Voder-Vocoder

I got the style preferences to work under IE6. I still don’t know why it was crashing, though. The fix is a bit of a kludge.

Was bored this morning, so I went to church. They altered the prayers of the people. The new version:

We pray that our leaders may govern with humility,
that they not be full of selfish ambition or conceit…

The old version (form I):

For our President, for the leaders of the nations,
and for all in authority, let us pray to the Lord.
Lord, have mercy.

I’m not sure what to make of the change. I think somebody’s saying that our leaders are more evil today and that we no longer want the Lord to have mercy for them.

Okay, here’s the new page, at the new site, halcanary.org. The page is dynamically created. I wrote a couple of perl scripts that do the job.

There’s still a lot that’s missing. I’ve done the work, I just need to put it in place. Here’s a list:

• Prefs & styles
• The other pages.
• logins for guests
  • a way to post to the blog via cgi
  • allow guests to post to the blog too.
• view old blog entries

Stay tuned!

• Desktop environment: none (what for?)
• Window Manager: Windowmaker
• Number of apps in my dock: 12 (I need to pare this down to 8 or so)
• Terminal Emulator: Konsole (shift-rightarrow to switch tabs)
• Browser: Mozilla 1.1
• Editor: GNU Emacs 21
• PIM: Evolution (just for syncing with the Palm)
• mp3 player: mp3blaster (curses console app)
• File manager: konqueror $HOME (when bash is not enough)

And, by the way, MACOSX sucks. It’s too MACOSish.

Last weekend, I picked up a couple of O’Reilly books at the store: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan, and Programming Perl (the camel book) by Larry Wall, et all.

I’ve found that JavaScript (js) is a much easier to grok if you think of it as a real language. And there’s a lot of cool things that can be done with the W3C DOM.

Perl, on the other hand, is cool, but it’s syntax is too complicated. A comparason is in order. YOu can learn all there is to know about Java’s syntax in a short time, but it would take years of effort to lean everything that can be done with the language. With Perl, it takes a long time to grok the eccentricies of the syntax, but as soon as you do, you know how to do anything with the language.

Is there a word for this concept? I guess that Java is a minimalistic OOP language, while Perl is a maxamalistic language that allows OOP structures. As a logician, I hate Perl. As a hacker, I have a lot of respect for anyone who has mastered it.

I’ve played a bit with js and cookies. See the prefs page.

I’ve been taking photos. See this, this, and that.