Archives for October, 2002
2002.10.31 (Thu)
House Week #2
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Here’s a house that’s been around the block once or twice. Unfortunately it’s another one of those walled-off numbers….
2002.10.30 (Wed)
IE(PC): A Quick Note
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In which I barely restrain myself from exploding in rage and frustration at the bug-infested piece of crap that is Internet Explorer on the PC.
The Man That Got Away
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How much smarter would I have been had I not filled my head with song!?
2002.10.29 (Tue)
Out-thunk
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There’s something deeply humiliating about being out-thunk by a seven-year-old. My daughter was making cross-eyes at me earlier this evening…
Winona’s Method
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Winona Ryder’s dedication to her craft knows no bounds.
House Week #1
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A quick entry for House Week today. I wish the photo showed the weathered wood a bit better. I…
Remembering Info
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The “Remember info” button on comment forms seems to work now. Apologies for it not doing so previously. Took me…
2002.10.28 (Mon)
Yet Another test
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OK… if this doesn’t work I’m sellng everything and moving to a desert island. I’ve been looking for an excuse….
When it comes to datura, just say no!
2002.10.27 (Sun)
House Week (At Last)
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House Week finally begins!
Arts & Letters Daily
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Arts & Letters Daily is a wonderful site, but the layout is absolutely maddening.
Too Many Books?
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There’s a thread on Plastic.com about what to do when you simply find yourself with too many books. My…
Partly to Occasionally Mostly
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Listening to Armed Forces Radio just now (they’re back on the air here after rebuilding their station) I heard tomorrow’s…
Help! Installing MT Locally on OS X
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Update: I figured it out. Site and archive paths have to be specified using /Library/WebServer/Documents/[subDirectory] rather than any other method…
2002.10.26 (Sat)
Bombs and Crocodiles
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I certainly don’t mean to make light of recent tragedies in the world, but this story is just bizarre. Talk…
Pismos of the World, Unite!
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The Pismo PowerBook is shaping up to be one of those workhorse machines that Apple comes up with every once…
2002.10.25 (Fri)
Buttons Redux: Tweakability
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Dave Winer wrote on Scripting News this morning about variations in the orange XML button: Please don’t tweak the little…
The *Last* Thing We Need
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Humans are doing a pretty damned good job of sucking the life out of the planet as it is. Imagine…
2002.10.24 (Thu)
A Special Place in My Hard Drive
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I saw a great sig file at the bottom of a newsgroup posting once that said “Don’t anthropomorphize computers: they…
IE6 Users, Stay With Me!
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Aaargh! Getting reports that IE6 on the PC isn’t displaying the column layout here properly. Stay with me won’t you,…
Incipient Alzheimer’s
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Incipient Alzheimer’s disease is the only explanation I can come up with for some of the dumb things I do….
2002.10.23 (Wed)
Japanese Courtyard Gardens
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Better late than never, I finally get around to posting this link from nipponDAZE: a brief look (with some stunning…
RSS Buttons
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The RSS Validator was asking for 88*31px buttons (too chunky!), and I sent these along today – too late for…
Kanji Tattoos
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Folks, if you’re going to get a kanji tattoo, please be careful. Draw it on yourself first (or have a…
Martel Wins Booker
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I’ve apparently been so preoccupied that I missed the run-up to this year’s Booker Prize. Joyful Martel wins BookerBBC Yann…
The Evil of Gene Patents
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BoingBoing just posted this astonishing story which I’m just cynical enough to take at face value (no one from Myriad…
2002.10.22 (Tue)
Steal These Buttons
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Not being very clever or technically inclined, I’m disappointed that I can’t bestow some brilliant gift on the web…
Return of a Modest Proposal
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Arianna Huffington’s latest piece in Salon centres around an idea which is by no means new – people have already…
Return of the Corleones?
