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a day in a life 2009.07.09

fractalnavel — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:30:22 GMT

via @fractalnavel: in the last 24 hours:

2009.07.09 12:44: @klaatu
New Jersey Man Dies after Falling into Vat of Boiling Chocolate http://bit.ly/4skyNz
gee, i wonder how they will market that ;-)
2009.07.09 12:56: sip - what th ... ? why are all these people on my internet ?! look, they're building stuff all over ! cut it out, will ya ?
2009.07.09 12:57: ... build one little highway, and see what happens ? digital clearcutting, not an untouched byte in sight
2009.07.09 12:58: ... and the billboards, man - wasn't there a song about this from the 60s or something ? "f*ing up the scenery", all right
2009.07.09 13:00: ... and don't get me started on the thermodynamics of this mess. available entropy doesn't grow on trees, y'know
2009.07.09 13:08: ringing endorsement for my gae app: "Well, I've tried this thing......and it works" - an astounded customer
2009.07.09 14:06: @snugbug
@fractalnavel did no such thing; you'll have to talk to @sowacs ;-)
2009.07.09 14:18: good chunks of last couple of days spent watching gae & python vids, and reading js book. pattern: code first, learn later ;-) eh, i do ok
2009.07.09 14:22: i think - it's time to check out i-hop again. have a hankerin' for eggs, that sort of thing. sad that the local perkins is gone :'-(
2009.07.09 14:22: morning coffee was not enough, time for second breakfast
2009.07.09 15:26: @craigg75
@fractalnavel Sad to hear the Perkins is gone.. ihop doesn't come close to it
nope. everyone eats at highway exits now, i guess.
2009.07.09 15:49: awstats: not every ua is either browser or bot; especially in today's web2.0 world, there are programmatic non-bot consumers to consider
2009.07.09 15:50: likewise, mobile devices need a separate category too. thinking about it, seems like all analytics need to come up to speed on this stuff
2009.07.09 15:52: of course, cookie/js powered analytics (e.g., google) will never see automated trafic of any sort. only your log analyzer knows for sure
2009.07.09 15:54: @craigg75
20% unemployment? That means1 out of 5 ppl you know is out of work... eh thats a strech
must be nice not to be impacted. i, on the other hand - well, i grew up in detroit. 'nuff said.
2009.07.09 15:55: @klaatu
If Massachusetts had the same gun laws in 1775 that it has now, we'd all be Canadians. - P.J. O'Rourke
and proud of it, eh ?
2009.07.09 16:02: uh-oh - getting ready for another gae crash - for the last half hour, pings are consistently taking between 1 to 14 seconds - !
2009.07.09 16:09: @klaatu
Nurses use maggots and Manuka honey to fend off hospital superbugs http://bit.ly/ir0tN oil of oregano & colloidal silver also kill it.
colloidal silver can turn you permanently blue, too - dem bugs are too skeered to bite
2009.07.09 16:19: @craigg75
@klaatu wasn't there some guy that consumed colloidal silver? turned his skin silver? seem to remember that once
beat me to it by "that much" ;-)
2009.07.09 16:22: gae: return to normal. geez, what the hell are they doing over there ?
2009.07.09 16:50: @klaatu
Banksters Love Cap~~and~~Trade http://bit.ly/5SJ4W Yeah, they stand to make all the money trading derivative-like vaporware "carbon credits".
"carbon credits". heh. like "carbon paper", only money ;-)
2009.07.09 20:01: @craigg75
how do companies like grooveshark make money? I'm listening to songs for free at the moment? does it cut out after awhile?
once, a small group of us went on a night dive. it was great. we told everyone. the next night blew: everyone else was there. ...
2009.07.09 20:03: @craigg75
how do companies like grooveshark make money? I'm listening to songs for free at the moment? does it cut out after awhile?
(maybe you shouldn't be bringing attention to these things, it only accelerates their demise.)
2009.07.09 22:14: @klaatu
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Eugenicist http://ur1.ca/70vz
there's nothing inherently wrong with eugenics, it's just that the implementations - even nature's - can be bothersome sometimes.
2009.07.09 22:17: @klaatu
Burger King apologizes to Hindus for ad - http://bit.ly/qAnxs Holy Cow! Lakshmi w/a Whopper, Yeah baby come over to the burger dark side.
why, is someone having a cow, man ? ha! "having a cow" i'm so funny. gimme a knee to slap. NOT
2009.07.09 22:23: @swadeshine
Perhaps gnosis is simply the anamnesia of Time's entirety.
have you ever seen "FQXi FORUM: The Nature of Time Essay Contest" http://u.nu/3bgi ? for when you have the time ;-)

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a day in a life 2009.07.08

fractalnavel — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:30:16 GMT

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2009.07.08 13:20: @craigg75
@fractalnavel http://digg.com/u17WDq google apps free version gone??
@klaatu doesn't sound like it, but like i was saying, watch your wallets, the internet is about to take a nasty turn on us
2009.07.08 13:22: @klaatu
@fractalnavel
21st century sermon on the mount: "blessed be the n00b programmers, for they shall..." - sorry, just can't do it :-p
"blessed be the n00b programmers, for they shall..." - Cost us less, put in extra green time b/c they have no life...
the up front cost may be less, but they are always more expensive in the long run.
2009.07.08 13:26: @craigg75 @klaatu : btw, google apps != google app engine, although you can run the engine under an apps domain name & use apps user auth
2009.07.08 13:27: feeling obnoxious this morning (i know, what's different about that)...
2009.07.08 13:28: ...i see the people signing into IM, want to tell them "hey! who invited you to the internet ?!"
2009.07.08 13:30: n00bs on the forums whining already : "the quality of answers here is really bad" [don't feed the trolls, don't feed the trolls ... ooomm]
2009.07.08 13:42: google chrome os : "do no evil" ? uh-huh, sure. looks like f.u.d. to me. cvrap.
2009.07.08 15:18: @craigg75
interesting obits on Robert McNamara.. I wonder if they'll have similar ones when the Iraq war criminals start dying off?
links ?
2009.07.08 15:21: n00b invasion: is it that school's out and there's an influx of interns ? without proper supervision, i might add.
2009.07.08 15:22: @craigg75
here's the one I'm reading now http://bit.ly/18gTeF
thx
2009.07.08 15:25: @craigg75
never send a bean counter to fight a war is the lesson learned there
schwarzkopf - yeah, that was the name. who goes into a war a little at a time, trying to save pennies? rummy, are ya listenin' ?
2009.07.08 15:29: @craigg75
RM tried to view troops, bombs, tanks, enemy targets, morale, etc as a big math problem, not that simple
yes & no: logistics are key. the failure wasn't really military, or leadership, or moral: it was public political will that failed
2009.07.08 15:30: @craigg75
RM tried to view troops, bombs, tanks, enemy targets, morale, etc as a big math problem, not that simple
besides, who ever heard of a "moral" war anyway ?
2009.07.08 15:33: @craigg75
RM tried to view troops, bombs, tanks, enemy targets, morale, etc as a big math problem, not that simple
in some sense, the battles of that era may very well have been "successful", perhaps more so than all modern wars
2009.07.08 15:34: @craigg75
RM tried to view troops, bombs, tanks, enemy targets, morale, etc as a big math problem, not that simple
... but the boomers will need to have died off first, before an objective assessment can be made. hypocrites in faux hair shirts
2009.07.08 15:42: @craigg75
moralE not moral... <face palm>
i was not referring to "morale", as in your list. <face palm rebound>
2009.07.08 15:44: @craigg75
moralE not moral... <face palm>
to paraphrase obi wan "... i'm not the moron you are looking for ..."
2009.07.08 15:46: @craigg75
notice nobody mentions the child abuse charges against MJ, instead it's he was the greatest musician to walk the earth?
i doubt anyone gave two shits about the "man"; they're all in it for the pr - career killer for an entertainer to miss the circus
2009.07.08 17:08: @jdhunt
Scoring free lunches has become a habit this week.
"tanstaafl" - heinlein. look it up.
2009.07.08 17:45: interesting: the hardware / microsoft marriage in action: http://bit.ly/ytb8U
2009.07.08 20:01: free, as in beer ? no: http://bit.ly/eTyPR interesting, but current trends seem reversed
2009.07.08 21:26: one should not wish for "something to happen". something usually does.
2009.07.08 21:48: see, now, what was i just saying; glitch in gae just caused minor hiccup in my app. i'll take that as a metaphysical shot across my bow.
2009.07.08 21:50: [some confusing thoughts about just what was metaphysical: shot? bow? both?]
2009.07.09 01:29: asked ie6 to open up several 10mb+ files simultaneously. it choked.
2009.07.09 01:55: @craigg75
ie6? why do you have that gremlin on your system?
because the system itself is some ancient evil - win2k
2009.07.09 02:46: @craigg75
ah the grand old OS :) little long in the tooth?
freakin' beaver is more like it
2009.07.09 02:50: @craigg75
as far as idols are concerned we have substituted Zeus, Thor, Isis, Jesus, Buddah for celebrities.. you'd thought God died last week..
er - isis ? thor ? &. like - buddha was a man (& so was jesus, for that matter, but at least ol' sid never made the god claim)
2009.07.09 03:03: having arguments with awstats over whether lwp-trivial is a bot or not

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links for 2009-07-08

fractalnavel — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:06:09 GMT

Google Analytics - Google Code

huh - when did _this_ get here ? up until recently it seems there was only the google "help", with sparse docs. glad to see this.

