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Wednesday, September 20, 2000Crunch...@ 05 pm | PermaLinkSep 20 Wed (03 PM) Life is hellish. Can I just get a moment to breath please? Just one?
Sunday, September 17, 2000Birthday Boy@ 10 pm | PermaLinkSep 17 Sun (10 PM) Today was my b-day and Amy made it a wonderful one even after all the stuff that's gone wrong this past week. She gave me a number of very cool presents including a Keyspan Digital Remote(!), a 12" round tin VW sign, a very cool shirt and more. She always has such great ideas for presents, both big and small. This year I deserved coal but she's so cool and nice to me. --- I also had the pleasure of meeting up with Richard Troy, the founder of the KG Club of North America, today at the Portland Rose Gardens. We had a great time between 11:30 and 1:45pm talking about our cars and looking through an incredible scrap book of photos he had brought. I met his friend Karen and looked at Richard's '59 Coupe, including the cool wicker shelf under the front dash, and the dual carb Okrasa fittings. For someone who should have been the guest, he was a great host, having brought some liquid refreshments, mixed nuts, and even chairs to sit in. :) He patiently gave me a wonderful tour of my own car. (It looks like it was green, then painted yellow and then painted back to green!)
Previously, that same day...What Shelf?@ 06 pm | PermaLinkSep 17 Sun (07 PM) In this article at FoxNews, they talk about retrofitting the Hubble telescope to make it 10x as powerful, but the added weight will require an on board engine: A wafer-shaped module with off-the-shelf commercial ion engines will be attached to the bottom of Hubble. Will someone please tell me what shop has these ion engines on their shelves? "Yes, I'll be needing two brake pads, a couple of door handles and an Ion engine please."
Saturday, September 09, 2000It's my B-day soon...@ 11 am | PermaLinkMy birthday is coming up soon, and of course the standard wish list is full of geeky stuff. An MP3 player with USB connectivity would be cool, or the Keyspan Digital Media Remote would be a great addition as well. (I was wondering if this, combined with Mousekeys could operate as a wireless mouse...) Let's see, a new Sony reciever would be great as our ancient Panasonic has stopped playing the left channel. There was that nice big jacket at a store here in Portland, and a great desk chair with a 12 year warranty as well. Of couse some of the desks were very nice as well. Let's see, an External Firewire hard drive would be *really* cool, as I could finally move all my stuff of my G3's internal hard drive and repartition it so that I could have a place to put Mac OS X. The Public Beta is coming out next week, and I'd love to be able to work with it. Baring that, a simple PCI video card so that I could run two monitors would be a huge plus for me as well. I've got an old 21" Greyscale Radius monitor that I would love to be able to use... Of course, I would not return a Graphite iBook Special Edition either, though I'd probably wait for the next one that should have FireWire on board... Ooo and the Airport Base Station would be great, because that, plus a 4 port Ethernet hub, would allow Amy and I to be on the Net at the same time, with no hassles. Though I've got to say, any of the above items would make great gifts. But they would be extras. All told, my life is pretty excellent as it is. I've got a beautiful woman who I'm deeply in love with, a couple of cats that adore me, a job where what I do can make an impact on the company, and very few worries. All in all, it's a very nice life.
Friday, September 08, 20003 sites this week@ 03 pm | PermaLinkThree of our sites went live this week. It's been pretty crazy of late getting so many projects through our small shop in such a small amount of time. <http://www.jamminfm.com> <http://www.abctech.com> <http://www.airadvice.com> Let me take that back, it's pretty easy to get these projects through... if they were the least bit staggered. All of the sites came in within three weeks of each other (plus 4 other sites, half theat went up last week, another two that will next.) and so each was putting presure on exactly the same resource at the same time. It's easy to move an elephant, if everyone can lift their part of the elephant together. But if you try to move an elephant like a sandbagging line, then you're going to find yourself with some pretty slow progress. Of course, all of this relates directly to last July's near disaster in the Sales department. Is it really any wonder why 2 of the 3 sales poeple are gone now? There's a lot of presure on our development guy now. He's got 4 projects that basically rest on his shoulders. Im hoping that I can pitch in on some of the stuff and help out, but it will be interesting.
Wednesday, September 06, 2000Fun at Apple Expo?@ 06 pm | PermaLinkApple's releasing the Beta for MacOS X at the Apple Expo in Paris next week. Steve Jobs will of course be making the introduction. However, accoring to a Wired article, he may have some company. <http://www.wired.com/news_drop/palmpilot/story/0,1325,38607,00> It seems a group of people are unhappy with Apple's treatment of users outside of the US, and will be interupting his speeh to make their own. I love this quote from the article: Jobs gives brilliant speeches, and the protesters may be clubbed like baby seals if they dare to interrupt his spiel. Clubed with those brand new G4 Cubes, I'm sure...
Previously, that same day...Hacked...@ 11 am | PermaLinkI think it was an inside job... A very inside job indeed. ;p Okay, it's time to beef up the security model around here...
Monday, September 04, 2000i see london i see france i see Ross'...@ 04 am | PermaLinkjournal entry page. I was just poking around on your computer and found your journal entry page. Of course, I shouldn't post anything to your journal, but you know me... Heh, heh. But, don't worry, I'd never divulge anything too personal about you, like your fetish for dressing up like Steve Jobs in drag and insisting I call you Ms. Ivana Macintosh, Queen of the Holy Apple Empire. No siree, that's way too personal to share with just anyone, and your secret's safe with me. ;P Ok, I've harassed you enough. For now. I'm off to hunt down floral print fabrics and swath them in deep velvet. 'nough said. Ciao! Moi
Saturday, September 02, 2000All the Pretty fishes...@ 12 am | PermaLinkDear Andy: As luck would have it, as my local CompUSA was redoing their AppleStorewithinaStore-WithouttheWalls,windows,oranExternalExit Amy and I happened to be fawning over a G4 Cube, and a small conversation with a sales guy got me a blueberry iMac for Free! Well, most of an iMac... The case anyway. No motherboard, no pixel popping CRT, but the case, its metal shielding and lots of screws. (About 35 of 'em by my count.) They were getting rid of their 'for display only' models with no innards. Well how could I pass up the chance to grab a beautiful blueberry iMac? So I did. Then I turned around and Amy says, 'And just what do you think you're going to do with it?' A quick couple ums later and I had my answer: iMacquarium. So I get home and start looking up this great term, and find that not only has Andy already started on the idea, at MacHack 99 he talked about plans! Plans! That's what I need... But Google wouldn't produce. The <http://www.cwob.com/> wouldn't produce. So I'm left with this request: 'Help me Andi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!' ...Ross...
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