I got my uberBox at work upgraded to RedHat 8.0 today. It’s nice. The dithered fonts in XWindows look really good, and the admin tools actually work (as opposed to things like the X Services Tool in 7.2). There were some glaring omissions like ksh and the telnet server made in either the pursuit of […]
Author: Kevin Lawver
It’s So NEW!
I’m learning a new language. Yes, I’m doing it. I forgot how much fun it is to jump into something brand new and see it work. We’re moving to Java/JSP/Tomcat at work, and that means that I get to switch from my beloved AOLserver to the strange world of virtual application urls, beans, servlets and […]
Stupid Questions
Inspired by a comment about this post, I’ve decided that I have a new life’s passion. I’ve been searching for something for a while, and well, I’ve found something that fits my speed perfectly. What do I want to do? I want to become the world’s first fat, white Tai Chi Bad-Ass. I want to […]
Three, Two, One, RIBBIT!!
My med student little brother and his wife the accountant sent Max a lovely birthday card and little stuffed tree frog. It’s a lovely green and orange frog with big amber eyes. Max opened the card himself, and then wouldn’t give it to us to read it to him. He wanted to read it himself. […]
Too Quickly Forgotten
You know how you read something really great, but after a while it slowly slips away and you forget all about it? That’s happened to me and Bone. It’s this amazing comic by Jeff Smith, full of wonder, humor action and amazing characters and it just slipped out the backdoor of my mind without so […]
The Top Secret Trust Task Force
Did we learn anything new from the President’s speech tonight? Not really. If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you’ve heard/read it all before. I still have serious concerns about the motivations behind this sudden drive for armed conflict in Iraq, but the evidence is compelling. I’ve read some of the evidence against Iraq, […]
I Don’t Know an Alias From A Join In The Ground
In the spirit of learning something new every day (and the fact that the way I was doing it took 20 minutes each time I ran the query), I learned how to select aliased tables with Postgres today. For those of you who aren’t geeky, you may want to skip this post altogether. I’ve been […]
I’m Related to Who?
Who are you related to? I’m just thrilled I’m related to Jodi.
It’s Nice to Be Needed
It’s always nice to come in first thing Monday morning to almost 100 pieces of e-mail in my inbox. And that’s AFTER going through about 50 on Saturday afternoon. It’s nice to be needed. In other news that’s completely unrelated, I am about to be 5-0 in Fantasy Football. My team doesn’t score the most […]
That’s One Creepy Hippo
Browsing around the Mirror Project, I came across this site, which has the creepiest photo of a hippo I’ve ever seen. Great shot.