Vicki and I were discussing the possibility of buying a Pioneer DVR-810H, which is a combination TiVo and DVD recorder and player, because they’ve been discontinued and sites all over the net are advertising them for less than half price. However, I soon discovered that any site that claims they have it in stock is lying through their teeth, and will cheerfully tell you that they’ll ship it to you as soon as it comes in – I guess they don’t quite get the concept of “discontinued”.
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Category: Route
Some random thoughts about the blog
Last night, lying in bed trying to get to sleep, I had a few random thoughts about my blog.
- If I were to just put the already generated pages of Maddy’s blog and the memorial blog, and not allow new entries or comments, then it doesn’t need a blog engine behind it, and so therefore I could upgrade *this* blog to the newest version of MovableType or TextPattern. I can’t currently upgrade MovableType because the current version’s free license only allows one author.
- I should make a new category for a pain diary, but not put it on the main page. Sort of like how on Maddy’s blog only her entries go on the main index, but other stuff posted about her by others goes in the category index on the side.
- I should put all the updates I’m doing to the navaid.com site into a blog, either this one or another one. I should also transition the copilot-announce mailing list to Gradwell.
Airway Intersections
Right now my nemisis is the FAA and DAFIF data that I use for my navaid.com waypoint generators. Doing airports and navaids are simple. The problem that’s bugging me right now are the various and sundry “waypoints”, and the ridiculously lax and inconsistent way the FAA and DAFIF files name them.
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Ok, action taken, nobody killed.
In Rants and Revelations: Remind me again why I do this? I ranted about the abuse I get because I ask people to not send HTML email to my mailing lists. The usual rejoinder, after they finish being rude or calling me unprofessional or a luddite is to say “Where does it say I can’t send HTML?” So as of right now, it says it on the list info pages. Check out the LUGOR newbie SIG page for an example.
Note that I word it as a request, not a demand, and I even link to a page that shows you how to configure a bazillion mail clients to not send HTML mail. Damn, I’m too nice.
The thrown gauntlet
My friend Rohan noticed some time ago that I had over 7000 units on SETI@Home, and he appeared to take it as some sort of challenge.
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