Melanie and I were cursed of sorts by mother nature last year when it came to attending outdoor sporting events together. Baseball games we went to were either cold, rainy, or both. And it rained on us at the U.S. Open for a second year in a row. The last time we remember attending a pro sporting event outdoors without bad weather had to be in 2002. But last night our bad luck finally changed.
We had a great time at Yankee Stadium watching New York triumph over Oakland. And the weather was perfect. No rain and the temperature was ideal. Hopefully the rest of the summer will be like this for us.
I was looking at the Whistler and Killington cams today. Still snow at both resorts. It sucks to think I could be snowboarding this weekend. Guess I shouldn’t have packed up the gear.
Melanie and I have a very busy but fun life. With work, travel, events in New York, it is sometimes hard for us to remember were we will be in 6 months. So I setup a web calendar for us to use.
I used open source project WebCalendar, which is a PHP-based calendar application. Setup was a snap thanks to the folks at CrystalTech, which is my hosting provider. Their support of PHP and MySql made getting the site up and running very easy. However, I did have to make one change to the code.
Inside of init.php is a number of “include-once” statements. Each of these statements refer to the a file in the “includes” directory such as “includes/translate.php”. To make the site work correctly within the server environment I had to remove the “includes/” string literal portion of the “include-once” statements. I did not have to make any other changes to get the application running from the shared server.
A Portrait of J. Random Hacker [The Jargon Dictionary]: “A Portrait of J. Random Hacker”
“The trick to living well is not to live on as much money as you can but to live well on as little money as you can.” -Bob Reselman
I have always been a big fan of O’Reilly. The books are great, the web sites are useful, and Safari is my favorite. But after O’Reilly’s attempt to implement a single sign on for all their sites I am left with multiple user profiles, one for O’Reilly sites and one for my Safari account which I can now only access through a different URL. Having multiple accounts is not exactly single sign on in my opinion.
And I’m still fuming over not being able to access Safari for more than 24 hours. Unfortunately I really needed access yesterday too.
I’m very surprised that a company like O’Reilly has let something like this happen. I have always thought the company was better than that. Hopefully improvements will come soon now that lessons have been learned.
Congratulations to my friends Tom and Janet who tied the knot over the weekend!
It seems I am no longer able to sign in to O’Reilly’s Safari Bookshelf. I didn’t realize until today how important this reference site has become to me. Come on support team. Get my access active again.
Melanie and I had our first in over 2 months NYC Saturday together where it was just the two of us. We hit 55 Bar for some great blues music and the singing of Sweet Georgia Brown. The late show set was definite the best, with lots of energy and excitement coming from the crowd. The evening reminded me how much fun Saturday night can be in NYC.