Archive | 2002

Post dated 2002-08-23 00:00:00

Friday, August 23, 2002



Slate says the music industry’s impending downfall is its own fault.

Sent an email to 40 of my “closest friends and associates” that “Amazon needed their help” in getting some 5-star reviews of my book posted. We’ll see if I get any takers. Or fakers. Or both.

Already got a couple of replies. Let’s see what it does for my sales rank. Probably nothing — that requires people to actually buy the book. All those folks already owned it.

Post dated 2002-08-22 00:00:00

Thursday, August 22, 2002



Open Magazine features Twiki software. Glad to see the package getting more play. Looking forward to RSS type features in it.

Lost the data on my Handspring the other day, and maybe this time I should leave it lost. It’s not bad enough to try to keep up with all the software updates and all, but it just dies. Two nights ago at a UG meeting, I used it to write down some important stuff (don’t ask me what – that’s why I wrote it down!). When I turned on the machine it told me it was low on power and should be Hot Synched as soon as possible. Yeah, well, it should have told me that before I left home. It said 8% power, so I used it to write down something, maybe a couple somethings, and turned it off. It’s in a hard shell case, so I doubt it was left on. The next morning I take it out to dutifully hot synch it and… it won’t. I try a couple of times, sometimes the cradle is a little loose. I use the Synch app directly to try to force it to do a local sync. Nada. Hit the cancel button and the unit turns itself off. I turn it on. Cancel button’s still darkened like it is depressed, Mousedown. Off. On. Off. On… fine. I hit the reset key and it turns the screen into a glitter of random pixels. Fine. I put it down for a few hours so I don’t hurl it against the wall. I remove the batteries. I left it there.

Man, life on the bleeding edge hurts some times.

It looks like Robert X. Cringeley has figured out the ASP model in his most recent column. I saw it in action at http://www.BugCentral.com, and I believe.

Wednesday, August 21, 2002

Chris Browne has some interesting links to xBase database technology and formats here.

Growing up in New England (weather) must scar one for life.

The battle of the biggies: in this link Sam Ruby pits Doc Searls, Dave Winer, Lawrence Lessig, Josh Allen and Tim O’Reilly, in a single sentence. Talk about name dropping. Everyone seems to be up in arms about what everyone else is saying about what everyone else said about copyright. Boy, am I confused!

Found another contestant in the email biz today: Pegasus Email and Mercury Mail Transport are free. Manuals and support are extra, but pretty reasonable, too.

Post dated 2002-08-20 00:00:00

Tuesday, August 20, 2002



Tonight is the first meeting of the New England Info Security User Group, run by former co-worker Brad Dinerman. Official kick-off is the September meeting, so we’ll see how this one goes. Getting a demo from SonicWall on their firewall products tonight. Should be fun.

Post dated 2002-08-18 00:00:00

Sunday, August 18, 2002



Sunday. Spent the morning digging yuck out from between the floorboards upstairs and scribbing them down with bleach. It seems this was a place the dogs used to like to mark, and now it seems wet and slimy. Hopefully killed the mold.

Assembled the last three porch screens today and got them out to the porch. Assmbly was too much to consider in the heat today. Yet another 100 degree day.

The folks over at Twiki.org are trying to add in Rich Site Summary (RSS) information that would make it easier to have sites produce summary information that could be aggregated. Jon Udell explains some of what this means here. The Twiki folks are working here.

Thursday, August 15, 2002

Steve and I saw “Signs” today. What a good film.

Sent out some invoices and signed contracts. Always a good thing.

Continuing to research feasibility of email book. We’ll see.

Updated some sections on the SourceSafe wiki.

New Service Pack 6 for SourceSafe 6.0, “The Last of the Six-Oh Apps Standing,” although VB die-hards might disagree with me.

Hot night, too hot to sleep. Going to add Breaking Windows to my when-I-get-around-to-reading list. And perhaps The Innovator’s Dilemma, too.

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