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Daddy and Abby Night
June 10, 2003

On Monday nights Berta goes to bowling with some people from work, and Abby and I get to hang out.

Berta was making dinner when I got home from work, and so I took Abby out front to play a little bit.  I chased her around the tree and back to the bench where Abby was "safe".  We played this kind of "I'm gonna get you" base tag for a while until dinner was almost done.  In the middle of our play (and much to Abby's dismay), I noticed that the old lady next door was out with her weed killer again.

Web Shtuff
June 05, 2003

Just in case you're interested, here are some more pictures of the Rackshack transformer explosion.  You can see the actual fried equipment.  Neat!

I spent a good deal of time last night trying to figure out how to enable Perl on Midnight Circus.  For whatever reason (most likely chown permissions on the dedicated IP), they're not working.  This makes it rather difficult to put the scripts that I'm working on in class online.  But who needs a guestbook, anyway?

Rackshack Explodes!
June 03, 2003

For those of you who don't know, I host this site on a dedicated server system located in Texas provided by Rackshack.  Rackshack has proven more reliable than any host I have ever worked with, and since we're talking about 1995 here, that's saying something.

Headsurfer Robert Marsh comments on the Rackshack forums while firefighters put out the last of the burning transformerLast night around 8PM, the power transformer at Rackshack exploded into a 30-foot tall fireball, eliminating the primary source of power for all of the servers in their facility.  Through the utilization of thought-out emergency techniques, they have been able to keep the power online continuously since the explosion - even during the explosion.

More About Less Than Slash
June 02, 2003

I've spent the past couple of weeks writing an editor with the specific prupose in mind of making a reasonably full-featured programmer's editor that is useful for the training of HTML.  The fruit of my labor is an editor that I'm calling Less Than Slash (LTS).

For my web design class, we must have a way to edit HTML files.  Currently, the teacher would like us to use Notepad, but only because it is the only raw-text editor on the computer.  Notepad is less than a perfect editor, but I imagine that there are many people in class that wouldn't know this.  Here are some of the problems to consider in Notepad or in any prospective HTML editor.