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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.
Anonymous, via Scripting News: “I watched the Steve Jobs show today at my local Apple dealer’s showroom. The buyer noticed three new SKUs in Distributors’ catalog without descriptions. Only pricing. We think there is more to come at CES.”
Personally, with all the hype, I was hoping for more. (Gigawire? 802.11a? OSX.2? G5? Digital Tablet?) Hopefully there’s more, because conceptually, Microsoft’s new hardware beats out the iLamp IMO. Of course, I’d be gaga over the new iMac if it say, had a teardropped base, an completely brushed aluminum or chromed finish, and decked out in pure art deco glory. As I was saying to some friends, the white plastic is played out. So 2001. (like Cameron Crowe, I like my own lines so much I need to repeat them over and over).
“Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.”
So, I took a bit more time off then I was planning to, but I had a few things to take care of, like getting some motivation, and a job, and a place to live, and an Internet connection, and a table to type from, and a system to type to. And well, I pretty much have all of that set up now. (Just spent the past hour compiling and configuring proftp [uploading w/ a /bin/false/ account of course, can’t be too careful]).
Sure, I have lots to post about (don’t worry, nothing important), but it’s late, my wrists have been acting up (hopefully nothing more serious) and I have work in the morning. (Pretty cool stuff, right now I’m working on research and analysis on QA/Analysis tools, web-based Workflow/Groupware solutions, and accessibility standards, as well as production work on some random sites, and getting started working with a fairly well thought out ASPed CMS system.
Hmm, speaking of which, the sooner I get my K/CMS up and running the more interesting this place will be… I’ve basically ended up writing the beginnings of a multi-user web-application framework, but I’m left wondering if I’d be better off taking a look at what’s already out there before going whole hog.
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