Welcome, Cast On listeners and readers. Thank you so much Brenda for the shout out - I’m glad you like Visiknit so much!
(Oh yeah, just to be clear - SweaterProject is the site, Visiknit is the software. Got it? Good.)
Yesterday morning was a bit chilly here in S.A., and I felt like getting a cup of tea. Since I’ve been sitting around the apartment getting fat for, oh, the last five months, I got on my bike and rode down to Mad Hatter’s for a cup of spiced black tea. I took [...]
Define irony.
Irony is having a system that’s run for a year without backup and getting nervous about it, so you go out and buy a stack of DVDs to back up your precious media. And then the backup program scrags your hard drive.
I am really hoping I can find some way to access a [...]
There’s a very important story that’s been hitting the mainstream news lately concerning Sony BMG (Sony Music) and some of their recent CD releases. It brings the conflict between Intellectual Property and consumer rights into sharp relief. The good news is that it looks like Big Brother backed off on this one. [...]
Got VisiKnit back up - mostly. For some reason, I couldn’t get Wordpress to store a multi-line textarea correctly. It kept insisting on putting HTML break tags at the end of each line. Very weird. So VisiKnit is back, but the sample pattern is only one line.
Now I need to track [...]
Is it enrailing? I’m not sure we’ve got a word for it in English. But whatever it is, I’m doing it. Yesterday I wrestled with databases and web servers on my laptop for an hour or so and finally got everything lined up so that I could start experimenting with Ruby on [...]
Todd was going through HTML error codes right now, and we just kind of ran with it…
400
Bad Request
401
Unauthorized
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Payment Required
403
Forbidden
404
Not Found
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Method not Allowed
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Not Acceptable
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Proxy Authentication Required
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Request Timeout
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Conflict
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Gone
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Length Required
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Precondition Failed
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Request Entity Too Large
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Request-URI Too Long
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Unsupported Media Type
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Requested Range Not Satisfiable
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Drama
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Unable to Commit
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Emotionally Unavailable
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Talk to the client ’cause the server don’t wanna hear it
421
Oh you did NOT
Some random thoughts from conversations I had with Mr. Helpychalk during vacation. As it turns out, he and I have several things in common, including a passion for the new Battlestar Galactica series on Sci-Fi. In the latest episode, Commander Adama posited “You can’t love a machine”, referring to the fact that (at [...]
So my newest technology fetish is RDF. RDF is the Resource Definition (Description?) Framework, and it is a type of XML document which describes entities and events in a standardized way.
“So what?”, I hear you ask.
Well, there’s a handy little declarative rules engine out there called Pychinco which can read rules written in RDF.
“So [...]
Heh. I started playing with Garage Band over the weekend and after work Monday. I got on this because of a) my current attempt to record the new Harry Potter book as I read it out loud, and b) because Jane wants to get into podcasting.
Garage Band comes with all new Macs, and [...]