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Well, the new webservers at Kiva were brought online last Thursday morning and all in all things were successful. As it was to be expected there were some bugs that showed up in the design and also some things that we hadn't prepared for. I feel so relieved now and don't know what to do with my extra time. ;-)

There is a good article up on the main advogato page right now by eskimoses about Computer Science vs. Computer Programming. I think he makes some good points that we should put more craftmanship into this art that we all love. I have definately been inspired to take more time with software I write for the community. I've also been tempted from time to time to pickup one of Donald E. Knuth's fine books.

On the way back from my parent's house last night I was thinking that I need to change something about my life that will make things more interesting. I thought that it might be interesting if I could not tell a lie from now on. Not that I tell lies all the time and I don't mean that I'd constantly volunteer the truth. But sometimes you're likely to lie about something because you're protecting something or someones feelings. Like when you say "No, you're not fat." I think I'm just going to say exactly what I think and if it gets me into trouble well wouldn't that just be ironic. :-)

No big news yet. I have been doing a TON of preparing for bringing our new webservers online at Kiva Networking, where I work. Once I have some time, I'm going to put up a document at Systhug detailing the webserver setup we've designed to allow for a lot of cool features. Hopefully this information will be useful to other ISPs. We were also able to get Frontpage extensions working with RedHat's Secure Web Server(which they claimed impossible).

A bunch of us from Kiva went out last night to celebrate Joe Bowman's 21st birthday. Be sure to send him an email and wish him a happy birthday. He now knows the joys of Cinnamon Schnapps. ;-)

Randomsig has been coming along quite nicely. I haven't made the next version release yet and I think to keep things on the semi-beta side I'm going to release version 1.9 instead of 2.0. Writing randomsig has helped me learn a ton of extra useful Perl tricks and things that I can now use when I start back up on news2html development, which will happen soon since I'm so inspired to code lately.

Later that afternoon

Randomsig 1.9 has been released. YEA!!!! Uh, I think I'll go take a break now. :-)

I think I'm going to try to post a diary entry here more often since this advogato place is snowballing. This weekend I've been spending a lot of time improving my randomsig program. I think I'm going to release version 2.0 tommorow.

I recently released a newer design for the suso.org website. I wanted to play more on the Side Scrolling Technology which, if I didn't invent, I at least coined the term. I don't think people are really understanding the whole idea of SST. It's not that I just want to do something different. It's also about making sure we're not just vertical. If you think about it, too many things on the computer have been vertically oriented. The mouse wheel, page up/down keys and also the NAME=#location tags that you use on a webpage for moving around on the same page don't work right on a side scrolling site.

This should not be since sometime in the future websites may be restricted from astetic growth because of such limitations in browser and interface technologies.

But alas, it's not the first(or probably the last) time that people fail to understand me.

I've started development on news2html back up and have added some new features and fixed some syntax problems. I'm not going to make a version release just yet because I'd like to add at least one major feature like "article threading" or "multiple group support". Using a lay-z-boy or other fine recliner to plop down in front of your workstation while you hack away at code really helps me out.