...more recent posts
This is the first time I've been out of bed in two days. Still not fully recovered, but on my way. I haven't been sick like that in a long time. Really high fever. I didn't even look at the web once.
I walked into the coffee shop today and Tim was sitting at the counter. "Jim" he said, grinning, "I've come over to your side." At first I couldn't figure out what he was talking about. Had he slept with a girl? No, he bought a Mac.
Short interview with the wife and two children of Philip K. Dick.
(OK, yeah, it's not that interesting, but c'mon, we're talking PKD. Any explanations are helpful.)
Outside of my coerced adventure into the land of javascript drop down menus, most of what I've been doing lately involves stripping unnecessary features out of my CMS (I never know what to call it, but it's vaguely a Content Management System.) This is for a specific implementation (the basic business site implementation) where a lot of the built in features aren't needed. And even though I was aware of this general idea, I'm still shocked to find the whole package improving the more I trim it down.
Maybe someday I'll get all the way back to zero. The most elegant solution: look for yourself and remember.
I couldn't bring myself to watch. If someone could provide very brief scoring of the speach I'd be grateful. (I mean, you watched it, right?)
Wow that's cool (requires Flash - give it a second to load.)
I've been really enjoying listening to Lemon Jelly. The first two tracks off of Lost Horizons are especially cool (Elements and Space Walk.)
I wonder if people who are really into electronic music think of this as the bubble gum pop of their world.
Tough night for the internet. A massive worm exploiting a known (and patched) hole in Microsoft SQL Server (that's a database) is doing a pretty good job of grinding the net to a halt. Here's a disassembly of the 400 or so bytes being sent by infected systems. (No, I can't make anything out of that either, but it's kind of cool to look at.)
The worm isn't doing anything (it's not trying to destroy the infected databases,) it's just broadcasting information as it spreads creating a massive denial of service type situation. Basically a giant traffic jam. Theoretically this should be pretty easy to get under control, because all outbound traffic from infected machines is directed at the same port which can just be closed.
But I still can't get to my colo'd mail server with any regularity.
I've been hiding out. Making good progress on my project, but I haven't been able to deal with anything else. Sorry if I've been ignoring you.
I'm wrestling with something. I'd say more, but that's about all I know.
The next couple posts are some of the stuff I would have been blogging if I'd been writing more recently.