Salon has an interesting article on what the new regulations for the telemarketing industry will mean for the economy. I must admit, I had never really thought about the ramifications of the new national do-not-call lists to the bigger picture. While I certainly don’t feel bad for the telemarketers, all of us will feel the […]
Posted on July 15th, 2003 by admin
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I almost never look at this site’s access logs, even though my hosting provider offers several nice reports on my admin page. I did, however, take a peek today, and I found this refering URL: http://www.google.com/search?q=perl+socket+applications&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N I had completely forgotten that I had posted my very own Perl lightning talk on the site a few […]
Posted on July 14th, 2003 by admin
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I discoved a truly disappointing fact this weekend about Galeon this weekend — it doesn’t work with Gnome 2.2 (the latest greatest release I have running on the Slack box at home). Humm. I only running Gnome 2.0 here at work, which is still compatible with the Gnome 1.2 libraries that Galeon was designed against. […]
Posted on July 14th, 2003 by admin
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Just a few quick items…. There are new Seb photos on the home page. I posted a couple of climbing images from our last spring trip. In case anyone cares, I added a “Current Reading” entry on the sidebar of this page. I added a Creative Commons license to this page. Most of what I […]
Posted on July 14th, 2003 by admin
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I’ve decided to give Galeon a try while I use Gnome at work. In case you’re lazy and don’t want to follow the link, Galeon is a Gnome-based web browser based on Gecko, the Mozilla rendering engine. Galeon actually requires that Mozilla be installed on the machine (which is sorta odd), but I got over […]
Posted on July 11th, 2003 by admin
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In case you’re interested, here’s a screenshot of my Gnome desktop. This will also be a fine test of your browser’s standards compliance, as the image is a .png 😉
Posted on July 11th, 2003 by admin
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Just a bunch of random stuff today: Seb got his first immunizations yesterday. What a truly heartbreaking event, seeing the boy in pain like that. He seems to be a little less grumpy today though… After an all-too-human start to the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong and the rest of the US Postal Service team […]
Posted on July 10th, 2003 by admin
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Liz Phair has responded to the NY TImes review of her new album. While I still think I won’t run out and buy her album, this behind the major record label contract, the real Liz Phair still exists…. At least the review itself isn’t trying so hard to be clever….
Posted on July 9th, 2003 by admin
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We lost our electricity last night, thanks to another storm of Biblical proportion. It was kinda nice — candlelight, no distractions like the computer or the phone (ahh, the joy of cordless phones). It wasn’t kinda nice at 2:00am though when the nice cool breeze stopped and there was no fan to stir the air. […]
Posted on July 9th, 2003 by admin
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The Pennsylvania Department of Motor Vehicles rules for registering a moped. I’ve been trying to find a decent used moped to get back and forth to work when it’s wicked hot and I don’t want to ride my bike. Thanks to EBay I found a nice one in Slippery Rock PA, and the owner was […]
Posted on July 8th, 2003 by admin
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