Monday, February 11, 2002

I want to be the Internet Curmudgeon. You know, the old guy who pisses on your grandiose schemes. I have all the qualifications. I've been there. I've done that. I'm bitter. I'm resentful. Now I know that curmudgeons are generally older than I am. But we are talking Internet years here. So please, vote for me. 7:39:27 PM     Comment []

Antidune Trivia G.K. Gilbert coined the term "antidune" in a 1914 US Geological Survey Professional Paper entitled "Transportation of debris by running water". The paper reports the results of a series of early flume studies* that Gilbert performed at the University of California in Berkeley. I would love to get a copy of this paper for my library. *flume studies are a method of studying bedforms and channelized flow. An artificial channel is set up in a laboratory and then flows of various speeds and depths are run through the channel to see how the channel bed interacts with the flow. 11:46:53 AM     Comment []

Orphan Sites, the opposite of Linkrot Linkrot describes a process of change on the web, where sites change or disappear, but links to them remain. Searching for the sites yields little but a 404 error. I just discovered the opposite on my ES Designs website. I have chunks of the site that I haven't linked to in years. The pages are all there, but the links to them have disappeared. They are an orphaned site. Here is a link to some of my orphans. 3:20:22 AM     Comment []

Late Night Weblog Surfing It's mostly random clicking, but I am attracted by interesting names. The biggest disappointment is the long time to download some pages. Folks, time to content should be minimal. Years ago, I wrote a discussion on this. It should be online somewhere. Time to do a little searching. 2:48:02 AM     Comment []