August 2002 Archives

Slashdot | Apple Secretly Maintaining X86 Port Of OS X

I'm ready. Bring it on.

I've kicked off a new section of the site, potty mouth! You should check it out and contribute.

Coming soon: random word/phrase of the day as well as a potty mouth search engine.

kartoo is a pretty sweet visual search engine. Not as fast as Google, but definitely more complex. Check it out.

I'm happy with they way things went tonight on American Idol. Nikki went home, which was the right thing to do. Justin hung around, which is ok, I guess, but I'd much rather have seen Tamyra up there.

I'm looking forward to next week. Should be some good performances. Maybe they'll even be as good as the ones tonight (which were way better than even the ones they did yesterday).

As a side note, Dave posted this link to the Kelly Clarkson fan club. I guess since there's a real fan club, I'll never get an email from her now... Unless, of course, she searches for Kelly Clarkson porn, in which case she'll definitely show up here. Ah well... Them's the breaks.

1) According to CNN, the American public thinks Kelly is the *clear* winner.

2) I hope this can be a friendly disagreement: Dawn's got her head up her ass on this one. Justin and Nikki, yeah they're not so stellar. Kelly, though? Come on. She's definitely a skilled singer, she comes off as personable and charming. Come on Dawn, can't you rethink this?

3) Google is confused: there is no Kelly Clarkson porn here. I can't even get an email from her, nevermind porn. And even if I did get some, I don't think I'd share. So there.

4) Dave posted a link to Tamyra's record deal in the comments. Wonder when she'll get released? Wonder if Dawn will do a review of it at blogcritics? ; )

MTV is running an ad for the VMA's in which Jimmy Fallon impersonates Simon Cowell performing as a contestant. MTV then uses clips of COwell spliced together so that it looks like he's judging himself. He declares himself the one true winner of the contest. It's an excellent little ad.

Ok. Now I know most of America is following AI, but CNN? Isn't there other stuff that's more news-worthy? I'm watching Ryan Seacrest being interviewed right now live on CNN. Amazing.

AH! He just said that Tamyra got a record deal! Sweet.

Ah... Another episode of American Idol... I thought Kelly did really well on her first song. Other people who I spoke with didn't. I thought they needed their hearing checked. Then the judges spoke. I think they heard sounds from another dimension while I heard Kelly actually singing... Or maybe it was the other way around. In either case, her second song rocked.

I'm worried though. The American public is not rational, nor is it easy to guess the results of a "vote for the best" voting scheme. Nikki, again, did better than her usual (since her usual hasn't been very far above average for much of the competition). I don't think that should make her win, especially compared to Kelly. Justin gets my vote over Nikki, but I don't think he deserves to win either.

The key phrase there is "I don't think". You may think otherwise. I thought Kelly was hot as hell, sang her heart out (and did it extremely well), and came the closest to what I think the idol should be. I'd buy her cd. I wouldn't buy a cd by the others, though (unless Tamyra gets a recording deal).

And by the way, if one of you googlers who stops by happens to be Kelly Clarkson, feel free to send me an email. I'm a big fan and I'm not a stalker, I promise.

God I have to stop doing this... I sound like a twelve year old girl. Got to love kitsch culture, eh?

So I started working on a swear word/phrase dictionary... People would be able to post a word and its definition. Then you could view them, or maybe display a random one on your page...

It's half done, but I don't know if its worth finishing. I mean, I'd just be perpetuating the porn/smut/vulgarity on the internet, right? And just because I have a mouth like a truck driver, doesn't mean everyone else does too, right? Ah well... If you think you'd like to see it finished, let me know... Otherwise I think I'll just leave it unfinished.

I'd like to throw a quick hello out to all the googlers who are coming here looking for American Idol info.

Now that that's done, let's see... Oh yeah, tomorrow there's another episode. Last week, before the show, I told my sister that either Kelly or Tamyra would be voted off. I didn't post it here, but it came true, so this week I figured I'd make my prediction a little more permanent and let google throw it in the ol' cache-eroo.

This week I think Justin will be the one leaving. I hate to see Nikki stay, and I think she knows she's not very good, but we have lots of male pop singers and few punk girl singers (Pink, Avril, who else?) That's my call. We'll find out on Wednesday, and who knows... Maybe I'll change my mind after tomorrow's performances.

