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Monday, October 29, 2001
I contributed my first file to iStockPhoto late last week. It's been approved and added to their collection of royalty free photographs. I'm the only "wheat" on their site, so if you search by user name, you'll find it. Twenty-two other people have downloaded it so far, which makes me smile. I have several others to upload when time permits.
Movies this past weekend: Guys & Dolls + Enemy at the Gates.
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I contributed my first file to iStockPhoto late last week. It's been approved and added to their collection of royalty free photographs. I'm the only "wheat" on their site, so if you search by user name, you'll find it. Twenty-two other people have downloaded it so far, which makes me smile. I have several others to upload when time permits.
Movies this past weekend: Guys & Dolls + Enemy at the Gates.
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Sunday, October 21, 2001
SSH recomendations
In these days of increased internet security, many web hosting services (including the one you're currently soaking in, jtlnet) no longer allow telnet access. But any hosting service worth its weight in salt allows access via telnet's more mature cousin, secure shell (SSH). On the Mac, the best freeware SSH client I've found is MacSSH. If you work on Windows, like I do, the best free combination I've found is Tera Term Pro (telent program) and ttssh, an extension to Tera Term that adds SSH functionality. On Linux, the command-line solution is OpenSSH (I've never used a graphical one on Linux, so I can't reccomend one. If you know of one, pass that info along).
I found this online diary and a blog by the same person (Why have both? I'm not sure. But both are pretty fun).
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SSH recomendations
In these days of increased internet security, many web hosting services (including the one you're currently soaking in, jtlnet) no longer allow telnet access. But any hosting service worth its weight in salt allows access via telnet's more mature cousin, secure shell (SSH). On the Mac, the best freeware SSH client I've found is MacSSH. If you work on Windows, like I do, the best free combination I've found is Tera Term Pro (telent program) and ttssh, an extension to Tera Term that adds SSH functionality. On Linux, the command-line solution is OpenSSH (I've never used a graphical one on Linux, so I can't reccomend one. If you know of one, pass that info along).
I found this online diary and a blog by the same person (Why have both? I'm not sure. But both are pretty fun).
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Saturday, October 20, 2001
Gina B-Day
We celebrated my wife's birthday last night at Uncle Gaylord's, a nice local restaurant with a cozy bar. A dozen of our friends showed up (many bearing gifts, which we hadn't anticipated) to celebrate with us. It was a great time. Thanks to all of you, sincerely. I know Gina enjoyed it.
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Gina B-Day
We celebrated my wife's birthday last night at Uncle Gaylord's, a nice local restaurant with a cozy bar. A dozen of our friends showed up (many bearing gifts, which we hadn't anticipated) to celebrate with us. It was a great time. Thanks to all of you, sincerely. I know Gina enjoyed it.
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Friday, October 19, 2001
AbiWord, the great open source word processor from AbiSource is now at version 0.9.4. The latest release is, like every previous one, a significant improvement. AbiWord gets my vote for the best open source alternative to MS Word. Grab a copy and try it out.
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AbiWord, the great open source word processor from AbiSource is now at version 0.9.4. The latest release is, like every previous one, a significant improvement. AbiWord gets my vote for the best open source alternative to MS Word. Grab a copy and try it out.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2001
I knew chimpanzees were smart and had been taught to communicate with sign language and the like, but I was amazed by an account I read today about Dr. David Premach and 'Sarah', one of his most successful language-using chimps: "Premack and his colleagues taught this chimpanzee not only to read and write the names of objects, but also abstract conceptions [the examples: above, below, the same as, and different from]." After some time, Sarah could also master an if/then statement as well. But the most amazing thing is this next antictode: "Another chipanzee that had been trained in America to communicate using these [i.e. Premach's] plastic signs, on first seeing a duck, spontaneously brought out the two signs 'water" and bird', and put them together to name the duck 'water-bird'" (Peter Nathan, The Nervous System. Third edition. New York: Oxford, 1988, p.289).
I'm still working on Solomon's book on depression and I'm liking it even more the further I get into it.
Shouts out to Steve and Ayille on their recent site redesigns (both of you should put up shots of your old ones as well). And a big "you suck" to sanjaisuncity for spamming one of my comment pages with an add-link to some crappy company that I can only assume (s)he works for (surf cautiously, my dear readers, the site boldly declares that it requires a 4.0 or higher browser with a 600x480 [???] screen resolution).
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I knew chimpanzees were smart and had been taught to communicate with sign language and the like, but I was amazed by an account I read today about Dr. David Premach and 'Sarah', one of his most successful language-using chimps: "Premack and his colleagues taught this chimpanzee not only to read and write the names of objects, but also abstract conceptions [the examples: above, below, the same as, and different from]." After some time, Sarah could also master an if/then statement as well. But the most amazing thing is this next antictode: "Another chipanzee that had been trained in America to communicate using these [i.e. Premach's] plastic signs, on first seeing a duck, spontaneously brought out the two signs 'water" and bird', and put them together to name the duck 'water-bird'" (Peter Nathan, The Nervous System. Third edition. New York: Oxford, 1988, p.289).
I'm still working on Solomon's book on depression and I'm liking it even more the further I get into it.
Shouts out to Steve and Ayille on their recent site redesigns (both of you should put up shots of your old ones as well). And a big "you suck" to sanjaisuncity for spamming one of my comment pages with an add-link to some crappy company that I can only assume (s)he works for (surf cautiously, my dear readers, the site boldly declares that it requires a 4.0 or higher browser with a 600x480 [???] screen resolution).
