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Monthly Archives: July 2004

Actually finished (well, 80%) a project

Monday, July 26, 2004

Among other interests (network security, bushido and its application to modern business, and refinery IT), I’ve been working to learn Python. It’s a clean, easy-to-learn language with some syntactic quirks but extremely quick to get results.
To apply everything I’d read, I decided to write an IRC client. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a [...]

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geek++;

Thursday, July 22, 2004

From an IM session tonight:
Me: Not much. Enjoying married life, writing an IRC client in Python to keep from going insane doing documentation at work, the usual. You?
Ernie: most people get bored and IRC; you get bored and write the client
Ernie: nice

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Karma bites my ass

Friday, July 16, 2004

My work computer died today. I spent part of the morning backing up my files, something I rarely do. When I came back from lunch, it realized that it was now redundant and had lost the will to live.
Sometimes, Fridays suck.

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Flattered, I am…

Wednesday, July 14, 2004

My appearance on Pixeldiva’s portrait week.
That was an awesome night, and a great shot to boot. Ann and Dave are in many ways responsible for Christine and I getting together. Thanks for the nod.

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Feature requests

Friday, July 2, 2004

I’ve been ruminating (there’s your SAT word for the day) on this for some time, and there are a couple of things that I’d like to see happen to blogs.

Threaded Posts/Archives
I started thinking about this when Kottke redesigned and pointed out why he was unhappy with the archive pages. Date sorting is nice for [...]

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