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- *This is a set of phlog entries for
August 10-12.**
I'm on a weekend vacation with my
in-laws. They're all night owls, so
I've been up for three hours and no
one else is up.
We're at a resort and there's no wifi,
so I'm using my data to surf, which is
a rare thing. Fortunately, the old
BlackBerry sips data. I'm kind of
curious to see how much data a few
hours of gophering (by proxy) and web
surfing will produce. I'll report on
that later.
I missed the bitreich conference --
not from lack of interest, but purely
owing to the time. The daily events
started at 1 am Pacific time and I am
never up at that time. I'm a Ben
Franklin type when it comes to
sleeping schedules. In any case, I
read the presentation slides this
morning and I'm looking forward to
listening to the audio later. Some
interesting ideas were presented.
Solene is right. I really need to
learn Awk. I use it from time to time,
but I crib it from stack exchange and
modify. I'd like to know it well
enough to produce solutions of my own.
We're going to the best thrift store
around today. I'm looking forward to
it. Years ago I snagged a Palm IIIxe
and a set of chains for my truck
there. I could have bought a lot more
(boxed Win3.1 set, with manuals, $4,
etc.), but I try to limit myself to
useful items, and take something back
to the thrift store for each new thing
I bring home. That way, someone else
can use it and I don't clutter the
house too excessively.
I'll write more later.
* * *
Sadly, the greatest thrift shop in the
area is no longer all that great. It
used to be a maze of rooms. One was
full of mechanical stuff; another was
loaded with electronics; yet another
was overloaded with books. It was nerd
heaven, with piles of great stuff and
few people.
Now, they've taken over several
adjacent storefronts. They've opened
the place up. It's bright, spacious
feeling, and it's been 'discovered'.
It's full of people and there's very
little in the way of good stuff. There
are big wide aisles and almost nothing
of interest in them.
It's a shell of its former self.
* * *
So, I'm home again. I've started
listening to the bitreich conference
audio, but I'm not too far along.
I did check my data usage for the
weekend: 20MB. Not bad for about 6-7
hours of browsing.
It was fairly easy to get the
preceding phlog entries off the Bold
9900 and onto my laptop. I wrote them
in memopad and then did a quick
copy-paste into the texting app, from
which I sent the material to my email.
MMS-email gateways are still the
greatest thing! In fact, I forward all
of my email to my text messages. It
saves data (MMS data is not charged
to my account) and allows me to avoid
connecting to my email account with
the really old TLS on my phone. The
account *will* sync with the phone,
but I don't think it's a good idea.