May 2003

Links for a Monday Evening

• It’s amazing to me that Bill “Book of Virtues” Bennett is a chronic gambler
• According to Eternal Night, Bruce “Schism Matrix”Sterling is working on a book called The Zenith Angle, for Del Rey Books. He says it’s almost complete.
• Comic-Geeky: Blog of Galactus via Kynn
• Bob Edwards of NPR on Press Freedom
• Free Reference Books Online – xrefer via robotwisdom
• The amazing climber self-amputation story
• I want to be a blog mogul too!
• Hydra – neat idea, multi-user text editor (for MacOS X)
• Becoming a Patriot
• Concept Design looks like a very cool book
• Edgar F. Codd: 1923-2003 (via rudy)
• metacritic.com remind me to add this to my sidebar

Web Programming as Cop Shows
As my pal Matt Lee (Sassy) says:

We are dorks.

A Year Like No Other
So it’s been a year since the separation began that shook my worldview to its foundations. I was not what I thought.

Everything changed.

My marriage collapsed. In that time I’ve lost 85 pounds. I’ve fallen in and out of love. I’ve discovered I am weaker than I thought I was. I’ve discovered I’m stronger than I ever thought I was.

I discovered that anything is possible.

Onward.

What is Dada?
Check dictionary.com entry on dada.

New Link Dump! Then Off To Work!

• Our 4th Amendment Rights At Work can this be true?
• Brett Jackson, Flash God
• How Much Surveillance Is Okay?
• Search IS Important
• Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Spam
• Beware the giant creepy owl that wants you to get on the bus (via Kibo)
• JRuler is a great free screen ruler for Windows
• Kim Jong Il (the illmatic)’s Journal
• That Waxy fellow is interesting!
• Vandals target French Cleaners from march
• The topsites.us scam spam
• Convert DVD’s to DivX under MacOS X
• Messing with script kiddies
• Install Linux from Scratch
• What’s Michael Moore Hiding?
• Kynn digs my miscellany
• Jeff Bezos (of Amazon) in Space
• Bruce Springsteen supports the Dixie Chicks and free speech
• Doug Welch likes being cross-platform as much as me
• Security vulnerabilities in journalism
• I’d like to try AcquisitionX ... file sharing for OS X
• ColdFusion Bug: ColdFusion MX (on multihomed servers) displays wrong page
• Mac Sound Program: SoundHack
• Amazing if true: 1-Hour Arrest: When does a snapshot of a mother breast-feeding her child become kiddie porn? Ask the Richardson police.
• Jakob! Will text ads continue to rule?
• Speaking of text ads… Google AdWords Best Practices
• Find WiFi hotspots

Back From Root Canal, A Stream, Dada?
I feel ornery.
But not bad.
Only one moment of horrible pain.
They re-dosed me with the injected anesthetic at that point.
Aaaaah.
Work good this week. Good developments there lately. Slightly more job security in the temp role.
Deliberately vague about that, as usual.
Leah brought me home.
But first, we went to the North Park Farmer’s Market.
Snarfed up some hummus.
Some strawberries too.
I like that chick.
In news so huge I have no idea how to say it…
My roommate is in the hospital now.
Trouble with the discs in her back.
Terrible pain.
Makes my tooth pain seem trivial.
I wish her well.
It would once again be so nice to wave a magic wand and remove all suffering. Alas.

This is not the way things work.

Please, have a thought for those out there in pain and turmoil.

Some of us are lucky and only have a little pain.
Many have so much pain it’s overwhelming.

This was stream-of-consciousness.

And yes, I’m behind on email.

I’m ornery, but I’ll get over it.

and again I say… Onward