09.24.01
Song Request
I really think someone ought to do a Trance or House style remake of The Wheels on the Bus. And Ramstein should cover Rock a-bye Baby.
09.20.01
Google Searches
Ever since I moved OrderSomewhereChaos over to the new server, I’ve been able to better track the traffic that’s been coming into the old server on smartnetworks.net. The more interesting aspect has been the Google searches that have found relevent links on my site. Since I switched over the site around 3 Sept, I’ve had quite a variety show up. Take a look for yourself:
| Web Development Stuff | Everything Else |
|---|---|
| apache includes apache includes don’t work browser sniffer javascript code html page break printer “EOL in perl” HTML printer formating include file from virtual dir javascript environment variables javascript set value meta authorization perl regex examples perl regex library POST environment variables available cgi printer friendly pages regex change case regex how-to examples Regular Expressions samples ssi includes inside includes timefmt timefmt day varibles xssi xssi redirect xssi set var xssi tutorials |
bad swoosh spiral logo Basketball coach dry clip-board cartoon karmann ghia depeche mode x1 “depeche mode” discography “enjoy the silence” dwelling mac aquarium se convert “mac web development” MemoryStick Mac OS X minilog “obsessed” “noise club” old wacom tablet: G3 “the simply irresistible girls” used yellow volkswagons vault of perversions what is minilog |
I find it fascinating that certain words like ‘variables’ and ‘dwelling’ ended up getting so high on Google’s rankings. At least, high enough to be clicked on, anyway.
09.18.01
Good Birthday
I had a really nice b-day. I got cards from the Hot Pepper office and the PGE office, plus my mom and dad were in town, on their way to Wisconsin.
Amy got me a beautiful watch (big pic) and I’ll pick something out from my wishlist as well. I got lots of clothes, and despite Amy’s best efforts to take us out to a ‘special’ place for dinner, we had a wonderful meal at DiNichola’s, a chintzy little Italian restaurant on Powell, that I really like.
09.16.01
Crash Boom Bang
A Volume Map error is a bad thing for most computers. Mine got one and it took down my machine for the last few days. I don’t think I lost any data, but I’m sure glad I had split my hard drive into two partitions *and* installed a minimum system folder on the second. My second partition came up and ran just fine, allowing me to use Data Rescue, and move most of my first partition to my second partition.
So I seem to be up and running again, with a full backup burned to disc. Whew.
Afghanistan Maps
As Afghanistan is such a point of discussion these days I decided to look up some maps. Note: some of these maps are pretty big, anywhere from 200k and up. All links open in new windows.
A political map of the country. The United Nations has a highly detailed political map as well. Look who’s at the top of the list of least developed countries.
A map of the former Soviet states that are north of Afghanistan. That’s interesting; there’s a border with China, though the area is sparsely populated according to some maps.
A map of the Ethno-lingustic groups in Afghanistan. The legend at the bottom organizes the groups into three major categories: Iranian, Turkic and Other.
Most of these are culled from U of Texas Library, which I found via a search on Google.
09.12.01
Cold Calculations
Based on the tenent lists that I’ve seen online, there were about 17,000 employees listed for the businesses that had offices in the world Trade Center. I would expect that half of these people escaped the buildings: 8,500. Early response fire and police: ~300, Airflights: 265, Pentagon: ~300
I’m expecting a final total of souls lost to be about 10,000.
NATO, Article 5
This is the relevant document of the day: NATO’s North Atlantic Treaty, Article 5.
09.11.01
September Eleventh
I’m exhausted. I’ve been entranced and completely drained all day long. I was sent home from my job which is in the Portland World Trade Center building.
Discuss on the Wiki, using the discussion board link.
WTC, NY
A list of links that I’ll be updating all day long.
A public discussion group at yahoo has opened.
09.10.01
High Rez Interfaces
A very High-rez interface has been added to this Mac:
From Jerry’s Hardware Museum.