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Monday, October 15, 2001
Because I'm a good guy, I'm up at the office (on my own time, mind you) finishing up a video I'm working on to teach the kids about our new tutoring program. And if you've ever worked on video you know that digital editing often means a lot of sitting around waiting for the software (in this case, Adobe Premiere) to finish rebuilding a preview or processing something. So I'm posting this between builds. Most of my video, thank God, isn't live action. Quite a bit of it is a slide show of jpegs exported from PowerPoint with some nice stock video transitions from the Adobe media disc that came with Premiere 5.1. But we did shoot about 12 minutes of stuff and I hope to get two minutes or so of goodness from that. I'm fairly proud of it so far. It's good work, especially considering that I put it together in just a little over three days.
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Because I'm a good guy, I'm up at the office (on my own time, mind you) finishing up a video I'm working on to teach the kids about our new tutoring program. And if you've ever worked on video you know that digital editing often means a lot of sitting around waiting for the software (in this case, Adobe Premiere) to finish rebuilding a preview or processing something. So I'm posting this between builds. Most of my video, thank God, isn't live action. Quite a bit of it is a slide show of jpegs exported from PowerPoint with some nice stock video transitions from the Adobe media disc that came with Premiere 5.1. But we did shoot about 12 minutes of stuff and I hope to get two minutes or so of goodness from that. I'm fairly proud of it so far. It's good work, especially considering that I put it together in just a little over three days.
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Sunday, October 14, 2001
I've been reading Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which is quite an interesting read and an odd book: part memoir, part scientific study, part treatise. It's well researched and impecably well written.
I feel good that I cleaned house and visited my father today, but I'm fealing guilty and anxious about some other unfinished business that I don't want to go into here.
Nancy had a great show friday and I sang lead (something I've never done live before) on a hysterically folksy cover of Quiet Riot's "Cum on Feel the Noise." It was a rad as it was corny. The audience dug it, and I had a great time with it. When did that song come out anyway, 1982? I'm suprised the 'classic' rock stations haven't put it into heavy rotation yet.
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I've been reading Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which is quite an interesting read and an odd book: part memoir, part scientific study, part treatise. It's well researched and impecably well written.
I feel good that I cleaned house and visited my father today, but I'm fealing guilty and anxious about some other unfinished business that I don't want to go into here.
Nancy had a great show friday and I sang lead (something I've never done live before) on a hysterically folksy cover of Quiet Riot's "Cum on Feel the Noise." It was a rad as it was corny. The audience dug it, and I had a great time with it. When did that song come out anyway, 1982? I'm suprised the 'classic' rock stations haven't put it into heavy rotation yet.
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Monday, October 08, 2001
I've used blogger for a few years now to keep my online journal. When I first started learning php, I rolled a really simple CMS that I might eventually expand into something good. But moveabletype comes out today, and I'm definately going to download a copy and give it a try (Steve is a beta tester and he loves it). I don't know if I'll use it for my main journal or not, but I'll definately give it a try.
I had a brainstorm yesterday about the bassbook and how I can make it really vital. It involves using tons of php includes to turn it into a dynamic document which will allow readers to post comments on each sub-section of the book. But, by the same system of includes, it will still be possible to print out a printer-friendly version with or without the user-contributed comments. Basically, I want to recreate it in the mold of the function reference at php.net. It's going to be cool. I think I'll try to code it up over the holiday break.
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I've used blogger for a few years now to keep my online journal. When I first started learning php, I rolled a really simple CMS that I might eventually expand into something good. But moveabletype comes out today, and I'm definately going to download a copy and give it a try (Steve is a beta tester and he loves it). I don't know if I'll use it for my main journal or not, but I'll definately give it a try.
I had a brainstorm yesterday about the bassbook and how I can make it really vital. It involves using tons of php includes to turn it into a dynamic document which will allow readers to post comments on each sub-section of the book. But, by the same system of includes, it will still be possible to print out a printer-friendly version with or without the user-contributed comments. Basically, I want to recreate it in the mold of the function reference at php.net. It's going to be cool. I think I'll try to code it up over the holiday break.
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Sunday, October 07, 2001
I've been waiting for a while now to see Pollock. I had a good feeling that it would be a great movie, and I wasn't at all dissapointed. Ed Harris does an amazing job on both sides of the camera. It's first rate. Treat yourself to it.
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I've been waiting for a while now to see Pollock. I had a good feeling that it would be a great movie, and I wasn't at all dissapointed. Ed Harris does an amazing job on both sides of the camera. It's first rate. Treat yourself to it.
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Friday, October 05, 2001
I have at least one thing in common with Dave Thomas, the grandfatherly old guy from the Wendy's commercials (who also founded the company): we were both adopted at six weeks of age. Dave has started a foundation to encourage adoption (and it might qualify for the longest domain name in existence--31 characters, and that's not counting the "www." or the ".org").
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I have at least one thing in common with Dave Thomas, the grandfatherly old guy from the Wendy's commercials (who also founded the company): we were both adopted at six weeks of age. Dave has started a foundation to encourage adoption (and it might qualify for the longest domain name in existence--31 characters, and that's not counting the "www." or the ".org").
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Watched Disturbing Behavior last night. Not great, not bad either. Seems like I've seen a lot of these teeny-bopper horror flicks over the last few years (Scream I, II, & III, I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, Urban Legends: Final Cut, probably several others I can't remember off hand). I could relate to Nick Stahl's un-hip outsider character, since it was the same role I played throughout most of high school. The DVD had a dozen outakes, some of which would have made the movie quite a bit better if they'd been left in. But it was fun--on par for the genre.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2001
They removed the packing from my gums today, so I have a brand new smile.
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They removed the packing from my gums today, so I have a brand new smile.
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