Chris

Gah.  I need to find information on the laws in the US, and in Oregon, for how businesses must store credit card data in their databases -- encryption, length of time, whatever the hell.

I'm in the process of Googling this now, but if someone happens to know off the top of their head where some good info is, that'd be awesome.

Unrelated project: syncing Firefox's custom dictionary between computers.

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Randomness.

* I've ordered two miniature smoke alarms, so that I can hack at least one of them apart and make it better.  I just need a teensy battery and a teensy LED or similar, and I will be happeh.  Also maybe a spring or something.  Not sure yet.

* I really really want an alternative to phpMyAdmin.  I like GUI; I like web-based; I am disenchanted with the clunkiness of it all.  For example, why on earth do I get a new window when I click Edit next to SQL?  Are we not in the AJAXy future?

* I now have two projects pages -- one for work, and one for myself.  For the latter, between that wiki page and my "projects" tag here, I should be good for always-available mental distractions.

* I kind of want an email-capable phone.

* I also kind of want a way to script scanning things in on this HP Scanjet flatbed scanner.

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I found what I want to knit for Josh's mom:



I just need silver beads, instead of purple - the yarn I have is a very rich periwinkle, so silver would work nicely.

* Rubí brandy is also a bit more potent than what I usually get.  Good morning, hangover.  Banishing with coffee, water, ibuprofen, and an icepack, yay.

* Shit like this is why I generally prefer to learn about the world via feminist blogs.  Insofar as the Daily Mail has anything to do with the world.

* Okay so, where would I go to find good fanfic, in the worlds I like?  As in, I realise there's likely no one place that only has good fanfic... hm.  I suppose, help me craft good search terms and find good repositories for fanfic.

* Today's plans - getting this wireless card to be both recognised and useful, investigating whether the reasoning behind "if you (a man) have slept with a man, or you've slept with a man who has done the same, no blood donation for you!" is sound, DS9, reading up on Google Docs, some cleaning.

Things.

* Website work is going well.  I'm learning a lot about PHP, which is nice.  Hee, three pages of to-dos.  Once those are done, I will be beyond pleased.  Nay, smug.

* Swelling-or-wtfever is down.  Still gonna investigate a dentist.  Still feeling mildly dizzy.

* Balance email totally matched what I have.  This is because I am awesome.  I now know exactly what I have, and what I can spend, and so forth.  Future iteration: create that faux-account nonsense.  Future == after another fortnight or so.

* I am trying to spritz my plant every morning.  It likes humidity, so I do what I can.  Note: must put hand towel on wall.  If I can keep this alive, then I'll look into another plant.  No more acquiring plants just because they're pretty.

Though maybe mint; as heinleinfan can attest to, mint will grow even if all you do is look at it cross-eyed once a year.  Plus penghuin likes mint juleps, so that's one use for 'em.

* I'm trying to use my projects tag more, so when I'm in want of something different to do, I can click the tag and see what's been in my head for the past [n] months.  V. pleasant.

* Also, knowing just how little I have sometimes makes me a bit upset with myself.  But, I made that additional reconciliation column, so now I know exactly what I have available.  Future iteration will combine this actual-money concept with an artificial-accounts thing, so I don't need to open anything else.

* I think that if I manage to set up a watering reminder and actually follow it for a while, then I'll let myself get another plant.  No more pretties until I can take care of the one I have.

Though it is notable that my current plant still lives.

Fret: what if I miswater my plant?  Response: get better.

* I kind of want a scooter.  Not like now, more like ever.  It'd be nice to not be tied to the bus if I want to do things like visit Josh for some of the day, or go out to the bar, or whatever.  Or my arms hurt and I want to go grocery shopping.  Or I want to go to the coast.  So, for my way-future reference.

...why have I never considered shoe boxes for holding yarn before?

- I got to be in my land again!  I mapped out why I could never get anywhere from this one direction (it was walled off, apparently - nobody tells me anything), and I got to go shopping a bit.  The store looks a bit different every time I go.  I can't recall off-hand what it was I bought.

- This-all is because I took valerian, I figure.  I'm slowly starting to consider it to be a gateway drug - that being, a drug that takes me through that gateway, waha.  It also only lets me sleep for about six hours before it wakes me right the fuck up.  I slept more, and now I am beyond tired.

- I think I'm going to donate a bunch of my one-skein-at-best balls of yarn to this local thrift store (that specifically asks for yarn).  It's not useful for much else, to be honest, but I don't want to throw it away...  Or I'll post it to Freecycle or something, who knows.

- I want to stay in this process of processing yarn.  Right now, I have one bunch ready to be washed, one ready to be skeinified, and a box that is slowly filling up with yarn.  Tonight, I'll bust out a grocery bag for the <1ball balls of yarn.  I am dedicated to an empty closet.

- I covet this swift.  Covet.  That and a C-clamp.  COVET.

- Once I ever get a laptop that functions as a laptop, I'm idly contemplating turning this TV set I have (don't ask) into a just-a-movie-player thing, using my current busted-ass laptop and... whatever cables are involved.

- This Sunday, I'll be getting an actual bed!  With like a frame and everything!  More impetus to clean my room tomorrow.  It's otherwise fine, just cluttered with yarn, and I want to sweep a bit.  And then I'm getting more sweaters!  All this from trista, who (a) is awesome and (b) will be moving to town soon omg omg yay.

#1: Unofficial Ballot Returns – November 4, 2008 General Election – Oregon

I will be dropping off my ballot tomorrow, most likely, at which point I will become a statistic. *pleased*

#2: Copied from a comment I made here: "Some day, when I have time and infinite money, I want to devise something like Oh No Robot (comic strip transcription thing) for online videos and podcasts.  Maybe a wiki or something, so that anyone can contribute easily."

For example, Amanda at Pandagon posted a video in this post. So you you grab the URL from the YouTube video and plug it in at The Site(r). It grabs the video ID from the URL and redirects you to a page that has the current transcript for that video. If there's no transcript, you can create one, &c &c.

(For Vimeo videos, you can right-click on the title to copy the link. Hulu I don't know, I can't get videos to load for that one. Google Video, you can go to the GV page directly, then copy the URL.)

Hrm.

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On developing patience.

Yeah yeah yeah.