DivisionByZero

I know. I haven’t blogged anything for the past few, er, months.

And, as if having one blog which I can’t even manage to post regularly isn’t enough, I’ve just set up another blog. I’m thinking of it as a tech-oriented blog. So, no more mushy stuff in there - only technical, geeky, you’re-not-a-god-if-you-don’t-get-it posts.

I’m not posting the link yet because I still have some configuration to do and have to post some content first. You’ll hear about it eventually.

Bought new books last week.

Practical JavaScript for the Usable Web - I have yet buy a good JavaScript book. Already have the Peachpit one but it was more of a copy-the-code-and-paste-in-your-html type book that never really teaches you about the JavaScript language. This one is better. Just the right amount of theory and practice with a focus on how the language fits in making your site more usable.

In case you’re wondering why JavaScript, I am learning it because I think every web developer should know how to do client-side scripting/validation to save on inefficient trips to the server just to validate input. More importantly, AJAX seems to be a really cool technology and the “AJ” in that acronym means “Asynchronous Javascript.”

Triple Your Reading Speed - Didn’t plan on buying this but I thought at the last minute that anything that can improve the self should always be tried. With the one-month break coming up and the long list of books-to-read, this just might be useful. Being able to touch type significantly changed my life, I hope being able to “AcceleRead” does the same.

Busy. Really Busy.

For those who prefer to have the more familiar Windows Truetype fonts on their Linux workstations, you can do so by doing the following:

1. Get the MS Truetype fonts RPM from by downloading from this link.
2. As root, install the RPM: # rpm -Uvh msttcorefonts-1.3-3.noarch.rpm
3. Log out and then log back in

from today’s /usr/bin/fortune:

My calculator is my shepherd, I shall not want
It maketh me accurate to ten significant figures,
        and it leadeth me in scientific notation to 99 digits.
It restoreth my square roots and guideth me along paths of floating
        decimal points for the sake of precision.
Yea, tho I walk through the valley of surprise quizzes,
        I will fear no prof, for my calculator is there to hearten me.
It prepareth a log table to comfort me, it prepareth an
        arc sin for me in the presence of my teachers.
It annoints my homework with correct solutions, my interpolations are
        over.
Surely, both precision and accuracy shall follow me all the days of my
        life, and I shall dwell in the house of Texas instruments forever.

According to the Gay-o-Meter, I’m 40% gay… hahahaha