Tuesday, February 29, 2000
Wake from thy nest, robin-red-breast, Sing, birds, in every furrow;And from each hill, let music shrill Give my fair Love good-morrow!Blackbird and thrush in every bush, Stare, linnet, and cock-sparrow!You pretty elves, amongst yourselves Sing my fair Love good-morrow; To give my Love good-morrow Sing, birds, in every furrow!— T. Heywood, Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day It’s a beautiful day here around the nation’s capitol. […]
Monday, February 28, 2000
Give me a pen of steel! Away with the gray goose-quill!I will grave the thoughts I feel With a fiery heart and will:I will grave with the stubborn pen On the tablets of the heart,Words never to fade again And thoughts that shall ne’er depart.— George Pratt (1832
Monday, February 28, 2000
Give me a pen of steel! Away with the gray goose-quill!I will grave the thoughts I feel With a fiery heart and will:I will grave with the stubborn pen On the tablets of the heart,Words never to fade again And thoughts that shall ne’er depart.— George Pratt (1832
Tuesday, February 22, 2000
When to the sessions of sweet silent thoughtI summon up remembrance of things past,I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste.— William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Remembrance As you can see in yesterday’s entry, we’ve been trying to install a network cable, so that it will run from my room, to the room above it. Both rooms share a cavity, so we thought we’d drill a hole […]
Monday, February 21, 2000
Ah! then let Misers bury thus their Gold, Who though they starve, no farthing will produce:But we lov’d to enjoy and to behold, And sure we cannot spend our stock by use.— Katherine (Orinda) Philips (1631–1664), To my Lucasia, in defence of declared Friendship I might have been done better for myself by burying my Gold today. More on that later. I spent much of the weekend working on an application that downloads a particular […]
Friday, February 18, 2000
The cherish’d fieldsPut on their winter robe of purest white.‘Tis brightness all; save where the new snow meltsAlong the mazy current.— James Thomson (1700–1748), The Seasons: Winter An ice storm has invaded the D.C. area. Most of the roads are drivable, but the trees’ nude branches are shining with newly-formed ice. And, of course, the ever-present Virginia red clay is staining sneakers as we I type this. I came across an interesting […]
Thursday, February 17, 2000
You Must Be Kidding Me is back, and better than ever! Wield your sharpest with at the latest real news photos. You can now view any number of past photos, though a lot of the older ones have already succumbed to link entropy. I had volunteered to organized a lunch of Chinese food for my co-workers today. It’s the sort of thing that, normally, gets me hyped out and worried. This was […]
Wednesday, February 16, 2000
Came across a very cool study of traffic patterns, where a regular guy studied traffic jams for about a year, and tried to find ways he could ease them or break them up. It’s written in a very straightforward style, and makes for some fascinating reading. Heard of the 6-year-old genius? He’s in college now, and he has a great webpage about stopping age discrimination. Now, as soon as I can find the stupid link, I’ll […]
Tuesday, February 15, 2000
Rob Rosenberger has a terrific commentary on the media circus surrounding the recent Denial-of-Service attacks against Yahoo!, eBay, and others. As he puts it, “Today’s woes don’t hold a candle to the damage caused by Good Times mass hysteria. Gullible email users launched devastating ‘distributed denial of service attacks’ on numerous occasions.” I was also pleased to find a link which will tell you the Navy’s current INFOCOM status: www.infosec.navy.mil. “INFOCOM” […]
Monday, February 14, 2000 — Valentine’s Day
OK, I haven’t udpated in a very long time, but that’s mainly because I’ve been fighting off a virus of the physical sort. It first attacked nine days ago, on the fifth, then returned last Wednesday. After taking it easy over the weekend, I’ve returned to relative health, except for an occasional cough. Brennen’s weblog took some time to mention…weblogs. They’re basically like my diary entries, except that they’re […]