So over lunch today I found myself thinking about music releases and the web. It would be incredibly handy, I was thinking, if I had a general way to see when my favorite bands release new albums. Maybe when they were on tour, too. In fact, it would be really extra‐special‐awesome if they would just export the information as a nice pretty data feed ( Read more... )

So in theory work likes me to… ya know… work. Ya know, usually at least. Today, however, I’m dubbing “Connectivity Day.” Why?

• IBM corporate is switching the VPN software for (many of) its employees. This means I have to get the new VPN software installed and working on my laptop before tomorrow or else lose access.
• My cell phone reception at ( Read more... )

When spellchecking my previous post, I noticed that the LJ Spellchecker does not grok Unicode. I never noticed this before because it wasn’t until sometime in the last year that I learned how to type things like curly apostrophes and proper dashes and the like at my keyboard.

( Here's how I did it. )

I am extremely frustrated with Yahoo! Groups today. Their support of character sets other than iso-8859-1 (aka latin-1 aka extended ASCII) is bad and wrong. Apparently if someone posts to a list using any other character set (say... utf-8?), it archives the message but completely ignores the character set. Then when someone requests the message in ( Read more... )

Holy shit. I just realized that ssh has a built-in SOCKS5 proxy. Damned spiffy.

Yeah, another quiet spell. This time I've been focusing on HTTP and related protocols and technologies in preparation for the next major upgrade to sehellenes.org.

It all started when I began reading some of the W3C TAG's excellent and extensive web design and architecture documents. This crystallized some of the issues I've already been running ( Read more... )

Today's Music Menu theme? Weird.

• Sonic Youth -- Sonic Nurse
  
• Double Leopards -- Live at 5000 Strings
  
• Scout Niblett -- Sweet Heart Fever
  
• Whirlwind Heat -- Do Rabbits Wonder?
  
• Be Your Own Pet -- (self-titled)
  
• The Moldy Peaches -- (self-titled)
  

There's some pretty wacky stuff in there. If anyone out there actually finds and tastes this stuff ( Read more... )

Actually got some stuff done at work today. Amazing how they actually found some things for me to do once I told them I was leaving. Hrmph ( Read more... )

Today at work, near the end of the day, I was spending a bit of brainpower figuring out how sehellenes.org should serve up its content. The site news lives in XML files. Because of the nature of the data, it's sensible to view it a particular as raw XML Atom entries or transform it into XHTML. I may even want to add a way to transform it into RSS ( Read more... )

Yeah, when I said "No deep reflection here. That stuff happens in private," I was kinda lying, wasn't I? I do that here sometimes. But not yesterday, dammit, and not much today.

Nice birthday yesterday. Work was work but overall pretty tolerable. Home was relaxing. A little TV while cuddling with radiantbaby onna couch, then yummy stew for dinner, then a ( Read more... )