Musings

I’m doing a lot of quite complex Domino development at the moment. I’m using Hide-When functionality to hide/show pieces of HTML based on various conditions of the document I’m working with. It’s a pain to maintain, because it ain’t clear what lines are hidden under what conditions. Then it hit me: Why not use color-coding in the form to show what’s hidden when: Red Bold: is hidden when editing (it’s bold because otherwise I don’t see it as a color blind person) Green is hidden for reading Blue is hidden with a formula Grey for stuff that is always hidden ...

Finally an explanation of the world at large - and parts of it detail. Sorry - german text - but I have a feeling, that it’s coming from an original english source… Does anyone know for sure? F: Du, Papa, Warum mußten wir den Irak angreifen? A: Weil sie Massenvernichtungswaffen hatten. F: Aber die Inspektoren haben keine Massenvernichtungswaffen gefunden. A: Weil die Iraker sie versteckt haben. F: Und deshalb haben wir den Irak erobert? A: Ja. Eroberungen funktionieren immer besser als Inspektionen. ...

The Martian NetDrive is exactly the kind of gear I need - both at home and in the office. It’s a small fanless Linux box with a 120GB disk and both wireless and wired LAN capabilities. It acts as a SMB fileserver and the claim is that you unpack it and then plug it in. Sounds like a plan. And because it’s Linux based it should be easy (according to the a How to turn a Martian NetDrive into another OpenAFS file server document) to hack it. I want two of those machines to rsync their contents over the internet. Perfect distributed backup! ...

While on holidays, I thought a lot about my life and what I can do to improve it. I wrote a couple of pieces that I will post during the next few days. Consider them as personal ramblings. I have decided to to change a few things in my life, and those thoughts reflect on these thing I am trying to change. Maybe they strike a chord with you - maybe they don’t. I post them anyway ;-) ...

I will sleep more! I’m on the second day of our holidays on a camping ground near Venice in Italy. I have just woken up from a quiet nap around noon, at the time where the heat brings all life to a crawl. I feel refreshed and awake - what a difference to this time a week ago, or even three days. This night I slept 7 hours. I went to bed at 23:00 and got up at 6:00 when the alarm clock on my mobile phone woke me up. I spent the first hour of the morning at the beach, running a couple of kilometers along the shore. ...

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