January 2003 Eighty-five posts

25-Jan-2003

But Not Today I want to tell you all about the exciting yesterday: featuring an adventure driving downtown, a parking lot attendant, a great job interview, a great lunch, progress on an ASP project, a beer, and seeing my girlfriend. But not today. Today I’m going to have lunch with said girlfriend and maybe a movie. And later,...

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24-Jan-2003

New Lab Item: iTunes & XML I added a new lab item today: iTunes Error: The iTunes Music Library file cannot be read because it does not appear to be a valid library file. I hope it proves to be of use to people.

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24-Jan-2003

Amazon Software Rebates Amazon has a page devoted to software products which include rebates. As of this writing, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring video game is free when you factor in the rebate.

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24-Jan-2003

Usenet Rant Recently, Steven Champeon pointed out Russ Alberry’s Rant to me, and it’s a pretty great rant about public forums and the attendent problems and responsibilities.

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24-Jan-2003

Beck Audio/Video This is some great Beck – performing and talking. Requires RealAudio Player. via RRE

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24-Jan-2003

Quote of The Day, via InformationWeek “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always...

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23-Jan-2003

Shut out of AIGA (aka) Not determined enough to fight with parking downtown I tried to go the presentation “Designing in the Age of Experience” at The AIGA Center For Design downtown tonight. Unfortunately, Super Bowl madness has set in and there was no parking to be had within about a 10 block radius. I was simply too tired to fight with the massive amount of traffic in...

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23-Jan-2003

Wonderful, Scatalogical, Vulgar, Funny, Diary of a Music Business Mixer Go read Mixerman’s anonymous diary. It’s a wonderful use of the web. I’ve read the first 8 weeks worth and laughed out loud several times. Amazing, appalling, and entertaining stuff. But a warning: there’s plenty of salty language. But it reads like truth. Check it: Mixerman’s Diary Week 1 Mixerman’s Diary Week 2 Mixerman’s Diary...

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23-Jan-2003

Why I Like Mozilla Today So I’m doing some development – in ASP (but that doesn’t matter, could be anything). Things I love about Mozilla today for web development (using 1.21 on Windows 2000 Server): the installer lets me only put in a browser if I want (since it’s for testing, who needs a mail client?) the JavaScript debugger is...

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23-Jan-2003

A Busy Boy I’ve been busy lately. My last two posts have been about dead cartoonists. That’s a bit depressing. Suffice to say I’ve been busy. In the meantime, go read Defective Yeti. That guy’s funny. More this weekend. I promise!

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