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January 23, 2003
I’m not sure where I was when this clever little time-waster was launched last year, or how I missed the meme first time around. But gosh golly kids, am I ever enjoying Google Mirror right now. Yes, I suppose I should get back to work, shouldn’t I?
January 23, 2003
Between cleaning up cat vomit and mixing up large batches of papier-mâché for his own private use, Howie managed to get his site nominated in this years Bloggies. He’s as befuggled by the peer recognition as any of us, but ain’t complaining. If you’d like to see him win some cruddy little statuette, or whatever … More
January 21, 2003
Detail of glass block window. Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary.
January 21, 2003
Familiar faces keep staring back at me from my browser. Why look, isn’t that Sheldon pushing gooey hair care products? What about Mr Sixto propping up that equipment rack over on the Quantum support site? And then of course, there’s Marla, Marla, Marla. Wired seems to think they’ve latched onto something akin to an Ellen … More
January 21, 2003
This is how my mom is beginning to talk to us. Stringing a few small words together in order to place a thought. To be a part of the conversation. These kinds of short phrases are coming easier and easier every day. The words that follow are the ones getting stuck somewhere between her being … More
January 19, 2003
Say you were a Unix user. One of the most common tools you would be familiar with would be cron. Cron being about as command line as you can get. Say you were a Mac OS X user. Except for a minority of us, you’d probably be more familiar with the GUI on top of … More
January 19, 2003
Those two words have been treated like a mantra by me and my fellow worker bees for years. My good friend Brad repeated the phrase “Underpromise and overdeliver…” at staff meetings, company overviews, off-site strategy get-togethers and the like. We all believed in it. We still do. I’ve always understood it to be a pledge … More
January 19, 2003
It’s been more than a couple of months since the Newtons Around The World gallery was updated, but I finally got my furry butt in gear to do it. The gallery is now sporting over 60 assorted images of — you guessed it — Newtons around the world. Who would of thought? Please give up … More
January 17, 2003
Angular building at sunrise. 11th Street Southeast, Calgary.
January 16, 2003
The indubitable Eckhart Koppen, developer of impossible software wonders, has started a new weblog dedicated to hacking the Newton. Mottek means “hammer” in a certain German dialect and loosely refers to the Hammer debugger used in developing for the ARM processor found in Newton devices. So what’s Eckhart got up his sleeve? I don’t know, … More