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Saturday, March 30, 2002Saving Money In Tasmania@ 09 pm | PermaLinkThis is how they save money in Tasmania from what Craig says: "- Gladstone, Tasmania http://www.12xu.com/au/savingmoney.jpg Previously, that same day...Wireless, Jason and Macy@ 02 pm | PermaLinkIt's been quiet around here because I've been swamped with stuff. Work has been nuts of late. That 16 hour day last Tuesday was just the start. Wednesday was the meeting for PersonalTelco which actually was a lot of fun, now that I've got a wireless card to play with. While I was there I got others to set up to access a Wiki that I was running on my laptop. For the Win machines everyone had to go in and set up their TCP/IP config to use a specified IP Address, since I wasn't running a DHCP server to assign addresses on the fly. Once they each had an IP address, they needed to hit *my* IP address to get to the server, since we had no DNS services. It's an interesting experience trying to set up a network from scratch, without the nice things DHCP and DNS and all those other services that you kindof get used to having and not giving a second thought to. This week was also the last week for Jason, one of oour Java developers. He's going to be taking his classes full time (Music classes) and so he's going to be off the project. I've been working directly next to for the past few weeks and we've had a lot of fun discussing the usual geeking things like the symantecs of latin phrases and singing along with They Might Be Giants mp3s. Some days were pretty long, but I did read some great stories on http://www.obscurestore.com. One that had been on a while back was about a woman near Washington DC who suffered from complete classic Amnesia. She knew nothing about herself prior to March 2, 2002. She's had three stories in the Washington Post, starting with the first one when we learn she's reveal her identity. I've been keeping track of the story through the Post's Anemic search engine. I'll include the first article and the most recent one in the Read more section. Good luck, Macy.
Friday, March 22, 2002CSS Div Layouts and When to use Them@ 10 am | PermaLinkThere have been some steps taken to put some rational thought into where and when to use Cascading Style Sheets for layout of elemetns on a page, and just what elements of a layout should use DIVs vs which should use tables. I would like to have a larger discussion about this because it seems to me that While Divs have been great for lots of stuff in the over-all layout of a page, I really seem to see less of a return when I'm trying to work with: Menus, Image captions, layouts that have comparison text, and other issues that tables work so easily for, and so flexibly. I really want to know how far to go with CSS layout.
Wednesday, March 20, 2002Polarized Lenses@ 12 pm | PermaLinkWhen I'm working on my laptop... while sitting at Pioneere Courthouse Square... In the middle of downtown Portland... soaking in the rays... and the free wireless Internet access via my new Lucent WaveLan Wi-Fi (802.11b) PCMCIA PC card... I must remember to bring my sunglasses that have polarized lenses... ...so I can see through the glare on my laptop screen. NP: New Order, "Love Vigilantees". (That song *always* give me the shivers...)
Tuesday, March 19, 2002HTML Link Bookmarklet@ 12 am | PermaLinkRather than working on my class sylabus like I should be, I developed and wrote up an article about a Bookmarklet that works like so: 1) Visit a page with your fav browser. 2) Select this Bookmark from your favorites list or bookmarks menu. 3) Type in some text into the dialog that comes up. 4) See the web page that has the HTML necessary to link to the self-same web page. 5) Copy and paste the link into your favorite HTML editor or other text entry system. (Like... Greymatter!)
Monday, March 18, 2002Follow up to Hard to Believe@ 08 pm | PermaLinkFlorida now says man can keep his ATHEIST plate Florida Department of Motor Vehicle bosses have reversed a supervisor's decision to pull Steven Miles's ATHEIST license plate. The DMV will now form a committee to review all tags "that fall into a gray area" before they are yanked. "I'm elated," says Miles. "Now I don't have to fight for what should be mine in the first place." (Read it) (St. Petersburg Times) (Via http://www.obscurestore.com/)
Sunday, March 17, 2002Split Infinitives@ 10 pm | PermaLinkYou know, I really never had an opinion on Split Infinitives... until today. My opinion is thus: "Fix it right, or leave it alone." I mean really! Look at this: NY Times: Look at that! "...volently to sever..." What - The - Hell? IF you are going to force a latin construct onto Modern English, at least try to make it *somewhat* smooth. Obviously this phrase was originally, "...for the colonists to violently sever the subtle links..." until some self-rightous copy editor got a hold of it and mangled a perfectly fine (if overlong) sentence into an awkward, teetering, obnoxoius pile of tripe! I mean, perhaps if this was the Time of London, or some other stuff paper, but this is an American mainstream paper. It's ridiculous! BTW, the little page about Split Infinitives is part of a great collection of pages. Previously, that same day...Defending the West@ 04 pm | PermaLinkI'm not sure how I feel about this article http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=105001688 (may require sign-in), but I thought it was worth sharing. I wish I knew more, first hand, about Islamic culture, something more than what gets forced fed from a world corporation.
