I contributed my first file to iStockPhoto late last week. It’s been approved and added to their collection of royalty free photographs. I’m the only “wheat” on their site, so if you search by user name, you’ll find it. Twenty-two other people have downloaded it so far, which makes me smile. I have several others [...]
SSH recomendations
In these days of increased internet security, many web hosting services (including the one you’re currently soaking in, jtlnet) no longer allow telnet access. But any hosting service worth its weight in salt allows access via telnet’s more mature cousin, secure shell (SSH). On the Mac, the best freeware SSH client I’ve found is [...]
Gina B-Day
We celebrated my wife’s birthday last night at Uncle Gaylord’s, a nice local restaurant with a cozy bar. A dozen of our friends showed up (many bearing gifts, which we hadn’t anticipated) to celebrate with us. It was a great time. Thanks to all of you, sincerely. I know Gina enjoyed it.
AbiWord, the great open source word processor from AbiSource is now at version 0.9.4. The latest release is, like every previous one, a significant improvement. AbiWord gets my vote for the best open source alternative to MS Word. Grab a copy and try it out.
I knew chimpanzees were smart and had been taught to communicate with sign language and the like, but I was amazed by an account I read today about Dr. David Premach and ‘Sarah’, one of his most successful language-using chimps: “Premack and his colleagues taught this chimpanzee not only to read and write the names [...]
Because I’m a good guy, I’m up at the office (on my own time, mind you) finishing up a video I’m working on to teach the kids about our new tutoring program. And if you’ve ever worked on video you know that digital editing often means a lot of sitting around waiting for the software [...]
I’ve been reading Andrew Solomon’s The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which is quite an interesting read and an odd book: part memoir, part scientific study, part treatise. It’s well researched and impecably well written.
I feel good that I cleaned house and visited my father today, but I’m fealing guilty and anxious about some [...]
I’ve used blogger for a few years now to keep my online journal. When I first started learning php, I rolled a really simple CMS that I might eventually expand into something good. But moveabletype comes out today, and I’m definately going to download a copy and give it a try (Steve is a beta [...]
I’ve been waiting for a while now to see Pollock. I had a good feeling that it would be a great movie, and I wasn’t at all dissapointed. Ed Harris does an amazing job on both sides of the camera. It’s first rate. Treat yourself to it.
I have at least one thing in common with Dave Thomas, the grandfatherly old guy from the Wendy’s commercials (who also founded the company): we were both adopted at six weeks of age. Dave has started a foundation to encourage adoption (and it might qualify for the longest domain name in existence–31 characters, and that’s [...]