July 30, 2004
Posted by beltzner
The most surprising thing about _Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle_ — besides the fact that it’s actually a [pretty good movie][1] — is how subversively it plays with cultural stereotypes. All the characters in the movie are exaggerated, one-dimensional stereotypes _except_ for Harold and Kumar, who are themselves quite multifacted, realistically portrayed, average [...]
July 29, 2004
Posted by beltzner
It’s been a bit less than a year since I decided to rip off [Kottke's][] idea of [remaindered links][] by way of my “Reading” sidebar category. For me, it was a convienient (read: lazy) way to quickly publish links to interesting articles and bits of flotsam from the Internet Crap Backbone without having to really [...]
It seems that domain servers the world-wide-web-round have finally agreed to point people’s [web browsers][1] to the appropriate [server][2], allowing them to see the new [pithy homepage][3] of beltzner.ca. Further, after doing a bit of investigation into [postfix][4], I was able to figure out why email was bouncing, and my new ever-generous [sysadmin][5] was quick [...]
July 18, 2004
Posted by beltzner
As of this writing, my web browser resolves to the _new_ beltzner.ca server some of the time, and to the _old_ beltzner.ca server most of the time. There’s no discernable pattern that I can find, leading me to conclude that the myraid of caches and proxies used to speed your average web browsing experience seriously [...]
July 16, 2004
Posted by beltzner
What follows is my absolutely non-recommended sequence of steps for copying your IMAP mbox files to your new web host from your local Thunderbird IMAP cache:
1. Open a file browser and file the IMAPMail directory in your Thunderbird profile.
2. Go to the folder matching your account name, verify that you have both mbx and msf [...]
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, _I, Feelafel_ is reborn as a stronger, and newer entity. It didn’t take 500 years (although it sure felt like it) but the ever-generous and kind [Mike Shaver][] managed to pick up the hosting duties for this domain when the previous provider, [Colossus.net][1], suddenly dropped off the face [...]
So, when Dave and his friend Chance told me that there was a really _classic_ Canada Day BBQ available for crashing, I figured “_What the hell …_” and decided to go along.
Now, being a naive and trusting fool, I assumed that there would be _food_ at this BBQ. It turns out, though, that the [...]
July 9, 2004
Posted by beltzner
While I don’t delude myself into thinking that there’s any reader out there who’s so desperate for my latest issuance of _bon mots_ that he or she keeps my page loaded in a browser tab set to refresh every 30 seconds, I do think that I should make apologies for the rather conspicuous and [...]
