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Here's a couple of very off color balanced photos of 76 Clinton (Alias Restaurant.) These were taken on 12/27/2001, so work has progressed slightly since then. I believe 2/1/2002 is now the tentative opening day.
My local email client was not checking my digitalmediatree.com email account for the last few days (operator malfunction.) I think I'm caught up now. Sorry if you were temporarily ignored.
It's weird how Apple has root disabled by default. That threw me a little. In any case, I finally have apache, php, and mysql all running locally on my little iMac. 512 megs of additional RAM are on the way. I can't tell you how great this is. Being able to develop on my local machine - without FTPing every change to my server over a 56K dialup - is about the best thing I can think of.
Hopefully by the end of today I'll have this site replicated at home. And of course the ease of setting this up under OSX is making me think of strange distributed scenarios where every user has the full system replicated on his/her home computer, and everything is synched through a central server. That way traffic spikes (ha!) could be handled by a round robin configuration of all the users. I just wish that internet access was developing in such a way that casual serving was possible. Unfortunatley it seems like the big providers want you to consume but not serve. Still, there are always ways around.
One interesting thing I noticed is that even on my dial up (upstairs, not down in the office) my web server is accessible from the outside. Granted the IP address would change every time I got disconnected, so it's not very practicle, but I wouldn't have expected it to work at all. When I get something up here I'll post the IP address and you can try to hit my iMac from where you are. Because, you know, edge of the seat excitement is what we're all about.
I miss lemonyellow.com and sevencrabrangoon.com.
Of course what I really need is a $500 rechargable fleece jacket that heats itself.
The front page of the Apple website is counting down the days until new products are announced at MacWorld San Francisco next Monday. They started two days ago with a big headline reading: "7 days until Macworld 2002 - This One is Big. Even By Our Standards." Then the next day they changed it to "Count the days. Count the hours. Count on being blown away." And then today, with five days left, Apple really stirred things up with the headline "Beyond the rumor sites. Way beyond." The message boards are reaching critical mass as the Mac fanatics outdo each other speculating about what could be so big. I have to think the people looking for dodecahedron shaped G5 towers starting at 2 Ghz are going to be a little disappointed.
Strange. I hadn't been able to access my canon G1 digital camera since I upgraded to 10.1.2, but now I've discovered that it will recognize the camera if the AC power to the camera is not used. This doesn't make sense to me, but I'm happy to have access to my pictures again.