February 28, 2005 – 12:00 am
The Back to the Future trilogy is, hands down, a work of genius. And I was overjoyed to watch the whole run on TNT this weekend while I worked on yet another book chapter.
Someone needs to buy me the complete BTTF trilogy. Or, maybe I need to buy it, once my head bobs [...]
February 25, 2005 – 8:54 pm
I’ve got “Cover Me” from Bruce Springsteen stuck in my head–thanks Coverville.
Okay, so let me get this straight: The fact that Canada exercised it’s sovereignty in refusing to join up with us on the brain-dead missile defence plan means that it’s reliquished its sovereignty. Double-speak and bullies, hooray! Somehow, I think this sort [...]
February 24, 2005 – 10:39 pm
Yesterday, I had “In Repair” by Our Lady Peace stuck in my head all day.
Markdown just pleasantly surprised me by letting me write several paragraphs in the a bullet point by guessing how I should work the text, without me even checking the syntax page. Nice.
I wonder sometimes what the web would have been [...]
February 24, 2005 – 11:14 am
I’ve been meaning to compose a longer entry / essay about the idea of ancient software–and when I say ancient, I mean in the millenia-old sense, not the tongue-in-cheek decades-old sense we usually think. This notion first got stuck in my head after reading Vernor Vinge’s A Deepness in the Sky and the description [...]
February 23, 2005 – 10:31 pm
Maybe if I put this coffee from the office pot into this Starbucks cup, I can fool myself that it’s suitable for drinking.
I hate that there’s no “logout” button for HTTP authentication that works on all browsers.
Microsoft’s .NET ain’t all that bad. Sooner or later I should do some personal tinkering with it, versus [...]
February 23, 2005 – 9:57 am
I still want to get back to that address book web app I started babbling about before Christmas, mostly to exercise my working skills with REST, XML, Javascript and XMLHttpRequest–now known as Ajax?
I feel like I should work on FeedReactor, but I started work on that to scratch an itch and exercise my RSS, [...]
February 23, 2005 – 6:45 am
Morning is not my friend–and I have struggled with this for so long that I have become all but convinced that I’m part of an evolutionary branch of humanity who stayed up late and kept the fire going while the day shift slept. Sometimes I think I should try making a career out of [...]
February 22, 2005 – 9:07 am
I have decided that all weekends need to consist of 3 days. That, or I need a vacation.
“Drive That Fast” by Kitchens of Distinction is my song tonight.
