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Mon, 05 Jul 2004 01:54:09 GMT

Tonight's movie: Slums of Beverly Hills. Pretty good.

Mon, 05 Jul 2004 01:54:32 GMT

The fireworks in this NYC neighborhood is pretty outrageous. Sounds like there's a battle going on every street. Nothing like this happened in California, or used to happen here when I was a kid. Pretty crazy stuff.

Sun, 04 Jul 2004 21:39:21 GMT

2001: "Listening to users is actually not that easy. It's easier to *be* a user and make products for other users. And that my friends, the combination of user-based information exchange and products that reflect user experience and wants, is where money will be made on the Internet."

Sun, 04 Jul 2004 20:06:13 GMT

BBC: Universities get wi-fi access.

Sun, 04 Jul 2004 18:49:36 GMT

Okay yesterday I did something I said I wouldn't, and today I did another thing I didn't think I would. I bought an iPod. A few weeks ago my old iPod, the one I got as a get-well gift from the blogging community in 2002, stopped working. Since I'm going to be traveling a lot, and my Rhomba can only store 256MB, I decided, finally, I really need an iPod, so I bought a 15GB model for $299. It's charging right now. It'll be interesting to see how well it works with my ThinkPad running XP (an operating system I once said I'd never run). The funny thing is that it comes ready to speak German. Why is that so funny? Because the only German I know is what Andre Radke taught me: Ein, svei, drei, feuhr, fumph, etc.

Sun, 04 Jul 2004 19:58:36 GMT

I got the iPod working with XP, still a little confused, but it's not too hard. Listening to music right now, while the battery is charging. Anthony Baker says he's really happy with his iPod, has used it on Windows, ran into a bit of a glitch when switching to Mac.

Sun, 04 Jul 2004 17:15:52 GMT

I'm going to be looking for several contractors over the next few months to work on programming projects with me. The first one is someone who knows how to program XML-RPC apps in C. It's probably about a month of work beginning-to-end, involves a little database work. Description here.

Sun, 04 Jul 2004 09:24:47 GMT

On this day in 1776 the United States of America, then a colony of Great Britain, declared its independence, ~~starting the American Revolution~~, which is still going strong in 2004.

Sun, 04 Jul 2004 16:35:58 GMT

Jonathan Dodds writes: "The Revolution didn't start with the Declaration of Independence. It started the year before -- in April 1775 at Lexington and Concord."

Sun, 04 Jul 2004 09:32:05 GMT

Ted Leung: RSS for System Status.

Sun, 04 Jul 2004 09:38:47 GMT

The Economist: "Should old media embrace blogging?"

Sun, 04 Jul 2004 09:40:56 GMT

Brent Simmons lists cool American people and things.

Sun, 04 Jul 2004 09:42:35 GMT

Check out the Statue of Liberty Cam and see how the Lady is doing.

Sun, 04 Jul 2004 09:43:52 GMT

Happy Birthday USA!