Took a brief break from work stuff to update my website. I apparently had a lot of older updates all ready that I had been forgetting for months to actually make live. Anyhow, it probably won't be too long before I feel comfortable ditching v5 (the copy up at junior.apk.net) and having v6 at both dachte.org and apk.net. v6 needs work, true, but I think that it can be brought up to snuff without that much time required. I'm still hunting down v4 through v1 of my website. I'm SURE they're in one of my backups, I just can't seem to find where. Archive.org is helpful, but it started after I already had a page up, and it's a bit flakey. It's sort of like google's usenet search -- You can get a LOT of information about me and things I've posted if you happen to know my historical email addresses. However, I started using usenet before those archives started, so you won't get it all. Heck, even I can't remember all the email addresses I ever had. Hmm... here are a few obscure ones. I once used prodigy, an early competitor to AOL. On there, I was txjc28b (which became @prodigy.com when they established an internet hookup, although by then I wasn't using prodigy much). On Cleveland Freenet, I was ec373, although I can't remember the last parts of that that made it valid email. On NPTN, I was lb012@nptn.org. Try to figure out how I got that address (no hacking was involved). If you can, I'll be impressed with you, whoever you are (Note that if you knew me back then, it doesn't count). I think I once had a freenet account at the University of Erlangen-Nurembourg. I have never had an aol account. I once had a delphi account. I once had a bunch of accounts that I shouldn't've had. I once had an account at a place called the "Space Station". I once had accounts that could get UUCP. At OSU, I had a magnus account, an alias ( PAT+@osu.edu ), a networking group account, accounts in the workstation group (probably never recieved mail through them though), a CIS account, a (I think) math account for awhile.. Ahh... so many accounts. I doubt many of them still forward to me in any way.

Anyhow, as I was saying, .. umm.. what was I saying? Ahh, yes. I'm looking for old copies of my webpage. I have a vague idea what earlier copies of it looked like. It's also amusing that I'm putting so much effort into version 6 of my website when I'm already starting to think about version 7. The thing about version 7 though is that I'm primarily starting to think about what I could do if I had my own server, postgres, and all that.

An odd curiosity -- why are so many of the commercial hosting sites using MySQL instead of PostgreSQL? It seems to be the general consensus of the geeks that PostgreSQL has better SQL compliance, is easier to manage, and is generally more functional. Both are free anyhow, so I don't understand why they don't either offer both or just go with PostgreSQL.

I don't really have anything planned tonight. I might continue to pack, but right now I'm at the point where if I pack much more, I'm going to lose some functionality I really want to have right up to the point where I start sleeping in the new place. Hmm.. IKEA's having a sale, I think. I'll definitely go there and get stuff, if I can afford it after this two-place-rent month is paid for. IKEA rocks. Anyhow, I'll probably mosey on back to my usual haunt.. unless I decide to visit cowtown this weekend, in which case I'll just head off towards there. I don't know if I really want to leave town right now though, so close to moving limbo.

Apt Pupil is much creepier in the book than the movie was.

I recently made an order of 2 new CDs from Amazon: Weird Al's new CD, and a new CD by a band called Firewater that I thought had broken up (as their website went kaput some time ago). W00t!

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