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Sunday, March 17, 2002 Link
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It's not the end of the world as we know it, and on a related pop tune note, I feel fine. But I could feel finer. Thus, I'm taking a pre-spring break from all things blog and will be running silent for a while. Back soon. I promise. Try to keep the place tidy, ok?
Saturday, March 16, 2002 Link
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Oh my gosh, something must have gone horribly wrong. Duane actually posted three times this week. What the hell is going on over at the machine anyway? Are they laying people off? Was there a gas leak? Asbestos clean up? Food poisoning? Birthday bumps? Pantsing?
A milk bottle filled with coins sitting on the floor. Calgary.
Friday, March 15, 2002 Link
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Crap. My busy knob has been cranked way past eleven this week. Have you noticed?
Wednesday, March 13, 2002 Link
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Early morning frost covers a weeping birch. Calgary.
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 Link
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Dear Quad/Graphics, the PostScript files are in the mail. Sincerely, Grant.
I've missed a bunch of interesting software news over the past couple of days because I've been busy working on some projects that are way more important than recreational surfing. That's my story, anyway. First off, Mozilla 0.9.9 is apparently in the house and ready to get jiggy all over the place. My favourite server log processing, crunching, and metric spewing program, Summary, has just popped a notch to the next stage of beta. And to top it all off, I just noticed that Adobe Illustrator has been bumped to the palidromic version 10.0.1, fixing "several performance issues" amongst other things. Yeah, like Illustrator has ever had performance issues... ack!
Monday, March 11, 2002 Link
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Here's my Linux Administration in the Hands of the Unqualified play of the week. I just finished moving an large subdirectory full of documentation files to an entirely different filesystem and created a symbolic link back to the original location in order to free up space on the disk for the system. The best part? All of this was accomplished without causing anything on my server to blow up, time out, or otherwise run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible. Mother would be proud.
This, that, and the other thing. Lots of new people in the office today. I sure hope that we can adjust the room temperature tomorrow. The heat generated by all those extra bodies and the associated arm waving and gum flapping made the place quite a bit stuffier than usual. However, I'm certainly enjoying the heightened level of activity. It's very much like the good old days, although in a slightly more cramped environment. That, and we have no revenue. Or customers. Or brand strategy. Or centralized backups. Oh, and the web site isn't near finished yet either. I can't wait to tell you more about what's going on. Soon, I promise.
Friday, March 08, 2002 Link
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Another one of my favourite streams is biting the dust - at least publicly. It looks likely that Tag's Trance Trip is going to change to a private stream due to what appears to be pressure from and changes to the broadcasting industry by various acronymonic, single-celled organisms such as the RIAA, CARP, and the DMCA. Damn. Sure, there are other fine streams that cover the same musical genre as T^3, but they just don't hit the same, consistent groove that I've come to know and love. So long Tag. I hope you can find a way to stave off the demons and stay with us a bit longer.
Thursday, March 07, 2002 Link
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Brilliant. We all should consider using CSS instead of JavaScript for image rollovers. Via What Do I Know
My long time friend, afficionado of all things geek, and founding father of Webcore Labs, Bruce Livingstone has pinched out a concise bit of do-it-yourself wisdom over at Digital Web Magazine entitled A Designer's Guide to Making Your Own Stock Photography (for non-photographers). Both photography and web design are dear to my heart, and Bruce makes me want to do much more about combining the two together than I have up to now. Not only that, but damn him, he mentions me in the article as being the person who taught him most what he knows about stock photography. Well, colour me blushing. It's a good thing that I'll be applying my assumed breadth of knowledge once again very soon. I'd hate to think that I didn't take advantage of learning from what he and his cohorts have accomplished in the business. Thanks Bruce. I feel the need to purchase you a beverage.
Now! See! Hear! This is exactly the reason why I keep one of absolutely everything. At some indeterminate digital rest stop down the road, someone is going to step up to me, introduce themselves as a soul with a problem, and ask if I have a whatzit that'll read the thingme so they can get all of their stuff out of it. Of course, I'll nod my head knowingly, smile as if possessed by an imp, and simply say "yes". Via the rubber knuckled Mr deWit
Heart chart and Luxo lamp in doctor's office. Calgary.
