Zeno's Paradox
November 19, 2002 - Karma

According to the site statistics, my most active visitor is a soul known only as the GoogleBot. I didn't know that I had enough interesting content that the Googlebot must visit every day... This must be divine retribution for my stunt with Ted Brassfield and his poetry survey. (When asked to choose the most "pleasing" poetry out of a list of poems, I consistently chose the machine-generated poems over the human-generated ones.)

I'm currently irked at myself. After having gone out to purchase shoes for running, I've only been running three times. :-P On one hand, it's been really cold and I've been dealing with a low grade illness -- but on the other hand, that's only excuses. I think the only way that I'll start running is for me to pick out some races in the next couple of months and train for those races. Otherwise I'm a lost cause.

Today should be pretty busy. I'm in the process of ripping out and replacing the administrative backend of the Oyez project with a servlet-based solution. The current backend is Perl CGI and we're experiencing a bit of a performance hit with the CGI calls. This would be relatively straightforward, but I'm tripping all over Cocoon trying to get some simple JSP pages to execute. I took a stab at the issue a few days ago, but didn't get anywhere with it. I'll go at it again today and see what I can do. I'll also be tracking down my Apple Airport card that has mysteriously disappeared between the building's mailroom and my desk. I received the Linksys WAP11 802.11b hub yesterday and I could have been blogging from my couch, giving the play-by-play on Superman, but the card has walked off. I figure that it disappeared sometime on Friday afternoon.

I was pretty much a bum after work yesterday. I got home, ate a bit and then took a nap. After my nap, I fired up the "Superman" DVD that I received last week. It was pretty funny and pure camp. I can't believe that Mario Puzo (Godfather books) was responsible for the screenplay and story. After Superman, I attempted to clean up my working area a bit. It was one of those situations where the chaos isn't visible on a macro scale, but once you start looking, it becomes apparent on a micro scale. It took me a while to clean up the wire tangles and sort things a bit better, but now it's all clean and organized. (For a week or two...)

After doing some stuff around the apt -- laundry, mostly -- I'll be heading downtown to visit Holly. She'll finally be free from here paper, and I'm bringing a movie up to watch.

Anyways, I'd better wrap this up -- there's work to be done.

Posted by br284 at 09:25 AM

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