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2007

Utopia?

I believe some pretty sketchy things: I believe that the premise of strong AI is sound. I believe that artificial life is already here. I believe the premise of molecular nanotechnology is sound. I believe the premise of cryonics. I believe the premise of brain taping. Given that I believe all that (I blame years [...]

Testing pictures and Ecto’s abilities

I know my new CSS rule works but I just wanted to inform some of you of it. IE6 should see the pictures I have here now. Also I wanted to see just how sophisticated Ecto’s image editing and addition facilities are. If all goes well, I shouldn’t really have to mess with MT‘s somewhat [...]

Blog Clients for Linux Stink

I envyed envied Ecto on Macintosh and similar solutions on XP (And I guess now Vista.). I wanted a WYSIWYG blog client in Linux. I’ve tried out Drivel, gnome-blog, KBlogger and BloGTK (Which I think is the best of the cited lot.) but not one of them has a WYSIWYG editor. The closest I came [...]

Loy Krathong

First, on Thursday night, I finally prepared Odinmank’s data for incorporation into the MT setup on Xenon. It went very quickly. The only thing remains is for the Fish to tune a photo gallery plug-in (Why do people say “fine tune?” Doesn’t “tune” mean precise adjustments?) to deal with the King of Corsica’s illustrations and [...]

Xenon, Neutron and Nvu

Oh, and by the way, the previous post was the first I’ve made on our new iron. The mighty, mighty Farlopsian bubble is now being generated by some serious hardware: a Dell PowerEdge 2950, running the Red Hat distro and named Xenon. This in turn sits behind a Cisco ASA 5505, which turn sits on [...]

Working in a coal mine, going down, down–

So where have I been these last two months? I’ve been extremely busy: Building a website for a new customer. (Yes, I know the site concerns rather dull subject matter but it pays the bills.) Shipping out a lot of orders, updating their site and doing lots of technical support for my new employer. Trying [...]