So, Tom, Why do you suck so bad?
Posted on 2007-12-19 at 20:50
Answer: I'm lame (and work has me buried right now).
That said, I have big plans to fix my current lag and make future lags even less likely. Over the Christmas holiday, I hope to rewrite the site software from the ground up. I have some feature ideas and some other ideas that should make the site a better one when I'm done.
So, in short, bear with me as I make some huge under the hood changes and some commensurate front end changes that readers will enjoy.
Best part? My most frequent readers will get a great deal of input as to what features I add or remove. More details about the new site will come soon enough. Until then, discuss amongst yourselves the ins and outs of the career of Ivan Koloff, The Russian Bear of Wrestling. Prepare to office hypotheses with concrete examples. And Begin....
The top banner image has changed again
Posted on 2007-08-04 at 14:45
I've changed the top banner image again. The latest banner is a picture of the skyline across the bay in Guangdong. Not all of China is Great Walls, ancient temples, and misty bamboo forests. Guangdong is a vibrant city with an active night life. We stayed on Shamain Island. It was a wonderful place.
Last time I changed the banner, someone asked me what banners I'd prepped for the site. If you want to see the images I use for the banner on my site, you can see them below. Each was taken by me or my wife in China. Click the image to see a full sized version:
Blogging statistics
Posted on 2007-08-03 at 23:32
Why am I posting this? I dunno:
I've been blogging for 3.51 years.
I've blogged 909 times in that period.
That comes to 1 blog every 1.41 days.
Which is also .71 blogs per day.
I am pathetic, but I entertain me, and in the beginning that's all I really set out to do. Mission accomplished.
Where are you from?
Posted on 2007-06-24 at 14:19
Who comes to my blog? Well, by city, this is who:
Not sure why anyone would really care, but it came up in conversation a few days ago so there it is.
Welcome Back, Cotter
Posted on 2007-05-28 at 20:13
Being as you are surely hanging on my every blog entry, you will have ntocied with a sense of dread and doom that this website was down for a portion of the holiday weekend. It suffices to say that I screwed up my DNS stuff in the IP Address switchover that I mentioned in an earlier entry. Only this domain was affected---the only domain I control for which I am not the DNS of record. But, all is better now.
Shlock
Posted on 2007-05-20 at 17:38
My global media empire is nigh complete!
I have set up a storefront, in which you may purchase various mental droppings as sewn/heat-printed onto bad fashionware. Up first: The Lonely Fornication Truckers Hat. More to come.
To answer your next question, no, I don't actually expect people to buy anything. I just find this sort of thing fun. Mostly, it's just funny to me that the phrase "Lonely Fornication" popped into my head and now the world can purchase it on a retro-cool trucker's cap. Due in no small part to my overwhelming desire to waste my own time and my gigantenormous ego, you can expect to be glossing over future schock hocking as new random phrases and tidbits spur me to make future lame graphics.
Understanding the Audience
Posted on 2007-05-19 at 08:21
So, a recent online poll on my blog showed that 70% of you found yourselfs allied with Milton Friedman, both socially and economically. In an effort to better understand the audience, I did some quick research and asked a few questions. Turns out, his work "Free to Choose: A Personal Statement" was among his most respected works and well represented his views late in his life. So I bought it. To balance the order out, I also bought "The Communist Manifesto" and to make the myself appear falsely academic, I added a book on the philosophy of language called "Naming and Necessity". My proof follows:
If anyong out there wants a copy of these books, you can get them here:
Next up? Select works from Mikhail Bakunin to better understand a social/economic theorist closer to my current position. It'll be interesting to read the arguments for the claims I've been making.
Scheduled Outage
Posted on 2007-05-16 at 07:36
My IP address changes overnight tonight, so I expect that I will have a small outage period starting somewhere between midnight this evening and 6 am tomorrow and ending as soon as the DNS record updates and I can update all my internal systems. Updating my stuff will take no more than half an hour, I'd guess (if that), but I am at the mercy of the PTB for my updated DNS getting propagated.
In case I should be down longer than expected, enjoy this brief overview of Milton Friedman. Given the results of the majority of you guys fell in the lower right quandrant of the political compass test, you should read about the only other famous thinker that was mentioned as being in that quadrant. You might find yourself agreeing with him. If you are among the 30% that fell in the lower left quadrant, enjoy instead this article about the Mikhail Bakunin. Bakunin was essentially the Anarchist Collectivist's answer to Marx' brand of Authoritarian Communism. For bonus points, consider what economic theories Bakunin and Friedman might agree upon. Prepare to discuss. There may be a quiz.
Scattershot patterns
Posted on 2007-05-11 at 08:10
It appears that the majority of the people who read my blog fall into the lower right quadrant of this chart:
The rest all fall within the lower left quandrant. That, to me is interesting for a number of reasons:
- No one (as not a single person) fell on the top half (the authoritarian side) of the chart. Socially, my readers are clearly Libertarian. The closest result to authoritarian was a -0.72. The farthest result from authoritarian was my own (-6.26) with most falling between -3.00 and -5.00.
- Approximately 70% of the people reading my blog fell on the right side of the chart. Economically, my readers are mostly, but not entirely, neo-liberalists or libertarians rather than communists or collectivists. The farthest right was 4.35. The farthest left was -7.63. The greatest grouping was found between 2.00 and -1.00.
- One of my oldest atheist friends and one of my fiends with whom I attend Sunday school scored to within a couple of tenths of a point identically on both axis. Not sure that means anything, but I found it interesting anyway.
- One guy treated the chart like a bullseye and scored damn near the perfect center with a Economic 0.75/ Social-0.72 result. He must be that mythic political "center" I've heard so much about.
That is all for now. Thanks for sending me results. They were interesting.
I've changed my header graphic again
Posted on 2007-04-23 at 07:58
The new header image is a picture I took whilst walking along the Great Wall at Badaling in China. I saw this guard tower sticking up out of the surrounding forest and it just looked cool to me. Enjoy.
