Monthly Archive for April, 2005

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Fat-kins Diet

I’ve been on a high-​protein diet for about 6 months, and I’ve dropped about 22 pounds since, and I feel much health­ier, etc.

Still, this Neu­rot­i­cally Yours flash ani­ma­tion makes me laugh: Fat-​kins Diet

links for 2005-04-26

Reboot


Well, it’s been a _long_ time since I’ve done a major over­haul of this site’s design… Though this site has looked very much the same for more than 2 years now, a lot has changed “under the hood”. I’ve con­verted it from a tables-​based layout, to a tran­si­tional CSS layout, keep­ing the design mostly intact. I even got close to validation.

But, Nedward.org is long over­due for a _visual_ update — so, I have taken a chance, and thrown my hat into both the May 1st Reboot and CSS Reboot. The design is ready to go, after almost a year of start-and-stop work… but, I have no idea if I can have it live by Friday morn­ing. ::fin­gers crossed::

Are you redesigning?

*** May 1st Reboot sug­gests shut­ting down sites today, April 25th, to man­u­fac­ture some dra­matic effect… How­ever, I’m not com­fort­able doing this, so I’ll keep this up, at least until I start upload­ing the new site.

Poor Man’s TiVo: BitTorrent & RSS

I know a lot of you cats have TiVo, but I thought I’d share my favorite method of down­load­ing our favorite TV shows, sans TiVo…

Bit­Tor­rent is awe­some, as every­one knows… but, I hate having to con­tin­u­ously scan the tracker sites for the shows I want, and then, I hate wait­ing for them to down­load. Wouldn’t it be great if you could tell your Bit­Tor­rent client what shows you want, and it would down­load them automatically?

Why, yes. That is the point of my post.

By using the java client Azureus, in com­bi­na­tion with its RSS plugin, you can. I’ve been using this for a couple of months, and I couldn’t be happier… espe­cially when trav­el­ing. When we flew to Buf­falo last month, I quickly grabbed a couple episodes of the Simp­sons and Viva La Bam. Instant air­port entertainment.

The details are avail­able in this post: How to never miss an episode with Bit­Tor­rent and RSS.

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Spring Scoots

“this looks dirty”, posted by nedward

I’m start­ing to wonder about Jason’s sanity, but we broke the Lam­bret­tas out of the base­ment last sunday. My P-200 is still put away, though, until I can figure out the electrics.

links for 2005-04-15

Site Outage

Apologies for the site outage the past 12 hours… Here is the expla­na­tion pro­vided by my host­ing com­pany, site5.com:

It appears that the per­mis­sions to your web direc­tory were mod­i­fied and no longer gave per­mis­sion to apache to enter the direc­tory. I’ve changed the per­mis­sions and your site is back up now.

I love how host­ing com­pa­nies insist that their servers have a 99.9999% uptime… but little f*ck-ups like this don’t count, since only my site was affected, and the server was “up”.

Time to email the billing department…

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