Agile Tortoise

Archive for January, 2003

The circle and the oval

Posted a new short movie of Asher demonstrating new found skills: The circle and the oval.

Thursday, January 30th, 2003. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

My new Johnson Metal Resophonic Mandolin is on it’s way. I needed a better mandolin, and this seemed like a good option. I’ve very fond of my resophonic guitar, and it’s metal construction is great for playing around the house with the boys climbing all over me. This should have a unique [...]

Thursday, January 30th, 2003. Posted in Music | 2 Comments »>

Python at work

I’ve dabbled in Python, and done various investigations of Zope (written in Python) for years. I’ve always liked the language, and thought “I’d really like to use this more!” — but for some reason or another, I never ended up using it for anything but personal productivity and experimentation.
Well, as I installed it today, [...]

Thursday, January 30th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Album auctions, continued

Next set of auctions are:

Three Camper Van Beethoven LPs
Three Dire Straits LPs
Four Kate Bush LPs
Best of the Lovin’ Spoonful

If you haven’t heard Camper Van Beethoven, well, you missed one of the most fun bands of the ’80s. Very goofy, but fun. Somewhere in the same general area as the Violent Femmes and They [...]

Wednesday, January 29th, 2003. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

Not qualified?

Seth may be a lot of things, but not qualified enough for a Frontier job ain’t one of them. My quote to him on IM was, “i’m not sure there’s really _anyone_ more qualified on this planet.”
There’s a few people equally qualified for sure, but I can’t think of any more knowledgeable and experienced [...]

Tuesday, January 28th, 2003. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Family news

I added an RSS feed to the sidebar of this website showing the latest news on the Family site. For the few of you that read this site through via the web, that might be handy.

Tuesday, January 28th, 2003. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

The server that wouldn’t start

Filemaker is clueless in many ways…including the brilliant fact that the Filemaker Pro Server will not automatically start at boot time in the default installation. According to Filemaker, you have to manually start the server!!!! Hello!!!! If I wanted to manually start server software, I’d just setup a cot here at work [...]

Monday, January 27th, 2003. Posted in Technology | 2 Comments »>

Regime change

CS Monitor has a nice article on the US’s history of imposed regime changes…quote:

Most experts agree that the US record of building a democratic regime after ousting a leader is poor.

But, at least we’re persistent. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again…right?

Monday, January 27th, 2003. Posted in Politics | No Comments »>

Conversant mailing list interface

A new Conversant feature I worked on has been rolled out — the Mailing list interface. Conversant’s email integration is one of it’s most compelling features, but until now it lacked a good easy to use central list manager, to let admins see who is subscribed and change member email settings. I know [...]

Monday, January 27th, 2003. Posted in Technology | 8 Comments »>

Mail.app junk mail failure

I like the junk mail filters in Apple’s Mail.app. Unfortunately, they’ve stopped working on my TiBook. They are turned on, but no junk is being filtered all of a sudden…I tried toggling them on and off to no avail. Guess I’ll have to dig deeper.

Friday, January 24th, 2003. Posted in Technology | 3 Comments »>

I am Meeting-Man!

All I do now at work is go to meetings. 4 long scheduled meetings every week. At least 1/2 dozen other unscheduled ones. I’d say it impacted my productivity, but, more accurately, it has completely eliminated it.

Friday, January 24th, 2003. Posted in Work | 2 Comments »>

Mac killer

Yep, that’s me. It’s sad, but I’m sending a bunch of iMacs out to pasture at work in favor of Wintel boxes. Part of me hates to do it, but I really can’t avoid it at this point.
As a developer, I can’t implement everything to work on both platforms. As an administrator, [...]

Monday, January 20th, 2003. Posted in Technology | 2 Comments »>

MD over Duke

I’ve been kinda slow to get into College Basketball this year, not sure why…but it was fun to watch my Terps beat #1 Duke on Saturday.

Monday, January 20th, 2003. Posted in Sports | No Comments »>

The next set of LPs

Here’s my second set of eBay album auctions…

Four Elvis Costello LPs
Six Iggy Pop and Stooges LPs
Four Early Sonic Youth LPs
Three Lenny Bruce LPs
Lenny Bruce 3-LP Original Carnegie Hall Concert

The highlights of this batch include: the 3-LP Lenny Bruce concert — which is the only available unedited complete Lenny Bruce concert. Sadly, most of his [...]

Sunday, January 19th, 2003. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

uControl

Just installed uControl on my TiBook. Sweet. It allows you to do all sort of interested key reassignments, but mostly it’s cool because it allows you to hold down a modifier key and have the trackpad act like a scroll-wheel on a mouse. Great for surfing on the couch.

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