The Design and Implementation of laffer1

In case I forget, my other blog for school is at http://lholt328.blogspot.com/

I created a Just Journal account, but I realized a few of the formatting options aren't working too well. This might give me an opportunity to enhance Just Journal.

I just got back from class a little bit ago. I purchased my remaining textbook for English 328. Hopefully, Amazon will ship the rest very soon.

I realized that there are a few missing features on Just Journal. Anonyous commentingis a big one. I think I might play around with that today.

I'm very tired today. Midnight was sick last night. I kept waking up to a sick cat. Class was interesting on three hours sleep.

Archite sent me an e-mail about native Mozilla. I'll look at that in a bit. I haven't heard from him in some time.

This has been a great 24 hours for mbsd.  We've got native mozilla!  I'm so excited.  This one has plagued us for some time.  Its one thing to get small apps working, but monsters like this are another breed.

Its a very nice day today.  I went outside to take the trash out and though what a wonderful day this is.

I found the most nasty thing ever in the fridge.  I don't know for sure what it originally was, but it turned into the largest green mold balls i've ever seen.  There was a dust of mold in there too.  I actually think it moved.  I'm soaking the bowl now because I don't want to use it until I know its been soaked in hot water for some time even before i put it in the dishwasher.   People always wonder why I hate leftovers.  Well besides not liking to eat them like everyone else, I don't like the fogotten ones that stay in the fridge for eternity.  On the upside, I got some more room open in the fridge.  It could use a little cleanup work yet. 

I just spent a bunch of time washing blankets and things that we got out for winter.

Caryn pointed out to me recently that my birthday is this week.  I remember when I looked forward to them.  What happened? 

I went to bed at 4:30 am and my cat woke me at 11:30 am.  I'm drinking coffee right now but its not helping much.  On the upside, I've got a lot of MBSD related stuff done.  The mbsd blog details my progress with mozilla so far.  I've also got gstreamer and gstreamer-plugins in but I'm having lots of problems with individual plugins which don't have DESTDIR set properly in their makefiles. 

pdigin works but I can't seem to get the release version to run without crashing.  The beta works fine which is very odd.  I may try to do some serious patching with that later and try to debug it. 

I still need to do homework today.  I think I best reboot into windows to do that and I'm not in the right place for it yet. 

Here's a very different blog.. I found it looking for info on patching firefox to build on BSD...

http://freebsdgirl.com/

Although I found a lot of other odd things

http://gopalarathnam.com/weblog/2007/02/07/building-firefoxthunderbird-20-on-freebsd-4x.html

ya know I stopped my Jewel site a few years ago. I really missed some material though. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%27Orianka_Kilcher

Apparently, the 14 year old who played "Pok" in "The New World" was Jewel's cousin! 

Oddly enough, Jewel holds a guiness world record for the longest run of singles on the charts for YWMFM and Foolish Games.  That is in her Wikipedia article.

Strange shit.  Her last album only sold 330,000 copies.  Atlantic dropped her like a rock.  I like it better than 0304.  I'm one of the few people who bought it I guess.  Its too bad stephenvile, tx didn't take off as a single.  Probably hard for 13 year olds to relate to though.

Jewel's looking for a label to do her country album she hopes to release in the next or so.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/04/people.hasselhoff.ap/index.html

... but i didn't make a tape.

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=261162&GT1=7701

$59 Million in ONE DAY! 

This is a weird day.  My mother is practically losing her job.  I see some strange headlines on slashdot and i didn't get to see spiderman yet.

Robert Love resigns from Novell. 
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/04/2147259&from=rss

Just ordered my hang tag for spring. Cats are really demanding today. Henry and Midnight have been following me around a lot.

I registered MidnightBSD and Just Journal for the ohloh.net open source directory. They can't index MIdnightBSD's source code since I don't have anonymous pserver access up.

I've got some fixes for just journal on local disk. I finally figured out why I've been getting the rendering errors on some of the pages like login and update journal (after you use them... postback response page) It was a missing quote in a link tag bringing in one of the CSS documents.

According to recent code analysis, Just Journal is worth $322,875 with an estimated development time of 6 years. Remember, I started the project in 2003. Development is worth $55,000 a year. Isn't that a lot of value for free.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/03/danish_consumer_complaints_board_claim_ibook_defect/

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/03/1458259

Apparently over time these bad boys won't boot.  Current will no longer pass through.

http://www.avivadirectory.com/blogger-law/

This is a rather interesting article.

Miracles be told.. I passed discrete.  Granted it was a D, but I actually passed!  Thank God.  I believe I can now sign up for CS classes again.  I'll most likely have to take 439 again and stats.  I'm tempted to do them different semesters though.  I'll have to think about that.  I may be able to get most of my minor done by winter depending on how things work out.  That would be great. 

Wow. Both of my classes are taught by the same professor. That's a new one :)

I find a translator that works better than babelfish for russian.

http://www.online-translator.com/text.asp#tr_form

I used this to help me figure out what went where with the soon to be released midnightbsd.org russian translation.

Mac OS X can run Age of Empires 2 Gold (mac version) on the latest version of Mac OS. Microsoft's Windows Vista can not run Age of Empires 2 + expansion. They are effectively the same game. The problem isn't Direct X or some other vista feature beyond the fact that the DRM crap stops the game from running. I think microsoft should release an official no cd crack at this point. Age of Empires 2 and Enemy Territory are my two favorite games. I've spent more time playing them than any other games. Consider that I used to install AOE2 on my mac and pc! I also do the same for ET.

Did I mention that I just played AOE2 on an INTEL MAC! Apple switched PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES and it still works.

This is a very strange story.  A student from germany was involved in an automobile accident in 1996.  She was disabled.  The courts ordered that her boyfriend be sole guardian.  He received the insurance checks from the accident.  The mother alleges that the accident was staged and there is a grand conspiracy.  What I find strange is that the daughter was never allowed to leave the US.  Why on earth would the courts appoint her boyfriend as guardian?  They were not engaged.  Very strange. 

The problem is that the mother has a website with grand conspiracy theories.  I'm sure there is more to this story but its not public. 

http://www.chris-come-home.com/

I feel bad for the mother and daughter.  I guess the mother often protests in front of the washtenaw court house. 

I have a number of bugs left to squash with the new PDF/RTF feature.  Its not working too badly considering I started it at 9:00PM or so.  In IE, you have to refresh once if using the adobe plugin and the RTF formatting is bad.  Also, if you save its not suggesting a filename right now.  That means the RTF for instance is saved just as rtf with no file extension.  Also, the content type was wrong for IE.  I fixed that already, but its not live yet.  I think we still need to setup the various date fields on files.  That would be rather helfpul.  Word 2007 opens the RTF file perfectly though. 

I think I got HTML stripping working too so if you posted a rich entry it shoudl degrade somewhat.  What i'm even more excited about is that content length is set for my dynamic image servlets.  I found a kewl hack tonight which uses a byte output  stream .... the response is written to that and then to the response object's output stream.  it allows me to call size on it.

So, you think that your blog entries are under fair use when you post relevent sections of a blog?  They are.

From Sec. 107 of the Copyright Act.

...the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.