Friday, December 31, 1999

We're working on the MacBird source release. Here's a draft of the license. I'm interested in a thoughtful review by people familiar with open source licenses and with UserLand. Our goals are different from those of the drafters of the licenses for Linux, Mozilla Perl, Apache, and FreeBSD which are examples we looked at.

Andrew Duncan has the first Frontier server to cross Y2K. It seems to be running. Praise Murphy!

Hey, it's Y2K in New Zealand, Kamchatka, Sydney, Tokyo, Beijing and Bangkok, New Dehli, Moscow, Paris, Rome, Berlin, London, Rio. We're still here! Keep on truckin and praying to Murphy.

NY Times: Russian President Yeltsin Resigns.

Wall Street Journal interview with Kim Polese.

July1999 in review is done. Still looking for a few volunteers..

John Marden: "One day there was a fire in a wastebasket in the Dean's office and in rushed a physicist, a chemist, and a statistician. The physicist immediately starts to work on how much energy would have to be removed from the fire to stop the combustion. The chemist works on which reagent would have to be added to the fire to prevent oxidation. While they are doing this, the statistician is setting fires to all the other wastebaskets in the office. 'What are you doing?' they demanded. 'Well to solve the problem, obviously you need a large sample size' the statistician replies."

Genehack has become one of my favorite weblogs. He covers stuff I'm interested in, and doesn't make a big deal about things that aren't big deals. Thanks!

I had a great time at the Fillmore party tonight. Hot Tuna opened. And then a band led by Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and Roger McNamee of Kleiner Perkins took the stage. They were great!

As I write this it's 9:21PM in New Zealand. Less than three hours to Y2K there. It'll happen while I'm sleeping, but I'll be up early to see how it went.

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