Seabiscuit

August 10, 2003

We went and saw Seabiscuit last night. I thought it was a pretty good movie, especially for a movie that had received so much criticism. I've not been in a theater in some time where the theater broke out in applause. The movie tried too hard when it came to showing Seabiscuit's representation of the entire age. Too little credit is given to the audience's ability to understand this and it's done in an in-your-face sort of way. The audience in the theater applauded not only at the end of the movie, but also as Seabiscuit won the match race with War Admiral.

Tired of Shark Week

August 8, 2003

Maybe it comes from being a little too young to be a Jaws fan, but I'm tired of TLC's "Shark Week" already. It doesn't start until next week, but I'm already tired of the sensational hype. When will they have Raptor week? Badger week? Why are we so fascinated with sharks to begin with?

More on the upgrade

August 7, 2003

I've been spending a lot of time lately upgrading PHP and drupal. My mistakes of a few days ago were due in large part to not copying the new .htaccess file over. It contains the rewrite rules for all the old formats as well as the much more readable (and indexable) clean URLs.

Killer Apps

August 6, 2003

A few killer apps I've been thinking about.... Some are partially built.

Online bookshelf. Safari at oreilly.com has the concept but it's missing the feature that would get me to subscribe. I have about 50 O'Reilly press books sitting on the shelf. If I could use ISBN or even answer a randomly selected question from the text and register the print copy for online access I'd subscribe in a minute. The savings in the weight of my backpack and the ability to access the books from anywhere I'm online would be well worth it.

Good and Bad of the upgrade

August 3, 2003

I completed most of the Drupal upgrade last night. The bad that has to be fixed.... permalinks are broken as a result of the change in the architecture. For the moment I've made this change in node.module to get the # to appear again (lines 526-529 which were 526-528). However older permalinks are broken for the moment.

   // if ($main == 1 && $node->teaser && $node->teaser != $node->body)  # Comment out to Put Permalinks on all nodes
   {
      $links[] = l(t("#"), "node/view/$node->nid", array("title" => t("Permalink to this posting.")));
    }

Next I'll look at either mod-rewrite or a php script to allow the addressing of nodes without the argument based form of '?" since search engines don't follow those links as well.

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