I've been working on converting an all-Flash Web site to HTML, so its content could be properly spidered by Google, Overture etc.

My mandate was to preserve the design of the original Flash site in every possible respect, short of getting ridiculous with JavaScript- and DOM-based animation. The original site creators are big-time Flash addicts, and primarily visual. So the issue of typeface embedding came up rather quickly.

It seems some folks are building a cathedral smack-dab in the middle of the bazaar.

This is a Perl script I wrote a while back as a housekeeping tool for Linux systems. It looks in /var/log and in /etc/logrotate.d, comparing the existing log files to the ones mentioned in your logrotate configuration files, producing a helpful list of which files are not being rotated.

I'm patiently tring to get Drupal to sit up and do little tricks.

My latest effort is to add vCalendar support to its Events module. You can now go to any Events listing in the site, click on the little vCal link below it, and depending on how you've set up your computer, an appointment window should pop up that you can add to Outlook | Evolution | your favorite calendar software.

The CD is taking shape, slow_ww^ww_wwly. Workin' on it. For now I've posted some lyrics and chords. More to come. Looks like end of January 2005 at this point.

After an epic struggle with RPM dependencies, header-file nonsense and other headaches, I've got an audio-streaming stack that (sort of) works.

You’ve heard this once before
the sound of a slamming door
You hear nothing at all
as the door becomes a wall

I don't care much for elections. I'm loathe to throw out the baby of politics with the bathwater of centralized government, so I'm pursuing politics by other means (apologies to Von Clausewitz).