Last night’s bedtime reading was the Upton Tea catalog. Tea descriptions are so intriguing: tippy. golden, flowery … and what’s “Orange” about pekoe? Some more tea reading: Flowery, rustic, tippy, smokey Tea Education drinks – teatime Tea Glorious Tea
May 302005
May 302005
Big Perl weekend. Still trying to wrap my mind around LIST contexts, and feeling pretty stupid. I re-wrote my shell script in Perl and added hooks to put in some pcli (if I ever figure that stupid thing out) and for the database interface, rather than trying to drag files over to a Windows machine. [...]
May 272005
The first coat of color is up in the living room, and my color-shy Beloved has proclaimed it too dark. Since he’s put up with screaming yellow and orange for several years, I figured the least I could do was magnanimously agree to replace New Born’s Eyes (Benjamin Moore 1663) with Heaven on Earth (Benjamin [...]
May 272005
I just had my first totally fun day at work in months. Why? Most people were on vacation, I did absolutely no managing, instead I spent the day cobbling together a MySQL/PHP/shell script application to automate validation of our integration tests (which almost works). The trouble with programming is that it is a deep and [...]
May 242005
A really useful guide: Install & Configure Apache with PHP, JSP, MySQL, and PHPMyAdmin on Windows 2000/XP.
May 242005
There may be a new car in my future. I’ve got a four door sedan that I’m perfectly happy with, except that every summer either the airconditioning or the cooling system blows up. I feel like some kind of ecoterrorist; four years in a row I’ve lost all my freon due to air conditioning leaks. [...]
May 232005
Some recent (or not so recent) posts that I think are worth reading: Kim Allen on the topological human LaurieLou on why people keep asking what happened Mark Siegel on the equality of women
May 232005
I updated Opera to 8.0. Some changes for the better, some not. Blogspot blogs now correctly display both columns (in 7.x, the content appeared on top, the navigation column appeared below). Google Groups don’t work, though. I don’t think it’s a function of the Opera upgrade, they didn’t work in Opera 7.x either. For a [...]
May 212005
From Eldest Son: After reading the Dialogues of Plato, Monty Python is much funnier. From Youngest Son, on being asked if he wanted to come to my (secular) choir concert: I would come if you people didn’t sing about God so much.
May 212005
I went to work in the morning. I got home about 2 pm and took a nap. Unfortunately we’re having a sudden hot snap – two weeks ago it was snowing, yesterday it was 95 degF, and nobody’s ready for it. My bedroom is the hottest room in the house, and when I woke up [...]
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