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I'll trade you s...
I'll trade you some negative inches for your overhead; I built lower under the theory I could add more later (in practice, haven't bothered). Though what would really improve the desk now is a keyboard of independent halves.
-- (September 20, 2013) on tuesday 2013-09-03 1034
I'm liable to be...
I'm liable to believe that's still pine's fault; what it should be doing is translating the Unicode characters to punycode for internationalized domain name compliance. The error message's failure to display the punycode instead of Unicode characters indicates pine probably didn't do that.
mutt seems to handle sending to that address without problems.
-- (March 18, 2013) on saturday 2013-03-09 1339
Ha, I thought I ...
Ha, I thought I fixed that "to" to "too," looks like I broke it more.
-- (March 7, 2013) on thursday, 2013-03-07 0006
I guess it needs...
I guess it needs an epilogue, doesn't it. Maybe the cliffhanger is more dramatic. Indeed, I have returned safely. The visa being extra credit, essentially, gave us a couple seconds delay in immigration while they decided how it would expedite our passage (ironic). It appears to have saved us something, but what is not clear, and they readily explained how a transit visa wasn't required - we could even have saved them for next time.
There were definitely people in Lagos who marked our out of place skin tone, one of whom tried to convince us he could get us into the elite ticketing line, implicitly in exchange for a little something. As if. Also, Lagos is too crappy an airport for an elite line to matter. It's the definition of hot mess: no A/C, meaningless lines, people shoving and shouting their way through any choke point. I learned quick how to make it out of a "line": with your elbows and a bad attitude towards your fellow man. We ran into Rudy Giuliani on the way through (seriously - Candidate 9/11 sweating his squat, ugly, Yankee-loving face off, a disgusting politician for a disgusting airport). We had four hours to get from our flight to the next one. We needed every second.
I try not to hate. Lagos deserves it.
When we got back to Atlanta, all of ICE's computers were down. I had hours to make my flight but with thousands of people backed up waiting, I started to expect to miss my connection home. They basically started letting everybody through without question. Somehow I made my flight, and even more amazing, so did my luggage.
America seemed very weird for a couple weeks. That's for another time. Are you back?
-- (July 7, 2012) on sunday 2012-06-17 1333
Ready to roll....
Ready to roll.
-- (April 12, 2012) on thursday, 2012-04-12 0454
What fun. I hav...
What fun. I have noticed that there is definitely some magic in painting our severe, future overlords with the unpredictable, swirling vagueness of water.
-- (February 21, 2012) on thursday, 2012-02-16 1821
That's an attrac...
That's an attractive idea. Tell me more.
Hey, it's all fashion. One of these days somebody is going to get all excited about implementing a new interface over the entire web, and we'll have Web 5.0: Desktop-Like Edition.
-- (September 13, 2011) on saturday 2011-09-03 1112
To each his own,...
To each his own, though I should cop to various digital devices still holding ground near my sleeping arrangements. Just not work-related ones.
-- (April 11, 2011) on thursday, 2011-03-17 2256
The small town b...
The small town bar is certainly more predisposed to generating friendly interaction in contrast to city life. There are so many millions of urban people crammed up against one another that some measure of polite distance is requisite. We don't have the capacity to spend our social energies every day on total strangers, unlike the local watering hole where regulars can afford (if they so choose) to spend their collective friendliness on the occasional new face or two.
But that's part of the value of a public square. Culturally it may not mesh well with our more-capitalist-than-socialist, North American social dictates, but in Mexico, a public square is requisite for any semblance of a civic community, be it a backwater hardscrabble subsistence farming pueblo or Tijuana or Mexico City. And the comparatively vast age of Europe grandfathers in its centralized, square-based cities to our modern day as well - visible even in colonial Boston planning, what with its Kenmore, Copley, and innumerable other localized squares.
Still, if it's the place you want to go (and it certainly is a social filter of sorts), then it's the place in the city you can go, free of commercial pressure. In cities of millions, a public square helps reduce the weight of such numerous anonymity by providing a neutral space for people to meet. Whether that's for existing friends or making strangers into new friends or something else entirely is up to the neighboring population it serves. It is, to me, an outlet for one of the things that does make a city so vibrant: in a place that's bursting with possibilities, there's a well-known rendezvous for making those possible connections reality.
What makes a community is, at its base, the connections of communication. I am, of course, being totally idealistic. What do you think?
-- (January 10, 2010) on wednesday 2009-12-16 1721
Space separated ...
Space separated values with ISO-8601 date formats is where the data would need to go, then some JavaScript config to tell the graphing package how to graph. I do keep wishing there were more generalized, powerful, developer-user friendly graphing or visualization packages out there. Matlab in DOM-friendly JavaScript?
-- (January 10, 2010) on saturday, 2010-01-02 0413
A couple of comm...
A couple of comments about TB3.0. The new search is great, but I only ever used search previously to filter a folder I was looking in. I can see its utility and the evolution of mail to go well beyond a per-folder paradigm. Still, I changed it immediately to the mode I'm already used to.
Tabs are of little note. It's nice that the tab session is saved, but it would be truly useful to have the drafts I was working on retained in a session as well. Everything else seems gratuitous considering how I use mail. Again, it could change, but so far not really.
Integration with Mac OS X in Spotlight and Address Book is long-awaited and very welcome. Now if only it would do AppleScript or operate from the command line properly.
The biggest complaint: the lack of a compact header pane is a major mistake. The headers otherwise take up a substantial amount of space in a three-pane display. It quite literally looks awful: I am full of awe that anyone considered it a good idea. I installed CompactHeaders not long after I finalized my switch.
-- (December 31, 2009) on thursday, 2009-12-31 0216
A simple ad-hoc ...
A simple ad-hoc system is to add a dot-qmail file that covers all addresses that start with a specific prefix, like
nospam-*@example.org, so any email address likenospam-emusic.com@example.orggoes to the same mailbox. To cut off spam from that spammer of a company, just make a dot-qmail file nospam-emusic:com that automatically trashes it to a blackhole.
-- (August 27, 2009) on monday 2009-06-08 1537
There will be no...
There will be no photos dedicated to chard in this space, not unless something phenomenal occurs.
-- (August 25, 2009) on wednesday, 2009-07-29 0356
That's an intere...
That's an interesting way to approach the problem. Maybe I'll use something similar and make a catch all with a certain prefix or suffix in the username space. With the way dictionary spam attacks go, I'd be a bit concerned about the volume of spam attracted by a subdomain. But the larger point about enabling my laziness in creating those fake addresses is a good one, thanks for sharing the idea.
I don't envision ever needing to send mail from these fake addresses, rare enough that should the need arise I can just flub it with pine. As for visualizing which address the spam goes to, maybe it's time to modify my Thunderbird setup a bit. I have high hopes for the extensibility of the next version of Thunderbird.
-- (June 22, 2009) on monday, 2009-06-08 1537
I'm a fan of eco...
I'm a fan of economic behavior modification - particularly recent studies on quitting smoking. There's a poignant difference between parents taking kids out to their favorite ice cream parlor for doing well and the educational institution paying out cold, hard cash - in a word, love. It should be no surprise that primary and secondary education fail to inspire recognition in their pupils that learning is its own reward. Replacing caring, personal attention and self-motivation with money is a true modern American solution. Oh for the day when the best schools are also the ones that pay students the most for their grades.
I'm more eager than ever to see this paper.
-- (June 10, 2009) on monday, 2009-06-08 1558
To which campus ...
To which campus do you refer, or shall I find out via a different communications channel?
-- (May 18, 2009) on monday 2009-05-11 0331
Did you know we ...
Did you know we have access to recordings of Rachmaninoff? That blew my mind. His compositions are full of that strength and raging passion, but his performance, that translation of mere notes and dynamic markings, is just beyond.
Melancholy, there's another apt descriptor for pieces I feel drawn to. I'd highly recommend Chopin nocturnes for more melancholy.
-- (May 14, 2009) on monday 2009-05-11 0331
I suggest we try...
I suggest we try to avoid using language that only a certain subculture would understand. Saying things in a different way may be helpful for all involved, and I must admit selfishness in doing so, because I think the set of language is too restricted in Christian circles and that serves to lull real discussion into familiarity, and that's a pet peeve.
But I also suggest doing so because I know part of the difference can be attributed to language. I'm not using "eternity" language by design, and I think that that's in some ways not helping the discussion along. I guess it's at least worth keeping in mind that that's part of where I'm coming from.
While it may be interesting (or even necessary at some point) to stray down conversational paths about underlying philosophical foundations, my main assertion is that Farmer's compassion has the capacity to be redemptive and is not simply ultimately worthless (given a certain set of assumptions about him hold true). I have not said (and will continue to avoid saying) anything about his "eternal" fate, if only to keep my main point clear. As I said previously, what he does reverberates in the lives of those around him. I can't say down to the last mote what that may imply (not just for him) as time passes into forever. With the giant scope of human life over time, I think what we can see is a mere fraction.
-- (May 14, 2009) on thursday 2009-04-30 2144
I'd like to get ...
I'd like to get the collected works of Chopin. Rachmaninoff is appealing. Right now I'm working on one of each, along with classic Beethoven - stuff I once had memorized. There's a lot out there, I'm thinking of adding Rimsky-Korsakoff's The Flight of the Bumblebee in and pursuing some Debussy too.
There are probably practice rooms around here for pros, but free is the key. Maybe raid piano stores?
-- (May 13, 2009) on monday 2009-05-11 0331
You weren't kidd...
You weren't kidding about being visual. Yes, that's the vampire deer.
-- (May 12, 2009) on saturday 2009-05-02 0207
Discussion is hi...
Discussion is highly valuable to me, and I appreciate your engagement in it.
I don't disagree at all about an individual's choices having personal ramifications. The difference in our approaches to this is in how individualistic the concept of 'impact' is understood. Everybody leaves a legacy amongst their community; I don't think that's nullified based on a person's particular doctrinal belief or lack thereof. That legacy may or may not have eternal implications; there's no way we can know with certainty what precisely they are. The ways in which decisions of integrity decades ago can shape today or decisions out of paucity of character can serve as warning (or something else entirely) are far, far beyond our ken.
-- (May 12, 2009) on thursday 2009-04-30 2144
Love your friend...
Love your friends. Love your enemies.
He ran away and burrowed into a hole moments after this photo. I realized I'd never actually seen an animal burrow and disappear before.
-- (May 11, 2009) on sunday 2009-05-10 0017
There is an alge...
There is an algebraic assumption about impact I don't agree with. It may be clear that dropping an egg from a tall building without any interference will result in a messy sidewalk; much of the rest of humanity is not governed by any rules we can discern. Which is good. Creation and the kingdom of God are not reductive formulae with solutions.
There is a disconnect between agreeing compassion is worth celebrating and subsequently calling it judged worthless. What are we to make of that difference? It can't be both, can it?
-- (May 11, 2009) on thursday 2009-04-30 2144
This isn't limit...
This isn't limited to the medical field. Anybody can fail to love vocationally, regardless of what benefit their vocation is to society. As it is, I think the church has more to learn about compassion from Farmer than he does from the church, which, I think, has no exclusive claim on the matter. Our worldview is too small when we choose to not recognize compassion from outside the church as worth celebrating, examining, and even adapting - that is, since God exhibits compassion, it reflects Him no matter where it's to be found.
-- (May 10, 2009) on thursday, 2009-04-30 2144
I would hesitate...
I would hesitate to draw too firm a divide between divinely inspired compassion and human compassion. He is imitating God's character in choosing to suffer with the oppressed (in part because of the tenets of Catholic liberation theology), and that seems pretty close to inspiration to me.
-- (May 8, 2009) on thursday, 2009-04-30 2144
Beautiful. Than...
Beautiful. Thanks, Jesse. I also found the command line history feature to be pretty useful, in combo with what I assume is a ~/.vi_history sitting somewhere, to repeat substitutions across files. I'm sure I can do that with emacs and just haven't bothered learning, but I do find myself doing emacs substitutions instead of sed or something else across files often enough that being able to type :%s<up> in vi and get the substitution I just did on a prior file an extreme time saver.