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Human greed is constantly finding amazing ways to express itself. The Godfather could returnAnanova Random House have reached an agreement…
A Double-edged Snout
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This makes me very nervous. New strain of pigs carry human genesGlobeandmail.com By manipulating swine sperm, Italian researchers have made…
RSS Validation
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Congratulations to Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby on the launch of their RSS Validator. <envy>How clever.</envy>…
A 24-year-old man has been booked for travelling at 199 km/h on his way home from watching the Australian Motorocycle…
Some Apple/IDG Sanity
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John Gruber brings some much-needed perspective to the Apple/IDG spat. Typically trenchant quote: This is like being faced by a…
2002.10.21 (Mon)
Nodai Baseball Team
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More audio. This one’s pretty funny (assuming you find creepy, militaristic overtones funny). Baseball is taken very seriously in Japan….
The Goldberg Family
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Every year on June 17 Diego Goldberg takes a series of photographs of his family. This page shows them…
2002.10.20 (Sun)
All great eccentrics wear hats….
I’ve started recording some of the sounds I regularly hear while sitting at my desk. Today, the yaki-imo man. Yaki-imo…
Cold War Teleporting
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So I put aside a couple of other books I’m in the middle of to start the new Eggers novel…
The Radius of Human Experience
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Here’s a little game I sometimes play when I’m bored. Works best in the denser urban environments, but you can…
2002.10.19 (Sat)
Moods on the Installment Plan
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Domesticated moments: My wife: I’m going shopping. Want anything? Me: Well, if the mood strikes– My wife: We can’t afford…
2002.10.18 (Fri)
Rebuilded
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Unsurprisingly, everything was my fault. I’m using the extremely handy MTSanitize plug-in to limit what HTML can appear in comments,…
The knock on the door just now was the delivery man bearing a box full of crumpled white paper….
Enstricticating MT
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A couple of edits you seem to have to make to MT 2.5 to get it producing strict XHTML 1.0.
So What’s New?
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A new look but hopefully that same old feel. Here are some things that somehow got done over the…
Antipixel 2: Are We There Yet?
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First post to Antipixel 2
2002.10.14 (Mon)
I can’t believe how easy it is to set up the search in MT 2.5. Just got to finish up…
2002.10.13 (Sun)
I’m SQL’d
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Looks like I’m SQL’d. I’d say that was bloody easy but I don’t want to speak too soon. Let’s give…
Am I SQL’d?
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Just tried to change over to MySQL again. Everything went absolutely fine – as it did last time. The errors…
ChimerIcon
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I just discovered ChimerIcon today which lets you change the appearance of Chimera (which, like everyone else, I’m starting to…
Workspaces
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I just remembered I sent a photo to the workspace exhibit now hosted by the wonderful somebodydial911.com. Check out my…
2002.10.12 (Sat)
Vacuumed Items
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Miscellaneous items inadvertantly sucked into the vacuum cleaner over the years (an inexhaustive list): marbles keys enough money for a…
ActiveX Errors
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I thought I’d be smart and embed a short audio file in the page but some people got ActiveX errors….
2002.10.11 (Fri)
Internet Explorer Madness
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I rarely use IE these days and now that I’ve dusted it off to test the new design it seems…
2002.10.10 (Thu)
Getting the Flock Outta Here
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Stepping outside just now to walk down to the corner store, I looked up to see the stars – it’s…
Anniversaries
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Changes are afoot here. In fact, changes are afeet. Things are going on. Late in the month sees Antipixel’s…
My Lost Week Ends
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I’d like to be able to say I’ve been having Ray Milan-esque adventures or marauding like Albert Finney in Under…
2002.10.02 (Wed)
Miracle at Ivolginsk
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This story of the Buddhist miracle in Siberia reminds me of Zosima from Karamazov. “To me it is the greatest…
Keith Richards’ Face
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Sweet Jesus, look at Keith Richards. This is a photo by Marc Po Kempner in the New York Times…
2002.10.01 (Tue)
Armed Forces Radio Fallen?
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I don’t know who’s taken over the station, but this sure isn’t Armed Forces Radio. Something funny’s happened to 810kHz…
Earth’s Core May Have Creamy Filling
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The earth’s inner core has been of interest to scientists ever since it was discovered in 1936. Imaging it…
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