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- Plus ça change / Travelogue
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moo - 09/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]
moo
you'd better believe it; this is my pre-pre-so-pre-it's-post alpha weblog. Mock at thy peril. Modified
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moo
you'd better believe it; this is my pre-pre-so-pre-it's-post alpha weblog. Mock at thy peril. Modified
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moo - 12/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]
moo
Here's where I did(n't) say something on April 12th.
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moo
Here's where I did(n't) say something on April 12th.
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moo - 13/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]
moo
you'd better believe it; this is my pre-pre-so-pre-it's-post alpha weblog. Mock at thy peril. Modified
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moo
you'd better believe it; this is my pre-pre-so-pre-it's-post alpha weblog. Mock at thy peril. Modified
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one, two - 14/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]
one, two
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one, two
Monkeyblog makes its triumphant debut! cower in fear! Slight date issues to crack but have no fear, 'twill come together. Right now. Over me.
Stupid-ass Mozilla and stupid-ass w3c won't let me do <table height=100%> any more. Grr.
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Take 2? - 16/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]
Take 2?
Hey, this might work. I'm going to use an index file with a list of all the entries. It should make it much easier to manipulate and sort them...
<gloat> It works! It's tiny and stupidly (nay, neautifully) simple. There's no faffing about with databases or worrying about what happens if you roll back over a month or if there are gaps of days/weeks between entries or anything like that. Every entry has its own file corresponding to its date e.g. this is in /diary/2002-04-16, and there is a constantly updated index of files in the same folder. I'm sitting at my matrix shell prompt and I type "d", which concatenates the current date (`date -I`) to the end of the index, touches and chmods a file of that name and then opens up my fuzzy cuddly text-editor of choice (pico) with same filename. I save and exit. Displaying the latest three entries is a piece of piss after that; I'll leave you work out how many lines it took. Faster than Blogger, that's for sure. Archives coming soon, but they should be a piece of piss too.
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Take 2?
Hey, this might work. I'm going to use an index file with a list of all the entries. It should make it much easier to manipulate and sort them...
<gloat> It works! It's tiny and stupidly (nay, neautifully) simple. There's no faffing about with databases or worrying about what happens if you roll back over a month or if there are gaps of days/weeks between entries or anything like that. Every entry has its own file corresponding to its date e.g. this is in /diary/2002-04-16, and there is a constantly updated index of files in the same folder. I'm sitting at my matrix shell prompt and I type "d", which concatenates the current date (`date -I`) to the end of the index, touches and chmods a file of that name and then opens up my fuzzy cuddly text-editor of choice (pico) with same filename. I save and exit. Displaying the latest three entries is a piece of piss after that; I'll leave you work out how many lines it took. Faster than Blogger, that's for sure. Archives coming soon, but they should be a piece of piss too.
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Tomcat - 17/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]
Tomcat
On Mondays and Tuesdays at the Terminal bar in Karlsruhe, you can get three beers and a pretzel for €5.30. My pal Ian and I celebrated his birthday there last night. I have a headache.
In other news, can anyone explain to me why my network connection at home is broken? Maybe it's something to do with my having had to restore the registry this morning...
And last, but not least, for my main man Jas, I'm just about to start on the quiz for tomorrow!
I swear to God, you start back on a blog and all of a sudden you get all conscientious and start writing pages like this...
It's incredible how quickly it happens: a nip here, a tuck there, some cellpadding, table borders and square brackets etc. and all of a sudden the page looks semi-decent and I start to care about it again. And I've just had another brainwave... Watch this space, BRB.
Individual entries, anyone? :-)
(Very simple, hopefully ersatz) weblog archive, anyone? I'm so glad I set up this page with that variable body parameter. This just gets 1337er and 1337er!
Pete thinks I'm a sad bastard. He's probably right, but at least I don't have a ponytail.
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Tomcat
On Mondays and Tuesdays at the Terminal bar in Karlsruhe, you can get three beers and a pretzel for €5.30. My pal Ian and I celebrated his birthday there last night. I have a headache.
In other news, can anyone explain to me why my network connection at home is broken? Maybe it's something to do with my having had to restore the registry this morning...
And last, but not least, for my main man Jas, I'm just about to start on the quiz for tomorrow!
I swear to God, you start back on a blog and all of a sudden you get all conscientious and start writing pages like this...
It's incredible how quickly it happens: a nip here, a tuck there, some cellpadding, table borders and square brackets etc. and all of a sudden the page looks semi-decent and I start to care about it again. And I've just had another brainwave... Watch this space, BRB.
