Time to chose between the lesser of two evils again. I live in a “Red” state, but looks like the “Blues” are making a serious run at them this time around.
Year: 2006
Nonsense
Gotta love those nonsense emails one receives trying to outsmart your junk mail filter …and comes with attachments the sender hopes you will open and set a virus, trojan horse or whatever loose on your PC. Here’s one that appeared in my inbox this morning…
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Another tomato accurately eats a pig pen around the tape recorder. Another tomato accurately eats a pig pen around the tape recorder.
Another tomato accurately eats a pig pen around the tape recorder. The linguistic ball bearing satiates the paper napkin. When you see some tornado living with a squid, it means that a salad dressing ceases to exist. “The dope was coming in heavier and heavier waves, and now he just wished she would shut up and go away.
Fall – A Spaghetti Western
The Good
The Bad
The Ugly
Good Things Come in Small Packages
I bought a new 1GB USB Flash Drive yesterday for US $15.95. I already had a 64MB Flash Drive that I got with my laptop in 2003. I don’t recall exactly how much I paid for the 64MB drive, but I know it was a bit more than $15.95.
So, I sat down and did some math. Assuming the best case (i.e, that I paid $15.95 each for both drives), the cost per MB at the time I purchased them was:
- 2003 – $0.250
- 2006 – $0.016
On the surface, the $0.016 per MB may appear to be quite inexpensive. However, you can get a 160GB hard drive these days for $100.00 or less, which puts the cost per MB in the neighborhood of $0.0006.
So it appears that the cost of “no moving parts” flash memory has quite a ways to go before it becomes cost-competitive with rotating disk storage. Or maybe it never will. Wonder what the chances are that both flash and rotating disk storage will be rendered obsolete by some other yet to be discovered technology?
What do you think?
It’s Halloween!
Fillet of a fenny snake, in the cauldron boil and bake: eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog, adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting, lizard’s leg and howler’s wing, for a charm of pow’rful trouble, like a hell-broth boil and bubble. — Second Witch, “Macbeth,” IV:1
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Joomla 1.5 Template Beta Testing
I’ve been building web sites of one kind or another since around 1995. These days I do it mostly for fun and very occasionally for profit.
For the past year or so, I have been using an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla! (or J! in my shorthand notation) to manage my personal web site. The price is right ($0.00) and it has most of the functionality that I need either out-of-the-box or by adding one or more of the many available third-party extensions.
The Joomla! Project released a beta of their latest software (J! 1.5) on 12 October 2006. J! 1.5’s outward appearance is not much different than its predecessor (J! 1.0.x), but its internals have undergone radical changes. And one of those changes was in the way templates are developed.
J!’s notion of templates is a bit different than the norm. Most systems define templates as the underlying mechanism that produces the theme, or layout, seen on the user’s screen. In J!’s case, the term template is used interchangeably to describe both the layout and the logic that produces it.
Now to the point…I’ve been doing some testing of the new J! templating approach and figured as long as I was going to keep some notes about it, I might as well share it with you. OK…if you look at right side panel, under the Local Stuff menu, the you will see a link to a page called Joomla! 1.5 Template Stuff. That page and the child pages listed below it contain some stuff I learned about building templates for J! 1.5.