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I just feel down, not physically but spiritually. Work is grinding me
to a nub of the man I once was and entirely pointlessly. With minimal
changes everything could be great but instead they suck. I also am
involved in a moral argument with my old time radio group because they
are trading copies of Ruby Galactic Gumshoe from [...]
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I can see what people say about the days getting longer. I’ve been
here for 9 hours, but I could swear it feels like 18. I really think I
missed my calling - I’d make a great idle rich bastard. I never get
bored and can always find something to occupy my time. Where is my
trust fund?
Shortly I’ll [...]
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Not much to say today. I spent very nearly all day today from 8 AM to
5 PM in the “zone”, coding some stuff using Cayenne. I like this
thing - it’s a pretty good middleware O/R layer. Now that the learning
curve has been climbed I’m doing pretty well.
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Wowza! Here’s one that would be hard to believe except that it is easy
to believe: Windows XP
can be booted without a password if you have a Windows 2000
CD. Microsoft is downplaying it, but this is really bad. Any
janitor with one of these CDs can go nuts in any office, breaking into
computers at will.
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This is something writer
Bill Shunn posted in his group on SFF.net. He said it was making the
e-mail rounds but I’ve never gotten it this way. I can tell it is a
pretty good spoof, because when I forwarded it to myself for posting
here, SpamAssassin caught it as Nigerian spam.
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED : HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
FROM: GEORGE [...]
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Having finished my book, I believe the next one I’m reading is Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic
Kingdom. I just read
an interview with Cory on SF
Revu.
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Here’s one I found on Slashdot: an interesting
story about a group in Berkeley who
perpetrated a historical hoax that got out of hand.
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Here’s an article I saw Tony Isabella post about on Usenet. It’s a
column in the Akron Beacon-Journal about
Harvey Pekar and Valentine’s Day. I am enough of a Pekar fan to
have most of the run of American Splendor in the comic
books, although I’ll admit I’ve been lax about finding out when these recent
Dark Horse mini-series [...]
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Our Roomba is currently going
to town in the dining room. We had used it in the hall as a test the
other day, and today we actually got around to picking all the stuff
up to allow it to do some real rooms. It did a darn fine job in our
living room/family room area. The only bit [...]
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Here’s a news item forward by my punk buddy Jonny X (leader of a
band that was a former band of the day): A story about a
startup that is staying alive by frugality. The company is Oddpost, a joint that does a web
based e-mail app that is supposedly much more usable than hotmail or
yahoo or the [...]
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I just marked my reading in the AlexLit Recommender. I was one of
the early users of this system (can it be over 5 years now? Wow, time
flies!) and like I mentioned a moment ago, it’s a way for the machines
to make a task easier - in this case finding reading that will
interest you. It is [...]
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I just finished A Fire Upon the Deep a few minutes
ago. I really enjoyed it the whole time I read it, but it took almost
three months to finish it. I never stopped reading it but it was just
slow going. It was kind of a relief to finish it, actually. What I
read was the special
annotated eBook [...]
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Here’s an interesting thing I ran across while reading Slashdot. There is a massively
multiplayer game launching today called A Tale in the Desert. It is
combatless and when you play, you are a character in ancient Egypt
trying to better yourself and civilation. It sounds like a combination
of Civilization and The Sims. I’d be interested but there’s [...]
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Valentine’s was pretty good. Rather than brave traffic and crowds, it
was carryout pizza and rented movies. We watched the surfer chick
movie Blue Crush which was kind of formula cheese but
which I enjoyed. I kind of liked how different the goals were of the
film from typical guy sports movies. Those are always about acheiving
victory over others, [...]
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Here’s a weird site: one devoted to the question “do Asians really all look the
same?” I took the test and scored 7 out of 18, one better than
statistics say a chimp should be able to do by sheer guessing. What
was odd that while taking it I was sure I was doing much better than
that.
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My ABE stuff is turned on. You can now go directly to my
“bookstore” page. You can even search on my inventory, which at
this moment is a whopping two books. I wanted to make sure it was all
working before I went nuts typing stuff in. Over the weekend I should
put more in. I’m going to [...]
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Valentine’s day. I already have one, so it’s a pretty pleasant day for
me. Back in the first 20 odd years of my life, it was consistently a
day that left me depressed and lonely. Thankfully those days are gone.
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Watching ER is especially tough lately. I don’t particularly like the
show much lately and the subject matter frequently hits too close to
home.
I’m done making the copies of the first disc of the Zevon. I have to
edit the silence out of the tracks and then burn disc two. Maybe if I
bust it I can send them [...]
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Here’s a couple of turns of phrase that always bug me and I seem to
only run across online. First is “For some values of _____”. This
seems to be common in Usenet posts, exchanges like “Bob Writer is
really good” rebutted by “For some values of good”. What a load of
crap. Can there be a more annoying [...]
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A little good news - my friend Kelley Eskridge, a woman who
I dearly love and about whose book Solitaire I raved
about when I read it (the two facts are quite independent as there are
plenty of people I like personally but don’t care for their fiction) -
is on the final ballot for the 2002 Nebula
award. I [...]
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