http://codefork.com/blog branching out Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:53:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The DSL at the house has been really flakey the past 3 days. The line seems to periodically drop and I also noticed that the voice line had a lot of static. I suspected a line problem so I called Earthlink support last night to try to get it straightened out. ... http://codefork.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/17/monitoring-dsl-diagnostics-on-a-zyxel-p-600-series-modem/ I'm way overdue for an update! It's been nearly a year since I wrote about returning to grad school. So what's happened? Well, I didn't finish my dissertation. It felt nice to work on my research project again, but after a few months, I fell into the same depressive slump. I ... http://codefork.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/09/im-back/ A little over a week ago, I ran out of space on my 80 GB hard drive. I didn't think that would ever be possible. For the first time, "df -h" showed available space in kilobytes! In an ideal world, I'd replace the drive, put a fresh installation of OS X ... http://codefork.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/21/upgrading-a-hard-drive-on-a-macbook/ I created a new interface for my FixedGearGallery Index. What better way to procrastinate than spending a few hours on code? The original purpose of the index was to provide an easy way to browse through the relevant pages of a particular make/model on FGG. My first version accomplished that goal, ... http://codefork.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/04/fixedgeargallery-index-20/ The hot topic lately among the local blogs and news media is the death of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as we know it. It's looking likely that the organization will keep a small staff and move to a controversial online-only format that will include aggregation. Back in January, Erica C. Barnett wrote ... http://codefork.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/15/on-the-death-of-newspapers/ An old entry about my T-Mobile phone gets some search traffic, so I thought posting about this experience might be helpful to other desperate googlers as well. Two days ago, the Internet access—that is, the EDGE connection—on my Blackberry Curve stopped working at my apartment. Voice calls still worked fine. Occasionally ... http://codefork.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/12/edge/ Today I got two emails from GoDaddy.com. One informed me that a few of my domain registrations were about to expire. That was expected; I no longer wanted them. The other was a puzzling order confirmation. My credit card had been charged for renewal of "business registrations" for those same ... http://codefork.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/01/the-godaddycom-auto-renewal-headache/ When I needed a break over the holidays from my research, where do I turn? To coding, of course. I'm a FixedGearGallery addict. The idea of the site is that people send in photos of their fixed-gear bicycles and usually some details about how they built them up. The site is ... http://codefork.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/06/okay-i-lied/ ... as are my coding days in general. Since September, I've returned to grad school. The decision wasn't one I made lightly. And with the economic slump, I often wonder if I've made a smart choice in taking a 400% pay cut, only to return to teaching and writing my dissertation. ... http://codefork.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/13/my-perl-hating-days-are-over/ Slashdot is linking to an ONLamp.com article, Why Corporates Hate Perl. I think it's interesting that while zealots exist for every language, you rarely encounter the kind of vehement hatred for a language the way you do for perl. Which probably just fuels the antagonism in both directions. Many Slashdot comments ... http://codefork.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/20/perl-makes-you-cry-harder/