George Carlin: “Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.” [Quotes of the Day]

In the “stating the obvious” category today:

proving what’s already known…
UPI: Lack of sleep affects kids’ alertness.  “An extra hour of sleep could mean the difference between an alert child and a more sluggish one, research reveals.”  [via MyFreePress.com] [viajenett.radio]

Wired writes about the Sony Ericsson Clicker that I posted about the other week. I need to think of what I want to turn on when I walk into my apartment.

I don’t often give myself compliments or brag, but I’m going to for just one second this morning. I make a damn good omelette. I’m having a cheese and smoked salmon omelette and it is really good. I think the only thing that might make it better are some mushrooms.

The coffee’s damn good too

Dave Hyatt has a really cool article on tabbed browsing and UI and ways to impliment it. It’s interesting to see this level of thought going into it. I can’t wait to try out a release of Safari with tabs to see how they do it.

Beryl Pfizer: “I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.” [Quotes of the Day]

Doc Searls and David Weinberger have written an article called World of Ends. It’s about what the Internet is and isn’t.

All we need to do is pay attention to what the Internet really is. It’s not hard. The Net isn’t rocket science. It isn’t even 6th grade science fair, when you get right down to it. We can end the tragedy of Repetitive Mistake Syndrome in our lifetimes — and save a few trillion dollars’ worth of dumb decisions — if we can just remember one simple fact: the Net is a world of ends. You’re at one end, and everybody and everything else are at the other ends.[World of Ends]

It’s an interesting read. I think Dr. Weinberger is someone who really gets the internet, more than most people out there. I highly recommend his book
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web. While I don’t know that I agree with everything he says, I think he’s on target with most of it. This article is no exception. The question I have is, how come the big companies don’t get it?

Stacy gets to have a bit of that special talk with her son after he asks “Mom, what are testicles?” while in the parking lot of Walgreens. I have to say this is one of the smoothest things I’ve read. I think if I ever had a kid I’d never handle it this well. Though hopefully I’d use this as a bit of a guideline.

(I’m planning on starting a new section of this blog where I can ramble on and on about geeky things without boring the rest of you).

One thing I’ve always wished I could do easily with apache is rotate logs on a daily basis. It comes with a program called rotatelogs, but that just creates a new log file every 24 hours. it doesn’t seem to do it based on the actual date. It also doesn’t give you much choice for naming the file.

Tonight I started looking around for a script that would let me rotate the log files more easily and discovered cronolog. It lets you specify a template for how to add entries to a log file. You can easily specify to do new log files by day or month or year. It also comes with a program to split up your old logfiles too if you wish.

The docter perscribed Biaxin for me for my cough, just in case. I’d taken Biaxin once before and has forgotten about one side effect: Metalic Taste. I am so happy I just took my last pill tonight. I’ve had this kind of metalic taste in my mouth for the last week and the last two days it has been driving me crazy.

There’s nothing quite like waking up and wondering if you’ve sleep-walked and ate handfull of pennies.