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September 21, 2004
Migration Complete
So, Manuel sent me a nice email yesterday, which at the top had a very simple instruction: make ~fusion redirect to the blog. And I did that, and I also, in a fit of centralization, moved everything from my Tech account and my Storytotell account under the wings of this blog. Hence, the Danvolution links to the right.
Responses to my desire to write a book about programming languages have been positive: Bill, Manuel, Eric and Alex all think it is a good idea. Manuel brought up the unspoken truth that it will be hard to make it as a college text without appending “PhD” to the end of my name. He’s right, of course, but I think I’ll try and cross that bridge when I get there.
I spent today at home from work quite ill. The specifics of it, I’m not going to get into, but I will say that it kept me up until 4 AM and I felt bad until about 4 PM today. Which makes it look like a strange 12 hour bug, but I figure it’s nutrition-related. As a result, we bought a bunch of fruit and vegetables. I hope it pans out.
I’m enjoying using Movable Type so much, I’m considering buying their outrageously expensive ($100) unlimited personal use package and installing it on Storytotell.org for all to use. I’m also thinking about going back over Zope and various other systems. MT is great, but there may be something more flexible. Still, it’s hard to find anything that works as well once it’s installed, that looks as great, that isn’t massive overkill. I’m not keen on running a separate webserver on Clan Spum.net (for example). I’m also not keen on installing Tomcat or anything that works by using XSLT. I’m also not keen on installing anything with a wacky, limited template system. Which I guess means, I hate the web. Or something.
We got a Netflix account. So I may be “reviewing” movies more shortly. We computed that a week’s worth of rentals from the local place is about $10 due to their incredibly skewed, fucked up pricing plan, and with Netflix going at $21 a month, it actually is much cheaper. That and, the local place wants $4 per DVD for 3 nights, so we’ve been renting lossy VHS tapes we don’t like as much anyhow. Thanks to Allan for building my trust in their system.
I almost forgot to mention, I worked on the layout of Alex’s blog today, and I think it’s really shaping up. I’m going to have to make several more MT templates for her, for the links on the bottom, though. It’s definitely not “production” but if you want to take a look, there it is.
Eric pissed me off the other day by telling me to vote Kerry. I’ll try and formulate something full of vitriol for my response to that, but I don’t feel like thinking about politicians and their wankerdom right now.
Posted by FusionGyro at September 21, 2004 11:12 AM
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Actually, the majority of textbooks are “written” by PhD’s in the same sense that George Bush will write his autobiography. All you need is A Ph.D to attach to the manuscript, not necessarily at the end of YOUR name. Any decent textbook publishing company will have one of those ready to go.
Also, don’t forget that your audience is likely to be more interested in your content than your qualifications. Just get some respected Ph.D’s to REVIEW it, and shazaam. Raymond Smullyan was well respected before he received a Ph.D. etc…
Posted by: eparchos at September 23, 2004 12:38 AM