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Monthly Archives: December 2006

dream.20061218: graphing

by Rob Friesel

We’re at each others’ throats, people from work and myself.  These should be simple enough visualizations of easy-to-graph data but they still keep missing these subtle but critical aspects of each.  “My mother could graph better than this,” but that sounds like an insult to too many parties to be fair in any respect.  They’ve […]

dream.20061217: revolt

by Rob Friesel

War! Revolution! A corporation and a hospital vie for control of the same building.  Although it was originally built as a hospital, they sought financial aid from this company.  Ever since, the two organizations have been at each others’ throats, trying to secure total control over the building, adding to it (arcology-style) as they go.  […]

dream.20061216: sledding

by Rob Friesel

We have gone to a small mountain (like Mt. Philo but not) to go sledding.  The whole hike up, all I’m thinking is: What’s the point?  There’s hardly any snow anyway…  And besides, I seem to have forgotten my sled.  Nevertheless, at the top, this group of so-called friends belittles me for having forgotten my […]

links for 2006-12-16

by Rob Friesel

Keenspot “…is an online entertainment network comprised of more than 50 of the very best (in our humble and subjective opinion) exclusive comic strips and cartoons on the web, all of which you can only find here (that’s what “exclusive” means!).” (tags: comic) Comprehensive guide to .htaccess- password protection (tags: htpasswd htaccess apache security tutorial) […]

dream.20061215: Istanbul by night

by Rob Friesel

A. and I have a minor quibble about our vacation plans.  It seems that when I thought I’d scheduled our trip to Turkey a year from now, it was actually only two weeks away.  Those international vacation plans now conflict with our more local, family-and-friends-related vacation plans.  Startled and appalled by my own reckless actions […]