She love's and hates (only some dogs) will all her heart.
She loves email too: taylor@code4life.com
Friends of Sofie
A.K.A. Friends of the Worlds Happiest Stumbler
How do you cope with Sofia's childlike enthusiasm for...everything? She's been my stumble friend for over a year. She shares her world with us through Stumble. I've enjoyed seeing her world, but she lives in a very different world.
You have more gmail addresses than you know
Dots are allowed in most email services and they're a significant character. For example, taylor.is.great@code4life is a separate email from taylorisgreat@code4life.com.
But, Not For All Email Services
That's true for all email services I know, except for Google. myawesomeaddress@gmail.com and my.awesome.address@gmail.com are the same email address. Send an email to either address; it'll go to the same account. You don't even need to register both at gmail (you can't, thankfully).
The Problem
Is that a problem? Our site treats myawesomeaddress@gmail.com and my.awesome.address@gmail.com as different email addresses (based on our simple understanding of what makes an email unique). Two (or 200) separate users could register with the "same" email address. It kind of violates our basic requirement that each user have a unique email.
Good Bye Old Friend
Soon, my car will get new radio presets, seating position, and home. My lease is up. It was a good car...it is a good car. It still looks damn sexy inside and out. The interior, after 3 and 1/2 years, still makes my eyes flutter every time I see it, and the exterior still looks sporty, yet elegant, parked in the driveway.
That being said, I'm not sad to see it go. I knew there'd be no possible future together since I got hit by a snowplow two years ago--a big, city plow filled with salt. Geico payed over $6,000 to make it right.
Upgrade to a new hard drive, Dual Boot to Linux, and Not Reinstall Anything
My laptop is a year old and the hard drive, although not full, doesn't have enough space to dual boot Windows and Linux. So, I'm going to solve two problems at once. I'm going from 60gb (why was I so cheap) to 120gb (why am I still so cheap). In the process I'll be going from a single os on a single partition to multiple OSes on multiple partitions. There will be four partitions in total:- 1 partition for the existing Vista (or XP) partition
- 1 partition for a new Ubuntu installation
- 1 small partition for Ubuntu's swap drive
- 1 large partition accessible from both os. It'll mainly be for images, documents, music, etc...
May I have another...
I have a knack for coming up with good website names. It's like a superpower. Here are a few I own:
www.MayIHaveAnother.comThis one is a sure-fire money maker. May I have another _____? All I need to do is fill in the blank, and I'm gold. May I have another...what.
This could make a great programming site. I probably code the line strError = "..." at least once a day. Lot's of other people probably do too, and the familiar and obvious make great names.
www.HackersANDslackers.comThe perfect site for hackers and slackers to spend some time. It could be very edgy and sarcastic, maybe with a graffiti font.
www.slackersANDHackers.comOf course, I had to get www.slackersANDHackers.com too. I don't want competition springing up.
www.TaylorsFamily.comTaylor is my dog. The site is about her family (us). Cool? It's a place to upload and view pictures of our family. I'm thinking of opening it up to wide registration. I'll attract people with the slogan "Be a part of Taylor's Family" or "Join the pack at Taylor's Family."
I Can Help You Too
I'd be happy to help anyone come up with a website name. Leave your name, list of hobbies, favorite tv show, favorite Star Trek Captain, a one line description of yourself from your mother, and a one line description of your mother from yourself in the comments section. I'll reply with a great, available name.
And sorry, none of the sites are for sale.
Stumble Hard
I love web-comics and soon realized with Stumble that there are a LOT of web-comics. I decided to stop giving thumbs up to every one that made me smirk. I decided to only thumbs up the ones that made me laugh out loud or to the ones I sent to friends. I want more of those, because I'll never be able to see all the web-comics out there, so I might as well see the best (totally subjective I know). It's true, not just of web-comics, but of every topic. Life is too short, so I'm going to Stumble Hard, and I figured I'd pass my thoughts on. (2/14/08 - added this opening paragraph)
There are unknown billions of web pages in existence. We can't see them all, but we don't want to see them all. We want to see the best. That's what Stumble helps us do. But, it's becoming harder and harder to find those gems with Stumble--too much clutter and too many distractions.
What Can We Do
I've given my share of thumbs up to questionably interesting sites. Maybe you have too. But no more! No "Thumbs up" for a comic strip, unless it made you laugh or made you want to share it with friends. Thumbs down to that picture of a cake shaped like a wii, or ps3, 360, classic mac, ubuntu logo, pac mac, etc...
Those sites might seem like simple diversions, and where's the harm in giving it a thumbs up? Well, We don't want\need simple diversions. We can do better. We want real, engrossing diversions. Ones that make you go "wow" and enrich life. They're out there. I've found them in Stumble. However, I have to go through 10, 20, or more time wasters to find the good stuff.
We just need to think before giving a thumbs up. How did Kok get 35 thumbs up? I truly believe everyone of those stumblers wouldn't have given it a thumbs up, if they took a second to think it over. Now, I'm not suggesting you give it a thumbs down, and if you truly enjoy the site then by all means, give it a thumbs up. Just ask the question, if I never saw this site would I care?
Go back in your stumble history and correct your mistakes. Thumb down those sites that don't make the cut. There are enough great sites. We don't need to waste time on anything less.
So I say, "Stumble Hard."
The one piece of information that every software engineer needs to know
Time travel is eventually going to happen. We're eventually going to be trust back in time, maybe 100 or 1000 years. It'll be against our will, no doubt. As a software engineer, I'm a man born for this time. We software engineers don't have any marketable skills prior to the 1950s. We'd be useless to the Roman Empire. A modern day architect or carpenter or plumber would be a god in the Roman Empire and well beyond past Feudalism. Us CS majors...well, we could design an awesome website for the St. Benedictine Monks, but they'd have to wait 1500 years to get it hosted.
The one thing every software engineer needs to know to be competitive in the distant to the not so distant past...I'm thinking it's how to make dynamite. It's not perfect. It was invented in 1866, so there's a small gap until the industrial revolution when you can invest in the stock market (sell before 1929).
Ving and Bill
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is a forgettable movie, EXCEPT for the performance of my new favorite actor...well...one of my favorite actors (Bill, you're still the man). In Chuck and Larry we watch Ving Rhames come out of the closet.
I don't have a clip, but here's the gist: Ving Rhames is acting tough only the way Ving Rhames can...he's going to kick Sandler's gay ass...no...he going to give him a hug...a big hug...he whispers the words "me too"...a giggle comes from his lips...a shiver goes up his spine...done, he's out.
Ving reminds me of a younger Bill. Both act the shit out of any script. There's no holding back. Any remake of Star Trek must have Ving Rhames as Captain Kirk, assuming of course Bill passes on the roll.
Main Street
I've been thoroughly using my eBook Reader. I picked up a few "free" classics from the Sony Store. I've gotten into, Main Street by Sinclair Lewis. Such a simple story (spoiler warning): big city girl, marries country doctor, and settles into the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. She's progressive and plans to shake up the small town, to make it grand and beautiful and modern and to enlighten the people with art and poetry. Right now (I'm only a quarter of the way done) she's mired down in petty town gossip involving her speech, dress, and home.
Update: I'm halfway through now. Carol (big city girl who married country...) just had her first child, Hugh. He's now the focus of all her plans.
Trees Like eBooks
I bought a Sony Reader the day I saw one at Borders. Usually, I ponder $300.00 purchases, but the concept made so much sense. I can store hundreds of books and download new books instantly. I carry one device that suits whatever reading mood I'm in.
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