January 2003 Eighty-five posts

30-Jan-2003

Duh I still have not learned to fight scope-creep.

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30-Jan-2003

Google Actually Works. Other Search Technologies, Don’t. Someone on the WebSanDiego.org List said something very like what this article — City Ogles Google Impact: The city of San Diego’s search appliance left employees and citizens hanging. Then it turned to Google has to say. The essence was this — “Why bother with site architecture and information design? All you have to do...

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29-Jan-2003

Songwriters I want to Investigate: Jimmy Webb and Jimmy Dale Gilmore.

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29-Jan-2003

Kynn In The News Scoble picks up the Kynn/HWG/Navarro story.

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29-Jan-2003

Ronny Vardy Art Show Just got this email from Ronny Vardy… GALAXY GALLERY Is proud to present paintings and new illustrations by Ronny. Saturday, Feb 1st. From 8 p.m. till whenever. Galaxy Gallery known as the smokers universe and also home the the Chronic cafe, has a real Amsterdam coffee house feel to it. Other than their amazing atmosphere...

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29-Jan-2003

Sundance Review Caleb Clark, a very nice fellow, has written up a Sundance Film Festival Report that’s worth your time.

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29-Jan-2003

Article about San Diego blogs in the Union Tribune Upcoming Matt Pitcher notified me that the Union-Tribune will run an article about San Diego bloggers this Monday. Nobody asked me. Though the San Diego Bloggers page will be 1 year on Saturday. I wonder why I didn’t get an email? Maybe I’m “tired” and no longer “wired.”

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28-Jan-2003

Viridian Note: Venezuela’s Curse A good one. Read it: Far from an anomaly, Venezuela is a classic example of that economists call the ‘natural resource curse.’ A 1995 analysis of developing countries by Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner found that the more an economy relies on mineral wealth, the lower its growth rate. Venezuela isn’t poor despite its oil...

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28-Jan-2003

New Header… and I Got A New Job I just made a new header out of some of my old Amiga images – the Katakana script says “Crawford” more or less. Back when Japan was my obsession. The sheep I found in some old Amiga clip art. I added the jet pack myself. The font that says “ARTLUNG” is based on a typography...

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27-Jan-2003

MAS on Slammer, The SQL Server Worm MAS says, in his great curmudgeonly journal: You can lead a database administrator to a security patch , but you can not make him install. Between my job, INeedCoffee, and home I’ve got nine SQL Server 2000 installations. All of them have the latest Service Packs installed. Staying current with service packs for licensed programs...

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