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Monthly Archives: October 2003

currently…

by Rob Friesel

Ah, a perblog moment. A status report, if you will. Reading: Orwell’s Burmese Days — delightful political intrigue and social commentary re: the decline of the British colonization in India. ALSO… Brushing up on my PHP again with Lerdorf’s Programming PHP and taking another stab at Williams & Lane’s Web Database Applications… Meanwhile Flanagan’s Javascript […]

apologies.

by Rob Friesel

a brief extension of some seriously most humble apologies to anyone who may have sent any email message to me at my refriesel@mac.com account … the one I’ve been giving out as my main account lately. Seems it’s been bouncing messages for the last 3+ weeks. Until tonight. Who knows. C’est la oof!

linu(s/x)!

by Rob Friesel

Should have known this would have been the first article Wired shared from the most recent issue. On one level, Torvalds’ life really is filled with quotidian routine. He works from home as a fellow for the Open Source Development Lab, a corporate-funded consortium created to foster improvements to Linux. His commute is a walk […]

unicoded.

by Rob Friesel

*ahem* Getting back to the “English-language-centric Web” thing from not too long ago: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) I’ll need to finish reading this at some point. But at least I knew to use encoding. And Unicode, at that.