remaining largely undefined often obscured by… …things for lack of reason absence of singularity a purpose yet unknown travels deep within those awful places moves about and out beyond and still i follow yet another superbly vague and fragile thing. seeking

It never had occured to me The way it has to be is never never only what it should be Some this some that some other kid forgets his mother then take the wasted lives of one another It never seemed I never saw true light shine out and on and all the things that come up/down before the fall The growth the life before the rise But once I looked into those eyes

The Fog of War is a completely fascinating documentary by Errol Morris about and around Robert S. McNamara. Recommended.

Those of you Movable Type users who are pissed off at SixApart for charging for version 3.0 of MT and looking for alternative blogging tools, don’t forget about Blosxom. It really is a nice, efficient, easy script.

After receiving some helpful patches for PHPetal from Bryan McCloskey, I couldn’t help but integrate them. I also fixed a few other things while I was in there. Let’s call it version 0.7. Read about it here or just go ahead and download it The license was also changed to use the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License Email me at with any comments or bug reports.

I don’t write enough poetry on Sundays which leaves the rest of the week rather without anything of particular interest

Why do all weblogs have a calendar? You’ll notice mine no longer does. I decided to remove it when I realized that with as many weblogs as I read, I have never clicked on one of the calendars – ever. I finally clicked on mine just to see what it did. Could it be another example of a feature that seemed like a good idea at the time and now we’ve stopped asking why?

I’m having fun using WordPress to publish this weblog, but the design (which I stole and tweaked) just blows. There’s something too heavy about it. Looking at it makes me uncomfortable, and that can’t be good. May just roll back to a simple even-more-boring-but-readable look until something better comes along. I may even have to ask for professional help this time.

I cannot win a decent auction on eBay to save my life. All I want (this time) is a Cisco 1720 router with a T1 DSU WIC card in it. Apparently, I can’t have one because every single time I bid I get sniped. Hate that.

I hang out on the photo.net Leica forums pretty regularly. Lots of film vs digital bickering going on, but at least it’s civil and well-written. The thing that keeps coming up is the fragility of digital files – drive crashes, CF card malfunctions and whatnot. There have been numerous first-hand stories of folks losing thousands of their valuable photos due to simple computer glitches. Now, there seems to be a growing body of evidence showing that many CD-ROMs might only last a few years.

ReadPrint.com is a nicely done site full of public-domain literature.

I’m realizing that the only thing more frustrating than editing uncommented, goofily written code is editing Other People’s CSS. There are never any comments, and it’s nearly impossible to figure out whatever naming conventions or structural guidelines may have been intended, even though they were never followed. We’ve replaced complicated inline markup with even more complicated abstracted markup. Heretical as the thought is, I’m beginning to wish we’d sacrifice a teeny bit of semantic clarity for a dose of maintainability.