An item I saw yesterday but forgot to blog about: Friendster goes PHP. Pretty cool. Finally on Friday we launched a platform rearchitecture based on loose-coupling, web standards, and a move from JSP (via Tomcat) to PHP. The website doesn’t look much different, but hopefully we can now stop being a byword for unacceptably poky… Continue reading Friendster goes PHP
Month: June 2004
Oregon Trail Diaries
Here’s a site containing links to the texts of diaries from the Oregon Trail. Interesting stuff; it would be worth collecting it and turning it into a Palm Reader ebook. (If I can find the time.)
Finding Invisible Men
Totally wacky article on Kuro5hin: Using Quantum Cryptography to Find Invisible Men: But is it truly a myth, or do invisible men walk among us? And if an invisible man were to be created, how would we detect him and track his movements? … Invisible man detection has gone a long way, from the clumsy… Continue reading Finding Invisible Men
Greyhound quits Bend
As reported on Bend.com, Greyhound is leaving Central Oregon: It is eliminating 260 stops, leaving 99 in the 13-state region. In Oregon, the list of 35 communities losing Greyhound service ranges (alphabetically) from Albany to Zigzag, with Bend, Klamath Falls, La Pine, Madras, Redmond and Warm Springs among those in the middle. Too bad. I… Continue reading Greyhound quits Bend
Shed
So I put together a Costco shed today, with help from my dad. Part of our grand plan to outfit the new house with all the bling bling, you know. It’s a nice shed, but it was a pain in the ass to get set up. Actually, the shed itself wasn’t that bad, it’s all… Continue reading Shed
I’m still here!
Yeah, I’m still here. Just haven’t found the time or energy to post much lately. So, quick one-off tonight with an interesting site: Lulu.com. Free self-publishing of books, which they will print on demand and ship to the purchaser. Sort of the CafePress of publishing.
Stuff
Still continuing to settle in to the new house. This weekend we cleared out the storage unit, and it never ceases to amaze me just how much stuff we’ve managed to accumulate over the years. Of course, it doesn’t help that I’ve got a packrat personality and it’s actually hard for me to get rid… Continue reading Stuff
Comic book references at the Post Office
Since we’ve moved into a brand-new development, we don’t even have a mailbox yet so we have to go to the Post Office to pick up our mail. The location for this is their warehouse in the industrial part of town, and when you go in, there’s simply a tiny lobby and a doorway that… Continue reading Comic book references at the Post Office
Spolsky on the Windows API
Joel Spolsky on How Microsoft Lost the API War: Outside developers, who were never particularly happy with the complexity of Windows development, have defected from the Microsoft platform en-masse and are now developing for the web…. Much as I hate to say it, a huge chunk of developers have long since moved to the… Continue reading Spolsky on the Windows API
The Move Reloaded
Well, we’re all moved in and (relatively) comfortable. Still not feeling like blogging much—after 3 days of moving and cleaning and unpacking, and the ongoing process of more unpacking and arranging and tweaking (things like hanging curtains, and towel racks), I’m just beat. So, some quick thoughts on the moving process: Smartest thing we did:… Continue reading The Move Reloaded