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Thursday, January 31, 2002
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The state we're in. "Last night, George Bush gave the annual State of the Union address. I did not watch it, because it was broadcast here where I live at 3 am, but I have read the transcript. Some highlights..." [kuro5hin.org] This is a pretty straightforward synopsis of the speech, but the comments at the bottom are interesting.
11:56:15 PM 
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Micah wants a script to make the insertion of his google search easy. Here ya go. Drop this in your {radio_root}/macros folder, and then in your template insert the text "<%googleSearch()%>". You'll be set. It looks like this:
My usernum is 564. I can remember it because it's the first three digits of my parents' phone number. I have no friggin' idea what Micah's is.
I would like the quoted links thing that I had on my Manila weblog. Maybe I could write a quickLink tool. It wouldn't be as easy as simply quoting text and having it show up as a link, but you could insert something like <%quickLink(Micah)%> in your post and you'd get the link.
11:28:37 PM
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Tonight, Shannon and I watched Shakespeare In Love. It's her favorite movie, and it might be mine. It's between that, American Beauty and The Shawshank Redemption (all of which I have on DVD). I always get two things from that movie:
- The greatness of Shakespeare
- The fact that nothing great can be accomplished without friends.
11:00:45 PM
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Dave has a problem with the overhead of .NET web service handlers written in C#. He'd like to see the following:
String doHello(String name) {
return "Hello, " + name;
}
Dave is looking at web services from a scripting perspective. C# (and Java and C++ and others) are not scripting languages; they're programming languages. The difference, IMHO, is that scripting languages operate on a platform, be it a browser or another app, while programming languages define platforms. I wouldn't want to write a complex program in UserTalk or JavaScript, but I sure wouldn't want to manipulate Radio using C++. There's some grey in the distinction, but that's how I think of it. And there's some overhead inherent in a programming environment that isn't there in a scripting environment.
However, the .NET handler has some other code wrapping the above. Now, I'm no C# developer, but I am a Java developer, and I think a class declaration isn't the far side of reasonable. Also, you've got to somehow tell the runtime environment that the above is available as a web service handler for security reasons.
6:44:58 PM
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The weather's awful. The car had about 6 inches of snow on it this morning, encrusted in a thin layer of ice. The trees are covered in ice. Shannon's dorm is without power. It hasn't snowed today, and the teperature is hovering right at the freezing mark, which is doing nothing but turning the snow into ice. The roads are okay, varying from awful in the parking lot of my apartment complex to fine on the highway (though one of three lanes isn't being cleared of snow and slush). There were many people not at work today.
5:52:21 PM
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© Copyright 2002 Christopher T. Nitchie
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