04.08.98
Learning and Stuff
Busy as all hell. Learned Adobe Acrobat, and Cascading Style Sheets this week. Plus I had an *8* AM all-staff meeting this morning… yeach.
Going home earlier than usual is nice though.
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04.06.98
Current Day
I added the current day to the Entry date next to each entry. Just a little thing I had been thinking of adding. I like it so far.
Now Playing: Nick Cave, Tender Prey, Slowly Goes The Night.
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How We Should Do It
I’m putting together a Ph server for the Museum. Rather than implementing it on UNIX, I’m mocking it up on my Mac using a Beta of Eudora’s Mail Server which has the Ph-based Directory services built-in. The Eudora mail client defaults to using Ph for Directory Services, and I hate having to look up everyone’s e-mail address, so I hope this solution will work.
Apparently there’s no stand-alone Ph server out there for Macs (or Windows for that matter). It looks like everyone’s trying to move to LDPA or LPDA for Directory Services. But most everyone here uses Eudora, which doesn’t support LPDA yet.
Hopefully I’ll be able to prove the worth of Ph by the time the Beta Server runs out in early June. Then I can say ‘See, my IS friends, this is how we should do this!’ 
The User and Groups services on the Eudora Server is _really_ slow. I guess it’s creating and eliminating each records one by one. There’s about 200 addresses that I’ll be importing into the server. It’s taking about 15 minutes each time I have to move the accounts in and out (trying to get the import data lined up right in the tab delimited fields.) So far I’ve waited a total of 30 minutes. The current run should be the last. Time for lunch.
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04.05.98
Archives
Looks like I finally got the archive routine to kick in right. If you like it let me know. I know there’s a few rough edges yet, but it works pretty well. I’m glad I’ll be able to use this on other projects… Once I clean up the code! :p
…Ross…
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04.04.98
Down In It
Bleh. I think I’m coming down with a cold. Amy’s had some crud over the past week which has just dropped her energy level through the floor and I think it’s about to take me on as well.
I think I’ve worked out a method for the archiving system on this thing. This will check the to make sure I have the proper tag I want. (Entries will be split up by weeks.)
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04.02.98
Easy Share
It’s amazing how easily things can be shared on Macs. I just setup Stacey so she can install MS Office for Mac from the CD in _my_ CD drive into her CD-less Powerbook, over the network. I showed Alan in Design how to share his hard drive with the scanning station that they have there so he doesn’t have to continually move his Zip drive back and forth. Plus my machine is available to me directly over the Web (with a few bits to twidle yet to work out some kinks.)
Gotta focus…
On to the Zoo Project…
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03.31.98
SuperBoy
Slow day today, though it should have been more busy. Got my machine at work set up to do some file sharing over the net, though it doesn’t work perfectly for plug-in file transfers, but I like the graphics that I worked up for it. http://orion.omsi.edu/
I also started a small page for a friend of a friend. It’s just starting out. Can you tell where I stole some ideas from? Why develop two sites when you can just make one? http://www.omsi.edu/~rosso/superboy/
I was also looking through some of the work I’ve done before… like the one I made for Amy. http:///sorry.it’s.private.com/:)
I renamed my hard drives to Betelgeuse and Bellatrix, after the stars that make up the shoulders of the constellation Orion.
I still haven’t put together the archiving solution for the page… It’s on the to-do list. Along with the Forest Puzzles to-do list and the Cave Inn to-do list and the Zoo to-do list and the PSU to-do list… Need I continue?
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03.29.98
Knows What He's Doing
Late Afternoon on Sunday is relaxing. It’s been a loud and virtually a non-stop weekend with Jason and Co. in town. It’s nice to get back to some sense of myself. I’m putzing around a bit at work, catching up on some clean up and working more kinks and preferences into my new system. It’s coming along well. It’ll be nice to sleep in my own bed tonight. That’s been a rarity of late. Jason and Paul’s relationship reminds me a lot of my relationship with Ronna. I hope Jason knows what he’s doing.
Time to take a deep breath and recover from the weekend.
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03.26.98
avant-garde
I’m slowly transfering my work machine to be based on MacOS 8. I’ve had it the 2 gig sitting in my machine for quite a while but have been slow to transfer over my preferences and set it as my startup disk. I finally moved my TCP setup over and I’m starting to get Malph re-setup piece by piece.. I know I could just copy over the Preference files, but it’s nice cleaning things out by hand. Though time-consuming to be sure. But damn, it’s _so_ responsive. Of course I haven’t installed all my fonts yet, either…
Forest Puzzles is looking good. In fact, here’s the URL for it: <http://www.omsi.edu/~rosso/forpuz/> That’s not the final place for it, so don’t bookmark it. However Busytown has reached it’s final destination at: <http://www.omsi.edu/busytown/> which is aliased to a longer more logical pathname as the site structure goes. It’s still got to get through Paramount’s okay (they own the rights to the characters), but it’s looking good.
I’m switching over to Netscape 4.0 as well. I’ve been sticking with 3.0 for a while, because I use the mail client to read my personal e-mail (and Eudora for my business mail). I really feel that Communicator is way overblown. I wish you could install just the parts that you want. For me, it’d be the browser and the mail client. OpenNS 5.0 perhaps?? Maybe I’ll try to find a different e-mail client, though Eudora is such a landmark, it’s hard to think of another one to use. Wait, didn’t Bare Bones come out with one? Time to do some research.
Spiritualized’s Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space has been a constant soundtrack for my life lately. It’s really a beautiful CD. VW recently used the title track in a commercial. This fits in with the concept that TV commercials are more (avant-garde) musically than commercial radio. Isn’t that sad?
This week shaped up to be pretty active and productive. These are two words that haven’t been part of my vocabulary for a few weeks lately. Winter doldrums? Hopefully I’m looking at an upturn here. I’ve certainly got enough projects that could use some work. And a partner who could use some attention.
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Community Design
<http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock/papers/design.htm>
Interesting. I haven’t finished reading it, but has some good thoughts.
Time for lunch!
Busy day. Forest Puzzles is actually moving along!
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