Archive for September, 2003

Democrat of Steel

Posted by brownpau on September 24, 2003. No comments.

Defectiveyeti has a great suggestion for Wesley Clark’s presidential campaign.

Milwaukee Cat House

Posted by brownpau on September 24, 2003. No comments.

Hard as it may be to believe, there is such a thing as having too many cats.

Bargain

Posted by brownpau on September 23, 2003. No comments.

Heh. Religion books at bargain prices, B&N, Arlington, VA. Photo taken with a Palm Zire 71.

Badger badger badger

Posted by brownpau on September 23, 2003. 6 comments.

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parse_url()

Posted by brownpau on September 23, 2003. No comments.

For later reference: parse_url() – pass it a URL string, and it returns an associative array of URL components. Useful for extracting host names without having to resort to regex.

OS X 10.2.8

Posted by brownpau on September 23, 2003. 4 comments.

Mac OS X 10.2.8 update is out, but be careful. Remember how 10.2.4 broke Apache? That was because the software updater added some aspect of Rendevous support to Apache by boorishly overwriting rather than appending httpd.conf, thereby deleting any VirtualHosts and other custom configurations. (Fortunately the updater did make a backup, from which one could [...]

It’s not my fault

Posted by brownpau on September 22, 2003. 11 comments.

Yes, I’m well aware of how awful this site looks in IE/Windows, and I’m working on it, though I shouldn’t have to. If you want CSS to render properly, perhaps you should G.A.R.B. (Get A Real Browser.)

Sunday Concert Series

Posted by brownpau on September 22, 2003. No comments.

Free chamber music at the National Art Gallery, which, I’m happy to say, is just a few blocks from where I live. I know where I’ll be spending Sunday evenings next month.

To Do, To Do

Posted by brownpau on September 21, 2003. One comment.

Church, choir practice, lunch, dishwashing, drying and folding of laundry, payment of bills, and suddenly it’s 6pm. Where does the weekend go?

Not yet

Posted by brownpau on September 20, 2003. 5 comments.

Nope, nope, the page is not all ready yet, but I’m taking a break from all this coding and uploading to head for Baltimore, to join Amy and check if the cancelled(?) Baltimore Book Festival may actually still be on in some reduced form. I also need to check in on my old landlord in [...]