Web Traffic
Posted on 2007-04-06 at 08:03
A few people have asked me how many people read this blog. The answer is that I have no clue how many read it regularly. While I could, I suppose, track that sort of thing, I don't. I can tell you how much traffic I get per day or month, but not how many of them are repeat visitors or how many visit via the news feed. Anyway, since it's been asked, here are the highly summarized visitor stats for the last year broken down by month.
| Month | Daily Avg | Monthly Avg |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 2007 (so far) | 363 | 2182 |
| Mar 2007 | 331 | 10281 |
| Feb 2007 | 267 | 7501 |
| Jan 2007 | 311 | 9647 |
| Dec 2006 | 212 | 6588 |
| Nov 2006 | 210 | 6305 |
| Oct 2006 | 216 | 6697 |
| Sep 2006 | 196 | 5906 |
| Aug 2006 | 169 | 5266 |
| Jul 2006 | 140 | 4342 |
| Jun 2006 | 154 | 4638 |
| May 2006 | 154 | 4800 |
See? I told you guys that no one reads this thing!
I walk as a god among men
Posted on 2007-03-30 at 23:53
My last entry talked about a cool new stripe generator and how I was "hankering" (oh god, am I really on record as having used the word "hankering"?!?) to redo my blog site design.
Well, as you can see, that was today at 2pm. Now at just-before-midnight I'm rolling out a new site design. I'm pleased with the new look. Let me talk a bit about some of the design decisions.
- I wanted a clean and light look---hence all the white space and light colors.
- I needed to unclutter the page, so I moved the archive links to their own sub pages (see the tabs at the top of the screen) an out of the left and right sidebars.
- I wanted a link to the home page. See, um, for like the last 3 years, I've had like the only site on this here Internet that had no link to take you back to the front page. If you were on some obscure corner of my blog, you just had to change the url in your web browser's addess bar to get back to my home page. Lame. That is fixed now with the "Recent Entries" tab at the top.
- I added a google search to the right side bar. I had no real reason for this, but it looks nice there, so I did it.
- Coolest Neat Thing On The Planet Times Infinity Plus One: The image that is displayed in the masthead (that big header thingy near the top of the page) is a picture I took in China. I spend some time making about 20 different masthead graphics from my trip to China and I'll be rotating them periodically just to keep things visually interesting for those who visit the site. The current image is of a statue of General Guan Yu that I spied through the foliage whilst climbing up the Great Wall. There was one guy at the statue's feet (it was about 15 feet tall) practicing his martial arts. Really just a picturesque scene. It's one I won't likely forget.
Say hello to the future of community
Posted on 2007-03-30 at 14:20
Gravitas
Posted on 2007-03-26 at 20:54
I've been told my blog lacks that certain sense of gravitas needed to be considered real social commentary.
To those doubters, I say "I'm rubber and you're glue, what you say bounces off me and gets you a pick ax in your spinal column, bitch! Bring it! I'll kick yer doubtin' ass!"
Ooo, I just remembered I have Take the Lead upstairs to watch. Antonio Banderas dances for the kids. How can this be bad? It's like Dead Poet's Society had sex with Flashdance and this movie was its illegitimate love child.
Hiatus (or "The Long Drought Is Over")
Posted on 2007-03-20 at 07:51
You may have noticed (and if so, may I offer you a suggestion: get a hobby) that my blog was unchanging for the last two weeks or so. This is not by choice, but rather, I performed a wipe-n-reinstall on my primary home system and have only recently gotten the system where it needs to be to do more blogging (restoring files from backup and all that jazz). So...
...I'm back. Sorry to ruin your day thusly. I had a few things I wanted to blog about in the interim and I'll get to that now.
10 Weird Things About Me
Posted on 2007-03-07 at 08:22
Some of you know me (1 or 2 of the 3 people who read this blog?). Some don't (at least according to the mail I get). To that end, let me introduce myself.
I'm Tom Caudron. I'm weird. Everyone is weird in some way, so in that respect I think I'm perfectly normal. It's the ways in which a person is weird that makes them unique and (sometimes but rarely) interesting. Here are ten things about me that you may or may not know already that make me weird, unique, but probably not interesting.
- I can't store my shoes on the floor. If I find they have been sitting about on the floor unattended, I have a ritual that makes them OK again.
- I used to be a Sous Chef. I quite nearly made the cooking arts my life, then I got smart.
- I first made a hash oil block at the age of 12. I knew how before that, but never really had a reason til then. If you are law enforcement, then this was a lie designed to impress my druggy readers.
- I read upwards of 30 blogs a day. Obsessively. If I miss an entry, I just...oh who am I kidding? I NEVER miss an entry. I just criticize some as boring.
- I've published poetry.
- My degree is in Religious Studies and Literature (dual major) and my profession is Software Developer.
- I used to teach Aikijutsu.
- When I lock doors at night, I have a compulsion that requires that I check it...three times...then one more time in case the third check unlocked it. When I'm done, I worry that it's still unlocked. I also have a compulsion about shutting and locking doors behind me whenever I walk into a room. This has concerned many people who have wondered why I locked us in a room together.
- People can't touch my food or plate. It's not a germ thing. It's a possessive thing. It's my food. You can't touch it. If you do, then it's now your food. Congrats on being a touchy jerk. This is my hang up, I know, therefore I try not to say anything to people when they've destroyed my meal. It's usually not intentional and they should have to feel guilt over my insanity.
- I like all kung fu flicks. I beleive that any film could be improved with the addition of a solid kung fu fight. Schindler's List was good, but if he'd ended it with a kung fu fight with the Nazi's, all the better. Gone With The Wind was good, but when Rhett slapped Scarlet, it would've been even better had she blocked and countered with a Shadowless Kick.
What? I said I was weird! What's your weird? If you have a blog post it there. If you want to post it here, feel free to send it along and I'll add it as an entry. No takers? Cowards!
I am a tool
Posted on 2007-02-09 at 21:53
So, I think I have something broken deep inside me in that I'm quite excited that I've written a shell script that adds new entries to my blog and calls up the text editor for me to modify them after creation. Plus, the script now makes each entry second-specific.
"Second-specific?" you ask. Yes. You see before, when I added a new entry I named it something like "2007_02_09_21_53_00.html" which basically says the entry was created on Feb 9th, 2007 at 9:53pm and "00" seconds. But NOW it will say something like "2007_02_09_21_53_12.html" which tells me that it was created 12 seconds into the 53rd minute! You see, when I named it before, I was really only typing it and just didn't care about the seconds, but with my new shell scripty goodness, I can have second-specificity without even trying. As Paris would say, "That's so hawt".