Individual entries, anyone? :-)
(Very simple, hopefully ersatz) weblog archive, anyone? I'm so glad I set up this page with that variable body parameter. This just gets 1337er and 1337er!
Pete thinks I'm a sad bastard. He's probably right, but at least I don't have a ponytail.
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What lies beneath - 18/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]
What lies beneath
If you're feeling bored/adventurous, take a look at this entry individually, look at the source code and guess what I'm trying to do now. For the rest of you that can't be bothered, it is/will be a comments section, just like Cliph's, only uglier. Much, much uglier.
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What lies beneath
If you're feeling bored/adventurous, take a look at this entry individually, look at the source code and guess what I'm trying to do now. For the rest of you that can't be bothered, it is/will be a comments section, just like Cliph's, only uglier. Much, much uglier.
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Madhouse - 19/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]
Madhouse
I got a new key for the front door today. What happened the old one? Well it no longer works since the lock had to be changed. Why was that? The old one was destroyed just after 8 o'clock this morning after the hired muscle of one of my flatmate's, er, "creditors" drilled through it, so as to gain access to flat and aforementioned "mate". I'm not kidding.
Once he heard the drilling, Thomas rushed out and indignantly enquired as to what the hell they were doing to his front door, to which The Man With The Big Black Briefcase, as he's come to be known, responded with his own, equally indignant query as to why Mr. Nagel hadn't opened the door after they had been buzzing for 2 minutes (the last thirty seconds having been a solid finger-held-on-button cacophony).
I would have answered the door earlier but my cohabitor was standing beside it and waved me away. I have no idea how much he owes/owed The Man, but they seem to have got what they wanted as they left a few minutes later carrying a number of Thomas's possessions. A locksmith arrived an hour or so later; I have no idea who called him or who paid for the lock.
Flats in Karlsruhe are really hard to find at the moment.
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Madhouse
I got a new key for the front door today. What happened the old one? Well it no longer works since the lock had to be changed. Why was that? The old one was destroyed just after 8 o'clock this morning after the hired muscle of one of my flatmate's, er, "creditors" drilled through it, so as to gain access to flat and aforementioned "mate". I'm not kidding.
Once he heard the drilling, Thomas rushed out and indignantly enquired as to what the hell they were doing to his front door, to which The Man With The Big Black Briefcase, as he's come to be known, responded with his own, equally indignant query as to why Mr. Nagel hadn't opened the door after they had been buzzing for 2 minutes (the last thirty seconds having been a solid finger-held-on-button cacophony).
I would have answered the door earlier but my cohabitor was standing beside it and waved me away. I have no idea how much he owes/owed The Man, but they seem to have got what they wanted as they left a few minutes later carrying a number of Thomas's possessions. A locksmith arrived an hour or so later; I have no idea who called him or who paid for the lock.
Flats in Karlsruhe are really hard to find at the moment.
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Plus ça change / Travelogue - 21/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]
Plus ça change / Travelogue
This may have been the first blog-like thing I ever wrote. I never showed it to anyone at the time because I was afraid I would offend someone but it evidently really needed to be written, as evidenced by its somewhat rambling style. I have since reconciled myself to the idea of being a moody, touchy git, by the way. Don't worry, though: only my best friends see my really bad side.
So, this afternoon Anja and I decided to explore a branch of the extensive KVV network. We opted for the S5 route because a) it stops almost right outside my flat and b) it has the added ooooh-factor of going over the Rhine, a couple of miles or so west of Karlsruhe. The S5 terminates in a wee settlement called Wörth, so we took the time to explore the environs before heading back to the big smoke. Our brief recon sortie yielded the following interesting factoids:
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Plus ça change / Travelogue
This may have been the first blog-like thing I ever wrote. I never showed it to anyone at the time because I was afraid I would offend someone but it evidently really needed to be written, as evidenced by its somewhat rambling style. I have since reconciled myself to the idea of being a moody, touchy git, by the way. Don't worry, though: only my best friends see my really bad side.
So, this afternoon Anja and I decided to explore a branch of the extensive KVV network. We opted for the S5 route because a) it stops almost right outside my flat and b) it has the added ooooh-factor of going over the Rhine, a couple of miles or so west of Karlsruhe. The S5 terminates in a wee settlement called Wörth, so we took the time to explore the environs before heading back to the big smoke. Our brief recon sortie yielded the following interesting factoids:
- Wörth seems to consist of endless little pedestrian footpaths leading into and through a multitude of residential housing "schemes".
