July 2003 Sixty posts

31-Jul-2003

Rereading; 1 Year Ago I’ve been rereading Snow Crash and am nearly done. It is insightful, bawdy, violent, intelligent, mindbending, and funny. I first read it when I moved back to California in about 1994. Damn. Have I been in California 10 years? What an amazing 10 years. Incidentally, I think this is the longest in a row I’ve...

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31-Jul-2003

Party like it’s 1999? Networking On The Rocks! – a San Diego networking thing. I’ve noticed that the “buzz” these days is rather dot-com behavior. Toys at work. CD multimedia presentations delivered in paper magazines. The world seems to be returning to bubble-style nuttiness. Or am I misreading lush Flash presentations promising: Our purpose is to bring Venture Capitalists,...

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30-Jul-2003

A whole bunch of links and I think they all work and are current. But no promises. Environmental collapse with massive casualties? Moblogs Seen as a Crystal Ball for a New Era in Online Journalism Antiword _freeware Microsoft Word document reader/converter Engineer’s focus: accessible technology for all blind fellow and his extraordinary emphasis and unique perspective on accessibility Why Java Should Not Temper ColdFusionML Talents Open Source, Proprietary Code Quality Comparable Cool!...

braindump misc via-blogger
30-Jul-2003

de Facto and de Jure, a meditation in File Formats Ogg Vorbis, beaten by MP3 SVG, beaten by Flash PNG, beaten by JPEG & GIF yeah, this post for geeks only

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30-Jul-2003

I want to remember this Artist & Craftsman Supply – Store Locations, Hours and Contact Info … specifically the one on San Diego Avenue.

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30-Jul-2003

Goodness Had a good mellow day. Sorting out some stuff. Things are busy but good. Lots of email. Had grilled cheese for dinner. Sometimes, it’s about the simple things. Now: bedtime.

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29-Jul-2003

SD .NET Group This looks pretty good: San Diego .NET Developers Group — also added to WebSanDiego.org’s resources for web developers (mostly a list of other local geek networking organizations).

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29-Jul-2003

Relaunch: URM Cargo The former URMCargo dot com will relaunch sometime in the next 12-96 hours as URM Cargo Services (dot com). This was probably the first site I built where I did every piece. The html is old old old school (spacer gifs!), but I made sure it validated and worked and looked right in all browsers....

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29-Jul-2003

Big Shamus in Big Controversy I posted to San Diego Blog a query on the proposed Spirit of the Seas. What do you think?

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28-Jul-2003

Movie of the Day Office Space

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