January 2007 Entries
"So when will you be done with this development project?" I don't know about you, but I hate this question. There simply is no good answer for it. It seems like such a simple question with a simple DateTime valued answer. One of these days I swear I'll answer with, "Oh, I'll be done next Tuesday at 2:34pm." just to see what happens. And seriously, businesses hate that we have such difficulty answering the question. It seems perfectly reasonable for them to want to know when they can plan to have the new processes that they know they desperately need....
Okay, things seem to have settled down with the blog app. I love when that happens. It should stay stable until I decide to hack around with it again. One of the more interesting changes I made is that I'm now using Bloglines' public API to display my blogroll. This means that the blogs listed on the right, there, are the same as the ones I monitor on a regular basis. When I add a feed, it'll show up (and conversely when I remove one...) In other news, two of my customizations to the SubText engine have been approved for the...
I found out the other day that I can't actually seem to post comments on my own blog. Now that's a disheartening development. Apparently, others aren't having this trouble as my brother left a few comments here recently. Weird. Since I suspect that he's using Firefox, I'm guessing that it's an issue with the JavaScript validators that are handled differently in the two browsers. This happened after I updated the blog software with my own compile, so I may roll it back and see what happens. At any rate, if you have tried to leave a response and were thwarted,...
Another dinner-table moment:
Aerin: Mom, phone is for you.
Mom: Who is it?
Aerin: Sean Connery.
<puzzled phone conversation>
Mom: That was Jon Connelly dear. Big difference...
Technorati tags: Sean Connery, Personal, Humor, Phone
I don't know if it's an addiction precisely, but I do tend to actually take the random quizzes sent by friends and family. Just for kicks, I'll start posting the results. Also, I'll maintain a running update (linked at the sidebar).
You are Lex Luthor
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The folks who visit the actual blog (as opposed to using an RSS feed) have probably noticed that I re-skinned the site. Now that I'm more comfortable with SubText's skin structure, I figured this would be the next step. Personally, I think that it looks tons better now, but you can let me know in the comments if I'm just being delusional. I still need to tackle that calandar, though.
I can't take much credit for it if you like it. I'm perfectly aware of my (lack of) design sense. I can generally do okay evaluating existing designs, but I suck...
Quick dinner-table moment:
Teleri (talking about having just finished Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov): The white blood cells were kind of scary--like monsters.
Dad (only a little officiously): They police the bloodstream, you know.
Rhys: Yeah, they pull over the red blood cells who are speeding and give them tickets.
Technorati tags: Humor, Personal, Biology, Blood, Asimov
I just ran into what has to be the buggiest piece of software... ever. Bear in mind that I predate DOS games and have had experience getting games to run in Win 3.1 and even Win ME--some of them games that push the limit of the "Minimum Recommended System Requirements". Maybe time has softened old wounds, but nothing in my memory comes even close to the horror that is Dark and Light. Seriously. Couple all those bugs with the worst "support" I can remember and you get an experience that is simply best forgotten. Or better, best never begun.
I mean, I've been...