Posts in the category “asides”

The Sharks in Literature site has a lengthy excerpt from The Old Man and the Sea.

I have MovableType running now and this blog, Works in Progress is a MovableType blog! I’m using DreamHost as my web host, and thought – on the off-chance that anyone reads anything here ever – that I’d note some things specific to DreamHost. The most important thing to note is that under DreamHost a user has an account root. This is where you should place your MovableType db directory.

I have several domains hosted at DreamHost, so when I connect using WS_FTP I start in my root account. That means I’m presented with a directory for each of the domains I have hosted there. Aside from some shell-specific variable files, this root directory only contains one directory for each domain hosted, and, now, my MovableType db directory.

The path to your root account at DreamHost is simply: /home/username/

So, assuming you name your db directory db, the DataSource variable in your mt.cfg file should read: DataSource /home/username/db

Obviously replace username with your DreamHost username.

I made some updates to the MetaCamPage last night. I added a few and removed a few. I also posted to the Song of the Moment page for the first time in months. I know some people have been mad at me for not staying on top of it!

I finally got a chance to update the MetaCamPage last night. I added three new cams and updated several that had moved. Please let me know if there are any more changes I need to make. Enjoy!

I’ve been fairly busy lately, but there will soon be several modifications and additions to the MetaCamPage. I should also be able to get my outbound eMail in order in the next day or so. Bear with me. It’s the heart of football season, and I am easily distracted.

It’s times like this… when I’m sitting here and the world outside goes from bright and sunny to dark as night in an instant… when a terrible torrential Tampa tunderstorm erupts out of nowhere… when the lightning smacks so close that the sound and the fury are simultaneous… when I can actually see the raw power of Mother Nature… it’s times like this that I think I should buy a back-up power supply for Bud.

Strange things are afoot at packetmonkeys.net…

Tonight I plan on getting to bed before 11 pm. Sure, this is a bit unusual for me since I haven’t made it to sleep before 3 am in a few weeks. But tomorrow night is the Stone Temple Pilots concert at the Hard Rock Cafe in Orlando and I want to have plenty of energy for that!

To expand on this just a bit:
I know a million things. There are many more things that I do not know. One of the things I don’t know is: How many of the things I think I know do I really know? It gets worse. There are things that I do know that I don’t think I know. There are things that I don’t think I know that I do know. Included in the things that I think I know that I really don’t, are a number of things that I don’t even know I don’t know. This, now, is where it gets tricky. What do I not know that I really do know but won’t admit? And of those things that I won’t admit I know, what do I really know? Because there are a lot of things that I think I know that it turns out that not only did I not know them, I didn’t even know that I didn’t know them. I don’t know if I can handle any more of this sort of introspection. Really not much can come of it. All I know is that there is a whole bunch that I don’t know and even more that I don’t know I don’t know. What gets me though, are the things that I know I know that I wish I didn’t know. Those are the worst.

Danny Wuerffel helped the Florida Gators win the 1996 National Championship. I can’t believe he is going from the crappiest team in the NFL (the Saints), to the best team in NFL Europe (the Fire), to the team I hate most in the NFL (the Packers). Not only did the cheeselogs beat my Patriots in the ’96 Super Bowl, but they are the most hated enemy of my Tampa Bay Bucs.

<overly melodramatic>Why?! Why is life so unfair?!</overly melodramatic>