Emacs was installed on that environment as part of an upgrade, so now I have a net to fall back on. But I'm still going with the practicing vi thing - if there's nothing major to learn from a project, go with the little things... Maybe it's time I incorporated explicit copy buffers into the flow too.
-- (April 16, 2009) on sunday, 2009-03-29 0437
dubbed The vi Ma...
dubbed The vi Man, Jesse. Visual mode hits the sweet spot for sure. Dare I ask for insights on replace? I pull a basic text replace or RegExp replace from time to time in emacs, when I can get the syntax right. Anything of the sort in vi? I think my major block actions would be on par by then.
-- (April 7, 2009) on sunday, 2009-03-29 0437
Emacs has the ^-...
Emacs has the ^-space, ^w/esc-w method of cutting / copying arbitrary blocks of text without bothering about line boundaries; I think it also has a rectangle definition mechanism as well. Having to count lines before cutting (or yy for copying) them is a distinct drawback to moving the cursor. I keep thinking there has to be a way to move the cursor to the beginning / end of a line while in editing mode, but I haven't found it yet, and ^a also works in my shell of choice.
-- (April 3, 2009) on sunday 2009-03-29 0437
Seeing as one of...
Seeing as one of the reasons this cleanup seemed to work was booting out "problem tenants" (and introducing them elsewhere - so is that a solution or a deferment?) suggests that exhibited cleanliness isn't the active agent itself. I'm not well versed in sociological theory, but I would be disappointed if simply sending in a janitorial crew was the prescription of the broken windows proponent.
-- (March 3, 2009) on friday, 2009-02-20 1745
How's the transa...
How's the transaction delay?
After having not logged in for months (years?) to my Mozilla add-ons account, I found they're using Timeplot as the chief statistical plotting mechanism for users to track their add-on deployment. Sweet. I'm waiting for some patches to roll in one of these days.
-- (February 6, 2009) on monday 2009-02-02 1715
Well. The feed ...
Well. The feed keeps reporting that it has new items by making all the old ones look like they're new. The feed validator claims it's fine, but there are some problems with it in the reader I use. Also, there's a blog posting that's not yet in the feed despite being published more than an hour ago. Did they hire someone to generate the feed by hand?
-- (January 23, 2009) on tuesday, 2009-01-20 1911
Add another two ...
Add another two black bears, one running across the street in Sequoia National Park (for which the guy in front of me slammed his brakes; nice, but it was already across the road before you ever got there), and another foraging around a major tourist trail. Also lots more deer and elk, but whatever. Herbivores are less interesting.
-- (October 15, 2008) on sunday 2008-09-21 1035
She claimed a fa...
She claimed a fall rodeo was the main attraction. I guess we can add Volus McKenna to the roster.
-- (September 28, 2008) on wednesday, 2008-09-24 2047
Also, turn on yo...
Also, turn on your headlights when you're driving through dense fog. Please. I don't want to rear end your disastrous crash. Yes, I'm looking at you, Oldsmobile from Illinois.
It's amazing the droves of bad drivers that migrate to national parks. Why tailgate in a region where you're guaranteed to have to stop suddenly for wildlife? I've had to avoid a bear, multiple deers, and bison so far. There needs to be a driver's entry exam.
-- (September 22, 2008) on sunday, 2008-09-21 0020
I'll be sure to ...
I'll be sure to keep my eyes open for disc golf courses. Think they have any in Yellowstone?
-- (September 17, 2008) on sunday, 2008-08-17 2032
Well, see, it's ...
Well, see, it's not really the south. It's just the Appalachians and Florida. Aside from poor Atlanta and higher population density segments of Florida, I know nobody within that substantial zone. But Texas and maybe New Orleans are indeed on the list, particularly now that hurricanes have come through yet again. It may be time to do some more demolition work.
-- (September 17, 2008) on tuesday, 2008-08-19 1824
If I didn't know...
If I didn't know you had a scooter, I'd think someone associated with this thing was posting as you. I say scam. The claim appears to be more finely splitting gas droplets with hydrogen and making... better?... explosions for driving pistons. There are claims of suppression by Big Oil and terms like "magnetic vortex" in association with what sounds like a solenoid.
Some more investigation finds "Ozzie Freedom" to have been a scammer in previous incarnations under a different name. Whatever it is, it sounds like it's picking on the inefficiencies of contemporary combustion engines and high gas prices to promote a pyramid scheme. I'm sure there are scientific ways to improve an engine, and I'm sure this isn't one of them. Look up water4gas on Google, it's filled with URL's that are variants on the name. I'm pulling your link ;)
-- (August 20, 2008) on tuesday 2008-08-19 1824
It's wonderful d...
It's wonderful driving through New York if you're of the other mindset. Then the passing lane is basically open road. Except when the max 67 drivers decide they have to pass the max 66 drivers, right now, doesn't matter if there's a caravan of max 70 drivers who all want to pass the lot of them right behind. Then it gets a little sad. Look back more than one car in your rear view and sides, please.
I was resistant to the idea (lame Yankee drivers), but I came to the same conclusion. The passing lane is almost certainly better before a certain percentage of capacity; after, it no longer matters. You get brief stretches of open road before you get muddled into the next pack.
-- (August 2, 2008) on saturday, 2008-07-26 2202
Well, so much fo...
Well, so much for choice. I didn't make it to the area until a few hours after the tour on Wednesday.
-- (July 25, 2008) on saturday, 2008-07-19 2350
I heard Missing ...
I heard Missing Sync was the only truly Mac-ethos like solution out there, but it turns out the software RIM packaged in for Macs has worked the two times I did a BlackBerry and Address Book sync. I can live with that for now.
In a different world, the 3G GPS iPhone would have come out two months ago (and activated properly), and I'd be much more content. Instead, another 20 months until new phone time. Though who knows what transformations these spaces will undergo in two years.
-- (July 14, 2008) on wednesday, 2008-07-09 0111
Presumably the s...
Presumably the slickness of their viral buzz generation is what I'm reacting to. The movie stands or falls on its "what will happen next??" factor. Once you know, you find out it wasn't worth knowing.
-- (January 26, 2008) on saturday, 2008-01-19 1911
If I understood ...
If I understood it correctly, the FDA ruling asserts there's no difference between cloned and natural offspring, therefore there's no compelling requirement to label it outside of "irrational" consumer fears. I think labeling was actually the substance of the decision. We're so late to the party that they already decided we don't need to know anything about what we never wanted in the first place.
-- (January 18, 2008) on tuesday, 2008-01-15 1954
I'll get to Open...
I'll get to OpenID login one of these days, but just so it's clear to any random reader, one only needs account creation to leave a comment, not to read anything. Everything that's public is already out there; logging in gets you no greater access. There's a handy dandy link in the bottom right corner of every page to a contact form as well so you don't have to leave a comment to reach me.
As for your question, I used Google with the following search: "poplar hill school" site:ryanlee.org. The sole result comes from my news feed aggregator, which pulls together things from around the net and not from my own writing. I'm afraid I haven't said anything pertinent to that topic.
It's probably time to take that page out of the Google cache.
-- (January 14, 2008) on friday 2007-08-10 0558
Have you tried l...
Have you tried logging in with your username on Xanga? Croissanga fails if your account is in a state that requires a security code (captcha) for login. I'm not clear on every situation that prompts a security code; the only one publicized is when a failed login has occurred five times or more in a row. Also, Xanga may occasionally force you to change your password.
-- (November 15, 2007) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
Which version of...
Which version of WordPress are you using? The latest Croissanga has no problems with 2.1.3, though I see 2.2 has been released.
I may or may not have a chance to look at plugin compatibility.
-- (June 1, 2007) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
Croissanga has b...
Croissanga has been updated. Thanks for the reports.
-- (April 29, 2007) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
Nice to hear fro...
Nice to hear from you, thanks for taking a moment to stop by. I know, it's odd for me to take on aspects surrounding and related to your film before I ever actually watch it - you certainly know better than me whether the point I'm trying to make is salient or off base.
I may watch it simply because you asked nice. I do think what bones I have to pick about the state of celebrity in this country are inextricably bound to the concept of heckling. Perhaps I'm wrong and you've managed to sidestep the issue. I suppose I shall see.
-- (April 17, 2007) on monday 2007-04-16 0252
I can imagine th...
I can imagine they don't play well together, or that they'd cause a timeout while trying to do both postings. Which LJ cross-poster, exactly (a link?), and can we carry this conversation over to the BAC page instead?
-- (January 12, 2007) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
A childhood with...
A childhood without email is a wonderful thing. An adulthood? I can't imagine. Maybe that's a problem...
-- (January 6, 2007) on wednesday 2007-01-03 1954
This was a facet...
This was a facetious post... To assess your solution more seriously, I had problems dumping random characters at /dev/mouse because it would make the mouse undertake unpredictable actions - the problem being that there's no discernible documentation for what you're supposed to pass to /dev/mouse for just a move instead of a bunch of right clicking.
-- (January 2, 2007) on thursday 2006-12-14 1332
Oi. Well, I'd...
Oi.
Well, I'd rather fork a new project since the term 'Blogger API' refers to a specific API that pre-Google Blogger published at one point in time, still in use by several non-Blogger related projects.
I'm hesitant about diving into a Google API myself. First and foremost, I don't trust them. On a less personal note, on an efficiency level, I know it wouldn't be a total waste of time for the present, but I am not so confident in its future value. Does anybody else implement the GData API? Are their interested parties, and could they even implement it if they wanted to? What about the Atom Publishing Protocol, which appears to be far more of a community effort than Google's own branded version?
So I guess for now the answer's no, I won't be making this new GData friendly plug-in - but I might consider an APP friendly plug-in. I don't spend much time in this world anymore, so we'll have to see if ever I get to it.
Thanks for the suggestion.
-- (December 29, 2006) on thursday 2005-11-17 2124
If you have phpM...
If you have phpMySQLAdmin installed, you can just take the contents of the croissanga.sql file and paste them into the table creation dialog (or whatever it is, I haven't used that software but have reports that it works).
However, you should be looking at the Blogger API cross poster.
-- (December 29, 2006) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
'lo. Funny you ...
'lo. Funny you should mention ARTstor since I've been part of collaborations with them in the past. I don't think I can quite use those connections to get at their photos though. There's a lot of resources at Wikimedia Commons, but the quality and reliability's inconsistent; there are some that are photos of exhibits of paintings and others that are more useful.
-- (November 6, 2006) on tuesday 2006-10-03 0034
Fair questions; ...
Fair questions; rational but very specific answers are coming in future posts.
-- (October 1, 2006) on thursday, 2006-09-28 1526
Thanks for the f...
Thanks for the feedback.
"like either post to a public post or a protected post?"
I don't understand the use case of cross posting a private WP post to a public Xanga post. Why wouldn't you make it public in all arenas?
There's already a feature included to make protected posts.
-- (May 8, 2006) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
Ah, use "Standar...
Ah, use "Standard - CRT" under the Appearances preference panel, and fonts will look normal instead of blocky.
-- (April 8, 2006) on friday, 2006-04-07 1729
Thanks for the s...
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll work it in.
As to your question about the title, yes, it's an API limitation. There's no title parameter in the Blogger API.
-- (March 27, 2006) on thursday 2005-11-17 2124
Please upgrade t...
Please upgrade to the latest WP (2.0.2) and Croissanga (1.2.6) before pursuing further support. It's probable your issue has already been addressed in later versions. By all means, report back if not.
-- (March 14, 2006) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
Actually, I'm go...
Actually, I'm going to go out on a limb here, without seeing any of your data. Wordpress likely only does UTF-8 internally, which is good. PHP's native localization / internationalization is notoriously poor, but I believe the function
iconvmight help you transcode from UTF-8 to something else. Xanga doesn't really seem to do anything with character encoding; I submit posts in ISO-8859-1 while my settings are on Traditional Chinese, but when I go look at them, Xanga doesn't send any indication of what character encoding it's trying to pass off the data as, which means it's probably relying on your own browser's default character encoding settings - not good.I'm not going to address this right now. If you're into coding, try using
iconvon the text you're sending to Xanga to convert from UTF-8 into Traditional Chinese. I'd like to hear if other users are having i18n issues and if thaticonvfix works; it could be folded in to Croissanga eventually.
