I have my ReplayTeeVee configured for ABC, May 31st, 9:30pm. Do you?

Posted by at May 31, 2000 07:59 AM

(and it's about time she got a regular column again)

Posted by at May 29, 2000 08:53 PM

Bra With Brain For Active Women

You have no idea how happy this makes me.

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Posted by at May 25, 2000 11:44 AM

Go listen to the song.

Stretch. Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't know.

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Posted by at May 23, 2000 08:06 PM

It's my birthday today. I distinctly recall sitting with my friends during junior high school in around the year 1981 and determining how old we would be in the year 2000. I haven't changed my mind since then, I still think 34 is old.

It's my uncle's birthday today too-- Happy Birthday Uncle A.

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Posted by at May 21, 2000 11:31 AM

Is there an inflection point occuring? Free software/open source creates a new way to do the business of software. The business becomes less about the intellectual property of the source code and more about the ability to support and innovate in a fast moving industry. If you hide behind the wall of closed source, you might gain a temporary advantage but in the long run this advantage will stunt the growth of the products that people really want to buy.

Posted by at May 16, 2000 07:58 PM

If the universe is a quantum computer, then is it possible our reality is just some simulation? It's probably just a high school science experiment. Or maybe there are cubicles up in heaven filled with hacker-angels trying to keep the universe from crashing. Prayer is how you submit bug reports and feature requests. I bet they consider humans a virus. Bug #42, quantum threads infected by sentient virus known as humans.

Posted by at May 16, 2000 07:13 AM

I'll tell how it ends in about 8 hours.

Posted by at May 15, 2000 10:55 PM

If it is shiny blue and hops it must be a shiny blue grasshopper. But, in this case it's a recently dyed in the strawberry blonde ramble rousing Democrat blogger from Texas. I mean from Texas! Hop, hop, hop, hop.

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Posted by at May 14, 2000 06:51 PM

File this under advanced validation and debugging systems and expect it to show up, more and more, in complex systems.

Posted by at May 14, 2000 10:18 AM

The gun lobby has been told to go to their rooms without dinner! Go Moms!

Posted by at May 13, 2000 09:24 AM

In Trouble and Shame

 I LOOK at the swaling sunset And wish I could go also Through the red doors beyond the black-purple bar.I wish that I could go Through the red doors where I could put off My shame like shoes in the porch, My pain like garments, And leave my flesh discarded lying Like luggage of some departed traveller Gone one knows not where.Then I would turn round, And seeing my cast-off body lying like lumber, I would laugh with joy. 

Posted by at May 11, 2000 07:27 AM

The Love Bug Virus sounds like a new Herbie The Love Bug movie from Disney. The movie would start with a comic chase where Herbie stops the mastermind criminal just as he was going to get away with the biggest crime of the century. In an act of revenge, the criminal mastermind infects Herbie with a virus! I can just see Herbie sneezing and coughing...I admit it, I really liked Herbie.

Posted by at May 08, 2000 10:04 PM

Let's take the words community, freedom, and revolution back from the e-commerce PR machines.

Posted by at May 07, 2000 10:27 AM

I have a lot of locks. There's a lock on the external doors on my house. There's a lock on my bedroom door. At work my file cabinet not only has a lock but a special "lock bar" with another lock attached to it. My truck has a lock and the glove compartment in my truck also has a lock. My car came with two keys, one that opens all the locks and a valet-key that does not open the trunk or glove compartment. I have at least a dozen keys to the various locks in my life (not including the many keys I have to locks long forgotten). If you add up all the money I have spent on locks it is probably surprisingly large. The loss of productivity is even more costly. I am unlocking and locking my way through life, each twist of the key is a moment I could have been doing something productive. I have to carry a spare key to my truck because I lock myself out of it on a regular basis. It's amazing how many hours I have wasted trying to get into cars with the keys locked inside.

I came home one night to find my VCR and TeeVee gone, even though all my doors had been locked. I didn't find it surprising or even that remarkable. I guess I really knew deep down that all those locks wouldn't really stop a determined thief. All those locks were really just there to discourage the opportunistic thief. All those locks are really there because I don't trust ordinary people to not take advantage of my trust. Isn't that sad?

That's why I will continue to read emails with attachments and will continue to run those attachments without concern. Because, I would rather spend a day restoring my computer data from backups then add yet another lock to my life.

Posted by at May 07, 2000 12:51 AM

I guess nobody loves me.

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Posted by at May 05, 2000 11:45 AM

Jack's stackframe assembly is only 16 bits!

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Posted by at May 04, 2000 06:53 AM

I live in Steilacoom, it's a good town.

Posted by at May 01, 2000 07:48 PM

It is sort of ironic that this story is at examiner-DOT-com.

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Posted by at May 01, 2000 10:40 AM

Fametracker - The Farmer's Almanac of Celebrity Worth

Especially see the "That Guy!" section.

Posted by at May 01, 2000 10:34 AM