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Monthly Archives April 2004

What was it called?

A few years ago, while there was still a dot-com bubble, there was a
company selling an internet appliance with a flat screen, which after
its release took about a day for someone to figure out how to get it
to run Linux. The company was selling them at a loss and making things
up in subscriptions, except that [...]

Posted 29 April 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (8) °

Many, many Freezies

I have 110 Freezies.

I bought a box today at the grocery store. I suppose I figured they were
roughly popsicle-like in quantity, until I started taking them out of
the box and putting them in the fridge, or more specifically, until
I realized that some time later I was still taking them out of
the box and putting them [...]

Posted 27 April 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (9) °

Icon post

A bunch of people on my friends list have been posting explanations of
their icons.

My temporary default. I’ll get bored of it quickly. I saw the picture
from the cover of Freedom of Choice in the liner notes to their
Greatest Hits which I bought recently and thought that it would
make a good icon. The text wrote [...]

Posted 25 April 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (3) °

Random update

Yay, new icon for me! Bought their Greatest Hits the other day and wish
I’d had it around years ago.

I haven’t posted about me in a while, so let me summarize.
February and March were rough in a million tiny little ways that added up
to a lot; I had a series of (unrelated) medical problems which led [...]

Posted 24 April 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (4) °

technical communities

Halfjack’s recent mention of Usenet in a comment to
an Lj_biz post got me thinking about Usenet and LiveJournal
and the points where they intersect.

One of the things I’ve never really looked hard for here is technical
communities. I’m not sure why; partly because I hadn’t thought of it,
I suppose, and partly because a lot of them are [...]

Posted 23 April 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments Off °

GMail

For god’s
sake, it’s web mail with a really big quota!

I realize this would’ve been more timely a couple weeks ago when the
Google GMail hype was at its peak,
but people are still going on about this. Jeremy nails it in the
post linked above.

Didn’t we learn from Orkut?

Posted 22 April 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (7) °

Summer reading

Since you’re reading this, you probably have some idea of my
tastes. Recommend me some summer reading. It doesn’t have to be
light or nontechnical or fiction or anything at all — just stuff
that you think I would enjoy. (Even better if you tell me why
you think I would enjoy it!)

Posted 21 April 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (13) °

rusty anchors

Some of my recent del.icio.us bookmarks:
☞ LiveJournal’s "relayfights" community
— the new adventures of the tty relay operator

☞ ieCapture
— See a webpage in IE for Windows on any platform [via kottke]

☞ Okonomiyaki
— Easy recipe for okonomiyaki. You must try.

☞ The Little Man That Lives In My Subwoofer

☞ Newsdesigner
— weblog about newspaper design

☞ Virtual Drum Machines
— Flash [...]

Posted 17 April 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments Off °