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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Code

Much messing with source files. Changing your data model partway through a project is not the best thing to do because you have to delete the one file you've been holding on to as sacred, rename a pile of stuff, redirect files to look at other files, create

Caffeine overload

Never eat a piece of caffeinated candy after midday if you want to sleep. The St Louis Rams football team beat the Green Bay Packers team 45 to 17 yesterday. A 28 point lead is almost embarrassing. Watched it at the Pageant, just off U City loop, with Sarah and

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.

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

Mail

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

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