Archive for November 2005
Updated: 22 Nov 2005 06:58 am by
Filed: Geek Stuff • Linux
Having recently upgraded most of my boxes to Ubuntu 5.10, I needed to get NewAtlanta’s BlueDragon CFML server re-installed. The good news is that the steps from my earlier post worked verbatim (aside from finding a couple of tweaks to the post where I clearly mis-typed a portion of a step or two). The good news is that I now have BD6.2 running against the stock Ubuntu Apache 2.0.54, and MySQL 4.0.24. I have gone back and tweaked just a couple of items in those instructions to clear up those mistakes.
Updated: 18 Nov 2005 06:38 am by
Filed: Geek Stuff
Well, OK. Not really that kind of dance…
The new look here at we3geeks is a WordPress theme that I have been working on (or more correctly, off and on) for the past couple of months. Called “Tango” (hence the dance comment), it is based in large part on the colors, presentation, and icons of the Tango Desktop Project’s work. It is definitely still a work in progress, and my intent is to continue to clean it up and make it work (and look!) better in the coming weeks. It has taken what seems like forever to get it even to this point, where I could roll it out, in part due to an almost complete lack of time to play with it, and because this is my first (admittedly feeble) attempt at putting together a WordPress theme.
There are still a fair number of rough bits (e.g., I know that the layout is kind of dorked up in IE) that I need to work through and clean up. Keep watching.
Updated: 16 Nov 2005 07:05 am by
Filed: Books & Reading
John Irving, Random House, 2005
Typical John Irving, falling well within in his usual quirky spectrum of too-wierd-for-words and brilliant. A melancholy (until the last 150 pages or so) story about a young man, his missing-in-action father (a tattooed organist), and his mom (a tattoo artist and a … no, wait, that would give away too much). The main character feels very much like Owen Meany to me, although this book didn’t have that same feeling of building toward Owen Meany’s climactic ending. His story has three distinct parts, each of which has a distinct feeling: quirky initially, drifting and kind of an aimless sadness, and ending on a high note of hilarity and closure. To be honest, I struggled to make it through the later portion of that central part; the first half of the story, on the other hand, flew by, and the last 150 pages were a treat and went very quickly.
If you liked “A Prayer for Owen Meany” and/or “A Widow for One Year”, you will probably would enjoy this one, too (although I would place this book a notch below each of those two, which I consider to be his best so far).