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Posts on ‘August 23rd, 2002’

super smart exim configuration

I have an interesting, yet common, problem at work. I like to have the luxury of checking my personal e-mail without the disadvantage of having my incoming and outgoing email sent clearly across my work's network. Here's what I did to work around it.
I made an SSH connection to another machine on the Internet using [...]

URLs can't have ampersands in them

Although I've been in the business of creating web sites and web applications for almost 7 years now, today I learned something new. Alex pointed out that my Index page wasn't validating, so I started to research it to find out why.
It makes perfect sense that they should be, it just never crossed my mind [...]

my little town grew up

A 16-year-old student is being questioned in connection with an attack and attempted abduction of a fellow student at Keller High School. I know this kind of thing happens. I try not to lose my head about it while still not becoming desensitized. But this is my home town. This is my high school. This [...]