because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in life on Jun 28th, 2004
Today was my first day of work after being out of work for 99 days. It felt good and scary at the same time. This has been by far the longest stretch of time I’ve not worked since I graduated from college. Even though we had the specter of unemployment hanging over our heads, we [...]
Posted in life on Jun 25th, 2004
Posted in life on Jun 24th, 2004
For some weeks now I have been sitting on an offer of work in Kansas City. It was the first, and is still the only, offer I’ve generated in over three months of looking. Because it is located in a city I had never before considered it was hard initially to generate any enthusiasm for [...]
Posted in life on Jun 18th, 2004
This week has been a new experience in letting go for me. I spent considerable time sifting through more than fifty boxes of stuff in our garage, preparing for a potential move.
We have a 3-bay garage, with generous shelf space in the main portion, and a virtual storage locker, with more shelves in the separate [...]
Posted in social issues on Jun 18th, 2004
President Johnson lied about an attack in the Tonkin Gulf and escalated the United States’ involvement in Vietnam ultimately resulting in the deaths of 3,000,000 or more Vietnamese, and over 55,000 Americans.
President Nixon lied about an attempt to break into Democratic National Headquarters and ultimately resigned from office rather than face impeachment.
President Ford was, and [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jun 17th, 2004
I’ve made a couple of slight appearance changes to zanshin.net. The font justification has been switched from justify to left, now the right margin will flow naturally. I’ve also switched the secondary font from Tohoma to Verdana.
Boredom is a horrible thing indeed.
Posted in elsewhere, social issues on Jun 15th, 2004
Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each. I’ve added a column for the United States so we can keep score.
Characteristic
Hitler
Mussolini
Franco
Suharto
US
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jun 14th, 2004
Posted in life on Jun 13th, 2004
One way or another I am nearing the end of my period of unemployment. The next few days will see me commit to either a full-time job in Kansas City or accept an as-yet-to-be-made offer to work 4 days a week from home on a java development project. The former starts in just two weeks [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jun 12th, 2004
Thanks to padawan.info’s preventing image hotlinking article I now have protected to some degree my site’s images.
The process is relatively simple, create a new .htaccess file for your images subfolder (you do have an images subfolder, right?) and paste the following code in it.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?zanshin.net(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png)$ - [F,NC]
Cool.
