http://tvanncam.blog.usf.edu This legacy hardware is starting to get old. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:20:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Apparently The Casimir Effect is responsible for all the bizarre things that have happened on LOST. Yep. I know, it surprised me too. Especially considering that the Casimir Effect is a phenomenon of quantum mechanics. Not really the kind that makes islands vanish either. Never tested it though, myself, so who can ... http://tvanncam.blog.usf.edu/2008/06/04/teleporting-bunnies-and-time-travel DESCRIBE responsibility; +———+——————+——+—–+———+——-+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +———+——————+——+—–+———+——-+ | fuserid | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | ... http://tvanncam.blog.usf.edu/2007/10/19/weirdest-sql-queries It’s the ugly limitation of AJAX apps as we know them. If you are in one of the few places left on Earth without Internet access, the pervasive everywhere-app is suddenly non-functional. After all, the logic of the program lives on the Internet, and even with sophisticated AJAX ... http://tvanncam.blog.usf.edu/2007/06/07/google-bridges-the-offline-ajax-gap If anyone out there wants to buy me a database server, it would be a great help to a budding ASP. I’ve been working on this for a while now, with varying results. Occasionally, I’ve revealed part of its top-secret functionality. There has been the occasional boast-and-taunt. Oh, if you’re still developing synchronous ... http://tvanncam.blog.usf.edu/2007/05/30/you-know-you-want-to Tony Lake, foreign policy adviser for BHO, is coming to town Wednesday, June 6th to have lunch and talk foreign affairs with Obama supporters. It’s a bigger ticket event than the last one, but it looks smaller and more focused than the last one. If I can find the dough ... http://tvanncam.blog.usf.edu/2007/05/29/foreign-policy-in-tampa I’m rapidly on my way to a complete night of sleep. The final switchover to a new router/proxy at the office has finally gone through seamlessly, and all of our VoIP phones have been working now with a decent quality of service for almost 16 hours (!) It’s a decent ... http://tvanncam.blog.usf.edu/2007/05/24/a-full-8-hours I find myself, at 1 am, realizing that I haven’t blogged about anything for going on two months and I should probably explain my absence. It turns out my skill set of Linux administration, PHP programming, generic web design, and general geekery is suddenly in demand more than it used to ... http://tvanncam.blog.usf.edu/2007/05/09/farewell-to-verizon It appears that I have something in common with The Chipmunk Ninja. Yesterday, to my great horror, data was seemingly vanishing from my application, returning to inaccurate states, and generally behaving badly. What’s worse, the error was intermittent and seemingly random. Like a quantum state phenomenon, when I looked closely at ... http://tvanncam.blog.usf.edu/2007/03/08/php-is-off-to-the-races It was 9 months ago that I fell in love with XGL on Linux for desktop productivity. Shortly afterward Beryl raised the bar on the technology. Vista is here, so the rest of the world (that hasn’t been using Mac) is finally catching up. It appears the ... http://tvanncam.blog.usf.edu/2007/02/28/do-we-get-the-retinal-advertising-too Yesterday, I wrote an application that targets compliance for FEC campaign finance digital disclosure. More accurately, I’ve written it over about 4 months now, but the disclosure part is being written this week. Yesterday, the USHoR voted 425-0 to congratulate Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy. Apparently the 10 ... http://tvanncam.blog.usf.edu/2007/01/31/they-work-hard-for-the-money-so-hard-for-the-money