See, I'm broken inside. :-(
A formal complaint has been lodged
Posted on 2006-12-14 at 07:51
I, of course, forgot to mention that it was Submarine Dave who first brought to my attention the matter of the midgets. Upon finding this fine corner of the web, he knew I must be informed. He did his duty.
Dave, attribution is now complete and you may expect royalty checks to begin pouring by COB.
Whence did I go?
Posted on 2006-11-03 at 08:02
Those of you who read regularly (both of you?) will note that this site was down yesterday. Why, you ask? DNS issues. It suffices to say that hosting my own DNS is far superior to trusting others. All the domains which I manage on my own DNS server were fine, but the digitalelite.com domains were all interrupted by a server move at the DNS service host (1and1.com). No biggie, but there you go. Anyone who has an interest in more details can click the 'Make a Comment' link for this blog entry. I'll be happy to answer more detailed questions. Also, if you want more details, you need a hobby, becuase that's such a waste of your valuable time...much like this blog in general. :-)
Monetizing the Blogosphere
Posted on 2006-11-01 at 15:56
My blog is worth $564.54.
How much is your blog worth?
I've removed the October pink coloring
Posted on 2006-11-01 at 07:01
James should be happy now.
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Posted on 2006-10-02 at 09:32
For those reading this blog by way of the feed, you will have not noticed that the site is now a (not so) pretty pink color. This entry (which will show up on the feed) is for you.
This is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. I know some of you will point out that there exists no National Prostate Cancer Awareness month, but you should be thankful. I mean, what color would my site be then? Either way, whether it's the breast cancer research, prostate cancer research, or the research of your choice, you should consider giving a small donation. It's tax deductable and you can give as little as $20.00. For the price of a dinner out with the spouse (or a lunch out by yourself if Work Brian is picking the location!) you can make a difference. The National Cancer Society takes donations for many types of cancer research (and you can specify which type you want to support). Seriously. Do it. It'll take a couple of minutes. Cancer is not a nice end to a full life. It's a messy and often abrupt end to a life that wasn't done. This is something we, as a species, need to eradicate. Let's give it a shot. In a decade when the cure rolls out, you can say you helped.
The shameless guilting is complete. We now return you to our regularly scheduled blog. Other than the pink motif and the top blurb, I don't intend to mention this again.
Breaking the rules
Posted on 2006-09-20 at 08:29
My one main rule here is that I don't revise content after posting---excepting particularly bad spelling errors.
I am breaking that rule with my post on early Methodist history. That post is really designed for my Sunday School class, and I want to make sure it is readable and clear, so I've revised it for content flow today. I may revise it again as needed. Just being clear about that since I've made such a big deal in the past of not revising posts here.
Peace out, dawgs.
James pointed out...
Posted on 2006-09-15 at 08:23
...that some people might find a discontinuity between my post about Bryan rolling freshly minted off the Dick Factory and my post two days later about the Gospels and canonical inclusion. I find it mildly humorous that I'm so accustomed to switching gears in that way that I didn't even notice how odd that might appear to a stranger. Well, in any case, both posts are a reflection of me, so odd or not, you can expect more of the same jumbled ethical mess going forward.
Also, James, you have now been referred to by name in my blog. I'm still not sure why you wanted that, but it is done so you can quit yer bitching. :-)
I'm a travelling man
Posted on 2006-08-04 at 09:22
I'm headed out of town to Danville to visit family after work today. I'll be back sometime Monday afternoon. I'll be leaving again on Wednesday for GenCon and not coming back until late Sunday evening. So from this afternoon until the 14th, I'll be out of town, excepting Tuesday, the 8th, when I will be in town briefly between trips.
While out of town, I'll be blogging offline, which means that after I get back, you may see a bunch of backdated posts added to the blog all at once.
Google Sitemaps
Posted on 2006-05-31 at 07:12
According to Google Sitemaps, here are the top searches that bring people to my site and my average position in the search list for those terms:
Search query (Average top position)
- dnd radio (3)
- lucifer symbolic meanings in paradise lost (1)
- culumny (8)
- flickering eyelid (8)
- reihold (8)
- koinonias (11)
- ffmpeg 1and1 (7)
- act "emily bronte's" contradiction (10)
- heathcliff's character (21)
- all declassified ufo documents (75)
That's right, I am so all over the search for culumny!
I am only 4 elements away from validation
Posted on 2006-05-23 at 08:08
When I first write the shell scripts that generate this site and all it's files, the ATOM feed format was still being designed. I used the v.3 spec. Now that it's released and the final version of the spec out there for use, I've been menaing to make the changes needed to have a valid ATOM feed. I made some headway this morning. I still need to address about 4 more issues, but that's a big improvement over yesterday's 20 or so issues.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, don't worry, you too can learn about the ATOM feed!
Yet still the written word is my enemy
Posted on 2006-03-30 at 09:08
For some reason, everything I've written in the last month has been a dissappointment to me. I think my head is just elsewhere. The seed ideas are good enough (though they have come with less frequency in this past month), but the actual entries are hardly my best, in my opinion.
Maybe the problem is related to those government mind-control experiments the CIA did on my in the 60's.
The look has changed again
Posted on 2006-03-16 at 07:29
As you can already see, I've just changed the look of my blog again. I have no reason other than whim. Feedback is welcome, of course. I'll be tweaking the color arrangement over the next few days to get it just right. I have chosen a color palette on which to base my site's color scheme. You can see that palette below:
Butter_Light #fce94f Butter_Medium #edd400 Butter_Dark #c4a000
Orange_Light #fcaf3e Orange_Medium #f57900 Orange_Dark #ce5c00
Chocolate_Light #e9b96e Chocolate_Medium #c17d11 Chocolate_Dark #8f5902
Chameleon_Light #8ae234 Chameleon_Medium #73d216 Chameleon_Dark #439a06
SkyBlue_Light #729fcf SkyBlue_Medium #3465a4 SkyBlue_Dark #204a87
Plum_Light #ad7fa8 Plum_Medium #75507b Plum_Dark #5c3566
ScarletRed_Light #ef2929 ScarletRed_Medium #cc0000 ScarletRed_Dark #a40000
Aluminum_Light1 #eeeeec Aluminum_Light2 #d3d7cf Aluminum_Medium1 #babdb6 Aluminum_Medium2 #888a85 Aluminum_Dark1 #555735 Aluminum_Dark2 #2e3436
So, whaddaya think of the new look-n-feel?
