Monkinetic Weblog

I'm determined today to get the pipeline working that gets my server logs from email, saves them to disk, and runs analog on them. I want to have reports on the sites I run, but I have to get the logs delivered in email.

Jodi's site is coming along nicely, and she's updating it more frequently these days.

Robert at Celsius1414 posted a mini-rant the other day with the disclaimer "I'm thinking out loud here, use text-to-speech if you want the full effect." Hmmmm.

I had a meeting last night with a potential client, the owner of the local TruGreen ChemLawn. He's out spraying most of the day, so I said "hey, come on over for dinner, I'll feed you and we can talk about your site".

The other day I was working on a script and I wanted to get the titles for a bunch of web pages I had links to. I coded up something that downloaded each page, pulled out the title, and cached it (so that there would be no more than 1 request per URL).

Illustrator has two Anti-aliasing options: On and Off. The trouble is that Illustrator anti-aliases artwork AND text. I want my lines straight, not blurry, and I want my text anti-aliased, over 10 pts.

Paulo posts an absolutely captivating movie of his website as seen by a user who is testing eye-tracking gear.

Jodi had a job interview yesterday. She's not taking it though, and she reports on that and other news on her site today.

Josh points us to this way cool dashboard information searchy thing. It purportedly shows you contextual information from your personal information space related to whatever activity you happen to be performing at the time. Ambitious.

I'm watching a webcast from SXSW, not even sure which one, but it looks like Cory Doctorow talking and sounds vaguely EFF-ish.

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As someone interested in information architecture, I find the typical weblog calendar to be ill-suited to its task. Ostensibly the idea is to show the user what days have posts and let them navigate back and forth in time to view weblog posts.

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It's all about the pentiums, baby.

I've got opus (my dual 200 linux box) chewing through 96mb of apache logs, doing reverse DNS lookups, and combining the separate files into a single file I can feed to AWStats (I'm using the logresolvemerge.pl script included with awstats). The combined file is up to 218mb right now!

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Jodi returns from a long absence with not one, but 4 (count 'em!! 4!) new posts on her newly re-designed site!

Courtesy of the Internet Archive, I've obtained a 95%-complete copy of my first published website, circa 1996. Cool, eh?

I'm trying to use the Cheetah template engine - a python-based engine along the lines of Velocity - and debugging the template is getting very very annoying.