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Quiet

by Bryan Strawser · May 12, 2003

I haven’t been blogging much lately. Went on vacation to Texas, which was wonderful, pictures are coming soon. Then just been busy with the post-vacation recovery. In New York for a meeting, some overnight visits, and generally just keeping really busy.

The yard is a complete fucking mess and so is the house. Pretty confident that I’m going to hire a maid and a landscaper to take some of this workload. I think I can swing it financially and certainly would make things easier around the house.

Galadriel (the phat cat) was up all night wandering, I don’t remember her cuddling in bed at all with me. Very unusual. Must have been some interesting cat noises outside!

Am at Boston’s Logan Airport right now waiting on one of my peers to land for a week of training. Should be entertaining, but makes it tough to make any sort of forward progress in my own district. I do enjoy it though.

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Crazy Dave

by Bryan Strawser · May 12, 2003

I’ve finished going crazy with Radio and Manila and pictures, for now. But I want to come back to it soon and do a way to store a sequence of pictures in a single story and have them display on one page, perhaps in a variety of ways. Now I might be missing something, is there already a Manila plug-in that does this? If so please send a pointer. [Scripting News]

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I Bid $20

by Bryan Strawser · May 12, 2003

Available To The Right Buyer: Sun Microsystems [Slashdot]

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XP Home for Development…. Try a Mac!

by Bryan Strawser · May 12, 2003

I switched from a Laptop running XP Home and a Desktop running Redhat Linux over to a Powermac G4 Desktop w/ Mac OS X and a Powerbook G4 for development work simply because I saw it as a better environment.

Try using a Windows box for development using open source technologies and you’re just asking for ongoing problems – NFS is kludgly, PHP/MySQL is kludgly, and the list goes on.


I’m glad she’s pregnant – and i’m not the father!. One of my colleague’s on maternity leave, so I am borrowing her notebook for the time being. It seems my notebook is severely plastered. The poor abused machine has bad sectors in every partition, and the hardware is hobbling.

The notebook i am using has XP home edition installed, and it’s simply terrible for development work. It appears that there is something wrong with XP and Samba – file-sharing is very slow. Also the home edition appears to have some subtle limitations: incompatibilities with Oracle and other development software. So i’m installing Windows 2000 server on it. This is going to be good practice for the next PC i’m going to be installing to. On Friday, we are ordering a very nice notebook, P4 2.66 Ghz, 512 Mb RAM, 40 Gb HD, with built-in wireless.

Tomorrow is labour day. It’s been a tough two weeks. Last week, one of our clients had a major hardware crash. Then my notebook died this week. And my house modem got fried in a thunderstorm on Sunday. Fortunately my headaches are not as painful as having a baby. But I need a rest too.

“zeldman.543jh” [PHP Everywhere]

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Powerful Messages

by Bryan Strawser · May 12, 2003

Pretty tough to send a message that’s any more powerful than the one that we sent with this war in Iraq… and the war previous (and still today) in Afghanistan. I think we made things pretty clear.

What remains to be seen is if the world gets the message or not…

Rumsfeld Says U.S. Victory Will Serve as Powerful Message. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld also said today that he was confident Saddam Hussein would be found if he is alive and his weapons of mass destruction uncovered. By Reuters. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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Roll your own Tivo

by Bryan Strawser · May 12, 2003

Kerri, you listening? 😉


Building your own Tivo. via Gizmodo: an article at ExtremeTech on building your own Tivo. I’m not planning on going through with it. But,… [I have a brain cloud]

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CSS Zen Garden Project

by Bryan Strawser · May 12, 2003

CSS Zen Garden.

Graphic artists can flex CSS muscle in Dave Shae’s new CSS Zen Garden project. Read the introduction over at Mezzoblue. Via Stopdesign.

[webgraphics] [BryanBell.com]

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