ok, maybe it's just because i'll always have a little of the adolescent geek who spent far too much reading comic books and playing role playing games in me, but i thought birds of prey was damn cool.
and it's not because it has beautiful women dressing in tight clothing and running around gotham city beating people up.
well, it's not just because of that...
i just moved this blog from my account at pair.net (which hosts http://electricjellyfish.net/, and will likely continue to do so, if only because i prefer to pay someone else to handle my email, to avoid the chaos that would inevitably occur if i did it myself) to my server (which hosts http://quicksort.net/).
i didn't have any real problem with pair, but i like having more control over my environment, so here we are. plus, i've been having some problems with my MT install at the pair account, and it's hard to debug without access to the error logs.
anyway, redirect any bookmarks or whatever that you might have had pointed to the previous site, and let me know if anything's wrong with the site.
does anyone else wish that when you close a tab in a browser (either mozilla or phoenix or chimera or whatever other tabbed browser you use), it would dump you back into the tab you were last browsing in before the one you closed? all the ones i've tried have always left me viewing either the furthest left or furthest right tab.
am i the only one who's annoyed by this? or am i just nuts?
so i don't like MySQL, but it's better than flat DB Files, at least that's what i'm telling myself...
if this post shows up, then i guess that means this upgrade really did work ;-)
someone pointed me to a ssh-agent front end for os x, so i can finally stop typing my password all the time on my laptop.
it has a couple of ugly hacks with symlinks and environment variables to make it work, but i don't care, it does the job, and the blowfish icon in my dock is great!
so if anyone out there (there are one or two of you) actually remembers my apartment's phone number enough to use it, you'll have to start using the cell as of tomorrow. i finally got around to calling and canceling the service, since i almost never use it.
by popular demand, i now have a link to this site's xml feed on the front page of this blog.
of course, if more people used rss syndicators that supported auto-discovery (like say NetNewsWire), then this would be less of a problem ;-)
so i started playing around with darwinports. it's pretty neat so far. a little raw, still lacking a fair amount of functionality and a lot of documentation, but it works well enough that random programmer types (like me for instance) can play with it.
i put together ports for expat and neon, which haven't gone in yet, and chef, which has (since jkh has a sense of humor). hopefully i'll get subversion going soon, although it'll have to be a network only build for now, since dp has version 4.1 of berkeley db, and we don't support that yet...
unfotunately, the opendarwin.org site seems to have fallen off the net for some reason, so my progress has stalled a bit...
why is it that like 80% of my problems at work can be traced to third party code i have no control over and no access to?
damn that's annoying.
doesn't anyone make software that JUST FUCKING WORKS?
sorry for shouting.
thanks.