I noticed the other day that my old weblog had been comment-spammed. So I twisted my spamkiller scheme to it, and set it off. Boom, lose ~7K spam messages. And, accidentally, all valid comments as well. Oh dear. Well, can’t be bothered to recover them from backup.
Monthly Archive for July, 2005
I’ve started trying out the Gallery package to get a useful online gallery and not the five-ish crappy self-made things I’ve had so far. You can watch my progress if you like, though there’s nothing interesting there yet. Note the other username, since that user has relatively free reins regarding disk use, at least for the present time.
First impressions:
Messy to set up, but that’s no surprise for a large semi-cgi application. Whoever designed the UI needs to discuss proper font sizing with a clue-by-four. Use points, not pixels, you moron! I can barely read it!
The default skin is ugly. I found another one I quite liked. It’s buggy (black text on black, yellow text on white, etc), but I’ll survive for now.
Why do so many web designers insist on assuming that people run at low resolutions? If I set my motitor to 140 dpi (appropriate for the LCD) nearly every webpage with narrow columns breaks. End of rant. Go home now.
After discovering that «.» had made the spamword list (no, it wasn’t supposed to be there) and correcting that minor mishap, maybe now will comments work after a fashion.
Så, det kjem visst ei ny Harry Potter-bok straks. Tumtitum. Burde eg lesa om igjen dei gamle, tru? Er jo to år sidan sist, så det blir ein del detaljar som har forsvunne.
Og det blir jo etterkvart ganske interessant korleis filmskaparane skal takla at skodespelarane blir gamle dobbelt så fort som Harry. Dessutan burde det koma meir film snart, dei ligg jo langt bak. Med denne boka blir det tre å ta igjen, og sjølv med ein film i året klarar dei ikkje det viss det blir to år til bok sju.
Når det er sagt: Eg synest ikkje Harry Potter er særleg til litteratur. Pøtt sann. Det er det ikkje meint å vera heller. Det er derimot ei knakande god forteljing, med tre-fire personar og ein drøss pappfigurar på ymse sider i kampen mellom snill og slem.
… har vore ute i papirbunden utgåve sidan i mai. Outland og Avalon har framleis ikkje tatt seg bryet med å ta henne inn. Det er ein liten smule teit, men vil dei ikkje at eg skal gje dei pengane eg har satt av til boka, så skal dei saktens få sleppa det.
Ei øving i praktisk astrologi? I alle fall ingen grunn til å ta tullingane alvorleg enno.
Men for dei som absolutt vil ha horoskop tilrår eg The Onion sine.
It is hereby my opinion that the CD-RW format is a scam. If you’re careful, you might get four, five uses ut of your disk before it’s a coaster.
Then again, the writable CD has always been a miserable failure. It’s ridicolously inconvenient and troublesome to write data to a CD-R and CD-RW. Yes, there is a standard called Mount Rainier that allows using a CD like a floppy. It’s been universally supported in hardware for well over two years now. How about making operating systems that can use it?
