from the desk of stinkpot

rather than ingest more crazy apple rumors, christina and i came up with one of our own tonight. sept. 12: apple introduces the iphone … which rides on none of the traditional wireless carriers, but instead uses VOIP.  it all makes sense – the google CEO just got a seat on apple’s board and google […]

you might have noticed that a bunch of links around here no longer point to stinkpot.afraid.org … they point to desk.stinkpot.org.  i’ve finally bought a domain name: stinkpot.org. i finally gave into buying it when the free service [freedns] supplying my domain went down last week.   some idiot(s) decided it would be a good […]

oh and one last note before i sleep: for people reading this who use both word press and gallery2, you might want to look into this plugin. it makes embedding gallery photos in wordpress posts a cinch. i installed it the other night and it works as advertised. the wpg2 plugin even lets you embed […]

warm summer nights put me in a soldering mood. i’ve dedicated a bunch of my free time lately to jacks, plugs, and cables (leaving our kitchen table a mess). motivating the orgy of wires has been a recent resolution to wire our entire apartment. i’ve got this web-based mp3 box piping music through my home-made […]

note to self: changing the password to your DSL account and forgetting to update your modem will probably cause your webserver to go down.  may also result in lost hour of life, as you double-check obscure static-ip settings and port forwarding nonsense.

I’ve finally had enough with blogger and it’s lack of categories / dependency on the ponderous and fickle blogger.com server. Hello Word Press! Already, I’ve got a positive view of Word Press. It was astoundingly easy to move my blogger blog (including comments!) here onto Word Press. If you’re so inclined, here’s the guide I […]

these freshly designed websites have been stinging the ego of my webpages’ collagen-filled, handwritten html code. but rather than wallow in a tub of self-pity, my site has instead decided to get itself into shape. i’m so proud of its can-do attitude. she’s looking better already. go see for yourself! ************* i’m so sorry for […]

tonight’s excuse for why i got no work done.

hooray! our internet is finally working again, which means that this webserver is finally back online. after months of spotty service, i think verizon has finally fixed the problem. a repairman came out the other day and saw that our phone line was actually exposed to the elements (which would explain why our dsl died […]

holy crap! the script i wrote about here actually came through – christina and i got world cup tickets to see the usa’s first match!!! they’re playing in some town i’ve never heard of: gelsenkirchen. argh, figuring we’d shoot first and apologize later, we grabbed the tickets immediately. (my script has alerted me to available […]