Year: 2004
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Logs
I look at log file summaries for clock every few weeks, just scanning to give myself a snapshot. This morning, I decided to take a look at the actual log files, as I do more often at work. As always, a few interesting lines in there, and this was just from the first 7 hours…
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Roofball: killing time cheaply
Bernie DeKoven’s Funlog reminds me of roofball, including a link to Roofball.com. Wow… brings me back to high school, which is where I played. We never used a tennis ball, which the Roofball.com site illustrates. Instead, we followed the DeKoven quote: “The best roofball ball is one of those cheap, light-weight jobs, about 10 inches…
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Is that how it happens?
Childless couple told to try sex reads the headline I saw on Wednesday. Another one that makes you wonder whether it’s ripped straight from The Onion, but… we’ll hope it’s accurate, even though Google News only finds two references to the story, of which this Ananova reference is one. Update: It’s a hoax. Glad I…
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I don’t care if it is a hoax
Jon Stewart’s commencement address at William & Mary, which he attended as an undergraduate and returned to to receive a honorary doctorate. Seems real, posted on the actual college website. I’ll go with it being real… and it’s funny even if it’s a hoax, a la the fake “Kurt Vonnegut” commencement address. One clip from…
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Technorati Developer Salon
Spent the evening at the Technorati Developer Salon, among the alpha-geeks and A-listers. A bunch of people who in the blogosphere can go by their first name, although there are a few contenders for some of the names. Still, Dave, Doc, Jeremy, Marc, and several others, like Tantek. Sometimes it’s strange to put a face…
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Irony
Had a series of quick calls with Verio this morning about the hosting of this domain, and I ended up agreeing to them moving the site from the original Best Internet servers to Verio servers. I thought this had been done years ago, since NTT/Verio bought Best some time ago, but apparently not. The company’s…
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Book: Wild Horses
Just like the last time I read Dick Francis, I flew through Wild Horses this weekend. I needed a quick, fun read, and that’s what I got. Francis didn’t leave horses out of the picture in any of his mysteries, and Wild Horses is no exception. He employs a racing film set in the heart…
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Bay to Breakers
I pushed the boy in the jogging stroller through this morning’s Bay to Breakers. Twenty-five minutes to cross the starting line, and not much fast about the rest of the “race,” either. But that’s eight years straight running Bay to Breakers, and a T-shirt for the boy (after an exceedingly long line in the Polo…
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Book: The Confusion
Earlier this week, I finished The Confusion, the second volume in Neal Stephenson’s The Baroque Cycle. I read Quicksilver in November 2003; I’m eager for volume three, The System of the World, promised for September of this year. I love a complex read which still, well, reads well. Powerful ideas, intricate plotting, myriad characters, historical…
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Drumbeat continues
Mark Pilgrim weighs in on MovableType and WordPress. He’s switched the 11 sites he operates over to WordPress for clear reasons he explains in the piece above. He puts his money where his mouth is: he donated the $535 he would have owed MovableType to move to MT 3.0 to the WordPress developers. I respect…