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It felt like a Monday...
May. 12th, 2003 10:29 pm...all day long.
Once I got home from the store, I had lunch and could not keep my eyes open, waking up shortly after 5. I ate dinner and started moping around... couldn't snap out of it. Galina called collect; she was in Texas somewhere, which puts her at least 7 hours away, assuming she was calling from whatever the town is on Highway 287 that's on the Texas side of the Texas-New Mexico border. I don't expect her tonight.
* * * The only bright recollection of the day is something I didn't note yesterday: my first sighting of hummingbirds. I even had a couple come visit our feeders. One of them is an aggressive type, with a patch of orange under his bill. I've been told that Rufus hummingbirds are very territorial and to expect some in the area, but comparing the bird I saw to various photos of Rufus's on the net convinces me that the possessive little hummer in our neck of the woods is not one of these.
Be that as it may, putting up multiple feeders ought to put a small kink in this bird's plans.
* * * I downloaded, compiled, installed, something called the pilot-link suite for my Linux box and am currently backing up my "Palm computing device" (a.k.a. PalmPilot). It had been ages since I backed up my Palm (and almost as long since I've used it actively), and I came up with an idea for integrating some of the databases (especially the address book and memos) into my local TWIki.
Among other things, I will be able to strip out a lot of chaff from the address book, allowing me to retain only basic data on the Palm, which may go a long way toward eliminaring an intermittent crash bug that occurs, I think, due to a corrupted database somewhere. I'll do the same thing with the memo database, which has a lot of entries that I probably haven't looked at in a couple of years. (I'm still using the "ancient" Palm IIIx, and do not expect to upgrade any time soon.)
If I do this right, I could conceivably put together a Perl script, or something, that would "go the other way," i.e., scan file data on the Linux box and put together address book and memo databases that could, in turn, be synched to the Palm. However, that goal is pretty low on the enormous stack of priorities facing me in the next couple of weeks and months.
Now, let me see if I can fall asleep again.
Cheers...
Once I got home from the store, I had lunch and could not keep my eyes open, waking up shortly after 5. I ate dinner and started moping around... couldn't snap out of it. Galina called collect; she was in Texas somewhere, which puts her at least 7 hours away, assuming she was calling from whatever the town is on Highway 287 that's on the Texas side of the Texas-New Mexico border. I don't expect her tonight.
Be that as it may, putting up multiple feeders ought to put a small kink in this bird's plans.
Among other things, I will be able to strip out a lot of chaff from the address book, allowing me to retain only basic data on the Palm, which may go a long way toward eliminaring an intermittent crash bug that occurs, I think, due to a corrupted database somewhere. I'll do the same thing with the memo database, which has a lot of entries that I probably haven't looked at in a couple of years. (I'm still using the "ancient" Palm IIIx, and do not expect to upgrade any time soon.)
If I do this right, I could conceivably put together a Perl script, or something, that would "go the other way," i.e., scan file data on the Linux box and put together address book and memo databases that could, in turn, be synched to the Palm. However, that goal is pretty low on the enormous stack of priorities facing me in the next couple of weeks and months.
Now, let me see if I can fall asleep again.
Cheers...
