Wednesday, 31 July, 2002
There’s an old Bill Cosby routine where he plays Noah and teases his neighbor about the ark is his driveway. “I can’t tell you. Ha, ha, ha.”
Went to the Crabpot in Bellevue with Steve Sawyer, Doug Hennig, Gary DeWitt, Bonnie Berant, Mike Helland and Eric Moore. Nice place, scenic views, good service, [...]
Monday, 29 July, 2002
First day of NET training. Drinking from a firehose. Good material. Brian Randell is knowledgable and funny. Material is good, but complex. Will the average Joe Programmer be able to use this stuff? Time will tell.
Sunday, 28 July, 2002
Long, long, long day travelling to Seattle and dealing with the time zone difference. Great to see old friends, though.
Saturday, 27 July, 2002
A busy Saturday. Did a few domestic things, like mow the lawn and turn over the compost, but goofed off a lot, and spent a fair amount of time packing for the trip to Redmond tomorrow. Woohoo.
Friday, 26 July, 2002
Spent nearly the entire day working at a client. Paid work! Imagine that! Maybe the economy is turning around.
Cringely’s column this week is on eBay. I did not know that eBay was the third largest retailer in the US.
Thursday, 25 July, 2002
Great UG meeting last night.
Darn! I lost text and links again. I am sure I had saved them from Opera. Shut down and restarted today when updating the virus checker, and *poof* no text. Rats.
No recall, either.
The Internet and Interpersonal Relationships has fascinated me since the days of JOIN XYZ conferences on [...]
Wednesday, 24 July, 2002
The fourth Thursday of the month, and time for the Boston Area FoxPro? Users Group meeting tonight.
No need to sweat Social Security, I guess. The BBC says a huge asteroid will destroy the Earth in 2019. However, they’re quite likely mistaken.
Friday is System Administrator Appreciation Day
Some useful links for DNS stuff:
http://www.acmebw.com/resources/
[...]
Tuesday, 23 July, 2002
A great history of Microsoft at http://www.thocp.net/companies/microsoft/microsoft_1975-1998.htm. For example, “11/12/90 Bill Gates unveils his vision of the future of computing in his keynote address,”Information at Your Fingertips,”at Fall/COMDEX ‘90. ”
How to Run a Microsoft-Free Shop and another 12-step article on advocacy, with some good insights, here.
Bill Gates emailed all his friends, except [...]
Monday, 22 July, 2002
James Gleik, author of What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier, spoke on New Hampshire Public Radio this morning. Gleik’s books “Chaos” and “Genius” are among my favorites.
This article on window repair gets added to the HoneyDew list.
Rasterman says “Windows has won. Face it.” in this article