Miscellany
Posted on 2006-03-13 at 20:23
This blog entry will have no cohesion or structure.
This site has ads and stuff. You already know that. Do I make money like that? Not really. Mostly because I'm not really trying. I'm sure I could if I changed things a bit. I'm made some pocket change. If you have a moral objection to the ads, try something like Firefox's AdBlock extension or some other plug in to remove them from the page...or don't. I'll do my best to care, but I don't expect to succeed. :)
Work is "teh suX0r". Not becuase the project is bad (it's kinda fun) or the people suck (all people suck, the guys I work directly with suck much less than most). It's just that it's work and work blows fat chunks. I just want the stuff I do on this project to be decoupled from the income it generates. That would be ideal. If you don't get what I mean, then let me put it differently: Work sucks because work is an obligation to others...usually "demanding others".
'Nuff said.
Who's watching me?
Posted on 2006-03-02 at 08:44
I just found out that I got over 50 hits on my blog from the Department of Homeland Security. Since I don't want their idle web surfing to be in vain I'm including a link to the wikipedia article on Pipe Bombs.
Ohhhh! I'm so counter-culture and revolutionary. Now back to my sick bed where I will enjoy my breakfast of an ice cream sandwich and a hot coffee.
I've got the body rot!
Posted on 2006-03-01 at 14:40
I've come down with that flu thing that my daughter had. That's why I ain't blogging right now. I'll blog more when I can breath through my nose and when my fingertips don't ache from typing.
But just a quick sidenote: I know she's 18 months old, but damn, seriously, it should be biult into the human genome that you don't cough into someone else's mouth! I mean, come on! WTF?!? I'm not asking that she cover her mouth properly yet or anything, but coughing into another person's mouth is totally unacceptable! We'll be working on with some urgency over the next few days.
Now back to my death bed, I crawl.
Cadence is sick
Posted on 2006-02-27 at 10:37
Just an fyi, I've not been blogging as much in the last few days because Cadence is a bit ill and I've not had much free time. Once she's better, I'm sure things will pick back up.
It's a small world after all
Posted on 2006-02-16 at 14:35
So, I'm here at my current client, Amerigroup, and I'm working with a guy here who has read my blog. How am I supposed to feign concern for the needs of Corporate America when he already knows I have none?
It's a sign from God that I should quit this whole job thing...or slaughter a goat. I can't figure out which.
Yes, it's still me
Posted on 2006-01-30 at 07:23
OK, so I'm making some changes to the look and feel of the site. The structure is essentialy the same, but the look is totally different.
In particular, I've dropped the use of tables for layout in favor of using CSS positioned elements. this makes it easier to make wholesale changes to the layout later without having to redo the table structure every time. Tables for layout is sooo 1990's. CSS is the way forward. Of course, for now, there a ton of ugly hacks I had to employ so that this site looks right in browsers that don't properly implement CSS (really this is just Internet Explorer at this point!).
NASA digs me
Posted on 2006-01-19 at 15:36
Well, to be fair, I don't know whether they dig me or just like laughing at me. All I know is that I've had 115 visits to this blog from NASA this month alone. I just thought others would find that interesting. I did. Maybe they are reading my UFO blogs.
Lessons my blog taught me about my writing
Posted on 2006-01-18 at 13:07
Unless you are writing concrete poetry (poetry whose visual layout is part of the art of the work itself) the words should be layout-neutral. Seems obvious, I know, but it's a lesson made clear to me in my recent reorganization of this blog. I have entries that reference the entries above and below them. I have entries that are not discreet (that is they rely on another entry being next to them). These entries are among my weakest in content now that they can be read on their own and even when grouped with other entries, they draw the readers attention from the words to the form when they reference an entry that should be directly above them but no longer are.
Content is king. Those entries of mine that offer new opinions or information are my most popular. By. A. Very. Large. Margin. Regulars occasionally appreciate the entries in which I link to interesting things elsewhere, but most readers, including regulars (yes, both of you!) prefer original content. It is my college papers, my how-to guides, and my religious commentary that get the most attention from visitors. OK. I get the hint. I'm not gonna stop linking to cool things I find, but I'll try to put more original content online.
I don't have a voice. It takes a while for a writer's voice to coalese, and from my writings on here, it appears mine has not yet done so. What is a writer's voice? A writer's voice is that distinctive tone and language that let's a reader identify a writer by the words alone. Poe has a clear voice. Read some Poe, and I garuantee that you will be able to pick out his work from a crowd without benefit of byline. I seem to change voice depending on topic and mood. I'll need to spend some time pondering that.
Less is more. By nature, I ramble. I'm learning to rein that in a bit. Brevity is not my strong suit, but my most recent posts show that I'm learning to be more dense in my writing. I consider this a good thing.
AWStats in Ubuntu
Posted on 2006-01-16 at 11:28
I've been using Webalizer for purusing my logs to see what visitors frequest my site. Webalizer is a good free software application for getting a quick overview of site trends, but I wanted more detail than it offered.
I consulted the Great LazyWeb (via his esteemed oracle Google) and was given a vision that I should install awstats.
To install awstats in Ubuntu all i had to do was "sudo apt-get install awstats". Afterwards, I modified the /etc/awstats/awstats.conf file to point to my apache logs for the log location and to a directory I created called awstats for the working directory (ie, where it puts everything). Specifically, the following bits from the conf file are the bits I changed:
LogFile="/var/log/apache2/tomde.access.log.1"
LogType=W
LogFormat=1
SiteDomain="tom.digitalelite.com"
DNSLookup=1
DirData="/var/www/awstats"
There were two small gotchas for the uninitiated. First, when I tried to run it with the command "perl awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -update" it told me it couldn't find the file awstats.pl. Well, a short find command later and I discovered that Ubuntu put it in the /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ directory. So I changed my command to "perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -update" which worked like a charm. The app ran and did...nothing that I could see. Thus the second small gotcha. Apparently all that command does it compile the log data into a database format for it to use later for report generation. So I found the commands to run for each report (again, the Great LazyWeb provided me the guidance I sought, Oh Great LazyWeb, Thou art grand indeed.). It suggested that I could run some particular script that would run all the reports at once, but I could not find it, so I took all the commands for each report, copied them into a single shell script and ran that. The shell script looks like this:
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -update
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=alldomains -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.alldomains.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=allhosts -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.allhosts.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=lasthosts -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.lasthosts.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=unknownip -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.unknownip.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=alllogins -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.alllogins.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=lastlogins -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.lastlogins.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=allrobots -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.allrobots.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=lastrobots -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.lastrobots.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=urldetail -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.urldetail.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=urlentry -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.urlentry.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=urlexit -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.urlexit.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=browserdetail -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.browserdetail.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=osdetail -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.osdetail.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=unknownbrowser -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.unknownbrowser.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=unknownos -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.unknownos.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=refererse -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.refererse.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=refererpages -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.refererpages.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=keyphrases -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.keyphrases.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=keywords -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.keywords.html
perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=tom.digitalelite.com -output=errors404 -staticlinks > awstats.tom.digitalelite.com.errors404.html
After running that script, suddently awstats provided me just what was promised. Not as simple as webalizer, but not too difficult either. And the details it provides are greater than webalizer! I am pleased.
