Worked today, not because I’m such a lame workaholic, but because I’m taking Friday off: I cashed in some air miles to visit Susan. Alaska Air really does have a good program: eight trips to the Bay Area or so, booked online, earned me one saver ticket. When booking two weeks ago, I couldn’t get a ticket for the Labour day weekend but with a bit of work schedule juggling that hasn’t proven a hardship.

The transition of this web site is pretty much complete. I was wrestling with people and bots still having links to old pages until I discovered that mod_rewrite and the magic of regular expressions neatly solved this problem. So now the archives are all back, along with the old syndication link, and for the most part I think I’ve worked out all the other linking issues.

Hyperlinking just isn’t all that, is it? You’d think we’d have come up with something less transitory than just strings and filenames by now. Really I just want to point at “that page with that picture of that outdoor pavilion in Korea”, no matter where it ends up, rather than have to remember to fix pictures/korea/gyeonghoeru.html when I move things around. Surprisingly Microsoft seemed to be scratching the surface with WinFS, although disappointingly Longhorn won’t have it, and who knows when the idea will propagate to the web.

Drove up to Vancouver Saturday, came back yesterday - first time I’ve driven such a long distance. No incidents to report. I discovered that I’m a more aggressive driver than imagined - seems I’m incapable of doing less than 60 MPH in the slow lane on I-5, and so ended up spending a lot of time doing 80 in the fast lane instead. As for the trip itself, it was really a iPod smuggling run (Roz wanted one for David), but I did bring back a few boxes of old books - music, David Eddings, and the like.