Recent blog entries for xach

ghostscript.com is currently expired and pending renewal, so resolving advogato.org is spotty now. It would be nice if the owner of ghostscript.com renewed it! (whois says this is raph.)

chalst: No it isn't.

Inspired by Google Maps: Taste for the Web

chalst: grep -e "^nameserver *.*.*.*" "$file" probably doesn't do what you think it does.

It seems pretty obvious that techiejunkie is a google spammer seeking juice.

mulix: That guide is a little misleading, since it suggests that methods "belong" to a class. Joe Marshall's CLOS guide has a better overview. Sonja Keene's tutorial book is also very good and provides detailed examples.

I'm selling some Lisp books on eBay. CLtL2 is $70 from Amazon new, at least $30 used. My copy's starting at $5! A good deal, yeah!

A while ago, I put the Bowie Timeline back online. It had been well-indexed by Google; it usually showed up in the first three or four links for a search for bowie poag or bowie j poag.

Bowie sent me several emails asking me to explain why I put it back online. I declined to explain it to him. He got less and less tactful and more and more demanding, finally writing Quit being a woman. Stop crying and give me an answer. I've been deleting his messages unread since then.

It looks like the page is temporarily missing from the google index; it doesn't show up even when searching for terms that could only turn up that page. He may still be an asshole, but now it's harder to confirm that with a quick google search. Go google!

Anyway, feel free to mirror http://www.xach.com/bjp/ or http://bowiepoag.is.batshitinsane.com/.

Update From looking at Google's removal page, it seems unlikely that the pages are no longer indexed at Bowie's request. Hmm.

Update 2 Looks like it's just a coincidence.

New Graham.

Been having fun playing with CDROM ioctls. I'm setting up a little burn-tower with three 8x CDRW drives, and I wrote a little program that polls the drive and automatically burns a disc image when a blank disc has been loaded. I got a bunch of CDRW drives for under $20 from ebay. I hope they don't suck.

I've been messing with a little addressbook program in SBCL. SBCL spits out a lot of style complaints by default. I should look up how to quiet it down.