With the head writer and creative genius, Alan Sorkin, leaving The West Wing this season, it’s no longer the same show it used to be. Instead, it seems no more than a ghost of its former self, as John Wells (the producer and writer who’s stepped into Sorkin’s shoes) attempts to take over. Whether Wells …
To continue on from my last entry, I tried just about every workaround I could think of to get those multiple secure sites running off of my single NIC/IP interface to Cogeco to no avail. (I say “about” because there was still one pretty remote possibility left – but it was far from certain, it …
(If the title of this entry doesn’t make any sense, or even if you only find it a little bit funny, it’s because it’s a networking in-joke. Trust me, it’s funnier than you think.) I never started off wanting to be an ISP. However, as time goes on I’ve ended up hosting multiple Web sites …
By default, the blog software that I’m using (Movable Type) has you enter a name, email address, and an optional URL for some Web site whenever you comment on an article. If you’ve entered both an email address and a Web site, then when you click on the name of the commenter, it will take …
I have have several pet peeves when it comes to peoples’ misuse of the English language. There’s no excuse but sheer laziness. Worse, it seems to be pervasive in our society rather than just isolated cases. Here, in no particular order, are some of my grievances. (Disclaimer: Any mistakes in grammar that you might spot …
I recently went to the local grocery store and bought a black forest cake. This is pretty unusual since I almost always bake my own desserts. However, I know that there’s a fair bit of effort involved in putting together one of these. The one I bought, though, wasn’t what I’d call traditional. For one …
Effectively, I’ve now spent the better part of an entire week just trying to code a Web site so that it’s HTML 4.01 standards compliant and works/looks the same in both IE and Mozilla. (Plus won’t fail to work if the person browsing the site has javascript disabled.) Even though I’ve learned how to do …
Not entirely, just with respect to a new Linux management tool, called Nterprise Linux Services 1.0, that their putting out. Apparently, Novell’s decided that Ximian’s Red Carpet (which Novell acquired last month when they bought that company) can do a better job than their own older tool. This is hardly a ringing endorsement of your …
I just read an announcement that another movie in the series is in the works. Normally, I’d find this depressing – since the quality of each movie only decreased as the series went on – but the new one is being directed by Christopher Nolan, who directed Memento. Also, the lead role goes to Christian …
I taped the new show Nip/Tuck the other night and thought it was actually pretty good. But, just before we were about to watch it, Michelle asked me if I’d taped an hour and a half rather than just an hour. The answer was no. I didn’t realise that it ran an unusual length of …