Now, go forth and do as I have done that we may show glory to the Vision of the Great LazyWeb in out words and deeds.
If you aren't blind...
Posted on 2005-12-27 at 07:46
...you will notice big changes on the blog today.
More changes?!?!?
Posted on 2005-12-21 at 08:05
Also stay tuned on more useful updates to the blog infrastructure. I am going to look into a way to automatically collate blog entries by keyword. Then a person could theoretically just bookmark the keyword pages that they find interesting and only read that. An example of practical use? Let's say you can't stand wading through all my Linux entries and just want to read my entries on Writing or Religion. Well then, assuming I do this, I envision that you would be able to just bookmark http://tom.digitalelite.com/keywords/religion.html or http://tom.digitalelite.com/keywords/poetry.html or whatever other keywords I use. I'd want it to be automated and dynamically updated. That is to say, if I add a new keyword to an entry, it would auto generate the keyword page and start collecting new entries for that keyword. I like this idea.
It would be useful for everyone (including me) if I had a way to show all linux-related entries on the linux.html keyword aggregation page. Of course I'd still have the main page that just shows the very latest entries, but if I do it right, it would only show the most recent, say, 10 or so entries, rather than showing the current month. For those who don't care one way or the other, look at it this way: if I had this system in place already, you would never have had to read this entry (because it would have been keyworded "blog" or something like that. You'd just show up one day and the blog would have links to keyworded content.
Serial Storytelling
Posted on 2005-12-21 at 08:04
It would be fun to begin a work of serial fiction here. A blog is a natual fit for such a thing. Of course, it assumes that I'd be willing to regularly move the story forward. Perhaps I shall. Stay tuned for more on that.
My logo
Posted on 2005-12-15 at 08:02
So I decided, against my better judgement, to look into replacing my logo in the upper left corner with a transparent gif instead of a transparent png file. As you probably know (due to my incessant bitching), Internet Explorer does not render transparent png files properly. In the uppoer left, this means that visitors using IE only see a big white square instead of the logo. In the uppoer right, IE visitors can see the icons, but they are rendered ugly because the transparency is not shown, but for the other logo, the IE rendering it not so usable-but-ugly.
To that end, I figured I'd at least see what changing the png to a gif would look like. I converted the file. It looked like an 80's video game title---all jagged and lame. I was not dissuaded. I decided that maybe this was the result of the conversion process. I redid the logo from scratch and saved the original work to gif. Still more jagged and lame than the png version. Now I'm just mad. Gif is just an inferior format and IE won't support the better and newer standard. It may be newer, but it's still been around for about 7 or so years as I recall, so their lack of support (given the notably good support in EVERY OTHER BROWSER) is more than a bit irritating.
I may consider using a backgrounded png file (with the background being the color of my top bar. That way it will render the same in all browsers, but then any time I want to change the color scheme, I have to create new graphics. That is SOOOOOOO lame. Yes. I'm mad.
Perverse Pleasure
Posted on 2005-12-14 at 08:06
I said "perverse pleasure" in the above entry. I wonder how that will affect the popularity of this page? Hmmm.
I've decided to blog offline
Posted on 2005-12-14 at 08:04
I'm sitting here at work waiting on a client to assist me with beginning the next phase of the project and I'm bored. To that end, I've decided to write my blog entries at work and when I get home, I'll add them to the site (since I can't post from this client). Note that this means that while I'm at this client you'll see a bunch of entries posted at once each evening that were likely written throughout the day.
New gig = No Internet
Posted on 2005-12-14 at 08:01
I'll have no reasonable Internat access at the new gig, so there'll be no posting from work. That said, I'll still be posting in the mornings and possibly evenings. You may now breath a sigh of relief, knowing that I have not forsaken you.
I have good news and bad news
Posted on 2005-12-13 at 08:02
The good news: I have now moved all processes and services to the new server. The bad news: It's becuase I totally hosed the old server last nght while trying to copy some settings over. I did a "rm *" on the /etc directory. That meant a night of frantic work to get it all up and running on the new system, since after that, the old one stopped working completely.
All my latest scripty goodness
Posted on 2005-12-09 at 08:02
Some of you have asked which blog application I use. Well, I don't use one. I just write my blog in xml and then I render that xml in html for the benefit of my reading public. Recently, I made a bunch of changes (see previous entries) to the design and structure of the site. Teh design changes are obvious, since you can see them on your screen, but the structural changes are really far more interesting to me (and to you if you are a geek).
