Axodys

Hmm… I’m actually not familiar with David Weinberger.

You are a David Weinberger.

You are smart, savvy, interested in why people do what they do,
enjoy questioning yourself and are not balding.

Take the What Blogging Archetype Are You test at GAZM.org

Holy cow, the eMac has landed. I think this machine is probably a lot better suited for our labs here at work than the new iMac. Plus it’s got a bigger screen. Cool.

Today was a pretty lazy Sunday. I watched a lot of NBA basketball and fiddled around on my computer. Mary and I did get in a nice long evening walk along High Drive again though so I guess it wasn’t entirely lazy.

I also discovered what happens when you improperly connect the jumper cables on a dead battery while I was trying to get my mom’s pick up running again. For some strange reason someone (most likely my dad) had put a large red felt washer on top of the negative contact and I foolishly assumed it was the positive (negative should be black). I thought it seemed a little unusual for the final clamp to spark so much when I connected it, but I ignored it. I knew something was really wrong after the engine still didn’t do anything when I turned the ignition and the cables actually were starting to smoke. A quick inspection after I removed the jumpers (with a hotpad) revealed my mistake. Live and learn.

Today’s matchup with the Yankees was a classic pitchers duel. It was awesome to watch the M’s breakup Ted Lilly’s no-hitter in the eighth inning to take the lead and great to see Freddy Garcia finally pitch the way he’s supposed to and go a full 8 innings of shut out ball. Two 1-0 wins this week. Wild.

I don’t know where the Yankees found Lilly, but if he keeps pitching this well Andy Pettitte and Sterling Hitchcock may have a hard time getting back in the rotation. Of course that’s assuming the Yank’s start giving the poor guy some run support. The crazy thing is that Lilly’s record is now 0-2 while his ERA is a mere 1.35!

I managed to temporarily break Radio while poking around in its innards, but luckily I was able to track down my error and fix things.

I’ve been examing the rendering code a bit because I ‘m interested in tracking down the code that creates all the annoying <p> tags after double line breaks. I haven’t quite located the offending code yet though.

This seems like something out of the movie Magnolia. I just came across a story over at cnn.com stating that TLC’s Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes dies in wreck. While I’m not exactly a big TLC or hip-hop fan this news is significant to me on a couple levels:
* TLC opened for Boyz 2 Men and M.C. Hammer at the first concert I ever attended.
* I went to said concert with my brother back in the summer of 1992 because my dad won two tickets from a local radio station.
* My dad won the tickets by answering a payphone at a 7-11 that he just happened to be driving by when a local radio station announced that whoever answered the phone at that location would receive two tickets to the concert.
* Yesterday, the day Lisa Lopes died, was exactly one year from the day my father died from cancer.

Apparently MacOS X only allows 256 file descriptors by default and this can be problematic for applications like Zoe that need more. One way I found to get around this problem is to login as root and type unlimit. According to this page this will boost the file descriptor limit up to 10,240 for the current session only.

*Update:* I don’t think that unlimit command worked, as I experienced the same kind of error in Zoe that I have been. Further investigation is needed obviously.

I started playing with Zoe (think google for all your email) today and it seems pretty clever both in design and practice. I’m really curious to see just what kind of connections start appearing as I import more of my old email into the system. Unfortunately, unless I’m completely missing something (which is entirely possible thanks to the sketchy documentation) I don’t see an obvious way to get your email back out of the system yet.

I had started to post something about Chimera being fast, beautiful, and standards compliant, but then it crashed. Bummer. It certainly is all of those three things, but buggy and incomplete are two factors that are still part of the usage equation that you may want to weigh at this early stage. If you’re a bleeding-edger like me that’s probably okay.

Okay trackpad, feel free to start working again any time. Good thing I had a spare usb mouse.