Laurabelle's Blog

I've used Opera in the past, but I was not completely won over. Partly it was the advertising; mostly I was just happy with whatever I was using at the time (probably Firefox in one of its previous incarnations as Phoenix or Firebird). Now that Opera is free-as-in-beer, I've decided to give The Other Proprietary [...]

You know, the reason AOL customers have such a bad reputation among geeks is that some of them do things like this: From: AOL user Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:59:31 EDT Subject: Please help asap To: debian-user My name is adele [lastname]..my e-mail address is [address deleted]..this morning..i tried to change my email password.. [...]

I must be a troublemaker. I have run into roughly the same problem with posts_nav_link() as I did with the_content(). Unfortunately, my hackery didn’t work quite as well this time. My markup validates now, but I’ve got a bogus next-link that doesn’t belong there (when there actually isn’t a next page to go to). I [...]

Warning: WordPress rant coming. How in the bloody effing heck am I supposed to generate valid code with the more_text_link argument to the the_content template tag? What I had been doing was this: the_content (‘<div class=”morelink”><p>Continue reading ‘ . the_title (‘<q>’, ‘</q>’, FALSE) . ‘</p></div>’); However, that gave me output HTML like this: <a href=”http://blog.niceperson.org/2005/09/04/heather-park-revisited/#more-441″> [...]

My last post (about being a geek) made me think about how attractive female geeks are to many male geeks. Jeff, for example, appreciates my intellect and the fact that I can not only understand what he's talking about but far out-geek him in some areas (such as information science and web development). I don't [...]

There’s a saying that a sysadmin is someone who will write two hundred lines of code to avoid typing twenty characters. This was not quite true of me today, but it’s close enough. You see, my father is coming to visit this weekend, and while he’s here he wants to spend a little time writing. [...]

Y'all are probably taken aback when my page styles shift all of a sudden. So am I, even though I programmed the whole thing. The styles are supposed to be seasonal, but it seems like just as soon as I get used to one color scheme, it changes on me. The holiday themes are especially [...]

I feel Really Stupid. You see, when I started using 2.6 kernels (currently 2.6.11), I also started getting told ide-scsi is deprecated, use ide-cd instead when I burned CDs. Eventually I decided to do something about it and left ide-scsi out of my kernel. Well, after that I couldn't manage to burn a CD, and [...]

There's a hole in my programming knowledge, and the name of that hole is C. Now, it just so happens that I've never actually needed to use C for anything, but recently I've started recompiling and even modifying packages for my personal use. Since the majority of Linux packages are written in C, that means [...]

Woohoo, Debian 3.1 (Sarge) is released today! I can hardly believe it; people were saying any minute now as early as last summer. I guess I got used to the perpetual almost-ness of it. Not that it makes all that much difference to me, actually. I run unstable, so the main effect on me will [...]