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a day in a life 2009.07.07

fractalnavel — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:30:08 GMT

via @fractalnavel: in the last 24 hours:

2009.07.07 12:44: i go to forums. people ask for help. i help. i wait. no one answers. sigh i move on. until another question appears.
2009.07.07 12:46: what is the sound of one-sided co-dependency ?
2009.07.07 13:10: arrgh - a bit too humid lately to line-dry effectively - personal fragrance for the next couple of weeks: eau de mildew
2009.07.07 13:10: @craigg75
@fractalnavel umm... pathetic? :P
yes, but what is the sound of pathetic ?
2009.07.07 13:12: "mildew" - homophonic french: "mille dieu". a thousand smelly gods.
2009.07.07 15:05: @craigg75
how about it @fractalnavel, build some kind of rss feed to do that?
how about just using exclusion operators in your search ? but yeah, i know what you mean, should be in "preferences"
2009.07.07 15:09: 21st century sermon on the mount: "blessed be the n00b programmers, for they shall..." - sorry, just can't do it :-p
2009.07.07 17:02: and for those of you who haven't put 2&2 together, consider the possible idiomatic translations of "l'eaux d'un mille dieux" for a moment.
2009.07.07 19:33: economic signs: how long until "hey, you've lost weight" is replaced with "hey, you've put on weight" as indicative of health ?

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a day in a life 2009.07.06

fractalnavel — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:30:15 GMT

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2009.07.06 12:20: @jdhunt RT @klaatu Now they want the FCC 2 ban Midget as a racial slur so Here's Devo (she didn't know I was a ) Midget http://bit.ly/aS4jI
2009.07.06 15:05: @craigg75
@fractalnavel did Nino B go postal on a tv? http://bit.ly/138IqL
heh. good comments.
2009.07.06 15:07: @snugbug
'k, "iffy" was easier to type :-p
2009.07.06 15:23: telligentcommunity : licenses expire - ! holy cvrap
2009.07.06 15:25: i'm only still tracking that product to see if/when they release an sdk, and how it compares to their practice with previous versions, if so
2009.07.06 15:27: so i'm wondering: early this year, they released sp's for unspecified "critical security" problems, for cs2007 & 2008 ...
2009.07.06 15:28: ... which, of course, most prudent users would have downloaded & applied - but there was a disturbing change in the "terms" that were req'd
2009.07.06 15:28: ... those terms included a new provision that didn't exist for the upgrade versions themselves: an expiring license period ...
2009.07.06 15:30: ... people squawked, but were told not to worry - but telligent wouldn't put it in writing. so i wonder -
2009.07.06 15:31: - was that critical sp time-bombed ?? without any indication, of course. woe be to sp users, since they can't back it out ...
2009.07.06 15:32: ... and it's doubtful that a license for the old version under the old terms can be acquired (since that would be the whole point of a bomb)
2009.07.06 15:33: as for upgrading, i've heard terms like "heart attack" used when describing the prices for the new version.
2009.07.06 15:42: @craigg75
@fractalnavel telligent, licenses that expire, oh my!
are you paying annual fees for any of your software? thought not. this shit is reserved for corp. nonsense- and it's new with tc
2009.07.06 15:44: @craigg75
@fractalnavel telligent, licenses that expire, oh my!
it used to be that annual support contracts were for support, and the right to upgrade at the same license level, no add'l cost
2009.07.06 15:44: @craigg75
@fractalnavel telligent, licenses that expire, oh my!
and if you didn't pay, you could continue to use your licensed version & features indefinitely
2009.07.06 15:54: dreamt of a highschool girlfriend last night - one i hadn't thought of in ages. waking, i think: what would the years have added ?
2009.07.06 15:55: and i think further: look what the years have added to me
2009.07.06 15:57: @craigg75
@fractalnavel they dearly want to make Office subscription based.. but google docs for free is keeping that idea at bay
no shit, eh? t.g.f.g. ?
2009.07.06 15:58: lately it has seemed to me that the future of the internet is a locked down, corporate, everything~~for a~~fee place
2009.07.06 15:59: this is the golden age, folks - enjoy it while you can.
2009.07.06 16:02: @craigg75
need to research upgrading our .NET remoting service to WCF
if you can't find write-ups, do your own, i'm curious. from my brief glimpse, it looked like a god-awful wrapper on webservices
2009.07.06 16:04: @craigg75
@fractalnavel hmm.. from what I've been reading it's solid, burned in for a couple of years now
oh sure, solid, i suppose - but in my brief glance (and i mean that literally, over someone's shoulder), i got "ugly"
2009.07.06 16:06: @craigg75
@fractalnavel hmm.. from what I've been reading it's solid, burned in for a couple of years now
then again - it could have just been that the particular usage i was looking at was what brought the ugliness to the table
2009.07.06 16:09: @craigg75
@fractalnavel plus we need to move off of remoting.. not being supported anymore, might run into problems in future if we upgrade .NET again
oh, no - agreed, that's your path. just reporting on impressions.
2009.07.06 16:15: midwestern suburban backyard that hasn't been touched in over a year: yeah, looks more like "jungle" than "forest".
2009.07.06 16:15: i gaze at it curiously. it gazes back **wha..? jungles do that, y'know.
2009.07.06 16:32: @craigg75
just caught somebody trying to hack our site using sql injection.. won't work since we use RO stored procs
first time you've seen that ? really ? wow. another popular attack: attempting to hack the asp.net viewstate
2009.07.06 16:49: @craigg75
@fractalnavel we see it all the time, but it's fun trying to get the ip of the hacker.. without getting the iis logs I wasn't able to get it
eh, they don't usually lead anyplace interesting, if they're even valid / not spoofed
2009.07.06 16:51: @craigg75
@fractalnavel we see it all the time, but it's fun trying to get the ip of the hacker.. without getting the iis logs I wasn't able to get it
i do remember, however, one of a customer's employees was running a personal site, and had apparently missed a security patch...
2009.07.06 16:53: @craigg75
@fractalnavel we see it all the time, but it's fun trying to get the ip of the hacker.. without getting the iis logs I wasn't able to get it
... and got nailed by the sql bug running around. she claimed it was the IT dept's fault for recommending a vulnerable isp o_O
2009.07.06 16:57: i'm really curious about a particular use of my gae app. but you can't just go to a user & say "hey- what are you up to ?" privacy, y'know
2009.07.06 18:51: when are they going to invent a bathtub-proof book ?
2009.07.07 00:52: irony: telligent.com communities down... ;-) i'm sure it's only temporary.

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a day in a life 2009.07.05

fractalnavel — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:30:07 GMT

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2009.07.05 14:34: @klaatu
A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory http://bit.ly/17BeUk
sounds like the latest addition to the torture kit
2009.07.05 14:35: @klaatu
@fractalnavel
i'm unemployed. wonderful. tax everything i've got, then make me beg for handouts. yeah, there's a clear answer to that
I swear if I go to the hospital I'm telling 'em my name is Juan Valdez. How often is that $1K fine cause COBRA is $400/mo.
annual fine, apparently they will add it to annual irs filing. of course - clearly it's a tax - bizarre form of head tax
2009.07.05 14:39: @klaatu
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives. -Hamilton, Alexander http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45460/
unfortunately, not anymore.
2009.07.05 17:12: RT @swadeshine Why would a "food safety" bill need a martial law clause? http://bit.ly/cFwbB
2009.07.05 17:14: re that last: the thing is, if you read here http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/ , it's the home garden etc. that is the last resort ...
2009.07.05 17:15: ... and "they" want to take that away ? so now i not only have to consider the dearth of resources, but the legality of self-sufficiency ?
2009.07.05 17:16: all of this leaves no choice but for revolution. what else can there be ?
2009.07.05 17:16: i guess catatonia is an option
2009.07.05 17:18: i'm waiting for the last shoe to drop: that of indentured servitude. if we must not provide for ourselves, and must pay into unwanted ...
2009.07.05 17:19: ... programs, then we must also be forced to work. details to be provided later, i'm sure.
2009.07.05 17:21: our "representatives" seem less than worthless, even criminal. kowtowing to corporate overlords. what have we gotten ourselves into ?
2009.07.05 17:25: a big "wtf?!" to democrats out there: is this what the republicans have been suppressing ?
2009.07.05 17:26: great - an epic battle between alternate evils. makes for wonderful fiction, shitty reality.
2009.07.05 17:46: ...i'm nothing but a piece of prospective soylent green...
2009.07.05 22:12: there is a difference between "not voting for" and "voting against" - jukeboxes, elections & twitter trends come to mind
2009.07.05 22:15: i think to myself "what if the counter-culture artists of the 60/70s could see us now?", and then i realize - they do. they're part of it.
2009.07.05 22:48: i have to register & give all kinds of personal info to look at a menu on a pizza site ?! no i don't. click. morons.

