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Summer 2003 / San Diego California

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 ever lived in one state at a stretch.

August begins tomorrow. It will be my last month in this place.

Time passes.

What was I doing a year ago?

Wow: a year ago I was talking about comic con, depression, and my cousin’s suicide

Not sure what to say about that, other than to note that things change.

I guess it’s time to say …


Onward.

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, Angel investors, and technology entrepreneurs & executives together in a fun and unstructured environment.

Hey, I’m all for success and business, but are there still Angel investors out there?

A whole bunch of links and I think they all work and are current. But no promises.

I tell you. I’ve been busy lately. Some stresses looking forward to the move. Mostly money, but it’s all doable. The summer is winding up with a bang!

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

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.

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).

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. And it’s time it went back up. The thing still works!

The old domain lapsed sometime last year, and it dropped off the radar, and it also got swept up by domain squatters, so it’s time to reclaim some space on the web for URM. It may not be up yet, but it will be soon.

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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