hmm, lin is in the 47th percentile of surname popularity in the us. it's also in the 87th percentile of female first names.
joe utsler's site is really neat. it's well designed and clean w/o being boring and soporific (like my site) and has a clear sense of organization and sections. eventually i'll have to develop a cms where i articles, permanent features and blog postings, and everything else under the sun (well, at least some other interesting things) coexists peacefully on mysql. that's the goal for the summer. anyway, back to utsler.com, i really like his grade 5 time capsule. i wonder if i'll ever be organized to post up (or at least have captured) any of my old stuff one day.
blogger is up. too tired to post my backlogged posts. my friend gordon (whom i'll be travelling to sxsw w/ next week) has his own blog now - personally i think that garamond is a bad choice for fonts. if he wants to go serifed (or non-verdana as the case may be) he should try georgia, which is much easier on the eyes... non-related usability observation: many blogs don't have named anchors to individual posts. blogger doesn't build that in and doesn't really offer a human-convenient way of doing it (ie, i use the <$BlogItemNumber$> tag for each post, but that has no relation to the date/time/order it was posted, and i can't have an anchor just to the date, etc.. something i have to remember when i get a chance to eventually work on some content management code (working on several related projects with that once i get some time and breathing room). hmm, brilliantly convoluted writing courtesy of lack of sleep.
oh, i found a cool weblog analyzer that doesn't force me to compile all kinds of libraries ala some analog frontends i've yet get the time to play with and now maybe never will have to. this webalizer really does look slick. of course, i could write my own evil javascript queries to find out all the gory browser/system details that the extreme tracker gives as well.
jizz! it's in german but sf-fan.de has production pictures of the new sci-fi channel 6 hour miniseries of dune. dune's probably my favorite science fiction novel of all time. i remember reading it quite a few times back in middle school (strangely enough, my first introduction to dune was through the original (cd-rom version) virgin software dune game that was bundled w/ a multimedia kit i got).
ok, fanboy raving aside: chani looks like some drugged out crackwhore in the photo and stilgar's eyes are way not blue enough. the fremen have blue within blue, the eyes of ibad. however, the sets do look cool, they probably haven't finished post, the new gurney looks a lot better for the role (patrick stewart is awesome, but he was just the wrong guy for the job- same sentiment applies to lynch) and gurney's knife rocks.
yay, i'm remembered. ;-)
interesting bruce sterling article on the future of business at fortune
figuring out the proper way to use the <BlogDateHeader> and <BlogDateFooter> tags makes me appear slightly less psychotic in my postings.
i liked the way the hyperoffice.com site looks so much that i signed up.
random foo rhymes with log.nu, nqpaofu, jahoo!, le temps perdu, , and strange brew. incidentally, also half rhymes with desuetude, oneswellfoop, and depending on how it's pronounced, alamut. ok, i'm missing some but i'm getting tired. not even going to try for apocopated or other type of near rhymes.
hmm, that was a really long post to do on whim. my procrastination kung-fu is the best. it will be a looong night...
next on the avoiding schoolwork todo list: learning listproc.
i hope ev gets better. i've been thinking it's sorta weird the connections we make. i've never seen him or even spoken with him...
yay, looks randomfoo.net has propagated. kick ass!
hugo weaving, agent smith from the matrix, has been cast as elrond in peter jackson's lotr adaptation. what a badass.
there's a much easier way to mod up the old promise controller card it looks like. what the hay, it's $30, i bought one to try out...
reading a relatively new article about zend and php4 by zeev. pretty interesting
hmm, a good mp3 player w/ 4.86GB capacity... but it's $749. doh.
palm seems to have done well for itself today. i of course didn't get in on it, but i do have a tiny bit of 3com that i bought in 1998. it's was a poor performer, until i checked back on my inactive datek account and was stunned to see it doing... well.
i'm now officially skipping my sculpture class (2-5pm). i'm still working on my design/cutlist. that means i have tomorrow afternoon, saturday, and monday morning to finish all my woodworking.
i just installed an extreme tracking doohickey because i'm too busy/lazy to set up analog properly right now and tailing logs has lost it's appeal. my dns update should kick in soon, so randomfoo.net might work soon. still have to set up my apache vserver. did i mention i'm falling behind in all my classes?
i couldn't resist. i preordered the mdh soundtrack from cdnow early this morning. also got a pvd single and some rare on the air type stuff. it's too bad that there won't be a ground beneath her feet single. i really like the song. amazon has a free liquid audio version, but i'm not linking to them currently for obvious reasons.
nasa may deliberately crash galileo in 2002 to avoid possible bacterial of contamination after it's complete its extended mission. in other news...
