The Design and Implementation of laffer1

Watching Transamerica. Its a very weird movie.

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I just finished the movie. It's actually a very good movie.

So I've had trouble with the G4 PowerMac.  I tracked it down to a bad IDE cable on the DVD-ROM drives.  Every time there was disk access, the system would crash.  I went to 3 stores today looking for a flat IDE ribbon cable.  No one had any.  BestBuy was even out of the round ones which won't work in this case.  The cable has to feed under and around several metal pieces. 

I got my 15 entries and 7 edits done today.  I don't have to worry about that for the rest of the semester beyond the paper.

I need to do website stuff yet. 

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/09/199259

A service called CertifiedEmail is being used by several large ISPs including Yahoo, AOL, and Comcast.  (Yahoo partners with broadband providers)  This service charges 1/4 a cent per e-mail sent.  E-mails are guaranteed whitelisted.  The catch is that ISPs won't guarantee delivery of email any longer unless you pay up. 

This is a terrible day for the Internet.  My email server has been locked out of hotmail for a year and now i won't be able to email others anymore.  I can't even pay for this service as I don't have a business license. 

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/08/winkler.sentence.ap/index.html

What this bitch is thinking:
I had to watch the porno, wear a wig and have sex with my husband!  Oh the humanity!  I shot him in the back and now i walk after less than a year!  Think of the children! 

http://thebrowser.blogs.fortune.com/2007/06/08/can-president-bush-bail-out-qualcomm/

Qualcomm has asked the President to let them circumvent the patent system.  They have used the system against every other cell phone maker in the past and in some cases gained a lot of money.  Now that the tables have turned, they want help.  I'm not a huge fan of broadcom, but after my experience with a Qualcomm phone, anything goes. 

http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/08/markets/oil.reut/index.htm?postversion=2007060815

Maybe we'll see a slight price drop for July or at least not the $4+ they were predicting.

http://blogs.business2.com/utilitybelt/2007/06/apple_tv_costs_.html

Short version:
512MB ram
Intel Pentium M 1Ghz (custom)
Broadcom wireless
Realtec audio and NIC
Fujitsu 40 GB 4200 RPM drive (reminds me of my iBook's original)
36 watt power supply

UBS raised its price target on APPLE INC. (AAPL) to $160 from $133, and hiked its 2007 and 2008 forecasts for iPhone shipments. "We continue to believe new products should help stimulate revenue acceleration through FY08 with the iPhone driving another leg of the 'multiplier effect'," UBS analyst Ben Reitzes wrote in a note to investors. For fiscal 2007 the brokerage raised its estimate on iPhone shipments to 950,000 units from 850,000 units. For fiscal 2008 it expects iPhone unit shipments of 8.1 million, up from its previous view of 7.4 million. UBS reiterated its "buy" rating on the stock. (Reuters 09:59 AM ET 06/07/2007)

I don't believe its possible for Apple to ship that many iPhones. My fear is the mass sell off after the iPhone ships at the end of the month. It may wait until initial weekly sales figures for the iPhone are leaked by Cingular, but it will happen.

I managed to create a full rough draft by about 1:30 AM for my assignment.  I uploaded one just before Midnight to beat the initial timer.  No one has proof read the first one yet so that should work on.  One part of the assignment I"m not sure if i should keep in is a reference to Fruit Fucker.  http://www.penny-arcade.com/2002/02/11

I'm not sure if that will be kosher because of the characters name.  F F is one of my favorite comic characters. 

At least I got the assignment turned in.  I'm still thinking about the website assignment.  I need to get on that soon (for both classes).  I thought about doing a MBSD installation guide site, but I'm not sure if that would fit into the assignment.  It would be time consuming to make, but its not something I'm accustomed to making which means its a challenge.  The other idea I'm still toying with is making a new Jewel site.  The existing one has tons of broken links and inconsistent styles.  I don't mind the splash, but the rest has to go.  I've thought about going retro with it.  My two favorite designs were from 1999 and 2000.  One was blue and black and the other was white, gray and light blue.  Some combination of those might be interesting. 

Today has not gone as planned. I have a paper due for peer review today and i have to miraculously transform the apartment into a well organized, clean environment. Tomorrow we have someone coming in to professionally steam clean. Problem is we have boxes of crap everywhere along with computers. It makes things very difficult. The closets are full, etc.

I woke up at 3PM. That sort of limited my day. Now you're probably thinking I stayed up very late last night. I went to bed at ~1am. I suspect I was trying to catch up for the day I didn't sleep at all. (monday night)

Today's group of id10ts come from EMU. According to them, Safari can't render XHTML. That's amazing since I use it on all my websites. Interestingly, they do support IE 4+ which does not handle the application/xml+xhtml mime type. So its a fake requirement designed to piss off Mac users or they are lazy and don't want to support Safari.

