Take a look at this picture. Stare at the dot for 30 seconds then put your mouse over the picture. Is the picture in color or black and white?
Month: June 2006
Let’s track a typical day.
9am-10am: More changes to client’s web application. Syncing updates from my dev server to client’s dev server for client review. Much more to be done but significant milestone achieved.
Next: Identify motherboard on client computer and locate drivers for video, netcard and two others.
Let’s track a typical day.
8am-9am: Overextended "me time" and created a blog for Tommy. Unlike Asperger Teen which is done by the parents, Tommy’s blog will be his own writing. Some of this time was spent trying to get the clients’ Windows 2000 box working correctly. The network card driver, video card driver and two others aren’t working.
Now we return to our regularly scheduled programming…
The monkey on my back
If I worked in an office, I think I’d have to wear this Yoda backpack. Thanks to Single Dads for the link!
I can see an office dialog going like this: "Him? You aren’t really seeing him. He’s a figment of my imagination."
Let’s track a typical day.
Updated. The fact checker woke.
Thus far:
I overslept and woke at 4:305am. 4:30-55-5:30am was my freshening up time and making coffee. I’ve severely cut down on my coffee intake, going with no coffee days on end, since caffiene seems to aggrivate the BPV. Today I needed coffee.
5am-7:30am I avoid distractions and focus on programming a client’s web application. With web apps, so much can go on behind the scenes that the client can begin to think the developer isn’t working at all. Today is about producing visible results. I do some multitasking and during this time I also get Windows 2000 Professional installed on a client’s machine. I was having much difficulty because I couldn’t get the harddrive formated as the keyboard kept locking up on boot. Last night Evan crawls over and starts pushing buttons and stomping on the keyboard and I’ll be darned if he didn’t get the formatting software working in a couple minutes when I’d been trying for hours! The one year old is a computer prodigy!!
7:30-8 is some me time. Regrouping. Quick bite to eat and getting back to work.
wrong path
Let me off this ride!
A day or two ago it hit me. BPV! Benign Positional Vertigo for me comes on with extreme stress. It’s strange. I feel woozy. The room spins and I have trouble standing. Nothing I can do helps. I just have to wait until it subsides then try really hard to minimize my head movements. Granted, I could get some 25mg meclizine pills but I can’t afford the sleep right now.
Age: BPPV seem to have a predilection for the older population, with the average age of onset 51 years. It is rarely seen in persons younger than 35 years without a history of antecedent head trauma.
I wonder what head trauma I’ve had.
One of the most common causes of BPPV is head trauma. Although the true mechanisms are not exactly certain, the concussive forces presumably cause particles that reside in the vestibule to become displaced to the canal. Other factors that predispose individuals to BPPV include inactivity, acute alcoholism, major surgery, and CNS disease.
Oh. Thanks college!
Once treated, BPPV recurrence rate is between 5% and 15%.
Treated? I wonder if they mean canalith repositioning procedure (CRP). I suppose my chiropractor could do that.
Google Spreadsheets – first come first serve
Google is issuing invitations on a first come first serve basis to people interested in trying their latest—Google Spreadsheets.
You choose the haircut…
Miniature battles
I’ve dreamed of doing stuff like this for years.
We built and sail 1/144 scale Radio-Controlled Model Warships from WWI and WWII which are armed with Co2 powered cannon and armoured in thin balsa. These vessels engage each other in combat on ponds across Australia, endeavoring to punch holes in each others hull with their cannon until one of the vessels sinks or flees. Yes, the cannon really do fire, the vessels really do take damage and sink, and yes, it is legal in all states and territories of Australia without a gun license.
Link courtesy of Make.
Oh Hell
For the record, the sign of the beast is probably 616 not 666. Of course to satisfy people’s devil interests, Wikipedia has notes on the Number of the Beast. The number 666 is so powerful that it causes such stupidity as renaming highways. US Route 666 was named in 1926 and had no problems for 77 years but in 2003 it was renamed to US Route 491.
A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist.
…the discovery appears to spell the end of 666 as the devil’s prime number
…more conventional versions of the Bible give 666 as the “number of the beast,” or the sign of the anti-Christ whose coming is predicted in the book’s apocalyptic verses, the older version uses the Greek letters signifying 616.[Source, Religion News Blog, Beast’s real mark devalued to 616?]
Attention Flash Animators
Like Flash? Careful what you draw.
Thanks to Single Dads for the link.
Lady take it elsewhere!
LiveJournal wants women to breastfeed their babies in the bathroom.
Six Apart, creators of Movable Type and, more recently, owners of LiveJournal, have decided to harrass LiveJournal users whose default icons depict breastfeeding.
LiveJournal is even protected by law!
Lawmakers are beginning to understand …; California, where Six Apart is located, has express legal provision exempting breastfeeding from obscenity legislation.
The AAP recommends "Exclusive breastfeeding for approximately the first six months and support for breastfeeding for the first year and beyond as long as mutually desired by mother and child."
Net Neutrality Discussion – Tomorrow 7pm?
Anyone in Knoxville want to have an impromptu Net Neutrality brown bag type discussion? Borders in Turkey Creek is having its grand opening. How about we meet in the coffee shop at 7:00pm. We can chat for 45 minutes (give or take) then watch Todd Steed.
Todd Steed And Suns of Phere
June 3, 2006 8:00 PM
Knoxville, TN
Knoxville – Turkey Creek
The bands following is growing throughout the southeast. Their new CD is garnering super reviews for this rock n’ roll crew.
If the coffee shop is where all the activity is happening we can just meet there and take the discussion to another part of the store or the fountain outside.
Secure today – gone tomorrow
High tech thieves are targeting keyless entry cars. Becoming more prominent is the option to enter your car and start it without a key. We rely on the quality of the software and the strength of encryption. But what happens as your car ages and over time strong encyption becomes weak encryption? I can see a day where a thief simply walks past older cars in a mall parking lot to have doors pop open or engines start. Or perhaps I sit down in the drivers seat to see a message on the dash "Important security update available! Download now?" I’ll ponder my watch knowing I’m already late but a security update means a vunerability in my security system has been found and the thieves know it. BUT! If I update and restart my car, it might not work. I am powerless but to turn on my best Shatner, clench my fists, look to the ceiling, and as the camera pans out scream "Gaaaaattees!" (hear Shatner)
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