Archive for October, 2004

The End is Near, of Intelligent Life, Anyway

Saturday, October 23rd, 2004

A friend, who is a grad student at a major, well-respected university – names of student and school withheld, for reasons which will soon be obvious – reports that a student in a class she T.A.’s asked for a word definition during an exam. The word: “monogamy.” Shocked, my friend asked the student if he [...]

Join the Firefox Revolution!

Friday, October 15th, 2004

I did it; I ditched Internet Explorer as my primary browser. “What?”, you ask, “How can you do that? You’re a web developer!” Well, it’s simple: I use the great and free Mozilla Firefox as my primary browser, with Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Opera as backup browsers for testing.
Mozilla Firefox is Open Source, meaning the [...]

Lousy Day

Wednesday, October 6th, 2004

Today stunk. I mean, it was just plain lousy. I barely got any sleep, last night, thanks to my dog, who wouldn’t hold still and spent the whole night rolling around on my ankles and whining. I didn’t make a bit of progress with anything work-related, thanks to (a) shoddy software, (b) shoddy software, and [...]

LSAT Day

Sunday, October 3rd, 2004

I took the LSAT today (October 2). I think it went really well. I’ll find out on the 25th whether or not that’s true.
Meanwhile, one major reason I haven’t updated this often is that it has gotten unwieldy. I plan to give my site a complete overhaul, just as soon as I can finish some [...]