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alexpgpI finally got around to installing the timber underneath the back yard gate. The dogs have taught each other how to dig, and sometimes I think the golden retriever helps the peke do the "Great Escape" bit under the gate. It is hoped that the buried timber will afford somewhat more of a challenge to my canine companions.
Lee called yesterday after work and told me she had been worried about me, and all. She had misunderstood me to say I was suffering from chest pains, which is not at all what concerned me on Wednesday. While I found her concern touching, I note that it was not of sufficient magnitude to cause her to rearrange her busy social schedule. She did say she would come home tonight, and there are just over two hours left to "today," so... let me get off of that subject. I'm beginning to whine.
Despite best intentions, I didn't get a whole lot done today, though there is some time left to the day. I need to do laundry, I need to do my ATA presentation, and it would probably be a good idea to package the mushroom soup and put it in the fridge so it doesn't spoil. Dinner was a couple of bowls of that soup and a Greek salad while I watched Kurosawa's Yojimbo, starring Toshiro Mifune. I remember watching this film a number of years ago, and I had a lot of trouble following it, and wanted to see if perhaps the intervening years had improved my comprehension. They had.
The basic story line concerns a small town dominated by two rival criminal gangs. Into this mess steps a wandering, jobless samurai - a ronin - played by Mifune. He proceeds to play the two sides against each other until the town becomes "peaceful" again. I couldn't tell whether he did it to amuse himself, or out of Doing the Right Thing. At one point, after expressing utter contempt for a man who forfeited his house and wife to erase a gambling debt, he nonetheless goes out of his way to kill the thugs keeping the woman captive and gives the man, the woman, and their child money to run away and start a new life. Ironically, the money he gave them had been paid to him by the boss keeping the woman prisoner. The film's nod to the American Western genre is pretty apparent, down to the long, dusty main street where much of the action takes place. I cannot help but think that some early Eastwood flicks share a lot in common with this film.
Segue.
If you can read this, it means all of my hammering and sawing paid off. This post was typed on a PalmPilot, and sent via the usual channels - via modem - to a special mail account I set up on my server. The account, in turn, feeds the message to a modified version of Brad's Perl script, which proceeds to post the message to LiveJournal.
I suppose it might be easier - in terms of end user steps - to simply write a LiveJournal client that communicates directly from my PalmPilot to the LiveJournal server, but that will require me to come up to speed in PalmOS programming techniques, while this will work as a quick-and-dirty solution, methinks. After all, there are times I go places without a computer, but I rarely go anywhere without my PalmPilot.
Cheers...
Lee called yesterday after work and told me she had been worried about me, and all. She had misunderstood me to say I was suffering from chest pains, which is not at all what concerned me on Wednesday. While I found her concern touching, I note that it was not of sufficient magnitude to cause her to rearrange her busy social schedule. She did say she would come home tonight, and there are just over two hours left to "today," so... let me get off of that subject. I'm beginning to whine.
Despite best intentions, I didn't get a whole lot done today, though there is some time left to the day. I need to do laundry, I need to do my ATA presentation, and it would probably be a good idea to package the mushroom soup and put it in the fridge so it doesn't spoil. Dinner was a couple of bowls of that soup and a Greek salad while I watched Kurosawa's Yojimbo, starring Toshiro Mifune. I remember watching this film a number of years ago, and I had a lot of trouble following it, and wanted to see if perhaps the intervening years had improved my comprehension. They had.
The basic story line concerns a small town dominated by two rival criminal gangs. Into this mess steps a wandering, jobless samurai - a ronin - played by Mifune. He proceeds to play the two sides against each other until the town becomes "peaceful" again. I couldn't tell whether he did it to amuse himself, or out of Doing the Right Thing. At one point, after expressing utter contempt for a man who forfeited his house and wife to erase a gambling debt, he nonetheless goes out of his way to kill the thugs keeping the woman captive and gives the man, the woman, and their child money to run away and start a new life. Ironically, the money he gave them had been paid to him by the boss keeping the woman prisoner. The film's nod to the American Western genre is pretty apparent, down to the long, dusty main street where much of the action takes place. I cannot help but think that some early Eastwood flicks share a lot in common with this film.
Segue.
If you can read this, it means all of my hammering and sawing paid off. This post was typed on a PalmPilot, and sent via the usual channels - via modem - to a special mail account I set up on my server. The account, in turn, feeds the message to a modified version of Brad's Perl script, which proceeds to post the message to LiveJournal.
I suppose it might be easier - in terms of end user steps - to simply write a LiveJournal client that communicates directly from my PalmPilot to the LiveJournal server, but that will require me to come up to speed in PalmOS programming techniques, while this will work as a quick-and-dirty solution, methinks. After all, there are times I go places without a computer, but I rarely go anywhere without my PalmPilot.
Cheers...