-- (March 14, 2006) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
The people who p...
The people who published that further info on the sushi non-story? Front for the food, alcohol, and tobacco industries.
My fault. Yet it is kind of nice when two opposing factions battle out a war of information. It behooves each side to dig up as much factual content as possible when dealing with the other. As long as the spin and bias are as evident as they are now, they can be split from what facts are given.
By all means, y'all keep fighting now. The rest of us are actually gaining something: a public record on otherwise hidden special interests.
-- (March 13, 2006) on tuesday, 2006-03-07 2147
Character encodi...
Character encoding is a tricky thing. I suppose I could set up a testbed Xanga account to see what it really does when you start changing your language settings; my laziest answer is to make sure your WP and Xanga accounts use the same character set (it doesn't look to me like Xanga is intelligent enough to actively tell browsers which character set each blog uses) and hope what goes over the wire from WP to Xanga remains sane. I don't suppose UTF-8 is an actual option within Xanga...
Where are these various blogs of yours so I can take a peek? What settings do you have for Xanga? Could you maybe leave a junk post somewhere so I could see what you're talking about?
Oh, and try the latest version of Croissanga. 1.1.1 is a dead branch.
-- (March 13, 2006) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
As the last link...
As the last link indicates, the levels found in the California sushi are 10% of the level which the FDA would find truly notable; the numbers in the article are the average mercury ppm level found per fish species and have little direct bearing on safety. I don't know how they arrive at any of these safety numbers nor how they stack up in one-time vs. repeated exposures.
Note that the expert cited in your article is the same one in the recent sushi story. Whatever he's saying, I've stopped listening.
-- (March 10, 2006) on tuesday, 2006-03-07 2147
For inquiring mi...
For inquiring minds, what exactly are the things that affect cookie texture? Everything mentioned here (good job, guys). This article on cookie texture explains some of the ways to influence how a cookie turns out, including: type of and quantity of fat, type of and quantity of liquid, type of and quantity of sugar, type of flour, acidity, temperature of dough, mixing technique, and baking time and equipment.
Some are more obvious than others (e.g., baking time), but the main reasons in my case appear to be the water diluting the relative fat content and using cold dough. I'm not sure how additional mixing fits in; overdoing it would make it tough, beating out all the air and overproducing gluten, but I think the opposite was observed (too soft until baked for longer).
Melted butter? Also a texture thing, affecting temperature and liquidity. For the food scientist, the one and only Alton Brown of Good Eats fame expounds on achieving the three major categories of cookie texture: crispy, puffy, and chewy; melted butter belongs to the last, unmelted butter to the first. By the way, that guy's a NECI graduate. Hm, Montpelier, VT...
I need a kitchen chemistry book.
-- (March 8, 2006) on tuesday, 2006-03-07 1028
It's almost too ...
It's almost too easy. All the trackback spam so far has the exact same text in the post title, post excerpt, and source name. This isn't a fun way to do auto classification learning. Where do I go to get some real spam?
-- (March 7, 2006) on monday 2006-03-06 1126
I think it was r...
I think it was really just the one I was most obsessed with beating because I couldn't. I don't recall a real favorite from that time period anymore; gaming's come a long way.
-- (March 4, 2006) on wednesday, 2006-03-01 2012
Probably not har...
Probably not hard. You'd have to change some methods to take an access argument (public vs. protected vs. private) and set it appropriately in communicating with Xanga, then change the *_dispatch methods to call methods with the appropriate arguments instead of deleting or stopping as they do now.
If you mean to ask how hard is it for me, I suppose I could get to it eventually.
-- (March 2, 2006) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
I'm sure it does...
I'm sure it does, but I'm not interested in just solving a problem, it's more for the actual code. The tokenizer for that other project, the Bayesian stuff because it's a fad and the token statistics might prove to be interesting. Anything for a pretty chart.
-- (February 22, 2006) on tuesday 2006-02-21 0245
I'm happy to acc...
I'm happy to accept patches, but if you feel like this is an entirely new project, the code is BSD licensed, and you have every right to fork a new codebase. I don't have any idea how large the userbase is for BAC, so I guess I'm not all that concerned about community splits or anything. Keep me posted on your choices.
-- (February 15, 2006) on thursday 2005-11-17 2124
If you can tell ...
If you can tell me where the Movable Type API went. All the links that used to hold it are now redirected to MT3.2 user documentation. If Six Apart can't be bothered to host their own API, I don't think I'm going to bother trying to make use of it. (I am not a fan of Six Apart).
I do plan on adding in the ability to switch APIs between Blogger and MetaWeblog at some point. Blogger's a bit weak, and MetaWeblog has features worth exploring.
-- (February 11, 2006) on thursday 2005-11-17 2124
Download the zip...
Download the zip file, it should be at version 0.2 now. The configuration for the blog ID is at the top under the blogger key variable.
-- (February 5, 2006) on thursday 2005-11-17 2124
Interesting, for...
Interesting, for some reason I skipped over the ability to set the ID of the actual blog for a user. If you can hack PHP, there's a call to newPost that looks like 'newPost("a", $entry, true).' Change "a" to the ID of the blog you want to use (I don't know what that ID looks like, I don't use Blogger).
If you'd rather wait, I can probably roll out a new version soon that allows you to configure that.
Thanks for pointing it out.
-- (February 5, 2006) on thursday 2005-11-17 2124
Your settings lo...
Your settings look fine to me. I don't normally use either WordPress or Blogger, so I'm afraid I don't have much experience to share. Are there any errors coming up in your logs or anything?
I don't know if anybody else has tried BAC with WordPress 2.0. I'd be surprised if that was a complicating factor since the other cross poster I wrote for 1.5.2 seems to work fine with 2.0.
-- (February 5, 2006) on thursday 2005-11-17 2124
Some semantic ga...
Some semantic games first: categories are an actual feature in WordPress, but that doesn't seem to be what you're asking about. So to address the question you aren't asking, no, Croissanga does not determine whether to cross post based on category.
However, it does look at the post status. Anything short of published does not get cross posted. Change the status to published and it will be posted to Xanga, change it from and it will be deleted on Xanga. Password protected is considered 'short of published.'
I hope I've interpreted your inquiry correctly?
-- (February 2, 2006) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
Woah, somebody w...
Woah, somebody who loves their airline of choice. That counts for quite a bit.
-- (February 1, 2006) on wednesday, 2006-01-25 2227
On a lark, I sea...
On a lark, I searched Google for FolderFlags. I'm first. Something from Microsoft is under me.
It's the little fleeting things.
-- (January 27, 2006) on friday, 2006-01-27 0918
Good suggestion ...
Good suggestion Trevor, I've added it as a configurable option in 1.2.6.
-- (January 24, 2006) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
Indeed, for some...
Indeed, for some of them, including the one in the magazine.
-- (December 8, 2005) on wednesday, 2005-12-07 1628
Uh, none. Did y...
Uh, none. Did you see the "facts?"
-- (December 6, 2005) on wednesday, 2005-11-30 0356
Any favorites? ...
Any favorites? Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon are the only other two I've read, Snow Crash being mercifully shorter and probably all the stronger for it.
-- (November 30, 2005) on monday 2005-10-24 0832
In your case, th...
In your case, they would be
www.blogger.comand/api, if that is the correct URL fragment where Blogger's API service engine resides. I don't know and can't assist you with the rest of your question, I don't use Blogger.com. If they implement their own API correctly, you should not need to do anything else.Thanks for the Xanga catch.
-- (November 21, 2005) on thursday 2005-11-17 2124
The MFA's bag po...
The MFA's bag policy generally requires that all backpacks and other parcels larger than an average hand-bag must be checked, with some caveats for items that would or would not be reasonably needed in a gallery space. From the description you gave of your camera bag, you should not have been approached by a guard unless they felt there was an immediate threat to the artwork.
Sounds like poor training to me.
-- (November 18, 2005) on tuesday, 2005-11-15 1739
Come on, this cl...
Come on, this climbing stuff is tiring for someone whose occupation involves constant use of the hands...
-- (November 10, 2005) on thursday 2005-09-22 1110
The string I sug...
The string I suggested is shorthand for matching any number. So it is in the source you gave, Kimmie. Thanks; although that's evidence to the contrary of the hypothesis I had before, it's useful nonetheless. Back to contemplating the problem once again.
-- (October 24, 2005) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
Presumably Kimmi...
Presumably Kimmie is referring to Scott when she says 'you,' since neither is that my Xanga account nor do I regularly use WordPress.
No, Kimmie, I've never see the problem personally. I've had it reported to me a handful of times, but none of those reporters has ever given me a clear enough picture of what's happening on their end for me to successfully debug the problem.
Though I have an inkling of an idea. When you (anybody) go to your personal page, do you see a link with the text 'edit it' and, if so, could you view source and check in the source for the first occurrence of the string
.aspx?uid=[0-9]*>"edit it? I'm not sure why that personal page would change between users, but I suppose it might happen, in which case Croissanga wouldn't be able to find the Xanga-assigned uid for a post and would end up posting a new entry instead.I could be wrong.
-- (October 23, 2005) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
I've attempted a...
I've attempted a fix for the duplication problem that I personally haven't seen and also added some smarter editing features to deal with previously-published posts becoming unpublished. Please let me know if this fixes the issue.
-- (October 21, 2005) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
It just may be t...
It just may be the most poorly named bridge on Earth.
-- (October 6, 2005) on saturday, 2005-10-01 0100
On that one brid...
On that one bridge on Massachusetts Ave. between Cambridge and Boston, looking towards Cambridge. I have another 30 or so pictures from that time frame before it concluded; that was an amazing sunset.
-- (October 3, 2005) on saturday, 2005-10-01 0100
Alex and George:...
Alex and George: I haven't designed it to work that way. This is a cross poster, excerpts and selectivity don't seem to fit in that definition. If you'd like excerpts instead of full posts, I can probably manage that. The selectivity might be possible, but I don't much like the idea in this context.
To your second point, George, I don't understand what you're saying. Please explain in detail what exactly about your situation I can remedy. All I know so far is that error messages are showing up in a plugin I've never heard of. What does it do, and what precisely are these errors?
-- (September 26, 2005) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
I'll try to get ...
I'll try to get that out this weekend, Kevin.
-- (September 17, 2005) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
Thanks for the i...
Thanks for the insights. I'm not a student here anymore; were you?
-- (September 17, 2005) on sunday 2005-08-07 0140
From a reader: Y...
From a reader: You can also uncripple your Firefox by restarting Firefox in safe mode and removing the Piggy Bank extension.
-- (September 8, 2005) on thursday 2005-05-26 1613
I love it when p...
I love it when problems solve themselves. You're welcome.
-- (September 3, 2005) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
Hi Kevin, sorry ...
Hi Kevin, sorry for the late reply. Yes, I'm sure you can add code that would indicate the author - but are you making a feature request or did you want some insight into which lines to look at? If the latter, look at the 'if' block starting on line 178 of croissanga.php. That's where the post destined for Croissanga is assembled.
I have other features I'm looking into that prevent an immediate release, else I'd look up the author function and roll a new version for you. Let me know if you successfully put together what you're looking for.
-- (August 24, 2005) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
The latest versi...
The latest version of iPhoto does a far better job of deleting without crashing, though the problem is not entirely gone. It's no longer reproducible when deleting more than 300, but it does happen seemingly at random around 2000.
There does seem to be a way to merge libraries by using the sharing feature and importing somebody else's archive, where 'somebody else' is just a dummy account on your machine with access to the archival libraries. Even if this works, I still need a better way to split the library into DVD sized chunks. If I can reverse engineer the library format (sigh) and figure out how to pare an album down starting from a certain photo and going forward by date...
The rest of the issues have not been resolved.
-- (August 12, 2005) on thursday 2005-07-14 1139
Ian, I'd be glad...
Ian, I'd be glad to incorporate your changes into a new version of Croissanga if you'd like.
-- (August 4, 2005) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
Internally, the ...
Internally, the action of saving an edit is the same as the initial posting action, so what Croissanga should do is look up the post ID you're saving in its database table and decide from there whether it should post a new Xanga entry or edit an existing one. I suppose I should write a bit of test code to check that.
