November 2001

Installled MacOS X on our iBook this weekend. Got apache and mysql installed and running. Much adventure as I explore the new operating system.

Note to self: ImageGIF (and all related GIF functions) are not supported by pair Network’s php installation. It used to, but not anymore. It’s UNISYS’ fault. I’d burn all GIFs but it’s such a handy format.

heavy heavy sigh

Eat my eclecticism:
My rotating playlist the other day was:

He Loves U Not (Club Mix) by Dream; Crystal by New Order; God’s Child by David Byrne and Selena; Doowutchalyke by Digital Underground; Lady Marmalade (Thunderpuss Radio Mix) by Christina Aguilera, Mya, Pink, Lil’Kim, Missy Eliot; Wonderful Wino|Frank Zappa (from: The Lost Episodes); Bamboozled by Love|Frank Zappa (from: Tinseltown Rebellion).

I got a lot of work done. I think for coding, sometimes a repetitive groove works very well. I remember writing many term papers in RT School while playing They Might Be Giants “Flood” again and again.

Quote of the Day:

I have fought since the beginning of the Web for its openness: that anyone can read Web pages with any software running on any hardware. This is what makes the Web itself. This is the environment into which so many people have invested so much energy and creativity. When I see any Web site claim to be only readable using particular hardware or software, I cringe – they are pining for the bad old days when each piece of information needed a different program to access it.

– Tim Berners Lee, Inventor of the Web [via zeldman]

“We’re all those things right now that you’re not supposed to be. Our management always goes crazy, ‘cause we all tell how old we are, and we’re not ashamed of the fact that some of us are in our mid- to late-30s. The L.A. Times did an article on us, and our management almost fainted because we said our real ages. I said, ‘No, you don’t understand.’ We think we’re the real punk rock, because we think it’s punk rock to say, ‘Yeah, I am older than all of you guys, and that’s why we’re better than you. We’re older, we’re weirder and we’re far more jaded than any of you Gen X people could possibly imagine. We’re jaded ‘cause we know and remember good music.’ I think you’ve just got to admit what you are and just go with it.”

That’s how I feel!

Song of the Day:
Night of the Living Baseheads by Public Enemy

From the land of Microsoft:
Passport hacked
Microsoft Passport Protects Consumer Privacy
Heh. Idiots.

Time to get creative about dealing with popunders?
We all know about those crazy popunder ads which are more ubiquitous than ever- but Bill Rini of rini.org has some interesting thoughts on what we might do about them. I like this kind of brainstorming about a phenomenon that remains annoying as hell.

crossposted to metafilter yesterday