I’m picking up my new MINI, tomorrow! I spent the weekend at a cousin’s wedding, hence the gap in posts. This week should be better. In other news, I got a new Palm LifeDrive, Friday; it is one cool peice of gadgetry. Given my Palm-dependent lifestyle and the age and memory capacity of my old […]
I love free and open source software. In fact, I use open source software for database management, blogging, blog reading, web browsing, and doing dozens of other daily tasks. I love Linux, MySQL, PHP, and Firefox, in particular. Ocassionally, I even contribute some code – a script or function, usually – to the world, myself, without any licensing, whatsoever. I have a real problem with the core philosophy of the GNU project and Free Software Foundation, however, that software should not have owners and should always be “free” (in the sense that source code should always be available and users should always have the right to modify and redistribute it).
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Java Server Pages are evil, particularly when used for simple websites. I say this because a client has a 7-page site, that was developed in JSP. Why? JSP is the only language the developer knew. Of course, said developer knows nothing about installing/deploying/running JSP webapps. Geez.
This is in serious need of an update, but, yes, I am still out here. The primary reason that this is out of date is that I have been far too busy with work… gotta pay bills! I plan to unveil a new version of this blog, soon; the main thing you’ll notice is that
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So, the lesson of the night is that I need to bowl more often, if I wish to be good. I bowled three games tonight. Suffice it to say that all were below my average, which is around 143; the last game I bowled, tonight, was a 142. Darn. Meanwhile, I’m making progress, but by