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10:06:21 PM,
Friday 13 September 2002
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I thought my phone was ringing just now. It freaked me out.
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05:43:20 PM,
Friday 13 September 2002
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Requirement: More poetry.
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01:50:07 PM,
Friday 13 September 2002
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The recent problems in m14m.net-related blt stuff were triggered by the upgrade to FreeBSD 4.6. (The problems in comments on various blogs and in the recent activities sidebar here were derivative of the blt problems). If you want the full technical details, read on.
The First Problem: I use ZODB to store blt info here, and it includes several C libraries, which, of course, I compiled myself and installed in my home directory. They were, of course, compiled for the version of Python that was installed before, so they didn't work with the new version.
The Second Problem: After I recompiled the libraries for Python 2.2, I found that I was still getting some errors. It seems that some file or other in the version of ZODB I'm using refers to a module that has been deprecated.
The Only Slightly Lame Solution: But Python 2.1 is still installed, it just isn't the default version. So I rebuilt the library for Python 2.1 again, and changed all the cgi scripts to specify that that was what they wanted to use.
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12:38:48 PM,
Friday 13 September 2002
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Attention linguists: there's a nice big MetaFilter post about conlangs.
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03:40:26 AM,
Friday 13 September 2002
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Hmm... what's this in the back of my mouth...
Wait a minute, that's a tooth! What do I need another tooth for? And when did that happen? And how did I not notice till just now?
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03:13:52 AM,
Friday 13 September 2002
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Oh, by the way: if anyone else has been watching Buffy mostly on DVD, and hasn't had the chance to see the third season yet, I've got mpgs of every episode now. (Every episode of season 3, that is.) If you send me media (I think it's about 1 cd-rom per episode) and promise to get the DVDs when they come out, I can make a copy. I think. Assuming the computer works right.
(This probably only goes for people I know.)
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02:11:39 AM,
Friday 13 September 2002
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Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there.
-- Sydney J. Harris
I have no idea who Sydney J. Harris is. I just got that quote from fortune. But that is exactly right.
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01:45:53 AM,
Friday 13 September 2002
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"My God... he's gonna do the entire speech."
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01:32:35 AM,
Friday 13 September 2002
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...they're tiny machines.
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08:31:28 PM,
Thursday 12 September 2002
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I'm not totally serious about this, of course, but there's a reason I'm thinking about it. There are parts of the Wobble source code that are already starting to harden. It's getting hard to change them. A big dose of simplicity is called for, and I'm not quite sure where to get it, so I'm pushing in various directions to see how it might work.
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03:59:37 PM,
Thursday 12 September 2002
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(A related idea is Aaron Swartz's "RSS 3.0". It's meant as a joke, of course--at least, I think it's meant as a joke--but a format like that could actually make a lot of sense as internal storage for Wobble. Not precisely that format, but something like it. I mean, anything that could inspire someone to write a Python oneliner clearly has something going for it. It's simple, editable as plain text, line-based, and (I suspect) easy and fast to parse.)
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03:57:39 PM,
Thursday 12 September 2002
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An interesting approach to a weblogging program would be to store entries in RFC 822 format.
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03:48:51 PM,
Thursday 12 September 2002
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Potential Wobble users: are post titles a good thing? Like, a title field for each individual blog entry?
(Disclaimer: There is still no telling when Wobble may be finished.)
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03:32:29 PM,
Thursday 12 September 2002
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They found a two-headed turtle, and it is just the most adorable little two-headed creature I have ever seen.
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02:33:05 PM,
Thursday 12 September 2002
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Looking for the Kant Generator on Google just now, I saw what I think may be the best textad ever.
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02:27:39 PM,
Thursday 12 September 2002
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And upon seeing my blog, it all seems clear: I bet I need to recompile ZODB.
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04:34:14 PM,
Wednesday 11 September 2002
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Hmm... something broke m14m.net blt this morning, probably to do with the upgrade to FreeBSD 4.6. I think I've fixed it. Everything was still getting recorded, I believe, but for some reason the program to display the data won't work under cgiwrap anymore. Turns out it doesn't need to be cgiwrapped anyway, so I've taken that out as a workaround, but I'm still curious what the problem is.
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04:33:23 PM,
Wednesday 11 September 2002
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A very happy birthday to Neil Swanson-Chrisman, one of the best people.
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12:50:15 AM,
Wednesday 11 September 2002
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Metadata that can't be determined automatically is useless.
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01:04:08 PM,
Tuesday 10 September 2002
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Discretion is not the same as deception. It sometimes makes sense not to tell people everything about yourself, when doing so would hurt them, or would hurt you. Secrets are not shameful. Secrets are not lies. And yet, the boundary line is so unclear sometimes. It is so easy to slip from one to the other before you even know you're doing it.
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10:18:13 PM,
Monday 9 September 2002
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"If atheism is a religion, not collecting stamps is a hobby."
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03:15:37 PM,
Friday 6 September 2002
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I'm blogging from the Mac.
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05:00:59 PM,
Wednesday 4 September 2002
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Blackalicious, Concrete Blonde, Lou Reed, Modest Mouse, The Shins, Death Cab for Cutie, Richard Thompson, The Mekons, Michelle Shocked.
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09:39:21 PM,
Tuesday 3 September 2002
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Says Kerne: "Proof that, unfortunately, karma can't kill you."
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05:33:01 AM,
Sunday 1 September 2002
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I'm blogging from Kerne's house. Just 'cause I can.
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04:41:34 PM,
Saturday 31 August 2002
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And now I am leaving for this.
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09:33:03 PM,
Friday 30 August 2002
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Not about my being married, though. Thank God that was all just an awful dream.
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11:53:48 PM,
Thursday 29 August 2002
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I'm starting to suspect that Katherine may be right after all.
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11:52:53 PM,
Thursday 29 August 2002
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The world is changing.
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04:27:10 PM,
Thursday 29 August 2002
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This song fills me with joy. Neil especially needs to see it.
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08:17:20 PM,
Wednesday 28 August 2002
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Offering a reward of 1,000 points for an e-text of Felix Klein's paper On The So-Called Non-Euclidean Geometry.
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04:55:32 PM,
Wednesday 28 August 2002
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A word people need to use more often is cussedness.
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01:51:26 AM,
Wednesday 28 August 2002
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A moment of silence, please, for Sony Betamax.
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04:53:34 PM,
Tuesday 27 August 2002
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Mozilla 1.1 is out.
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03:35:16 PM,
Tuesday 27 August 2002
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I saw a bug just now that made me laugh out loud.
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03:26:29 PM,
Monday 26 August 2002
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