Archive: May 2005
Tea
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
Programming
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.
It’s [...]
Color
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 [...]
(Full Post)Fun
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 narrow [...]
Installing Apache and friends
A really useful guide: Install & Configure Apache with PHP, JSP, MySQL, and PHPMyAdmin on Windows 2000/XP.
(Full Post)Ashamed
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. I [...]
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