Chasing My Own Tale
This is how they save money in Tasmania from what Craig says:
“- Gladstone, Tasmania
I saw this and thought maybe the town was trying to micro-manage its resources and save money by combining municipal services of similar nature. (ewwww…)”
It’s been quiet around here because I’ve been swamped with stuff. Work has been nuts of late. That 16 hour day last Tuesday was just the start.
Wednesday was the meeting for PersonalTelco which actually was a lot of fun, now that I’ve got a wireless card to play with. While I was there I got others to set up to access a Wiki that I was running on my laptop. For the Win machines everyone had to go in and set up their TCP/IP config to use a specified IP Address, since I wasn’t running a DHCP server to assign addresses on the fly.
Once they each had an IP address, they needed to hit *my* IP address to get to the server, since we had no DNS services. It’s an interesting experience trying to set up a network from scratch, without the nice things DHCP and DNS and all those other services that you kindof get used to having and not giving a second thought to.
This week was also the last week for Jason, one of oour Java developers. He’s going to be taking his classes full time (Music classes) and so he’s going to be off the project. I’ve been working directly next to for the past few weeks and we’ve had a lot of fun discussing the usual geeking things like the symantecs of latin phrases and singing along with They Might Be Giants mp3s.
Some days were pretty long, but I did read some great stories on http://www.obscurestore.com. One that had been on a while back was about a woman near Washington DC who suffered from complete classic Amnesia. She knew nothing about herself prior to March 2, 2002.
She’s had three stories in the Washington Post, starting with the first one when we learn she’s reveal her identity.
I’ve been keeping track of the story through the Post’s Anemic search engine. I’ll include the first article and the most recent one in the Read more section. Good luck, Macy.
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There have been some steps taken to put some rational thought into where and when to use Cascading Style Sheets for layout of elemetns on a page, and just what elements of a layout should use DIVs vs which should use tables.
I would like to have a larger discussion about this because it seems to me that While Divs have been great for lots of stuff in the over-all layout of a page, I really seem to see less of a return when I’m trying to work with: Menus, Image captions, layouts that have comparison text, and other issues that tables work so easily for, and so flexibly.
I really want to know how far to go with CSS layout.
When I’m working on my laptop…
while sitting at Pioneere Courthouse Square…
In the middle of downtown Portland…
soaking in the rays…
and the free wireless Internet access via my new Lucent WaveLan Wi-Fi (802.11b) PCMCIA PC card…
I must remember to bring my sunglasses that have polarized lenses…
…so I can see through the glare on my laptop screen.
NP: New Order, “Love Vigilantees”. (That song *always* give me the shivers…)
Rather than working on my class sylabus like I should be, I developed and wrote up an article about a Bookmarklet that works like so:
1) Visit a page with your fav browser.
2) Select this Bookmark from your favorites list or bookmarks menu.
3) Type in some text into the dialog that comes up.
4) See the web page that has the HTML necessary to link to the self-same web page.
5) Copy and paste the link into your favorite HTML editor or other text entry system. (Like… Greymatter!)
Florida now says man can keep his ATHEIST plate
Florida Department of Motor Vehicle bosses have reversed a supervisor’s decision to pull Steven Miles’s ATHEIST license plate. The DMV will now form a committee to review all tags “that fall into a gray area” before they are yanked. “I’m elated,” says Miles. “Now I don’t have to fight for what should be mine in the first place.” (Read it) (St. Petersburg Times)
You know, I really never had an opinion on Split Infinitives… until today. My opinion is thus:
“Fix it right, or leave it alone.”
I mean really! Look at this:
NY Times: In her gripping 1998 book,
The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity,
Lepore argued that King Philip’s War […] was a way for the colonists violently to sever the subtle links that were being forged daily between the two cultures.
Look at that! “…volently to sever…”
What – The – Hell? IF you are going to force a latin construct onto Modern English, at least try to make it *somewhat* smooth. Obviously this phrase was originally, “…for the colonists to violently sever the subtle links…” until some self-rightous copy editor got a hold of it and mangled a perfectly fine (if overlong) sentence into an awkward, teetering, obnoxoius pile of tripe!
I mean, perhaps if this was the Time of London, or some other stuff paper, but this is an American mainstream paper. It’s ridiculous!
BTW, the little page about Split Infinitives is part of a great collection of pages.
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I’m not sure how I feel about this article http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=105001688 (may require sign-in), but I thought it was worth sharing. I wish I knew more, first hand, about Islamic culture, something more than what gets forced fed from a world corporation.
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It’s a good thing we can express ourselves and that we have a country that allows for all people to believe as they wish… right?
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I love the Internet. You can find stuff like this. Read More for description.
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