Cool, scored a three-week contract job, customizing a web shopping cart!
18 Feb 2011
21 Sep 2010
Functional Fixedness
So, I’m about 10 or 11, working on a pinewood derby car, or something else stupid, it doesn’t matter. My father’s watching me, as I proceed to bang on the end of a screwdriver with a hammer. My father didn’t freak out, like many fathers would when observing a violation of the rules of tools of that magnitude, all he said was, “Well, I see you don’t allow yourself to be constrained by the functional fixedness of real-time solution objects.”
I loved my Dad.
31 Aug 2010
Wow! It’s all worth it!
8/27 was our one-year anniversary of taking in our foster son. Today, we found out that 9/9 is our court date to finalize adoption! wow wow wowie wow wow
Pictures will follow
30 Jul 2010
15 Jan 2009
Progress on Klortho!
Klortho
I got a small C program working, that acts as a FastCGI, fetches XML with libcurl, extracts the xml-stylesheet PI from the result and applies the transformation using libxml and libxslt, then returns HTML to the browser. Yay!
Still TBD:
- extract all headers, and pass them through libcurl
- handle POST, HEAD and PUT
- handle HTTP authentication
- pass response headers through transparently
- proxy non-XML requests, and XML without a stylesheet PI
- clean up the C
- fix the autoconf/automake stuff
- test portability
Still, I’m pleased, and inspired to actually do more work on this.
Anyone want to help?
04 Nov 2008
05 Sep 2008
My Life with the Ghosts of Bush
Has it really been that long? 19 fucking 81? I graduated from high school that year. First year of the Reagan blight, which was made easier (for me anyway) by the release of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. By this time, I’d allowed my young mind to be scorched by some pretty advanced shit, for the time…Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Velvet Underground, Zappa, Devo: this was something else. It sounded like the future of music, like shit was seriously evolving, like nothing would be the same again. Turned out to be true, in ways that only W. S. Burroughs could have imaged; but I digress…
Eno and Byrne have a new album out! Wubbada wubbabda whah huh???? Yeah I know, it’s quite different, yeah it’s “proper songs” and not audio collages with found sounds, but who the fuck cares: it’s Eno and Byrne together for the first time in umpty-billion years!
Plus, there’s a tour!
Holy shit, the world is NOT a COMPLETE pile of suck!