- Bio
- In real life I am not a gnu, I'm Phil Ehrens. I am the senior software developer of the data analysis subsystem of the [Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory].
- In early 1995 I threw away my windows installation media and my copies of microsoft word and a few other things and went completely Linux. Eight years later I have no reason to regret that decision!
- I once said this:
- "Everyone else is envisioning a future of 32-bit deep
bump-mapped lizard-skin scrollbars that adapt to the lusers
mood by imperceptibly alpha-blending through a range of
chromatic combinations not repeating in 3^18 years.
Needs hardware acceleration, anaglyptic glasses, and 2 aspirin."
Wiki Notes:
- February 15, 2003
- This Wiki is now running a variation of [UseModWiki] that I have hacked up pretty good. I removed about 20% of the code from the 0.92 release and added extra support for presenting source code and visual markup.
- I am working on a Wiki in C that is functionally equivalent to this one but does not rely on Apache at all, it just runs as a server by itself and only handles Wiki requests.
- Why am I going to this trouble? Because I want to see a Wiki with a good feature set that can run on an embedded server. I like the Wiki paradigm and I want it to be accessible everywhere.
- December 7, 2002
- Out of growing disgust with the poor structure of the Tcl based Wiki, I am converting to [UseModWiki]. This is a Perl based Wiki that is very well written in spite of being written in Perl ;^)
- Right now, it's running under mod_perl and looking pretty good!
- September 11, 2002
- There used to be lots of enthusiastic twaddle about the Tcl WIki here, but the darn thing is a dinosaur, IMHO, since it requires the loading of several Mb off of disk every time it is run and the parsing and compiling of a massive chunk of code. Not only that, it was a Huge Pain to modify the source OR to fix a broken page.
My friend, Carlos Amantea, got mentioned in the
[Times Literary Supplement] (200k gif image, see the second article in the section)
Some great books:
- Anatomy Of Melancholy - by Robert Burton - 17th century classic of medicine and the occult. Primary source for many modern works.
- Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World- by Murakami Haruki. Postmodern my ass. This is perhaps the most significant novel of the last twenty years...
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