Archives: 2003 February
The Day of Sinus Reckoning
February 27th, 2003, No Comments
The day of reckoning for my sinuses has arrived. I check into the hospital tomorrow. Nearly every one of my sinuses is a solid mass, so the doctor will be doing several types of endoscopic surgery to get things working again. Even though it’s an out patient procedure, my case is complicated enough that it’s [...]
ODP RDF Exports
February 21st, 2003, No Comments
The RDF exports seem to be coming out like clockwork again from ODP. The first was riddled with errors but the second is much, much better. No illegal XML characters in either file and only one had UTF-8 errors. With luck, the next one will be error free. I’m going to attempt to create smaller [...]
Gecko to music conversion using 3 bit tuples
February 21st, 2003, No Comments
I was driving home from work recently after a particularly stressful day when some random synapses fired in my brain (or perhaps just burned out from stress) and an idea formed.
Standard diatonic musical scales have eight notes, a power of 2 that can be represented by a 3 bits. We’re used to thinking of our [...]
BSA, ODP, RDF, and other TLAs
February 16th, 2003, No Comments
We received another BSA threat-letter at NCC Friday. That’s two in as many weeks. It was the usual collection of vague threats that if we didn’t rush out and buy some Microsoft, Adobe, and Macromedia software the BSA might have to search our office for unlicensed software and fine us a few million dollars. This [...]
The Search for Shuttle Debris
February 3rd, 2003, No Comments
On Sunday, Susan and I decided to go hunting for shuttle debris. I had been inspired by a fellow-DPRG member, Eric Yundt, who reported having seen a tile fragment less than an hour from Dallas in Rice, Texas. We picked up a paper and looked for any references to comfirmed debris sightings but most were [...]
The Columbia is Lost
February 2nd, 2003, No Comments
Yesterday morning, just after I woke up, I heard a loud rumbling outside. I assumed this was just a plane coming into DFW airport. The weather occasionally causes them to take a flight path right over our house that can be fairly loud. About half an hour later, I turned on the television and saw [...]
