Friday, April 28, 2000

Friday, April 28, 2000 John, a fellow Spokanite, has put together a collection of pictures of the old painted signs that grace many of the aging brick buildings in downtown Spokane (note: somewhat bandwidth intensive). I drive by several of these buildings on a daily basis, but many of the signs were new to me. 9:21:00 PM     Friday, April 28, 2000 I've been playing with Zope a bit off and on this week and it seems pretty cool. I installed and worked through this new tutorial and found it to be a pretty good intro into the Zope way of doing things. I don't have any experience with PHP, but Zope's DTML scripting within documents seems to be fairly similar in nature. Of course Zope is completely different in that it works out of its object database, while PHP uses standard text files. That and the fact that anything in the object database can be edited via the web. Groovy! 8:07:00 PM     Friday, April 28, 2000 A thunderstorm passed through downtown Spokane yesterday evening and I tried unsuccessfully to capture some cool lightning shots with my new camera. It has a cool movie recording feature that will save the previous 10 seconds of footage when you press the button, but I didn't figure out how to use this mode until after the storm had passed. If you've ever been curious about what Bill Gate's mansion on Lake Washington is like now you can find out. 1:17:00 PM

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