For the KingHeads in the family (*cough*Jess*cough*), Steven King was given the 2003 Distinguished Contribution of American Letters award for his novel, Carrie. Making Light has excerpts of his acceptance speech, or you can read the whole thing.
Posts from ‘February, 2004’
WIN2k source code… oops
Due to the leaked source code to Windows 2000, we now know what the Windows developers think of the product they are developing.
[via BoingBoing]
SIMCity for the SIMs
A new product for the SimHead on everyone's list (*cough*Bonnie*cough*), a third party developer has written an AddOn for SimCity. Now the SIMs themselves can play SimCity. With this AddOn, "your simulated people can simulate being the mayor of a simulated city.
No word yet on whether we are all just sims in a great simulation [...]
Cingular + ATT = ATTular?
Cingular and ATT wireless have merged in a $41 billion deal.
[via Matt Croydon and BoingBoing]
Quick Links
Normally, I hate to post small entries that are really just a few words of comment and a link to something else. So, I usually wait until I have a bunch, and then post a largish link round up. Well, not any more.
In order to start getting things situated for my Inklog migration (this week? [...]
ezPublish: grrr..
I don't know if it's a lack of ambition, or a desire to be part of a community, but I keep going back to ezPublish. Everytime I sit down to code Inklog and I realize, fully, that all I'm doing is creating a cleaner version of ezPublish, I get all screwed up in the head [...]
Suicide Club
Jess and I watched Suicide Club this evening.
I liked the story. Before the end, I wanted to know more. I was intrigued.
But… now that I've seen the end… I don't get it.
um…
Snow? In Texas? In February?
Yay!
It's my own damn fault
So Gallery breaks under PHP5.0.0b3. Big deal. I'll just put PHP4 back. Hah. WRONG!
Running an existing Gallery under PHP5.0.0b3 that was running under PHP4 causes it to break simply by accessing it in your browser window. And, it doesn't just break with some ugly error messages that are repaired when you put PHP4 back. It [...]
ATTENTION WEBHOSTING CUSTOMERS!!
Our webservers are now running PHP5beta3 inside of Apache. As best as I can tell, this doesn't seem to be causing any problems. In fact, it actually seems faster. However, I can't test everything. If you see an error message of any type, on this site, or on your own sites, please send me a [...]