Mark Pasc has some comments about what he thinks a super aggregator would do. For a few days now I've been tossing around the idea of writing something that logs when people update their blogs. Personally, I tend to post late at night between the 11 pm and 2am hours. Other people who have faster connections at work might post more often during the day. In itself this is not very useful, merely a neat statistic about the blogosphere and when it's most active. My theory would be that blogging would be pretty steady throughout all hours as the active time (defined by me as the time that any given timezone would be active) moves around the world.

This gets more interesting though when you look at Pasc's comments. He would like his aggregator to check new feeds based on their likelyhood of being updated. I think this would be best implemented as a service: I would have a bot that collects info from pages and tracks their update pattern. The aggregator at start up hits my service, to find out whose sites should be updated for a block of time (maybe 5 hours into the future), stores that info, and rechecks feeds accordingly. This saves it the trouble of having to do all that work on its own as well as having to store the data. I'm trying to work through Dive into Python by Mark Pilgrim to learn Python. Maybe I'll try doing this with Python... I need a few more questions answered first, though.

Shareaza

"Question: I just recently downloaded Shareaza a couple days ago, and it was working fine. However, the past 5000 attempts to start it up it always says that I have preformed an illegal action and I have to close it out. Is this something with Shareaza and should I download it again, or is my computer being severly retarded?????
Thanks!

Answer: You are correct in thinking that your computer is retarded however you may be able to un-retard your computer by re-installing Shareaza and upgrading to a later version of your operating system - Windows 9x/ME generally (do) get more errors and crashing than Windows 2000/XP."

Ok, so I'm looking through the logs and I see a reference to the whois database. That's a little bit scary since it has my name and address and other personal information. A little while later there's a reference from www.addresses.com/links, which is a broken url (I couldn't get it to work like that, but that's exactly how it was in the logs).

What the hell is this all about? I feel like I'm being tracked. This better be Dawn stalking me, cause if not that's kind of creepy... I'm going to go shut the shades... Br right back...

Liquid Cooling the Gainward Golden Sample 750/XP PART 3 - Deviant PC
Ok. So maybe you're not into tearing your computer apart, pulling some of the bots and pices out of it, and then running cold, wet water through it. However, if this gets you all fired up, you need to check out this article. The reading isn't as exciting as the pictures, though. That's some high quality metal work for a garage and a homemade milling machine. That's friggen DeDiCaTiOn.

Improv Message Boards - True Porn Clerk Stories
There's a new Porn Clerk Story up, posted on Thursday. I think they're pretty funny. If you haven't read any of the others, you should definitely use the links at the top of the page to get to the beggining.

What really gets me about this is the Ali Davis has. Her writing is far superior to much of what is on the web, is interesting, and funny. Why the hell is she working at a porn store? It really scares the hell out of me. Here I am, twenty grand in the whole still after an eighty thousand dollar education, and for all I know, I'll be working at a tampon factory or something, wasting my college education on a running commentary of how many strings I had to sweep off the floor on any given day. I mean at least it would be a job and all, and I could have it worse, but isn;t th whole point of education that its *supposed* to get better?

I have to stop. If I continue with this line of thought, I'll have nightmares. Simon says "Did you go to college? Well get a lawyer and sue your school."

A Battlefield Bot That Won't Die
We can do this but we can't cure MS, cancer, and AIDS? I guess this goes into the "If you throw enough money at it, you'll find your answer" category. And don't even get me started on the $160 million space dust NASA made last week.

errorwear: embrace your computer problems
Even geeks have to get some lovin', right?

BBC NEWS | Disposable planet
This is messed up. These people can't live as it is, and in order to eek out some sort of life, they're destroying all they have left. Where do we draw the line? Personally, I'm all for technical progress, advancing society, and having the newest fastest processor, but someone should be thinking about what happens to the old ones. Its the same thing with cars. We keep making more and we're not re-using the old ones as effectively as we could, in my opinion. I wouldn't be surprised if humans just kill ourselves off...

eBay Motors : Nissan 350 Z

Two lungs, two kidneys... I only need one of each to live decently... I wonder what they'd go for on the open market? Or, maybe eBay could accept them as payment?

I need to get a papertowel to clean this mess...

So I ranted and raved about American Idol last night. Of all the things I've written here, that one got me the most feedback. So, since it's popular, let me continue.

