Saturday, September 30, 2000
Ever since Be announced their “focus shift” towards the Internet Appliance market, the community has heard lots of complaints that that’s stupid, nobody will buy IA’s, it’s a tiny niche, etc. This morning, I opened up our paper, and was greeted with a full-page color Compaq ad for their new “iPaq” IA (they even call it an Internet Appliance). Sure looks like a doomed market […]
Friday, September 29, 2000
Ooooh, just stumbled across an Ain’t It Cool News tidbit that has me drooling. There’s a rumor that Warner Brothers has tapped, for the role of the aged Bruce Wayne in the upcoming Batman Beyond film…none other than Paul Newman. Wow. Newman would be perfect; he has that weathered look to him, like he’s really been places, done tough things. And he can pull off […]
Thursday, September 28, 2000
Frontline.net has been having some problems. They turned off telnet access for all of us old Wizard.net customers — without bothering to inform us of the fact. I just suddenly couldn’t log in. They’re working on a virtual server that will give us telnet-style access again, but it’s not ready yet. Gee, thanks. Saalon and his Mom came over on Tuesday, and we watched the season premieres […]
Monday, September 25, 2000
Updated my resume. And meanwhile, the corporate website for Jones Soda made me laugh out loud. Several times. It’s wonderful. If I drank soda, I’d buy a case. What’s wrong with my stomach? Glad you asked. According to my gastro-enterologist, I’ve got a “compressed colon,” or something like that. My insides have this nasty tendency to clench up, which means I can’t eat a whole lot at any given time, and that […]
Sunday, September 24, 2000
Saalon just left the house. We definitely had a successful weekend. Saturday morning was spent cleaning, then finishing my pond. Yep, it’s done — all that I want to do now is add a few more rocks around the pond to make it look a little more natural. Then Saalon arrived, and after working out directions for his Mom to go down to a relative’s to stay, we watched various […]
Friday, September 22, 2000
Work is picking up. I have actual work to do, which is nice. It’s mainly little fiddly things that I’ve noticed about the interface that will make the whole experience a little smoother for the potential user. Meanwhile, I spent some time yesterday mucking about with creating a WinAmp skin. It’s surprisingly easy-to-do; a skin is just a .zip file or folder with a bunch of .bmp files in it. […]
Thursday, September 21, 2000
Not too much to report. Saalon will be coming down this weekend, which means even fewer updates to this page than normal. I did manage to get a pretty nice little message board set up on UFO Dreams. Particularly, every message that’s posted to that board will get e-mailed to me, so I can keep up with what happens there. Pretty cool, I think. Spinnwebe […]
Tuesday, September 19, 2000
I’m getting set up here at Intersect Software, learning the ropes and how everything fits together. Everything seems to be going well thus far. I had a very successful day off yesterday. I wanted to go shopping, and got all sorts of good stuff: a good black suit, new shoes, new jeans, and a few Christmas presents. My pond is almost done. All I need is a few hours to put the rest […]
Friday, September 15, 2000
Woah, it’s been way too long. Not a good sign when Brennen outpaces me (that was a joke, Bren!). I’ve quit Litton/PRC and will be going to work at Intersect Software from now on. It’s a start-up that’s doing some cool enterprise-scale Java-based intranet software. I think I’m gonna have fun. I should be working on detailed development, as well as user interface design and documentation. And they […]
Friday, September 1, 2000
Moved all of the August diary entries to the archives. I bit the bullet and bought a bunch of anime DVD’s yesterday. Gundam Wing Operation 2 (episodes 6–10), the first DVD of Burn Up W! (a modern-day crime-fighting comedy; think of a comedic NYPD Blue), the first DVD of Sakura Wars (a turn-of-the-century big mecha story, based on a wildly popular series of Sega Saturn games), and I think the second Battle Athletes Victory DVD. Other than that, […]