I have some suspicion that maybe the datatype has changed on the post ID from WP 1.5.1.3 and the earlier 1.5 releases (which doesn't explain why I used it successfully...). Did you upgrade to 1.5.1.3 or install an entirely new blog?
-- (August 3, 2005) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
I have verified ...
I have verified that Croissanga can work fine with WP 1.5.1.3. As it sounds like everything is in place, let me ask the higher level questions: which other plugins are you running, and do any of them take any post-commit actions (as Croissanga would)?
-- (August 2, 2005) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
How to learn to ...
How to learn to cook: experiment. Don't be afraid of cutting yourself, starting fires in the pan or the oven, or making tasteless food. You may end up doing all three in one hour, but you'll learn through your scars, burns, and boring meals not to do what you did that time.
Get a good knife. Remember that your stove has settings other than off and high. Hang out with people who enjoy cooking. Like playing an instrument, you'll learn to love it, even if practicing starts out a drag.
Nothing tastes quite as good as the work of your own two hands, except maybe mom's cooking.
-- (August 2, 2005) on saturday, 2005-07-23 1323
When everybody e...
When everybody else does. Ditch some school to come?
-- (August 1, 2005) on friday 2005-07-29 1633
Fixed - thanks L...
Fixed - thanks Lisa :)
-- (July 21, 2005) on thursday 2005-07-21 1332
(looks down at h...
(looks down at his cape) - You have no idea...
-- (July 21, 2005) on thursday, 2005-07-21 0204
I have a thing a...
I have a thing against diamonds - poor Hope didn't stand a chance :)
-- (July 21, 2005) on thursday 2005-07-07 0151
Hard to say. Pa...
Hard to say. Parts of it are mine, parts belong to Cross Products since it used to be CCAC's home. Which is all very funny since I started looking into the colo idea when I wanted to get CCAC out of MIT's dorm network. Maybe I should buy it all back.
-- (July 16, 2005) on saturday 2005-07-16 0950
I think I will b...
I think I will be delaying a full on road trip until a later time, though I might end up driving a bit for work purposes, if they think that's worthwhile (well, cheap). Unfortunately not all the way out west; not yet, at least.
I'll let you all know when I actually get a road worthy vehicle.
-- (June 3, 2005) on thursday, 2005-05-26 0050
Hi Karsten, than...
Hi Karsten, thanks for dropping by. None of the FOAF data used in my example is publically available, all you're picking up in PB when you visit this entry is my normal FOAF file (bragging about who I know, etc.). However, you should be able to get the Motel 6 scraper just by clicking on the N3 link. Piggy Bank should be aware that that RDF is directly available to it even without a <link> element in-page.
-- (May 26, 2005) on thursday 2005-05-26 0050
The animated GIF...
The animated GIF playing in the content corner on NCR's self checkout hardware product page is unmistakably similar to the ones in the MIT Star. The product brochure lists NT and XPe as integration points, but I'm betting 'ours' are stock software with minimal customization.
-- (May 22, 2005) on sunday, 2005-05-15 1533
See a later entr...
See a later entry.
-- (May 20, 2005) on tuesday 2003-04-22 1922
Spoken for, than...
Spoken for, thanks for playing.
-- (May 18, 2005) on wednesday, 2005-05-18 1118
While my own sit...
While my own site doesn't use WordPress, it does cross post to Xanga using the same process. I had no troubles posting to Xanga today. I'll check a bit later on a WordPress install to see what's going on (yes, I do read and respond to these comments, but often only over email).
-- (May 18, 2005) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
Thanks for all t...
Thanks for all the input, folks. I think a cheng's first contraption sounds like the least work and an acceptably safe solution for my space. Where can I get one?
Also, if you now do a search on 'friction "pull up" bar,' see who comes up first.
-- (April 21, 2005) on sunday, 2005-04-17 0248
Shar, could you ...
Shar, could you send me more details about your installation and the problem via the 'Contact Ryan' link at the bottom of each page?
-- (April 13, 2005) on saturday 2004-12-11 0403
My ignorance is ...
My ignorance is showing, but I don't think I'd want to sail that closely to a bunch of other boats; granted that the perspective flattens out how clustered they actually are, and to their credit, most of the sails are oriented in the same direction - but it still seems like a large-scale accident waiting to happen.
-- (April 11, 2005) on sunday 2005-04-10 2102
I use AT&T Wirel...
I use AT&T Wireless so I could have a Bluetooth model and then was dumped into Cingular. Cell phone companies and internet service providers are all going to have poor service and horrible plans regardless, so maybe I should just take off Sprint instead... I'm not a fan of how much I have to pay for basic service from either company.
Pisa Pu!
-- (March 29, 2005) on sunday 2005-03-20 0348
In pink? That c...
In pink? That clashes with my eyes. No self respecting ninja clashes. So we usually stick to black. I don't see pink ninjas striking much fear into victims' hearts. That Dan character in Street Fighter II with the pink gi? Pansy.
-- (March 23, 2005) on thursday 2005-03-17 2356
The other laptop...
The other laptop guy could have found out...
Hobbits eat all the time, right?
-- (March 15, 2005) on saturday 2005-03-05 1053
Faint praise to ...
Faint praise to Dell for simply doing the right thing and listening to me. Phone support people seem to be less interested in picking fights than online chatters. And those Indian call center folks have such charming British accents.
I'm still not buying anything from them. I'd rather not gamble on Dell's general failings.
-- (March 8, 2005) on tuesday, 2005-03-01 2258
I take it back. ...
I take it back. There was nothing wrong with my software.
-- (March 5, 2005) on saturday, 2005-03-05 1612
You can do bulle...
You can do bulleting and subheading with creative use of text (use periods as bullets, just like 15.301 TAs!). I think the thing about plain text is keeping the content of the information from being conflated with its presentation. My user-agent automatically does in-line highlighting (color, indentation, side markings, and background color), and I'm glad I don't have to deal with somebody else's potentially repulsive sense of color coordination. Others' user-agents will behave differently, hopefully the way the user wants. That brings out a different point, though, to cut out unnecessary parts of a reply; I guess it's a corollary to the "Be concise" point.
-- (January 27, 2005) on wednesday 2005-01-26 0027
It's late in the...
It's late in the game, but I did notice in the Extended Edition that there's a line they dropped in the theatrical version about how Frodo implicitly feels like Aragorn is fair, even though he looks grungy by saying an enemy would look good but feel foul. That explains the overly dramatic "we have no choice" - it's an argument clincher, not the sole justification.
-- (January 17, 2005) on sunday 2002-08-04 0408
I didn't write a...
I didn't write about how the movie was made, which I agree is fantastic. What I wrote about was how poor the story is - if you do get a chance to see the entire film, you'll know what I mean. The story just doesn't measure up to the cinematography, which is a waste of pretty film.
-- (December 1, 2004) on sunday, 2004-11-28 1925
While not having...
While not having a mixed media storage mechanism could be a problem in enlivening posts in a lasting way (no dead images), I don't think it's within the scope of a blog system to supply photo gallery management. They do fit together well, and it would be nice if some better synergy between the two things existed, i.e., install both and hit a button to make them work together.
-- (November 30, 2004) on sunday, 2004-11-07 2358
I may be just ni...
I may be just nitpicking on your choice of description, but it's an important nit to me.
One candidate in this race defined himself as not-Bush. That is not a valid or useful platform to work from. Neither is not-Falwell-Christian Coalition-"evangelical." "Young, intellectual" is an interesting start. What will it do?
-- (November 8, 2004) on wednesday, 2004-11-03 1349
I suppose instea...
I suppose instead of complaining about MT I could have extolled the virtues of WordPress, which is pretty close to being an MT-killer. We're using it for Kawika's and my friend Sam's sites. They are all the things MT is not (database backed, GNU licensed, comment indexed administration, and comment blacklisting / approval, amongst other features). Probably the thing they're lacking most is a set of decent looking templates. The default and all the ones I've seen available for free are a far sight uglier than MT's.
-- (November 8, 2004) on sunday 2004-11-07 2358
My cluelessness ...
My cluelessness in regards to demographic distribution is on display, but are most large American urban centers that heavily (85%) Democratic or liberal leaning? Urban centers in general? Are the needs of an urban society so state-dependent or its social mores so far relaxed (relatively speaking) that their populations would en masse choose left when presented with a fork in the road? Are there any conservative U.S. cities?
Speaking in the tongue of the two-party system, that is.
-- (November 6, 2004) on wednesday, 2004-11-03 1349
Check in your to...
Check in your toilet.
ryanlee.org, from shoddy political satire to toilet humor in no more than three comments.
-- (October 11, 2004) on saturday, 2004-10-09 0314
This is a two-pa...
This is a two-party election, you can only vote for the options being presented to you. Write-ins and other "third-party" independents will be ignored.
Choose the lesser of two evils, or you'll have no right to complain when one wins.
-- (October 10, 2004) on saturday, 2004-10-09 0314
People with the ...
People with the incorrect opinion will get a free bottle of Nestea from our vending machine.
-- (October 9, 2004) on saturday, 2004-10-09 0314
I thought I dele...
I thought I deleted this post.
Allow me to finish it: ...kind of sucked.
-- (October 1, 2004) on tuesday, 2004-09-28 0419
We added some Co...
We added some Combos. That made it a little nastier.
Meh, Mozilla. Cookie blocking?
-- (September 14, 2004) on wednesday, 2004-09-08 1351
All is well. Ce...
All is well. Central Square, here I come.
-- (August 29, 2004) on thursday, 2004-08-26 2347
You're already a...
You're already a geek no matter which way you cut the denotations of those terms. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. And you're even more of a geek if you recognize the Borg mantra.
-- (August 17, 2004) on tuesday, 2004-08-10 2229
For clarificat...
For clarification, I was about to say something repulsive like, "But I'm always thinking of you!"
-- (May 19, 2004) on wednesday, 2004-05-19 1433
Addendum: Quicks...
Addendum: Quicksilver captures
open-space, opening a prompt for the user to type in letters; it searches through applications and designated files and will launch one accordingly, meaning you don't need a mouse for those actions.
-- (April 26, 2004) on monday 2004-04-12 2242
Next photo set: ...
Next photo set: basement mazes and rooftop explorations.
-- (April 21, 2004) on saturday, 2004-04-10 0148
Come by when y...
Come by when you're in town! I think the building dedication is sometime in May (though not everything is going to be done until this summer, probably).
-- (April 11, 2004) on saturday, 2004-04-10 0148
Maybe it's jus...
Maybe it's just a cultural thing, but I've noticed folks at PT have no problems advertising for their birthdays... :)
-- (April 11, 2004) on wednesday, 2004-04-07 1725
London's not b...
London's not bad, but it doesn't seem different enough from New York for me to really want to go back, especially with a weak dollar.
The cheap Asian in me could get used to the concept of not tipping, though...
-- (April 6, 2004) on tuesday, 2004-03-30 0356
Luggage found ...
Luggage found :) AA gave me a voucher instead of a refund because I didn't get my purchases authorized by the baggage agent. That's a little messed, there's no way I a priori would have known to get it authorized unless they said something, which they didn't. They'd be digging the hole deeper on themselves if the voucher weren't worth more than the amount I actually spent. I think it covers all my personal costs for the weekend besides the hotel. Not bad, losing my luggage turned out to be a profit.
-- (March 30, 2004) on saturday, 2004-03-27 1327
Yes, fixed. S...
Yes, fixed. Sigh. Well, another wonderful little tool. I guess I need someone to test tracking back to me to see if that got done correctly, too.
-- (March 24, 2004) on tuesday 2004-03-23 2351
If silver is t...
If silver is the main attraction, you might as well just get a PowerBook :)
-- (March 23, 2004) on wednesday, 2004-03-17 1414
I believe the ...
I believe the fact that I'm posting this means the move went off without a hitch...
-- (March 23, 2004) on tuesday, 2004-03-23 0034
Revising itine...
Revising itinerary to insane: The Paris thing definitely sounds attractive now that I know it's at least possible in my time frame. My layover on the return trip is in NYC, I'm thinking of ditching the flight home and staying there for the rest of the weekend, then taking the bus back to Boston some time on Sunday.
