Wednesday October 16, 2002

Say What?
Hmm, misread Brett Morgan's latest entry. Cracking Contraceptives doesn't sound like a good idea to me. ( Oct 16 2002, 08:20:07 PM ) News Permalink
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Tuesday October 15, 2002

And a nice time was had by all...
Well, all two of us. Turns out that Jason Carreira travels to Minnesota on business regularly, so we got together for dinner. The talk ranged from family to Roller to work to Jakarta.

Hi Pippa. ( Oct 15 2002, 09:16:41 PM ) News Permalink
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Objective-C
Anthony is considering learning Objective-C (but then, he doesn't sound serious):

I am even considering taking the drastic measures of learning Objective-C and starting to program native OS X apps! I must be losing it.

You're not losing it, Anthony. Obj-C is a good language. I don't know it well, but it was my second programming language: after Perl but before Java. As you may know, Java borrows a bit from it (and Smalltalk, and ...) but not quite enough as a former coworker has complained. But then, it does show its C roots with alloc and dealloc. Hmmm, perhaps I'll get back into it, just for kicks. ( Oct 15 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Friday October 11, 2002

Gel Toothpaste, yumm

I sent an e-mail to the author of the aqua-text tutorial last night asking how to scale down my text and reduce the fuzziness. Or as Lance called it, "the gel toothpaste look." ... <snip> ... Here is the old one, and the new one.[Raible]

It still looks like gel toothpaste to me. Not that this is a bad thing, just the first thing I think of when I see the graphic. ( Oct 11 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Entertainment Permalink
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This could get fun
Grendel & Pippa (not their real names) sound like they're setting up for a real row. Perhaps this is exactly why I didn't offer to set my wife up with a blog. ( Oct 11 2002, 10:32:44 AM ) News Permalink
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Thursday October 10, 2002

Castor help offered to Jason Carreira. I once built a gui for generating mapping files, perhaps it'll be of use to you. Notice the disclaimer on this page though. I've also built up some more Castor experience working on Roller, so I'm ready to offer assistance should you want it. ( Oct 10 2002, 08:12:29 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Oh Jason, what have you done!
Ya know, I almost offered to set my wife up with a blog. She didn't seem all that interested though, and I internally questioned the advisability of doing such a thing. Well, Jason's wife has a blog now, and so now I know that I envy Jason his "nooners". ( Oct 10 2002, 01:21:57 PM ) News Permalink
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Friday October 04, 2002

A JDBC Cache, what's that? Well, it apparently caches the ResultSets of queries. Hmmm, interesting, might be some fun to play with. Combine this other sorts of caching and you might get an interesting overlap of concerns such that the real work is performed only infrequently. Of course, this might also get messy.... ( Oct 04 2002, 02:56:05 PM ) Technology Permalink
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