Archive for January, 2003
Friday, January 31st, 2003
back in joisey
set out from philly this a.m. stopped in at my old job to say hi to everyone, and jaime and i went and grabbed a nice sushi lunch. it was really nice to see everyone that i used to work with, but it’s also sorta tough; they had a really bad year [...]
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Thursday, January 30th, 2003
fairly uneventful drive with ryan
fairly uneventful drive with ryan out to philly to stay with our friend jane. we got there at midnight, drank some wine, and merriment ensued.
No Comments » - Posted in Matt's Boring Life by mattcomroe
Thursday, January 30th, 2003
i can’t believe that dave
i can’t believe that dave had the nerve to crack on me about getting old, when we’re running neck and neck in the annual Pittsburgh HairLoss 500.
No Comments » - Posted in Friends by mattcomroe
Wednesday, January 29th, 2003
urg. blogger ate my post
urg. blogger ate my post from before… i guess their database dropped a nut or something. i would really love to move to some sort of homegrown (or at least self-contained) blogging solution, but i guess i would actually need time to set that up, eh? for awhile before i went pro, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Music by mattcomroe
Tuesday, January 28th, 2003
Why MAC addresses suck
any idea how much of a pain it is to find info about obtaining hardware MAC addresses from clients using an ASP page?
for windows machines:
strIP = Request.ServerVariables(“HTTP_X_CISCO_BBSM_CLIENTIP”)
strMac = GetMACAddress(strIP)
Function GetMACAddress(strIP)
Set net = Server.CreateObject(“wscript.network”)
Set sh = Server.CreateObject(“wscript.shell”)
sh.run “comspec /c nbtstat -A ” & strIP & ” > c:\” & strIP & ”.txt”,0,true
Set sh = nothing
Set fso [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Work by mattcomroe
Monday, January 27th, 2003
JWZ -vs- W3C
so, over the weekend, everyone’s favorite iconoclast jwz decided to take on the new trend towards standards-compliant sites. i disagree with him that designers fall into only one category these days:
“HTML must only be used for semantic markup, but that semantic markup must rigidly adhere to the pixel-accurate positioning in the spec, so that [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Web Standards by mattcomroe
Friday, January 24th, 2003
woo!!! i’m a winner!
woo!!! i’m a winner!
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by mattcomroe
Friday, January 24th, 2003
bidding on my very first
bidding on my very first ebay item, a slightly-used set o’ brakes (thanks to brian for the heads-up). i’ve actually consciously stayed away from ebay for a long, long time, because all of my friends who shop on ebay are like addicts, and i already have enough addictions in my life right now. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Bike by mattcomroe
Thursday, January 23rd, 2003
the taxman cometh
total elapsed time between receiving W-2 form from our office’s controller and completing filing via webturbotax: 23 minutes. a new record!!!
i also just changed my blogger archiving to be monthly instead of weekly, as the list was getting a mite long. all my old archive links within posts should still work, tho.
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2003
a very interesting tirade against diamonds
a very interesting tirade against diamonds on anil dash’s site. luckily the slf told me awhile ago that all she would want would be an antique garnet ring.
bonus from that article is this great deflator for all the annoying forwards that people continue to send to me.
