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PISA REVISION 100
Posted at 11:17 pm on 3/10/2007.
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As you may or may not know, I have been sporadically working on a Ruby on Rails application called PISA, a personal finance tool. For a while I collaborated actively with  Brian Guthrie until his school work consumed him. Tonight I have officially committed the one hundredth revision of the code into Subversion. For those of you who don't know what that means, allow me to translate into layman's terms: I am a huge dork. Let us all rejoice. | ||
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The Man from Shapwick
Posted at 10:52 pm on 10/10/2006.
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The rain was falling hard; so hard that wiping the drops from his gold-rimmed glasses was a futile effort for Ebenezer, plodding across the cobblestone in the pitch of night. The harvest moon cast an eerie glow across the wetness, glimmering and sparkling off of each drop that struck the stone beneath his feet. The sound of the falling water was almost deafening, but also soothing in a way; it helped him to forget why he was out there, why he had to leave in such a hurry, and that he might not be back in front of his hearth for quite some time. Pulling the rain-soaked woolen coat closer to his breast and the collar tighter around his neck he looked about him to be sure he wasn't being followed. As logical a man as Ebenezer was, he could still be taken by fits of paranoia from time to time. He stopped momentarily under the slate awning of a haberdashery to comb some of the water from his thin, white hair with one hand. His tired sigh was painted onto the chilling night air like a summer cloud, a wanderer from another season, as lost as Ebenezer felt under the storefront awning. It floated for a second and was gone. She will still be waiting, the words coarsed silently through his mind and gave him a momentary strength. Setting out once more into the maelstrom, a look of renewed confidence upon his face, he made haste toward his destination. What fate, he wondered, might await him there? | ||
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Cackleberries
Posted at 2:07 pm on 9/26/2006.
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As seen on Usenet (alt.sysadmin.recovery): "...there is of course a theory which states that chickens are in fact somewhat evolved ambulatory plants. This theory is reinforced by various rural names for eggs, which include 'hen-fruit' and 'cackleberries'." This only serves to perpetuate my habit of eating the delicious creatures—often, as last evening, in the form of seasoned patties. Admittedly, it seems an affront to refined sensibilities, not to mention nature itself, to employ what must be startling machinations in transforming a dump truck full of lackadaisical hens and roosters into a much smaller truck full of frozen, Frisbee-shaped comestibles engorged with spices. Still, if one can see beyond those jarring means to stomach such a concoction, a pleasantly delicious reward awaits. Or, if you are me, two such rewards, enjoyed consecutively. | ||
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Napoleon Had the Downs
Posted at 1:30 pm on 9/14/2006.
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A society without religion is like a vessel without compass. —NapoleonCompasses are for the weak, anyway. Now we have GPS and radar and sonar and things you can't even imagine. Having religion is like trying to drive from New York City to Los Angeles with a map that keeps telling you you're not good enough, but at the same time says "Don't worry, you'll get there," even though it has no roads drawn on it. | ||
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The Juvenile Sea Squirt
Posted at 9:17 am on 9/8/2006.
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A cute tidbit.The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain any more so it eats it. It's rather like getting tenure. | ||
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Site news:
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AutoFormat and Restructuring
10/8/2003 7:33 am
10/8/2003 7:33 am
I'm making a few changes to the site. First, I've altered the layout of the front page to be more like a "blog" or more like someone's LiveJournal page, where actual entries will appear, rather than a list. I'm only including the first 100 words of each entry, though, so you can potentially display quite a few excerpts without getting bogged down (and without destroying my web server).
AutoFormat now allows you to post entries using bold, italics, underlines, links, bulletted lists, and numbered lists without a single tag of markup. Soon there will be a FAQ just like the airCode FAQ to describe how to use it, but for now just realize that it's there, so choose airCode from the Formatting drop-down box if you want to use bold and italics the way you used to.
Site news will soon move to a different page and be blessed with the capability to annoy you on the front page if you haven't seen some of it. This is a feature that will probably take a bit of time to implement, so be patient.
