I learned a lot in my first day of school today. But not about the sort of things that I thought that I’d be learning. My first class was Knowledge and Reality, your standard intro-to-philsophy class. Well, standard except that there were hundreds of students in this class. Every seat in the auditorium was full, …
Monthly Archives: August 2003
PayPal changed their query format.
Without telling anybody — at least, without telling me — PayPal changed their format for URLs that permit people to send money. Nobody had booked ads on nancies.org for a couple of days, which I thought was weird. Turns out that the link that people click on to purchase a text ad led people to …
Sterling Ball, unlikely Linux guru.
C|Net has an excellent interview with Ernie Ball’s CEO, Sterling Ball. Ernie Ball is known as the world’s leading manufacturer of guitar strings, but now they’re becoming known as prime examples of the tremendous benefits that a business can realize from moving from Microsoft Windows to Linux. Three years ago, the BSA raided Ernie Ball’s …
They revamped the airport completely.
The students are coming back to Blacksburg. This sleepy little town is about to go from a population of 10,000 to 35,000. I’d gotten to like the town’s sparseness, the slow, friendly approach to just about everything. I think that’s about to disappear. Outside my window, where there’s a metered parking lot, SUV after SUV …
In the soft white underbelly of the beast.
I bought Microsoft Office today. I feel so dirty.
Geek plates.
I am a big geek. My new license plate seals it. (Note that this is not a political stance on Linux nomenclature; it’s just that the plate was available.)
Mo’ Betta fish.
This is my fish. His name is Charlie. He’s a Betta. I wanted a pet, but they’re not allowed in my apartment. Anything more complex than a fish, I’d kill and feel bad about it, anyhow. I speak to Charlie only in French. Which is fine, because he’s fairly stupid, being a fish, so the …
DSLd.
Aaaahhhhhh….bandwidth. The friendly neighborhood Ntelos just set up my DSL. It is such a relief to be able to get connected from home. And now to Charlottesville, to pick up my servers.
Eye-bleeding speed.
I feel a little silly spending my afternoon sitting in this empty student lounge in Squires here at Virginia Tech, but I have got the bandwidth of the gods. DSL Reports‘ test indicates that I have 4Mbps download and 3Mbps upload. This is in no small part because the campus is devoid of students until …
iBook fixed.
In Apple’s usual two-day turn-around, I got my iBook back today. The screen works perfectly. It’s so clean, in fact, that I think that they may have just replaced the whole LCD assembly. I’m definitely going to have to spring for AppleCare on this in a few months. Maybe somebody will get it for me …