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Thu, Oct 26, 2006

Layouts 10/26/2006

Posted at 7:22 pm MDT to Net of Mirrors

Below the cut are two layouts of the Net of Mirrors generated by my little random-card-choosing program. This is just the raw output of two passes of the program, without interpretations.

At least they seem fairly hopeful. The second layout is especially interesting, with I Ching 1 (Yang) showing up in the direction of Yin.

Eventually, I'd like to have a page where you can click a button and have a layout generated with little icons of the cards in the correct locations, with links to the card texts.

But first I need to re-write the card texts.

And create mirror-card icons that are compact but meaningful.

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Network Difficulties

Posted at 6:17 pm MDT to Technology

I now have Comcast instead of Abbott for TV cable and Internet Broadband. Comcast really needs to get some tech support people who know more than how tell Windows users to put the CD into their drive and click on the little icons. And I wonder how the installer managed to leave the cable-modem in a state where it needed a hard reset before it would serve DHCP to my computer.

The last time I had to deal with them I had a dual-boot laptop. These days Windows is a virtual guest installation, so using it to wake up the modem wasn't an option: it can't access the hardware that directly.

The more I hear about the Windows Vista EULA, License and configuration, the more I dread having to put that turkey on any machine I work with. Fortunately, most of my clients are big companies who are slow to roll out new configurations (some are still using Win2K) so my WinXP installation should be adequate for a while.

And with any luck, Vista will tank so badly that MS will have to replace it with something more civilized.

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