Chasing My Own Tale
Well, I popped into work to see how this thing looks… I like it. The color’s a bit dark still on that side bar but it’s getting there. Amy was expecting me home half an hour ago. I better get going!
My brother and I took his kids out to a kids’ workshop at the local home improvement warehouse. The seemed to have a lot of fun. My brother seems upset that they aren’t adults yet. 🙁 Maybe I just have more patience because I’m not raising them.
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Added a few more tweaks to the script. I’ve got the password code in place, just commented out till I can test it.
I’ve updated the line break logic. now hitting return twice puts in a P tag and a single puts in a BR tag.
That better follows my style of writing e-mails.
Oh, and I broke up the page into separate tables for each entry. that should up the display speed quite a bit.
Of course all these modifications will improve the entry forms at OMSI that I’ve setup for the staff to update pages.
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oops. I need to escape those > and < characters in my notes as well.
s/((http|ftp):/+.*)$<A HREF="1">1</A>
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My first attempt at a regex that will convert the links on the fly:
s/((http|ftp):/+.*)$/1
I’m sure there’s some characters that need to escaped in there. I’ll get to them at work.
It seems as though the time on these entries is forward an hour or two. I’ll have to check with Brendan to see what’s up. That would explain why the rat cam always seems ahead on it’s time stamp.
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Back home. We’ve rented two movies: Shine and Barton Fink. I’ve only vaguely heard about these two films, so this should be an adventure. I’m still looking for True Love and Chaos, an Aussie film that has a Leonard Cohen/Nick Cave cover band in it.
Another film I’ve heard about via Siskle and Ebert was “The Long Way Home” about the Jews who were displaced in the three years between the end of WWII and the inception of the state of Israel.
I’m on a number of mailing lists including Bong, the Depeche Mode list and Goodson, the Nick Cave list. both have been rather ugly lately. Why does it seem that 80% of the Internet is made up of hormone over-dosed 16 year old males?
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Barton Fink was interesting, if a bit oblique. I didn’t know that it was a Cohen Brothers effort. Amy and I saw Fargo (on the recommendation of her previously (?) conservative mother) a few months ago and We both make references to that film to this day.
Barton Fink however, felt like it kept digging to be allegorical, but I think it hid it’s secondary message a bit too well, if there was indeed one. John Goodman was great. I knew he had done more film work than just Babe, but his screen presence was a real treat.
It was also interesting to see Steve Buscimi. With this film, it makes two actors from Resivior Dogs who have played bell-hops.
I think I’ve figured out how to do the automatic link generation with a regex. I just gotta sit down with my Perl docs at work and pick it out piece by piece. Why didn’t someone work out a version of grep that uses something along the lines of what the character entity does in HTML to make regex easier to work with? Instead of ‘*’ you should be able to put in something like &variable;. Sure it would increase the length of the string, but it would increase the readability by 10 fold.
I’m off to watch my niece and nephew with my brother.
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I’ll probably be using this for sending myself notes back and forth from home and work.
I’ve got figure out more about GREP strings. I’m using GREP to parse out the line returns and put in paragraph tags, but I’d like there to be a difference between a single line return and a double line return. So far I’ve always found someone else’s grep string and then just modified it. I think I just oughta sit down with my Perl books.
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Now I’ve got this thing. It’s like a message to the world–not that they’re listening to it but that they can all read it.
And I can add to this from anywhere in the world. I can even call up the entry page without being connected to the net, and then when I’m ready, I can add it in later.
I’m going to try adding to this thing from every new place I get the chance. I might try out some of the local Internet Cafe’s in the area. There’s the Habit and Internet Arena in the city. When I start traveling (and if I can keep my web page here) maybe OMSI will let me keep this journal online. It’s not like it’ll take up a lot of bandwidth…
I’ll probably ask Amy where to register journals. From what she’s said there’s a number of different sites that have link to Web Journals. Maybe I’ll register with one or two once I get this thing up to speed.
I’d like to add to the script the ability to automatically build an index and move old entries into monthly pages. That shouldn’t be too hard. I’d just have the script branch off into a maintainence routine if it notices that the current month is different from the last entries’s month. Already I’m starting to make the entries with a time/date stamp so I can build the index.
Yeah, this script I’m talking about is built in Perl, language of the UNIX-based web gods.
Hmm, maybe I can make the color of the side bar relate to the time of day this is posted. I’d need to convert “and her breasts” the time to a Hex code. Perhaps a one-to one grey scale would be good. or just add a sun/moon graphic that would change to the current time, kinda like those old graphather tongue in my ear. blah blah blah…
hmmm
I seem to have acuired a growth on my body. she’snibbling on my eaar!!! help ! help whoa!!! whao!!
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As I was saying, kinda like those old grandfather clocks with the sun and moon dial.
Amy and I are off to the movies.
Oh, I also wanted to include some URLs:
<http://www.auschron.com/issues/vol16/issue31/pols.lightrail.html>
<http://hsb.baylor.edu/ramsower/ais.ac.97/papers/hong.htm>
<http://www.rdrop.com/users/eagle/pdxdict/>
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Those last few tweaks really cleaned the whole thing up. I’m glad I didn’t have to resort to a horizontal rule or some such device.
It seems like properly placed white space can do such a better job of laying out information for quick reading.
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Well, here we go. I think this thing is ready. I really should check it at work. It’s also time to get up and going for the day.
I’m way behind on my Nick Cave stuff as well. Oh well, this was more fun.
dwelling (with an ‘at’ sign) bad-seed.org:
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