![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Right, then! - 9 March 2007
Mar. 10th, 2007 02:46 amHave moved forward and made progress. With thought and work tomorrow, I should be able to say that I have base functionality complete on my application. Not pretty anything, mind you, but basic functionality. After that, it’s learning to work the authentication plug-in and putting user names to objects. From there, the authorization plug-in, so that only the right user can mess with stuff. That will probably take me up to or a little through my first scheduled code release. If it call gets done on Release One, then Release Two can start implementing AJAX and start with the prettification. Maybe Release Two will manage to get all the AJAX down so that functionality is all in by the second release, leaving the final release for debugging and the coat of paint. That’s the plan, anyway. There are things that conspire to get in my way, including group projects that will require work, papers to be written, and the like. Thus, getting ahead while the getting is good is a great idea.
Also, this is the first week back from break, and the stress sores have already returned. I’m shortening my lifespan doing this, I’m sure. But it’s only a few more weeks, and then it’s all done. And hopefully at the end, there will be a diploma. And maybe a job, too. But assignments first - can’t go get a job if I don’t graduate. (Not to say I won’t be looking.)
Leading off tonight’s parade of oddities, the antics of a crab fishing boat named Rollo. Looks like they have a lot of fun while out at sea crab fishing. I’m following that with pictures of airborne cats, because really, trying to find an effective shift from that to something else would take... perhaps a doormat that reads as an invitation or an expulsion, depending on which side you see it from? Nah. If I were going for surreal, I might post up this picture of a house still standing in the middle of the foundation being dug for a much bigger building. Or perhaps this picture of a nuclear family, which itself is drawn from the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
vintagephoto community.
Someone gypped the Girl Scouts by paying for three boxes of cookies with a bogus $50, and got the cookies... and change. I believe we can file this one under “lower than low”.
Hunters and anglers are starting to warm to the idea of climate change, a shift which might actually make some impact on the Republican Party. Right about here is where I insert a joke about Dick Cheney’s shooting abilities. Of course, that datum has already been forgotten by now, and so people will have to think a bit and possibly need a reminder before they laugh.
Putting up a pretty big block of political stuffs, in the “thanks for confirming” department, the Justice Department has admitted that the FBI improperly and occasionally illegally used the Patriot Act and National Security Letters. And we’re just finding out about it now because of an audit of the FBI. I wonder if there are parts that the Justice Department did find but which are covered under national security restrictions that were introduced with the Patriot Act?
Further in the political realm, Jacob Weisberg on Slate has an article about the four unspeakable truths of Iraq, namely: The war was a mistake, veterans and soldiers are victims as much as they are “heroes”, lives lost in Iraq are wasted lives, and that America is losing/has lost the Iraq war. Those four things will not be uttered out of a politician’s mouth without retractions and apologies following soon afterward... if they ever get said at all. Perhaps with the lens of time, people will be able to say them without fear, but at the moment, it doesn’t look like anyone’s owning up to any of these statements.
Going out into ideologies, and adherences to, Harold Meyerson says that conservative economic policies are contributing to the marriage problems their social ideology wants to eliminate. The social ideology itself may have a couple chinks in the armor... things like NewsBusters complaining about a Comedy Central sketch where God isn't good enough for a girl, but with the Republicans having a lot of closeted, but practicing, homosexuals, possibly including a gentleman who has a career in gay pornography. It could be, however, as the Nitpicker points out, that the right wing has joined in the fight for equal rights for homosexuals, since they don’t seem to be in any hurry, if all the connections are true, to expel said gentleman. Of course, the other shoe could just be waiting for the cue to fall.
Speaking of sex, but in a much more heterosexual manner, Instant Karma Sutra (Flash) - probably not safe for work, considering that the silhouettes are meant to show off positioning for coitus.
Purebreeders and crossbreeders in the United Kingdom are in a tiff because the purebreeders won't put the crossbreeds on their pedigree list. To me, this sounds significantly like arguing with one’s fellows about the seating arrangement on a ship that has struck an iceberg, but everyone has their passions, I suppose.
The Calvin Klein namesake of perfumes is trying valiantly to catch the eyes and noses of the hip crowd, according to the New York Times. So much so that the next attempt has SMSspeak in the name of the fragrance and Engrishy language in the advertisements, and trademarked the term “technosexuals”, expecting it to become a buzzword among the wired generation. It’s trying to market to a generation that doesn’t particularly like being marketed to, so we’ll see how successful they are. (Won’t do much for me. I haven’t found a fragrance I could stand to be around for more than a few seconds.) As Empty Bottle opines in rapid-fire, the ads are everywhere, and we hate them. Even as we try to leverage them to our own advantage.
Thinking about selling something different than fleeting material gratification, here’s part 2 of Sid the Salesman: The Bait and Switch of the Dharma. In this particular sequence, there’s more about the promise of freedom from suffering, and how the path to it leads through some pretty big suffering of the self.
