October 18, 2003
Dim Sum - Sunday - China Pearl - Noon
You know you want to. And tell me you're coming, so I'll expect you.
2003 201 posts
October 2003
October 18, 2003
More on memes
So. ljmatch.com has a new sexual compatibility meme. You answer 76 somewhat invasive questions and they tell you who on...
October 15, 2003
On Privacy
I know everyone's upset that the trusted third party twit who created "The Crush Meme." But. It's a webform. You told...
October 8, 2003
Two years ago today
I pulled out my mastercard and googled for "Form LLC Delaware." An hour later, I had started a company. Two years later,...
September 2003
September 27, 2003
Boston shows I want to be at
saturday, october 25- Freezepop CD release show at the middle east upstairs, with mono and all the way from amsterdam,...
September 23, 2003
London - Concerts
The Wannadies are playing on 2 October at the Mean Fiddler. Liz Phair is plaing on 7 October at the Institute For...
September 17, 2003
All the things I lost
So. There's this Russian pop duo, 'Tatu.' You know, the ones who make out on stage and are contractually prohibited from...
September 12, 2003
Also broadcasting on
I've got a new blog. (Powered by RT Journals, go figure). It lives at http://pallas.eruditorum.org. If you do the RSS...
August 2003
August 28, 2003
Upcoming shows in boston/cambridge
The Sounds. Tuesday at the middle east. Jill Sobule Saturday and Sunday (9/6 - 9/7 at the House of Blues) Turbonegro Wed...
August 27, 2003
Can make it to the playa?
Can't make it to the desert this year? Here's how to enjoy the Burning Man Experience from the Comfort of your Own Home:...
August 16, 2003
My evening
Driving home and having somebody make a left turn into the rear driver's side door: $500-1500 in damage Getting drunk on...
August 10, 2003
Saturday the 16th. Swim and Grill in suburbia
Saturday. Swim and Grill. In Newton at my parents place. 4pm onwards. You know you want to. I'm not going to be doing...
August 3, 2003
Tara
and Robynne Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part_97835_7280600.1059868293757"...
July 2003
July 30, 2003
An untitled post
On latemodel's suggestion, I ended up at the Prids shwo last night. It was quite good, even if my ear drums haven't yet...
July 18, 2003
On top of it all...
I almost missed my flight because i for got to set my watch to mountain time
July 17, 2003
Well, that was unexpected.
The world works in very, very strange ways. And is clearly smoking crack. More in a few months.
July 16, 2003
Why I won't live in the bay area
Hostile crazies assault me for money Public places all smell like urine The nice cafes are all so hippie-granola that...
July 16, 2003
Why I could live in the bay area
Great bookstores Great record stores Lots of good food Plenty of cafes Lots of friendly people Lots of ambient wireless...
July 13, 2003
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Powell's is bigger than blackwells and has a wider selection. The collection isn't as academic though. That probably...
July 6, 2003
Portland July 6-14; SF July 14-17
All flights are on United. 1457 bos 11:15 on jul 6 arrive den: 1:31 pm 523 den 2:35 on july 6 arrive portland: 4:06 pm...
June 2003
June 28, 2003
I'm calling from the car
Thanks to the magic of GPRS and Bluetooth, I'm posting from the car, headed south on 93 en route home from Canadia....
June 21, 2003
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I've just spent 12 of the past 14 hours attempting, and failing to fix a deep caching bug in RT that's a show-stopper...
June 10, 2003
Quicksilver
In this wonderfully inventive follow-up to his bestseller Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson brings to life a cast of...
June 7, 2003
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Went and saw Freezepop's tennis-themed show tonight. Despite an early fuckup that caused me to lose all of Science...
June 1, 2003
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Do I want to go live in London for a year? For those of you freaking out: At this time, I have no plans to move out,...
May 2003
May 31, 2003
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Um. this seems to be an awful lot of matches. pir 106% jbsegal 106% chrysaphi 102% gothfru 102% jon3 102% bratling 102%...
May 30, 2003
June 14 - Boston - Birthday Party
Hi! So. My birthday is again approaching. I'm sure you're all terribly surprised that I'm going to have a party. Like...
May 24, 2003
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I've been feeling subtly 'off' since I got home from Europe. This can stop any time now.
May 14, 2003
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So. A train behind us on the underground. 'to avoid gaps in service' they held us in station for 5 minutes. What about...
May 14, 2003
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Damn it. 140 pounds for a bottle of springbank 1965. So tempted. Can't quite justify that. Sigh (that's after VAT...