Whereas I used to let the client browser transform and render the xml (using xsl and css), I know pregenerate the rendered html. Also, I used to have a redirect page as my index.html, which redirected visitors to whichever was the most recent blog page. Now I keep the most recent blog page in sync with the index page. This is because google dislikes redirects and it hurts my Google PankRank score. Now I can have a stable front page (like I used to a while back) that can enjoy a decent PageRank. For the curious, the script follows:
echo "Moving to the correct directory"
cd /mnt/tomde/
echo "Generating html from xml"
for xmlFile in *.xml; do
xmlto --skip-validation -x main.xsl html $xmlFile;
done
echo "Cleaning up the generated html"
for procFile in *.proc; do
sed 's/<br><\/br>/<br\/>/g' <$procFile >$procFile.1
sed 's/ xmlns:atom="http:\/\/purl.org\/atom\/ns#" xmlns:dc="http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/"//g' <$procFile.1 >$procFile.2;
done
echo "Renaming the .proc files to .html files"
for htmlFile in *.proc.2; do
newName=`echo $htmlFile | sed "s/.proc.2/.html/"`
mv $htmlFile $newName;
done
echo "Removing the old .proc files"
rm *.proc*
echo "Getting current month and year"
currentDate=`date`
currentYear=`date +%y`
currentMonth=`echo $currentDate |awk '{print $2}'`
currentFile1="
case "$currentMonth" in
"Dec")
currentMonthNum="12";;
"Nov")
currentMonthNum="11";;
"Oct")
currentMonthNum="10";;
"Sep")
currentMonthNum="09";;
"Aug")
currentMonthNum="08";;
"Jul")
currentMonthNum="07";;
"Jun")
currentMonthNum="06";;
"May")
currentMonthNum="05";;
"Apr")
currentMonthNum="04";;
"Mar")
currentMonthNum="03";;
"Feb")
currentMonthNum="02";;
"Jan")
currentMonthNum="01";;
esac
currentFile2="_$currentMonthNum\\.html"
currentFile=$currentFile1$currentFile2
echo "Getting the previous month and year"
previousDate=`date --date="$(date +%Y-%m-15) -1 month"`
previousYear=`date +%y --date="$(date +%Y-%m-15) -1 month"`
previousMonth=`echo $previousDate |awk '{print $2}'`
previousFile1="
case "$previousMonth" in
"Dec")
previousMonthNum="12";;
"Nov")
previousMonthNum="11";;
"Oct")
previousMonthNum="10";;
"Sep")
previousMonthNum="09";;
"Aug")
previousMonthNum="08";;
"Jul")
previousMonthNum="07";;
"Jun")
previousMonthNum="06";;
"May")
previousMonthNum="05";;
"Apr")
previousMonthNum="04";;
"Mar")
previousMonthNum="03";;
"Feb")
previousMonthNum="02";;
"Jan")
previousMonthNum="01";;
esac
previousFile2="_$previousMonthNum\\.html"
previousFile=$previousFile1$previousFile2
echo "Updating the site feed"
currentFeed2="_$currentMonthNum.xml"
currentFeed=$currentFile1$currentFeed2
rm feed.html
rm feed.xml
cp $currentFeed feed.xml
echo "Updating the site's main page"
newIndex1="
newIndex2="_$currentMonthNum.html"
newIndex=$newIndex1$newIndex2
rm index.html
mv $newIndex index.html
echo "Cleaning up old edit remnants"
rm
echo "Current Blog Month: $currentFile"
echo "Done"
echo "Closing..."
sleep 1
echo "10"
sleep 1
echo "9"
sleep 1
echo "8"
sleep 1
echo "7"
sleep 1
echo "6"
sleep 1
echo "5"
sleep 1
echo "4"
sleep 1
echo "3"
sleep 1
echo "2"
sleep 1
echo "1"
Because I run this from a button on my gnome panel, I added the sleep commands to the end so that I could review the feedback for issues before the command window closes. I figured 10 seconds was enough, but I liked seeing the time count down.
If anyone has a question about the abve script, feel free to ask. Click on the "comment about this entry" link above to do so. I gotta run to pick up Cadence from the sitter's. I'm running late...waaaay late. I'm a bad dad. :(
More ranting about Internet Explorer
Posted on 2005-12-08 at 08:02
If you are reading my blog using that crap browser, then the headings at the top of this page are garbage. IE still steadfastly refuses to support transparent png graphics. I could convert all my png's to gif's which IE supports, but I care so very little about supporting IE that I'm not gonna. If you are using IE, here's what you need:
OK. that was a bit over the top, but you get the idea. Get Firefox and stop gnawing at the rotting end of the Internet carcass.
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Posted on 2005-12-08 at 08:01
Note that new stuff at the top of the page. Mostly I got bored with the old look, so I changed it up a but.
Also, though, I added a name to my blog. Mark has one so I had to as well. For the moment I've chosen "Flickering Eyelid". Why? I dunno. You tell me. Apparently "Flickering Eyelid" is one of the top search terms used to reach my site. Seemed weird to me, but hey, I'm going with it.
A new game
Posted on 2005-12-07 at 08:01
This is fun. The ads are all content-sensitive, so now I get to have fun writing about random stuff just to see what sorts of ads show up! So cool! It's a game like Parcheesi, but without all the "gay" baggage. OK, well, I have to go pick up Cadence from the babysitter's, so I'll have to play more later.
Why have you forsaken us, Tom?
Posted on 2005-11-04 at 08:01
My current client, Sentara, doesn't have an Internet connection that my laptop can use and I'm still feeling them out about using the main system for non-business stuff like posting my blog entries or checking my email. That's why the number of posts has dropped.
Don't worry. When this blog pays my mortgage, I'll be much more dedicated to an entry a day. :)
Named Blogs
Posted on 2005-10-28 at 08:03
Ya know, everyone else names their blogs. I should give mine a name besides "Tom Caudron's Web Log". Maybe something like "Tom's Amazing Blog Elixir and Colon Cleanser" or "What're Ya Looking at bitch?" I dunno. I should think about it for a bit then give it a name.
Mark has a blog now
Posted on 2005-10-28 at 08:02
You can read it over on LiveJournal.
I'm back
Posted on 2005-09-23 at 08:01
I'm back in town and I should be doing more blogging now. Being in China just just too much energy to add blogging to my to-do list as well.
Blog dates
Posted on 2005-09-07 at 08:01
It's 5:42 AM on Thursday the 8th in Beijing. Yes, my blog says the 7th. I decided to keep my blog dates in the U.S. timezone. Back home, it's 5:42 PM on Wednesday the 7th.
Where'd the missing day go?
Posted on 2005-09-05 at 08:02
If you were an astute reader you will have noted that this entry is dated the 5th, while yesterday's entry is dated the 3rd. What gives? I'll tell you. In terms of time zones I'm 12 hours ahead of my own server right now. I effectively lost one day, though I'll get it back on the way home.
