Page of Moss - bloglet for Monday 26 August 2002

If I put old U2 and new U2 on a playlist together, will they destroy each other in a catastrophic explosion? _
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01:30:13 PM, Monday 26 August 2002

Tara Grubb is running for Congress in the 6th district of North Carolina. I'm automatically suspicious of any Libertarian, but she does seem to have some interesting ideas, and she's running against an otherwise unopposed Republican. _
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08:27:06 PM, Friday 23 August 2002

One thing I don't like about my vim blogging script is sometimes I start on a blog, and save it under a different name, 'cause I want to finish it later, but it turns out I also saved it under the name of the temp file that was generated, so it gets posted, even though I didn't mean for it to get posted yet. Yeah. I don't like that. _
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05:59:05 PM, Friday 23 August 2002

Come gather round Mongers, whatever you code
And admit that your forehead's about to explode
'Cos Perl patterns induce complete brain overload
If there's source code you should be maintainin'
Then you better start learnin' Perl 6 patterns soon
For the regexes, they are a-changin'

Exegesis 5.

[via Keith Devens] _
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12:49:58 PM, Friday 23 August 2002

Metafilter quote of the day: "All today's kids have is lots of information, and cheap guns."

(And the poster, Rusty, also runs Kuro5hin, one of the best boards on the net.) _
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11:36:09 PM, Thursday 22 August 2002

I... liked the sixth season of Buffy. _
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09:51:15 PM, Thursday 22 August 2002

There is hope for a Mac port of Eclipse. Eclipse is a free Java IDE from IBM, and has the best refactoring browser for Java that I have yet seen. _
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03:37:55 PM, Thursday 22 August 2002

I couldn't find the documentation, so I decided to RTFS. In C. It worked. _
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08:05:47 PM, Wednesday 21 August 2002

Go read y2karl's Situationists/Rexroth/Sappho post on MetaFilter. Links to lots of pretty things. _
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06:12:52 PM, Wednesday 21 August 2002

Like the unicorn, Uncle
Sam is what is called a myth.
Plato wrote a book which is
An occult conspiracy
Of gentlemen pederasts.
In it he said ideas
Are more nobly real than
Reality, and that myths
Help keep people in their place.
Since you will never become,
Under any circumstances,
Gentlemen pederasts, you�d
Best leave there blood-soaked notions
To those who find them useful.
_
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05:48:44 PM, Wednesday 21 August 2002

I've only just in the past couple of weeks been realizing what a good album Mink Car is.

Baby check this out I've got something to say...
Man, it's so loud in here!
When they stop the drum machine and I can think again,
I'll remember what it was.
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01:22:30 PM, Wednesday 21 August 2002

"I know how to spell banana, but I don't know when to stop." _
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01:13:01 PM, Wednesday 21 August 2002

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." _
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01:12:44 PM, Wednesday 21 August 2002

"...except PHP. PHP is has absolutely no worth at all." _
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07:40:05 PM, Tuesday 20 August 2002

"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send."
--Jon Postel _
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07:03:46 PM, Tuesday 20 August 2002

That was weird--some kind of bloglet bug made it repeat the last post nine times. _
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05:43:01 PM, Tuesday 20 August 2002

"Looking at the sky, you notice it's not foggy and there's still haze"

When I went to lunch yesterday, I noticed that the weather was really weird. There was a smoky sort of smell, and an ugly grey mist hovered in the air a little too high for fog and a little too low for clouds. I thought at first that there must be a fire somewhere nearby, but I couldn't see any sign of one. It turns out there is a fire--hundreds of miles away, in Oregon. It baffles me just to think about it, how something that far away can have an effect so immediate that I can see it and smell it the moment I walk outside.

The satellite picture from NASA makes it a bit more comprehensible. That's 400,000 acres with smoke just pouring off of them like that. Yesterday it was cloudy: the smoke would have been trapped near the ground. Today, the sky is a bit clearer, and so the air is better too. _
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05:40:52 PM, Tuesday 20 August 2002

It's better than bad, it's patented.
[via Matt Haughey] _
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02:59:55 PM, Tuesday 20 August 2002

My elbow hurts. I don't think that's very Platonistic of it at all.

My elbow! _
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03:18:10 AM, Tuesday 20 August 2002

Extreme WikiWeblog Yummy Goodness from Les Orchard.

Can Moveable Type do multiple categories for an entry? ::checks:: Looks like it can. And it does the Blogger and MetaWeblog APIs.

It doesn't seem to auto-instantiate categories, but I bet it would be possible to build something like that. Time to contemplate switching. I'll have to look over my old description of what features I want. _
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04:50:49 AM, Monday 19 August 2002

Rock. Sweet. Ass. I'll be able to use Python 2.2 features in Wobble. _
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03:48:22 AM, Monday 19 August 2002

Hmm... I don't think it's my recent activity script causing the high load averages, but maybe I'll switch to the older, less processor-heavy version for a bit, just in case. _
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03:44:27 AM, Monday 19 August 2002

EXTERMINATE ALL RATIONAL THOUGHT! _
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03:18:37 AM, Monday 19 August 2002

"luddites and pro-misery 'ethicists'.". And proud of it. _
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01:41:03 AM, Saturday 17 August 2002

Memo to self: do not redefine functions in PHP. _
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04:11:58 PM, Friday 16 August 2002

Okay, I've updated my recent activity script so that it shows the names of commenters, and so that, if there's more than one recent comment on an entry, it will show them all. It's done with a grotesque combination of Brute Force and Cleverness, but it seems to work. I've also saved a copy of the earlier version, which depends only on blt, not on access to local files, and which could thus be extended for use by other blt-tracked blogs. _
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04:10:42 PM, Friday 16 August 2002

Can PHP do an addition with a string of a number? If so, "2" + 2 should equal 4. In practice: "2" + 2 == 4_
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03:19:55 PM, Friday 16 August 2002

Hmm... _
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02:44:38 PM, Friday 16 August 2002

How to build a flying robot:
1) Build a robot with wings.
2) Tell it to just flail around until it finds something that works.
3) Wait three hours. _
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01:11:50 PM, Friday 16 August 2002

And if I'm doing that, I may as well sort the whole right sidebar in order of priority. _
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11:14:21 PM, Thursday 15 August 2002

Except I think it wants to be a bit higher up on the page--it's more useful if visible from the first screen. _
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11:12:33 PM, Thursday 15 August 2002

So, will it work? _
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11:04:04 PM, Thursday 15 August 2002

I believe Kristin was looking for an mp3 player for the Mac that supported WinAmp skins, though I can't find the entry where she mentioned this desire. In any case, jlGui supports WinAmp skins, is written in Java, and runs happily on the Mac. You may even be able to run it through Java Web Start, right off of the website. Spiffy.
[this too comes from 0xDECAFBAD] _
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08:40:58 PM, Thursday 15 August 2002

Bistro is a variant of Smalltalk that runs on the Java VM. This is potentially very yummy. _
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08:10:06 PM, Thursday 15 August 2002

MetaFilter dismissive remark of the day: "I'm sorry, but this isn't journalism, it's just being bitchy." _
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07:48:59 PM, Thursday 15 August 2002

What would a web page designed by William Morris look like? If he understood the constraints of web design, that is. _
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07:46:01 PM, Thursday 15 August 2002

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