Monday, April 17, 2000
In the grey summer garden I shall find youWith day-break and the morning hills behind you.There will be rain-wet roses; stir of wings;And down the wood a thrush that wakes and sings.Not from the past you
Friday, April 14, 2000
Arrrrg, I lost yesterday’s update when my work computer froze up. I managed to re-constitute it today and post it. Anyway, not too much going on. I’ve spent some time this week going over my taxes, in preparation for actually calculating them out tonight or tomorrow (ideally tonight). Thanks to my huge losses in the name of Papyrus, I should get a sizable refund. Meanwhile, I’ve been pretty faithful to my nightly schedule, […]
Thursday, April 13, 2000
Hmmm, haven’t much felt like updating lately. My French door is finally in. All that we have left to do is sand and paint the walls and trim. Ta-da. As a result, I’ve been spending much more time in my side garden. I stopped by a local Borders books last night. It was the first time in months that I’d actually wandered the aisles of a brick-and-mortar bookstore (I usually prefer Amazon.com), and I have […]
Thursday, April 6, 2000
Well, I planted some West African impatiens, bleeding hearts, and…something else in pots in my garden last night. I don’t exactly have a wonderland yet, but it’s improving. The impatiens, particularly, look good. Meanwhile, I’ve been gearing up to drive up to Saalon’s over the weekend. I don’t expect to update this diary until Monday or so, as a result. We hope to spend the weekend watching the Tenchi Muyo! OAV series, then […]
Wednesday, April 5, 2000
Saalon tipped me off to a new Sci-Fi Channel show: Exposure. It’s an hour-long showcase of original short film, in the SF/fantasy/horror genre. Impressively, out of the five shorts used, only one was sucky. Tim Burton’s short piece “Vincent” was hilarious, as was “Robotic Showdown” (?). Good stuff, well worth watching. Saalon was online as the show played, so we got to watch it together, in a virtual sense. […]
Tuesday, April 4, 2000
Sorry for the lack of updates lately; the scripts on the site went screwy and I was afraid I might lose my diary file if I updated it through my web interface. That, and I had trouble telnetting/FTP’ing in. Ah well. Page views on my About.com site have skyrocketed, increasing ten-fold from previously. Be has counted over half a million official downloads of BeOS, and the actual number from unofficial downloads probably puts the number at well […]
Tuesday, March 28, 2000
Well, the free Personal Edition of BeOS R5 has been released, and it’s been a zoo. I logged onto EFnet this morning to check in with the IRC’ers on #beos and #beoshelp. The channels were hopping with folks eager to download the new file. I logged into ftp.be.com and kept checking the /pub/beos directory for the files, until finally at 8:32 the files appeared. Unfortunately, they weren’t downloadable yet, and finally I had to go to work. Since then, […]
Monday, March 27, 2000
OK, my apologies for not updating lately. I sort of fell out of the habit. Don’t really know why. Before I go into a full update, let me get something off my chest. Ain’t It Cool News, one of the few movie news and reviews sites that actually offers sane and realistic reviews, is running an article from its European news reporter. I quote: “‘The Fifth Element’, one of Europe’s biggest […]
Thursday, March 16, 2000
The budding twigs spread out their fan To catch the breezy air;And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.— William Wordsworth (1770
Monday, March 13, 2000
Though you be absent here, I needs must sayThe Trees as beauteous are, and flowers as gay, As ever they were wont to be; Nay the Birds rural musick too Is as melodious and free, As if they sung to pleasure you:I saw a Rose-Bud o’pe this morn; I’ll swearThe blushing Morning open’d not more fair.— Abraham Cowley (1618