One of the sillier things I've managed to do in Movable Type is delete myself as a superuser while attempting to fix a typo in my email address; logging in as another user was something of a shock. Movable Type will let you do this; afterwards you're stuck trying to regain access from the ordinary user you created as well, and simply renaming the ordinary user to match the name of...
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:31:42 PDT
ian van dahl featuring Marsha - Castles in the Sky. Do you ever question your life? Do you ever wonder why? They Might Be Giants - Boss of Me. Yes. No. Maybe. I don't know... Can you repeat the question? Sash! - Mysterious Times. We're counting the hours and days to the end of our time. DJ Sammy and Yanou featuring Do - Heaven. Baby, you're all that I want. Paul...
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:31:42 PDT
Today I read a couple of online books by John Scalzi: Agent to the Stars and Old Man's War, which is rather like Starship Troopers with aspects of Rogue Trooper, and more enjoyable than John Varley's or Keith Brookes' more complex pastiches of Heinlein. Little green men. Bug-eyed monsters. Bug on out....
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:31:42 PDT
Here's a partial and very incomplete history of the operation of Internet-connected computers in space. In 1996, an experiment onboard the STRV-1b satellite, conducted by NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, gave the satellite an IP address and communicated with it. In 2000, a TCP/IP stack was uploaded to the UoSAT-12 satellite, and some simple experiments were run by NASA Goddard. SSTL, who built UoSAT-12, went on to adopt TCP/IP for satellite control...
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:31:42 PDT
The iPod Photo, combined with iTunes, can give you tiny colour pictures of the artist or album to look at while you listen to a song in AAC format that you've bought from Apple's online music store. That hardly seems worth it. This iPod may not be suited to watching hours-long cinema, but if you do want to watch something for three minutes or so while listening to a song you've...
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:31:42 PDT
Last night I watched both The Corporation and Fahrenheit 9/11. After all, it was Hallowe'en, when monsters come out in the open. Near the end of his film, Michael Moore quotes George Orwell. Fitting, and perhaps the film's intellectual peak. Internet Veterans for Truth entirely trumps p2p-politics for finding related content, by the way....
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:31:42 PDT
First there was Bubbles. Then Squares. Horribly addictive. In an age when even Lemmings can be redone in dynamic HTML, it's not suprising that early online games have evolved into something far, far better. But the simplest ideas still seem to be the most fun....
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:31:42 PDT
Murphy's Law describes how accelerometers were installed upside-down because they could be, dooming the Genesis mission. Titan Calling describes how the Cassini-Huygens mission risks failure by reusing communications equipment developed for use in near-Earth orbit, without considering the effects of Doppler shift on the received signal. To work around the Doppler shift problem and ensure communication, they've had to alter the physical trajectories of the spacecraft -- a major mission change....
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:31:42 PDT
I've spent the last eighteen months working on CLEO, the Cisco router in Low Earth Orbit. I've previously mentioned the launch of the router into orbit. I need a holiday....
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:31:42 PDT
Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker articles are fascinating reading. (Now I know why I prefer tomato ketchup on my pasta.)...
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:31:42 PDT
I was encouraged to read Marathon Dan. I tried, but soon thought "I'd rather be reading MJ Hibbett." So I did. It just seemed a bit, well, "Ready! Set! Go... nowhere!" (I was encouraged to promote Marathon Dan. Will this do?)...
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:31:42 PDT
Advogato seems to be back up reliably, and I've moved computing thoughts over there....
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:31:42 PDT
Vanessa Carlton. White Houses. The video was striking. As is the song. Autobiographical, perhaps. (And where did I first discover the existence of this artist and song? Real Media, Brasil edition. Vanessa tem o auxílio luxuoso de uma dançarina muito boa. Mesmo! Globalisation comes with side-effects.) Baby Cakes may be tuneful, amusing, and local, but this is... lyrical....
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:31:42 PDT
I've put up a selection of the best of my photos from over the past year. Saying that this selection is the best really isn't saying much; these were mostly taken using two replacement Fuji Finepix 50i cameras, which eventually locked up entirely. (The first one that was replaced had faulty focus.) A poor camera, and a poor mp3 player. Still, I've been bitten by the bugs. I've been pondering what...
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:31:42 PDT
Employees.org moved machines, and big-endian/little-endian architectures. Surprisingly, there's no way to port Berkeley databases between architectures -- so I wound up installing a new Movable Type implementation....
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:31:42 PDT