May 14, 2003
His hair isn't purple....
..but tonight, I met dr_memory's opposite number in the British service.
May 13, 2003
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It's disconcerting when a gorgeous lawn ornament duck turns, looks at you and quacks.
May 13, 2003
Shows.
I'll be home soon. So many shows coming up. Including both bands that I missed seeing in europe. 5/25 - BCN river rave -...
May 11, 2003
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Remember the deutsch telecom kiosks I mentioned last week? There's one here with a note saying they were all shut down...
May 11, 2003
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I didn't know that the VW beetle was designed under orders from the German government in 1934
May 11, 2003
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I'm at the Deutsch Museum. In an exhibit on the history of the bicycle. An Austrian bike frim 1904 came with a...
May 11, 2003
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Found lunch at the San Francisco Coffee Company. Their summer menu is decorated with penguins saying 'Foo Foo!
May 10, 2003
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So last night I got taken out by the folks at Netways.de. I got told that we'd be going to see 'Punk Rock Karaoke.'...
May 10, 2003
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Wow. Dragged out clubbing by a couple of wild germans. I can't report coherently at this point. I'll give it a shot...
May 9, 2003
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A store here has put up a portable climbing wall ~50 feet tall and are challenging pedestrians to climb it. Then they...
May 9, 2003
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This is bad. I think I'm getting used to premade Iced Tea. It would be crazy to buy loose tea, lemons and sugar and...
May 8, 2003
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I've seen crucifixes before. But, before today, I don't think I've ever seen one on a chain so long that it dangled by...
May 7, 2003
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Now that's just petty. My glasses just broke. (only a lost screw). Guess I get to explore the world of german glasses...
May 7, 2003
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One of the things I wanted to discover on this trip was how well I travelled alone for long periods of time. Next time,...
May 7, 2003
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So it appears that I'll soon have a german reseller for RT support and hosting. Neat! And I'm now sitting in a 'Mr...
May 6, 2003
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The hotel is 2x as far from the station as they claimed. They stopped serving food for the night 5min before I arrived....
May 6, 2003
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And the CD ROM won't accept disks. Somehow, I think the issues are related and that perhaps the TiBook doesn't fit my...
May 6, 2003
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And now the fucking discharged battery on my tibook is stuck un tthe machine. The fucking latch is broken shut. I AM SO...
May 6, 2003
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t-mobile.de insists the 3650 doesn't work because it's a 2 band phone and my SIM needs a tri-band phone. 'um' I'm pretty...
May 6, 2003
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Deutsch Nokia 3650 nicht geworken mit mein SIMkart. So I returned the fucker. And they paid out in cash rather than...
May 6, 2003
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So today, I met Florian, an RT user/hacker who lives in Berlin. He took the day to show me around town and then show me...
May 5, 2003
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Apparently there's a community of web sites of pix of porn shot in the Reichstag's bathrooms.
May 4, 2003
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It's amazing how hunger can mess with you. I passed up good food for stupid reasons. When I finally gave up, the only...
May 4, 2003
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Short on sleep and food and feeling kinda lonely isn't the best combination when you're in a city where you neither know...
May 4, 2003
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Deutsche telecom has replaced payphones with pods that make calls, send SMS, sell web access and provide free access to...
May 4, 2003
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Standing at checkpoint charlie, it's amazing how much more vibrant the East looks. Oh, and there's a cop blocking the...
May 4, 2003
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Damn it. I was supposed to meet up with a girl I met on the train. It took 30 min for the subway to come. I missed her....
May 4, 2003
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I lucked out. I had a sleeper to berlin to myself. At some point, the train motion stopped and boat motion started. We...
May 4, 2003
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Hint to ATM designers: when internationalizing, translation of error messages is not optional.
May 4, 2003
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I know that VW bought and rehabilitated them years ago, but the concept of the Skoda 'Superb' luxury sedan really amuses...
May 3, 2003
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Those jeans with the bleached ass and legs seem to be popular with guys in europe good: public wifi hotspots in train...
May 3, 2003
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The weather's improving as the train heads south from Stockholm to Malmo. It was grey, raining and 40. It's sunny now....
May 3, 2003
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Spent yesterday working. Went CD shopping afterwards. Two CDs claimed they were copy protected. Had the tibook with me....
May 3, 2003
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We just ran into some Raelians on the street. Nikki's asking them about their clone baby. They say they have 5 now. In...
May 3, 2003
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Today I got up, packed and left some stuff that Nikki volunteered to mail me. Threw my now-lighter pack in a cab and...
