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 of items I would [...]

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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 defaultcommon’ format (prior to a switch for superior logging). A search showed no obvious small script for [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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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I’ve used pretty much every VNC client available for Mac OS X over the past year. My preferred client now is Chicken of the VNC, even though the pun makes me cringe. Recommended.

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I recently started using Sun’s version of GNOME 2.0 as my primary desktop environment, and decided that I needed an icon to launch my favourite mail application, mutt. I’m not much of an artist or a GIMP expert, but I was able to combine the GNOME terminal icon with the mutt in the Mutt [...]

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My friend Mike is getting married in about a week, so his best man Bryan rounded up a group of Mike’s friend and instructed them to head directly to Sea Bowl in Pacifica. I certainly hadn’t bowled since my wedding and probably not since moving to the US. However, I managed to average [...]

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I think beliefnet’s Belief-O-Matic is a pretty interesting Internet assessment quiz. The BOM asks you for the answers to twenty-odd questions plus the importance of this particular question to construct a parameter space that is then matched against a set of declared religious systems. The name’s pretty slick, too.

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My friend Alan’s new blog at bleaklow.com talks about being a drum-bashing Ranger rambling about England’s Peak National Park. It’s worth a visit, if only to divine how wasteful the North American sprawl form of suburbia is in comparison to the island form found in the UK. (Granted, it’s also detectible that Alan [...]

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Stephen was at Brown today to give a talk, “Topics in resource management”, at the Technical Center for Scientific Computation and Visualization. He had a chance to walk around the campus and its surroundings and see what’s new.

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Dina gave a talk on “Creating a worldwide database of volcanic unrest” for the Volcano Hazards Team seminar series at the USGS, Menlo Park.

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