I caught Training Day recently. It’s a good film that dramatizes a real ethical dilema and contains some great acting by Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. Snoop Dogg has a cameo as a drug dealer (big stretch for him, eh?) that’s suprisingly good. Macy Gray does well in her even smaller part. I found Dr. [...]
I hadn’t visited in a long while (and I needed a good laugh), so I decided to surf Segfault.org. But they lost most of their content due to a server being repurposed (and them not having good backups). They’re in the process of reconstructing the site. Some of the articles are online already; they’re looking [...]
Wikipedia is an open source encyclopedia project. Do you know anything about anything? Of course you do, so why not contribute? It’s harmless geek fun that produces something truly useful. In these days when copyright and patent laws keep fencing off our common culture, it’s nice to see people creating knowledge that can’t be owned [...]
My latest freelance project (suemadison.com) went live a few days ago. We had some trouble getting the domain name forwarding to work. But now all is fine. It’s still a little slow to load. I’m going to optimize images and preloading when time permits.
Nancy played a great show tonight. I’m beginning to grow nostalgic about [...]
I was raised a southern baptist. It was at about my thirteenth birthday that I started to think of myself as an agnostic. And it was sometime during my time as a college undergraduate that I began to consider myself an atheist. So, for at least seventeen of my (very soon to be) thirty-two years [...]
You know you’re geeking out when you spend most of the night learning how to use vi (actually vim) just because, well, because you never really understood it before. I read a nice little tutorial over at linux.weblogger.com and I was off and running. Once I had the basics down, I spent a long time [...]
Good news for web admins (via dangerousmeta): Apache 2.0.35 is out. And, on the browser front (via Mozillazine), Compuserve 7 has shipped, powered by Geko (the Mozilla and Netscape engine) rather than Trident (the Internet Explorer engine). This could be the beginning of the rumored AOL migration to Mozilla in their next client (8.0?). Mozilla [...]
Things have gotten complicated here, in ways that I don’t feel comfortable discussing openly. If you’re in email contact with me, I’ll give you the ins and outs of the current drama. Otherwise, consider yourself blessed for being spared it.
Speaking of blessings, Bishop John Shelby Spong will be speaking here in Fayetteville next weekend at [...]
I’m getting close to the end of my most recent freelance project (I’ll post a link when it goes live). So it’s time to take out some ads or something and generate some more business. If you know someone who needs web design and programming work, drop me a line.
“Tricky” Dick Nixon used to be the leader of the free world. This fact never ceases to amaze me (via katecohen.com).