Linux. He added an entry called “Hacked” and defined it. True to his (her?) word, no other files were touched (in fact, the intruder didn’t even upset the pattern of indents in the [...]