Dina presented her poster, “Creating Access to Data of Worldwide Volcanic Unrest”, at the AGU 2003 Fall Conference (in San Francisco) today.

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I sent the following email to Design Witin Reach. It’s opinionated, making an almost drunken attempt to spray bile at manufacturers and retailers in various markets–but they have each failed in mediocre fashion, so I’m maintaining my position. From: Stephen Hahn Date: Tue Nov 18, 2003 21:52:05 US/Pacific To: sales[@]dwr.com Subject: Telephones? DWRians, A class [...]

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I’ve reformatted the software:dockables page to bring it in line with the site’s general format; it’s still one of the more active entry pages for blueslugs.com (along with the grammar entry in Ben’s ABC collection).

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I was trying another web server statistics package, awstats, based on a testimonial in Alan’s blog. Unfortunately, awstats expects a log file to be in the “combined” log format, and blueslugs.com has many entries in the default “common” format (prior to a switch for superior logging). A search showed no obvious small script for this, [...]

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Dina’s father has been sick the past year or so, and Dina’s been relaying information to friends and family via email. I’ve archived them all.

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I’ve started using analog to build reports from the blueslugs.com server logs. One of the tools on the site is minidns, which is a small Perl script that runs through the logs, replacing any IPv4 address matches with their DNS-resolved names (if defined). I’ve improved this slightly, by adding caching inside the application (on the [...]

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Lifetime TV’s website offers a fun solitaire variant, which they call RSVP. Apparently, regular practice will make you an excellent party hostess. (“Now turn to the young lady on your left side, and say something charming…”) Whimsical, well-constructed Flash application: recommended.

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Cutbacks at work over the past few years have forced me to take action. As the coffee and teas supplier has moved the offerings from a wide selection of Bigelow teas to a small selection of Bigelow teas to an alternate tea vendor (nameless), the quality of my tea break has dropped so that, now, [...]

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Mark Kurlanksy, Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world, 1997. [Paperback published by Penguin.] A short book on the role of (mostly) Atlantic cod, which, beyond being yet another species-so-abundant-we-couldn’t-help-but-nearly-extinguish-it, was apparently the seventeenth century ocean-crosser’s equivalent of interstate service areas (in that great distances could be travelled with comparatively convenient access [...]

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We saw the Affleck-Lopez movie, Gigli, last night in Daly City. Unlike past dubious outings, the theatre was fairly full—showing the loyalty of each star’s fans. (Well, J. Lo’s fans, in any case.) Here’s proof that we, along with approximately 400 000 other domestic ticket purchasers, were there opening weekend:

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