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"An interesting development for you freaks that follow the Roswell story..."
And as if that link weren't enough, 7CR also has this one, to a great page called "weird but true."
Lots of preparations for the big Thanksgiving trip. Things are getting pretty exciting. There's nothing quite like traveling with the Wheel.
Still no plumber, so the office construction is still stalled. Definitely won't be done before the vacation. Hopefully it won't be too long after we are back. I have to order the sdsl before the 30th to get in on a special rebate offer, so I'll actually be in the strange position of hoping they don't install it too fast. Now there's a dsl wish that might come true.
Here are 10 one meter resolution satellite images taken from the commercial satellite Ikonos (the first one meter resolution capable commercial satellite.) Perhaps as impressive as the pictures is the fact that their servers seem unfazed by the front page link on Slashdot (although I did catch the story very soon after it was posted.) Looks like they are running Apache on FreeBSD. Nice site.
New design at eatonweb. Looks great I think. Is it just my imagination, or are a lot of people starting to make really clean, really simple page designs? Thank god. [update: Oh, I was looking at it with javascript off (in Nav 4.75 Mac) and of course that kills style sheets, so I guess she didn't mean for it to look like I saw it. Still nice though. Without style sheets the page is just a small box of white surrounding the eatonweb gif floating on an otherwise grey background. No vertical lines or anything. Looks good both ways.]
I think I've decided to go the SDSL route so that I can play around with the Apache server in OS X. I'll let MB and Hannah order the really fast ADSL, and I'll just get the slowest SDSL to run my server. Then I can speed bump it as needed. I cannot wait to get MB's new machine set up so I can get my B&W back and start playing with Apache.
Here's a new mailing list for working with the holy trinity: Apache, MySql, and PHP. Looks like the place for figuring out how to get these running on OSX (well, Apache is already running, I mean the other two.)
Dave and I once had an idea for a bar that would have lots of T.V.'s connected to vintage home video game consoles. Pong, Atari 2600, intellivision, colecovision. We had Pong when I was in second or third grade, but that was the last machine I had. I remember going to my friend Chris' house down the street and playing missle command on his 2600. That machine was sweet. The joysticks looked like something Apple would make today. Anyway, here's a page by some guy who is way more nostaligic about the 2600 than me. He built his own portable unit. The original cartridges plug right in. He even imitated that great 70's styling. Of course the site could be a fake, which would raise the interesting question of which activity is more disturbingly geeky: faking all the pictures in photoshop, or actually building the thing IRL. Sure, I was wrong on the potato powered web server (fake,) but this one seems legit. Apparently he's going to build another one, and at that point put the first one up for auction on e-bay. Some newly rich thirty year old is going to pay a lot of money to be able to carry around all those childhood memories. You didn't throw out all your cartridges did you?
"To Our Valued Apple Customer:
Thank you for your recent Power Mac G4 order.
We have experienced an unanticipated supply delay and we are unable to ship your order in the time frame originally communicated. We expect to resume shipping late next week or early the following week.
We apologize for any inconvenience this delay may have caused.
Thank you for your patience."
Basic, but very informative pages on scanning and printing. Good primer if you are working with digital pictures (either scanning, or downloading from a digital camera and printing.) Covers scaling images and resampling. (this link is from this excellent thread addressing same issues.)
Threatening skies, but I'm going to try to make it up to the park to meet Alex. Then a sort of anniversary dinner at chez Wheel. Another year passes. I have been blessed.