Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My nephew’s graduation was today but I decided not to drive over to it. This last week was a long week, capped off with my roommate receiving some very difficult news last night. It will be a quiet weekend this weekend, which suits me. Perhaps I’ll get out for some […]
Guest Blog #1
Originally posted at Many-to-Many, now archived at Wayback Machine Software developers have traditionally used one phrase when testing text output in a new programming environment — “Hello, World!” We need to devise a new form of “Hello World” when testing unfamiliar weblogging software because every weblog post we write is a form of “Hello World!” […]
The price you pay
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There’s a price you pay to be a part of this virtual neighborhood, and it’s the little bits of connectivity broken when one member or another goes silent for a time — maybe forever. When I didn’t have the money to keep this weblog going, several of you contributed to […]
Server update
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just put in for a quote on a dedicated server, hopefully running Linux 8.0. The plan is to add the following software: Python 2.2 Tomcat – limited use since this is a CPU hog Perl 5.8 PHP 4.x Apache 2.x MySQL 4.x ImageMagick Other (TDB or requested by co-op […]
Weblog standards
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m tired tonight, butĀ AnilĀ asked a fair question and I wanted to try to write a fair answer. He wrote in my comments: Shelley, just curious: (honestly, not being sarcastic) what standards body do you think would be appropriate for hosting these formats, protocols, and APIs? If I was a dreaming […]
