august 2003
Sunday, August 31, 2003
- nelson.monkey.org How to keep Blosxom from getting hammered.
- futurama quote A quote from Bender the Bending Robot
- counting crows “rain king” A song from back in the day. But the album it’s coming from is fitting: August and Everything After.
- cgi working Blosxom seems to be working now. I think.
- pathetique Man, it sucks to be alone when you’re trying to stave off PTSD.
- crazedmonkey.com Via trail. How to make Blosxom serve static pages sometimes and dynamic pages other times.
temporarily back in business Continuing to have problems with Blosxom and
mod_rewrite.Saturday, August 30, 2003
more bits and pieces Links to things that might be helpful in setting up a website.
gun shy I was robbed! Seriously!
Thursday, August 28, 2003
memes and the arrow of time A meditation on the not-quite cyclic nature of time, and how both the linear and circular models of time may be correct simultaneously. Soundtrack: “Clocks” by Coldplay and “Time after Time” by Cyndi Lauper
Wednesday, August 27, 2003
time Y2K was a bust, but maybe Y2K+38 will be something quite unexpected. No one seems to be in a rush to adopt 64-bit time stamps.
- running amok Committing suicide: the difference between white people, East Asians, and Southeast Asians.
even more simpson quotes Choice quotes from
Arnold SchwarzeneggerRainier Wolfcastle and Ned FlandersTuesday, August 26, 2003
trainedmonkey.com And more via trails.
- duderesearch.com More via trails.
- www.bogusmove.com Via trails.
- med school fear of blood desensitize This Google query leads to an [old blog entry][38]. Despite dealing with bleeding literally almost every single day, I’m still not immune from syncopizing from a vasovagal reaction at the sight of my own blood. [38]; http://fatoprofugus.net/foobar/2001-10-24-1202-0600.html “jack the ripper • foobar”
- http_get Blosxom plugin to arbitrarily pull any content from the Internet. Likely to cause time outs and heavy load on your shared host.
- wifi everywhere Pervasive/ubiquitous computing on the way
Monday, August 25, 2003
- radiohead “the bends” Reviewing one of the best, and most underrated albums by Radiohead
Sunday, August 24, 2003
- windows is insecure The sobig.f debacle. I can’t believe people actually trust their data with Windows.
- bits and pieces
Fixing the
archiveplugin for Blosxom. The right way to nest lists. - unordered lists and css
- interpolate_pseudoxml revisited
- interpolate_pseudoxml A plugin for Blosxom that makes it just a tad easier to use an XML editor to work on your templates.
- pool and blackjack A dream about chance, wagers, and Charles Bronson.
- to all the girls i’ve loved before OK, I admit it. I’m a Julio Iglesias fan. Somehow, a few of his songs have gotten attached to some of my recurring dreams. And somehow Unreal City—this bizarre amalgam of L.A., Chicago, and NYC—keeps popping up in my dreams, too. Styling unordered lists
Saturday, August 23, 2003
the gender genie A little script that supposedly is able to tell the gender of the author of a scrap of text.
embedded markup considered harmful Back in the day when the specs were new, RSS was atrocious, and no one could parse it. One of the things that caused aggregators to choke was embedded markup. Although in all honesty, I never did understand what the problem was.
Friday, August 22, 2003
more quotes from “the simpsons” Moe Szyslak has a way with words.
quotes from “the simpsons” Homer Simpson is my hero.
dream academy “life in a northern town” These days, I’ll catch some of the lyrics of a song, and I’ll just type them into Google, and voila! This is the song that was sampled for Dario G’s “Sunchyme”
splattered Blood, sterile technique, and mortality.
“kid a” by radiohead My interpretation of this awesome song.
Thursday, August 21, 2003
airport (802.11b/g) Discovering the beginnings of pervasive/ubiquitous computing, and the wi-fi revolution.
something good is gonna happen Finding mp3 blogs. Kate Bush “Cloudbusting”. Utah Saints “Something Good is Gonna Happen”
Monday, August 18, 2003
divine intervention Procrastination is like masturbation. It’s a lot of fun until you realize you’re only screwing yourself. Someone needs to save me from myself. Seriously.
blog wars Flame wars move from Usenet to the blogosphere
creatures of the night A dream about art, vampires, and werewolves.
Sunday, August 17, 2003
a definition of existentialism The Camusian variant. Maybe not the most optimistic guy in the world.
pervasive advertising Philip K Dick predicts the future once again. The first application of pervasive computing is going to be—you guessed it—advertising
dhtml lemmings Reminiscing about playing Versus Lemmings on the Commodore Amiga. Now it’s just a Java applet you can run in your browser.
notes on remotedotcomments Making Blogger and remotedotcomments play nice. The dangers of not quoting properly.
an exercise in the commoditization of culture If you have a tatoo that consists of Chinese characters, or of kanji/kana, you should at least know what it says. Nothing says “tool” like having a tatoo you can’t read. And white people better start learning to tell Asians apart. Because there better not be another internment if Kim Jong-Il goes a little nuts.
Saturday, August 16, 2003
how to add writebacks Allowing comments on Blosxom 2. (Likely seriously outdated - Ed. 2008.01.02)
sbc ameritech dns servers In case you need them, although I imagine it would be difficult to navigate the Internet in the first place without setting your DNS server.
and then the morning comes Talking about religion while inebriated. A loaded comparison between Roman Catholicism and Buddhism. The dangers of drunk-dialing.
keychain: always allow Annoying dialog boxes
my adventures with apache Enabling virtual hosts on Jaguar (10.2)
Friday, August 15, 2003
- marmosets A very strange dream
Thursday, August 14, 2003
- second post! Not particularly edifying
- first post! Abandoning my kludgy homebrew blogging system and adopting Blosxom