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The Indiana Jones School of Management

Fri 31 Mar 2006

“It’s the last day of March in Alabama. We should have tornadoes.”

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 18:24

Mom and I were talking earlier this afternoon about the interview that my grandmother did this week with researchers from The Weather Channel regarding the 1974 Super Outbreak, which leveled her hometown of Guin, Alabama. [It's really the only thing Guin's known for.] In the five minutes or so that it’s taken me to write this entry [and watch the TV and call Misty to make sure she knows that the weather's going to crap], the sky outside my house has gone from post-sunset dusk to dark. The nasty center of this storm—which is headed due east—is still 15 to 20 minutes of here, but … man, I was dead on when I spoke the title of this post to Mom on the phone.

This promises to be an ugly night.

[Widgets|Dynamic Sidebars|Buzzwords]

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 12:47

Part of me looks on at the new WordPress Widgets with derision: “Oh, great … more fancy-dancy geegaws that distract everyone while some architectural codebase issues go unsolved and good ideas go unaddressed.” Or, well, a mature feed format unsupported.

The rest of me—the part that’s a pragmatist and that really loves WordPress for what it can do, and not what it doesn’t do—loves the idea. Giving end-users flexibility? Awesome. Limiting the amount of time users need to be coding? Great!

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Thu 30 Mar 2006

Roommate!

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 18:23

About six weeks ago, I started seriously thinking about getting a roommate here at the house. To be wholly honest, I’m more for the companionship than the extra cash [which is all going at the mortgage, anyway]. I started asking some folks I knew through my few classes at UAH back in the fall if they knew anyone who was looking for a place to live. The answer I got back was that one of my acquaintances from school—someone actually older than I am ;)—was in need of a place to stay. Ande and I talked, and I just finished showing him the house.

He moves in the first bit of his stuff tomorrow. [He's been crashing at a friend's apartment for the past couple of weeks.]

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Wed 29 Mar 2006

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Tue 28 Mar 2006

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Mon 27 Mar 2006

Geof’s New Music: 26 Mar-1 Apr 2006

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 21:03

I’m on a music-buying hiatus [I've been spending too much on computer parts; please don't ask how much :sigh:], so I’m processing all the bootlegs:

I’ve actually already processed and listened to every last one of ‘em. I’ll rate ‘em next week, but the only show I wouldn’t tell you to go after is the Wilco boot.

Last week was bootleg-riffic as well:

Wesley Daily!

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 11:21

Shane Raynor of Wesley Blog emailed me last night to ask if he could re-post stuff I wrote on Imperfect Mirror on his new project, Wesley Daily. I agreed, and he re-posted what I wrote last night: “Do We Sin When We Doubt?”

Unfortunately, the comments are flowing on Shane’s end and not mine, which means I have to work to pay attention to them. Doggone.

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Sun 26 Mar 2006

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Sat 25 Mar 2006

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Fri 24 Mar 2006

Leaky Sink

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 20:58

Tonight, as I went into the kitchen for a glass of water, I heard a faint hissing sound. I stopped, localized the noise as coming from under the sink, and flung open the door. No snakes [as my crazy subconscious feared], but … mist.

Huh?

I ducked my head into the cabinet. I could feel the mist but not see its source. I picked up the box of trash bags … soggy. I looked on the floor: puddle of water. I caught a glimpse of the puddle also in the base cabinet. :sigh:

I reached for the shutoff valves, and as I did so, I brushed one of the flex lines coming off of the shutoff. That abated the hissing, which led me to quickly deduce that it was that water line. Given that the water and mist was cool, I’m guessing it’s the cold water line.

Tomorrow, when there’s more light in the kitchen, I’ll look at it and see if I can find a source. Hopefully it’s just a bad compression fitting. That I might can handle on my own. If not, well, home warranty time! :sigh:

Sleep Awareness Week

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 14:13

I just got a company-wide email about next week being Sleep Awareness Week.

Just what are they trying to insinuate? ;)

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Thu 23 Mar 2006

Respect for HTTP 304: Positive Feedback Loop?

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 12:53

The FeedLounge crew are considering rewarding feeds that publish feeds that are capable of sending HTTP 304 responses. Here’s how this is a win for most everyone:

  1. I, as a FeedLounge user, get fresher feed data. This is where the rubber really meets the road!
  2. Content publishers who send 304 get fresher visits from FeedLounge users. Don’t think that other Web aggregators won’t mimic this idea as they expand, either.
  3. Aggregators and 304-aware publishers both get huge bandwidth savings from not having to send data back and forth. [See Anne van Kesteren's discussion of 304 for a funny personification of the exchange between aggregator and server.]
  4. Content publishers who aren’t 304-aware will have positive incentive to get that way. [They already have bandwidth-savings as an incentive, but the blogosphere is notorious for getting secondary effects like this to get CTOs to reconsider problems they're presently ignoring.]

Kudos for the idea, Alex and Scott. I hope Bloglines and the rest of the folks in this space will adopt this approach.

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Wed 22 Mar 2006

Off-Kilter

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 22:57

If I’m cross or act spaced-out, I want to apologize … my sleep schedule is all out of whack, and I’ve been unable to properly re-orient it. Normally some combination of nap-denial, a late night at the Granades‘, melatonin, and 0500 wakeups will get me back a-right. Instead, I’ve been a wreck ever since I went to Detroit. Ah well.

I’m giving in tonight … the alarm clock is getting switched off, and I’ll just wake up when I wake up in the morning. All this wake-up-at-0500-then-go-back-to-bed stuff I’ve been doing the last week-and-a-half is just really messing with my system. [To say nothing of all the stress of the server hell of last weekend.]

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Tue 21 Mar 2006

WP 2.0.2

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 13:16

Holler if I broke anything, here or anywhere else on my sites.

Geof’s New Music: 19-25 Mar 2006

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 12:44

Another week, another set of bootlegs …

Last week was chock full of bootlegs, too. No new music; no, I haven’t bought the new Caedmon’s album. Not sure that I will, either. I’ll take a free copy, but … I’m unsure that I want to support this … dreck.

Breaking Out the Live Granades

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 05:46

We were going to show this to the world before now, and then there were technical difficulties … okay, I actually previewed this one day last week, but nobody picked up on my stealth link except Stephen, who laughed.

Yes, yes … Live Granades.

I think the amusing thing is that Mark Pilgrim used to lament that Stephen was not a Weblogger. Now, I lament that Mark is not a Weblogger.

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Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 03:19

Mon 20 Mar 2006

Mmmmm … nap.

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 16:12

On Saturday, while we were watching Duke beat GW and I was trying not to swear around Eli while the server melted down, I noticed a coping mechanism/good idea that Stephen and Misty use with Eli: when he’s all cranky, they put him down for a nap and let him come back out whenever he’s ready to be awake again.

Boy, could I use one of those stop-the-crankiness naps right about now. [And no, this isn't me wishing for polyphasic sleep: like Buckminster Fuller, I'd run into issues with my "schedule conflict[ing] with that of [my] business associates, who insisted on sleeping like other men.” Feh. Silly monophasic sleepers!]

Sat 18 Mar 2006

Veen on Wikis and Email

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 10:17
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Email is conversational and collaborative, but ephemeral. Wikis can be somewhat disruptive to the flow of communication in a group, but are great at recording a first draft of institutional memory.

– Jeffrey Veen: “People use software they like”

Whoa. I now understand why I use TasksPro, in some ways, like a wiki.

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