I got an email from Kirk E. and we went back and forth about the show and what happened. Personally, I think Nikki is a talentless hack. It's said best here: "Nikki is like some third rate talent show hooker". And that about sums it up for me. Was she better than the average American? Maybe. Should she have lasted aother week over Tamyra? No way in hell. I mean seriously. However, Kirk says Tamyra doesn't deserve to be the idol either. I disagreed, until I saw the aformentioned post where Leslie, the author, said "[Tamyra is] not a different kind of talent than we already have." I can agree with that,a dn that alone might make me thing she shouldn't be *the* Idol.

However, why does Kelly deserve to win? (and, yes I think she does) She has more raw talent, more personality, and I think, reminds all of us more of ourselves. She looks out at the cheering crowd like "WTF? why the hell are they cheering for me? I mean hey, I'm from Texas! The same Texas the laughable Cowboys are from!" She rolls her eyes like we do, is goofy and funny like we and our friends are, and is an all around American girl. And hey, for all I know, maybe it's all a facade; she does it really well, though.

Finally, Kirk reminded me that "it is subjective, ... isn't that what the WHOLE point of this...?" I agree, that is the point, and so I say the top two should have been Kelly and Tamyra, in that order.

And Justin? He can take his M.J. impersonating, skinny as all hell, ugly clothes wearing, floppy haired ass back to doing weddings.

So. Umm, yeah. Feel free to comment!

For the writers who visit, whygodwhy : 46.

This is the shit I find the most scary. We worry about the major terrorist groups. What about the small ones? I would liken them to McVeigh, the small groups who do things without thinking, whose actions are easily attributed to others, who could potentially cause just as much damage, if not more because of their *complete* ignorance and stupidity.

kottke.org :: James Gleick on What Just Happened

I thought this was an interesting piece. The other day I spoke to Dawn (via email) and she mentioned helping a friend get his blog set up. Last week I helped Cory get a blog running, and today I convinced a friend to start one (I'll link him when he does).

I find the whole thing fascinating. The communication networks that are formed are amazing to me. When I came across Dawn's page and started exploring the blogs linked in turn from there, I found myself stumbling into a whole other network of people. If you click around though, you'll find the blogs on her site aren't more than three clicks away from getting to the blogs linked on mine (such as kottke, and zeldman). When I found her site, I was like "wow, this is a group of people who discuss a whole different set of things from technology." However, it only takes one person in each group to understand the other group, and a connection is formed... It's really exhilirating...

What's the relation? I need to reread, but the people who link the networks might be socializers...

Jeffrey Zeldman says we should help our clients see the light by showing them how standards help them, not by "selling" them on standards. I agree wholeheartedly, and I think there should be a test suite available that displays this. For instance, maybe at the WASP, you could go to a page where the stylesheet was editable and the client could post text and see how it works. Every nihgt a little cron job could reset everything so it was back to useable, or maybe it would happen more frequently.

"Why?" you ask. Well, I know, as Zeldman says, its probably more productive to show a client the benefits of standards through their own system, but what about the small design firms that need to win a job using their standards knowledge vs. the competitors obliviousness? The CSS display suite would be a great way to give them a leg up.

Consider this filed in the list of projects to work on.

"However, I want to assure you that our relationship is based on a very different model. You are hungry and I feed you. Or rather, I try to feed you. And in the process am fed.

Actually, the hungry person is me. I feed myself."

I just reread my last post. I apologize for sounding like a blubbering teenager, but while I'm at it and before I forget, let me repeat:

GO KELLY CLARKSON

American Idol sucks my ass. I can't believe Tamyra ended up having to leave! I mean seriously. No offense Nikki, but compared to the other contestants, your skills are a little under par. You deserved to go home, and based on the amount of crying you did, you know it, too.

My sister and I were discussing the show and she said that she thinks it would be completely different if instead of voting for your favorite, you voted for the person who you thought should leave. I have to agree. All of a sudden, Nikki has a performance where she doesn't suck. A few people vote for her that have never voted, and a bunch of people who had been voting for other contestants vote for her as well. The hackers join in and vote for her, and the next thing you know, an incredible singer has to leave the show. Tamyra has an incredible voice, in the same league as Alicia Keyes. She deserved to stay.

This friggen show must be rigged, I swear it!

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report

Zeldman mentions Rustboy, a movie being worked on by Brian Taylor. The animation is spectacular.

Ironic, though, that I was just looking at Rustboy last night and then today he mentions it... I wonder if he's monitoring my thoughts...

