August 2003 Fifty-two posts

11-Aug-2003

New U-T Blog The San Diego Union Tribune has yet another new blog: the hungry i: A Weblog dedicated to food, wine and the good life — you can see others here at San Diego U-T Blogs. Go Union Trib! I’ve talked about the U-T blogging since they started.

via-blogger
11-Aug-2003

Zappa News Alert Gail Zappa is also running for Governor (Gail is Frank’s widow)

via-blogger
11-Aug-2003

I can’t think of a good title today. Weekend is over. Almost done importing music. Today listening to lots of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music at work. Spoils of that manual labor importing mp3s into iTunes. Only one link today: Jessie “The Body” Ventura” gives advice to Arnold Schwartzenegger Brief Political Musing: I was against the recall (we have ELECTIONS to do what’s...

via-blogger
10-Aug-2003

Blogger Continuous Quality Improvement; Blog Software Musings Blogger.com Help is up. I tell you, since its’ acquisition by Google, the service is better, faster, and more reliable. I set up a demo blog for a colleague a few weeks ago, and with Blogger it was trivially easy. I was pleasantly surprised by how well it worked, and how quickly they could get...

via-blogger
09-Aug-2003

eliyon CorporateAlumni This is interesting. A lookup for people (I think executives?) in business here’s me – I squeak by with two mentions for The Web Standards Project, and one from a conference I attended in 2000. But not for other companies I was a part of. It looks like it’s not using resumes, but rather using...

via-blogger
09-Aug-2003

Oh… Oh, so this is how we lose touch with reality about how women actually look Check out these shots of a bikini woman — you see the “final” image when you first visit. Then put your cursor over the image to see what it looked like before digital processing: Bikini Girl. If one is wondering...

via-blogger
08-Aug-2003

The outer edges of my music collection Still importing tonight. Latest imports include Digable Planets, Neneh Cherry, Motorhead, Mono Puff, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, more Tom Waits, and a lot of Mighty Might Bosstones. Good day today. Productive work. I went to a used bookstore today and appreciated some old books on typography. Wandering and enjoying the phenomenon of downtown San Diego....

music sandiego sandiegoblog via-blogger websandiego
08-Aug-2003

Doclinked Hey! Unsolicited link from Doc Searls — I talked to Doc briefly at the blogosphere thing and shook his hand. I particularly like his informal voice, and how he’s passionate without being a person who flames others. There are people it would be infinitely FUN for me to flame, but it’s not my style.

via-blogger
07-Aug-2003

Typographical Humor and History Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black

via-blogger
07-Aug-2003

That Textamerica is something! Raped At The Pump – people use phonecams to show terrible gas prices. (via bb)

via-blogger