- Dotted with alarming regularity along these thoroughfares are assorted playground apparatus; swings, roundabouts, see-saws etc.
- The see-saw was crap. Or maybe our grossly disparate weights had something to do with it.
- The giant hamster-wheel is fucking dangerous.
- The only place in the town that is open on a Sunday does some damn nice Stracciatella and a self-explanatoriarililly roaring trade.
- That kid who was wearing the dazzling silver shirt and tie needs to be thrown in the Rhine.
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Obligatory hey copy/paste - 22/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]
Obligatory hey copy/paste
Message from jas on Mon Apr 22 11:04:06 2002
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| god you were a self obsessed loser back in 99 |
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Obligatory hey copy/paste
Message from jas on Mon Apr 22 11:04:06 2002
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| god you were a self obsessed loser back in 99 |
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Return of the Mack - 23/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]
Return of the Mack
The boy McCoy has returned from a less-than-brief trip to the old sod. He brought Dairy Milk chocolate! And I can finally borrow his copy of Ice Age! No, wait, I can't! My computer's fucked! Again!
A curtailed defrag on Sunday evening led to general non-bootingness on Monday morning. Much sniffing around today with diagnostic thingies etc established that (wait for it) the hard drive had indeed gone a tad pear-shaped, so we boot into DOS and run Scandisk, which has the effect of removing offending cross-linked clusters. Unfortunately, files residing in said clusters turn out to have been some rather valuable Windows system files. So, in short, the HD is now okay but Windows needs to be reinstalled. Since all I got from MS was a stupid-ass recovery CD (which re-installs the OS and helpfully wipes all your other data), I may just be giving Redmond the finger and opting for a real Win98 CD.
Every day, my heart moves a little bit closer to Linux. Soon as it can play DivX and .mov files, it'll be rm -rf /mnt/win/windows/*...
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Return of the Mack
The boy McCoy has returned from a less-than-brief trip to the old sod. He brought Dairy Milk chocolate! And I can finally borrow his copy of Ice Age! No, wait, I can't! My computer's fucked! Again!
A curtailed defrag on Sunday evening led to general non-bootingness on Monday morning. Much sniffing around today with diagnostic thingies etc established that (wait for it) the hard drive had indeed gone a tad pear-shaped, so we boot into DOS and run Scandisk, which has the effect of removing offending cross-linked clusters. Unfortunately, files residing in said clusters turn out to have been some rather valuable Windows system files. So, in short, the HD is now okay but Windows needs to be reinstalled. Since all I got from MS was a stupid-ass recovery CD (which re-installs the OS and helpfully wipes all your other data), I may just be giving Redmond the finger and opting for a real Win98 CD.
Every day, my heart moves a little bit closer to Linux. Soon as it can play DivX and .mov files, it'll be rm -rf /mnt/win/windows/*...
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You what?! - 24/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]
You what?!
You know what's cool? Rechnerunterstützte kooperative Produktentwicklung auf der Basis verteilter Anforderungen. That's computer-supported cooperative product development on the basis of shared requirements, a batter burger an' a can o' coke when yer ready there, boss.
Noviplan: it's what's for dinner!
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You what?!
You know what's cool? Rechnerunterstützte kooperative Produktentwicklung auf der Basis verteilter Anforderungen. That's computer-supported cooperative product development on the basis of shared requirements, a batter burger an' a can o' coke when yer ready there, boss.
Noviplan: it's what's for dinner!
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Ha - 27/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]
Ha
For reasons that escape me, my internet connection decided to start working under Linux on my own machine today. Might just hold off on that whole Windows thing for another while; I mean, there's no rush...
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Ha
For reasons that escape me, my internet connection decided to start working under Linux on my own machine today. Might just hold off on that whole Windows thing for another while; I mean, there's no rush...
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Tech Support - 29/04/2002 - 03:00 GMT - [Link]
Tech Support
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Tech Support
Message from cliph on matrix (pts/76) [ Mon Apr 29 17:25:43] ... -===== Zen is neZ spelt backwards =====- | Just kill yourself now. | | It's better that way for both of us. | -======================================-
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I'm Dave Whyte, an Irish CS graduate, German speaker, linguist and incredibly talented web developer. I'm originally from Fermoy but I now live in Newbridge with my wife Beth and our son. I'm currently working for these fine folks and enjoying it greatly.
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