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February 13, 2003
Maybe it’s my affinity for consistent user experience and common sense design. More likely it’s my appreciation of the finer points of slamming interfaces that aren’t quite colouring within the lines. No matter what the reason is, I’m certainly enjoying the almost daily schpiels of Matt Gemmell on his Irate Scotsman weblog. Intriguing topics like … More
February 12, 2003
Tchotchke and thank you note. Calgary.
February 11, 2003
Friend Ian told me that posts documenting my attempt at getting Movable Type and company set up on my Qube “… are getting painful to read”. His suggestion that it would be easier (and truth be told, faster) for me to set up a previous loved PC with Linux, Apache, PHP, Perl and whatever else … More
February 11, 2003
No, I didn’t forget about you. I’m back from what turned out to be a substantially relaxing break in Victoria. Four days of inhaling volumes of the spring-like air on Vancouver Island, walking through blocks of antique shops and used book stores, listening to robins twittering songs that won’t be heard in Calgary for at … More
February 5, 2003
After reading my previous blatherings on trying to get the DB_File module installed on my Qube in order to use Movable Type, gentle reader Peter Wilkinson took pity on my soul. He offers this alternative to the Perl module hell I’ve been wading into of late: “I just read your note about DB_File being a … More
February 4, 2003
No, I haven’t managed to install that new version of Perl yet. The same goes for the pesky DB_File module that requires installation of the aforementioned Perl. Nor Movable Type for that matter, given that it depends on both of the previously indicated components to be in place prior to it being even a tiny … More
February 4, 2003
My favourite pixel-flinging Swede, Andreas Lindkvist, and a cohort from across the pond, Cynthia Malaran, have pooled their talents to launch the first exhibition at teemuseum, a gallery of limited edition wearable works of art. Sure, they’re more expensive than the shirts any old schmoe or their furry friend can flog through CaféPress.com, but these … More
February 3, 2003
With not much more than a whim and wave of a twenty dollar bill, I entered the Veer web site in this years SXSW Interactive Festival Website Competition. Well, knock me over with a foam rubber chew toy if we didn’t jump the queue and land smack dab in the middle of the finalists for … More
February 3, 2003
Cheese and crackers, I seem to have slipped again. Regularly scheduled updates are supposed to be just that — regularly scheduled. If the feature was called “the sporadically available domain name of the once in a blue moon”, then I’d have a much more valid excuse for slacking off. But weekly it’s named, thus weekly … More
January 30, 2003
In preparing to install the DB_File module for use with Movable Type, CPAN prompted me to look into grabbing the latest version of itself before proceeding. Sounded like a plan to me. cpan> install Bundle::CPAN Things seemed to be humming along delightfully until the dreaded checksum. For whatever reason, CPAN can’t locate the module it just downloaded … More