August 2005

So the Shut­tle is down safe­ly. I can’t help feel­ing that the media are some­how sub­tly dis­ap­point­ed. Tragedy seems to be “bet­ter” news than joy…

I did a few hun­dred words in my NiP last night. Not any­where near as many as I’d’ve liked to, though. It just was­n’t flowin’. Hope­ful­ly it’ll be bet­ter tonight; I’m done one chap­ter and on to the next one.

Reject­ed. Again. F&SF does­n’t want “Out­side, Look­ing In”. So… who’s next? Per­haps I’ll shoot for Inter­zone. (Actu­al­ly, I think I will.)

I’ll post more lat­er this week­end. I have fam­i­ly in town, so I should hang out with them.

First off: <geek>Duh. chmod.</geek>

Sor­ry. I was strug­gling with a PHP script that was sup­posed to upload an image to a serv­er. It would upload fine, but then it would­n’t allow me to copy the file from the tem­po­rary loca­tion to the loca­tion where I want­ed it. It was throw­ing an error relat­ed to per­mis­sions. Tonight I got the bright idea to set the direc­to­ry’s per­mis­sions (using the delight­ful­ly arcane *nix com­mand chmod, for change mode) so that the direc­to­ry’s own­er and group had write per­mis­sions. Boy howdy, what­taya­know, it worked.

Sor­ry, that’s still a lit­tle geeky, isn’t it.

Well, it’s things like that that have tak­en up the last cou­ple hours of my life. chmod this, track down that miss­ing }, try to fig­ure out if I’ve closed all my open brack­ets (not that PHP will leave me guess­ing, no, it’ll throw errors quite happily).

But now, I think, most of the hard part is done. There’s one more major sec­tion to do, and I hope I can get it done this week some­time. Then I can get back to work on my NiP. (After I crit the entries in Kei­th’s SF chal­lenge, that is.)

Every­body havin’ fun out there?