Crash Galileo into Europa as Pre-Emptive StrikeScientists warn we shouldn't rev ourselves into a tizzy over this. Any life on Europa, they assure us, is of the single-celled variety, at best. Of course, such a declaration is clearly just a smokescreen to prevent us from reaching the obvious conclusion: At this very moment, super-intelligent giant squid have their siege-rockets poised beneath Europa?s half-mile ice shell, ready to launch their imperialist onslaught. These sub-mariner beasts intend to take control of our peace-loving planet and mine us for the rich iron supplies stored in our hemoglobin. Yes, the jovian devil-fish plan to render our blood for precious structural iron, needed to build more of their planet-hoppers. Their ultimate plan: To flood the canals of Mars as a space-squid vacation resort.
At night I can hear the transmissions from their communications satellites resonating in my fillings; the hideous, scheming clacking of their beaks has rendered sleep an unattainable fantasy. They intend to devour our dogs whole and use our sports-utility vehicles as punch-bowls for their post-conquest banquet. They monitor our radio transmissions, love our mariachi music, and yet despise our hip-hop. These are truly monsters.
How long will the scientific community continue to feign ignorance of this exo-cephalopodic threat looming under Europa?s dark plutonian shores? And how long will it be until our own squid-- trusted friend and snack-- turn on us? As the first earth-dweller to fully recognize the very real threat of worldwide Europan conquest, I enjoin you: We must take up arms against this sea of troubles, and by opposing, end it.
heheh, awesome. my friend just got a pair of these.
this is pretty funny, followed a link on evhead onto this jobsearch rantblog. yeah, the googlegear site looks lame, but lemme just say, i like computer stuff and glow sticks. ;-p
now that i've decided to not bother registering my name server (too much hassle w/ domain bank) and just using a free dns, i must say that ultradns rocks the friggin' house. yet another cool thing that centergate research has done (they also donated computers to our linux lug!)
if this is true, then i guess i'm not as mad about waiting for my fight club dvd(s).
i'm almost cheap enough to try out this promise raid hack.
i've taken to going to random blogs from the recently updated blogs list on whim recently. i don't know why. i should be asleep.
neet, i've recently gotten hits from nicaragua and poland. weee. i should really install some tracking software. tailing logs are fun, but not really good for getting good stats. (i'm sure if i set up analog properly, i could get it specific enough, but maybe i'll just use some free tracking service instead. much easier)
one of the founding amazon.com programmer's statement on the 1-click patent.
hey everyone, sign this: An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos
new /. thread on the amazon patents. in there is a link to Tim O'Reilly's response on the whole deal. the /. thread also has some other good links and commentary.
hmm, well, seems like blogger is back up. seems to have been out all morning.
i looked this up this past weekend because it occurred to me in my writ340 class for some reason. anyway, here's the dec software performance report on vms's y2k leapyear behavior. good for a chuckle and very detailed. this was back when the day when men were men and computer engineers were thorough (1983 - actually, more like when rock stars were androgenous ces wore pocket protectors).
oh a discussion on last night's horrible xfiles episode at /. and also, while your at it submit your questions for the /. interview with jakob nielsen. i used most of my recent moderation points on that thread. oh, and via camworld, there's a stating the obvious article about /. and how it now has bias and isn't independent, blah blah blah. /. has never been about "editorial distance" or lack of bias, so that's not a huge deal. the main thing to keep in mind is that /. by and large posts news. if users submit it, they will post, and if they don't, we will complain loudly. we submit the stories, but more importantly, we populate the message threads, we moderate, and we meta-moderate. /. just provides a convenient meeting space. basically, if the community feels that there's abuse going on, you'll hear it where it counts - in the message threads. and if nothing gets changed, we'll leave. because of va linux's association, we will be suspicious, but that's not going to make /. useless because va linux doesn't own /. , we do.
holy shit, this lego millenium falcon is impressive. via oonie.com
in real space news, nasa bags on boeing for billion dollar cost overruns on the space station. remember when this thing was supposed to be up in space 5 yrs ago? they spent more money delaying this thing than it would have originally cost. i'm going to calm myself before i launch into my it's the year 2000, where the hell are my personal servant robots diatribe.
i supposedly have all my dns stuff set up, but i'm just going to let it sit until i get a response from domainbank.com before i restart named. i'll probably do my next name registrations from dotster or something. i've heard good things about them recently.
open srs is pretty damn cool.
i'm on the blogger blogs list now. i feel so special.
in other meta news: got named almost setup. soon my domain will live. ;-)
jz has his new adobe web center column up. i've been giving some thought about customer relations / process, since i'm going to be freelancing this summer. i think that what i'll do to save headaches for maintaining updates is either just buy a copy of Dreamweaver and figure that in my solution price, or write my own / use an existing templating solution (FastTemplates or WebProcessor). ssi probly woould work too.