Leaving for China in about 20 hours
Posted on 2005-09-03 at 08:02
I expect to have internet access for at least the last two weeks of the trip, but the first week is sketchy. I don't know that I'll have access. Once I do, I'll be posting blog entries and checking email as time permits. Denise will be doing the same over at http://denise.digitalelite.com. Her site is more about the specifics of the adoption and trip than this one, so there may be details that get posted there that you won't see here. Likewise, you may also see some content that is the same across both sites.
Blog content
Posted on 2005-08-31 at 08:03
I realize the content of the blog has been singleminded lately. Once this trip is behind me, I expect I'll be able to move to my next obsession. Until then, deal with it. :)
Why do I do this?
Posted on 2005-08-31 at 08:01
Updating my blog on the last day of the month is probably a waste of time. I goes off the front page so quick that it's likley noone ever reads it. Well, I'm gonna do it anyway.
Commenting about my blog!
Posted on 2005-08-18 at 08:01
Note the link next to the heading for each day. You can click on that to offer me feedback about a particular entry. It'll open your mail cleint and populate the subject line with the entry date you intend to comment about. Feel free to try it out. :) Thanks go to Bob for spurring me on to do this. I still need to tweak it a bit, but the basic functionality is there. Enjoy my new interactive blog.
Still?
Posted on 2005-08-15 at 08:05
Are you viewing this site using Internet Explorer? Well stop! Unless you are a flaggelant, there is no reason to continue beating yourself with that stick. Go to http://www.GetFirefox.com and get a browser with which you can be proud to be seen. It's easy. It's better. And the icons in the upper right corner of the screen right now will display properly. Plus, you can sleep at night knowing that you are no longer being led hook-in-nose by the Tyrant in Redmond. Don't be evil. Use Firefox instead.
Form Criticism and My Blog
Posted on 2005-08-12 at 08:01
Writing is a multi-layered process. A good writer doesn't turn in his first draft; instead he mercilessly edits it until it hardly resembles the original. That's why this blog is, for me, an interesting experiment.
These entries don't go through the normal vetting process. I don't pour over them, making endless corrections. I don't do these things, because that is not what my blog is.
Once the entry is out there, I am quite loath to make changes, and tend to only make changes that don't alter the character of the original post. I don't know if that's how blogs ought to be written and read, but I know that's how you ought to read mine, because that's how I wrote it.
Changes to my blog
Posted on 2005-08-09 at 08:01
This is under-the-hood info, so if you don't care, move on to the next entry.
I've made some changes to the structure of the site. Firstly, you will notice the page names are now different. I used to use a mmyy_blog.htm format, but now I use the superior
XML, XSL, CSS, and Atom
Posted on 2005-08-08 at 08:04
Well, I've started moving converted content to the site. You will now note (or, for the apathetic, ignore) that older content is all in xml files and within a day or two I expect all content to be in xml format. Specifically, the xml I chose was Atom feed format. It's like RSS, but better. When I'm all done, you should be able to subscribe to the site as a live feed and just get headlines in your feed reader. That's cool stuff if it works. Either way, xml is cleaner and easier to use moving forward, so I did it.
And Girls?
Posted on 2005-08-08 at 08:03
The last entry asks a good question. Do any chicks read my blog? I mean, sure we all know that women want me and they're prepared to pay, but do they read the blog too? It's probably best that I never find out. I mean, this thing is an embarrassment enough just knowing that my own sex is reading it. Why, in God's name, would I want to subject a women to this horrid mess?
Remote posting?
Posted on 2005-08-02 at 08:01
If you are reading this, then I have solved the problem of how to remotely post a blog entry. This means I can now add entries while at work or otherwise away from home. That's cool stuff.
Website looks strange
Posted on 2005-08-01 at 08:03
Yes, I know. It's jsut a permissions issue with some files on my site. I expect to have it fixed shortly. If the site looks fine to you, then I've already fixed it.
Still working on them
Posted on 2005-07-29 at 08:02
Two things I promised: An RSS feed for my blog and the ability for me to remotely post a blog entry so that I can blog whenever the mood strikes. The RSS feed is proceeding apace, but it takes a while to convert all my old stuff to the new xml format, and the remote blogging thing is stimeied by permissions issues. I'm troublehsooting it now, but I'm not sure what the problem is, so I can't say when I'll overcome it.
Guild Wars
Posted on 2005-07-26 at 08:01
This game is crack. I can't stop playing it. That's why there've been no entries for a few days. I'm working on being able to post to my blog remotely (not possible right now). If I get that working, it'll mean I can blog whenever/whereever the mood or idea strikes me.
Honestly...
Posted on 2005-07-20 at 08:03
This is one of the funniest blog entries I've ever read.
I have been admonished
Posted on 2005-07-17 at 08:01
So, I've been told that my blog is not updated often enough. This is, of course, because in the last few weeks I've wiped-n-reinstalled my main system at least 6 to 7 times. I can safely say, now, that my system is just how I want it to be, so you can expect greater blog volume going forward.
Who you be?
Posted on 2005-06-08 at 08:01
The world according to my website logs:
- I average 22 visitors per day for an average of 4.72 MB of bandwidth per day on average.
- My paper on Milton's Satan is the most popular page (after the index page, at least).
- I've had visitors from 50 different countries and 47 different US states.
- Outside the US, China is my number one fan (accounting for 1.53%, or 317, of my visitors).
- Of the states, apparently my number one fan is Georgia. Why? I dunno. I'd have thought it was Virginia, but that's only number 4 on the list.
- The top search phrases that bring people to my site are "Milton's Satan", "Greyhawk Map", "Yaldaboath", and "Flickering Eyelid". Interestingly, though, "Dungeon's and Dragons Satan's Game" is pretty high on the list as well. LOL!
- IE still accounts for the bulk of my traffic (Around 45% or so), but Firefox is 10.93% of it, and the rest is made of of variations on Mozilla, Opera, and some download utilities.
- Linux accounts for 8.08% of my traffic, while the Mac accounts for 2.44%. SunOS and FreeBSD are represented as well, but the vast majority of my traffic is from Windows-based boxen.
So Tom, Why don't you blog as much as you used to?
Posted on 2005-04-07 at 08:02
My computer is intermittently screwing up and my client is getting more demanding. I'm not pleased with either of those problems and I aim to fix them both this year. Why "this year" and not "right away"? Because that's not the plan. The plan is throw as much money into the mortgage as possible (precluding fixing the first issue) until I am no longer working full time (which will happen when the baby comes back from China, precluding fixing the second issue).