Kottke mentions an article about proper pub etiquette, and mentions buying the bartender a drink instead of giving them a tip. More personal and different. I never thought of that. I wonder though, if that works in America (the article is about British pubs)... Someone will probably sue you for getting the bartender drunk when they don't have a designated driver... Stupid people...

According to Entertainment Weekly, American Idol voting results have been tampered with by phreaks who have found a way to rapid dial the voting system.

Now seriously. This pisses me off for two reasons: 1) Who the hell is running this show? Why can people vote more than once anyway? Damn, you people are stupid. 2) Who the hell (and I know there are multiple people) wastes there time hacking TV show voting lines? Drink a beer, go to the movies, do something with your life. I mean seriously: what losers.

And ok, out of fairness, I admit: I've called and voted more than once, three times max. Other things to do, right? Besides, some of those girls are wicked good and deserve to be win. Who am I not to give them that opportunity?

And by the way: Go Kelly Clarkson!

GoneSour?

I guess sometimes banner ads are ok, like when they alert you to the fact that there's a sour Altoid flavor... I'm going to have to try those...

So Dawn and I corresponded by email today about the picture I sent her (currently being displayed on her page) Within 45 minutes, I have about ten visitors from her page (and only one of them was me, I swear it). So, I'd like to say hi to everyone from there.

And, yes, I admit it: I'm a link whore. I can't help it...

In other news, Cory got his shit together today and started posting. Not much there yet, but knowing him it will get interesting real quick. Stay tuned.

Bloomberg.com : Technology News

"They're really very low-end products,'' Oracle Senior Vice President Andy Mendelsohn said at an investor conference this week. "I'm not too concerned about them being a viable competitor as yet.''

This stuff cracks me up. They are not low end products, they are products for a differnt niche. mySQL is geared towards smaller applications, places where you need to be able to customize the database, and they do their thing extremely well. If you don't need bloatware, its a perfect choice, and as it gets better (read: adds even more load balancing, backup, and other such features) it will continue to gain ground on the larger companies. That's what happens when you make *good* software.

Screw you Microsoft!

All Consuming

This is really neat. It checks recently updated weblogs and then scans them for links to amazon. It then combines them and lists books that are currently being talked about.

I think this is pretty sweet. It shows the power of giving people access to API's. You get all kinds of neat uses. This benefits the community by sharing knowledge and gets Amazon some more publicity and traffic. Bravo!

It was a pretty slow weekend around here. Dawn posted a picture of her "J Lo" ass for all to see, requesting that if you liked it you leave a tip. The original link was broken, so I fished around until I found the pic. In the process, I found some others of her and photoshopped them a little. I was a little worried; I mean I only sent her a single email and here I am photoshopping her pants off (literally!). She could have just as quickly wrote back and told me not to contact her ever again, but instead she said she loved them. She aso said she hadn't tried the boomarklets I told her about, but the way I see it, between the photoshopping, the tip (oh yeah, I didn't mention: I sent her a tip), and the bookmarklet, hopefully I'll end up in her good graces. ::dances:: Go me, go me, go me...

Umm yeah. So in other news, the Patriots won last night. Forst game in the new stadium, first time the enter the field announced as the defending world champion New England Patriots. I wasn't very impressed with Brady's performance: he seems a little off. It is pre-season though, so he has some time to get his shit together.

Oh yeah, the Red Sox won last night too. However, one game does not a pennant win, so they better shape up or ship out. Bastards.

Update: The BoSox lost today. God do I hate them (but I really love them)...

Up Yours - And More Helpful Tips

What more could you ask for? How 'bout a whopping 9.9 rating on the "Is my Blog Hot or Not" rating scale? I think I have a crush.

I wrote her an email offering a solution (hopefully) to a question she asked (namely how to make posting in blogger easier, to which I replied "try a bookmarklet!"). Now I await a response.

It's nice to feel useful.

Reuters | Robot "learns" to fly

I thought this would be more intersting than it was. Basically, they fed it a bunch of instructions and it picked out the good ones and combined them, according top the article. Doesn't sound like much more than a try everything, pick the best ones, and try them in combinations type algorithm... Oh well...

eatonweb portal :: the original weblog directory

I registerd with the eaton web portal tonight. I wonder if it'll bring new traffic?

In other news, I posted a comment at blogroots regarding professional bloggers. I think its a good idea, however, I think a better argument needs to be created to support the idea financially.

