Events

(Last post for now.) Anne just sent me a link to a very cool application. That is all. Update/Clarification: Anne found this to aid her writing, not because there's any special news from our family. But thanks for asking.

Translation: I am going to replace Das Blog. Yes, as much as I like it—and I do, despite my gripes—I've found something more in line with the way that I work: Community Server. I've downloaded both the current version and the new Beta, and as soon as I have time (tomorrow at the earliest, Saturday at the latest), I'll switch over. Since this is a brand-new blog, I have little compunction about wiping out all the permalinks. (There are fewer than 10 at the moment.) We apologize for the inconvenience.

Anne and I were shocked—shocked!—to learn on NPR's Morning Edition that the Food and Drug Administration ruled against allowing Plan B to be dispensed without a prescription, before the scientific panel had released its findings. It was shocking because they actually had a scientific panel looking at the question.

Which do people prefer: having all the entries on the front page, one line per entry (like they are now), or having the complete posts all in a column? Talking Points Memo is an example of the "flow" design. (I also still don't have the comment problem resolved, so please email me with your thoughts.) Thanks for your help.

Paul Krugman's column (reg.req.) in today's New York Times explains "adverse selection," and why it means that free markets don't work for health care.

I have to give up on converting dasBlog to .NET 2.0 for now. The ASP.NET model has changed significantly from 1.1 to 2.0, breaking every single page in the application. In other words, many of the techniques developers used for making pages do interesting things in 1.1 simply don't work in 2.0, because the system doesn't work the same way. I may have missed something simple—but I don't think so at the moment. So I think all of the pages in the application need to be changed in order to make it work. In...

I plan to use this blog to discuss software architecture and construction, using various Inner Drive Technology projects as examples. (I may also use client projects as examples, with the names changed to protect the guilty.) Company projects Inner Drive Technology Company Site Most of the upcoming changes to Inner Drive Technology's public site are minor, except that the demonstrations will become gradually more interesting. Also, I plan to cross-post the Software part of this blog to a new one under...

I think 37 kt (43 mph) winds qualify as "windy." No one I've asked can remember a more beautiful autumn than the one we've had in Chicago this year. Until yesterday, we haven't had much wind or rain, so the trees have kept most of their orange and yellow halos for weeks. Mornings have been particularly lovely. The low sun has hit the flaming yellow lindens and maples just so, making our daily walk to the El a delight. Or anyway, as much as a walk to the El can be, I guess. Since last night, though...

DasBlog, the blog engine I've started with, apparently has some difficulties running on Windows Server 2003: Save buttons don't seem to work. Categories disappear and reappear like socks in a dryer. It's written for ASP.NET 1.1, which has now been supplanted by version 2.0. I suspect #1 and #2 may be caused by #3. For you, gentle reader, this means that you won't be able to add comments to entries yet. In some ways this may be good—comments can be used for good or evil—but in most ways it's just...

I'm David Braverman, and this is my blog. It's likely that the world already has too many blogs. I hesitated starting one for many years, mostly because I didn't see the point. Who would want to read my self-absorbed navel-gazing semi-literate drivel? I mean, other than my mom? What's this about? I'm interested in too many things to confine this to one topic, no matter how self-absorbed it gets. So look forward to entries, at least one daily, on these topics: The weather. I've operated a weather website...