Advogato blog for xach

9 Nov 2006

Thu, 9 Nov 2006 19:28:48 GMT

ghostscript.com is currently expired and pending renewal, so resolving advogato.org is spotty now. It would be nice if the owner of ghostscript.com renewed it! (whois says this is raph.)

24 Feb 2005

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 04:48:19 GMT

chalst: No it isn't.

9 Feb 2005

Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:58:26 GMT

Inspired by Google Maps: Taste for the Web

9 Dec 2004

Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:19:09 GMT

chalst: grep -e "^nameserver *.*.*.*" "$file" probably doesn't do what you think it does.

13 Aug 2004

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:23:53 GMT

It seems pretty obvious that techiejunkie is a google spammer seeking juice.

24 Feb 2004

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:38:07 GMT

mulix: That guide is a little misleading, since it suggests that methods "belong" to a class. Joe Marshall's CLOS guide has a better overview. Sonja Keene's tutorial book is also very good and provides detailed examples.

21 Jul 2003

Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:46:11 GMT

I'm selling some Lisp books on eBay. CLtL2 is $70 from Amazon new, at least $30 used. My copy's starting at $5! A good deal, yeah!

13 Jun 2003

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:00:33 GMT

A while ago, I put the Bowie Timeline back online. It had been well-indexed by Google; it usually showed up in the first three or four links for a search for bowie poag or bowie j poag.

Bowie sent me several emails asking me to explain why I put it back online. I declined to explain it to him. He got less and less tactful and more and more demanding, finally writing Quit being a woman. Stop crying and give me an answer. I've been deleting his messages unread since then.

It looks like the page is temporarily missing from the google index; it doesn't show up even when searching for terms that could only turn up that page. He may still be an asshole, but now it's harder to confirm that with a quick google search. Go google!

Anyway, feel free to mirror http://www.xach.com/bjp/ or http://bowiepoag.is.batshitinsane.com/.

Update From looking at Google's removal page, it seems unlikely that the pages are no longer indexed at Bowie's request. Hmm.

Update 2 Looks like it's just a coincidence.

9 Apr 2003

Wed, 9 Apr 2003 19:22:22 GMT

New Graham.

11 Mar 2003

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:36:14 GMT

Been having fun playing with CDROM ioctls. I'm setting up a little burn-tower with three 8x CDRW drives, and I wrote a little program that polls the drive and automatically burns a disc image when a blank disc has been loaded. I got a bunch of CDRW drives for under $20 from ebay. I hope they don't suck.

I've been messing with a little addressbook program in SBCL. SBCL spits out a lot of style complaints by default. I should look up how to quiet it down.