May 2005 Thirty-one posts

• 31-May-2005
  A Little Behind I’m behind on email and posting. Here are some nuggets. Six Rules for Contractors. Old and excellent. Ontology is Overrated by Clay Shirky. What looks like a good book about project management: The Art of Project Management. Leah’s Blog was a bit broken with regards to RSS and Atom syndication feeds. They work now. Also,...

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• 31-May-2005
  Passing the musical baton, part II Who replied to that annoying chain letter music thing? Several people! And they rock, and I thank them for their indulgence. Very cool listings: Binary Wolf Chuck Hartley Kelly Abbott Leah Peah Meg Sassy
• 25-May-2005

  
  Kitten War! Who will win? Che: Bas: As Jason Kottke commented, _this is what the internet was made for_. *Update:* Fixed those links
• 24-May-2005
  StarWars.com mentions Star Wars Christmas Special Star Wars: Databank | Chewbacca Chewbacca was played by Peter Mayhew, who donned the suit in all three classic Star Wars movies and would again wear the Wookiee wool for a number of notable television apperances. In 1978, Chewbacca returned to Kashyyyk to visit his family in the rarely-seen “Star Wars Holiday Special” television extravaganza....

  Star Wars
• 18-May-2005
  Passing the musical baton Andrew Phelps has passed me the music baton: Total size of music files on my computer: I work on three computers consistently, and I have iTunes libraries on all of them: the iBook has 18.17 GB of music, the Mac Desktop: 36.68 GB, and the Windows Desktop: a bit less than the iBook, but I’m...

  alabutmusic
• 18-May-2005
  Lyrics of the Day Difficult choice. But a major contender is definitely Mahnsanto She’s got a memory glitch He’s got a needle that skips Everybody aughta have a mother or a brother who will take ’em on to a magical trip To Disneyland in winter To Disneyland in winter When everybody else is gone Take a ride a million...
• 17-May-2005
  Requiem for Tuesday Today was an odd mix. I awoke to an odd sound – it sounded like a knock at the door – and I was a bit _off_ all day since then. Work was fine — a mix of HTML, graphics, JavaScript, and even a bit of Flash. I had a PB&J for lunch. After work...
• 17-May-2005
  Awoke Early I awoke early this a.m. I could have sworn that there was a knock at the door at 5 am. But then, that makes no sense. So I’m up anyway, and beginning the day. Huzzah! I think I’ll put together a breakfast for Leah.
• 17-May-2005
  Twas The Night Before… The following are some notes I took last year on Christmas Day. I guess this may turn into a longer narrative about our wedding. We'll see. Until then, these cryptic notes will have to do. Some comments from now are in italics. It’s now December 25th. I’m writing this in the living room of my...

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• 16-May-2005
  College Bound, Part N Where the value of N varies depending on where you measure it. Well, I’m not sure what part it actually is. I started at San Diego Mesa College, then City, then CHRV College of Health Sciences. And I took that one class at Virginia Western Community College. Then there was an extended drought of classes....