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Monthly Archives: December 2004
I'm Sick
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
And I have been since Sunday, although I was feeling better on Monday. I have missed a number of classes so far this week, so I have a boatload of homework to catch up on. So I may not post until Christmas. This also means I may not have time to fix the Ha'aretz RSS [...]
I'm Better
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
At least in terms of not being sick anymore. I would have posted on Thursday (which was both the day immediately after I posted about being sick, and the day I began to feel better), but I was busy. Some minor updates, changes, errata:
This blog now has a Creative Commons license, albeit a restrictive one.
This [...]
Dazed & Confused … About RSS
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Not willing to wait until Christmas, I decided to look at the Ha'aretz RSS problem. My diagnosis of the problem: something is wrong with the Ha'aretz feeds, but I am not sure what it is.
A Christmas Eve Surprise
Saturday, December 25, 2004
Sometime yesterday evening, I loaded this blog into my browser. Instead of the soothing grey and navy design, I found the following text:
:)
My first thought was that the server had somehow gone down, and that this was some sort of replacement page (albeit not a very informative one).When I found that I was able to [...]
Direct Mail Fundraising, College Republican Style
Sunday, December 26, 2004
This WaPo article (which seems to be based on a series of articles from the Seattle Times, starting with this one from late October) talks about the College Republican National Committee's disingenous direct mail fundraising efforts in the months leading up to the election. Since the letters they sent claimed to be from organizations with [...]
Ending Comment Spam
Monday, December 27, 2004
Since the beginning of winter break, I have been deluged by comment spam attempts. Most of them involved "tramadol," a painkiller, or "texas hold-em poker," both of which are included on the list of words that cause comments to be moderated (a list which borrows heavily from the "Spam Words" list on the Wordpress Wiki). [...]
Ignorance of a Seismic Scale
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
When I was young, I saw a couple of movies about earthquakes in California. One of them was certainly "The Big One," as I remember Joanna Kerns. Living in New Jersey,I never really worried much about earthquakes. However, I still remember one scene from the movie when two women (IMDB says a mother and a [...]
Haaretz RSS is Fixed…Sort Of
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Since I was tired of trying to figure out why the screen-scraping code refuses to work properly on this server, I made a semi-elaborate workaround. A shell script on this server calls a number of perl scripts on the FAS server, which does the "hard" work of scraping the Haaretz site. After this is finished, [...]
A Cheaper iMac
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
The biggest tech news this morning would have to be the news that Apple will announce a $499 iMac on January 11 (my birthday!) at MacWorld. This would put a Macintosh desktop in competition with the cheapest PCs sold by companies like Dell and HP. Since I have previously complained that Macs were too expensive, [...]
Free Money from Microsoft
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
…if, of course, you live in California. eWeek reports on the upcoming deadline for filing claims for compensation in a class action suit against Microsoft. The compensation includes purchases of both Office and Windows, or of computers with such software preinstalled. The purchases had to have been made between between February 1995 and December 2001, [...]
The New York Times Reformats & Reinstalls
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
While Rachel Dodes' article focuses on defeating spyware by starting over, I found it that the best part of the article is Ms. Dodes' explanation of the tools she used to try to get rid of the spyware without reinstalling (although it would have been nice if they had provided hyperlinks for more than just [...]
Anti-Arabism in Israeli Soccer
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Haaretz reports on two soccer fans "concerned" about the religion of a Ghanaian player named Ismail Ido, who might join Betar Jerusalem, which describes itself as "Israel's most popular soccer team."
Tell me, why behave this way?"
"What do you mean, why? An Arab at Betar? They tried to bring us a Muslim. We've never accepted one [...]
Stuck in the Middle
Thursday, December 30, 2004
From the Boston Globe comes an entertaining article about those whose houses are bisected by the municipal border between Cambridge and Somerville. While taxes seem to be determined by what percentage of their land and homes reside in each municipality, voting and public school eligibility seem to be determined by the town in which one [...]
The Beginning of the End
Thursday, December 30, 2004
A rivet fell off of one of my blackspot sneakers tonight.