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Getting ready for anniversary dinner at Bridgetown Grill which is
ironically across the street from the office we just moved away
from. This has been a Carribean food day for me, since I got lunch at
Kool Korner grocery, right by Georgia Tech. I was in that part of town
dropping off the yard sale stuff at the Salvation [...]
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Although I have seen it referenced many times from Doc Searls’ weblog,
this weekend is the first time I have read Rageboy’s Weblog. What
brought that about is that I bought a copy of his book Gonzo Marketing
on tape at BookEars on Friday
(in the $0.99 bin - sorry RB). One of the first things I saw was [...]
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Here is a highly pointless excercise: a fantasy market trading shares in
weblogs. As popularity waxes and wanes, the shares go up and down
(I guess, I don’t know.) I am willing to waste time on silly and
pointless pursuits, but other than a brief academic interest, I shan’t
be spending any time fooling with this.
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A couple of quick posts about blog stuff. One is from Larry Hammer on
DM, which is a Brunching
Shuttlecocks generator of contentless weblog posts. I’ve been
guilty of writing more than a few of these, so I have no room to be
too catty.
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Today is our 13th wedding anniversary. People told us it was unwise to
get married at age 12, but it has worked out just fine.
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On to the post about Maurice’s
BBQ. What got me thinking about this was that my father-in-law
brought some of the sauce with him on a visit. Somewhere in the last
few years, they have added the rebel flag on the bottle. I guess once
they’ve been pulled from all the store shelves, there is nothing worse
that can happen [...]
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Teresa Nielsen-Hayden writes a harrowing essay about harrowing
essay about the covering nature of executives in over their heads
- specifically about the commander-in-chief but broadly about many
people of this sort. I happen to have some above me in organizations
and I recognized the description as being all to accurate. Beware the
executives that substitute bluster for reason - [...]
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I was googling on an old Usenet post of mine to talk about Maurice
Bessinger, the man who runs the Maurice’s BBQ empire. Before I get
into that, I found a post of mine in that same thread that I really
like. When I want to I can be quite sensible. The link to the actual
post is this
but [...]
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Turns out I misinformed my people in the Atlanta Science Fiction Society about
the times - it really was supposed to be from 10 to 3 but I think I
told people 8:30 to noon (not sure why I thought that.) As it turned
out, most of the business I did was by 10 or 10:30 anyway. If [...]
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I just tried to do the Trackback to Craig Hughes’ disgruntlement post
but got an empty page. Perhaps it doesn’t do what I think it is
supposed to do. I’m certainly full to the brim of thoughts of why my
days are not what I want them to be and whether that means I should
spend enormous amounts of [...]
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After having 90 minutes to soak in, this Craig Hughes thing is every
more spookily relevant and absolutely true. My company is having one
of those Friday afternoon beer bashes at 4 PM, so I’ll leave at 3:50
PM. I just plain don’t feel like sitting around looking at people like
I’m happy to be here. God help me, [...]
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Here is a very interesting piece about why
are my life and career not what I want by Craig Hughes of SpamAssassin fame. Jesus, this
was tough reading. While the specifics differ (my company wasn’t
acquired and I didn’t found it with requisite cash influx and my wife
isn’t pregnant) the issues he raises, the lying in bed on [...]
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The yard sale isn’t until tomorrow and yet I’ve already made over $50,
just selling books out of my trunk to coworkers. This means that I’ve
already broken even on the fees I paid to ABE to never actually sell a
book. I need to just cancel that account posthaste to make sure I
don’t rack up any more [...]
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My friend Mark Bourne had an op-ed piece about what
not to do while protesting the war printed in the Oregonian
yesterday. Apparently this was read in its entirety on the Rush
Limbaugh show yesterday, with full attribution and all. I’d be curious
to know what the commentary was, being that the piece is all about how
protesting the war [...]
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I’m going for something that I’ve been thinking about for a while but
haven’t done. I’m installing Subversion on my Linux
box. It is (supposed to be) a drop-in replacement for CVS that has some pretty nice
features. Subversion isn’t based on the file the way CVS is, but has
some notion of the metadata surrounding a project. This [...]
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Things are at a low ebb here. After a beautiful day, the weather has
turned cold and rainy. I’m sitting in the office when really I’d
rather be anywhere but here. Every day I hear about people dying in
Iraq on either side that didn’t have to at all. I’m trying to dig deep
into those inner reserves of [...]
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I have changed my mind about this ABE Books thing. I have had 40
books up there for over a month and at this moment absolutely nothing
has happened. I had to make the decision to either get much more
involved and put in a few hundred books or to cut bait and not waste
any more time on [...]
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One mystery is solved on the weblog. Several people told me about the
fact that my tables where waaaay wide, but when I looked at individual
pages, that wasn’t the case. I tracked it down to this page and the SpamAssassin rules surrounded
by the <pre> tag. Oops. I broke it up into multiple lines and
thus it is [...]
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As I was sitting here this morning a link was IM’d by my coworker
Darin, one to a discussion called Rule
Number Four: Great People Can Manage Themselves from Joel on
Software. This discussion comes from the fact that Google more or
less lets developers manage themselves. My take on this is right in
the center of opinions of what [...]
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From my friend Kevin comes this nugget: Major Music Labels
Use Artificial Intelligence To Help Determine “Hitability” Of
Music. It’s an interesting coincidence that the day he forwarded
me this link, I had been in the gym listening to Queen bootlegs and
wondering if it would be possible to do a Bayesian net on guitar
sounds and identify the features [...]
