Tag Archives: Technical Notes

Ok, I’m even more geeky than I ought to be. Not half an hour after getting Lynx up and running, I found another text based browser that I like better. It’s called Links.
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This is really geeky-cool. I’ve got a text-only web browser up and running on the laptop.

And yes, I have a good reason. It’s for when I’ve got a slow dial-up connection and I need to check on things.
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Of course, now that everything on the server seems to be going smoothly, our network administrators want to toss a wrench into the works.
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Just some behind-the-scenes stuff. For one thing, I upgraded the version of Movable Type to 2.62. It adds some features I might play with later. Another change that you all should never see is the update of the web-log stats software to version 5.4 from 5.3.

And finally this… I’m taking a test-drive of the full version of the RSS browsing software that I’ve used a couple of times. So far, I like the interface, but I’m not that fond of the actual editing. It improves text styling for the entry, but removes some of the finer control you get from Movable Type’s web interface. I’d like to be able to have more control of what shows up as the main body, where the extended entry begins, and what goes into the subheading ‘blurb.’

Anyway, those are my problems… So far, the full version is nice but I’m not likely to pay the $30 registration fee for ‘nice.’

Got some of my first junk comments today. They’ve already been deleted, so don’t bother looking for them. It’s not like they were advertisements or porn spam or anything… More like the on-line equivalent of grafitti.
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I’ve found some excellent tools for work recently. The best part is that they’re all either exteremely inexpensive or free.
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I’m working on improving the site logging for our web server, both for the work server and the user pages (like this one) that are hosted here… One of the things I’m enabling is the ‘referer’ log, basically tracking how people stumble across our site.
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There’s something wrong with my ISP’s modem pool. Often, it’ll take multiple attempts to get a working connection. The worst part is when one of their modems picks up and the computer sits there trying to negotiate a connection for ever.

That’s part of the reason that this post is going up at 1 in the morning…
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I’m starting to get sick of using the iTools interface for my online photo gallery…
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