Aug 2003
- Aug 4
- Dream Big Dreams
It’s sad some of the things that life can beat out of you.
· Read more… - Aug 5
- contradictions
On the other hand, there is the fact that all suffering comes from desire. But I think that I've been reading that all wrong. When it comes down to it, I don't think that the goal is to stop wanting. I mean, think about it, if you stop wanting because you want to stop suffering, you are still wanting something. To not desire is either to be dead or schizophrenic, and I doubt that schizophrenia is what the Buddha had in mind when he was talking about enlightenment.
· Read more… - Aug 6
- Science Fiction
To infinity and beyond!
· Read more… - Aug 6
- Why I Don't Trust Anybody
Might as well write this down while it's in my head. I'm currently just listening to a bunch of mp3s sitting on my hard drive as I prune my library after a psync mishap, but that scarcely matters.
· Read more… - Aug 14
- first post!
Abandoning my kludgy homebrew blogging system and adopting Blosxom
· Read more… - Aug 14
- second post!
Not particularly edifying
· Read more… - Aug 15
- marmosets
A very strange dream
· Read more… - Aug 16
- my adventures with apache
Enabling virtual hosts on Jaguar (10.2)
· Read more… - Aug 16
- keychain – always allow
Annoying dialog boxes
· Read more… - Aug 16
- and then the morning comes
Talking about religion while inebriated. A loaded comparison between Roman Catholicism and Buddhism. The dangers of drunk-dialing.
· Read more… - Aug 16
- sbc ameritech dns servers
In case you need them, although I imagine it would be difficult to navigate the Internet in the first place without setting your DNS server.
· Read more… - Aug 16
- how to add writebacks
Allowing comments on Blosxom 2. (Likely seriously outdated - ed. note 2008.01.02)
· Read more… - Aug 17
- an exercise in the commoditization of culture
If you have a tatoo that consists of Chinese characters, or of kanji/kana, you should at least know what it says. Nothing says “tool” like having a tatoo you can’t read. And white people better start learning to tell Asians apart. Because there better not be another internment if Kim Jong-Il goes a little nuts.
· Read more… - Aug 17
- notes on remotedotcomments
Making Blogger and remotedotcomments play nice. The dangers of not quoting properly.
· Read more… - Aug 17
- dhtml lemmings
Reminiscing about playing Versus Lemmings on the Commodore Amiga. Now it’s just a Java applet you can run in your browser.
· Read more… - Aug 17
- pervasive advertising
Philip K Dick predicts the future once again. The first application of pervasive computing is going to be—you guessed it—advertising
· Read more… - Aug 17
- a definition of existentialism
The Camusian variant. Maybe not the most optimistic guy in the world.
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- Aug 18
- blog wars
Flame wars move from Usenet to the blogosphere
· Read more… - Aug 18
- divine intervention
Procrastination is like masturbation. It’s a lot of fun until you realize you’re only screwing yourself. Someone needs to save me from myself. Seriously.
· Read more… - Aug 21
- something good is gonna happen
Finding mp3 blogs. Kate Bush “Cloudbusting”. Utah Saints “Something Good is Gonna Happen”
· Read more… - Aug 21
- airport (802.11b/g)
Discovering the beginnings of pervasive/ubiquitous computing, and the wi-fi revolution.
· Read more… - Aug 22
- kid a by radiohead
My interpretation of this awesome song.
· Read more… - Aug 22
- splattered
Blood, sterile technique, and mortality.
· Read more… - Aug 22
- dream academy "life in a northern town"
These days, I’ll catch some of the lyrics of a song, and I’ll just type them into Google, and voilà! This is the song that was sampled for Dario G’s “Sunchyme”
· Read more… - Aug 22
- quotes from "the simpsons"
Homer Simpson is my hero.
· Read more… - Aug 22
- more quotes from "the simpsons"
Moe Szyslak has a way with words.
· Read more… - Aug 23
- embedded markup considered harmful
Back in the day when the specs were new, RSS was atrocious, and no one could parse it. One of the things that caused aggregators to choke was embedded markup. Although in all honesty, I never did understand what the problem was.
· Read more… - Aug 23
- the gender genie
A little script that supposedly is able to tell the gender of the author of a scrap of text.
· Read more… - Aug 23
- to all the girls i've loved before
OK, I admit it. I’m a Julio Iglesias fan. Somehow, a few of his songs have gotten attached to some of my recurring dreams. And somehow Unreal City—this bizarre amalgam of L.A., Chicago, and NYC—keeps popping up in my dreams, too.
