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Fish Police (Aug 15 2003 21:59 GMT) - Thanks to everyone for the suggestions on the care and feeding of Betta fish (see "Fishy, Fishy, Fishy Fish"). From all you told me, I think next time I must be sure to let the water set out for a 24 hours before I put the next fishy in. I may go a step further and just buy distilled water... |
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- LIGONIER, Pa. - The 2005 Senior PGA championship will be held at Laurel Valley Golf Club near Pittsburgh, which played host to the PGA's Pennsylvania Classic in 2001. |
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- I just tried this PHP class for converting HTML to PDF. I also discovered something about myself: I am a masochist - because only someone crazy would try to install it on Windows. The amount of additional software I had to install and configure was postively painful: perl, html2ps, imagemagick and ghostscript. |
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- I stumbled on this thread recently, and I like this post by brainpipe best. It's exactly how I feel, and how we use PHP at our company: So if enterprise-ready means you can make it work for enterprise systems, then yes, PHP is there. If it means ready to work for enterprise systems out-of-the-box, then no, PHP has a very long way to go. But I really don't see the point in arguing about it. |
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- The ease of use of Visual Studio.NET, Microsoft's tools platform for .NET, is the winning factor, along with close ties into Windows that make it easy to squeeze every last drop of functionality out of the environment. A senior executive at one of the big SIs, nervous to go on the record for fear of upsetting either camp, estimates a 30 percent productivity advantage with .NET. |
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- For better or worse, the vogue of Web design has evolved to favour a layout similar in style to a newspaper. Common design elements include: a header and footer that each spans the page horizontally content constrained by page width vertical scrolling is acceptable, within reason navigation and secondary content in vertical columns next to the main content That last one is the real kicker. The sad reality is that the current CSS specificaton (CSS2) was not designed with multiple columns of content in mind. As a result, just as Web designers have always had to abuse HTML tables to achieve complex page layout, they must now abuse CSS positioning to achieve those same ends. |
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- What's in a name? A nickname to be precise. I was thinking of all the nicknames that get used around the ol' blogosphere and it reminded me of a problem that my wife has. Nicknames will not stick to her. Many have tried, all have failed. |
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- Libya is poised to admit responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing at a UN meeting in New York, sources say. |
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- The UN refugee agency expresses concern about the plight of Chechen refugees in neighbouring Ingushetia. |
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Papel (Aug 15 2003 21:58 GMT) |
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- Vietnam Gets $134 Million From World Bank. The World Bank said Friday it is lending Vietnam $100 million over the next three years to support reforms to reduce poverty, develop a market economy and devise a modern legal system. Three other donors, the U.K., the Netherlands and Sweden, have also agreed to provide Vietnam with $33. |
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- I took a little time to myself last night and whipped up a new style for this 'ere blog, just... |
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- Visit Madison, Indiana. Why? We're not New York City! Sure you can be opportunistic about selling gas masks if you're an internet entrepreneur, but what if you're a small town in Indiana and you want to cash in on fear of terrorism. Why, tout what you don't have, of course. |
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- Holland Tunnel Lockdown Activists Still Await Trial |
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- Chinese Economic Concerns Trump Safety. A ban on the sale of civet cats in China has been lifted despite the creature's possible link to the spread of SARS - a sign that economic concerns are trumping medical precautions barely a season after the height of SARS. [Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com] |
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- Helma läuft und startet mit folgenden Meldungen: Starting Helma in directory /usr/local/helma Starting HTTP server on port 8080 Starting Helma 1.2pre4 2002/11/28 on Java 1.3. |
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- I heard rumors of a new Cyber-shot U model that should pack 3 megapixels into a camera the size of a (larger) matchbox. I am still using the DSC-U20 with 2.1 megapixels and love it. Now I find that the DSC-U30 that has just been released does not add to the resolution but has some other cool features like an integrated convex mirror on the front door for self-portrait shots. : |
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- Blender's 50 worst rock artists of all time (let the discussion begin): 1. Insane Clown Posse 2. Emerson, Lake and... |
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- Richard Hell remembers legendary music critic Lester Bangs: Nevertheless, of all the most highly regarded rock journalists (say Tosches, Robert... |
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- HARRISBURG, Pa. - Warm weather and ample rainfall should mean good news for most Pennsylvania farmers, according to the Pennsylvania Agricultural Statistics Service, which predicted that almost all grain and fruit crops would see richer harvests this year. |
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- Remind me to revisit this entry in a month or so… “Well the internet was designed to survive a Atomic war..so that the remaining military bases can download pornography.” |
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- Some fuckwit on the radio is implying that this outage may have had something to do with the MS Blaster worm. Media outlets require that anyone dispensing medical or legal advice be qualified before they let them talk about such matters on the air. Why do they let any baboon with a pulse pontificate on computer issues? |
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Lit (Aug 15 2003 21:57 GMT) - Our power was restored at about 1:25. |
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- I just heard on the radio that power has been restored for 130,000 of the 2.1 million DTE Energy (link currently down, as I suppose it ought to be) customers. We cooked all of the food in the fridge that we could; the dog’s getting a lot of it. |
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Stone-Aging (Aug 15 2003 21:57 GMT) - Well, this sucks. I’m writing this entry in longhand, medieval monk-stylee (including markup!) hot and bored and I’ve got a pen. |
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Blackout (Aug 15 2003 21:57 GMT) - Power lost at 4:11. Bleargh. Powering down the UPS. |
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- (sigh) (this) (that) (the other) |
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Jeez... (Aug 15 2003 21:56 GMT) - This is not our week. Dh just cut through a cable line in the back yard. He was digging posts... |
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- "With a smaller IT staff and a flat IT budget because of corporate cutbacks, Reading, Pa.-based Boscov's Department Store wanted to more efficiently deploy Linux virtual servers on its underutilized IBM zSeries mainframe..."... |
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- "OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3 is functionally equivalent to the final version, which is coming soon..."... |
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- There's a small part of me that almost welcomes the peace...I've |
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- Oh honey! How awful. {{{hugs}}} for Pookie and sweet |
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- Vietnam COMPROMISE ON CHURCH BUILDING CONSIDERED A ‘RUSE’ (Compass) -- A compromise reached between church and government authorities over the construction of a small church building in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) appears to have been a ruse to fool the congregation. “The compromise involved both sides admitting to ‘ |
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- Apple's official policies |
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- Blast the Blaster WormFriday, August 15, 2003 4:55:22 PMTechTV: Windows users, take heed. Find out how to stop the latest worm. |
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- When dealing with people who clearly waste oxygen and natural resources and put a dark stain on everybody’s lives they touch, I always think of my idea, for a sequel of sorts, to ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’. It’d have a character who would be shown how vastly improved the world would be if he or she had never been born. It would end with the Clarence character urging him/her to jump off a bridge. The lives of all the people who would have been touched by the antagonist would turn out to... |
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