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I love how David McCusker can say fairly radical things so politely.
"...I don't want to change the basic rules that folks get rewarded for work, and the more work they do then the more reward. Make no mistake, all our systems are just patterns of rules that suit us in their application. They can be changed, and they do tend to change, but slowly. I wish folks would see value in future changes that cause less compounded acceleration of wealth in the hands of wealthy without doing any work...."
It might be legal, but it's probably not too good for your health.
I think I saw a show on PBS about this woman a long time ago. Really cool person. She's building a village out of bottles. Nice stuff.
Apparently Bell Atlantic has found a "problem in my loop." Just thought you might want to know.
Hung out last night with some really nice friends of MB's who were visiting from Colorado. I was actually surprised to learn that, apparently, people in the rest of the country hate the Yankees. This comes as quite a shock to me. And now I see Dave Winer has been bad mouthing the Yankees as well, saying they "have no philosophy." I'm really not sure what that means, but frankly, not having a "philosophy" doesn't seem like a real stopper for a baseball team. One thing's for sure: we're going to enjoy the world series here in NYC.
Why oh why does Sony insist on foisting the memory stick on us? This is such a great new camera, but with slower, smaller, more expensive, and proprietary storage I don't see how anyone could buy it. This is a shame, because otherwise it's a really great package.
Here's a little sketch of the desk I want for the new office. Well, this hasn't actually been approved, but I don't think there will be any problem ;-)
The adventure begins
(Phone rings)
Me: Hello?
other guy: This is Orlando from covad, are you aware that bell atlantic has an appointment today to begin the installation of your DSL line?
Me: (hopefully) Yes.
other guy: Is there someone at the location to let them gain access?
Me: Yes.
other guy: Well, the bell atlantic tech said there is no one there.
Me: (getting up and starting down the stairs) Well, there is a large note on the front door with multiple buzzers for him to ring, one of which is the apartment I've been in all morning.
other guy: (pause) Hold on.
[cut to me standing in the street looking around]
other guy: O.K., he said he stepped a block away to make the phone call. Let me give you my private line. If he's not there in 10 minutes, call me back.
Me: Is it the number you're calling me from? I've got it.
other guy: O.K., good.
[10 minutes of me waiting around pointlessly in the street... then me dialing phone number]
other guys voicemail: I'm away from my desk at the moment...
[20 minutes later...]
other guys voicemail: I'm away from my desk at the moment...
[1 hour later...]
other guys voicemail: I'm away from my desk at the moment.
Done, and done. Is it Friday yet?
It must be a pretty cold day for the dark lord because I left my computer running last night and it seems to have successfully pulled all 69.6 megabytes of developers tools over my often sporadic 56k dial up connection. I've never even been able to get the 13 meg Mozilla through my browser before (had to connect through my FTP program which wasn't possible in this case,) but for some reason Netscape decided to just keep going and going and going... And it did in all over HTTPS, so I assume it was 128 bit encrypted as well? Strange. I estimate it took over 6 hours, although like I said, I was asleep for most of it. All this computer work really takes it out of you.