11/01/06 06:17 - ID#32806

I love twisted but not vendor products

She found my phone in her car and brought it to me on break. Then we went to Sonoma Chicken which was one of the tastiest eateries I have ever eaten at. Where else do you get orchids on your salad.

The streaming media conference here is more intersting. One of the interviewers in the hall just asked a macromedia tech if youtube could even exist without macromedia. I have one word for that - ebaumsworld

I do love flash video though just because it makes dealing with cross platform that much easier.

As for the knowledge management conference it keeps getting lamer. The last session was about how to choose a vendor search solution.

It seems like everything is geared for managers and purchasing directors.

Let me give you a sample of a talk.

'Flexibility and User Experience'

At first glance sounds good like I could apply it to my work. Then you read the description, 'This session discusses the journey of several clients to solve their search needs within a portal environment. (still sounds good) It illustrates with concrete examples how SharePoint intergrated with eneterprise seach technology increases the findability of enterprise content, enhances the capabilities of a portal, and improves the user experience.'

The problem with this is that it is an infomercial for microsoft SharePoint. I am not using that, I have no purchasing power even if I wanted it, and I hate microsoft products. I can't even figure out how to search the body of emails in my inbox using microsoft outlook web client. Why would anyone ever want their search product. They can't even manage their own MSN search very well.

P.S. The people at the streaming media conference are more attractive. Is that just freak cooincidence or what. Maybe I just am more attracted to artists.

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11/01/06 01:55 - 46ºF - ID#32805

Life Without Technology

Not only did I not bring my laptop with me. I have now left my phone in (e:twisted)'s car which is returning to San Francisco. I cannot believe it is going to be a virtually technology free day. I suppose I can watch televison tonight or just go drinking.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: travel

10/31/06 09:59 - ID#32804

Traffic

One reason I want to life in Buffalo the rest of my life - TRAFFIC

We ate yummy food at a teashop too (e:theecarey)

I had Saint John's Wort Tea and it made me feel insane. I kind of feel like a psuedo tripping dizzyness.

I do not recommend eating to many extreme sour candies like warhead. I feel so sick from it even though they tasted so good. I might as well have eaten a dozen lemons.

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Category: conference

10/31/06 06:16 - 56ºF - ID#32803

Vendor Product Infomercial

So far the conference has been a sort of vendor product infomercial. I hope tomorrow with it's focus on search will be more interesting.

I know it's not just me being picky because I hear other people complaining and so far a couple people have even challenged the speakers on what they were saying.

In the future, I would rather attend a developers conference, like the PHP one right near by or the database DB world conference in Toronto last month.

At least california is cool, sushi is cheap and they gave me a free ipod for registering early.

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Category: conference

10/31/06 02:16 - 56ºF - ID#32802

One dot of service

I am at The KM world intranets conference now. Skipped the google adaptive path guy web 2 speech for one on network metrics. I found it interesting but am amazed at how product centric it was.

Got a free ipod for signing up early. Ipod number three. The new washing machine hasn't eaten one yet.

So here I am at this big fancy corporate intranet conference and the graphic on the back of the program show an intranet on mac os 9 explorer. Low design budget? Things that make you go hm.

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Category: travel

10/30/06 07:27 - 55ºF - ID#32801

The Hotel

So I got to (e:twisted)'s house safely. I thought I was supposed to be staying at the Marriot but when I called they nor the Hilton at the event have a reservation for me and they are booked. At least I know someone here. I can't imagine what it would have been like if I took a bus there and then they didn't have reservations. Maybe I was supposed to make the reservations. Either way, at least I somewhere to stay and a way to the event.

Wish me luck.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: travel

10/30/06 05:36 - 57ºF - ID#32800

People With Large Carry ons

Check your fucking shit so the rest of us don't have to wait twenty minutes to get out.
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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: travel

10/30/06 05:33 - 57ºF - ID#32799

I landed

We landed. As long as we don't have a teneride experience, I am safe.

P.S. Star Trek is cooler than star was according to wired magazine and I love sky mall. PMT need locators.

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Category: travel

10/30/06 09:44 - 49ºF - ID#32798

When You Are Going To San Francisco

I am at the airport waiting to fly off the San Francisco. Believe itor not I only brought one school sized backback, wired magazine, and a book on java. Notice the stark lack of computer in there. It seems like everyone else has a laptop.

I guess I didn't want to subject the vaio to risk of loss or damage and I definitely do not want to play on the computer while I am there. I figure, if I don't have it at the conference I will be focred to pay attention (to my phone, lol) No just kidding I am excited about the conference and am curious If I can really make it a week without programming.

I suppose having the phone is kind of like cheating since in essence it is a mini laptop and fully networked. Maybe I will just ssh in and play on the server while I am sitting here. Oka, no I instead will read the java book.

I am kind of sad that I am leaving. I really don't like leaving my house very much anymore. Maybe I picked that up from (e:matthew) as I used to travel wuite a bit.

Oh wait, I know what happed, it was the freakin terrorists. In my book they won because I am terrified of flying now. I would be much more excited about a train trip to California but I suppose all my days would be on the train.

See you soon (e:twisted) and (e:iriesara)

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Category: work

10/27/06 03:44 - 45ºF - ID#32797

IE 7 is ruining my life

It is virtually impossible to deal with microsoft products. It is so ridiculous that IE 7 gets rid of IE 6. IN order to switch back and forth you either have to run a virtual machine, hack your registry all crazy or keep installing and uninstalling IE 6/7.

It seems so crazy that 80% of people supposedly have IE 6 but I can no longer test in IE 6 because I have IE 7. But I have to start testing in IE 7 because we all know that nothing will play well with it.

Once I decide to go IE 7 with estrip there will be no more support for IE 6 because I have no way of testing it unless someone wants to donate an IE 6 machine to me.

They didn't fix the security bug where I can read peoples clipboards

. I even wrote to microsoft about it as did many others. It basically is disabled in IE 7 out of the box but if you upgrade from 6 it is still there. And how many people will upgrade from 6 and not have this fixed. Just about everyone.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself

Major IE 7 & and PHP Served from IIS 6 Incompatibility.

I had the most horrible day with IE 7. I really feel like microsoft just likes to see me waste my time. I should write them a letter about how I had to take a break from curing cancer to deal with defects in their browser.

Turns out that IE 7 cannot handle pages with the wrong Content-Length very well. If the content-length header exceeds the real content-length it gets especially messed up.

This is fucking insane. I discovered that session enabled PHP pages served with windows server IIS 6 to IE 7 do not refresh properly when there is javascript in the head of the document. They show up fine on first load but then show up blank intermittently on refresh. Here is the full overview with examples

When serving PHP from Apache I did not have this problem because apache always seems to report the correct Content-Length with the script.