-- (March 22, 2004) on sunday, 2004-03-21 0001
You have cross...
You have crossed over to MY side. =)
I knew this day would come... And I'm waiting for my G5...
I think I'm not quite all the way over on your side, my psychic friend. It's a gorgeous laptop, I don't think I can go back to those hideous Dell machines. But I'll stick with Linux on my servers and a dual boot desktop. I guess I'm polyamorous when it comes to OS's. Except with Windows.
The lack of your G5 is all Steve Jobs' stomach's fault.
-- (March 21, 2004) on tuesday, 2004-03-16 0016
If the followi...
If the following journal entry didn't clarify things, here's a far more explicit hint:
-- (March 20, 2004) on tuesday, 2004-03-16 0016
Surprise, surp...
Surprise, surprise, Ryan keeps closer track of his site than you think. Tolkien's Elvish is similar to Finnish by design, though I've not heard enough Welsh to make that comparison. They say Welsh is dense and difficult to pick up for outsiders.
Ryan dropped the Esperanto some time ago and sadly hasn't had the time to pick it back up yet. He will again, because it really did seem pretty easy. Someday.
-- (March 19, 2004) on wednesday 2003-01-01 0352
I am starting ...
I am starting to wonder whether I should take that as a compliment or a veiled warning about my potential descent into e-crime...
-- (March 14, 2004) on wednesday, 2004-03-10 1749
Play on Xanga ...
Play on Xanga and Orkut until my journal, budgeting, note-taking, feed aggregating, bookmarking, and email come back to me, and then never go back? Write that La Cucaracha Proxy? Actually, I should have a new toy to play with come next week to distract me... Pictures will be forthcoming, though I guess they won't last very long.
-- (March 12, 2004) on wednesday, 2004-03-10 1749
Shockingly eno...
Shockingly enough, they kind of grow on you, if spaced in small doses. The moon song is kind of entertaining. But blame Matt, he started it in a comment a couple entries back. I still wouldn't want to find one of them in real life, though. Ew.
-- (March 5, 2004) on wednesday, 2004-03-03 0108
I try. ...
I try.
Well, not really.
Muffin Films was the seminal work of Ms. Winfrey, followed by (in my opinion) the less engrossing Big Bunny. Making Fiends - now that's quality.
-- (March 3, 2004) on monday 2004-03-01 0239
I have wondere...
I have wondered what sort of and how many mental breakdowns must have occurred to allow those Quiznos commercials to ever see the light of day in a public forum.
More unnervingly, try to imagine the sheer volume of controlled substances that went into the mind that came up with those things. It boggles.
Sadly enough, the Grow game is gone - anybody manage to download a cache copy of it?
-- (February 23, 2004) on saturday, 2004-02-21 0035
Note that Kepa...
Note that Kepano Green's albums seem to be completely unavailable to the world now. Somebody should start redistributing them online. Nobody profits from inaccessible creative works.
-- (February 15, 2004) on tuesday 2003-04-22 1922
Crack some egg...
Crack some eggs, beat them, get a big pan with a lot of oil and heat it on high, then dump the eggs in. Spread them around as quickly as possible, as thinly as possible. It's kind of like a mix between an omelette and a crepe. It took some practice to not get a wreck back. You can try to flip it, but if it's hot enough and there's enough oil, you can afford to cook it on one side. Flipping it always ended badly for me.
A standard sushi roller is all you need (without one, the egg is far more likely to rip on the rice). I couldn't think of anything normally found in sushi to make the egg stick to itself, though.
It just happened to coincide with my first day of work.
-- (February 13, 2004) on wednesday, 2004-02-11 2225
The Indiana Jo...
The Indiana Jones set just came out, and apparently the first Star Wars trilogy is on its way to DVD as well. And it looks like Disney's Gargoyles first season is coming out this year. It's a good time to...have my tastes, I guess.
-- (February 10, 2004) on friday, 2004-02-06 0057
Hey, write and...
Hey, write and tell the President, maybe he'll include you in his next State of the Union Address.
"Last month a girl in California, sent me a letter. It began: '"Dear George W Bush. If there is anything you know I, Christine Lieu age 21, can do to help cut the deficit in half, please send me a letter and tell me what I can do to save our country....'"
-- (January 28, 2004) on tuesday 2004-01-20 2252
I hadn't groom...
I hadn't groomed myself before going in for this haircut, so I'm sure anything short of a bloody shave would have looked good in comparison.
So, no.
-- (January 28, 2004) on tuesday, 2004-01-27 0048
Yeah, but I gu...
Yeah, but I guess I don't yet know what that feels like :)
-- (January 16, 2004) on friday, 2004-01-09 0046
See, it's not ...
See, it's not quite the same - I would theoretically enjoy birthday wishes, regardless of their theoretical wishing date and this theoretical discordance with my actual birthdate. Hypothetically speaking.
-- (January 13, 2004) on friday, 2004-01-09 0046
They gave one ...
They gave one of those lame 'trial premium' things to me, and now all my work is gone to naught for the next 18 days until the unrequested 'trial' runs out. This isn't a trial, I never wanted to try it in the first place!
I want a downgrade.
-- (January 13, 2004) on friday, 2004-01-09 0046
I think Zeldma...
I think Zeldman, A List Apart, and Eric Meyer (especially the Complex Spiral Demo) are prime examples of good design that serves a real purpose. k10k is an interesting resource as well, but nothing (so far!) beats the CSS Zen Garden for sheer awe.
Have the standards freaks made another CSS addict...? :)
-- (January 9, 2004) on sunday 2003-12-28 0210
Looks like suc...
Looks like success. I don't intend to use my Xanga account for anything besides this cheap sleight of hand, so I turned off commenting and whatever that eProp malarkey is. If I've subscribed to you, it's in my Newswire, not through Xanga.
-- (January 9, 2004) on friday, 2004-01-09 0046
I'm already su...
I'm already subscribed to you.
So, til death do us part.
-- (January 8, 2004) on saturday 2004-01-03 1639
Well, it's my ...
Well, it's my great pleasure to meet another member of the Libby family, how fortuitous that I called on your name.
I wonder what being Matt's parents is like...
-- (January 8, 2004) on monday 2003-12-22 0024
Play nice, kid...
Play nice, kids...
Ever find you're passionate about something you had absolutely no innate talent for? Hypothetical question.
-- (January 3, 2004) on friday, 2004-01-02 1708
Should I assum...
Should I assume you own a copy of this Titanic film, or are you playing it back from memory? The mind wonders at the thought that someone might go rent or buy it just to figure out if Propellor Guy makes noise, worthy a cause as it is.
-- (January 3, 2004) on monday 2003-12-22 0024
...and should ...
...and should I fail, Liana's got my back.
-- (January 2, 2004) on sunday, 2003-12-28 1832
Bouncy Minas T...
Bouncy Minas Tirith Guy (BMTG) can be found during the attack on Minas Tirith (as you might now expect). A Nazgul beast flies by and picks up about four soliders of Gondor from an upper ring and tosses them down into the first ring; the cameras lingers on them until all of them land at some point. BMTG in particular bounces off a roof (I kind of expected him to go through the roof, but I guess Gondorian architecture is better than that).
The sound wasn't up loud enough for me to hear in my latest semi-viewing of Titanic, but I think the end-over-end twirling begins with a sort of thwang when the man hits the propellor.
Hurrah, I am forever associated with BMTG in someone else's mind. I'm special.
-- (January 2, 2004) on monday 2003-12-22 0024
Funny the thin...
Funny the things people are measuring that decision by. Yours falls squarely in the E) Other (please describe) choice category.
-- (December 28, 2003) on friday, 2003-12-19 0049
Too bad it bro...
Too bad it broke. I hate Sprint. Kudos for redesigning their site in XHTML and CSS, but that's not going to make up for it. Not even that, Sprint, not even that.
-- (December 19, 2003) on saturday, 2003-12-13 1055
Sigh, I knew I...
Sigh, I knew I was just being delusional.
-- (December 19, 2003) on monday, 2003-12-15 0059
Sort of? ...
Sort of?
Aaron (whom you linked to) has quite the Internet presence. He won some place in an ArsDigita prize competition, the first I heard of him. He's since come and played with and left (I think) the W3C semantic web activity. Now he's into law and the Creative Commons. I think he's around 16?
At the age of 16, I... hm, no, let's not make that comparison.
-- (December 19, 2003) on monday, 2003-12-08 1541
I trust readin...
I trust reading my journal is not what makes you think pablum. Welcome back to the world of blogging. You know, that reminds me, I should go write my own browser.
-- (December 16, 2003) on monday 2003-12-08 0126
Thanks for the...
Thanks for the pointer. Xanga did not have RSS when I initiated my projected way back when, something I then assumed had to do with their insularity. Good to see I was wrong.
They don't adhere to the RSS 0.91 spec very well. I'll keep my version running until they do.
-- (December 15, 2003) on monday, 2003-12-08 0126
This is actual...
This is actually a fruitless endeavor. Part of why I don't like the ACS or its open counterpart -- too much of the API is either unused, abused, or requires C hacking and recompiling the entirety of the server. Irresponsible, I say. I would like to write my own one of these days.
-- (December 8, 2003) on sunday, 2003-11-23 1826
I think I over...
I think I over-sci-fi'd myself. Back to the land of hobbitses and orcs and rings for a little while, just in time for the release of The Return of the King. Maybe some day long from now I'll check out Digimon shadows.
-- (December 3, 2003) on sunday, 2003-11-23 1824
IMAX movies ar...
IMAX movies are absolutely anathema to your average Hollywood production. IMAX movies are epic in scale in order to give you precious details to focus on. Hollywood movies that are epic in scale try to prevent you from noticing most details, like how amazingly fake their CGI looks. But flaws are too big and too noticeable on an IMAX screen. Once the novelty wears off, they're going to have to design for IMAX instead of just blowing it all up a couple million times and hoping fools will easily part with their money twice (or in the case of Revolutions, hoping to make as much money as possible from as many venues as possible all at once before everyone finds out it sucks).
-- (November 25, 2003) on sunday 2003-11-16 2014
How interestin...
How interesting; the particular wiki I've used most uses a succession of apostrophes for differentiating italic and bold phrases since most normal people don't use apostrophes run together (i.e., ''this'' would be this, and '''that''' would be that). Lists with asterisks, numbers, etc.; but I don't think it does tables. Maybe I'll try to confuse it one of these days and see what happens.
Or maybe Python is better at text processing than Perl...
-- (November 24, 2003) on tuesday, 2003-11-18 2128
Ah, I see wher...
Ah, I see where wikis draw their inspiration from. I bet I could plug that in to the current work blog easily enough since it's already Perl based... What, pray tell, is annoying about it?
-- (November 22, 2003) on tuesday, 2003-11-18 2128
I think there ...
I think there were people in those pores, desperately seeking rescuers...
-- (November 20, 2003) on sunday, 2003-11-16 2014
Hegemon. Poke...
Hegemon. Pokemon. Digimon. I know which book I'm avoiding.
I hear Philip K. Dick spins a good yarn.
-- (November 18, 2003) on sunday, 2003-11-16 0200
I don't believ...
I don't believe there's a third Ender's * in the series, but what do I know, I've only read one. I've heard major sci-fi buffs say Ender's Shadow was the only follow up worth reading. I'm willing to bet that part of its success comes from being the same story as Game from a different angle.
Maybe I'll just pick up Speaker for the Dead and defy convention anyways. I can't stand Douglas Adams' books, which I think means I'm not a real sci-fi fan, so I have no need to follow their beaten path. Right? Right.
-- (November 18, 2003) on sunday, 2003-11-16 0200
Its called role ...
It's called role reversal. Merry Christmas.
-- (November 15, 2003) on monday, 2003-11-10 2114
It's called pl...
It's called planning trips while unemployed and then starting a job right before the trip occurs. Aren't you the one who went to Disneyworld for "work?"
-- (November 14, 2003) on monday, 2003-11-10 2114
The actual ten...
The actual tenderizing agent is simply a papaya extract. Whether or not the tenderizer has any extras to it depends on the manufacturer.
