2009 Jul 19, 4:00
Inspired by one of Penn's (of Penn & Teller) articles in which he mentions he has his computer tell him
what he wrote in his journal that day the previous year, I've wanted to implement a similar thing with my blog. Now that, as I mentioned previously, I've updated my blog such that its much easier to implement search and such,
I've added date range filtering to my site's search. So now I can easily see what on Delicious and my blog I was doing last
year.
I've also otherwise updated search on this site. You can now quote terms to match an entire string, stick 'tag:' in front of a term to only match that term against tags as opposed to the title and
body of the entry as well, and you can stick '-' in front of a term to indicate that it must not be found in the entry.
blog search homepage 2009 Jul 19, 11:44
I've redone my blog's layout to remind myself how terrible CSS is -- err I mean to play
with the more advanced features of CSS 2.1 which are all now available in IE8. As part of the new layout I've included my Delicious links by default but at a smaller size and I've replaced the
navigation list options with Technical, Personal and Everything as I've heard from folks that that would actually be useful. Besides the layout I've also updated the back-end, switching from my
handmade PHP+XSLT+RSS/Atom monster to a slightly less horrible PHP+DB solution. As a result everything should be much much faster including search which, incidentally, is so much easier to
implement outside of XSLT.
blog database redisgn xslt mysql homepage 2009 Jul 17, 4:36"For Windows 7, we’ve added support for Federated Search using OpenSearch v1.1 and worked to make the experience a seamless one." Explorer in Win7 supports OpenSearch descriptions (that use RSS)
opensearch search windows win7 technical 2009 Jul 16, 3:28"I was up a ladder painting when I got the call from a lady with an American accent from Apple saying she was the head of legal affairs and that they wanted to acknowledge the work that I had
done"
humor history music apple legal patent ipod ip 2009 Jul 14, 8:26"...the zombie trumps all by personifying our deepest fear: death. Zombies are our destiny writ large. Slow and steady in their approach, weak, clumsy, often absurd, the zombie relentlessly closes
in, unstoppable, intractable."
humor tv zombie horror film simon-pegg essay culture 2009 Jul 14, 4:28"Can you please let the staff use an alternative web browser called Firefox? I just – (applause) – I just moved to the State Department from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and was
surprised that State doesn’t use this browser." Starts at 26:30 in the video.
firefox government via:boingboing video browser web clinton technical 2009 Jul 11, 2:47
On Friday Sarah and I went to the
Mariners vs Rangers game at Safeco Field with Eric and Jane. The Mariners lost but then before the game the announcement made outside the stadium guaranteed the best service and a good time, not a
winning game -- and they were right about the good time.
The night before, we saw The Hangover which was very funny and included Zach Galifianakis who was great. Incidentally, take a look at some of Zach's
Between Two Ferns.
Last weekend Sarah and I mounted the TV to the wall which was exciting and we saw a mouse in the house!
tv baseball personal mouse house 2009 Jul 10, 9:43"This goes directly to why most folks use IE6: they don't have a choice. Three out of four IE6 users on Digg said they can't upgrade due to some technical or workplace reason."
ie digg ie6 statistics web development browser technical 2009 Jul 10, 7:37"Code Rush aired nationally on PBS in March 2000. It documents the Mozilla team as they struggle to publish the first open source release of the Netscape Browser."
video mozilla browser browser-war internet opensource documentary free download web technical 2009 Jul 10, 7:31"72% of kids said they know how to find items to barter at weapon shops and how to use medicine packs to heal zombie bites"
humor video internet videogames onion parody apocalypse fallout3 zombie 2009 Jul 9, 10:53"...but the inside of his stomach is gateway to a psychadelic wonderland." Need I quote more? The whole thing made me think of a rather upbeat and trippy episode of Lain. Also, one of the repeating
noises in the soundtrack made me think I was finishing a lap in Mario Kart.
video art ad commercial anime animation louis-vuitton superflat Takashi-Murakami cute psychadelic 2009 Jul 6, 3:47Howto make your own garden including pre-made plans like the 'Plant it and Forget it' garden.
via:jen howto diy garden for:hellosarah 2009 Jul 1, 6:21"The QR code, used to store and decode small bits of data via printed symbol, received an artistic rendering by SET as part of its campaign for Marc by Marc Jacobs." I like the idea although in this
case its not very subtle or different from a regular QR code IMHO. Also, I was surprised that my phone could still read the QR code in this form.
qr qrcode marketing art internet mobile technical 2009 Jul 1, 6:06Its an RSS logo pillow: looks good! But it does not help you get to sleep by reading New York Times RSS feeds to you...
humor rss cute pillow wishlist technical 2009 Jul 1, 2:24Stats on HTTP servers and HTTP server response headers. "Current statistics are based on a sample of 84604 probed servers, gathered in the last 386 days."
http statistics server internet http-header via:mnot technical 2009 Jun 30, 5:50"Thank you for posting on Microsoft Answers Forum. If we understand your question correctly, there is no possible way that copying files or installing programs is increasing the weight of your
laptop. Also, the same with your Xbox, downloading games from the Arcade will not increase the weight of your Game Console. Just to explain a little bit more..." lolz ensue
humor microsoft msdn harddrive technical 2009 Jun 30, 4:59"Congratulations on not being devoured and purchasing the Wagglemax Zombocalypse TM Survival Kit"
humor video commercial ad apocalypse zombie horror for:hellosarah videogame 2009 Jun 29, 4:19
I've looked at my web server logs previously to see if anyone had used my Web Frotz Interpreter and until recently didn't realize that awstats (the web server log report generator) was truncating the query from my URL, so I couldn't tell that anyone was actually using
it. But after grepping the logs manually I've pulled out the URLs of visitor's text adventure sessions. If you'll recall, my Web Frotz Interpreter stores the game state in the
URL so its easy to see user's game states in the web server logs.
I've put some of the links up on the Web Frotz Interpreter page. Some of the interesting ones:
server-logs technical zork frotz pants interactive-fiction uri if 2009 Jun 29, 1:23"'You have 3 hours. You may use your class notes and Feynman.' "Feynman" of course referred the Feynman physics lecture notes which are published in three volumes. On reading these instructions one
particularly alert student grabbed his exam and ..."
humor richard-feynman physics education 2009 Jun 29, 1:20"The Music of Erich Zann is a short film based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft. Though conditions inside the abandoned Savoy Hotel made this a very challenging project (Sub-freezing temperatures;
cramped quarters; enough dust to suffocate Cthulhu himself), I was thrilled with the opportunity to work in such a haunting location, with such a talented and dedicated group of filmmakers."
chris-shelton hp-lovecraft video movie
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