I received my new business cards yesterday. New company. New phone number. Yet another new email address. And of course, a new title which inadequately describes my indescribable job and all those little things that I attempt to do here. It's just a small piece of card stock (a nice quality, coated card stock, mind you...), but it's also a placeholder for my identity that I can give to others. It tells people that I actually have a job again. Heck, it tells me that I actually have a job again. Ok, two jobs. Another major something is starting up next week. But, that's another story altogether.
Tuesday, March 05, 2002 Link
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If you ever find yourself fighting to resuscitate a malignant Jaz drive, here's a tip. There's nothing that can't be fixed by applying several dozen healthy blasts from a can of compressed air, a well-intentioned drop onto the carpet from a height of about half a metre, and a carefully chosen curse.
Monday, March 04, 2002 Link
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If any of my friends or family feel they have the proof they need to refer to me as a geek, I'd like them to keep something in mind. In the grand scheme of things, I don't even chart in the top 40. Especially when compared to folks like this. Of course, there's always the potential for advancement in the rankings. Via myapplemenu
I've spent the last several months weaning myself away from an innate dependency on tables for my web designs. The level of understanding that I have gained in terms of using cascading style sheets almost exclusively for defining the layout of a page has surprised me. My ability to hand code valid structural markup from the ground up has also improved remarkably over a short time. I continually find myself drawn to examples of innovative CSS presentation and then, after squeezing my eyes closed really tight, attempting to figure out where I could apply such wonderfulness. So, after all of this progress and willing adoption of web standards, what am I doing today? I'm building a site using nested tables, spacer gifs, and other convoluted browser-dependent html hacks in order to preserve some semblance of design. All because the assumed target audience for this company's products will more than likely be using some non-current flavour of America Online or Netscape as their window to the web. Sure, the design still looks good... but I feel so cheap.
Sunday, March 03, 2002 Link
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Self portrait with ByeWire t-shirt. Calgary.
[ Update ] According to Daniel, I " ...look like a young and only mildly psychotic Jack Nicholson" in this shot. Young? Why, thank you.
Saturday, March 02, 2002 Link
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When did 1996 start sounding like it happened so long ago?
Friday, March 01, 2002 Link
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Grammy Awards organiser Michael Greene hath spake on behalf of musicians everywhere.
"Ripping is stealing their livelihood one digital file at a time, leaving their musical dreams haplessly snared in this world wide web of theft and indifference."
Erm. Ripping isn't so much stealing the musicians' livelihood as it's cutting into the music companies profit margins. And it's not the cause, it's a reaction to the symptoms. Now how about filling in the details about why most people rip files in the first place? Certainly, there is no argument that some people are ripping specifically for trading files with others. But I don't rip for profit or fun or the opportunity to swap files. I've ripped much of my music collection (which I hasten to add, I have paid bloated retail prices for upfront) for the sheer convenience of using and enjoying it beyond the confines of my living room. Lighten up Mikey. Stop lumping me in with the Gnutellakiddies and start helping the industry get into the groove of understanding how accessable and digitally available music is a good thing.
Dymo is beautifully simple and utterly pointless typographic fun. It's also one of those things that makes you nuts that didn't come up with it yourself. Damnation. Via dangerousmeta
Two keyboards, a Newton, and a Cinema Display. Calgary.
I'd like to introduce to you some of the new friends I've become acquainted with while digging through the bowels of my Qube this evening, trying to get the damn router config working again. Presenting, in no particular order or chronology:
- /var/log/messages
- /etc/hosts
- /etc/resolv.conf
- /etc/inetd.conf
- /etc/sysconfig/network
- /etc/sysconfig/static-routes
- /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
- /var/cobalt/status
- find / -name '*.pop' -print
- rm *.pop -f
- find / -name '*.lock' -print
- rm *.lock -f
I would like thank whoever is ultimately responsible for the blessings bestowed upon us by the gracious and almighty telnet. Now, I do believe I'm going to bed.
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