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New user? Monday, April 21, 2008
links for 2008-04-22
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Freedom disables networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time, freeing you from Internet distractions, allowing you time to code, write, or create. A reboot is the only circumvention.
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My Linear Algebra teacher devoted an entire lecture to the math behind Google's PageRank algorithm. I think this was his Become a Mathematician Elevator Pitch. People certainly paid attention during that lecture!
Sunday, April 20, 2008
links for 2008-04-21
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At present count, over 25 universities use part or all of the book, and some ambitious high-schools use select chapters. Users range from major research universities to liberal arts colleges, from public to private universities, and cover four continents.
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Discusses and links to the book "Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation by Shriram Krishnamurthi".
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This is the thread on the JVM Languages group where the Fan language was announced.
Feeling different about life and work lately
I think finishing the school year has been very theraputic for me. I feel a lot better than I have in a while, a lot more relaxed, calm, at ease. Things are slowing down and I like it.
That's not to say everything is rosy in my life - far from it, I'm still dealing with customers that refuse to pay significant invoices, those close to me know how that has affected my family. As I mentioned on Twitter last week, I'm going to have to take legal action to get things resolved, and that sucks.
Other than that distraction, I'm feeling more clarity than I have in a while. Specifically, I'm leaning towards making some positive changes to my lifestyle.
Firstly, I need to set a more strict schedule for work. I need better separation between my work time and the rest of my life. My kids need more of my time. They haven't had my time for a long, long time, mostly because my work time hasn't been managed well enough. Some of those problems are ultimately caused by professional issues like the one above, but not all.
Secondly, I need to get over some of my opinions about web development that are impeding my ability to grow and innovate. It's not realistic to avoid web development. The reality is, every software system needs web linkage to succeed, and I need to accept the bad with the good. That doesn't mean I have to become an expert at crafting cross-browser HTML/JS/CSS, but it does mean I need to be more open-minded. The future I hope to create out of my graduate research needs to embrace reality to succeed.
Lots of big thinking going on, it's helping.
Email problems with site5.com
If you've recently sent me email and not received a response, please resend it to (mylastname) at mac.com where (mylastname) is roepcke.
I suspect my ISP is having mail problems. Looking into it.
Update: Here's the chat log from my live-chat with site5.com support. I'm really happy they offer live assistance. The first time I used it I had a much quicker response and better service. The log has been anonymized to protect the support representative. I'm not sure what timezone this log is in...
(3:02:35) Jim Roepcke: E-mail sent to my domain is not getting to me. Why?
(3:02:38) SYSTEM: Please wait for a site operator to respond.
(3:08:38) SYSTEM: Please wait for a site operator to respond.
(3:14:40) SYSTEM: Please wait for a site operator to respond.
(3:20:40) SYSTEM: Please wait for a site operator to respond.
(3:20:40) SYSTEM: Please wait for a site operator to respond.
(3:21:49) support.rep: Hello Jim.
(3:24:19) support.rep: How can I assist you ?
(3:29:26) Jim Roepcke: Hello. My domain roepcke.com is not responding on backstage, and I can't get into its webmail, and no email sent to my domain is getting to me
(3:30:57) support.rep: I apologize for the inconvenience caused, the server is facing few load issues and we are working on this at the moment.
(3:31:24) Jim Roepcke: I think this has been going on for a couple of days
(3:35:11) Jim Roepcke: can you provide any more detail as to what the load issue is caused by, and when this will be fixed?
(3:35:41) support.rep: We are working on this currently and will update you shortly.
(3:35:58) Jim Roepcke: ok
(3:38:11) support.rep: We are restarting all the services as the server is not resonding.
(3:38:35) Jim Roepcke: ok
(4:01:41) Jim Roepcke: is there any new information about the state of the server/services?
(4:42:55) Jim Roepcke: is everything fixed yet?
(6:16:01) SYSTEM: Chat session has been inactive for 20 seconds and has expired.
(6:16:01) SYSTEM: Visitor has left chat.
It seems that mail is back up and running, but I'm guessing it'll take a day or two for bounced emails to make it to me. At least, I hope they bounced and didn't get lost by site5's mail server. If the support rep had been more informative maybe I would know.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
links for 2008-04-20
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AMD engineers reveal details about the company's upcoming 45nm processor roadmap, including plans for 12-core processors
Daily Kos: Catholic Priest Rips Fox News a New One
Daily Kos: Catholic Priest Rips Fox News a New One
Fox News: "But but but, he's a hater! A, hater, we're saying it so it must be true right? Yup yup he is he still we're saying it over and over again until people believe it, hater hater bigot bigot anti-American."
Father Michael Pfleger totally owned Fox News in this one. Awesome.