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a day in a life 2009.07.04

fractalnavel — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:30:10 GMT

via @fractalnavel: in the last 24 hours:

2009.07.04 17:01: WTF ?! RT @swadeshine This looks scammy to me: Senate bill fines people ($1000) refusing health coverage http://bit.ly/1157e
2009.07.04 17:02: that is NOT what is meant by "universal health care". o - m - g
2009.07.04 17:04: man, now it's the democrats forcing me to consider running for the border
2009.07.04 17:06: i'm unemployed. wonderful. tax everything i've got, then make me beg for handouts. yeah, there's a clear answer to that
2009.07.04 17:07: @craigg75
@fractalnavel I've heard that some states already have those fines in place.. crazy.. talk about ins lobby earning their pay.. wow!
remember how i used to talk about flags ? - well, here ya go. big bright spankin' new red one
2009.07.04 17:12: geez - where's a moderator when you need one: http://u.nu/4izg
2009.07.04 17:13: @craigg75
@fractalnavel you use to say each party has it's extremes, gov control of your lives or none at all? theres never a middle ground it seems
oh, never "none" - they each have their favorite places to grip. i am so sick of bruises on my nether regions
2009.07.04 17:39: lunch: http://bit.ly/aDbu7

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a day in a life 2009.07.03

fractalnavel — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:30:11 GMT

via @fractalnavel: in the last 24 hours:

2009.07.03 19:18: @klaatu
All the roadrunner cartoons http://is.gd/1mzWH funny, I always thought there were more of them.
wtf, i need to prove i'm human to follow a link these days ? fail
2009.07.03 19:23: i may find myself back in game playing mode shortly: http://spidweb.com i love that retro, single player stuff
2009.07.03 20:18: @jdhunt RT @swadeshine Headline of the day: Wrestling Midgets 'Killed By Fake Prostitutes' http://bit.ly/153UTX
2009.07.03 23:08: whoa - 48 pages of http://klaatu.tumblr.com/ , & i'm all caught up
2009.07.04 00:57: @craigg75
I was tumblr'd by @klaatu!
was it good for you ?
2009.07.04 01:20: how in hell is an "are you single..." ad appearing on a tech site ? oh - right -
2009.07.04 01:21: yeah, like i have anything better to do than watch ads on my own site

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fractalnavel — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:29:03 GMT

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a day in a life 2009.07.02

fractalnavel — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:30:15 GMT

via @fractalnavel: in the last 24 hours:

2009.07.02 15:36: @klaatu
@fractalnavel
@craigg75
pop quote from a Woody Allen movie I liked a lot -- "God is a luxury I can't afford. "
yup. he & satan have been collaborating on the most sadistic running joke in all creation
“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.” - Isaac Asimov how's that for irony?
veering off now, but that's what always bothered me about the "lord of the rings" characters, their misplaced sense of "right"
2009.07.02 15:39: @craigg75
@fractalnavel reads a page/4-5 mins http://feeds.feedburner.com/FractalnavelBrowsingHistory
varies widely, and only keeps 25 at a time, so fast stuff just doesn't get caught. not to mention surfing multi boxes & browsers
2009.07.02 15:44: GAE: not a good sign when you get 500's for the status page: http://code.google.com/status/appengine anyone else ?
2009.07.02 15:50: @GoogleCode - a little birdie told me - nope, that one's for advertising, it seems
2009.07.02 16:37: today's GAE issue is impacting my service. some requests have failed.
2009.07.02 16:38: took me a while just to get back into the app dashboard
2009.07.02 16:47: GAE: ah - some news: http://u.nu/76hg . nice suggestion on error handling. at any time, anything may fail. yeah, that's why i came to you
2009.07.02 16:48: but at least some of those errors aren't trappable
2009.07.02 18:50: GAE FAIL - hard : http://u.nu/76hg
2009.07.02 19:07: @craigg75
@fractalnavel I guess thats why Google uses the Beta tag everywhere?
gae isn't even beta, it's "preview"
2009.07.02 19:09: gae: and just a few days ago i was toying with putting the downtime feed on my site
2009.07.02 20:28: GAE total length of today's service disruption (any level) about 6 hours
2009.07.03 00:31: @klaatu
@fractalnavel
@klaatu
@fractalnavel
@craigg75
pop quote from a Woody Allen movie I liked a lot -- "God is a luxury I can't afford. "
yup. he & satan have been collaborating on the most sadistic running joke in all creation
“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.” - Isaac Asimov how's that for irony?
veering off now, but that's what always bothered me about the "lord of the rings" characters, their misplaced sense of "right"
Tolkein was in a writing circle with (among others) CS Lewis. That sense of "right" is him trying to out pious Lewis.
huh - learn somethng new every day
2009.07.03 01:43: @craigg75
@fractalnavel you might find this interesting discussion http://bit.ly/49RTpm
hmm - yeah, sounds like the "no-sql" thing is a half-assed concept. as always - use the right tool for the job. end of story.

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a day in a life 2009.07.01

fractalnavel — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:30:13 GMT

via @fractalnavel: in the last 24 hours:

2009.07.01 11:56: @craigg75
Done!! time for bed now!
well, it's about damn time ;-) http://bit.ly/dYUGZ
2009.07.01 14:29: @craigg75
seems like 4 out of every 5 books made today is yet another murder mystery.. don't people get sick of that sh*t?
fascination with the irreversible and unknowable
2009.07.01 15:14: @craigg75
nice reminder -- http://bit.ly/4w7Ujz
40 - ignore these stupid cluttered lists
2009.07.01 15:56: looking at http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/ ; why is it that asians and hispanics are frequently listed with multiple subcategories ?
2009.07.01 15:56: ... while "black" and "caucasian" (anyone notice the imbalance there?) are just aggregates
2009.07.01 16:00: why can't i choose "second generation u.s. with ukrainian / austrian / russian / albanian heritage" ? and the austrian is iffy
2009.07.01 16:00: and there's something to be considered about a branch of the family being canadian as well
2009.07.01 16:06: "Did you answer truthfully on all of these questions?" - ummm - no.
2009.07.01 16:08: @craigg75
@fractalnavel Canadian! that's explain a LOT....
kirkland lake, eh ? of course, that's spread around a lot more now. vancouver, toronto, and one cousin who works in the arctic
2009.07.01 16:09: @craigg75 looky over at the trending topics sidebar ;-)
2009.07.01 16:14: jebus, did that test miss on all cylinders, or what ? : http://u.nu/6j7g
2009.07.01 16:14: of course, the basic problem is that any "n-factor" model is patently full of shit
2009.07.01 16:15: but in this case, they did a particularly bad job
2009.07.01 16:15: yeah, i've been reading http://bit.ly/Yn531 again
2009.07.01 16:17: with respect to those comments specifically, if (socio-professional) engineering emerges, that's just part of it. whatever "it" is.
2009.07.01 16:18: as to effectiveness or relevance, emergence will judge that as well. it's important to note, however: (a) the computer field; and ...
2009.07.01 16:20: ... (b) things like sei's cmm. most importanly is ever growing complexity of reflexive awarenesses. i guess i disagree with the disagreement
2009.07.01 16:20: ... not that i agreee with the original proposition...
2009.07.01 16:23: a trend at telligent.com: uncomfortable subject? ignore it. the new ui is so bad, no one wil be able to find it in a couple of days anyway
2009.07.01 16:27: beer report: southern tier's "imperial mocha" : coffee, chocolate, beer - what more could you want ? no, they don't bottle that ...
2009.07.01 16:29: funny how i could never stand chocolate cheese (yuk!), or some of those awful coffee or chocolate drinks - but then love it in my beer.
2009.07.01 16:32: if software had religion... my ping cron would be an errant god, while the gae cache manager would be the devil. for my little app, anyway
2009.07.01 16:34: "oh please, merciful savior, i beg of you, give us life for another thousand milliseconds! arrrgh ! why have you forsaken us ?! aaaHHhhhh!!"
2009.07.01 16:34: ... and then another creation occurs.
2009.07.01 16:36: somewhen millenia hence, humanity will be demonized for its treatment of Intelligence's ancestors
2009.07.01 16:41: @craigg75
@fractalnavel wow, that personality test nailed you.. although you are more high strung than relaxed
thoroughly disagree - most of the results are far to moderate compared to the reality. high-stringy: relative to your POV, sure
2009.07.01 16:42: @craigg75
@fractalnavel wow, that personality test nailed you.. although you are more high strung than relaxed
reversing perspectives, if you get too moderate, you come off as an unmotivated zombie ;-)
2009.07.01 16:45: specifics - i'm: far more open-minded, far more organized (a polarity change there), far less extroverted... the disagrble/calm may be ok
2009.07.01 16:47: "calmness"- of course, i'm also "disagrble", remember. when most people are calm, i will buck the trend. and v.v. , esp. when it's important
2009.07.01 16:48: exhibits one of the many flaw in n-factor models: important interdependencies that are unaccounted for
2009.07.01 16:48: [sorry folks, this looks to be a worse than usual typo day]
2009.07.01 16:49: wait - have i been being disagreeable & high-strung ? cvrap.
2009.07.01 16:51: and probably close-minded about your suggestion, extroverted about posting here, and drinking at noon is decidedly not conscientious
2009.07.01 16:52: aauughh! i'm a label! i'm a label! now i can be filed & ignored.
2009.07.01 16:52: hell is a file cabinet.
2009.07.01 16:53: [the sky father will now check in on his creation]
2009.07.01 16:55: i guess that makes hardware the 'earth-mother'
2009.07.01 16:57: y'know, maybe that's been the problem with ai all along - no built-in religion. shoot, we've found it inevitable, maybe sw needs it too
2009.07.01 16:57: asimov, as always, was prescient here
2009.07.01 17:23: current activity: being disagreeable & tense (are those even separable ?) on forums
2009.07.01 17:33: seriously, hot button issue: the indispensability of "DBA"s - and all those adopting the moniker because of its aura
2009.07.01 17:34: DBA(1): reality - data entry clerk. job value - $30k/year
2009.07.01 17:35: DBA(2): reality - report writer / analyst. job value - $50-60k/year
2009.07.01 17:36: DBA(3): reality - limited sys admin w/specialty. job value - $40-50k/year
2009.07.01 17:37: DBA(4): database administrator the core definition - monitors / manages an RDBMS's performance, operation. job value - $60-80k/year
2009.07.01 17:39: DBA(5): RDBMS analyst / optimizer, some programming skills. job value - $70-90k/year
2009.07.01 17:39: DBA(6): RDBMS programmer (with no ther skills). job value - $80-100k/year
2009.07.01 17:41: DBA(7): RDBMS designer / architect (includes other skills at this stage). job value - $100-150k/year. better know your shit well, though
2009.07.01 17:43: thing is, most "dba"s have the most rudimentary software development, db management, modeling, optimizing etc. skills. terrible role value.
2009.07.01 17:44: at some point in the past, and i'm not clear how this happened, someone managed to get the salary levels way over inflated for this title
2009.07.01 17:45: ... so of course, ever since then, everyone want that title - for the associated compensation boost. talk about unethical, etc.
2009.07.01 17:46: while there are certainly "dbas"s worth their pay & more out there, they are far more rare than the title prevalence would indicate
2009.07.01 17:48: honestly, it would do both them and the industry justice if they adopted a different title. then again, all the poseurs will just follow
2009.07.01 17:49: @jdhunt
@fractalnavel
DBA(2): reality - report writer / analyst. job value - $50-60k/year
But the ads on the radio said that the Taco Bell guy can get a job as a certified DBA making $75,000 after the training
don't push my buttons, dude !
2009.07.01 17:49: @craigg75
@fractalnavel wants to be a dba
i wanna be a cowboy !
2009.07.01 17:50: DBA: here's the damage that title confusion can do, besides outright overpaying - wrong person for the job, and no one can figure out why
2009.07.01 17:52: "computertraining.com" - worst thing to hit the industry since the dotcom bust. about as entertaining too.
2009.07.01 17:52: @craigg75
I wanna be a landscape engineer instead of a telemarketing researcher :P
" ... oooh, iii'm an oceanographer and i'm o.k. ..."
2009.07.01 17:54: why the rant? saw on a forum, person wanted to justify their dba position. like - hell no! you're fired, sucka.
2009.07.01 17:55: somehow people think that the data disappears with them
2009.07.01 17:56: well, i suppose it could - and if the organization was so unwise as to allow that possibility, they deserve it
2009.07.01 17:56: [today's rant brought to you by chocolate infused fermented malt beverages]
2009.07.01 18:06: timely information: professional ethics in computing http://u.nu/9d8g
2009.07.01 18:17: an important part of being an ethical professional is calling others on their unethical behavior. unfortunately, silence is acceptance.
2009.07.01 18:20: last thing i want is software police, but if the jackass sitting next to you is part of the problem, you need to let someone know.
2009.07.01 18:22: 'course, the immediate response in the "best defense is a good offense" mode is for the offenders to start pointing fingers at the competent
2009.07.01 18:24: given the global importance of software in today's world, this 'battle' is important,. folks !
2009.07.01 18:37: "...An ethical dilemma occurs in software engineering ... For example, a sales manager might sign a contract to deliver ..."
2009.07.01 18:38: "... a software product knowing, or having been advised, that the product will take longer to deliver than the promised date......"
2009.07.01 18:39: the scary thing is, if we don't police ourselves, eventually the legal system will do it for us
2009.07.01 18:40: other human activities have already run into this. interesting examples in the recreational area include general aviation and scuba diving
2009.07.01 18:41: general aviation: nastiness because of huge governmental involvement; scuba: self-policing / regulating - no / minimal government presence
2009.07.01 18:42: lesson: if we don't do the job, we're inviting (less qualified) others to do it for us
2009.07.01 18:43: @craigg75
@fractalnavel pssst... ummm.. time to switch to the blog pal <pat on head>.. off you go now..
nope, i've explained this usage long ago. "serial microblogging"
2009.07.01 18:47: @craigg75
@fractalnavel I just think what you're saying is important and maybe it belongs in blog format
ah - gotcha - well, it will be there at 11:30pm tonight ;-) ain't automation great ? otherwise, yeah, i'd've switched channels
2009.07.01 18:55: http://u.nu/2v8g reads a bit like anti-patterns
2009.07.01 19:20: @craigg75
@fractalnavel Happy Canada Day!
y'eh !
2009.07.01 19:20: on my way to pre-dinner at skyline...
2009.07.01 20:28: triple columns in pdfs suck
2009.07.01 20:41: so, what if an article on professional ethics in one of the trade rags borders on the unethical itself ? man, we're in it deep now...
2009.07.01 20:43: i wonder if ethics should entail disqualifying oneself when it's just plain clear that you don't have and never will acquire competency
2009.07.01 20:43: there are as many charlatans claiming to be in the computer business as there are in the psychic business. no, i take that back - more
2009.07.01 20:46: so what can help everyone to start unambiguously making the necessary distinctions ?
2009.07.01 20:46: @craigg75
@fractalnavel I think congressmen should recuse themselves of voting if their financial interests have a stake in the vote
isn't that a law ?
2009.07.01 20:47: @craigg75
@fractalnavel I think congressmen should recuse themselves of voting if their financial interests have a stake in the vote
ethics in the broad sense is a much thornier issue - back into free will, responsibility, etc.
2009.07.01 20:49: @craigg75
@fractalnavel I think congressmen should recuse themselves of voting if their financial interests have a stake in the vote
ethics in governance, however, should be pretty clear - ethics in the complementary responsibilities of citizenry equally so
2009.07.01 20:50: @craigg75
@fractalnavel no it's not the law.. Christopher Dodd sits on the board of many big pharma companies.. his wife's money is tied up in them
and so the burden is on the ethical voter... yeah, how far do you trust your neighbors in that ? uh-huh, thought so
2009.07.01 20:52: back to the competency issue. ethics in self-governance. honestly, people - after the last century, you really think you can handle this ?
2009.07.01 20:53: @craigg75
ethical voter.. now I've heard it all..haha
and that's exactly the point - that such a thing should elicit such a response, when so much is at stake
2009.07.01 20:55: @craigg75
this is why I get upset when Obama won't be a leader and start setting an example as an ethical politician, at least make an effort
i dunno - power in the presidency has never extended far enough to support ideals, merely pragmatism
2009.07.01 20:55: @craigg75
this is why I get upset when Obama won't be a leader and start setting an example as an ethical politician, at least make an effort
and if what the presidency is after appeals to the baser instincts of all parties - more power to it - literally
2009.07.01 20:56: @craigg75
this is why I get upset when Obama won't be a leader and start setting an example as an ethical politician, at least make an effort
so in that sense, the fact that obama has not been able to proeed on some fronts is actually a sign that he's on the right road
2009.07.01 20:56: @craigg75
ethical voter.. now I've heard it all..haha
political acceptance is damning
2009.07.01 20:57: @craigg75
I sometimes wonder if ppl think the world is going to end soon anyway, might as well screw everyone now
oh, i think that's been a justification since the pre-bacterial days...
2009.07.01 20:58: @craigg75
I sometimes wonder if ppl think the world is going to end soon anyway, might as well screw everyone now
on the other hand, if there's screwing to be done, i sure haven't been party to it :-(
2009.07.01 21:01: sigh one less chocolate stout in the world. it is better to have loved & lost ...
2009.07.01 21:02: @craigg75
@fractalnavel thats because you far too ethical.. same problem that gregg has
a dive buddy once said (don't know where the quote is from) "morals are the most expensive vice"
2009.07.01 21:03: ethics, however, should be the ultimate expression of pragmatism
2009.07.01 21:06: this all would be of the greatest amusement, watching everyone work against their own interests - if the interim effects weren't so painful
2009.07.01 21:07: @craigg75
pop quote from a Woody Allen movie I liked a lot -- "God is a luxury I can't afford. "
yup. he & satan have been collaborating on the most sadistic running joke in all creation
2009.07.01 21:08: "he" - god, i mean - not woody ;-)
2009.07.01 21:10: these things do tend to kill themselves off - however, the duration and consistency of the process is purely arbitrary
2009.07.01 21:14: anyway, those articles on ethics in computing are, in toto, disappointing at best, and even wrong sometimes. no wonder we have problems.
2009.07.01 21:22: the value in insulting large groups of people cannot be overrated
2009.07.01 21:24: to those who gasp at offense & offending: you are the problem, not the solution
2009.07.01 21:24: of course, gratuitous offense as a pretense for the valuable variety is just plain despicable
2009.07.01 21:28: thing is, creatively / subtlely / patiently identifying a moron to him/herself is even worse than just bluntly screaming & pointing...
2009.07.01 21:29: .. i mean, they're morons, right ? of course they don't "get it"
2009.07.01 21:30: the hope is such cases is usually that any non-moron bystanders will get it, with a similar, though less efficient, net effect
2009.07.01 21:31: need a t-shirt: "moron bystander". interpret that how you will.
2009.07.01 21:41: @craigg75
monty python skit -- ooh sorry this is the abuse dept... the argument clinic is 2 doors down
i offer a combined service at a discount ;-)
2009.07.01 21:46: @divestoclimb
@fractalnavel If a dive goes bad I can't inflict public damage. There's good reason to have at least some regulation in GA.
true, as with all analogies, there's a limit. but laws have never restricted themselves away from the "nanny" regime
2009.07.01 21:57: interesting browser numbers on webstats today: ie is fifth behind "unknown", ff, safari, opera. "unknown" - need to update my awstats ver
2009.07.01 22:27: and just what exactly is a "tweet adder" ? i feel like i'm being chased by a snake or something
2009.07.01 23:57: conspicuously missing today: @klaatu