-- (October 7, 2003) on monday, 2003-10-06 0046
Thanks mom! G...
Thanks mom! Guess it's time to buy some baking soda. I wonder how well meat tenderizer (papain) works.
-- (October 7, 2003) on monday, 2003-10-06 0046
Well thanks; i...
Well thanks; if I wasn't before, now I am going to get hits for people hunting down Japanese chicks. Maybe I should pre-emptively add that to the anti-Lee Ryan filter I have going.
-- (September 12, 2003) on thursday, 2003-09-11 0127
I thought Moni...
I thought Monica was the dirty one...
-- (September 10, 2003) on sunday, 2003-09-07 2231
That's what Se...
That's what Service Packs theoretically are. You'll notice that Service Packs have version numbers and never stop coming until Microsoft abandons that version (Windows XP SP 2, slated for this year, has been delayed until next year). Also, patches are usually designed to fix one problem and occasionally turn out to have security holes of their own.
If other people could look at Microsoft's code, massive as it must be, I'm sure bugs would be found quite a bit faster...
-- (September 1, 2003) on sunday 2003-08-31 1532
Nerd at MIT, n...
Nerd at MIT, nerd for reading history and biography. I don't ever win, do I.
The John Adams book used to be on the New York Times bestseller list, and it won a Pulitzer, so it's not so difficult to read as much as uninteresting to most people (but it shouldn't be!).
-- (August 17, 2003) on friday, 2003-08-15 2245
Xanga was back...
Xanga was back up last I looked.
-- (August 16, 2003) on friday, 2003-08-15 1625
I'm spending m...
I'm spending most of my time in Linux now. No anti-virus software written or necessary. There is anti-virus software in the Windows portion, but I'm not sure it did any good. I don't use IE or Outlook or fileshare, so I don't know how I got infected anyways.
-- (August 8, 2003) on wednesday, 2003-08-06 0221
Heroes, not wi...
Heroes, not witches; get back here, I'll bite off your legs.
-- (August 6, 2003) on monday 2003-08-04 1805
Sony sucks. D...
Sony sucks. Do customer service reps get brownie points for being petty and venial?
-- (August 5, 2003) on monday 2003-07-21 1158
And nurses! A...
And nurses! And EMT's! And researchers in computer science!
-- (August 5, 2003) on monday, 2003-08-04 1805
I was referrin...
I was referring to a blog or a webpage. I don't really use instant messaging anymore. I'm not online enough in a non-work environment to use it.
-- (August 1, 2003) on wednesday, 2003-07-30 1133
Welcome to the...
Welcome to the party. Are you on the web anywhere?
-- (August 1, 2003) on wednesday 2003-07-30 1133
Are you my cou...
Are you my cousin or someone with his name?
-- (August 1, 2003) on wednesday, 2003-07-30 1133
...this week...
...this week instead was a chance to expand the places a candidate visits in a campaign for public office. It is better than a house, better than a town hall, better than anything on TV.
-- Lessig
For this little guest blogging trick, Lessig is getting booted out of stanford.edu. That was worth it? I wouldn't think so. I highly respect the man's efforts, but not this latest move.
-- (July 22, 2003) on thursday 2003-07-17 2347
Thanks, but I ...
Thanks, but I ended up not having enough time to plan this trip. I think I'll go next weekend though. Hope you have an excellent 4th :)
-- (July 3, 2003) on thursday 2003-06-26 0154
Are you sure? ...
Are you sure? Maybe it's just her itchy face.
-- (June 10, 2003) on sunday 2003-06-01 2218
Hi :) I suppo...
Hi :) I suppose I should email you since you're probably like me and not a fanatical reader of this ryanlee.org stuff.
-- (June 10, 2003) on monday, 2003-06-02 2307
I think the mo...
I think the monkeys are meant to represent randomness, whereas the behavior of a typical AOL user is fatally predictable.
-- (May 18, 2003) on saturday, 2003-05-10 1240
No thanks to B...
No thanks to Brian, I ended up seeing the movie the day after I wrote this.
I was entertained, most of the time, but things just kept dragging me out of the experience. Too many computerized scenes were tried before they were really possible. I think computer graphics are slowly beginning to spoil visual effects teams, much like the exploding lobby scene in the first film. You'll have to see parts of the brawl and freeway fights to know, but you'll notice.
So Reloaded was sometimes entertaining on a kung fu level, but plot and character wise it was a drag. I don't really care what happens in the next movie. A middle story shouldn't ever do that. On the other hand, I want to see The Phoenix emerge in X3...
-- (May 18, 2003) on friday, 2003-05-16 2028
[Game 6] Next...
[Game 6] Next year, maybe.
-- (May 2, 2003) on wednesday, 2003-04-23 0029
[Game 5] Sigh....
[Game 5] Sigh. Where did it go? By 30 even. Next game...I hope. Weather is getting less fair.
-- (April 30, 2003) on wednesday, 2003-04-23 0029
[Game 4] Sad. ...
[Game 4] Sad. T-Wolves, Hudson, you rock, but please stop choking in the fourth. Home court advantage next game.
-- (April 28, 2003) on wednesday, 2003-04-23 0029
It's definitel...
It's definitely a great song, check out Kepano Green's album Live. They've broken up, but you can still get the album at cdstreet.com, along with their other two albums. Yes, it's the same group from whom Cross Products found Emmanuel and the line "And Then He Found Me."
-- (April 25, 2003) on tuesday, 2003-04-22 1922
[Game 3] Nice ...
[Game 3] Nice playing by Kobe tonight...but not quite nice enough. Without KG in overtime - the weather is getting more fair.
-- (April 25, 2003) on wednesday, 2003-04-23 0029
Ah, at long la...
Ah, at long last the mystery is solved. For some reason I thought it was attached to Bram Stoker's Dracula, which tripped up most of my searching.
Thanks for the info! It's nice to have friends who know classical music. Heck, it's nice to have friends.
-- (April 24, 2003) on saturday, 2003-04-19 0145
What teeny-bop...
What teeny-bopper idol wouldn't have angst along with winsome good looks? But I guess I don't have tattoos. Bummer.
-- (April 16, 2003) on thursday 2003-04-10 1416
So much of eve...
So much of everything depends on how you look at it. "Joy" indeed. But it wasn't a complaint, it was an excuse to tie it back to the stuff I do at work so all of my two readers will better understand.
-- (April 12, 2003) on thursday, 2003-04-10 1416
PLEASE SEND ...
PLEASE SEND ME A MESSAGE LOVE YYYYYYOOOOOOUUU LOVE SANDRASigh. How much clearer can I make my disclaimer?
-- (April 7, 2003) on sunday 2003-02-09 1706
I had some fun...
I had some fun rediscovering where Javascript and DOM have come so far, and I used it to show and hide verses and footnotes in my electronic NIV version. New feature, version 1.01! Or something. It's pretty cool, if anybody wants a copy.
-- (April 6, 2003) on wednesday 2003-04-02 0117
As an odd post...
As an odd postscript, I started keeping my journal online the same day the Columbine shooting occurred; my second entry comments on it.
-- (March 7, 2003) on saturday 2003-02-01 2320
Tricksy. They...
Tricksy. They be tricksy hobbits, too.
I think you get to throw around the master in aikido, so no worries there. If you look up escrima online, you'll find the sticks they use to practice the art. Which isn't bad either, since you can pick up sticks almost anywhere to use in a combat situation (whereas swords, three part staffs, and nunchakus are kind of hard to come by on a day-to-day basis).
-- (March 4, 2003) on saturday 2003-03-01 2257
Nope, it was j...
Nope, it was just Yo-Yo and the BSO. Thanks to your pointers, I'm now seriously contemplating the addition of a few choice cello CD's to my scant music collection. The Unaccompanied Cello Suites in particular, which, after previewing them on Amazon, happened to solve a minor mystery about which piece was being played during a car commercial.
I happened to hear Hush a long time ago, when we first got a computer with a CD-ROM...
-- (February 26, 2003) on saturday 2003-02-22 1259
This just in: ...
This just in:
really im sara and say the truth and i love dunk,lee,simon,antony but more lee and dunk simon antony everybody your all cute and sexy
Maybe it's time to do some client filtering based on referrers and query strings.
-- (February 11, 2003) on sunday 2003-02-09 1706
Good idea, I a...
Good idea, I added it in. The next journal entry in line explains what RSS is and how it gets used. Basically, I appended the number of comments to an individual blog entry's description.
-- (January 11, 2003) on wednesday 2003-01-08 0602
Someone made t...
Someone made the same observation at work (it looked 'funky,' which meant good in my book, but not so in his), so I cheated this time and took the longer strings out of paragraphs. I have a thing for justified, well spaced text and subconsciously find most other presentations irritating (even if they occasionally end up with copious spacing, tis the price I pay). I'm (slowly) planning a presentational redesign, but I'm leaning towards keeping the justified text as a default.
Maybe I should introduce 'Troll' moderations, too...
-- (January 10, 2003) on wednesday 2003-01-08 0602
Never mind, I ...
Never mind, I didn't have to hack it, I just had to do the Last-Modified/If-Modified-Since processing within the feed generator instead of relying on the server. It also does If-Unmodified-Since, whoop-dee-doo.
-- (January 8, 2003) on wednesday 2003-01-08 0602
Done. That to...
Done. That took maybe ten minutes. Come now, Xanga, it should be about that easy for you too... Mine offers a Last-Modified header, but I'll have to hack the server to perform conditional GET's.
-- (January 8, 2003) on wednesday 2003-01-08 0602
According to C...
According to Christine, Liv Tyler is a wonderful example of bad Elvish. Anyways, glad to see you caved in and got an account. Happy new year to you too :)
-- (January 2, 2003) on wednesday 2003-01-01 0352
Darn, Gore won...
Darn, Gore won and the Democrat spin doctors won. Now we'll have Senate Majority Leader Frist. That's too similar to Slashdot for me - Frist post?
-- (December 31, 2002) on monday 2002-12-09 1836
Now that you m...
Now that you mention it, I recall St. Augustine writing about his sin as a baby, crying out in complaint in Confessions, which I never actually finished. I found the things he considered sin, apart from rampant lust, to be comparatively odd. Of course, things were different 1900 years ago, but his interest in theatre and the aforementioned infant tantrums seemed to get drawn out as he described his life before Christ.
There are Bibles in the pews, I think. I don't know, Park Street was the neutral church I knew wouldn't bother me because I don't expect much unless it's Hugenburger in the pulpit. He's only one of two men I've come across in my brief life who was willing to talk about psalmists asking God to dash babies' skulls on rocks from the pulpit to an American congregation. Hopefully I'll find a new home soon enough.
-- (December 18, 2002) on monday 2002-12-16 0217
...like limes,...
...like limes, as you might expect. Not too bad.
-- (December 6, 2002) on thursday 2002-12-05 1822
And I do enjoy...
And I do enjoy reading Wired occasionally, but I can't say much about their interviews; they talked with a guy from MapQuest, and it was really, really badly done.
-- (December 2, 2002) on friday 2002-11-22 0135
They've arrive...
They've arrived... Maybe I should place my next order now...
-- (November 10, 2002) on wednesday 2002-11-06 0022
I'd do that if...
I'd do that if I watched television. I'm coming to the conclusion that the media is mostly what's wrong with society. We get told what and how to think. Not just the US, of course; state-run press is probably even worse in other societies.
Free press is one of the greatest things about this country. I don't think the media is very responsible with their freedom.
-- (October 26, 2002) on saturday 2002-10-19 1258
It's tough bei...
It's tough being a teacher. Hm. I wonder what it would be like to be in your section. Videotape yourself teaching sometime and put it on your site.
I bought a Sauder Executive Desk (Escribito Ejecutivo! - ahem, sorry, I found the Espanol instructions first when I opened the box). I was thinking of getting an L-shaped desk with a hutch to save space, but the cheapest L in the store I went to had some major stability issues, not good for my 100+ pounds of monitors. Did you have trouble with them too? They should really conglomerate boxes into one item, it's not like anybody except the stores would want to order them separately.
-- (October 18, 2002) on thursday 2002-10-17 0013
We regret th...