May 2, 2003
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I'm sitting on top of a viking burial mound. This may the most gorgeous view I'v ever seen. Even better than the train...
May 1, 2003
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Just saw an X Men 2 sneak preview. It was lots of fun. Swedes don't clap at the end of movies.
May 1, 2003
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There's a Swedish company called 'locum'. Their logotype is lowercase. For valentines day they ran an ad replacing the o...
April 2003
April 30, 2003
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I'm sitting on the Uppsala castle lawn eating lunch and drinking beer with hundreds of students. Life could be far...
April 29, 2003
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We had dinner at the 'Swedish Pizza Kitchen.' I had a duck mushroom and tomato pizza. It was actually quite tasty.
April 29, 2003
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Oh. And its symbol is a big black block-letter T in a white circle with a black border....Looks kinda familiar.
April 29, 2003
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The subway in stockholm is called the T. It has red, blue and green lines.
April 29, 2003
You get to keep both pieces
Today I gave a talk on Open Source in business and government called "You Get to Keep Both Pieces" for prosa.dk, the...
April 28, 2003
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I woke up 3 hours after I meant to. Today, lunch consists of a loaf of bread, a hunk of brie and a strawberry juice....
April 27, 2003
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I think that I'm about two days away from buying a Nokia 3650. It fits nicely in my hand and seems very hackable.
April 27, 2003
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There's something really nice about spending an evening at a cafe where they bring me good tea and coffee. Just wish I'd...
April 27, 2003
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Ok. The new copenhagen metro is quite neat. Driverless trains with big picture windows.
April 27, 2003
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I just passed a couple in the hall. It took me a moment to realize that they weren't speaking Swedish Chef but actual...
April 26, 2003
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We're sitting in an irish pub in Copenhagen. Claes seems to have sucked me into a project to replace SOAP::Lite with...
April 26, 2003
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I'm sitting at a greek restaurant in denmark with swedes, danes a russian, a finn, and a brit. International travel is...
April 26, 2003
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There's something so much more compelling about a hotel breakfast including a danish when 1) that's not all it includes...
April 25, 2003
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applet for a mobile phone that takes a picture and turns on the mic and does a BlueTooth when it gets a ping over gprs....
April 25, 2003
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Not quite sure what I'd expect from a mexican/italian restaurant in Copenhagen. It wasn't bad per se. But not as good as...
April 25, 2003
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Ok. Local mobile phones actively display your location as the cell info, wherever you happen to be.
April 25, 2003
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Talk went well. I was spot-on for timing; I got told the depth was just right and that I am a very dynamic speaker....
April 25, 2003
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At the hotel in copenhagen, a man just walked into the bar in diaper, baby bonnet, tippy cup and sqeaky toys. Um.
April 24, 2003
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Getting on the plane in Brussels and off in Copenhagen, all the Europeans kept their passports in hand, though we never...
April 24, 2003
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I think I could definitely spend a LOT more time in Barcelona. Perhaps next spring I´ll just come here for a month. Last...
April 24, 2003
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Never made it to the interpol show. Had a 4 hour spanish dinner. Turns out valerie and I have a fair number of friends...
April 23, 2003
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FNAC is a dangerous place with wacky genre breakdowns. But I have new music...
April 23, 2003
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Cool: ATMs that will sell me concert tickets. Uncool: that they don't sell same day tickets.
April 23, 2003
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Y'all shouldn't bother to correct my spelling, etc. Writing 160 char msgs on a 2" keyboard sucks. And the times of all...
April 23, 2003
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I've never seen a cop with candy apple red hair before. But now I must eat my flan.
April 23, 2003
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Goudy's sigrara familia is absolutely amazing. An immense cathedral still being actively built. And it's gorgeous
April 23, 2003
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Today's holiday here is a second valentines daym Guys buy girls roses and girls buy guys books. The streets are lined...
April 23, 2003
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Thanks to the power of the internet, I just foud out that interpol is playing barcelona tonight
April 22, 2003
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At the show, some kid was using his cameraphone to send pictures in realtime. I'm jealous. Poll time: should I get a...
April 22, 2003
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Wow. Ladytron's stage presence has really improved in the past 90 days. That was FUN, but my feet hate me. Oh, and cute...
April 22, 2003
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Bah. Stuck amid a teenage british soccer team for the whole flight..now I've got a splitting headache. But I'm in...
April 22, 2003
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There's something really wrong with the idea of a 'Chicken Tikka Baguette' but it tastes so good. (Hi from London Luton...
