because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 30th, 2008
From time to time it would be convenient to access one or more of the computers at home remotely. One of the projects I have going presently is to create a version control repository of all my code on the iMac, so that I can work on our hand-coded web sites from any machine in [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 30th, 2008
It turns out it is possible to configure Wordpress to make leaving comments almost impossible. Without realizing it, I had done just that here at zanshin.net. The configuration has been updated, so any one should now be able to leave a comment or three, if they so choose.
General Options: Membership
On the Options page, [...]
A year ago today I started my current job. For the first time in a seven years I was a full-time employee rather than a consultant, and for the first time in a decade I was changing jobs without moving cross-country in the process.
It has been an interesting first year. The project I joined as [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 28th, 2008
In the seven or so years that I used Moveable Type as my content management system I managed to create 42 categories. Some were catch-all groupings that ended up holding dozens or even hundreds of postings. Others held just a handful or entries, or, in some cases, only one entry.
Switching to Wordpress allowed [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 25th, 2008
The visual editor provided with Wordpress is actually an implementation of TinyMCE. Contained in the Wordpress implementation is coding that checks the browser type. The coding following at least one of the Safari checks strips out all paragraph tags (<p>). This means that any entry you either edit or create using Safari turns in to [...]
Posted in elsewhere, nerdliness on Jan 25th, 2008
Excellent video of the process used to make a camera lens assembly. Makes you want to run out a buy a SLR camera and some lenses right away.
Posted in health on Jan 24th, 2008
At my eye exam yesterday I learned that my vision does in fact need some help. Moreover, I learned that my astigmatism has returned. Here’s my prescription:
Rx
Spherical
Cylindrical
Axis
OD
-0.50
-0.25
045
OS
+0.50
-0.75
010
The “OD” and “OS” indicate the eye. OD is an abbreviation for oculus dexter, which is Latin for right eye. OS is an abbreviation for [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 23rd, 2008
Recently at work I added all the conference room calendars, for the building I work in, to my “Other Calendar” list in Outlook. This way I can click on the checkbox for a conference room and see its availability quickly; something useful when trying to schedule a meeting.
Today I wanted to add all the conference [...]
Posted in health on Jan 23rd, 2008
Almost two years ago, in March 2006, I had LASIK surgery done to my eyes to eliminate the need to wear bifocal glasses any more. The goal was to allow me to see without corrective lens whether I was reading a book, looking at a computer monitor, or driving the car. Given my [...]
The uptime command, in the UNIX world, displays how long a particular machine has been “up” or running. Recently I have been applying that term to my daily lower back exercises. After reading a getting things done article that talked about Jerry Seinfeld, I have been working on better uptime for my exercises.
I’ll explain.
Jerry said [...]
