Archive: January 05, 2003
Jan 3 on Simplelinks was a good day, but they'd better get permalinks soon or I'll just have to fart on their heads (think T&P). Well, ok, just noticed they have monthly permalinks. Close enough.
Check out Content Management Design, Credit Card Validation via the Luhn Formula, and The GUI Toolkit, Framework Page
The Living Torah Journal: How to seek the truth
The funny thing is that I didn't mean to spell fun that way and started to correct it, but then left it in for the punn value.
The joy of drawing Venn Diagrams
Here's mine:
Firefly, by Joy Bushnell
And an article about the belated pilot from NY Daily News.
Via WHEDONesque, of course.
I should really get the MP3 of the theme song from somewhere if I can.
Woo, thanks Wavsite.com (it's available for the episode "Train Job"). You can download it here too.
That's why Perl6's OO isn't going to look like that anymore 
Finish CMS (again, almost done, but I need to get it right and learn from Struts more), finally get XML-RPC up to version 3, then actually get my site working over the blogger API so I can use w.bloggar again, then do things like put the e-mail address back in the comment form so it's easier to subscribe, actually make my RSS aggregator less half-assed, which will allow me to have a "blogroll", etc. I also want to include a "recent posts" section that'll display recent titles of weblog posts.
From Julian: Stigmergy and the World-Wide Web, and AOL may be doing blogs but I don't have a login for CBS Marketwatch, and you probably don't either, so just take his word for it.
Via Chris: Even You Can Do It
But I'll tell you what: ideas are fucking worthless. Anyone could do FilePile. I could write MetaFilter in a day. The only thing special about the code is that it was written.
See, I really like Erik's site, and I'd love to be able to just type all my links in one big textbox and not have to do different entries, but unfortunately that A. makes it mostly impossible to have coherent comments (for which you should have one focused entry for discussion) B. Makes the whole day's worth of links (in other words, the same post with more/different content) show up in my RSS aggregator every time he adds a link -- so rather than just showing new or updated posts, I have to wade through the whole thing again. However, if you have discipline and always add stuff at the top or bottom (not sure if he does this), a reader could learn what hasn't changed. On the other hand, this is why he has time to get so many good links out there every day.
Dave Winer may have one of the best situations. He can edit his weblog in an outliner, which automatically permalinks top level entries, but he can edit like it's in one space. That's probably why he says everyone should use outliners to edit their weblog. Unfortunately, his format isn't comment friendly either.
So anyway, this is why I hate doing "link catchup" posts... the problem is that my aggregator is now getting totally unwieldy... there's way too much there for me to read every day, but I always get a lot of... screw it... no more typing... brain too tired.
Always good for a laugh, funny code comments at Slashdot.
I think I was hallucinating trying to sleep before... it wasn't pretty. I don't know what my brain was doing. Plus, (and maybe (damn porn AIM IM popping up) this is the reason, my armpits were itchy -- they're doing bette (fucking 'nother porn IM) r now.) On a side note, I almost passed out when I farted before... read this neat article about Schroedinger's Cat, and shit I forgot what else I was going to say.
Oh yeah... my brother found papers my mom and dad had written in college. I read my mom's paper, it was short, and not that great. Had to be done on a typewriter (God I'm glad I never had to do that)... kind of weird to read a paper written by a dead person. I mean, I guess we read stuff by dead people all the time, but this was like a snapshot of my mom's writing probably when she was younger than I was. Whatever, it's strange to me.
Plus, best smiley ever:
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If you ever hear "hey, free dummy", this is where it came from.
Via Mark, Kuro5hin: What the Future Holds for Microsoft:
Making a machine "easy" to administer is another thing that is hard to do in practice. Of course you would like to minimize the number of settings that users can select. But a lot of times you need to give the user a choice of what do do, because computers are so complex. So you have to allow two or three or ten choices for some particular setting. Then you start making assumptions like, If the user selects this, then they probably want to do this also. So do you do that for them? You may be right and save a novice user, or you may be wrong and annoy a power user.
Yeah, son of a bitch. XP (which I continue to dispise whenever I use it) screwed me when I was working on someone else's computer. Someone before me had disabled some networking connections, which actually had the non-obvious effect of actually disabling the hardware. It took me a few minutes to realize the reason why the computer wasn't showing up on the router even though it was plugged into it was because the freaking ethernet card was disabled in the device manager. Bad XP!
There was actually some interesting discussion (though you have to hunt a little) in this recent Slashdot post. One neat link out of a few gleaned from it was EJB's 101 Damnations. Also check out the rest of their articles including one on JavaServer Faces (which I have yet to have a clue about what it is (but I think it's supposed to replace JSP??), so maybe this'll tell me)
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