Oh my Goodness. I now understand why people prefer pen and paper. I just wrote a huge tract on the Separation of Church and state, how crappy WorldNetDaily is, and I just lost it all by clicking close on the wrong window. My CMS is definitely going to have an autosave function. And a confirmation popup on-close when there’s unsaved text in the entry area.

I cannot believe what I just did. I am practically in a state of shock. I had literally been typing for… more than an hour on this (w/ my wrist splints and Vioxx). I am a moron – and from now on I type my blogger posts in UltraEdit.

Anyway, read this thread, extrapolate what I would have said. Because all my comments relating to the actual topic at hand on the Seperation of Church and State were ignored, I’m no longer going to reply, obviously it’s a lost cause having intelligent political discussions with some people. Life’s too short.

NewsForge has a review of OEone’s new AIO Internet Computer. It’s a bit pricy, but the software is pretty slick – it consists of an online portal framework/components and then the entire desktop side is actually built on top of Mozilla. There’s a cheezy flash demo that runs through its features.

I’ve done a number of tweaks to make this page slightly less problematic. I abandoned the whole absolute positioning from the right idea. It just doesn’t work. I tweaked the min-width and max-widths. Also, I’ve fixed the IE alpha filter problem; apparently, it had trouble w/ transparency on a nested element within the absoutely positioned container. It seems to work now.

oh yeah, *yawn*: B9 d++ t++ k s u f i o+ x e+ l- c-

I can’t even think of anything snarky to say (actually I could, and I have, but in this case it just doesn’t fit,) because this is totally messed up.

As far as I can tell, the worst thing about it is that there are no witnesses that came forward yet and no one who stepped in to stop what seems like a pretty one-sided beating (resisting urge to comment on engineers getting beat up). Sure it’s shady that the annoying people weren’t removed from the theater when they started causing trouble earlier in the screening, but that’s pretty much the expected service level at most movie theaters. One thing that piqued my interest, “[the parents] had arrived late for the showing on Saturday night and began drinking cans of lager.” Either movie theatres (w00t! British spellling) in the UK are just way cooler than in the US, or the place was a frickin’ dive. I’m tending to think towards the latter.

(look up Social Psychology junk, groups helping people, tangential: response to authority, etc.)

I’m using these wacky wrist splints that I’m wearing until I get checked up by a specialist.

It seems to be tendonitis (I have soreness and inflammation, but besides tingling once or twice, my carpal box seems to be unaffected, ie, my grip strength and sensitivity seems to be ok) – I had a minor case of tendonitis 4 years ago – this time it’s worse, so I’m going to be taking it easy until I get this looked at by the specialist.

Now this is interesting. due to some network funkiness, pings to Yahoo were taking up to over 30 seconds. Yowza.

PING www.yahoo.akadns.net (216.115.102.77): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 216.115.102.77: icmp_seq=60 ttl=243 time=24310.9 ms

64 bytes from 216.115.102.77: icmp_seq=53 ttl=243 time=31329.2 ms

64 bytes from 216.115.102.77: icmp_seq=78 ttl=243 time=6011.04 ms

64 bytes from 216.115.102.77: icmp_seq=68 ttl=243 time=16207.8 ms

64 bytes from 216.115.102.77: icmp_seq=55 ttl=243 time=29377.5 ms

64 bytes from 216.115.102.77: icmp_seq=72 ttl=243 time=12239 ms

How about SXSW, New for 2002: extra retardedness.

Due to increased security measures in effect for SXSW 2002, every

registrant’s badge will

include their photo. You can have this photo made when you arrive in

Austin for SXSW

Registration, or you can submit a passport photo (2″x2″ or 5cmx5cm)

before March 1 (to

avoid the dreaded “drivers license photo” syndrome).

This must be a recognizable, full-face photo — no joke photos or baby

pictures, please.

…

If you have any questions email: reg@sxsw.com. Or phone: 512-467-7979.

Here’s my question… What’s this supposed to do, stop all those web-developing Al Qaeda terrorists? Or is this all just a convenient excuse, like the Patriot Act? Lawrence Lessig is speaking, maybe he’ll have an opinion.

I’ve been tailing my logs a bit since I’m trying to keep track of browser usage w/o any log anaylsis software set up yet. As an aside; I’ve yet to test this new in-between design (it all validates though) with Netscape 4.x, but I probably should, especially since I’m getting some hits from some Sun boxen running nutscrape (I can’t comment on how Mozilla runs on Solaris, but it can’t be worse than NS 4.x, can it? Well, maybe. I can’t use Mozilla on OSX because the 0.9.7 milestone build always crashes at the most inopportune time). Anyway, if there are major problems, I may just do some server-side browser-sniffing to not include the CSS. It’s all rather moot right now, of course [re: yesterday]

Back to my original story… I saw a referer from blogdex – looking for kottke of course, yeah, so I took a peek at my blogdex entry (of course I’m there, I’m old skool).

blogdex has certainly come a long way from it’s early days. I noticed, that it uses ASP though. A quick lynx -head http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/ shows that yay verily, it is running IIS:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0

Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 19:10:57 GMT

Connection: Keep-Alive

Content-Length: 19890

Content-Type: text/html

Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQQGGGXCQ=IDHLEGBAHGAHLBHGAEGGDAKK; path=/

Cache-control: private

BAD MIT MEDIA LAB. BAD, BAD, BAD MIT MEDIA LAB.

MIT Computing Services apparently supports Solaris, IRIX, BSD, and LINUX. Well, I guess NT/IIS just has too many “remote management features” for *NIX to compete with. Why, news ones come out practically every week.

Random pre-bedtime observation: Blogger wasn’t the only one getting hit hard yesterday. cwis was running with a load above 60 yesterday.

The load on my machine sits right about 0.00 currently – not that there’s anything wrong with that. Or with currently having more spiders and robots crawling around than real live people.

Exercises may prevent carpal tunnel syndrome