Dave and Caesar
February 13th, 2005 by Mark
My brother bought himself this giant Julius Caesar head. As if that wasn’t ridiculous enough, he had it on lay-a-way for a few days. I can’t handle him sometimes. I told him that he makes my life more and more like the Napolean Dynamite movie all of the time.
I finally bought a pro account over at Flickr. I’m really impressed by Flickr. They’ve taken a fresh look at photo management and web applications in general and it shows. Maybe we’ll get to do stuff like that at work in the next iteration of the interface, which should come out like 2 years from now. I wish things could move from the idea phase into the completed phase quicker than they do.
I’ve finally squared away my email situation. Let it be known that mbox is too slow for really anything. I’m now using maildir to store my mail on my new server and everything is much nicer. Oh yeah – fuck sendmail too. What good is a program if you can’t tell it what you want it to do. Someone needs to rethink how that thing interfaces with the user. Yeah – I’m saying that user interface matters even when the only interface is a configuration file. I always felt like one configuration file was going to be just about as easy or hard to use as any other. That was before I tried configuring sendmail. I’m now using postfix to deliver my mail into a maildir directory and dovecot to make it available through IMAP. Oh, and all of my mail traffic now runs over SSL. I know, it’s a little too geeky. It’s even geekier that getting it to work made my whole day.
I also applied a patch to office bocce that Jeff sent me. It abstracts all of the database calls so that we can use other database engines besides just sqlite. It seems to work really well. I plan on connecting it to PEAR::DB and thus be able to use a zillion databases. Alright, it’s 2am and I’m beat. I think I geeked out enough for one day.
