Smarty Jones

Sat, 5 Jun 2004

I watched the Belmont today, because I (like everyone else) am in love with Smarty Jones. I'd never watched a horse race before, and I don't think I missed anything. I don't dislike horse racing in the same way that I hate greyhound racing (because those horses are expensive and very well-treated), but it just [...]

Fonts

Thu, 3 Jun 2004

I discovered that my own CSS font definitions were causing problems with my own browser, Firefox on Linux! That's not good, so I removed all definitions except for generic serif, and it's much better. My only problem now is that I can't figure out how to make those weird quotation marks go away. Anyone who [...]

Floppy to the rescue

Wed, 2 Jun 2004

Today I took Delilah in to UW and upgraded lots of packages. One of those packages happened to be lilo, and part of the installation/configuration wanted to edit the configuration and run lilo. I said okay (figuring it shouldn't be a problem) and didn't worry about it. This evening I unpacked Delilah and booted her [...]

Naming un-conventions

Tue, 1 Jun 2004

I knew there was a reason I read Neil Gaiman. That's right, I said, and bit the bullet. We were having The Conversation. You were named after a drag queen in a Lou Reed song.