· Read more… - Aug 24
- pool and blackjack
A dream about chance, wagers, and Charles Bronson.
· Read more… - Aug 24
- interpolate_pseudoxml
A plugin for Blosxom that makes it just a tad easier to use an XML editor to work on your templates.
· Read more… - Aug 24
- interpolate_pseudoxml revisited
I take back what I said about my interpolate plugin. Or rather, let me qualify what I said.
· Read more… - Aug 24
- unordered lists and css
Styling unordered lists
· Read more… - Aug 24
- bits and pieces
Fixing the
· Read more…archiveplugin for Blosxom. The right way to nest lists. - Aug 24
- windows is insecure
The sobig.f debacle. I can’t believe people actually trust their data with Windows.
· Read more… - Aug 25
- case of the x
Isn't it amazing the different things that the letter "x" can stand for in medicine? Especially for all you 3rd years, here is an incomplete list of the various abbreviations ending in "x" that you may very well encounter while trying to decipher a resident's completely illegible progress note.
· Read more… - Aug 25
- radiohead "the bends"
Reviewing one of the best, and most underrated albums by Radiohead
· Read more… - Aug 26
- wifi everywhere
Pervasive/ubiquitous computing on the way
· Read more… - Aug 26
- http_get
plugin to arbitrarily pull any content from the Internet. Likely to cause time outs and heavy load on your shared host.
· Read more… - Aug 26
- med school fear of blood desensitize
This Google query leads to an old blog entry. Despite dealing with bleeding literally almost every single day, I’m still not immune from syncopizing from a vasovagal reaction at the sight of my own blood.
· Read more… - Aug 26
- www.bogusmove.com
Via trails.
· Read more… - Aug 26
- duderesearch.com
More via trails.
· Read more… - Aug 26
- trainedmonkey.com
And more via trails.
· Read more… - Aug 27
- even more simpson quotes
Choice quotes from
· Read more…Arnold SchwarzeneggerRainier Wolfcastle and Ned Flanders - Aug 27
- running amok
I've been meaning to riff of off this blog entry about suicide. Maybe the timing is bad, considering that some guy just shot up six of his coworkers before offing himself [Chicago Tribune article][ABC News], but, as Michael Moore documents in "Bowling for Columbine", this sort of thing shouldn't be surprising.
· Read more… - Aug 27
- time
Y2K was a bust, but maybe Y2K+38 will be something quite unexpected. No one seems to be in a rush to adopt 64-bit time stamps.
· Read more… - Aug 27
- Nuked Again
yikes. i've nuked my main blog site. now the question is, do i wait until the sysadmin re-enables my permissions, or do i just revert to my own homegrown system for blogging?
· Read more… - Aug 28
- memes and the arrow of time
A meditation on the not-quite cyclic nature of time, and how both the linear and circular models of time may be correct simultaneously. Soundtrack: “Clocks” by Coldplay and “Time after Time” by Cyndi Lauper
· Read more… - Aug 30
- gun shy
I was robbed! Seriously!
· Read more… - Aug 30
- more bits and pieces
Links to things that might be helpful in setting up a website.
· Read more… - Aug 30
- A Really Good, Successful Night if not for Getting Robbed at Gun Point
i've grown rather fond of Blosxom, although i do still fantasize about using xsl stylesheets. (i don't know why. maybe because i've been myself how to write xsl for 2½ years now.) but now, my blogs are locked down because of excessive hammering (thank you, Radio Community Server.) And i wonder if there are sysadmins at my web host this long weekend who will answer my plaintive cries.
· Read more… - Aug 31
- temporarily back in business
Continuing to have problems with Blosxom and
· Read more…mod_rewrite. - Aug 31
- crazedmonkey.com
Via trail. How to make Blosxom serve static pages sometimes and dynamic pages other times.
· Read more… - Aug 31
- pathetique
Man, it sucks to be alone when you’re trying to stave off PTSD.
· Read more… - Aug 31
- cgi working
Blosxom seems to be working now. I think.
· Read more… - Aug 31
- counting crows "rain king"
A song from back in the day. But the album it’s coming from is fitting: August and Everything After.
· Read more… - Aug 31
- futurama quote
A quote from Bender the Bending Robot
· Read more… - Aug 31
- nelson.monkey.org
How to keep Blosxom from getting hammered.
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