May 31, 2001
A note about the "six A note about the "six bits" thing below: I'm used to thinking in terms of C-style arrays, whose index begins at offset zero. So, if I am 31 years old right now, I can contain the value corresponding to my age in an array of size 25, or 0..31. Once I turn 32, I will need an array of size 26, as 32 steps over the bounds of the array described previously. Sure, there are 32 places in an array of size 25, but I begin with zero, not with one. In order to store the value 32 in such a scheme, you need 33 places, which bumps you up to 26.
Posted by schampeo at 11:41 AM
May 26, 2001
Believe it or not, I'm Believe it or not, I'm not on hiatus. Just busy. We moved all of our clients from our old co-location provider to our new co-location provider in less than a week, with a few days last week to iron out the inevitable problems. I've been dreaming about compiling different versions of Apache. I signed a deal with Hungry Minds (formerly IDG) to write the Dynamic HTML Bible with Scott Andrew LePera and Eric Costello. I wrote an article for Web Techniques, and another (see the left column) for O'Reilly Network. I've been trying to decipher sendmail's insane configuration file in an effort to block spam. I no longer feel like a pounded turd, but I'm still pretty wiped out from the last week.
Posted by schampeo at 12:37 AM
May 22, 2001
Yesterday, I turned thirty-one. Yep, Yesterday, I turned thirty-one. Yep, one more year and I'll roll over to six bits. On the positive side, the doctor says we don't have lead poisoning. On the negative side, that doesn't leave much to explain why I've felt like a pounded turd for the past month or so. So, I'll go on the record as saying it was a combination of stress, dengue fever, allergies, and the like that made me spend my 371st month on the planet getting dizzy when I stood up.
Posted by schampeo at 02:19 AM
May 08, 2001
A year ago, I started A year ago, I started posting regularly to this weblog (and have more or less kept it up, much to my surprise). A year ago, I had just purchased a Web-enabled cell phone, which I haven't used at all as a Web-enabled cell phone, because the interface sucks. A year ago, I earned out my advance on the Dynamic HTML GUIs book, and now I'm starting on another one. A year ago, I saw Sleepy Hollow, read Code, and decided for fresh, not fried, spring rolls. The reason I make such a fuss about this now is that it is the very reason I started the weblog in the first place. I wanted to be able to refer back to something that would allow my memories to mesh with a calendar. Too much has happened over the past ten years that I'll never be able to put into order; it will remain in a state of perpetual disarray, taunting me with questions about what happened first, what influenced what, who and when. I don't know if I'll ever be able to sort of the whys and wherefores, but it'd be nice to be able to go back and say "Oh, that was just after I saw Gladiator and before I released the updated Namespace Project and at the same time that I realized I felt a lack of modern heroes. That sort of thing.
Posted by schampeo at 11:21 AM
May 02, 2001
There's a song by New There's a song by New Model Army that contains the lyric "looking for family, looking for tribe". I'm reading Cry, the Beloved Country now, and it's got me thinking about tribe, and customs, and their destruction by the rapid pace of industrial and now information-driven life.
Posted by schampeo at 01:02 PM