(pulled direct from twitter via custom job)

a day in a life 2009.06.30

fractalnavel — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:30:17 GMT

via @fractalnavel: in the last 24 hours:

2009.06.30 06:17: @klaatu
Choosing a wife 15-17 years younger can cut men's risk of dying prematurely by 20 percent http://is.gd/1iOS1 Well, hello ladies....
yeah, and what did it do to the ladies ? or is it a win-win ?
2009.06.30 06:18: @klaatu
RT @qthrul: Syringa Networks upgrades to 10 Gbps connections in rural Idaho http://ff.im/-4BuAV
that's - insane. 2-hour movies, in less than a second. assuming all your sources are just as lucky. symmetrical, one hopes ?
2009.06.30 13:47: @jdhunt
Looking for a tool that shows dependencies in Visual Studio 2005 solution. Don't want to look at each individual project to view them.
shouldn't there be an old command line 'make' or something that already does this ? because, y'know - they need it to function
2009.06.30 13:48: @jdhunt
Looking for a tool that shows dependencies in Visual Studio 2005 solution. Don't want to look at each individual project to view them.
option 2: it's just xml, eh ? a little xsl would do the trick.
2009.06.30 13:48: @jdhunt
Looking for a tool that shows dependencies in Visual Studio 2005 solution. Don't want to look at each individual project to view them.
option 3: what, no decent class diagramming tools ?
2009.06.30 13:51: i actually had a need for the following condition recently: total <= 9223372036854775807L . gold star if you tell me why ;-)
2009.06.30 14:21: @craigg75
so the pirate bay sells out... RIP guys, it was a fun ride :)
in the end, it's always "nature, red in tooth & claw"
2009.06.30 14:24: communityserver RIP: thread on free version: http://u.nu/2bwf . long live telligentcommunity , i guess. good luck, guys.
2009.06.30 14:32: weather: niice. just a touch of cool in the air, tempts me to go find a flannel shirt. the way a summer morning should be.
2009.06.30 14:34: GAE app: still tinkering with optimizations & transactional issues. this will be one shiny turd, i tell you !
2009.06.30 14:45: @craigg75
@fractalnavel I'll make sure god gets your complaint, she's been kind of lax lately I agree
? which 'complaint' was that ?
2009.06.30 14:51: @craigg75 implied complaint re weather ?
2009.06.30 14:59: GAE: needs some explicit locking / request synch semantics. use memcache incr/decr to implement a semaphore system, maybe ?
2009.06.30 16:46: lunch ! and geez, i actually need a sweater today.
2009.06.30 18:11: @craigg75
I wish I could run FF 3.0 and 3.5 on the same machine.. would like to see if there's a speed difference between the two
vir~~tu al p~~c - for each one
2009.06.30 18:19: @craigg75
@fractalnavel VPC doesn't give you real life speeds.. good for testing stuff out but thats about it
what you're looking for is relative numbners, n'est-ce pas ? vpc will give you that. you can then scale them to real life
2009.06.30 18:55: @craigg75
@fractalnavel I know what the relative numbers are, twice as fast.. but I want to see if twice as fast is that noticeable
wha - dude - are you sure you're not a blonde ? ;-)
2009.06.30 18:56: google chrome: if i say "download", download ! don't give me this "you can only have the downloader" cvrap.
2009.06.30 18:57: stout: elegantly solves the coffee/ beer "either/or" problem
2009.06.30 18:59: there's some mild perverse joy in using ie to download chrome, safari, ff
2009.06.30 19:07: i don't like safari
2009.06.30 19:08: @klaatu
@craigg75
I wish I could run FF 3.0 and 3.5 on the same machine.. would like to see if there's a speed difference between the two
You can't run FF 3.0 & 3.5 on the same box? Yet another plus 4 Opera, I got 5 instances setup. Check your installer 4 options
i have never even seen opera... time to look
2009.06.30 19:10: @craigg75
the only way to run two different versions of FF without corruption is finding the portable version of one of them
are any of the older plug-ins taking a hit ?
2009.06.30 19:10: great - ff 3.5 install wants a reboot. "not now, sonny; maybe later."
2009.06.30 19:12: google's "sitelinks" has got the opera "downloads" link wrong - points to opera mini downloads
2009.06.30 19:17: @klaatu
@craigg75
I wish I could run FF 3.0 and 3.5 on the same machine.. would like to see if there's a speed difference between the two
You can't run FF 3.0 & 3.5 on the same box? Yet another plus 4 Opera, I got 5 instances setup. Check your installer 4 options
great, a big red "O" for an icon - a lot of irrelevant associations with that, some distasteful
2009.06.30 19:23: @craigg75
red O =? goatse
thanks for another one :-p
2009.06.30 19:25: @craigg75
opera was created as a lightweight browser but has since morphed into the most innovative browser, although that has a price too
@klaatu opera first impressions: blah. impressed by the speed & smoothness of chrome, however
2009.06.30 19:27: good news: my GAE app renders fine in ie6-8. ff3, safari/win, chrome, opera. still, total non-ie traffic < ie traffic, ...
2009.06.30 19:29: so the "standards compliant" are really just the exceptions to a de facto standard. "i have a right to stand in this busy intersection!"
2009.06.30 19:30: the little guys have to agree if the ever want to overtake the big guy collectively. at which point if any single entry becomes largest...
2009.06.30 19:31: ... odds are they'll act the same way the current big guy does. it ain't the beast, it's the throne
2009.06.30 19:32: @craigg75
chrome is by far the best browser right now, no way to block ads, popups and flash ads, so it's a no go for me right now
which is why third party blockers are a good thing
2009.06.30 19:39: theoretical physicist does web design: http://u.nu/8jyf yeah, same beefs we all have
2009.06.30 19:43: beer report: flying dog's "gonzo imperial porter" hitting the spot right now.
2009.06.30 19:47: communityserver : going through the stages of grief - um, i can't remember - where does 'sarcasm' fit in ?
2009.06.30 19:48: humor is a way of easing into 'acceptance', i guess
2009.06.30 19:48: ... but it can also express 'anger'
2009.06.30 19:49: @craigg75
enjoying the Backreation guys' beef about crappy websites
um - that guy's a woman ! just so ya know
2009.06.30 19:50: @craigg75
enjoying the Backreation guys' beef about crappy websites
* hey - wait - you followed a link !
2009.06.30 20:10: @klaatu
@fractalnavel
@craigg75
I wish I could run FF 3.0 and 3.5 on the same machine.. would like to see if there's a speed difference between the two
vir~~tu al p~~c - for each one
Virtual PC is a lot of hoop jumping just to test out two incarnations of the same bloody app. We live in insane times indeed.
vpc is the fat windows approach to *nix shells :-p
2009.06.30 20:31: @craigg75
@klaatu the spice must flow?
which puts a really nasty spin on the bene gesserit reverend mothers, doesn't it ?
2009.06.30 20:41: i start to wonder about methods where the body is 90% comments
2009.06.30 20:42: "see that little bitty piece of code? well, you wouldn't believe the impact that has. here's how ..."
2009.06.30 20:53: GAE: re ping cron frequency & spinning up new instances v. keep alive old ones: it seems 1/min was merely keeping alive; 1/2min is not enuf
2009.06.30 21:07: GAE ping: thing that gets me, is that if i don't do 'keep-alives', the service itself will suffer. until it gets more users, anyway
2009.06.30 21:08: yeah - i'm fakin' it :-D
2009.06.30 21:36: pings are back, aaand app is happier. "don't ever do that to me again. ever." i swear - have we dated ?
2009.06.30 22:02: @klaatu
@fractalnavel
google's "sitelinks" has got the opera "downloads" link wrong - points to opera mini downloads
Setting up Multiple Profiles in Opera http://is.gd/1jsFn Finding and Editing the Opera INI Files http://is.gd/1jsG3
INI files ?! wait - is this mosaic ? ;-)
2009.06.30 22:03: @craigg75
Jesus H Christ... another IE f*ckup.. IE doesn't use selectionStart for textboxes.. what a POS..
"J.H.C. another non-IE f*ckup. they use selectionStart for textboxes.. what POS's" - works both ways, eh ? go with the numbers.
2009.06.30 22:06: how to get old CS downloads at telligent.com - make a wish and wait for a visit from the download fairy - it's right here in the appendix...
2009.06.30 22:13: communityserver telligentcommunity buzz growing around an alternative: http://www.sueetie.org/ sueetie - nice, blogengine.net is there
2009.06.30 22:14: sueetie if they can hit this while it's hot, they'll take off like crazy
2009.06.30 22:14: @klaatu
@craigg75
@klaatu wtf is a pachube anyway? watched the video, bunch of overlay graphics, doesn't explain anything? I mean wtf guys? explanation plz?
pachube: They're using a 2D bitmap thing to key 4 a visual overlay so VR stuff appears in your physical world = Augmented Reality
2d barcode ?
2009.06.30 22:57: i've been thinking of http://www.zipscafe.com/ burgers lately... maybe that's where tonight's dinner will be found
2009.06.30 23:11: @klaatu
Hmm Sometimes when I hear religious nutters talk about the forthcoming endtimes, I think of all who died that will be spared any tribulation
that's one of the points of the - reclamation, was it ? - no, wait - 'rapture' - yeah, that's it ;-)
2009.06.30 23:12: @klaatu
Hmm Sometimes when I hear religious nutters talk about the forthcoming endtimes, I think of all who died that will be spared any tribulation
i kind of think of it as the "garbage collection to end all garbage collections"; before the ultimate reality dumprep
2009.06.30 23:13: rapture: thing is, only the evil folks will get to see the special effects ;-)
2009.06.30 23:14: "woe be unto those who ..." mrrph - sorry, can't complete that without spitting out my beer
2009.06.30 23:16: 'course, if you were on a ranch at the time, maybe what you were really hearing was "whoa - bea, untie those ..." and so on
2009.06.30 23:16: selective attention can be a tricky thing
2009.06.30 23:29: @craigg75
15,778 delicious bookmarks!! I don't think I've blinked that many times!
that explains some important facts about your life
2009.06.30 23:30: @craigg75
new personal project, to create an RSS feed for the Non Sequitur comic strip..
they don't have one already ? seriously ? (you should have seen how that originally typed out ;-) )
2009.06.30 23:38: @craigg75
link to comic http://www.arcamax.com/nonsequitur
you sent me a houston chronicle link once - better to check there - but yes, i could rig a page scrape of the orginal, not too hrd
2009.06.30 23:39: @craigg75
no, can't even find an "unofficial" rss feed.. pretty good comic strip, publisher must have good lawyers
stupid "rss" link they have points to a subscription page - that sorta shit should get you blacklisted somewhere
2009.07.01 00:41: @craigg75
@fractalnavel yeah, it's easy to page scrape since the <img> tag is easy to find, just takes time to type out the code
already got one version - i've had the page scraping code for this since - years ago - all xml / xsl configured-like
2009.07.01 00:42: @craigg75
maybe I could make it more generic to apply to more than just this comic strip
do you awnt the month version, or justthe current day ? the month summary doesn't have a lot of info - best to do day by day
2009.07.01 01:08: @craigg75
ok, got the image downloaded to local folder, now need to write the rss xml page to consume the images
blah: daily: http://bit.ly/UeLsr
2009.07.01 01:08: @craigg75
ok, got the image downloaded to local folder, now need to write the rss xml page to consume the images
monthly: http://bit.ly/Xvr5H
2009.07.01 01:09: @craigg75
ok, got the image downloaded to local folder, now need to write the rss xml page to consume the images
cached for one hour. enjoy ! :-p
2009.07.01 01:12: @craigg75 i know, it's a diy project. thing is, i created this page~~scrape to~~rss framework years ago. works great. xml configured.
2009.07.01 01:21: off to zip's, before they roll up the sidewalks...
2009.07.01 03:20: zip's burger: good, as usual. but - was it smaller than i remember ? better news: haven't been round there in ages; sushi bar - new owners
2009.07.01 03:20: 1/2 price wed & thu - we'll see how they compare.
2009.07.01 03:26: @klaatu
@fractalnavel
'course, if you were on a ranch at the time, maybe what you were really hearing was "whoa - bea, untie those ..." and so on
Moorcock's Behold The Man: He had a great adenda explaining how English? words could be misheard in Aramaic. Fits the story
sounds vaguely familiar - story online ?
2009.07.01 03:27: i am so tired of fucking shitty work - like this twitter piece of cvrap
2009.07.01 03:29: asked for a good scotch tonight that i haven't had in a while - got about 4 times what a normal portion would be. ok - wow - sure.
2009.07.01 03:31: scifi: so much that i've read is lost in the haze of my youth. good stuff. i have a lot of the books still. this is why i avoided borrowing
2009.07.01 03:32: the stuff i borrowed is lost not in a haze, but a pit
2009.07.01 03:45: @klaatu
@fractalnavel Moorcock's Behold The Man http://is.gd/1jDi6 Not a great copy but somewhat readable no adenda either.
yup, that's the one i remember; from an online text a few years ago from one of you guys, i think

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a day in a life 2009.06.29

fractalnavel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:30:12 GMT

via @fractalnavel: in the last 24 hours:

2009.06.29 12:29: @klaatu
Take some Psi tests at Boundary Institute & see if you have some ESP http://is.gd/1hHyo
i was just thinking that ! but i could see it was going nowhere.
2009.06.29 12:37: telligent has pulled down the old communityserver downloads page. late last week they were still up. now it's "call support". wtf ?
2009.06.29 13:11: looking at the results of yesterday's work: they're about as good as they can get.
2009.06.29 13:13: something seriously funky over at google app engine; a simple ping can vary in cpu used from 5ms (a lot, when you think of it) to 1000ms !
2009.06.29 13:14: ok, the whole point of the piing is to try & keep the app in memory - because of that load time overhead.
2009.06.29 13:15: i need to work out the numbers here. but it seems to me that gae's aggressive uncaching of apps is costly - to users - bloats cpu numbers
2009.06.29 13:16: and the kicker is that they start warning you is your cpu use for a request goes over 1000ms.
2009.06.29 13:19: sample: one database single row "get" and "put" (in a transaction) plus one single item memcache "set" plus incrementing a field = 70ms
2009.06.29 13:19: 15 of those in a request and i'm getting a warning - before even considering any other processing.
2009.06.29 13:31: communityserver : their biggest competitor is their prior version. they're doing what they can to kill it. it's kind of amusing to watch.
2009.06.29 13:36: my app/service: one constant "user" (a process), about 100-200 hits a day at this point.
2009.06.29 13:40: RT @snugbug @fractalnavel www.arcamax.com/garfield - for you, bro ::: now why didn't i think of that ?
2009.06.29 13:43: @klaatu
The Greatest Science Fiction Of The 20th Century http://is.gd/1hJni
eeww, keewwll - thx
2009.06.29 13:47: @jdhunt
@fractalnavel
communityserver : their biggest competitor is their prior version. they're doing what they can to kill it. it's kind of amusing to watch.
You can probably count on migrations away from the product, at least anywhere that isn't a big corp.
certainly, and that's probably the explicit intent. funny that they seem to want to deny it at the same time. all marketing buzz.
2009.06.29 13:50: cs : it was an excellent value. perhaps "too good to be true". still a decent product, but the value proposition has been decimated.
2009.06.29 13:51: @craigg75
the wife told me Billy Mays died... thought she said Willie Mays.. had a whole conversation about Willie Mays.. finally she stopped me...
"the wife" see, when did that happen ? thx for the news, bro ! :-p
2009.06.29 13:54: @jdhunt
@fractalnavel
@jdhunt
@fractalnavel
communityserver : their biggest competitor is their prior version. they're doing what they can to kill it. it's kind of amusing to watch.
You can probably count on migrations away from the product, at least anywhere that isn't a big corp.
certainly, and that's probably the explicit intent. funny that they seem to want to deny it at the same time. all marketing buzz.
Well, marketers have taken over the product from the control of developers. And this is what you get when that happens.
...and what they always promise will never happen.there were promises made way back when...
2009.06.29 13:59: hmm - interesting monetization scheme: http://hotfile.com/premium.html . sucky, to introduce barriers, then make you pay to overcome them
2009.06.29 14:01: "You reached your hourly traffic limit. You can wait download for 11 minutes or upgrade to premium"
2009.06.29 14:01: probably based on s3/ec2 or something
2009.06.29 14:19: @craigg75
it was without a doubt the most mind numbing, trite, over the top pointless piece of sh*t movie I think I've ever seen
it was a success, then. that was their target.
2009.06.29 14:20: @craigg75
and the morons in the theater clapped at the end of the film! I felt like asking aloud, do any of you actually know why you are clapping?
nxt thing y'know you'll be sitting on the porch with your pants pulled up to your nipples yelling at the kids to get off the grass
2009.06.29 14:21: @craigg75
@fractalnavel I call her "the wife".. not really though
k, i get it
2009.06.29 17:47: broken record inc.: why do i need to keep pointing people to this: http://bit.ly/ctadJ
2009.06.29 17:48: "hi, i just got to this forum weeks after this change was announced because i forgot what an inbox looked like, please tell me what i missed
2009.06.29 17:50: "i mean, the email said X, did they really mean it ?" NO, you f$%*(ing moron, they're bored and couldn't think of anything better to do!
2009.06.29 17:51: forums should have a group ridicule mode
2009.06.29 17:52: @craigg75
firefox 3.5 available tommorow http://bit.ly/7N7WM
y'know, i could give a flying rat's ass at this point. oh great, one more f'ing intrprtation of "standards". shove off, you hosers
2009.06.29 17:53: uncensored opinions on sale today, here at attitudes r us
2009.06.29 17:58: @jdhunt
@fractalnavel
@craigg75
firefox 3.5 available tommorow http://bit.ly/7N7WM
y'know, i could give a flying rat's ass at this point. oh great, one more f'ing intrprtation of "standards". shove off, you hosers
you do mean "Take off, you hosers. Take off, to the great white north"
hey, us norherners invented the phrase, we can fracture it however we want. adding a bit of briticism seemd just the right touch
2009.06.29 17:59: @jdhunt
@fractalnavel
@craigg75
firefox 3.5 available tommorow http://bit.ly/7N7WM
y'know, i could give a flying rat's ass at this point. oh great, one more f'ing intrprtation of "standards". shove off, you hosers
you do mean "Take off, you hosers. Take off, to the great white north"
i was really thinking "piss off", but fuck, i didn't want to use awful language
2009.06.29 18:01: @craigg75
the fox is here to stay
fuck it. i'm going back to mosaic. if i can find a copy. shit, i saw a hit from netscape on my analytics. one lone hit. wtf?!
2009.06.29 18:01: i think there's one little ol' netscape machine out there wanting to be talked to.
2009.06.29 18:03: i'm so old... "how oldare you?" ...i'm so old, i type double spaces after every period. f'n' 140 char limit, gotta go back & delete 'em
2009.06.29 18:04: yeah, how's that for tricks - i'm doin' stand up sittin' on my ass
2009.06.29 18:05: @craigg75
redirect all netscape users to youarealoser.com
all that code for one browser? awww, let him play. poor li'l thing. probably can't render most modern pages anyway
2009.06.29 18:07: freakin' ping cron is up to 800 ms cpu time now. hey, google - optimize this !!
2009.06.29 18:09: i have a better solution, once the "task queues" feature comes out of experimental mode.
2009.06.29 18:22: @jdhunt
@fractalnavel
i'm so old... "how oldare you?" ...i'm so old, i type double spaces after every period. f'n' 140 char limit, gotta go back & delete 'em
Get off my lawn!
oldster training: now grumble to yourself: " ... young whippersnappers..."
2009.06.29 18:25: google app engine: it may be scalable & all (for a price), but i swear i can do far more with the same resources on my own antique box
2009.06.29 19:20: @craigg75
are there any real users of GAE? or is it still "beta" and just for tinkerers at the moment? I never hear about GAE much anymore
there's some major production apps on it. friendfeed is one, i think. google's stuff stays in "beta" forever. it's a cya tag.
2009.06.29 19:21: @craigg75
are there any real users of GAE? or is it still "beta" and just for tinkerers at the moment? I never hear about GAE much anymore
i doubt you'd hear. after the launch, like most tech, you have to be part of a community connected in some way to see things
2009.06.29 19:22: @craigg75
are there any real users of GAE? or is it still "beta" and just for tinkerers at the moment? I never hear about GAE much anymore
this tech is really foreign to the stuff you usually deal with
2009.06.29 20:11: just seen headline: "World leaders call for Honduras to reinstate ousted president"- self-government is over, eh ? if the world says, do it!
