Oh that Magic Feeling, Nowhere to Go
The Beatles summed up my current feelings best in “You Never Give Me Your Money”:
Out of college money spent
See no future pay no rent
All the money’s gone, nowhere to go
Any jobber got the sack
Monday morning, turning back
Yellow lorry slow, nowhere to go
But oh that magic feeling
Nowhere to go
Oh that magic feeling
Nowhere to go, nowhere to [...]
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Home again
This weekend involved a power drive to and from Goldsboro NC. I’m back home, tired but exhausted. Tomorrow is a big day, more on that front later. I didn’t finish Peopleware, but I might tomorrow.
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Peopleware
My team lead Darin has been recommending that I read Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister for at least a year now. I started it tonight and now I know why. Even though the edition I have was written in 1987, about 90% of it reads like it was written by someone in my office. The [...]
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NewsMonster
Here is a geeky tool that I must try, the Mozilla based aggregator NewsMonster. I haven’t used NetNewsWire in weeks now (it has probably expired anyway), and only been using nntp/rss with NewsWatcher. I suspect that for the indefinite future, there will always be some new cool thing to try.
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This is a test
This is only a test, of blogging from Blapp on the Mac OS X box in my house to the new site. This is only a test, and the last time trivial shakedown post. I promise.
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New Home
Welcome to the new server! We be rocking, friends! This should be lots of fun.
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Mary Mac’s
For the first time since we’ve been back in Atlanta, I ate dinner at Mary Mac’s Tea Room on Ponce De Leon. Good southern cooking, but something seemed odd when we walked in, as there were Secret Service agents stationed right by the cash register and some more by the back door. As it turns [...]
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It Matters
Via Mark Bourne’s newsgroup comes this link to an article by Sister Joan Chichester that asks the question Is There Anything Left That Matters?. She makes many eloquent points:
And if not, why not? If not, surely there is something as wrong with us as citizens, as thinkers, as Christians as there must be with some [...]
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Housewarming for the new digs
If you see this message, that means you are reading the new RackShack hosted version of this weblog. If you aren’t, then you are seeing the old one but you don’t know that.
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RackShack Deal Done
Super busy, very little blogging. I did pull the trigger on the RackShack deal, and now I have my own rented whole server box. Shortly this weblog and all evilgeniuscorp.com stuff will move there, but no one should notice or I’ve done something wrong.
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Pirate Game
Here’s a personal admission: I’ve always had a weakness for pirates. Something about them, bloodthirsty and violent as they are, just gets the excitement of a young man going. I see on today’s Steve Jackson Games Daily Illuminator that there will be a rendition of Evil Stevie’s Pirate Game at this year’s Origins con. If [...]
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Maynard Jackson, RIP
Maynard Jackson, the first black person to be mayor of Atlanta, has died of a heart attack at the age of 65. He was the graduation speaker when I graduated from Georgia Tech. For all his faults, he is mostly responsible for making this city into the economic power that it is now.
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RackShack
I do believe that I’m going to set me up an account with RackShack. For roughly 10X what I am paying for my account with Hurricane Electric, I can rent a whole server box. I’ve already found several guys willing to sublet some space on this box from me. Some coworkers use a RackShack box [...]
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B. D. Wong interview
I heard an interesting interview with B. D. Wong (an actor I’ve always liked) on WREK the last two weeks. It’s ona program newish to their line called This Way Out, which focuses on gay and lesbian issues. I had not realized till I heard this show that Wong is gay. Part one was two [...]
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Painting really sucks
Another weekend of nonstop home improvement. Nothing makes an unbearable day job seem merely lousy like spending your weekends painting every door in your house, caulking cracks in the ceiling and tidying ones office. Help!
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Contingency design
Cory Doctrow presents notes from Jason “37 Signals” Fried’s talk at Reboot. Interesting stuff related to dealing with errors in web interfaces. Of course people will push the button twice sometimes, what do you do then? My wife once made an order for scientific supplices twice because of the way Netscape handles printing - [...]
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MacCVS Client
I’ve just downloaded today and played around with MacCVSClient. It is a semi-graphical frontend to the venerable CVS client. From their promotional docs on the webpage:
A free multithreaded CVS client with Mac OS look and feel. It shows your sandbox in an intuitive hierarchical list view so that you are aware of every file’s status [...]
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Doggie Portraits
Whilst buying coffee at the San Francisco Coffee on N. Highland, we saw these cute doggie portraits hanging on the walls. I might get this for my wife for a birthday/graduation gift, a portrait of our dog done by Michelle Abeyta. She lives in Decatur, and I’m not sure if you bring the dog to [...]
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Max Cleland Steps Up
Some harsh words of criticism for the Bush regime from former Senator Max Cleland. I wish he was talking like this last fall when I was phone banking for him. I firmly believe he’d still be in office if he had. An excerpt:
What then is the Bush record in fighting the so-called war on [...]
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It’s rough being conquerors
Charlie Stross has interesting comments about the US situation abroad. He talks about the growing anti-US resistance movements in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I wonder if the US administration realises just how familiar this behaviour all looks to anyone with a nodding acquaintance with the history of anti-Nazi resistance movements in occupied Europe sixty years ago. (But [...]
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