Caryn and I have had mixed feelings about our apartment.  In many ways its superior to anything we had in Kalamazoo.  It has a washer and dryer, fireplace, built in microwave, and dishwasher.  There's even a storage room/furnace room that we have access to.  However, a good share of these things have severe problems.  Our storage room has a serious mold problem due to a leaking air conditioner upstairs.  The complex painted it once and fixed some falling ceiling but never really solved the problem.  The microwave turns off, requiring the power cord to be pulled to reset it.  We just gave on this one and hooked up our own microwave.  (its twice as powerful anyway)  Finally, the worst offender is the washing machine.  It has destroyed the flooring in our laundry room as it moves randomly.  It rams the wall.  It rams the dryer.  It leaks.  It makes the worst sound ever.  Its a GE product.  Today, the apartment complex finally decided that they were sick of hearing us and will replace our washer.  I'm so happy.  We were always behind on laundry simply because it got worse on the second and third loads.  By the forth load in a row, it would be spitting out water and running around in a circle.

Many years ago, one of my favorite resources for learning about web technologies was developer.netscape.com.  They had thousands of articles on basics to enhanced DHTML tricks.  When AOL acquired Netscape, a good share of that information was removed.  The Mozilla project was given the documentation is in the process of migrating it to a new home. http://developer.mozilla.org/

Someone posted this link in response to a slashdot post I made.  The old version is available here. (temporary)

I also used to use a Microsoft resource that merged with MSDN some time ago. 

I downloaded a trial version of Dreamweaver CS3.  I've been using various versions of Dreamweaver since around 2.0.  I'm impressed with Adobe's rendition.  I was a bit worried about the acquisition, but Dreamweaver CS3 is very fast, and offers new AJAX components.  If you are currently using Dreamweaver 8, it may still be worth it to get the speed increase and AJAX stuff.  Its a big improvement over MX 2004. 

Well so far I actually like Netscape 9.  Its Firefox with a polished UI that takes up less space.  It can import bookmarks from IE on Vista flawlessly.  It did not ask to import Firefox bookmarks.  This is a big flaw in the software since I can't migrate from Firefox which is my primary browser.  I hope this is corrected before the release.

about:mozilla works. 

It seems to be faster than Firefox 2.0 for some reason.  Scrolling, page loads and things are a bit peppier. 

Wow. I didn't sleep at all last night. Not 5 minutes of sleep. I asked Caryn to drive me to class which turned out to be a blessing. The air was either let out of my tires or both front tires (which are 3 months old) mysterously lost about the same amount of air while the rear tires maintained pressure. I'm not happy with that. I still haven't resolved that issue.

I managed to write the blog entry but its very poor. I kept trying to sleep last night and I could have just worked on homework.

When I got home, I dropped for 5 hours. It helped a little. I'm still off on my sleep schedule. That blog assignment is scary and I can tell I'm jumping back and forth in this entry. I'm weird when I'm tired. I decided to watch a µonk episode from season 2. Mr. Monk and the Captain's wife is one of the best episodes.

I just finished watching the latest "webcast" video.  For Eng 328, it sounds like we just need to make a personal homepage.  We need a targeted site for Eng 444.  I'm going to have trouble thinking of something interesting to do.  I already have several websites which target many of my interests.  I suppose I could do a website about different Operating Systems.  That does seem a bit boring for everyday people.  Most of my better ideas are borderline for an academic work.  I could do a new Jewel site but there would be IP issues.  The OS idea also suffers from that to some degree.  If I use graphics to represent windows, mac os, linux and so on they all are copyrighted.  The screen shots would probably be safe as long as I took them myself.  I think this might need more thought.  Oh my its almost 1 am and I have class at 9am. 

Yet again we see a full disclosure for the two most popular web browsers.  The nature of the web makes it difficult to secure browsers or websites.  The common convention to secure an application is to figure out all the possible types of user input and then create a white list.  With Unicode there thousands of characters from numerous languages to consider.  How do you create a whitelist or even a blacklist for all times of input?  These vulnerabilities deal with iframes, tricking users with keyboard input and other issues. 

I just noticed there is a quicktime video in emuonline. I wish I would have watched that before I turned in my second essay. I get now what the introduction issue was.

Odd.. there is a blog assignment due tomorrow before class. The reading for that blog entry is not enabled on emuonline if i'm clicking on the right spot. Weird.