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Happy Easter!

Life is going well. My dad kicked my butt skiing. I was snowboarding and he was telemarking. He can literally fly down the hill with those crazy skiis. Of course, I was using my younger brother's snowboard, which was designed for tricks and not speed, but still, I should have whooped that old man! ;)

Training is going well, I think I'm learning a lot. Working a lot with perl. I've been working with creating/sorting a dynamic hash-array. Sorting a log file by date-stamp, which was sewn together from a series of eight other log files, it's almost working. Just a few more tweeks and it should be cookin with gas :)

Peace ya'll

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Ah HA!

Slow sunday. Getting ready to attend a two-week long course in CRM. Should prove interesting. I'll be writing perl in my spare time, and researching Load Testing for Akamai. Anyone ever load-tested an Akamaized site before? And if your site is Akamaized, are you sure it can withstand 30 million pageviews in a single day? Well I'm about to find out if our's can. Not sure exactly where to start, but I figure Keynote's a good place to start.

As for web play, I remembered how to load a link with form info. The site I was helping out used predominantly the POST method and I was trying to figure out how to get a link to also call up the same page and supply the same info as the rest of the page was with an input image. I wrapped the link with a new form tag, this time using the GET method. And as for the link URL, I used the info gleaned from using a test send from the POST method, and simply cut and pasted the long URL into the link. This was only the first step as the target page needed a conditional statement for each piece of info that was being presented on the page. There I basically said if the Query string wasn't empty, use the querystring, otherwise use the posted form method. And it seems to work. You can see this in action by viewing InDepthArts Check out the gallery section. I guess they put the favorite images in the Hall of Fame section. But there's good images in the open gallery as well.

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Well. Just helped out www.critical-depth.com modify the image presentation page. Now you'll get to see the artist info along with the full screen size pic. Of course, this happens after you click the thumbnail. Pretty kewl. Nice site too. They've done a good job with it.

On to other areas, I've been playing with perl's sort routine. I have to sort a sewn-together logfile by the datestamp. So I figure this is an array-of-array kind of thing and I can go from there. But from what I've been reading, it makes more sense to sort the array as it's built. Especially since copying that kind of data gets pretty cumbersome, (~15million lines or something like that) Anyway, I'll see what I can come up with.

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April Fools! But I'm not kidding

Well today was a lazy day. Downloaded an HTML Validator. Should help me keep a good grip on my hypertext, I'm sure you are all relieved to hear that ;) And I went on a mountain bike ride, way up some hill, but I could see for a long ways, and that's worth the effort I think. Made some floury snickerdoodles, I think I need to find a new recipe, anyone here bake? And that was it. I didn't even play Unreal Tournament. But it was sunny, and I didn't have to get up early so it was a pretty lazy day. Very nice. Oh yea, and I did watch some Stock Car Racing. I don't know anything about that, I realized, so I watched a biography on Nicola Tesla. That dude was amazing. Modelling life after Tesla, T-minus 4 seconds...

laters

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Happy Saturday!

Today I worked on my site, consolidated spaghetti javascript site-navigation code into one ssi file. Should have done that from the beginning. Anyway, now I have navigation and a footer file #included in my pages. Unfortunately, only part of the script is running on the site. So the *.shtml file is only half-loaded. Ah well, I'll get it. I think it's a directoy/absolute/relative issue. I also wrote a perl script, well, it's in the process, to use a regex to swap/replace html code. It works ok but still needs help. Right now it's too specific and bulky to be used for other tasks, but I hope to have it polished here shortly. I don't know if I should post it here or not, it's pretty ugly. Any thoughts out there?

Well it's time to get back to the console. -peace

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Happy Thursday!

Today's been a pretty lengthy day in terms of "gesticulating", "logisizing", or "postulating". ( I really need to look up those words.) Anyway, same ol same ol. Learn new things as you go, hope you do it right the first time, and that it works, and think that way until it works. I'm talking about making things work where there are no recipe books. No "How-To's", or "Learn in 24hrs" books. Craziness. I'll be testing it out on my website www.dosarboles.com Unfortunately there is no Linux port yet. Only windows. And, *cringes*, it's an ActiveX control. Implemented with JavaScript, it's really kewl when it works. Looks, acts, moves, blinks, it's a virtual person thing. Soon it will have natural voice, but that's not now. Anyway, back to work for this hombre.

Responding to time and people,
One rests the spirit in openness,
Acts in openness,
Reveals the state of openness in speech.
When openness reaches the point
Where there is not even any "openness,"
Then all logic ends.
When you plunge into openness,
Heaven and earth come to you.
With open heart and upright bearing,
Be like the green bamboo;
This is the foremost device
For cultivating openness.

The Book Of Balance and Harmony

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Hello
Hope all is well with everyone. :)

Kewl things are happenning. Two people just certified me as an apprentice. Nice. No longer an observer. It's time to get LEARNIN! Al righty then. I'm looking to start working on something. Maybe I'll make up my own project, but I think I would learn more if someone asked me to do something specific, (i'm special that way.) Anyway, I like anything to do with making things easier, so, sys admin modules, script enhancements, that kind of thing, sign me up. In the mean time, I'm going to play with the Finance::Quote module some and make something that prints out some html. Maybe work with the HTML::Table module, I hope that's what that's called. I'd feel kind of dumb pulling perl modules out my ass. :)

Just set-up an account. Aspiring to one day break the ranks of observer, I will keep on playing with perl until i figure out something else I can do ;)

that's all

breathing fine air, and watching crappy tv

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