wednesday is pronounced wenzdey, but the pronounciation doesn’t seem to follow the spelling.
In a similar vein, february is pronounced febrooeree, but few people say it that way.
February 2004
Monthly Archive
Wed 25 Feb 2004
Mon 23 Feb 2004
Thu 19 Feb 2004
Maybe I’m morbid, but I think this story is funny, in a sad depressing way:
Failed suicide man burns savings
PARIS, France (Reuters) — A Frenchman who burned his life savings to a cinder before swallowing two bottles of pills is facing life with an empty bank account after neighbors foiled his suicide attempt.
The man, in his forties, has been recovering in a psychiatric hospital since late October when neighbors in the southwestern town of Bordeaux saw smoke coming from his house and called the emergency services, the daily Liberation reported on Tuesday.
The man, who lived alone, had cleared out his bank balance of 240,000 euros ($288,500) and set fire to the pile of 500 euro notes in his bath before swallowing the pills, hoping to leave nothing behind after his death.
However, he was now eager to start a new life, his lawyer Dominique Remy told the newspaper. “He is not dangerous. It’s just that he’s destroyed all his worth,” he said.
reference: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/12/02/france.cash.reut/
Tue 17 Feb 2004
So I passed an enjoyable Sunday evening with the Derek’s family– eating, discussing, plotting, gaming. As usual, there was mirth in the air. (Either mirth, or too little oxygen. Both produce the same euphoric effect.)
I spent the bulk of Monday working on my computers. I have configured the following:
CompUSA eMachine. A Windows XP machine, attached to DSL. This machine provides Internet access to the rest of us. Also, it shares a printer. How nice.
A new box, built from Totally Awesome Computer parts. Athlon 2700. My main working machine. Also Windows XP.
A Walmart Lindows PC, for all the Linux fun.
A Windows laptop, which is connected my video quad switcher. Windows 98. PCMCIA ethernet card.
* A retrofitted (from LS Micro parts) PC on the kitchen table, which will control my robot. It has an Internet connection, via a hallway switch, and a joystick. Relatedly, I need to chat with Derek about using DLLs in Visual C++. It’s running Windows 2000 professional.
It was a lesson in frustration, but I finally managed to get most things working — including email. (Yes, I use Outlook Express.)
I lost the serial number from two pieces of my software (though I have the original disks.) A search on the Internet for serial numbers yielded a boatload of hud, if you get my drift. My drift is that those sites didn’t really have the serial numbers, but instead, they had hud: think p0rn, spyware, etc. I did stumble on one site that had the numbers I was looking for, IIRC, that was: www.cerials.net.
So David called to tell me that his original opinion of blogs as esoterica, was in point-of-fact, mistaken. The commoners use them!
Speaking of commoners, now is a good time to review our caste system:
Proletariat –
1. The class of industrial wage earners who, possessing neither capital nor production means, must earn their living by selling their labor.
2. The poorest class of working people.
Bourgeois –
1. A person belonging to the middle class.
2. A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.
Aristocracy/gentry –
1. People of gentle birth, good breeding, or high social position.
2. An upper or ruling class.
3. The class of English landowners ranking just below the nobility.
Mom and Dad spent the extended weekend in the condo in St. George (actually, it’s in Washington City, just outside of St. George.)
Tonight is Jujitsu class. I think I’ve decided to give it a try for a month. Sensai Michael Pease said for $19.95 I could get two lessons plus the gi. I think that signing up for two classes a week is a bit too progressive for me, given my workload, so I will, in all likelihood, instead prepay for a month of weekly lessons. The adventure awaits.
I need to email Kristen in Taiwan.
David, if you are reading this, when you come to visit us, bring my books back that you borrowed! 
My buddy, Jared, has a cool content management system (postnuke) here: http://www.betteridge.us/
Postnuke has a ton of modules like blogs, image galleries, games, etc. I’ve installed a copy here. Here is the PostNuke getting started guide. There is another CMS that competes with postnuke, but I can’t remember it offhand…
I changed the bblog template for this bBlog. My was too grey/gray, dont’cha think?
I want to be able to print to my shared windows printer from Linux. I think I’ll need samba for that. I will do more research and get back to you’all.
The University of Utah emailed me. They said that they would post accept/reject on my online account by the end of March. The end of March seems like a long time away.
I will experiment with phpTriad, which installs php/apache/mysql in a windows environment.
Mon 9 Feb 2004
So I got an email yesterday from my buddy, Derek Macrae Davis(pictured above.) He set up a weblog/blog here.
I was inspired to do the same, ’cause I got things to say. Derek’s blog is based on some perl scripts, and well, I don’t know perl as well as PHP, so I got a php blogger tool and voila. Here we are.
