One of the classes I am taking right now is a Perl class. I am digging it. For my first set of labs, I put my scripts on our brendoman.com servers and they worked fine. Check it. Nothing exciting, really. Our second set of labs use the CGI.pm module (yeah, all you non-geeks can tune out now) and those scripts won't work here. No idea why. I would take the time to figure all that out with Dreamhost but I have a deadline so I dusted off the old Tripod account and uploaded them there. Tripod is actually pretty nice if you are doing Perl. You can edit your files right in the file manager, it sets the permissions for you, and it displays any errors in an easy to read format. The web pages you host there are litterd with ads, but not .pl files. So until I figure things out with Dreamhost, I'm sticking with Tripod. Check out my first form script here. Here's hoping I get an A.

This Slashdot article is crazy. It's only a matter of time before an armed automated module is created, stolen by or sold to someone, and we're discussing the "Great Voltron War of 2019." Seriously.

When I finally got on board with podcasts a little while back, one that I subscribed to was KEXP's Song of the Day. As the title suggests, it features a single song every day, usually from very obscure independent artists. I thought it would be a great way to discover new music. Most of the songs I could take or leave, but every once in a while I hear one that I love.

Thursday featured one of those songs. Micah P. Hinson's "She Don't Own Me" grabbed me from the first notes (I'm a sucker for banjo), and has just grown better with repeated listens. I found a site where you can preview four of his other songs. As soon as I have the money, I've got to buy that album.