03.11.98
Posted in Apple, Meta, Tech, Web
at 1 pm
Home and finally done for the day. The meeting for the Webmaster’s group was a lot of fun. But I think I may have been a bit too enthusiastic. I started going off about virtually every aspect of developing the OMSI web site from the Server Side Includes to the CGIs that I’ve worked up. I asked a couple of times if the other people there minded me just digging into the aspects of these web pages. They encouraged me to keep going, but they may have just been being nice.
Amy says she pointed a link to my journal in her journal at < <http://www.spiritone.com/~giovanni/> >. Tit-for-tat… 🙂
Oh, books I’ve been reading: The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design which is basically a manifesto by Apple circa 1990. Also Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, which is an O’Reiley book, plus all the usual web journals:
<http://www.webreference.com/>
<http://www.webreview.com/>
<http://www.macosrumors.com/>
<http://www.webmonkey.com/>
and I’d like to read <http://www.builder.com/> from c|net, but I can’t stand how slow their web pages render. Waaaaay too many tables. (Can you see I’m getting a lot of use out of this auto URL linking?)
I wonder if/when my family will find this journal.
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03.10.98
Posted in Life, Web
at 6 pm
Gave Blood today. I really think this is important for people who can to do it. Blood that is donated only lasts for 14 days. This really surprised me. I didn’t know it was that short.
Now I’m off to a health insurance meeting. 5:00 to 7:00 and then a local web masters group at 7:00 downtown. On the run today…
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Posted in Design, People, Web
at 1 pm
Long day. Attended Amy’s PCOS Support meeting tonight. It had some good information, but I got trapped in the kitchen by a guy going off about his glory days. He seemed nice, but his stories were frightening. It’s a difficult situation to try and get out of.
Saw a great site today: <http://www.cool404.com/> has cool ‘Page Not Found’ pages. Some of them aren’t that great but there were a few pages with some innovative things on them. I worked on OMSI’s error page because of it: <http://www.omsi.edu/qqqqq> will bring it up.
Some other Web design pages I want to check out at some point are: <http://goldray.com/webdesign/design_resources.htm> and <http://goldray.com/webdesign/course-content.htm> but I’ll wait until I get back into work for the T1 access.
I’m so tired. I’ve got to finish reading a few digests, then I’m off to bed.
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03.09.98
Posted in Career, Media, Web
at 3 pm
Monday morning and I’m back into the fray. Had a department meeting with Marilyn and Stacey that lasted quite a while.
I took the WaterWorks web site on OMSI’s pages and cleaned it up a bit, added a couple of needed pages and links and cleaned up the file structure. It’s an interesting resources though the graphics area really lacking: <http://www.omsi.edu/sln/ww/>
Feeling really busy and yet little to show for it. I guess I’m still trying to get a few pieces into place so that the work I’ve been going can be put out in the open. It’s the waiting that’s the hardest part – Tom Petty
I took one of Amy’s O-+> CD’s to work. The Hits 2.
Good stuff.
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03.08.98
Posted in Web
at 12 pm
This page has good list of the environment variables that are available to CGIs: <http://www.ppc.edu/~fred/course308/cgi.html> and I’ll be adding it to my XSSI Library later today.
<http://www.ordersomewherechaos.com/rosso/xssi/>
XSSI’s can be very powerful if you have access to them. But I hadn’t fund any good documentation about them, so I started my own library. I haven’t added anything lately, because I haven’t been working with Server Side Includes. I should list the site at Yahoo and on the ADV-HTML list.
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Posted in Meta, Tech
at 12 pm
Looks like it finally http://works like I want it to. Simone is racing around the apartment like a mad cat. Here’s the regex I finally worked out:
s/((http|ftp):S*)/<A HREF="1">1</A>/g
If any one has any improvements on it, let me know. hmmm. I should add a mailto in to that alternation area like so:
s/((http|ftp|mailto):S*)/<A HREF="1">1</A>/g
now I can do inline e-mails as well. rosso (with an ‘at’ sign) microsuck.com is an alternate address I have. That’s cool. Well it’s only 11:00 (yes the time/date stamp is off) and I already feel like I got something done today. Oh, and I cleared out some of the older entries that were just testings things. Looks like I’ve got to get that automatic archiving system in place soon.
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Posted in Career, Media, Web
at 11 am
Dealing with HTML really makes regex a lot of fun. It seems as though the pattern I set up has just gone all over the place. I’ve had to comment it out in order to get perl to run the script at all. Well it looks like it runs now. But I still want the regex to work.
Amy and I didn’t get to watch Shine because the tape was messed up. Whenever the tape was playing normally, the screen went to its ‘this-image-is-so-messed-up I’m-just-going-to-show-a-blue-screen’ screen, but you could see the video when you had the tape moving at fast-forward or in reverse. I guess I’ll take them back to Hollywood Video today.
I work on a Sunday through Thursday schedule by my own choosing. So I’m headed into work this morning.
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03.06.98
Posted in Meta, Web
at 8 pm
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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Posted in Media, People, Web
at 6 pm
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!!
ack!!
ahh!!!
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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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