We regret that we have been unable to resolve your request. However, you have been provided with all the support and/or contact information for this issue available through e-mail. If you wish to discuss this issue further, we recommend you contact our telephone support representatives. The VAIO Customer Information Service Center is available toll-free.
Sony: We Don't Like You.
I don't think the toll free thing is much consolation. I wonder if their customer support people are content to be drones that just supply stock answers to everything. What do you think, should I even bother calling them?
-- (October 16, 2002) on monday 2002-10-14 2258
Should you d...
Should you drive need replacement due to failure, it will need to be serviced. We recommend that you have the unit professionally evaluated and/or repaired by a qualified service technician. If you have an extended warranty plan that was purchased with your system, you may wish to contact your extended warranty service provider for assistance. However, if your system is outside of the original SONY warranty coverage period and you do not have an extended warranty plan, SONY has a Service Center which repairs our notebooks for a fee.
Well, check this out. They sent me the quoted paragraph above again, plus this little bit. They think they're going to sell this to me. You know, I think customer service is really going to make or break companies in the future. Sony's always been on the evil list (as part of the whole entertainment industry, they do as much as the rest of the cartel to harm their customers); this doesn't help.
-- (October 16, 2002) on monday 2002-10-14 2258
Sarcasm apprec...
Sarcasm appreciated, however, you missed the evening and morning I spent trying to fix the laptop. Working six hours straight after that failed ordeal sounded pretty good to me at the time... Of course, I defer to the consultant who is living away from home; I guess that could technically mean you work for six months (or so) straight.
-- (October 11, 2002) on wednesday 2002-10-09 2130
You can use mi...
You can use mine until you find one you want. I'll see if I can work on an XML DTD to make exporting and importing easier. An interesting aspect of knowledge is that it can be linked together; the function is in the KM code, but I haven't gotten to make it completely work yet, so if several people use it, the connections between knowledge might be just as useful as the knowledge itself.
Just a thought. No, I don't know of any other basic PHP/MySQL KM systems just because people think it's such a huge topic that they usually just build their own huge KM system with their own tech. Plus I haven't looked. Plus I don't use either of those actively. So ask Google or someone who's more familiar with the tools you use.
-- (October 8, 2002) on sunday 2002-10-06 0109
By the way, wh...
By the way, when looking in my logs, I found someone coming from this general netblock,
atl.client2.attbi.com, and I have no idea who they are. Atlanta, perhaps? Could you comment or contact (or email, if you know it) me? Just wondering who you are. Yes, I know, it's freaky to go looking in your logs and tracking other people's browsing habits. So be it. I'm a nerd, it's fun for nerds.
-- (September 28, 2002) on friday 2002-09-27 1730
Nature, yes, b...
Nature, yes, but nurture too? I don't know that I would have extended myself into several different kinds of projects before coming to MIT. Perhaps because in my sense of the word 'nerd,' I wasn't much of a computer person until the year before I left home. So for me, perhaps there's a component of training and environment from Ye Olde MIT.
Rant begin: in regards to personality test results - I wouldn't know, I've never taken Meyers-Brigg's test (is that Meyers and Brigg, or Mr(s). Meyers-Brigg?). I know there's something to be said for understanding someone according to their personality type, but I refuse to be pigeonholed by four letters, which is why I've never taken the test and don't care to. I also don't care to know how to interpret the letters, lest I pigeonhole someone else. Should I compare someone to some of the famous persons listed as their type, i.e., "Hey, you're just like Hitler!" Anyways. Rant end.
Comment box expanded. One of those things I was eventually going to do... Lengthy comments are welcome.
-- (September 27, 2002) on saturday 2002-09-14 0053
I wonder if MI...
I wonder if MIT had anything to do with it. Did MIT cause it, or was there something more basic which afflicts us and also happened to drive us into MIT?
-- (September 16, 2002) on saturday 2002-09-14 0053
i think that y...
i think that you have to remember that the hobbits have never been out of hobbiton and i think that the first inclination is usually to stick with the person that has already helped you out. so it is reasonable that they say there is no other choice, because they KNOW of no other choice.
Fair enough observation, that they've never left Hobbiton and will cling to the first helping hand they find, but I'd still call it script candy. It's dire when it doesn't need to be. I do have problems enjoying some movies because their storytelling mechanisms are too transparent. This is one case where I think the problem is in the script and not my picky nature.
I think the Authentica guy should register - ahem, Howard... :)
-- (September 14, 2002) on sunday 2002-08-04 0408
Was someone pr...
Was someone praying for me? My fever left around 7pm or so today, so I went to the Reg Day Service at MIT. Nice way to celebrate healing. Sorry Mom and Dad, I turned off my phone during worship, call you tomorrow. As for tonight, I'm sleeping for the first time in my apartment. Come visit! Even better, come visit when I've furnished my room.
Many thanks to Cze for helping me recuperate over that day. I haven't been sick in a long time, so it felt like crap, but somebody was there watching out for me. Thanks for being concerned, too, Smoo.
I sleep...
-- (September 4, 2002) on tuesday 2002-09-03 1803
Only at MIT is...
Only at MIT is a simple water spigot controlled by a "hydrant key." Manufactured by Jay R. Smith. Mr. Smith, I hate you. The only way to turn off the sprinkler cleanly is to either find a Jay R. Smith Mfg. Co. hydrant key, or figure out where the water to the hydrant is coming from and shut that source down (either that or yank the sprinkler off its hose, but that wouldn't be very nice). The key is simple. It just needs to turn a recessed cube 90 degrees, although it would need to be wide enough in the handheld section to generate a large amount of torque. Perhaps I'll go grind out my own sometime. For now, I think I'm going to go to a computer cluster to work. Stupid sprinkler.
-- (August 13, 2002) on tuesday 2002-08-06 0234
I noticed that...
I noticed that the faithful are still being faithful in visiting even though it isn't August 22nd yet. Well then, thanks for visiting. My thesis is 78 pages long so far, including everything from figures to code appendices to acknowledgements. As I continue to add to it, working away in my room, I must note that I am being rather annoyed by a sprinkler in the courtyard. Who runs a sprinkler at midnight? Custodians who are very good at keeping bathrooms clean but not at keeping foliage alive. I firmly believe the entire courtyard of grass, flowers, bushes, and trees will be dead within the week due to drowning. Because this sprinkler has not been turned off within the past couple of days. It runs at least the entire day, if not longer. I awake to the sound of the rhythmic spiralling of water colliding with a tiny piece of intrusive plastic as it spreads its liquid refreshment (or death, in this case) to the grass around it, to the sound of the rapid return from the endpoint of the sprinkling arc to the beginning, ad infinitum. Well, actually, there are fifty ticks between the beginning and end point. So ad nauseum, really, because I'm getting pretty sick of this thing.
Now I remember why I was playing music. Music, recommence. I believe I'm going to take a brief break to wander the courtyard, exploring its confines, enjoying the cool of the evening, locating the water spigot, and turning it off. Very off. Very, very off.
-- (August 13, 2002) on tuesday 2002-08-06 0234
I guess I fixe...
I guess I fixed that little bug. It had to do with the way the system made plain text into HTML, so there was nothing wrong with your input. Just type away. Although I think I want to make these comment boxes bigger. They're kind of puny.
I'd agree about praying specifically. We can always look and see how people pray when they pray for something in the Bible. There's a definite mix, but I don't think anybody ever gets so generic that they ask for the world to be saved. Take out your Bibles and correct me if I'm wrong on that one.
I understand your point about the lottery (cf., "the best way to pray"), but that's kind of a poor example. God loves diligence and good stewardship; gambling is neither, and He doesn't like it very much. Asking Him to answer in that way is a sure way to not get answered, or maybe get some divine smack about praying for something so greedy. But when He leads us to pray for really, really specific things that aren't so contrary to His desires for us, it's a confluence of what He's placed in our hearts as being worthy of asking for, how we're walking with Him, even how we're wired to see situations around ourselves.
I don't see anything wrong with praying in generalities, but I guess I wouldn't think that they're all that answerable. We can 'pray big' and expect big things without resorting to ill-defined concepts. What does world peace look like to each of us anyways? Of course, if we're all getting confused, we could pray about this... :)
-- (August 3, 2002) on sunday 2002-07-28 2223
That brings up...
That brings up an entirely new question - are there things we shouldn't bother praying for because we know they won't be answered? Like world peace - God's plan for defeating sin has already been laid out, and world peace couldn't be achieved until everybody figured out the Truth (even then it might be kind of an iffy prospect). Should we bother asking? Or maybe we should just ask for the root solution? :)
I have stylesheets controlling the appearances of things here (they can be really fun, like this), basically anything that's surrounded by the paragraph HTML tag is put into 1.5 line spacing and justified alignment. I'm really picky about the way text appears (ask Christine Lieu). I suppose if I were truly picky I'd just surround everybody's posts with a set of paragraph tags...hm, there's an idea...
-- (August 1, 2002) on sunday 2002-07-28 2223
His question w...
His question was for just one thing in the interest of keeping the response time short. People there mentioned 'world peace' and 'self-love'. He also showed some select examples from young kids who wrote to God ("Dear God - is it true daddy will go to hell if he uses his Bowling Words in the house?").
You can put whatever you want though, because you're Margaret, and you read almost every day... :) If Xanga was a little more reliable at wee hours in the morning, I'd be reading yours more often too... Bad Xanga, bad.
-- (July 30, 2002) on sunday 2002-07-28 2223
I guess it can...
I guess it can be focussing or focusing. Another doh.
-- (July 29, 2002) on friday 2002-07-26 1242
[self-censorsh...
[self-censorship, comment stricken]
-- (July 29, 2002) on saturday 2002-07-20 1736
Hi Megan, cong...
Hi Megan, congratulations on being the first person I didn't know beforehand to leave a comment in my journal. Nice to meet you.
I think you meant to say if you 'do remember correctly.' Unfortunately, I don't think what you're remembering is more than a tradition. Witnesses do swear on the Bible, but the point is to instill in them the fear of God so they'll tell the truth. It isn't a law of any kind, and you can substitute any affirmation that you'll tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth for it.
Sorry to disappoint, but thanks for your comment (and your email). Perhaps we'll see you again in these fora?
-- (July 22, 2002) on wednesday 2002-06-26 1710
Hm. I almost ...
Hm. I almost sound like a libertarian or a political activist or a techno-evangelist. I don't think any of those labels fit me particularly well. Maybe I should stick to the programming and journal about activities instead of crackpot theories.
-- (July 21, 2002) on saturday 2002-07-20 1736
Glad you asked...
Glad you asked so I could clarify, then.
-- (July 17, 2002) on wednesday 2002-06-26 1710
My cousin-in-l...
My cousin-in-law is a pastor. He was baptized at the age of 8. Of his own choice. Children can have faith. See Matthew. A Christian (in short) accepts Christ as their savior. Who says there's an age limit on making decisions in life?
You know, I apologize if I've been unclear, because I get the sense you're fighting against something that isn't really there.
Have I said anything about liberals, racism, or sexism? I would hope people we put on the bench have opinions of their own and aren't biased by things like race or gender. I say he's an idiot because he's trying to change the system by 'sneaking something through.' I don't want a judge at that level making sweeping changes to the way my country works by 'sneaking' judgments past the Supreme Court. Those justices have a lot of other things to do, and I worry that he'll actually succeed some day. And then what? Judge's decisions have impacts down the road we can't always see from here. Perhaps I'm naive and that's how it all works in our courts. But that would suck.
When did I say the judge held the wrong opinion? I said the judges made the wrong decision, by which I mean I don't think it's going to stand up to further deliberation. There's a difference. See above a couple of posts on freedom of speech and opinion in this country. I also disagree with his opinion, but that's just my opinion.
I am not trying to pick a fight with you, merely to address your questions and hopefully clarify my own thoughts. I apologize if the length or tone of my posts suggest otherwise. I'm only trying to be clear. So unless I've been unclear again, I think I've said enough. I'd rather lay this discussion to rest lest I inadvertently offend you (wcandy) personally. No discussion is abstract since there's always a living, real person on both sides; it's the wcandy and not the discussion that matters more to me ;p
-- (July 16, 2002) on wednesday 2002-06-26 1710
The judge is a...
