Yearly Archives: 2002

For future reference: all the countries of the world as a MySQL table export file. Now I need to find a similar list of US States, as well as convert scripts from MySQL to Microsoft SQL Server. Adding location data to an (admittedly US-centric) application isn’t as hard as I thought. The standard set of …

Continue reading “Quick, someone build me a LazyWebApp”

Photos of xmas booty Marge: What’s Brunch? Jacques: You’d love it, It’s not quite breakfast, it’s not quite lunch, but it comes with a slice of cantaloupe at the end. You don’t get completely what you would at breakfast, but you get a good meal — [7G11]

I’ve been to Yosemite National Park at least half a dozen times since I was a kid, but I’ve never gone there in the dead of winter. In a couple weeks, I’ll be there for a week, enjoying stuff like this and this. If I have internet access, I’ll post daily photos, if not, a …

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If all goes well, I should be launching a new site next week, on the first. Keep your eyes peeled.

Reason 4,234,451 to dislike PacBell/SBC: Since they co-branded their internet services with Yahoo, every link on the SBC site pointing to anything remotely internet or DSL related leads to an order page. I’m just trying to find their current list of dialup numbers (for use on the road) and it appears to be gone from …

Continue reading “PacBell sucks: Part 2,343”

This is by far, the worst idea I’ve heard in the wake of the September 11th attacks: a central database to monitor every network packet possible. I’ve heard a lot of “chicken littles” screaming about falling skies and “1984” and “police states” over the past 15 months, but I never saw anything tangible worth getting …

Continue reading “Time to upgrade to PGP-powered tin foil hats”

I gotta say, now that I’ve seen the movie, Gollum does kind of look like Steve Buscemi. The Two Towers was an amazing movie experience that pulled me in like few other movies ever have. I’m starting to understand how lifetime fans of the book series feel, how they relate everything in the world to …

Continue reading “I’d actually call him Lessig the Black, since that’s all he ever wears…”

The Creative Commons site is the biggest site (in terms of traffic and exposure) I’ve ever done in fully valid XHTML 1.0 and uses quite a few bits of CSS for layout. I get all the webmaster email, and apart from a few bugs, typos, and general questions, I haven’t received a single complaint about …

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Judith launched her 20 Things auction today, and there’s a lot of great stuff being auctioned off for charity. I really like some of the pieces, and the bidding wars have already begun. I’m planning on going for the last minute swoop-and-bid to win.

A little birdie told me that we launched the new Creative Commons website a day early. I’ve released all my photographs under a license and will be doing the same for my essays this week.