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#define luddite
Pronunciation: ’l&-“dIt Function: noun Etymology: After Ned Ludd, an English laborer who was supposed to have destroyed weaving machinery around 1779. 1 : Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment. 2 : One who opposes technical or technological change. [Source]
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#define intinction
Pronunciation: in-’ting-sh&n; Function: noun Etymology: Late Latin _intinction-, intinctio _baptism, from Latin _intingere _to dip in, from _in- + tingere _to dip, moisten 1 : the administration of the sacrament of Communion by dipping bread in wine and giving both together to the communicant [Source]
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#define odalisque
Pronunciation: ‘O-d&l-“isk Function: noun Etymology: French, from Turkish _odalik, _from _oda _room 1 : a female slave 2 : a concubine in a harem [Source]
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This is Grand
Lee and I trekked up to Chicago to catch The New Pornographers / Belle & Sebastian play at the Riviera Friday night. I handled travel plans (directions to the Park&Ride; station where we parked and caught the “L”, trains to take, transfers to make, how to get to the theater, last train we’d have to catch). Pretty uneventful trip for the most part. The most interesting part was how the bike lane to the side of the road in Chicago was used as a thug passing lane by many.
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#define manscaping
manscaping: to groom a man. Shaving, waxing, cleaning up the superfluous fur. Courtest of the Urban Dictionary. A collaborative (think wikipedia) dictionary for modern slang. Found out about this earlier this week on the Rep yahoo group. Since a lot of slang is a bit crude in nature, I don’t have to warn you that this site may offend some of the prudish folk out there. You’ve been warned… I could probably spend all day looking through that site.
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Kitty part trois
We adopted our third kitty this past Saturday thanks to Amanda’s sister Katie. She’d found him as a stray hanging around the house of some of her boyfriend’s friends down in Carbondale. Seems there’s a BIG stray cat problem down in that neck of the woods (presumably because of all the college students in the area, and their decision to ditch their cats when they move). I think the call she made to Amanda about the kitty went something like this:
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Getting there...
I’ve gotten a bit farther in my updates for Malkier. I’ve fixed how I’d set up the databases. Basically I realized webmin had greater flexibility for creating databases than phpMyAdmin is currently set up to support. Things are nicely organized now in that respect. I’ve also upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, so I’ve gotten all those goodies and bugfixes now. The main task left is to do some customization and update the style for my site.
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K2 here I come
Part way through switching over to K2. Looks like I need to fine tune the custom page themes I’ve previously created (for movies and header_graphics). They work at present, but the two column setup isn’t really formatted right under the new theme. I also want to set up a new header graphic, probably tweak the color scheme, and maybe look into some other cool options/extensions (such as embedding a flickr feed in the sidebar).
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Part way there...
Well, I’ve gotten the critical stuff transferred over. Stuff that’s up and running: DNS now points to my new server. Email has all been transferred over (hooray for IMAP!). My databases are up and running (although not set up quite how I’d like). The blog is functional (along with most of the site, since I’m using WordPress as a basic content management system for a large portion of the site). My movies page is functional.
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Switching servers...
Looks like I’m finally going to get around to moving Malkier over to a new server. iPowerWeb has been decent as far as hosting providers go, but they’re clearly targetting a different market than whatever category I fall into. They provide (read: push) a bunch of web business stuff, but don’t seem to be quite as concerned with cool webtech or security. The server I’m on has been hit by security flaws on a few occasions, resulting in either server downtime or mass defacement of the php source throughout my site… inserted spam code in every php file on my site… Funny because it pointed to a non-existent web address and was written in such a way that every page it was on was broken and wouldn’t even render in a browser.
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