Author Archives: David Terrell

CSS Naked Day

Posted on April 5, 2006 by David Terrell

Why is this page so barren? I’ve disabled the stylesheet completely, for CSS Naked Day. All the content is still here, you just have to scroll up and down to see it. Let me know what you think. via Sam … Continue reading →

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Linkto

Posted on March 28, 2006 by David Terrell

In the sidebar here is linkto, a thing I wrote a while ago to clean up pasted links. I’ve written a new version that pops up in any page, puts the currently selected text (if any) into the input area, … Continue reading →

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OpenBSD

Posted on March 24, 2006 by David Terrell

OpenBSD and OpenSSH need your help. Please consider donating funds and/or buying CDs and T-shirts to keep the project that you depend on going.

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C++ runtime class registration

Posted on March 16, 2006 by David Terrell

C++ doesn’t have real pretty introspection capabilities yet, so sometimes you’re stuck rolling your own stuff that kinda sucks. For example, here’s the most convenient method I was able to find to do runtime iteration of all the classes that … Continue reading →

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Site design

Posted on March 7, 2006 by David Terrell

I’m not really sure why I thought it was a good idea to start this, but I’m currently about 70% of the way through redesigning the site. I guess I just got tired of stock Kubrick. If you’d like to … Continue reading →

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Devstudio Undo/Redo broken

Posted on February 22, 2006 by David Terrell

No idea what the heck happened to Visual Studio .NET 2003. Things were fine last week, now undo and redo are broken. They’re disabled on the menu and the hotkeys don’t have any effect. Happens on all projects. Anybody have … Continue reading →

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Ah, the Winter Olympics

Posted on February 17, 2006 by David Terrell

Here are the things i like about the Winter Olympics: Hockey Speed Skating … uh…. For things I don’t like about the Winter Olympics, let’s start with: “Women are too fragile for ski jumping“, add a dash of “it’s just … Continue reading →

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Running web.py behind SCGI

Posted on February 15, 2006 by David Terrell

I’ve been doing some python webdev using this new web.py toolkit. It’s not bad, but I my host uses apache and apache + fastcgi (for now) means suck. So instead, we used SCGI: Install mod_scgi into apache Startup your web.py … Continue reading →

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Microformats?

Posted on February 9, 2006 by David Terrell

What’s a microformat? Jesus, good luck figuring out from microformats.org. That’s the most useless description of a technology I’ve ever seen. What is a microformat really? It’s a way of embedding structural information in the id and class attributes of … Continue reading →

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Two hat chicks

Posted on January 31, 2006 by David Terrell

I just finished helping my wife and sister set up their online catalog, www.twohatchicks.com. They’re making and selling handmade hats and other crocheted items. They’re taking paypal and will ship anywhere in the US, so if you’re interested go send … Continue reading →

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