Author: sjwillis

Just spent 90 minutes cleaning the sensor on my canon DSLR. Tedious. But worth it.

Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood Home A national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents who counter the harmful effects of marketing to children through action, advocacy, education,…

Newsvine – MacBook Casing Defect: Prevalent Cracking My case is cracking. Need to check my apple care status.

Getting ready for a day of back-to-back client meetings. Glad that “get root canal” can be crossed off my todo list!

lights out, though I think the computers in my basement draw more power than all my lightbulbs

soliciting feedback from distro-jockeys on what I should run on my slicehost VPS –if I go that route–: Debian 4, Ubuntu (6.06 or 7.10)

waiting for Dreamhost to not be broken. No web, no mysql. Just a “sorry, we’re working on it” posted TWO DAYS AGO!!!! one word: slicehost

TierneyLab – Science – New York Times Blog Kent sent this my way. Tierney is looking at some interesting happiness research projects.

REALLY digging John Mayer’s chops on the album Continuum. Esp. on Hendrix’s Bold as love.

Setting up PHP 5 on Dreamhost Here is how you can set up PHP5 on Dreamhost’s Debian Stable shared hosting server. Dreamhost lets you compile your own version of PHP as a CGI binarywhen you are logged in through SSH.