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I also have my own LJ user (
So I’m experimenting with LivePress, which is a set of WordPress plugins for posting to LiveJournal through WordPress. If these work, I’ll ask my LJ readers to replace
And this is my first test post, so it probably won’t work, but here goes.
OK, it works! I must have missed a checkbox or something.
Author: Dotan Dimet
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Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
Friday morning, I took Suzie to the airport. So it ends, and we begin again.
Suzie and I were together for nine years. When we met, I was living at my parents, studying Biology, writing in a newspaper. She was married (with an adult daughter living at home), studying history, editing and writing in the same newspaper.
She was my first real girlfriend.
I got my own place so I could be with her. I got a job so I could get a place so I could be with her. For nine years, she was the most important person in the world to me, and the closest.
Now she’s gone, to Switzerland, where she will write the next chapter of her life, and the apartment is still filled with the shed skin of her previous life, her life with me. The nails in the walls, bits of laundry and cosmetics, cats (Three in the house, with me, Twenty five in the yard, in the next-door neighbour’s care). Potted plants. Her name on the door.
I can’t really tell the story of my life with Suzie, and if I tried to I probably couldn’t stop. I should say that the break-up was friendly, that we both had a lot of time to adjust to the idea, which explains why I’m so muted about it, and that we still love each other. She is the most remarkable woman I have ever met.
I don’t post too much personal stuff to my blog, both because it actually requires me to write something (rather than just re-posting a link). When I do, it’s more often than not a passing thought rather than mentioning anything concrete connected to my life. But there are things I really ought to mention, and I’m alone, for the first time in a decade
is probably one of them. So this is a heads-up notice and an obvious cheap plea for sympathy. I’d be grateful if the aforementioned sympathy wouldn’t be in the form of a comment such as:
Gee, I’m sorry.
See, now you can enjoy the perks of being alone
(I’ve already practiced this for a couple of months, thanks. Mostly, it sucks).So, now you can go about pursuing your reproductive destiny.
Well, I never really liked her anyway.
On the other hand, company, affection, and offers to adopt a cat would be very nice to have. I also have lots of things (some of them Suzie’s, like oil paints and boards, some of them mine, like comics and books, a computer monitor or two) that I would like to sell or give away. Come over and take a look.
So we end, and so I begin.
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JPEG of death
New Scientist: Article: Software bug raises spectre of ‘JPEG of death’.
Microsoft pushed a Windows update on this about a week ago. Now, Slashdot reports that someone actually created a sample JPEG-based exploit (an image that contains a virus that installs remote access software on your PC when read by vulnerable software).
Some geek links:
- GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner’s tutorial (kuro5hin.org):
Screen is best described as a terminal multiplexer. Using it, you can run any number of console-based applications–interactive command shells, curses-based applications, text editors, etc.–within a single terminal.
- Ten CSS tricks you may not know (evolt.org) – and commentary (corrected and improved!) by Tantek Çelik.
- I have a wodge of links about modeling trees in databases which I’ve just posted to my internal work blog, and fancy reproducing here, to bore everyone:
- Here’s an interesting and relevant article about Relational Modeling of Biological Data: Trees and Graphs,
which actually discusses modelling GO in a database, covers both the
Adjacency List and Nested Sets representations of trees, and in general
looks very relevant. The only drawback (for my work) is that he uses MySQL in his
examples. - Phil Greenspun explains how Oracle’s proprietary SQL extensions can represent trees (the connect by prior … clause).
- A long formal discussion of handling trees in databases. Has complicated functions for adding, moving and deleting subtrees.
- The same web site also has links to a series of articles about representing trees using nested sets, by Joe Celko, and here’s another article by Celko about them.
- Trees in SQL: Nested Sets and Materialized Path
by Vadim Tropashko (who works in Oracle) is an opinionated discussion
of the topic, the bulk of which focuses on presenting a complicated
(but clever) way to bypass the shortcomings of nested sets.
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Comics To Make Love To
Derek Kirk Kim’s Lowbright – Comics To Make Love To has a news/journal page, but without permanent links (so I can’t link properly to his comic about going to see Harold and Kumar with his mother, or his ComicCon experiences). No RSS feed either, so you actually have to go read it yourself.
[ found on some link log somewhere ]
