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@ Saturday, March 9, 2002

Day 13 of TheBeard™:

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My wife is an avid reader and contributor to a Japanese forum-style website called 2ch, or more commonly referred to as 2-channel. You'll need to have a Japanese-enabled web browser to view that page correctly. From what my wife tells me, it is a very popular site in Japan.

comment ()  10:17:15 PM  #

I might as well say right now that one of my favorite weblogs is written by Asia Carrera [warning: before clicking on that link, realize that you'll be heading to pictures that aren't appropriate for children, so just be careful]. It's really the only thing I look at on her site. Honest. Really. I never even look at those pictures at the top of her bulletin. Wait. I don't even know there are pictures at the top of her builletin. In fact, I have image loading turned off in my browser.
Anyway, she's been writing her bulletin for several years and it is really quite a fascinating read. She says a lot in there about her own personal life and even discusses some of the things that are going on in her work.
But I don't know anybody who'd be interested in anything like that.

comment ()  9:59:15 PM  #

Yep. Those are nekid pictures of Tiffany, all right. I hadn't even followed the link before I put it in my post. Now I really can't use Atomz to put a search engine on my weblog. Oh well.

comment ()  9:49:40 PM  #

I ironically, I DO have the pictures of Tiffany naked, which no one seems to give two shits about, which is frightening considering the number of hits I get for AMERICAN BOOBIES and HOT HOT SEX0r EAT PUSSY GRR RAWR ... Well, I guess I should stop. I think I Google Bombed enough this entry. [AngryWhiteGirl.COM]
So that's how I increase traffic to my site. I just need to put the right words here. They don't even have to make sense. Heck, just by quoting AngryWhiteGirl, I'll probably increase traffic by 25% or more.

comment ()  9:47:46 PM  #

Also interesting: male brain (two versions)
1.
2.
[Blog Sisters]
Yes. They are supposed to be blank. It's a jooooke!

comment ()  9:35:40 PM  #

I always kiss my kids before they go to bed. Apparently, with TheBeard, that has become a painful experience for them. But that doesn't stop them from wanting a kiss goodnight. That's the difference between kids and adults, I guess.

comment ()  9:24:41 PM  #

I love the ending of Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss. Knox turns the tables on Fox with:
When a fox is
in the bottle where
the tweetle beetles battle
with their paddles
in a puddle on a
noodle-eating poodle,
THIS is what they call...
...a tweetle beetle
noodle poodle bottled
paddled muddled duddled
fuddled wuddled
fox in socks, sir!
I must have read that a hundred times to my daughter and son. Now my son is reading it himself.

comment ()  9:20:58 PM  #

I'm amazed at the outpouring of love for the Mac and Mac OS X over at Slashdot. Mac OS X may be winning over people Apple never thought of winning over before. Or maybe this was Apple's evil plan all along.

comment ()  6:39:25 PM  #

I was coming from a perspective of an almost pure Unix user moving to Mac, not from a Mac user moving to a more Unix based system. [John "Dark Paladin" Hummel]
I'm betting there are a lot of UNIX/Linux people out there who could care less about the "classic" Mac OS and whether or not Mac OS X is as good. To them, Mac OS X is great interface on top of UNIX. They love UNIX, and they've got Word, descent apps, and a fair number descent games. Mac OS X is perfect for them.

comment ()  6:27:32 PM  #

Melissa Gilbert wins SAG presidency: I don't know why I care, but for some reason this makes me happy. Is it because I watched Little House on the Prairie religiously as a child. Not being a religious child, I guess that was the closest I could come to "god" :)
By the way, this is actually the second vote that has taken place between Melissa Gilbert and Valerie Harper for the SAG presidency. Ms. Gilbert won the first vote as well, but Ms. Harper cried foul and there was a second vote. This is the result.
Here's a bit of trivia I heard on The California Report yesterday. Who was the SAG president during the McCarthy Era? Answer: Ronald Reagan.

comment ()  8:36:04 AM  #

I saw this on Scripting News: Apple Base State for Half Price. Very cool. I promised I was going to stop writing posts that were just links with "Cool" after them. But I couldn't resist this time.

comment ()  8:18:23 AM  #

Here is a description of a recursive descent parser.

comment ()  7:43:43 AM  #

I've been thinking a lot about my column in REALbasic Developer. I've got some interesting ideas for things to talk about. Something I thinking about right now is designing a very simple XML parser in REALbasic as part of the project. I want the document files for the app I'm building (I haven't said what that app is yet) to be stored in XML, as it that will maximize their flexibility. But REALbasic doesn't come with an XML parser built in. But it might be an interesting topic to talk about how to go about writing a very simple XML parser. I've written one like that in C. It isn't a recursive-descent parser. It's driven by a state table. And it's actually kinda cool. The basic engine for a state-table driven parser is very robust. And very easy to extend. You just add more states to the table. But I'm afraid a state-table parser might be too much to talk about in my "From Scratch" column. Recursive-descent parsers are easier to explain. So if I decided to include an XML parser in an article, it'll probably be a recursive-descent parser.

comment ()  7:42:15 AM  #

I'm going to release the source to Lua Plugin today. I've got it ready to go. I just need to test it and put it up on my website . For licensing reasons, I can't ship the REALbasic Plugins SDK, which you need to build the plugin. I've also decided not to ship the Lua source, either. Although there are no restrictions on redistributing it. So I'm going to give directions on how to get those two pieces and where to put them so the plugin builds.

comment ()  7:36:34 AM  #

to increase number of previous posts shown on desktop -- preferences > previous posts [jenett]
Thanks jenett. I knew there must be a pref to control that.

comment ()  7:32:28 AM  #

My daughter pointed out that I'd had over 360 minutes of sleep last night. It sounds like such a long time when put that way.

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