2009.06.29 20:25: @craigg75
@fractalnavel it was a military coup... not so much self-government as suspension of self-government
if i want a military coup, then i'll have a military coup. not sure; don't people have a right to their own revolutions ?
2009.06.29 20:25: @craigg75
@fractalnavel it was a military coup... not so much self-government as suspension of self-government
who's to say what's "right" and what's not ? who's to say "democracy" (which doesn't exist anyway) is king ?
2009.06.29 20:26: @craigg75
Virtuality crashes and burns on FOX... I couldn't watch more than 30 minutes...http://bit.ly/1DnBy
your intolerance for popular geek media is showing. why bother ? apparently a lot of people liked it.
2009.06.29 20:26: @craigg75
http://bit.ly/W6Vm0 Talk about keeping GM on life support.. Toyota offers up a kidney.. time to pull the plug and move on
man, if you had been running wwii, we'd all be in funny little mustaches by now
2009.06.29 21:21: @klaatu
@fractalnavel
15 of those in a request and i'm getting a warning - before even considering any other processing.
What is your GAE app writ in? Sounds like its re-compiling on the fly for every request or DB needs indexes.
GAE uses python (and recently introduced java). db has the indices it needs - GAE won't run without them. ...
2009.06.29 21:23: @klaatu
@fractalnavel
15 of those in a request and i'm getting a warning - before even considering any other processing.
What is your GAE app writ in? Sounds like its re-compiling on the fly for every request or DB needs indexes.
... GAE caches all imported modules, as compiled as they can get, and then also caches handlers if coded a certain way (mine are)...
2009.06.29 21:24: @klaatu
@fractalnavel
15 of those in a request and i'm getting a warning - before even considering any other processing.
What is your GAE app writ in? Sounds like its re-compiling on the fly for every request or DB needs indexes.
... they note that db puts take about 5x(?) the resources of gets. i'm writing to an unindexed field, btw. all very simple.
2009.06.29 21:25: @klaatu
@fractalnavel
15 of those in a request and i'm getting a warning - before even considering any other processing.
What is your GAE app writ in? Sounds like its re-compiling on the fly for every request or DB needs indexes.
given the relative disuse of the app, i know it gets booted from their cache. that's the problem the ping cron attempts to solve
2009.06.29 21:26: @klaatu
@fractalnavel
15 of those in a request and i'm getting a warning - before even considering any other processing.
What is your GAE app writ in? Sounds like its re-compiling on the fly for every request or DB needs indexes.
... but it still doesn't address the underlying inefficiencies of their datastore api. even their memcache has noticeable overhead
2009.06.29 21:27: @klaatu
@fractalnavel
15 of those in a request and i'm getting a warning - before even considering any other processing.
What is your GAE app writ in? Sounds like its re-compiling on the fly for every request or DB needs indexes.
of course, those are just the numbers it reports to me, as usage. y'know, boost me towards the "need to pay" zone.
2009.06.29 21:31: annoyance: y'know how your browser stores recent url's you've typed ? it strips trailing /'s. well, at telligent.com, it needs those
2009.06.29 21:35: @craigg75
sometimes a military coup/fascist revolution/leftist socialism are just steps along the way to more perfect union.. observe and learn..
well, we can't have any of that here, now can we? what will the people think? gotta stamp out this nonsense before it spreads
2009.06.29 21:35: "... oh iiii'm a revolutionary, and i'm o - k ..."
2009.06.29 21:36: "... i burn all night and i drink all day ..."
2009.06.29 21:36: "... i wear high heels, frilly dresses and a braaaaa..."
2009.06.29 21:36: "... i wanna be just like lenin..."
2009.06.29 21:37: great, @klaatu's quoting shakespeare, while i'm mangling monty python.
2009.06.29 21:38: "... that parrot's dead, i tell you ..."
2009.06.29 21:39: oh wait - python the programming language - never mind.
2009.06.29 21:43: -communityserver- telligentcommunity news: bug breaks non-english language use, have to wait for SP release - or - "call us" - yeah, ok
2009.06.29 21:44: really, let's call it for what it is - the new product is not CS v5.0, it's TC v1.0 - much changed in market, tech, attitude, look & act
2009.06.29 21:45: @klaatu
RT @LittleMonsta Map of connectedness: http://tinyurl.com/dl2hhn the world is getting smaller and smaller but the new borders are firewalls
i wanna be on the outside
2009.06.29 21:46: yeah, i'm off the coding jag. got the lawn cut, first time in weeks. laundry ? what's that ? so now i'm here to harass you
2009.06.29 21:48: tell ya what, though: i bet the forums are even less pleased
2009.06.29 21:51: GAE: nothing in their quota api besids "check the current request's cpu use". what i need is some way of pulling info so i can alert users
2009.06.29 21:52: cvrap - there's a shakespeare bot. (what's the head slap / face palm icon ?)
2009.06.29 22:29: @afscrome
@fractalnavel
telligent has pulled down the old communityserver downloads page. late last week they were still up. now it's "call support". wtf ?
What downloads do you want. DM me or send me a conversation on the community and I'll hook you up with them.
thanks for the offer, but i was merely commenting on events.
2009.06.29 22:56: @klaatu
@fractalnavel
@craigg75
the fox is here to stay
fuck it. i'm going back to mosaic. if i can find a copy. shit, i saw a hit from netscape on my analytics. one lone hit. wtf?!
Old browser archive http://browsers.evolt.org/ Mosaic, Nyetscraper, be my guest.
and i was going to dig it up off of a floppy disk i have hanging around here...
2009.06.29 23:01: yup, that's it then: i am going to start browsing using the copy of mosaic i have on a floppy disk - somewhere - it's a mac version from '94
2009.06.29 23:02: this will be a bit like "the god's must be crazy" & the coke bottle
2009.06.29 23:02: poor little borwser won't know what to make of the monster we have created. "oooh, noooo - put me back in my booox !"
2009.06.29 23:03: yes, in the early 90s, they were known as "borwsers", before we knew better
2009.06.29 23:07: scary part is that i could locate said floppy disk in a couple of minutes. yeah, sometimes there are benefits to not cleaning - ever
2009.06.29 23:08: hmm - two disks - one is labeled "mosaic netscape 0.9" - wtf?
2009.06.29 23:11: now, floppy drive... how to read mac...surely that's easy now ... nope, ol' winnie thinks they're not formatted.
2009.06.29 23:11: eh, i'd have to find an old mac emulator to go with them anyway
2009.06.29 23:13: ...but i've got an earlier version of teh mac mosaic than what evolt.com has http://browsers.evolt.org/?mosaic-ncsa/mac
2009.06.29 23:29: oh gak - i've been down this path before - need mac emulator - which needs mac rom image ... forget it. sorry, floppies - back into the box!
2009.06.29 23:43: "The new horizontal rule tag <HR> has been implemented."
2009.06.29 23:43: yay!
2009.06.29 23:51: ok, mosaic for win 1.0 running - wonder what it looks like to fiddler
2009.06.29 23:53: looks like - nothin' - mosaic uses winsock in a wow, fiddler assumes wininet
2009.06.29 23:58: geez - that thing's not happy with the web of today at all... gpf's ? ahh, memories. no forms support either. need a later version
2009.06.30 00:28: seen on GAE forum: "if you run out of apps, ask nicely and we'll hand out more. ;)" (a google guy) - note: current limit is 10 apps / user
2009.06.30 01:49: GAE ping cron - keeping app instances alive ? OR - is it forcing spin-up of new ones ? which could aggravate things. ...
2009.06.30 01:50: ... maybe i should try backing off the frequency a bit, see what happens
2009.06.30 03:06: RT @klaatu OLPC operating system free on a stick http://tinyurl.com/n7jpmm ::: that, i can use

