Jay McGavren's Journal

2007-07-10

Eat your heart out, LiveJournal.

The cron job to back up my WordPress database, including the attachments, is in place and working.  I can breathe a lot easier now.

The impracticality of backups was one of the reasons I wasn’t happy with any of the SixApart offerings.  I hope they’ll take note.

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2007-07-08

Nostalgia Part 2...

I can only find the remnants of the site I had in the mid-90s at Novia.net in Omaha. The original was even grosser-looking, with tiling water drops rendered in POV-Ray as a background. Maybe it’s burned to a CD somewhere. If I can ever find it I’ll post it here, as a warning to my children not to code HTML by hand.

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2007-07-03

... Awkward.

In addition to everyone I’ve e-mailed, we also have two Christian congregations and one Asatru kindred praying for Jeremy and for us.  :P

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2007-07-03

“There are two kinds of pains in the ass: the obnoxious boor - to be avoided on all teams - and the person who never learned that grownups shouldn’t ask ‘Why?’ all the time. The latter is a treasure.”-Dave Thomas, on selecting job candidatesI’m sitting in on a job interview this afternoon, so I’m looking into interviewing techniques, and this quote caught my eye… (This is Dave Thomas of the Ruby community, not the fast-food community.)

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2007-07-02

Splat!

Gravity EnvironmentalFactor

gravity = EnvironmentalFactor.new
accelerate = Behavior.new
accelerate.add_action {|target| target.vector.y += 9.8}
gravity.behaviors << accelerate
environment.environmental_factors << gravity

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