AutoFormat now allows you to post entries using bold, italics, underlines, links, bulletted lists, and numbered lists without a single tag of markup. Soon there will be a FAQ just like the airCode FAQ to describe how to use it, but for now just realize that it's there, so choose airCode from the Formatting drop-down box if you want to use bold and italics the way you used to.
Site news will soon move to a different page and be blessed with the capability to annoy you on the front page if you haven't seen some of it. This is a feature that will probably take a bit of time to implement, so be patient.
Backend update.
2/26/2003 10:52 am
2/26/2003 10:52 am
I realize that practically none of you actually use the Journal backend, or perhaps you didn't realize there is one, but I have made changes to it and I thought you should know.
The airJournal backend allows the syndication of journal entries posted here across multiple platforms and deployments using the Netscape RSS format (XML). You can view it here.
Anyway, I added the number of comments in parentheses before each entry title, and now there is an additional interactive feature. If you are an airJournal member, you can customize the RSS to report how many comments on each entry are new to you, simply add ?user=your_user_name to the end of the URL so it looks like this:
http://www.airjournal.org/backend.php?user=your_user_name
Replacing your_user_name with your actual username, of course. If you want to know how this backend system can help you, or you want to know what it is, just ask me and I'll be glad to explain it.
The airJournal backend allows the syndication of journal entries posted here across multiple platforms and deployments using the Netscape RSS format (XML). You can view it here.
Anyway, I added the number of comments in parentheses before each entry title, and now there is an additional interactive feature. If you are an airJournal member, you can customize the RSS to report how many comments on each entry are new to you, simply add ?user=your_user_name to the end of the URL so it looks like this:
http://www.airjournal.org/backend.php?user=your_user_name
Replacing your_user_name with your actual username, of course. If you want to know how this backend system can help you, or you want to know what it is, just ask me and I'll be glad to explain it.
I'm really sorry!
12/23/2002 9:24 pm
12/23/2002 9:24 pm
I had to make another change and reset everyone's seen status. This means that all entries and comments appear "new" to you again.
But don't worry! It's for the best!
In the entry list above, you will notice that the comments column now contains two numbers. (Unless you're not logged in). The bold number is the number of comments that are new to you, and the other number is the total number of comments. An example:
4 / 10
That means that you have not seen 4 of the 10 comments on that entry! The "New" column still reflects whether you've seen the entry itself or not. But wait, there's more!
When you view the entry, you will notice a [new] marker on comments that you have not seen! It's a great way to track down that comment buried inside of complex threading. ENJOY!
But don't worry! It's for the best!
In the entry list above, you will notice that the comments column now contains two numbers. (Unless you're not logged in). The bold number is the number of comments that are new to you, and the other number is the total number of comments. An example:
4 / 10
That means that you have not seen 4 of the 10 comments on that entry! The "New" column still reflects whether you've seen the entry itself or not. But wait, there's more!
When you view the entry, you will notice a [new] marker on comments that you have not seen! It's a great way to track down that comment buried inside of complex threading. ENJOY!
Nothing is wrong.
12/22/2002 9:21 pm
12/22/2002 9:21 pm
You may notice that the journal reports that you have not viewed any of the entries, even if you have. This is not in error, I had to reset everyone's information. Now you will see a "NEW" marker on any entry that you have not read, or that has new comments that you have not seen.
Just doing my part to service the airJOURNAL community. Thank you.
Just doing my part to service the airJOURNAL community. Thank you.
New URL!
12/22/2002 2:30 pm
12/22/2002 2:30 pm
That's right, from now on you can use the sexy address http://www.airjournal.org to reach all of your airJOURNAL goodness. Just another service that I offer to my loyal and splendiferous friends!
Welcome!
12/19/2002 3:12 pm
12/19/2002 3:12 pm
I humbly welcome you to the all new airJOURNAL. Completely re-written from the ground up to make your journal experience intense and pleasurable.
Kick back, relax, and enjoy.
Kick back, relax, and enjoy.