Saturday, March 16, 2002Hard to Believe@ 08 pm | PermaLinkIt's a good thing we can express ourselves and that we have a country that allows for all people to believe as they wish... right? Previously, that same day...Monty Lego@ 07 pm | PermaLinkI love the Internet. You can find stuff like this. Read More for description.
Monday, March 11, 2002More Strange Things@ 10 pm | PermaLinkStrange things come to me on the internet. For instance, let's examine this line in my website's error-log: [Sun Mar 10 01:31:13 2002] [client 24.169.217.148] File does not exist: /home/~rosso/dork.html Who the hell was looking for this page... and why? At what point do log entries become insults? Of course the Nick Cave related e-mails are always the most strange. I won't bore you with the whole thing (I'll put it in the Read More text.) Here's one of the best lines:
I can't make this stuff up...
Sunday, March 10, 2002Extending MacOS 9 with Control Panels@ 11 am | PermaLinkThere are a few extensions and control panels that I nearly require for me to be able to efficiently use MacOS 9. Here's most of the Control Panels: Default Folder This guy helps me navigate through my folders on my hard drive when I'm saving files. Being a web developer, saving files in *exactly* the right place is eccential to getting work done. Getting it there quickly saves me hours of navigation each month. This used to be performed for me by "Click, there it is!" back before most of my apps used Navigation Services. Okey Dokey Pro Not so much a time saver as a frustration saver. ODP hits the Enter key. (Remember we're talking OS 9 here.) It generally does this for dialog boxes that take over your whole machine and won't let you do anything until someone (or something) hits the OK button. This can be really frustrating when you've set your machine to do something and then walked away, and then the computer just sits and waits when a simple OK would take care of things. Prestissimo 1.5 4 words: Double headed scroll bars. I use Prestissimo to place the little up and down arrows at each end of the scroll bars, an option that the built-in Appearance control panel doesn't let you do. I hate that. I run Prestissimo *once* when I first install the OS. And then never again. Prestissimo lets you do lots of other stuff, but I don't use any other function. Super Save There's two things that Super Save does. One: It hits Cmd-S every 10 minutes. It's Autosave for every single application I have. You do have to be a bit careful in Photoshop to always be working on Duplicated images of the originals, but that's a practice you should be into anyway. Plus, you can set which applications to be active for. Two: It captures your keystrokes and saves them to a file. I can't tell you how many times I've had a browser crap out on me just as I'm about to send off a web-based e-mail or after writing a long note to a discussion board. Each of these times I was able to go back into my little key capture file and reconstruct the pearls of wisdom that fell from my finger tips. (Italics added for sarcasm.) Tomorrow I'l list out some Extensions and Applications that I can't live without. Finally I'll wrap up with MacOS 9 built-in features that I've grown to love. Your assignment: Tell me how to deal with each of the issues that each of the control panels take care of when I move to Mac OS X. The Discussion board is open. Previously, that same day...Odd Mail Day@ 01 am | PermaLinkOdd e-mail of the week:
Attached to the mail was a file that had a .bat extension. If I was the reckless type I'd run it on my work machine, but as a few will know, I'm not reckless when it comes to computers. And yet, the mail gives such a great setting - a look and a feel for a whole story. Too bad I have *no* idea what the hell the person is talking about. Cmd-D.
Saturday, March 9, 2002Scarey Bo@ 04 pm | PermaLinkBo: If I recall, your nickname in some circles is Bo-bo. I have *never* heard of any scary person being named Bo-bo. However, there is a flip side to this question: *Could* you be scary? To this I have to give a whole-hearted, "Waaaah!" I have no doubt that with a menacing stare and the right pair of dark shades you could be the perfect dance-hall bouncer. Except that you giggle.
Monday, March 4, 2002Copyrights and Such@ 08 pm | PermaLinkAn interview between Negativland and U2's Guitarist, The Edge. In June of 1992 U2's publicist in L.A. contacted Mondo 2000 magazine on behalf of the group's guitarist, The Edge, with the idea of doing a rare interview concerning the group's Zoo TV tour and its use of technology. Mondo editor R. U. Serius then, without The Edge's knowledge, contacted Don Joyce and Mark Hosler of Negativland with an invitation to participate in the interview. On June 25th Negativland joined R. U. Serius to await the following call from The Edge in Dublin.
Sunday, March 3, 2002Holoalphabetic Sentences@ 10 pm | PermaLinkThis is courtesy of Jonathan Hoefler: You go tell that vapid existentialist quack Freddy Nietzsche that he can just bite me, twice. Mix Zapf with Veljovic and get quirky beziers. Baroque? Hell, just mix a dozen wacky pi fonts & you've got it. Murky haze enveloped a city as jarring quakes broke forty-six windows. A mad boxer shot a quick, gloved jab to the jaw of his dizzy opponent. The jukebox music puzzled a gentle visitor from a quaint valley town.
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