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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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20 July 2001 - 8:45 am
As I've mentioned before, my parents are on vacation in North Carolina this week. Last night I found a list of things they had wanted me to do while they were gone. Let's just say that the things I've done in the past week and the things on the list didn't coincide so well. As a result of finding this list, I spent part of my evening mowing the lawn. In the rain. It doesn't look so great, but it should grow out a bit before they get home on late tomorrow night, so everything should be fine (assuming, as I have done, that they don't have Internet access in NC).
After I mowed the lawn, Jared came over because we were going to get some dinner. But neither of us was very hungry, so we went out to Wesselman Park and played some volleyball with Luke, John, John's brother Jim, Josh, and Ben until 7pm. Then we got cleaned up and went out to eat at JoJo's. After dinner we drove to the abandoned Builder's Square parking lot, where Jared drove his car in backwards circles while yelling "How much for dem?" at the people in the new car lot next door. It was actually very funny.
On a different subject, I'm thinking of switching to Windows 2000. I have the CDs for it, but I'm not sure if I want to go to the trouble of formatting my hard drive. I could probably upgrade without formating, but when I've done that in the past, bad things have happened. On the other hand, I've only heard good things about Win2k, which can't be said for WIndows 98. If you have experience with Win2k, I'd love to hear what you think about it.
Another technical query for you. What can you tell me about Greymatter? I'm intrigued by it. I was going to write a PHP/MySQL backend for -273 (I've got some code sketched out on a piece of paper in front of me right now, in fact), but two people have mentioned Greymatter to me in the past two days, so I'm thinking of setting up a trial run with it. It uses perl and not php, which I would really like to learn, but I think I may see how greymatter works anyway. I may end up using it for hiddeninput, and writing a backend for -273, just for the hell of it.
I'm still looking for my Sum 41 CD. I'm now offering a reward of $2 to whoever can find it.
Posted by on 20 July 2001 at 8:45 AM
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