Well, I figured out how to install DBI myself and did it. However, I can't install DBD::mysql. I get a whole list of errors that spew out so fast I can't even read them. I'm still trying, but I'd appreciate any help anyone could offer. I'm pretty sure its a linking problem. I'm installing in a hosted environment without root privileges, which I've read is possible, but I'm not sure how. I also think the problems are related to the linker... Feel free to let me know if you can help.

O'Reilly Network: Blogging for Dollars: Giving Rise to the Professional Blogger [Aug. 12, 2002]

Meg's new column is up over at the O'Reilly network. I enjoy reading her articles. This one got me thinking about how I could make my blog better by focusing more directly on content and actually doing something.

Towards that end, I sent another email to my provider asking that the perl packages that I need for the searching stuff be added... Hopefully they'll do it soon, but we'll see...

And in other news, a friend's company website was hacked... Something about leaving the public ftp access on and a cgi being uploaded... It's wicked sucky.

Working with Javascript - Mozilla SOAP API

Excellent tutorial by Scott Andrew. I highly recommend signing up for a Google API key, because it lets your try this kind of stuff out. Personally, my SOAP knowledge is limited, however,after learning that Microsoft's TerraServer database (a collection of high-res satellite imagery) is SOAP-able (I made that word up), I will definitely need to look into this some more. For a list of web services available, check out xmethods.

scottandrew.com

CNN.com - Crocodiles eat woman

Suicide? I think not. My theory is that it was too many episodes of The Crocodile Hunter

Slashdot | Rat Mind Control

This is quality... All I can picture is a rat with an antenna on its head doing donuts on a linoleum floor while a bunch of geeky scientists cheer on a buddy with a remote control...

Seriously, though. Scary stuff. There are people who are already putting microchips in their bodies. Is this the "big brother" scenario we never imagined? Where we all run around being remotely controlled by some bastard laughing insanely? Hmmm...

Yahoo! News - Study: Jet Exhaust Affects Weather

One more sign that we really don't understand all of the consequences of our actions, even those that we think are ordinary and mundane. Maybe the world would be better off if humand were extinct, however I think we're here for a reason... I just don't know what it is...

I saw Signs this weekend and loved it. I'd even see it again.

Shyamalan pays close attention to detail in this flick featuring Mel Gibson as a former pastor who is questioning his faith under the threat of an alien invasion. The children are very believable as is Gibson, and it is easy to associate with them throughout the film. In comparison to Shyamalan's previous popular works, I feel this film is much more like The Sixth Sense than it is Unbreakable. I was disappointed after seeing the latter, however this film more than makes up for it. There is some breathtaking camera work as well as a tight storyline and a great ending. I found myself mesmerized throughout the film. I have seen quite a few movies lately and the audience has been rude and annoying at all of them, talking, answering cell phones, etc. This is the first film I've seen in a while where the audience was actually stunned into silence, awaiting the next development, unable to turn their attention away.

Signs plays on fears we all have in order to create a story that is very believable as well as entertaining. I highly recommend it. I give it an A.

I'm back from my trip to PA. I had a good time, got to see some friends, and overall enjoyed the trip. It was worth the driving. However, I do feel as though I lost touch with the world (and I was only gone for three days)... So, here goes a flurry of posting, starting with this:

I think Lance (creative mind behind Glassdog) is an extremely talented and humorous writer, and I look forward to reading his stuff, no matter what the subject. Check it out.

I'm off to Pennsylvania. Hopefully, this time I have the right weekend. In any case, I'll see you all on Sunday.

Hopefully, by then I'll have the new database packages installed on my web host so I can move to mySQL. I was planning on releasing my rdf parser over the weekend, but I realized it's an RSS parser (the schemas are different). So, when I get back look for that, and if I get to it, maybe an MT plugin as well (my guess is someone has already done that, though).

Have a good weekend.

The Web Standards Project

The XHTML spec has been published. It, unlike its predeccessors, will not be backward compliant with HTML and the XHTML 1.0 specs. Just when you thought you had it all figured out, something else to learn in order to be the cool kid on the block.

And the great big tech wheel in the sky keeps on turning...

Openwire - Moveable Type Search

Well, a fresher version of the MT search engine has been released. I'm still waiting for my host to install the perl package I need to convert over to mysql. Once that happens, I'll hopefully be able to try out some of the search ideas I've been working on.

