Why can't I use integer variables to access array elements? Why?

10:36 PM | Link

Score. I found an unused copy of O'Reilly's Essential System Administration, Second Edition on the discards table at the public library this morning. Price? A dollar, in Canadian funds no less. It just makes my kernel all tingly thinking about it. Just try and stop me now.

8:49 PM | Link

Well, let's see how this week goes...

8:48 AM | Link

Mike sent me a little snippet from an email header that shows one of the mail servers over at Topica being a Digital Equipment PDP-5 mini-mainframe running a paper tape reader. Well, it could be true. I mean, I served streaming video from a Mac Quadra for five years, didn't I? It's really not that strange you know.

9:38 PM | Link

More browser hijinks to whet your whistle. Mozilla 0.9.4 release notes.

4:02 PM | Link

Remember how I said that I felt compelled to keep absorbing the imagery and context of what happened on tuesday? I must have replayed this clip of amateur video two dozen times before the scale of those two objects coming in contact with each other finally sunk in. My insides curdled again. Via kottke

9:20 PM | Link

But darling, we cantaloupe. Kohlrabi instead.

6:09 PM | Link

The third beta of Opera 5.0 for Macintosh has been released. All the juicy details of what's new and what's different and what's fixed and what ain't can be found here in the changelog.

12:28 PM | Link

You can use this very slick, customizable JavaScript fragment available from Meg Pickard over at not.so.soft as a means of adding useful information and headline news regarding this week's tragic events to your own web site.

"This infoshare update is not intended to take the place of any individual responses - neither is it supposed to be a substitute for news sources. This communal infoshare is intended to act as an information point, updated centrally by an international group of volunteers and able to be syndicated across many personal websites, providing useful information, major headlines and ways to find more information or news or support."
 

Nicely packaged. Nicely done. And damn useful too. I can't wait to see this type of volunteer syndication and "single line of code" implementation being used during happier times in the future.

8:54 AM | Link

There is a place... somewhere off in a corner in the back of my head... where stuff tends to rattle around incessantly. Stuff like poorly crafted pop songs and insipid lyrics. Stuff like missed opportunities and child-like aspirations. Stuff like the faces of people I met years ago whose names are now completely obscured in an alphanumeric fog. There is also a voice back in that corner telling me things. Things like... I don't need to look at any more images of destruction or panic. I don't need to read any more first-person accounts of survival or loss. I don't need to stare at my monitor, slack-jawed and boggled, at every publication and jingoistic rant and infographic and newsfeed and plea for hope. That voice tells me I don't need to. But I am compelled to. I've been able to tune out the poorly crafted pop songs and the missed opportunities. This, I can't seem to tune out.

9:56 PM | Link

The feeling that someone punched me in the stomach is gone today.

10:28 AM | Link

Silent prayer.

12:47 PM | Link

And speaking of style sheet validation, I have but one word for you... Favelets. Anyone who isn't using Tantek Çelik's snarky little Toggle CSS toolbar widget, is quite frankly working without a net. Drag and drop, kids. Drag and drop. Via Zeldman

9:42 PM | Link

Heaven help us. I think I finally understand all this style sheet stuff that has been yanking my line for so long. I'm not entirely sure what clicked this afternoon, but everything I've tinkered with so far has worked the way it was intended to. Praise the lord and pass the validator.

2:46 PM | Link

Anyone who is a parent will more than likely be able to empathize with the following thought. You know how you love your kids? You know how you'd do just about anything for them or because of them? And you know how some days, at the same time that you are loving them with all of your heart, they are capable of driving you so far up the wall that you don't even want to acknowledge the fact that they're related to you? Well, I'm having one of those days. If you don't happen to have kids of your own, the aforementioned can also apply to pets, vehicles, and Italian cookware.

5:11 PM | Link

Google 2.0

John Rhodes over at WebWord has once again bashed an irritating nail smack dab on its little round head. He offers some tantalizing food for thought on how a Google-based information retrieval client could help pry the latest user experience choke-hold away from Microsoft. I am particularly enamored with the concept of using Microsoft's own browser extension API to, as John puts it, "shanghai the entire Microsoft desktop" and "hide the ugly parts". Of course, this latest rash of monopolistic browser silliness only applies if you're running the Windows version of Explorer - which I'm not. Still, it makes for an interesting ponder, doesn't it?

7:08 PM | Link

Ooh, look. This site was listed in a sampling of odd pages of the Internet over at Designflea. I'm positively flush with emotion over this, really I am.

4:29 PM | Link

W3C Recommends New Graphics Language

Scalable Vector Graphics gnomes everywhere are probably giddy with delight, doing little happy dances in the hallways this morning. Everywhere that is, except Macromedia. Yes, people, it's time to start adopting and implementing. Now.

10:02 AM | Link

A very productive day. Found Jane's archives. Reinstalled some software that had been causing me grief. Ran a fresh batch server statistics. Installed new latches on the gates leading to the back yard. Located the updated platform files for the Newton Toolkit and got my project code to finally compile and execute correctly. Had some tea. Went to a meeting downtown. Drove up to a parking meter that still had 34 minutes still on it. Figured out a way to track page views on a remote server without using CGI or JavaScript. Caught up on nearly all of my email. Put on my pajamas. Had some more tea. A very productive day indeed.

9:33 PM | Link

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