April 22, 2003
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When they say 'Paris is for lovers' what they mean is 'Paris is for kids who like to stop and block the sidewalk and...
April 22, 2003
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Missed our flight from CDG which means we miss our cxn to Barcelona. EasyJet rebooked us no questions. On the flight...
April 21, 2003
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Mmm. Nothing like raw steak and raw egg for dinner. If you never hear from me again, you know why.
April 21, 2003
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I'm standing at the telescope Amiles sent her photo-collector beau to.
April 21, 2003
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And of course there's one that disproves my point. I just found a small bronze with the big hand halfway between 12 and...
April 21, 2003
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The Dali Museum is amazing. Why does every melted clock show the impossible time half-past and exactly 12 at the same...
April 21, 2003
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it's amazing how hard it is to find a netcafe when you need one and how many pop up once you finally find one (10 in the...
April 21, 2003
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i's amazing how hard it is to find a netcafe when you need one (none yesterday) and how many pop up once you finally...
April 21, 2003
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Apparently this seaon's hot Paris fashion statement is being a candy raver. Lots of BRIGHT colors and silk cargo pants
April 20, 2003
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Woo. 10 minutes hacking in a netcafe in paris and I can moblog from the treo via sms.
April 20, 2003
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And now off into the wilds of paris I go secure in the knowledge that I can taunt you all mobilly.
April 20, 2003
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This is a test of jesse's livejournal moblog client, so he can sms journal updates from europe
April 20, 2003
gare du nord
I'm sitting at a cafe in Paris Gare du Nord train station. Iv'e got 20 minutes to kill. Hey! There's a kiosk that says...
April 17, 2003
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Made it to Oxford. Been up for 32+ hours straight. I've got a UK SIM card on O2. My number here is +44 77 426 130 63
April 15, 2003
Europe, In excruciating detail
At least as much as I've got right now ;) Virgin Atlantic. Boston (BOS) to London (LHR) Flight VS012 Depart 20:20 Tue.,...
April 13, 2003
Packing list
I'm about to flee the country to spend a month wandering around Western Europe for Work and Vacation. I know this list...
April 11, 2003
I am *so* letting them have it in my Livejournal when I get home
I went to the Fischerspooner show tonight. I guess that I had mis-set expectations. They're not exactly the first...
April 10, 2003
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Itinerary 15 April - Boston -> London Virgin flight #12 BOS 20:20 07:50 LHR Economy (Q) Weds 16 April - London -> Oxford...
April 4, 2003
So. Much. New. Music.
In the past 96 hours, I seem to have just kept obtaining new music. Solvent "Solvent City" Empire State Human "Pop...
April 3, 2003
Europe
So. I've got this europe trip coming up. I'd just decided to bail on going to Barcelona and go to Portugal instead. I...
April 2, 2003
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The new Liz Phair album is... different. It's very much more mainstream. I don't dislike it (and I am only 2/3 through a...
March 2003
March 29, 2003
Bored friday night discovery.
lizenthusiasm shares my birthday. Hm. I wonder if I'd run into anybody I know at the Middle East tonight. Some band...
March 29, 2003
Dim Sum.
Dim Sum. Sunday. Noon. China Pearl. Be there. (but reply to this post so I know to expect you.)
March 28, 2003
Sucker
The file sharing networks have failed me. I got what I wanted on ebay. No waiting for June for me.
March 28, 2003
Liz Phair
It appears that Liz Phair now owns the masters for Exile in Guyville...and intends to re-release it with more material....
March 27, 2003
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I'm not quite sure why it surprised me, but William Gibson has a blog.
March 27, 2003
Sometimes I play childish games.
This is only likely to be amusing if you've read Gibson's latest.
March 25, 2003
Why don't I feel elated?
I just released RT 3.0, after over a year of work. This has been my primary driving goal for over 12 months. And I can't...
March 24, 2003
RT 3.0.0 Released
It gives me great pleasure to announce the immediate availability of RT 3.0.0. This release represents over a year of...
March 23, 2003
Hacktivism
Wow. Hacktivism is really draining. But it feels really good to have built something that's actually making a social...
March 23, 2003
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18:13:25 sf: 15 bikers arrested on turk @ market.-hk 18:15:07 sf: 500+ police in streets from 6th to civic ctr on...
March 23, 2003
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17:21 - sf: mass arrests imminent at jones and market-hk 17:30 - sf: chaos up taylor, 50 cycle cops on the way to break...