CNN.com - Report: Tape sheds light on WTC rescuers - August 4, 2002

Another tape was found documenting the extreme bravery of the rescuers involved in the 9-11 terrorist attacks. I can only hope that faced with the same situations, I would have been as brave and heroic. Those guys were incredible.

Asa's Blog

I got to help Asa out with his new site design so as to make it more usable in other browsers than Moz. Asa helped me get started with learning XUL, so I figured I'd return the favor. Part of his problem was because IE requires setting the top attribute when using a position: relative statement as well as the fast that IE doesn't support the position:fixed attributes.

In any case, he's got a new layout. He's a major contributor to the Mozilla project and his blog is an interesting read if you use Moz as well as a way to check out some of the other Mozilla developers' blogs.

I started to work in the rest of the changes I learned about at Mark's site during his Dive into Accessibility series. This includes everything from some structural changes to changes in the way font sizes are declared. I'll be working on the accessibility stuff soon and moving the changes into some of the other templates (currently they only have been added to the index). Let me know if you experience any problems so I can resolve them.

Ok. Someone keeps finding me by searching for PHP and Mozilla. Now I know I have plenty of randow posting about both things, but my guess is you're looking for something specific? What is it? Maybe I can help you? Leave a message if you want...

Mozilla Extensions

So I installed the small version of the Orbit theme and I love it. I might change the background color a little bit because it's really light, but otherwise, it gives a little more screen space and is nice looking too.

The link above takes you to a page where you can find some extensions for Moz. I'm really really loving the Tabbrowser extensions. Control click a bookmark to open it in a new tab. Sweet. I can open all my bookmakrs from a certain category in a window. So, I have a folder of web design bookmarks that I can open in one window and a folder of news bookmarks that I can open in another. Supposedly, its even possible to bookmakr a group of tabs so that one click does it all. Now if that's not a great feature, I don't know what is.

Yup. I love Moz.

Quantity Over Quantity: Jimmy Guterman's 'blog

Having been a DJ throughout College, I can relate to this and agree. A good DJ sounds friendly, has interesting thins to say, knows when to shut up, and plays good music. If links are equivalent to songs, a good blogger does the same, keeping you tuning in drom time to time to check out their stuff.
::via Dave::

Apple - Xserve

I can't wait to be able to afford one of these... I really really really love OS X. When they finally release it for the intel platform, I'm there.

Confessions of a Mozillian

Dave Hyatt, a former AOL employee and Mozilla contributor who now works for Apple, has a "rant" about why Mozilla took so long and the UI.

I keep reading all of these posts by people about how the UI for Mozilla is bad. I don't understand. I use Mozilla every day, but I don't see the problems. I know that everyone uses applications differently. I don't use the sidebar, I do use tabs, and I use a few keyboard shortcuts. Is there someone out there who can tell me what the big deal is? Maybe when I have my grandmother start using it, she'll be able to tell me what the problem is...

Reading Email Headers

An excellent source of information about how email works as well as how to determine the validity of a message as well as how to tell where a message comes from. Good reading.

:: Self-Healing Minefield ::

I mean this is great and all, but when you think about all the problems we have removing mines now, what happens when we forget how to turn these things of? How will we ever get them out of the wild?

Kottke on Andrew Sullivan

Although thoroughly amused by Kottke's "lemming-isms", I'm not so sure I agree with him completely. Some weblogs do make a lot of noise that no one listens to. Others, however, are very informative and useful. Just like anything else, there are always exceptions to the rule.

So Mark linked to me today... As I discovered that, the following thoughts popped into my head:
1. Did he do it, or is that part of his blog automated?
2. I better finish applying all of the tips from his Accessibility series to my site before he notices...

In any case, now that I know there's a SQL plugin for Movable Type, maybe I will move my stuff over to that instead of using the text-based system... The only question is whether or not the DBI package is installed for Perl at my host. I'll have to check it out. And while I'm at it, maybe I'll whip up a full text search and compare the speed to the other MT search tool. And then I'll implement categories... And then...

Well, I was wrong. All my preparations were in vain. The wedding is next weekend, and through my own stupidy and absent-mindedness, I almost went to PA the wrong weekend. Gees.

The good news is that I was contacted by Sapphire Technologies and Sears. The first wants my resume and a meeting next week, the second would be a part time salesperson job and I interview tomorrow. If I hadn't been here, I'd have missed the phone calls. Funny how life works, huh?

Anyway, its nice to know that all of my job-searching work is starting to pay off. I can't wait to be working again...