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 […]
Thursday, February 3, 2000
Eeeek! No updates for a whole week! I’ve uploaded Monday’s and Tuesday’s news; you might want to check the 1999 page for Monday’s entry. We’ve had a lot of snow lately, so not too much has happened. I’ve made quite a bit of progress on Informant, though. It’s pretty close to being releasable now, and I plan to release it this weekend, if I can. I have a few more glitches to fix, and then […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2000
I was back at work today, but I left early to pick up a few packages that the postal serivce was good enough to not bother to deliver (I guess they feared bands of thieves roaming the countryside in the middle of a blizzard; who knows). I then spent the evening watching the anime that was contained inside those packages. I caught the first five episodes of Bubblegum Crisis, a respectable action/adventure series set in a cyberpunk-ish year of 2032. […]
Monday, January 31, 2000
When Saalon last came down here to meet me, he gave me a copy of the first half of Serial Experiments Lain, a anime series that recently won the “Best Anime of ’99” award by a major anime magazine. Since I fell ill this morning, I dragged myself into the den and watched everything he gave me, front-to-back. I was extremely impressed. Lain is one of those disturbing, brilliant sorts of stories […]
Thursday, January 27, 2000
I was out late last night at the grocery store, buying a few things for work and home, including some bird food (which we haven’t put out for months). As a result, I didn’t get a chance to work on Informant. The good news is that Informant does indeed seem to be posting properly; the messages just aren’t showing up when I load the newsgroup that I post to. Neither does Deja.com seem to show […]
Wednesday, January 26, 2000
Not a huge amount happening here, thus the lack of udpates. We had a huge snowstorm yesterday — true blizzard conditions. The area got about a foot of snow, which I have to admit I liked. We don’t usually get much snow around here. I am happy to report that the chains and tires that I bought last week have helped me tremendously. I have no problems getting around now, whereas […]