Another semi-eventful weekend has passed and yet again, I feel that I haven’t fulfilled everything I’ve wanted to do, or even anything that I want to do. I get so caught up in what I have to do that I make no effort to do something enjoyable. I didn’t go swimming, or go to any [...]
Today was set up as a day of silence to protest the discrimination and harassment experienced by gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. Allie did it today. It’s kind of weird how many people made fun of her. Maybe it’s that I live in a higher-class part of town? People seem pretty conservative at my school even [...]
I was reading the new york times and came up with an editorial about the source of anti-Americanism in the middle east. I strongly agree with the point he makes, except I’ve been saying that for a while, just nobody listens to me. The Palestinian issue is the main reason they dislike the United States, [...]
Wow, I just finished watching, the black and white horror movie, “Night of the Living Dead.” It is a lot like Signs in the sense that there are unknown creatures attacking people and the only place they can run is inside their own homes. The end wasn’t very good and the music is kinda cheesy. [...]
Yesterday, I saw “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” with a couple friends at a local theater. I loved the movie, it was a little odd, but very original. Jim Carrey (who happens to be Count Olaf in the new movie based on the Lemony Snicket books) has really matured and I really like him [...]
Following, I have an example of a client/server interface using the XMLRPC::Lite perl module included in the soap-lite package on CPAN. #!/usr/bin/perl # —— server.pl —— use strict; use XMLRPC::Transport::HTTP; my $server = XMLRPC::Transport::HTTP::Daemon -> new (LocalPort => 9000) -> dispatch_to(’tf’); $server->handle; # the package to handle it. package tf; sub help { return “This is [...]
Okay, mental note. If you want to ditch those annoying *~ backup files in emacs forever, add: (setq make-backup-files nil) To your .emacs and it will never make them again.