PHP and waxy pencil

[avram]

Yesss!! I’ve got Apache up and running, I’ve got PHP working, I’ve got my kickass development environment going again!

Jaguar has some differences in its firewall setup that I hadn’t noticed at first that were keeping me from being able to serve pages from my laptop. (I’ve got it set up so it’ll only serve them to the laptop as well — when they’re ready for public view I upload them to a public server.) The httpd.conf file that comes with Jaguar is missing a few lines necessary for getting PHP working. I added them in by hand, but PHP still wouldn’t run, not even after I restarted Apache. But today it’s running, so maybe I just needed to reboot.

This is prep work for getting my various domains and websites centralized on Blogomania. I’m going to be moving the hosting and registration for grumer.org over there soon, and that’s not only the domain I use for email, it’s also where I’m keeping the image files I post here, so there may be some instability there for a few days.

I picked up a new pencil at Pearl today — a General’s “Wet-Proof” 881, supposedly water-resistant so you can use watercolors over it without having to spray fixative all over the pencil drawing first. Seems to work; probably just a greasy or waxy graphite mix. I should have gone darker in the pencil sketch.

Comments

[snippy]

I find your discussion of art and art tools fascinating. I am taking my first drawing class and enjoying it immensely; two classes on pencil drawing (contour lines), two on charcoal, and last night the first of two using ink, with a brush and a stick (yes, a stick from a tree). It's a very basic class, titled "So you think you can't draw?" with a wide variety of style and ability. And I do want to express some thanks to you, as reading in your journal the mundane explanations of what you've been doing and trying helped me decide to do and try some stuff myself.