Snow, snow, quick, quick, snow.
Woke up to about three inches of snow today, but nothing on the road or pavements thanks to the salt crew. It's still coming down., but I don't think it'll be staying.
Alison Hawke
Guideposts Magazine
Got a copy of the January issue of Guideposts Magazine in the mail. They are starting a series on depression, and list three websites in the article sidebar: National Foundation for Depressive Illness (www.depression.org), National Institute of Mental Health (www.nimh.nih.gov), and "For a Christian
Bah! Humbug! And hosting too.
Surprise surprise, it was a stupid oversight that was messing up my database connection, but I still have to rework the text panel/data entry section that's been largely untouched from day one. Paul mentioned the nightmare concept "Gridbag layout" for added prettiness. Rather him than
Progress and lack thereof
It seems Chronicle doesn't actually save entries. I have to sync the data model with the text area before saving, but the text area isn't public. Everything still needs to be able to dump to a local XML file which will be fine once this minor
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
I'm retro-fitting Chronicle to do what Paul's been suggesting from the start, publish web pages. First up is a change to store diary entries in a database instead of XML files. That will make indexing easier, and also give me search capability later. Next up is
The signal to noise ratio on paper mail is horribly low. Six bits of noise in the box today and not one signal, especially not the signal I'm waiting for. People say that if junk email cost money to send there would be less of it, but I
Chronicle
I am going to rework Chronicle to use a Hypersonic database, and turn it into a weblog management program.
Caffeine, coffee, tea and chocolate
Reading The World of Caffeine by Weinberg and Bealer, coffee seems to have mysteriously escaped notice until the 1500's, despite a reference to it in A.D. 1000. Weirder still, it seems to have been unknown to the Arabs until after they heard of tea, which was grown
Change of Method
I have started using Blog (the program) and deleted my Blogger entries. I much prefer keeping the data myself, instead of relying on an outside source to keep it for me. It was interesting setting this up, not a walk in the park but a heck of a lot easier
Virus
I feel tired. After two days spent largely asleep I still feel tired. I still have the attention span of a block of cheese. I've GOT to get back to my HTML class. It's not fair to go offline when they're getting to the