So, what's the deal, Tom?
Posted on 2005-03-20 at 08:01
OK. The blog has been stagnant since the end of February. Why? My main system crashed. Once I get things back to normal, my blogging will continue---despite the protests and threatening emails (and you know who you are, don't you, Pat Robertson!).
I only posted today because the system gave me a glimmer of life and I took advantage of it to get something up here. That's how dedicated I am to you people, but do I get thanks (and by 'thanks' I mean cash rewards)? Noooooo! Just criticisms and the occasional nude male pic (Bryan, if I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, I'm not interested!).
It's been a year!
Posted on 2005-02-26 at 08:05
I just noticed that my first blog entry was entered on Feb 20th 2004. As of 6 days ago, my blog is a year old.
The XML-ifying of this blog...
Posted on 2005-02-07 at 08:02
...is proceeding apace. During my freetime, I'm moving the content to the new format. When I'm done, I'll roll it all out at once.
RSS, CSS, and XSL
Posted on 2005-02-04 at 08:01
I'm in the process of making changes to this blog that will allow you to subscribe to it as a feed. I considered doing it all dynamically, but then thought that it would be an interesting challenge to impoement it witout resorting to dynamic content. Instead, the base page will be written in XML (specifically the Atom namespace brand of XML) and I will use XSL and CSS to transform it back into the html you are used to seeing. The results should be kinda cool. I've got it almost complete and will unveil it soon. Of course, if I did it right, the grand unveiling will be a bit lame, since it should all look identical to how it does now...but with the ability to subscribe to the blog feed.
RSS, CSS, and maybe XSL
Posted on 2005-01-28 at 08:02
I'm looking to change the underlying tech of this blog so that people are able to subscribe to its RSS feed. We'll see how it goes. I'm running into some stupid problems in Mozilla with mime type issues. [beedy beedy beedy]
I am your GAWD!
Posted on 2005-01-07 at 08:01
Since I've been blogging, Will and Bryan have both pick up an interest in it. Bryan doesn't blog a lot, but Will has recently decided to try to blog every day. He wants to use it as a tool to improve his mad writing skillz (or at least get used to writing a lot). Bow before my blogging might!
Remote Blogging
Posted on 2005-01-06 at 08:03
I need some way to post to this blog from elsewhere. That'd be ideal. I'm gonna look into that. That way, while I'm at work a lot, I can still post commentary. Either way, I'm renewing my efforts in this blog, so stay tuned for more frequent updates. :)
I haven't written much in the past 30 days or so
Posted on 2004-12-14 at 08:01
This is not a sign of things to come, but rather an indicator of my current busy/rest ratio. Work has swamped me and, frankly, I'm not sure it's worth the effort. On the brighter side, the flooring business is picking up, and I enjoy that stuff.
I'm not blogging everyday?
Posted on 2004-11-17 at 08:04
Right. :( I would, but I've been sick and busy with work. That's all. Expect me to slowly gain steam again. Besides that, all my free typing time has been spent arguing with Conspiracy Dave on the DE list. The NSA is not spying on us through our cats' eyes remotely. They cannot read my hard drive through my power line. The Ark of the Covenant is not a giant battery laser that the Jews built with secret Egyptian technology long since lost to the ages.
Link directly to your favorite blog entry!
Posted on 2004-10-15 at 08:02
By popular demand (i.e., I was bored and added it though no one asked or cares), I've added the ability to link directly to a blog entry. If you want to reference a specific day in the month, just add "#<day>" at the end of the URL, where <day> is the day of the month you want. So, for instance, if you want to link to my blog entry of August 25th, 2004 (because my views on human nature have changed you profoundly and you now worship me as a Gawd!) you'd link to: http://tom.digitalelite.com/0804_blog.htm#25.
Shout out to my unknown homey
Posted on 2004-10-01 at 08:02
So Dave tells me that the webmaster at his job, Frank, reads my blog on occasion. Cool. :-)
Been a few days...
Posted on 2004-09-26 at 08:01
...since I blogged. Just got busy. That's all.
You aren't imagining it
Posted on 2004-09-08 at 08:03
I've changed the colors on my site. I also added some small graphics on the upper right menu. If you don't like it, feel free to drop me a note.
GenCon
Posted on 2004-08-17 at 08:01
I'm leaving for GenCon tomorrow morning! Sweet! I won't be blogging til I get back. That'll be on Sunday. See ya then. Time to pack.
Busy :-(
Posted on 2004-07-27 at 08:02
I've been so busy lately that I haven't had a chance to blog much. That needs to change.
The wait is over
Posted on 2004-07-16 at 08:01
I've been moving to the new home since June 21st, so I haven't had a chance to blog. Below I will try to hit the highlights.
OK, so I'm lame
Posted on 2004-04-29 at 08:01
I've been out of town and busier than I'd like for the last couple of weeks which is why there is such a large gap in the blog. I'll try to cover the last couple weeks events below.
My blog
Posted on 2004-04-08 at 08:01
I like the hands-on, simple text-edness of my blog (just open the page and edit it by hand to add an entry), but I really wish I had an RSS feed for it. That'd be cool. Not that it really matters, since noone reads this thing. :-)
Quiet time
Posted on 2004-04-07 at 08:02
I haven't been posting much lately due to the fact that I'm selling my house, buying a new new, adopting a kid, and still have a spanking new home business to run. Too much stuff, not enough time.
No foolin'
Posted on 2004-04-02 at 08:01
Note how nice I was. There were no stupid April 1st postings.
Bittorrent + RSS
Posted on 2004-03-16 at 08:01
I read an interesting article on "Broadcaching". This is an idea that, I believe, foreshadows the way things will be. As things stand, RSS is a simple Pull technology but that is simply not scalable enough in the long term for real data broadcasting. Neither is it's counterpart, Push technology. We need to explore better and more complex models to enable the killer networking apps of the future.
This Site
Posted on 2004-02-20 at 08:03
Denise is out all night at her parents becuase her grandparents are in town and I was supposed to be playing D&D all night anyway. Now I'm home alone, bored, and I've changed the theme and content of this site drastically. I should go to bed, but I probably won't for a bit longer.
My site is born
Posted on 2004-01-30 at 08:01
It's official that my site now exists. Expect great and wondrous things. I love dashing expectations.