Category: development

You know, if you have a Postgres database with over 500k records that you delete and reinsert on a weekly basis, that you should run vacuum and reindex on it frequently? See, I’m not a database administrator. I’m not even a system administrator, but I play one on TV. Sometimes, I’m such a user. I […]

So, someone’s build a beautiful photolog that’s pretty much exactly what I want to do but just haven’t had time to work on yet. Maybe this weekend… hahahahaha… sure. Sigur Ros concert report should be up around lunchtime.

I just finished moving from the lovely flat Berkeley DB to MySQL for Movable Type. I’m not sure what that will buy me, but hey, it gave me something to do. We’re going to a concert tomorrow night! Sigur Ros is playing downtown tomorrow night and Jen and I are taking the “kids” (Steve and […]

I’ve been thinking about this big redesign I’m working on for this site, and I think black is going to make a big comeback. I used to be a huuuu-uuuuge fan of black pages, but I’ve been ignoring it for a couple years and I think it’s time to give it another shot. I’ll still […]

It’s paint with mucous day at Chez Lawver! Max has had a cold for about 3 days, Jen for 2, and now me. We’re all irritable, unpleasant and chock-full of mucous in our various snot-containing body cavities. We’re tired… but achey enough that a nap doesn’t seem possible. I was going to send myself something […]

All of a sudden, I have a desparate need to redesign this site. I’ve been thinking about moving all the family pictures in Max’s page to a blog (I even figured out a cool way to take a PhotoShop generated web gallery and turn them into importable entries), and turn the Geekery into a blog […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Who are you related to? I’m just thrilled I’m related to Jodi.