the update: i am back from cambodia, readjusting to regular life. except it is anything but regular. my laptop died upon arrival (thankgod for pretrip hard drive backup) thus bringing my euphoric state of ubiquitous computing to a screeching halt.…
i’ve got a nagging headache. i’ve been trying to redesign the revenue portion of our financial database at work. i worked on it straight for a week before cambodia, until i had this nagging problem with negative expenses. well i…
all i wanted to do today was sit down and work on a java servlet assignment. however due to various impediments (no laptop, can’t install java sdk on work computer, can’t access workspace via AFS, can’t access workspace via ftp,…
back to working on my web application/java servlet assignment. let’s hope things go better today. having dinner with eric s. raymond at mama dips tonight. that’s pretty wild. i should go grab a copy of the cathedral and the bazaar…
i have a completely stupid intractable decision to make. do i remain in adv www programming or do i drop it? basically it has come down to a question of ranking the benefit of getting 3 more credit hours this…
apparently my system board was fried and the hard drive is aok. so strange! this is good, cause there was *1* file on there that I didn’t have a copy of anywhere else. so the guy has replaced the board…
I traveled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia in January 2003 to do work for the USAID Mission there. Mountains over Alaska
Blogging Goes Big-Time I’m not sure this is such a good idea. I mean, I’m sure Evan Williams and Pyra and the blogging community think it rocks, but is this really smart for Google or blogging in general? We don’t…
synthesizing them in interesting ways. not having a car is sort of a disability. yet having a car is a financial burden. my mozilla web browser has been sporadically making the sound i’m programmed to respond to when new email…
so it just finally occurred to me how perfect it is that us info and lib science kids have been having our thursday afternoon happy hour at “The Library” (on franklin st). guess i just missed that whole librarians-library connection…
went to duke today to see jack valenti, ceo and president of the mpaa, give a speech about the moral imperative of not copying digital material. i on the other hand feel that copying digital material is an absolute moral…
wicked cool art porn – is the smut on the canvas or in our heads? #
just watched a lovely trailer for a new movie called “all the real girls” #
Pay Score Brownie Points $47 every other month and they will send you (you presumably being male) a gift to give to your honey every other month. The site is not too subtley advertised as a way to get sex from women with presents. #
check out these “ready.gov” parodies. too freakin funny! #
and now you know about the largest furry/anthropomorphic artwork and story library on the internet #