April 16, 2006
I've brought the weblogs back up. For some reason, mySQL wasn't running and no one noticed since the system hasn't been used in months. Anyway, I've got everything working again and upgraded MT because I'll be using this system to detail my upcoming trip to India.
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October 28, 2005
Bloody hell
The R6 I am on now has stopped, and is running on emergency power. Worse, the car is occupied by a number of loud, probably drunk, college students who are returning from a Halloween party.
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October 20, 2005
N-Gaging
I finally have my N-Gage back. From Philadelphia to Ft. Lauterdale to Fort Worth and back to Philadelphia, it's back and better than before.
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May 11, 2005
Remember kids...
faulty network hardware can masquerade as anything. Recently (i.e. yesterday) the server stopped functioning. Reboots, configuration changes, and disk repairs did nothing. I was about to do a nuke-and-pave rather than continue to waste time troubleshooting, when I decided to try replacing the network cable and resetting the switch. It worked.
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May 07, 2005
We are operational
I have successfully upgraded the server to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Server, weeding out some bad RAM in the process. The system is stable. Also, I installed Movable Type 3.16 (now with MySQL support) and MT-Blacklist 2.04b.
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March 02, 2005
Test post - Spurious Interrupt
Testing the post system and trackbacks
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March 01, 2005
Dream narrative
On Sunday night, I had a dream that I remembered several hours after I woke up. Since this is extremely rare (Usually I forget nearly all of the dream when or soon after I wake up, even if I'm actively thinking about it), I thought I should write about it.
Warning: this dream is rather geeky in some of its details. Basically, I dreamt about trying to buy cell phones.
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January 01, 2005
Yo-yo
Once more, darkon.net's webserver is back up, sort of. It's limping along on a tiny hard drive I pulled from a recently upgraded machiner, with the data cloned from the DeathStar, and there seem to be some stability issues related to that. It's definitely going to be slower, but it should be fine until the new hard drive arrives at the end of next week.
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October 14, 2004
Cheesesteak Trial #2: Tony Jr.'s
Tonight’s test subject is an American Without from Tony Jr.’s, on 118 South 18th Street.
This sandwich was a high quality sandwich, constructed with freshly sliced beef. Unlike standard quality cheesesteaks, the fresh beef in a high quality cheesesteak is moister than pre-shredded beef, and gives a more pleasing texture. The roll was fresh, and the cheese was of good quality (no Kraft Singles here). Unfortunately, one error impacted the finished sandwich. The cheese was placed on the side of the roll before the beef was inserted, resulting in cheese that isn’t melted when the sandwich is served. It’s still better than a standard quality cheesesteak, though.
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October 13, 2004
Cheesesteak Trial #1: Dolce Carini
Every year, Philadelphia Magazine includes Best Cheesesteak in their Best of Philly issue. Although that issue came out two months ago, I'm now starting the Personal Cheesesteak Survey, which is based on the list published in that issue. I'll be using a different rating system, however. Instead of Philadelphia Magazine's point-based system, I'll be categorizing them into "high quality", "standard quality", and "total shit." Today, I tried Dolce Carini, on 1929 Chestnut Street. It's a regular pizza shop. For comparison, Philadelphia Magazine rated this sandwich a 3.5: better than Geno's(2.5) or Pat's(2) but less than Tony Luke's(4.5).
The cheesesteak was standard quality. Let's face it - there are a limited number of ways to make a cheesesteak, and that means almost everyone uses finely chopped pre-shredded beef. Barring major screw-ups like not adding enough cheese, loading the sandwich with too much meat, or using a stale roll, cheesesteaks tend to taste the same. Pretty much every sandwich made with pre-shredded beef, from pizza shops to lunch carts, is identical. Dolce Carini falls into this category. That's not to say such cheesesteaks are bad, they're just nothing special. I'm not going to bother comparing standard quality cheesesteaks to each other, since they're so similar.
For those playing along at home outside Philadelphia, the standard cheesesteak requires:
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