Apr 2004
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- Apr 4
- emacs carbon
Don't ask me how I got here, but trying to install GNOME 2.6 on my iBook running Panther is taking me to really strange places.
· Read more… - Apr 6
- slurping
I notice that Blosxom uses a variation of the code that perl.com deems inefficient. I wonder if slurping would really speed it up all that much?
· Read more… - Apr 9
- virtual hosts and cgi
I had this working before, mostly with the help of this script [citation on macosxhints.com][post on patrickgibson.com] Because of my iBook mishaps, all my tweaks were wiped, and I haven't had the time to reinstate the changes.
· Read more… - Apr 13
- sick
(WARNING: this entry promises to be very disjointed and long and possibly boring. Despite the line breaks, this is not a poem
· Read more… - Apr 16
- snip, snip
I could hear the clicking of the shears miles away:
· Read more… - Apr 16
- ghosts
· Read more…no one here but me and my ghosts recurring nightmares from which there is no waking and the neverending sadness of things that were never meant to be - Apr 17
- planet krikkit
As the Empire is thwarted at the frontier, losing legions by legions in its attempts to subjugate a recalcitrant province, as the Imperial Capitol is in tumult, the line of succession in dispute, as the People wallow in the Reality of their poverty, or float in the Unreality of their mind-altering drugs, I still manage to blog about completely random things.
· Read more… - Apr 17
- fast and furious
I can never think of anything on my own…
· Read more… - Apr 19
- radiohead "scatterbrain" and elton john "someone saved my life tonight"
Over the roar of the A/C and the distorting influence of being in another room, not to mention the screwy acoustics of the apartment's living room, I swear "Scatterbrain" by Radiohead [
· Read more…lyrics ][iTMS ] sounds a little like "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" by Elton John [lyrics ][iTMS ] - Apr 21
- one moment in time
Great. Now that Whitney Houston song is in my head.
· Read more… - Apr 23
- allow initial numbers in category
I just realized that Blosxom won't let me use category names that start with a number (like, for example 3p-omni) and this is for good reason: so that dates don't get confused with category names and vice-versa. Of course, I was dissatisfied with renaming the category to something like thirdpersonomniscient, so I decided to hack on the source (which is probably a bad idea, but I can't do this as a plug-in)
· Read more… - Apr 24
- purgatory
· Read more…like an island with the sea roiling all around upon a lonely mountaintop with the smoke and the clouds drifting below - Apr 25
- denial is a river in egypt
I sit here, not wanting to sleep, not wanting to pack. My clothes are strewn completely all over my bed, so I can't sleep without packing. How clever my subconscious is. An attempt at negative reinforcement, perhaps. Self-sabotage, more likely. Despite all my soul-searching and impatience, I think there is a large portion of me that actually likes being in limbo.
· Read more… - Apr 27
- transience
Of course I'll start with a random tangent: I initially mispelled "transience" as "transcience," which is kind of interesting to those sufferring from logophilia. Transcience—that which is beyond knowledge, officially in the zone defined by Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem as that which is true but cannot be expressed as a mathematical truth using the rules of the particular system we are working in.
· Read more… - Apr 28
- when you see a fork in the road
When I was in 8th grade, our English teacher would give us a prompt every day, and at least 15 minutes to write about it. This is probably the first time I thought about becoming a writer. Sadly, despite the various signs that the universe has given me, and because of my faith in the inevitable heat death of the universe and the odds that favored the outcome that I would become a mediocre writer at best, my path has turned quite bizarrely astray. But sometimes I still dream.
· Read more… - Apr 28
- off the matrix
Now I realize that most people find it extremely boring to read blog entries that discuss the blogger's profoundly mundane personal life, but, well, (1) I am clearly not doing this for my vast throngs of readers and (2) I find this situation sufficiently absurd as to warrant comment.
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