March 23, 2003
Not your typical SMSes
The first 3 hours of messages being broadcast through the new tool are. um. wow. 14:24 - sf: thousands marching down...
March 22, 2003
Unexpected applications of technology.
So. Last night, a friend in SF mailed me asking if I could put together a tool to help protestors keep in contact with...
March 20, 2003
Obligatory Live Journal Semi-meaningful song lyrics post
(Unless you do this once every couple months, they take your account away, right? I finally learned that the market's...
March 19, 2003
CAMERA CAMERA CAMERA
Neptune Photo had the 10D in stock. UPS willing, it will be in my hot little hands on Friday. *bounce*
March 18, 2003
EOS 10D
At this point, the EOS 10D seems to be basically unobtainable. Any time someone gets a shipment in, some helpful person...
March 17, 2003
Goodbye Kerberos 4
Kerberos 4's fatal flaw means that fsck.com users can no-longer use MIT Zephyr. Sorry.
March 13, 2003
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Today's new BoredNow feature is fairly minor. When someone friends you (or disses you by yanking you off their friends...
March 13, 2003
Cameras
I think I want an EOS10D to replace my EOS D30. *lust* But will it come out before I go to europe on april 15?
March 12, 2003
BoredNow update
Two newly functioning commands (or four, depending on how you count) friends Will list your friends friends username...
March 11, 2003
Friendster
Ok. so this friendster thing is actually a fairly clever thing. Any of y'all who are playing with it and don't yet have...
March 11, 2003
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Ok, ok. I went out. I just wish I wasn't to shy to dance at a club when I don't know most of the people on the dance...
March 11, 2003
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I really should stay home and work, but I think that Shaula just talked me into going to Ceremony tonight
March 10, 2003
Mundane update about my life.
Wow. 4am. Again. I see 4am a hell of a lot more often than I see 8am. I had a fun weekend. Went out to dinner with Dave...
March 10, 2003
BoredNow. (Well, except for that whole lack of time to be bored)
So. It works. at least a little bit. I suppose I should explain what "BoredNow" is since I've been dropping hints for...
March 7, 2003
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Cheap air travel around europe: opodo.com - the orbitz of europe Discount airfares: ryanair.com www.buzzaway.com...
March 3, 2003
Bah
Four more hours of hacking tonight and the code does...exactly what it did when I started. But it's much better designed...
February 2003
February 28, 2003
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Today, I actually basically worked on work stuff for 13 or 14 hours. This is Really Good. and a lot of stuff got done....
February 27, 2003
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BoredNow progresses apace. Tonight, core functionality works. Ok. it's not tonight anymore. And I've come into some...
February 26, 2003
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Building applications for a platform where the latency is O(30 seconds) and you have 160 char to work with from each...
February 25, 2003
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So. I know I said I'd have BoredNow running by this evening. I got kind of sidetracked by actually going to Ceremony's...
February 24, 2003
Bored Now
In the past 3 hours, I've put together most of the core functionality of my latest bad idea. (Right now, it's called...
February 22, 2003
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I just got back from the Ladytron show with Dave and Shaula. It was the first time I'd been back to the Paradise since...
February 8, 2003
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God damn, was that a good novel. Wow. And I might have a fun Pattern Recognition related goodie as early as tomorrow.
February 6, 2003
Pattern Recognition
I've just read the first three chapter's of Gibson's new novel, "Pattern Recognition." I really like it. It's not as...
January 2003
January 25, 2003
LA Packing list
I'm there Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. I need 4 days clothes: leather jacket sweatshirt 1 pair jeans 1 pair...
January 23, 2003
LAX
So. it looks like cfox, zacheiss and I are ending up in LA for the weekend. (1 AM Sunday until noon on Wednesday.) Whee.
January 11, 2003
Dim Sum
I'm going to be making a *reservation* for dimsum. if you haven't told me, either as an lj comment or by email, that...
January 9, 2003
Dim Sum this Sunday
China Pearl. Noon. You know you want to. Leave me a comment or email me if you think you might be coming, so I can get a...
January 6, 2003
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I bootlegged my first concert in something like 8 years. The recording technology has increased immeasurably since last...
January 5, 2003
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I really want to doctor one of the SANTA IS REAL stencils in Davis Sq to read SANTA IS RAEL.
January 3, 2003
Freezepop Saturday. TT The Bear's Place
saturday, january 4 - at tt the bear's, in cambridge, ma the mime crime benefit with skating club, dirty doctors 2600,...