Monday, September 02, 2002
Happy Labor Day! Great articles and information on http://www.afl-cio.org, http://www.uaw.org (parent of my National Writers Union) and http://www.unionlabel.org.
Archive | 2002
Post dated 2002-09-01 00:00:00
Sunday, September 01, 2002
September came in like a lion. It was forty degrees this morning, the coldest it’s been since April or so. Brrrrrr!
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Post dated 2002-08-31 00:00:00
Saturday, August 31, 2002
Last day in August – time to generate the calendar for September! Step-daughter Belynda comes up today to spend the day with us at the fair.
Post dated 2002-08-30 00:00:00
Friday, August 30, 2002
TGIF. Friday and the Hopkinton State Fair is going on well. A rainy start yesterday, but today is sunny and not too warm. Hope they have a good weekend.
Post dated 2002-08-29 00:00:00
Thursday, August 29, 2002
Baby bro’ Joe turns three dozen today. Happy Birthday!
Post dated 2002-08-28 00:00:00
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
No, really, I was looking for something practical when I ran into Learn Tetris in 21 Days [Link: http://www.lstud.ii.uib.no/~s977/darkside/tetris/ gone]. What a hoot! It’s a lot more likely you’ll master the game than, say “Learn C++ in 21 Days.”
Still not taken seriously, we are, hmm?
Keep meaning to add Hopkinton, NH to my personal web page. [Ed: irony. 13 years later, when I go to update the post, the URL is no longer valid. The replacement URL is no longer valid. I had to Google it.]
Paul Graham, co-author of what is now Yahoo! Stores, on Beating the averages. Substitute FoxPro for Lisp and I agree with him.
Post dated 2002-08-26 00:00:00
Monday, August 26, 2002
Searching for remote control software for clients. NetOp Remote was the pick of this PC Magazine review. However, friends also recommend I check out Radmin from Famatech. Looks impressive!
In considering a book about email, my complaint has always been “The Answers Are Out There,” yeah, I know, not original, but true. Here’s an example, explaining the structure of mail files. However, “out there” and put together in a comprehensive whole, if possible, is another matter.
Peter Coffee is sick and tired and he’s not going to take it anymore. Read his column on “Apollo 11, the 747 and .Net? No Way”. Way to go.
Post dated 2002-08-25 00:00:00
Sunday, August 25, 2002
Man, am I sore. Spent the afternoon trimming the hedges around Roche Manor. 95% done 🙂
Had another brief call from Whil, refining his ideas. The boy never stops!
Homebrew movies latest cinematic genre according to this CNN article.
An interesting study of Free/Libre/Open Source Software conducted by the International Institute of Infonomics, part of the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. FLOSS is a cute acronym. I wonder if they’ll prove it fights cavities or prevents plaque build-up.
Post dated 2002-08-24 00:00:00
Saturday, August 24, 2002
Yet another Saturday working on the house. Installed the last of the screens for the porch. End of the first major DIY job and I still have all my fingers. There were a hundred things I really wanted to do better, do over, do differently, but the goal is to get the job done. Always a tough lesson for a perfectionist. It’s said that the project manager’s job is to know when to shoot the engineer and ship the project. Bang.
Spent hours on the phone with my publisher and friend, Whil Hentzen, planning and plotting “What Comes Next.” No answers, mainly questions.