Well, it’s official. I can no longer count my age on one hand in binary. I’ve hit the big three-two.
It feels about the same as being thirty one.
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Monthly Archives: July 2003
Forgotten, but not gone.
Part of the overhaul of websites here at work is a huge link hunt. There’s actually a sub-contractor to a helper to an assistant to an administrator somewhere whose job is to go through the sites and find broken links and things that haven’t been updated for ages. This information gets bounced around until it’s reported to a committee, which either shrugs and says the corporate equivalent of “Oopsie!” or sends a memo off to whoever is supposed to be maintaining the site.
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Tagged Personal Blather
That’s a lot of berries
We got another batch of wine going last night. We’ve got apple, pumpkin and blood orange all going in the basement, and the blood orange is just about ready to bottle (we’ll probably do that on Sunday), so we were talking about what we might want to do for our next batch. Last Saturday someone (I forget who) had mentioned that blueberries were on sale at Kroger… So on Monday I checked and found a recipe in the Winemaker’s Companion for blueberry wine.
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Tagged Wine
Angry Furball
And this is one of the squirrels that rejected our offers of stale bagel bits. Picky little brat…
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Tagged Art
Last geek of the week
I promise this’ll be the last geek out I do this week. If I post something tomorrow it’ll be cute pictures of birds or chipmunks or something, I promise. I put things like this in here because sometimes people get here by doing Google searches for PHP stuff and I’d like to give them something to make it worth their bother…
Plus, sometimes I’m a total geek.
Anyway, I’d just like to say “Wow Cool!” to whoever decided that PHP should be able to have dynamic variables…
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Tagged Technical Notes
Geekout!
I’m in deep geekout mode at work. I have been for the past couple of days. I’ve been working since Monday on getting a more streamlined file upload script working for our work server, and yesterday I finally developed something that I’m happy with. It’s based on a heavily modified version of Zach White’s PHP Uploader Downloader… There’s probably less than a third of his original code left, but working from his code saved me a huge chunk of time.
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Tagged Technical Notes
Comment Responses!
The movable type comment system is great… The only thing I dont’ like about it is that if there’s something new, nifty and useful that crops up in the comments, it’s stuck back in the archives where people generally don’t see it. So I figured that I’d take a moment to highlight some… um… highlights from some of the most recent comments.
The first one is from Kevin Maki. Judging by his name and email address, he’s a reader from the frozen tundra of my old hometown:
Just wanted to let everyone know that Jean Kay’s pasties can be ordered at www.jeankays.com
Yes! This is awesome news… The pastie is one of the staple foods of the Yooper diet, and now they’re available online! Bwah ha ha! Go order some. They’re damn tasty.
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Tagged Personal Blather
It’s quiet… too quiet…
My boss just left for the day. He was looking flushed and when I asked if he was all right he admitted that he was feeling a little ill… In some ways it’s like I sent him home to recover. An odd feeling.
On the other hand, I feel a bit worried that I may be responsible for his illness. I thought that my weekend of intestinal distress may have been food related, but it’s possible that it was something else. Something contagious.
I hope not. It’s quiet now, but it’s going to be busy soon.
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Well, at least I know I’m not insane
Ok, here’s the deal: We need to simplify file uploads here at work, and the easiest way to do that is with a simple PHP script. I’d like to test things on a non-production server first, of course… And that’s where the problem hit. It just wasn’t working on the laptop, or the desktop machine. It would completely fail to detect a simple switch statement.
Finally I wrote a stupid little script to test really basic things. And it didn’t work on the laptop, or the desktop.
But it works on the server.
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Tagged Technical Notes