New blog engine

Submitted by reeses on Sat, 2006-03-25 00:42.

Obviously, I'm playing around with a new blog engine. I wrote a couple scripts to migrate pages, check for references, migrate those pages, and then start deleting old pages. I may have missed some, and should probably go through them manually. It probably left much havoc in your RSS readers.

Which I may not do. After all, it's there, it's linkable, and I didn't bother importing my ancient Blogger blog either. Now that's a thought.

Software

Submitted by reeses on Tue, 2005-08-16 21:13.

Software/check-url-update.el

This is an elisp script that will sort-of duplicate the functionality of sites such as http://www.changedetect.com, which suck. Don't use them. Use this script, and when you get sick of it in twenty minutes, write a real program, with real threading, and a real UI, and then give me a copy. Yes, I can hear you OmniWeb types laughing at the rest of us pathetic souls. Tested on XEmacs 21.4.

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Submitted by reeses on Sat, 2005-06-18 13:05.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX or SarbOx) is one of the wonderful by-products of the Enron case.

The most important aspect is that it exposes officers of the company to prosecution for financial wrongdoing. Because the people at the top are culpable, this tends to be an important initiative in the short-term project portfolio at various companies.

It also covers accounting practices, auditing, governance, etc., with outlines for each. Because of the degree of disclosure and transparency required by the act, it has pervasive influence throughout any public organisation.

Bye-bye blogger

Submitted by reeses on Sun, 2004-04-18 21:29.

I got tired of blogger, so I installed phpwiki and wrote more php code than I ever have in my entire life to migrate here.

I'll be moving everything over in the near future, but in the meantime, stuff lives in two places. C'est dur, la vie.

MiniMTA

Submitted by reeses on Sun, 2004-04-18 13:41.

MiniMTA (tar) is a very small Java class that will relay messages via SMTP. This was developed for use on my SGI/IRIX box, because gcc doesn't play well with native libraries. It works for me, but it might not for you.

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Submitted by reeses on Sun, 2004-04-11 21:32.

I've been monitoring the local grocery stores for kosher-for-Passover Coke for the past couple months, ever since the Passover displays started. I gave up on it today, as the supply has been almost completely exhausted. We grabbed a couple pints of ice cream and a couple 2l bottles of Coke from the regular aisle, and came home.

It wasn't until Kat said,"What does this Hebrew on the cap say?" several hours later that I discovered the hidden bounty.

I should have said,"Oh, that says,'Poison To Goyim,'" but I'm not the quickest wit.

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Submitted by reeses on Sun, 2004-04-11 17:19.

I'd like Tom Clancy a lot more if his novels were as short and dense as this hypothetical Chinese invasion scenario.

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Submitted by reeses on Thu, 2004-04-08 06:53.

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Submitted by reeses on Wed, 2004-04-07 04:29.

Drink a cup of freshly-squeezed secks.

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Submitted by reeses on Mon, 2004-04-05 16:40.