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Get this:
- I stopped using Outlook awhile back so I have no calendar
- I tried Mozilla Calendar but it’s not stable/ready yet
- I don’t want to buy and carry an appointments book
- My Palm is buried in a box somewhere, inaccessible
So what did I do?
Ah, Defender.
My friend Josh Seiden has started a blog just about that old Williams video game. 1981 in the city all over again.
I’m a little worried that my interest in Gentoo means it’s starting to achieve a kind of stylish notoriety that presages loss of original quality, but these folks are so dang hardcore that seems unlikely. Especially given what you have to go through to install and feed the thing. But it is a beautiful construct, and my CPU is never idle any more, with the entire world to emerge.
Rod Johnson wrote the book I’ve always wanted. I like to think that if I’d had it, read it, and understood it years ago I would have produced finer software architecture and enterprise Java apps than I can claim to. But my happiness at finally having it in hand is balanced by a lingering sense that in doing such a good job of defining what enterprise Java architecture really should be…he’s also revealed how expensive and complex it truly is.
Napeague Bay is a heavenly cauldron when it blows hard out of the South. At 2:30 this afternoon I finally got out on the water, serious wind. It was blowing over 25 knots. I was ecstatic. The sky was streaked with clouds, and the water was dark without bright sunlight. Whitecaps looked like scrapings where the wave tops had been, the gusts just took the sail and dragged it forward, pulling me wildly. I was laughing and just trying not to get killed.
Coastal waters from Sandy Hook NJ to Fire Island Inlet NY out 20 NM-
coastal waters from Fire Island Inlet to Moriches Inlet NY out 20 NM-
coastal waters from Moriches Inlet NY to Montauk point NY out 20 NM-
353 PM EDT Sat Oct 4 2003
Small craft advisory
Tonight: SW Wind 20 to 25 kt early in the evening, then shifting W 10 to 15 kt. Seas 6 to 8 Ft subsiding to 4 to 6 Ft. Chance of showers early this evening.
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I remember a lot of things about the time when the Internet first became known to us. I remember a domain name for an educational project I worked on in 1988 (ny-yn.org). Modems at 300 baud, 1200, 2400, 9.6 and plugging a poor 28.8k into a router and sharing it with our small office of 5 in 1994 so we could get a few bytes moving. Less than a year later we had NY Tel pulling a T1 up 18 flights of stairs.
I just pulled down and installed OpenOffice 1.1 this morning. And it is very impressive. Check out this list of features. More importantly, it just works. And the import of Office documents seems to be excellent so far.