The judge is an idiot. Or how about the plaintiff is a liar (his daughter goes to church; he says the whole issue is about him, not her)?
One could argue majority rules, consent of the governed, etc., like I mentioned above. I also happen to think it's true. Where should the line get drawn to avoid the Roman tragedy I described above? I claim I don't know, for now...
-- (July 14, 2002) on wednesday 2002-06-26 1710
I guess you we...
I guess you were searching for one of the above people? Good to hear from you, too, Mr. Andrade.
-- (July 12, 2002) on sunday 2002-01-06 1152
It's hard to s...
It's hard to say, isn't it? I mean, I don't live my life by the Constitution, though it is extremely relevant to living in this country, so whether or not separation of church and state as Jefferson wrote is unconstitutional is hard for me to say. I do think the general concept of government-sponsored religion is dangerous, particularly for the religion being sponsored. Christianity took a turn for the worse when Roman Emperor Constantine mass-baptized his entire army by marching them through a strait. Did they know what their government was asking them to believe? No. But they called themselves Christians because their boss said so. And those imperial guard types weren't the most exemplary 'believers' in history. I wouldn't want someone to become a Christian because their government told them to. That isn't what it's about. People come to Christ as individuals, not as citizens. Is separation of church and state constitutional? Well, probably yes, since the First Amendment says about as much. But I'm no lawyer. Does Eisenhower's amendment to the Pledge amount to a violation of that amendment? I doubt it. I doubt it very much based on past court interpretations and the majority opinion these days. Do I think this country needs God? Yes, I think everybody needs God. But everybody has to make their own individual choices. And if you don't agree with the majority, which seems to like the whole 'under God' thing, don't believe the country's going to turn on you en masse in some slippery slope descent into fundamendalist inanity, as the plaintiff in this case seems to think will inevitably happen. You and I are free citizens of this country, free to believe as we will, free to not recite poems or sing songs. I'm as free to hope anyone who doesn't know Christ might find Him as you are to think I'm nuts. Um...sorry so longwinded, I'm kinda tired...maybe yet more tomorrow... Enjoy your Independence Day...
-- (July 4, 2002) on wednesday 2002-06-26 1710
Of course it i...
Of course it isn't. The Supreme Court already decided in some-case-or-another that children can't be forced to recite the pledge in schools. That isn't the issue at hand. The problem is the most liberal judges in the country deciding that Eisenhower's modification to the pledge is vaguely unconstitutional, a decision the rest of the judges in the 9th circuit probably all disagree with, and which all of the Senate disagrees with. In a government of republic, they made the wrong decision. This could be a much longer, perhaps I'll add on more... Thanks for raising your point, be glad to hear what else you have to say now that I've clarified some.
-- (July 2, 2002) on wednesday 2002-06-26 1710
It must be eve...
It must be even weirder considering you guys share the name 'Cze' (so do I, though my parents spelled it Szu on the birth certificate)...
-- (June 16, 2002) on thursday 2002-06-13 0039
Well, this pag...
Well, this page didn't work for Sonia, though I did find her. Apparently the University of MN allows people to keep their email addresses indefinitely, so the missive I sent Sonia awhile back was finally answered. A buddy of mine in Chicago also knew what Sonia was up to, so he gave me her phone number. And she just happens to know what Megan is doing too, so that's another friend found. Woohoo :)
-- (June 15, 2002) on sunday 2002-01-06 1152
As a matter of...
As a matter of fact, I do tell my friends how I feel about TV, and I think you're probably the first to really agree (other people just don't watch TV for other reasons, like time constraints). So thanks for the affirmation :) But when it comes to something like TV, it's their choice - they'll come around sometime, or they won't, but that's why they're friends - it doesn't matter which way they choose.
-- (June 5, 2002) on wednesday 2002-04-24 1802
Nikhil found t...
Nikhil found this on my old web.mit.edu version of a journal and emailed me (and said his neck is fine). Good job searching for yourself Nikhil :) Success exactly five months later. I can't believe it worked even once.
-- (May 6, 2002) on sunday 2002-01-06 1152
The little dog...
The little dog saga was wrapped up in a later entry.
-- (May 2, 2002) on monday 2002-04-22 1621
There's no suc...
There's no such thing as Harvard University in my world. Only stupid Harvard.
-- (May 2, 2002) on thursday 2002-05-02 0300
This post for ...
This post for Cindy!* Who got dragged to various sunglass shops at Berkeley, where I still couldn't find any good, bright orange sunglasses. Success, finally, at the Cambridgeside Galleria, right near home. But thanks for the company anyway.
*a la Slashdot trolls; yes, sometimes I browse at -1, nested, oldest first, usually to catch parts of a discussion I miss with the confusing 1, threaded, oldest first.
-- (May 2, 2002) on friday 2002-04-19 1333
I started keep...
I started keeping a log of interesting things on a plain HTML page for awhile, for about the first trimester of 2002. I'd been thinking about it for awhile, but never got around to it until I came across this photo on a salon.com review of the movie. So the weblog came to life from that impetus, and when I got too lazy to bother updating a file over and over again, I wrote the journal app I use now.
-- (May 2, 2002) on sunday 2001-12-23 0254
Do note that i...
Do note that it is indeed about a year between this and the last entry, and then another seven months between this and the next. Sorry, guess it's kind of a major gap.
-- (May 2, 2002) on saturday 2000-07-15 0218
Yes, there's a...
Yes, there's a large break between this entry and the previous one. Yes, it is mostly a private entry. Yes, there was something going on at that point in time that makes it a private entry. No, it probably won't ever be public.
-- (May 2, 2002) on monday 2001-02-05 0000
I have to admi...
I have to admit, I have no idea what I was thinking when I made this entry.
-- (May 2, 2002) on thursday 1999-06-17 2200
Comments within Knowledge Management
'M' stands for m...
'M' stands for meta, which happens to be the 'alt' key on Windows. It's the 'escape' key or the actual 'meta' key on other operating systems.
By the way, I'd go with Gary's solution. I just don't use emacs very much anymore.
-- (January 6, 2006) on Emacs default font size
Comments within Library
This is the 1974...
This is the 1974 edition, without an ISBN.
-- (November 13, 2003) on The Iliad
This is actually...
This is actually my 1961 edition, but ISBN's weren't implemented back then.
-- (November 13, 2003) on The Odyssey
A book of hist...
A book of history concerning a book of faith, written by a journalist, and it shows.
-- (July 5, 2003) on The Bible as History
Be warned that...
Be warned that learning Quenyan Elvish is on my list of things to do. I love Tolkien's universe and his created languages. I read this and the Silmarillion about once a year. I understand people won't take easily to the length or lack of action, but Tolkien's works take you so much farther than your average, standard fantasy plot and are so foundational that you've really got to own the set.
-- (June 5, 2003) on The Lord of the Rings
This was my fi...
This was my first programming book. From what I recall, it doesn't do much beyond the basics of C. For beginners, I guess.
-- (September 11, 2002) on Problem Solving and Program Design in C
If you've read...
If you've read one Amy Tan novel, you've basically read them all. I bought all of them in one fell swoop (save The Joy Luck Club, which I'd read four years ago), which, as it turns out, is quite the mistake. Mrs. Tan is a fervernt misandrist, at least for Asian men. No doubt she can setup a good plot and sometimes grace it with a wonderful payoff. But it's still there - she hates Asian men. As an Asian man, I can attempt to respect her opinion, but I in turn don't think I'd like her very much. The stereotypical Asian male, to her, has not changed within the past hundreds of years. We're brutish, nasty, sexually deviant, insensitive, and evil control freaks who deserve to have large knives buried in our chests. Right. I'll pass on that particular stereotype. White men seem to be fine. Perhaps if you're looking to understand her interpretation of a Chinese mother-daughter connection, Mrs. Tan's books might tangentially swing some ideas past you, like having your mother write down all of her memoirs. Often, Mrs. Tan's own life is the thinly veiled source of her novels; that's fine, too, but it highly restricts the circle of interested readers to other female Asian writers who love dogs and are married to European men. To which I do not belong. I don't find very much to take away in Mrs. Tan's writing. Maybe if she stepped out of the Chinese mother-daughter template a little bit. She's already got a four-book and one-film corner on the market. I know she can write, and I'd hope to see her take her writing in a new direction. But I think she's going to stay par for the course and keep on with her niche.
-- (August 10, 2002) on The Bonesetter's Daughter
This is the fi...
This is the first exposure I had to Tom Wolfe. If you can deal with reading a long novel while smacking your forehead at the overwhelming idiocy of the 'protagonist,' along with some bad luck thrown his way, then this is for you. Otherwise, I found it very difficult to take seriously an author whose most outstanding grammatical trick is ellipses. The story is well-crafted and the point about the absurdity and stupidity of socialite life is well taken. But I can't stand ellipses. Not like that, anyhow.
Word is to avoid the movie version. I might try another work of Wolfe's if someone can recommend one that's less forehead-smacking.
-- (August 10, 2002) on The Bonfire of the Vanities
I never finish...
I never finished reading this. Some people may call it a seminal work required for all computer scientists to absorb. That might be the case, but it's not the most exciting thing I've looked at. I may take another look at this when I have time, however, I doubt I'll ever have so much free time that I'll come look at what was a textbook for me just for fun.
-- (August 10, 2002) on The Mythical Man-Month
As a product, ...
As a product, this very small Bible is very useful. It can fit in a reasonbly sized pocket without too much trouble. The only caveat is that you must have good eyes to read it. New American Standard version.
-- (August 10, 2002) on Pocket Bible
It's been awhi...
It's been awhile since I read this one. See my earlier journal entires for notes. (I'll expand on this comment more later).
-- (August 10, 2002) on The Search for Significance
If you're look...
If you're looking to get another Bible, get The Message. I don't mean borrow a copy, either, it's one you should own. This transliteration is, by far, the most rewarding piece of Christian literature I've ever bought (then again, what would you expect - it's a Bible). Peterson captures the essence of the New Testament gospels and epistles as well as the Psalms and Proverbs in simple, accessible language. While not a substitute for any of the rigorous English translations out there, The Message is a priceless aid when you want to understand the broader idea in each pericope or overall book without getting lost in the details.
It's like getting another view on the Bible. I've given copies of the smaller, New Testament-only version to friends who have also found it refreshingly different and easy to read. I found myself reading books at a time instead of a handful of verses or chapters. Like I said, if you're looking to get another copy of the Bible - look at The Message.
-- (August 10, 2002) on The New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs
Comments within photodb photos
This was taken a...
This was taken at midnight near my home. There are a number of greenhouses in the surrounding area that severely pollute the evening sky with unnatural lighting. They were first introduced a couple decades ago. It's gotten worse since then.
-- (December 30, 2005) on Midnight Yard
...nonetheless, ...
...nonetheless, this Ear Wax Removal photo is worth keeping...
-- (May 22, 2003) on Jerry deserves better lighting than this and wants to be John Mayer.
You can leave it...
You can leave it if you want.
-- (April 1, 2003) on [this is just a test] (mlibby_test_0001)
To clear any que...
To clear any questions of which is which, Judy is cool.
-- (October 27, 2001) on Beauty and the Freak
My brother-in-la...
My brother-in-law Walter and sister Evie. Ain't they cute together?
-- (October 27, 2001) on The happy couple.
Loren was demons...
Loren was demonstrating his punching technique, particularly his ability to control how close he could come to the wall without actually striking it and putting a hole in it the size of his first couple of knuckles. Amazing, really.
-- (June 22, 2001) on Covering Anything, Loren?
Actually, there ...
Actually, there is none.
-- (June 22, 2001) on Jazzercise @ Next
Manna is all the...
Manna is all the guys except the one right behind the woman carrying a baby. He's one of my old pastors. Manna was an all male a cappella group. We haven't sung together since Sam left for Texas. Sam? Sam, where are you?
-- (June 22, 2001) on Manna + Tsueis
After I took thi...
After I took this one, Joyce brilliantly observed she'd look like she was picking her nose in it. She was right.
-- (June 22, 2001) on Is Joyce picking her nose?