Monday, January 12, 2004

I dreamt last night that I was travelling across the country with Patrick and my brother. We were staying in a motel room which had a very uneven floor. Some time after we had gotten settled, I noticed some water leaking across the floor forming a trickle of a river. It was steadily growing and I called urgently to them for help as I moved our belongings out of the way of the water. Within a few seconds, however, the source of the water blew open into a jet of water steadily streaming into the room.—Life cereal for breakfast. Patrick took Jason Baum on a tour of Chinatown today. I brought 3 phalenopsis orchid plants that I repotted yesterday to work so that they'll have more sun and hopefully grow some flowers. Student directory on the web: started working on graceful cookie rejection handling—tricky to resolve because session cookies aren't visible as files in the file system and because PHP doesn't give a flag along with the session_start to let you know whether the cookie was accepted or rejected—you're on your own. Session cookies seem to be stored in RAM but I could not easily find information on the Web to confirm that. Read A List Apart. Stopped at the grocery on the way home for mozzarella. Dinner at home with Patrick: boboli with the remainder of our Niman Ranch ham, mozzarella, tarragon. Installed some Linux updates which messed up my ftp configuration. Tried figuring it out but my conf file looked fine and I eventually gave up. Been continuing to read Cryptonomicon on the bus—thanks, Chris and Nate!