The last bits are things sold, but that appeal a bit more than fragrance to me. Classic video game-inspired belt buckles. And the very last bit for tonight is Neil Gaiman stepping aside and printing an e-mail that he received, detailing what happened when a library got a full-bore campaign launched against them for offering Internet, and how they learned from it and eventually outlasted and defeated it. That’s what some of the populace wants to do to all the libraries in the country. So, please, realize that librarians are dealing with a lot more than you think, and give them your support.
On that note, I’m heading off to bed. Hopefully tomorrow will bring about even more impressive work and progress.
Also, this is the first week back from break, and the stress sores have already returned. I’m shortening my lifespan doing this, I’m sure. But it’s only a few more weeks, and then it’s all done. And hopefully at the end, there will be a diploma. And maybe a job, too. But assignments first - can’t go get a job if I don’t graduate. (Not to say I won’t be looking.)
Leading off tonight’s parade of oddities, the antics of a crab fishing boat named Rollo. Looks like they have a lot of fun while out at sea crab fishing. I’m following that with pictures of airborne cats, because really, trying to find an effective shift from that to something else would take... perhaps a doormat that reads as an invitation or an expulsion, depending on which side you see it from? Nah. If I were going for surreal, I might post up this picture of a house still standing in the middle of the foundation being dug for a much bigger building. Or perhaps this picture of a nuclear family, which itself is drawn from the
vintagephoto community.Someone gypped the Girl Scouts by paying for three boxes of cookies with a bogus $50, and got the cookies... and change. I believe we can file this one under “lower than low”.
Hunters and anglers are starting to warm to the idea of climate change, a shift which might actually make some impact on the Republican Party. Right about here is where I insert a joke about Dick Cheney’s shooting abilities. Of course, that datum has already been forgotten by now, and so people will have to think a bit and possibly need a reminder before they laugh.
Putting up a pretty big block of political stuffs, in the “thanks for confirming” department, the Justice Department has admitted that the FBI improperly and occasionally illegally used the Patriot Act and National Security Letters. And we’re just finding out about it now because of an audit of the FBI. I wonder if there are parts that the Justice Department did find but which are covered under national security restrictions that were introduced with the Patriot Act?
Further in the political realm, Jacob Weisberg on Slate has an article about the four unspeakable truths of Iraq, namely: The war was a mistake, veterans and soldiers are victims as much as they are “heroes”, lives lost in Iraq are wasted lives, and that America is losing/has lost the Iraq war. Those four things will not be uttered out of a politician’s mouth without retractions and apologies following soon afterward... if they ever get said at all. Perhaps with the lens of time, people will be able to say them without fear, but at the moment, it doesn’t look like anyone’s owning up to any of these statements.
Going out into ideologies, and adherences to, Harold Meyerson says that conservative economic policies are contributing to the marriage problems their social ideology wants to eliminate. The social ideology itself may have a couple chinks in the armor... things like NewsBusters complaining about a Comedy Central sketch where God isn't good enough for a girl, but with the Republicans having a lot of closeted, but practicing, homosexuals, possibly including a gentleman who has a career in gay pornography. It could be, however, as the Nitpicker points out, that the right wing has joined in the fight for equal rights for homosexuals, since they don’t seem to be in any hurry, if all the connections are true, to expel said gentleman. Of course, the other shoe could just be waiting for the cue to fall.
Speaking of sex, but in a much more heterosexual manner, Instant Karma Sutra (Flash) - probably not safe for work, considering that the silhouettes are meant to show off positioning for coitus.
Purebreeders and crossbreeders in the United Kingdom are in a tiff because the purebreeders won't put the crossbreeds on their pedigree list. To me, this sounds significantly like arguing with one’s fellows about the seating arrangement on a ship that has struck an iceberg, but everyone has their passions, I suppose.
The Calvin Klein namesake of perfumes is trying valiantly to catch the eyes and noses of the hip crowd, according to the New York Times. So much so that the next attempt has SMSspeak in the name of the fragrance and Engrishy language in the advertisements, and trademarked the term “technosexuals”, expecting it to become a buzzword among the wired generation. It’s trying to market to a generation that doesn’t particularly like being marketed to, so we’ll see how successful they are. (Won’t do much for me. I haven’t found a fragrance I could stand to be around for more than a few seconds.) As Empty Bottle opines in rapid-fire, the ads are everywhere, and we hate them. Even as we try to leverage them to our own advantage.
Thinking about selling something different than fleeting material gratification, here’s part 2 of Sid the Salesman: The Bait and Switch of the Dharma. In this particular sequence, there’s more about the promise of freedom from suffering, and how the path to it leads through some pretty big suffering of the self.
The last bits are things sold, but that appeal a bit more than fragrance to me. Classic video game-inspired belt buckles. And the very last bit for tonight is Neil Gaiman stepping aside and printing an e-mail that he received, detailing what happened when a library got a full-bore campaign launched against them for offering Internet, and how they learned from it and eventually outlasted and defeated it. That’s what some of the populace wants to do to all the libraries in the country. So, please, realize that librarians are dealing with a lot more than you think, and give them your support.
On that note, I’m heading off to bed. Hopefully tomorrow will bring about even more impressive work and progress.