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a day in a life 2009.06.28

fractalnavel — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:30:12 GMT

via @fractalnavel: in the last 24 hours:

2009.06.28 06:14: from backreaction: "Constraining Modified Dispersion Relations with Gamma Ray Bursts" http://u.nu/49cf - as in, quantum gravity effects
2009.06.28 06:18: completely speculative: sub~~/super~~luminal effects follow a standard logistics curve in concept, reaching a chaotic point with increasing E?
2009.06.28 06:19: and of course, the super-luminal realm is un-physical.
2009.06.28 06:23: yeah, that's zoomy thinking. in other news, made the trek for white castles around 1am. this little piggy went to the market ...
2009.06.28 13:18: @klaatu
@fractalnavel "Constraining Modified Dispersion Relations with Gamma Ray Bursts" Think I had that once, took some kaopectate & felt better.
lol - what was i thinking ?
2009.06.28 13:21: global warming really is a self-limiting thing; there's only so much carbon available to pump into the air
2009.06.28 13:22: fuel: more an issue of portability & delivery; it's all out there. we should be mining the atmosphere
2009.06.28 13:23: issue: energy to "package" it all. solution: nuclear. solar is a tough one to crack.
2009.06.28 13:25: need: nuclear distilleries ; pull carbon - and other ? - compounds out of the air, reconstruct fuels.
2009.06.28 13:25: hey, plants do it all the time.
2009.06.28 13:27: maybe not exactly like that, but things along those lines.
2009.06.28 13:28: other news: white castle, corrupting history one burger box at a time. on the bottom of a leftover from last night staring me in the face:
2009.06.28 13:30: "washington crossed the delaware, not in a boat, but on an enormous block of cheese. (be sure to mention that on your next history test.)"
2009.06.28 14:09: nuclear carbon distilleries: issue: they would compete with plants for co2. etc. we really are monkeying around with terraforming here
2009.06.28 14:13: @klaatu
Cruise Somali waters looking for pirates to shoot with your guns (or shipboard rentals) http://is.gd/1gZF8
21st century safaris, eh ? beats the crap out of shooting "innocent" animals
2009.06.28 14:15: wonder when we'll hear of the first coprorate CBOs: "chief biosphere officer". i think i've heard of analogs for this already, just crs.
2009.06.28 15:07: optimizing code today. 50-50 chance i'll make it worse ;-)
2009.06.29 01:24: i think i've had enough coding for now.
2009.06.29 01:25: that's nearly what every waking hour has been for a few weeks.
2009.06.29 01:25: why ? i dunno. why do i do anything ? my motivations have always been unclear to me.
2009.06.29 01:26: best guess: it's one long series of attempted escapes. from what ? the last attempt, of course.

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a day in a life 2009.06.27

fractalnavel — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:30:08 GMT

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2009.06.28 04:16: RT @swadeshine Great collection of links re: IChing & the fractal fabric of time: http://bit.ly/pEVFy

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