Enough for today
10 July 2004
Paper work
10 July 2004
$ wc -w paper.xml
1654 paper.xml
Well, it’s coming along, but slower than I’d hoped. I’m expecting the final paper to be in the 4000 word range. Alas, I need to have it finished by Monday and edited no later than Tuesday.
Wish me luck!
1279
08 July 2004
Tix for Phish
08 July 2004
Well, I read this article and had to chuckle.
It’s not that the tickets are going for such a high price. I think it’s regrettable, but hey.
It’s that there’s an AP article coming from Coventry, VT.
Here’s a pic:
Yep, that’s it. Pretty much all of it.
Now, Vermont has a really interesting law against billboards and the like: you can put one on your own land, but nowhere else. There was a guy who posted a billboard advertising his unfinished furniture, but not on his land. The governor & a procession of cops showed up to get him to take the sign down, but the people who did own the land sold it to the guy so he wouldn’t have to take the sign down.
And so it was solved.
When I moved to Vermont, the guy had already died, but the sign was still there.
I love that stubborn streak in Vermonters.
Here’s an article about the history of Coventry. Which, for what it’s worth, is pronounced more like “Kahv-entry” with the a as in sat.
Four Die after Rabies-Infected Transplants
08 July 2004
577 Words and Counting….
08 July 2004
…on my paper that I need a draft complete by the 12th. I figured out
last night that it’ll probably be in the 5-8000 word range.
Women of CSS
08 July 2004
Molly brings up a good point about where the women of CSS are. As a technical woman (twenty-five years as a software engineer), I offer the following observations:
- Women tend not to be early adopters of technology and CSS is still in that early adopter phase.
- Even where there’s a lot of people who know a subject, there’s not a lot of people who are capable of writing about it.
- For some peculiar reason, women seem to be quite absent in the technical books community. It’s not that there aren’t books by women (there are), it’s that there’s fewer of them as a percentage than there are women in any given community. I suspect this is related to the early adopter problem.
- The same kind of problem exists in the Linux community, only more so.
Poles Apart
08 July 2004
At Westercon, I asked Mary Creasey what she’d recommend that I buy next. She asked if I wanted to hear various albums, but that would have involved actually making a decision. She recommended Tom Lewis and a Polish chorus singing on Poles Apart. Quite wonderful, but a bit odd to hear the occasional verse in Polish.
You can hear a partial track (of “Get Up Jack”)here. You can buy it here or here.
What can I say? Quite wonderful harmony, sea shanties (if you like that kind of thing, which I do), and just enough Polish to make it really different.
Paper!
07 July 2004
It’s starting to take real shape. Weirdly, I’m more worried about the formatting, since the paper has to be in IEEE format, which is very specific. However, I have quite a cool solution to that problem: Adobe InDesign. I’ve done most of the master page design already. Go, me!
JSP
07 July 2004
Worked on the submission tracker, this time in JSP. You know, it wasn’t that hard. That said, I really need to buckle down and work on some other stuff this week, like finishing the academic paper.