I kind of like the idea of naming the folder I play in on an unfamiliar computer "delete this folder if Moss is no longer using this computer". It's efficient, it's simple and clear, it means that I can't really be blamed if its continued presence makes trouble for anyone, and besides, it's the only really fun use I've seen of Windows-style long file names. Or at least, it's a case of the more general only-fun-use, naming a file with instructions on how to use that file.
12:19:23 PM,
Monday 7 August 2000
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Hey, wow! Actual evidence that someone is reading bloglet! Hi Mike! And now, an anecdote: workers at a web startup in Northern California, probably inspired by the idea of "casual friday", recently began a new tradition in their workplace: several of them have taken to wearing their suits to the office on Mondays.
11:48:36 AM,
Monday 7 August 2000
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Hooray! Katherine's Bloglet is back!
01:02:43 AM,
Monday 7 August 2000
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There oughta be a law. Oh, wait, there is a law.
12:04:42 AM,
Monday 7 August 2000
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I don't know. I just don't know.
05:21:02 PM,
Sunday 6 August 2000
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The whole debate over Napster, Gnutella, and such, would go much more smoothly if it didn't have idiot libertarians and you-dare-not-legislate-my-internet goons trying to take part in it and pass off their arguments as being somehow serious and worth considering. Just for the record, the arguments of libertarians are virtually never worth considering.
02:14:29 PM,
Sunday 6 August 2000
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The Moon is Waxing Crescent (42% of Full), reports my computer. I suspect this is true, or as true as such statements ever are. Meanwhile, here I sit.
12:31:30 AM,
Sunday 6 August 2000
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The Violent Femmes really are a very good band.
05:14:06 PM,
Saturday 5 August 2000
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Okay, here goes: If I replace the word 'America' with the words 'North America', only the context will determine whether I am specifically including Canada and Mexico, or where I am specifically excluding South America.
12:35:14 AM,
Saturday 5 August 2000
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Mine's actually going rather well.
10:51:42 PM,
Friday 4 August 2000
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Okay, well, Flash wasn't too hard to learn. Now I just need to do something interesting with it.
05:37:10 PM,
Friday 4 August 2000
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Do you know how to find a square root using only basic math?
03:37:47 PM,
Friday 4 August 2000
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What about a Flash interface to... well, a Flash interface to something.
11:59:10 AM,
Friday 4 August 2000
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WARNING: YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING ACCESS TO THIS SYSTEM, LIKE PRETTY SOON NOW
11:26:34 AM,
Friday 4 August 2000
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There's some people out there that should really be on the same coast as me.
12:27:16 AM,
Friday 4 August 2000
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I can't understand how Flash can be so brilliant in some ways and so brain-damaged in others. It's object-oriented--so much so that it's impossible to even think of it in strictly procedural terms--yet it lacks any really coherent notion of classes, or even arrays, for that matter.
05:35:58 PM,
Thursday 3 August 2000
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Hooray! No longer need I live in fear of losing my email address--I now have another one at work.
02:15:54 PM,
Thursday 3 August 2000
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My first login from work. And the big discovery is actually about whorfin: the "unresolvable hosts will be cut off in a week or two" message is still up, just as it was a few months ago when last I logged in from an unresolvable host. Somehow I'm not convinced.
11:45:37 AM,
Thursday 3 August 2000
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Well, that was it. I've had my first day of work, and it was actually kind of fun. I learned Macromedia Flash. I met some nice people. Overall it wasn't at all bad. All the same, when I imagine 10,000 more of them, I do begin to grow a little skeptical about the whole thing.
12:54:32 AM,
Thursday 3 August 2000
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I got a job.
12:48:44 AM,
Wednesday 2 August 2000
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When in doubt, use brute force.
--Ken Thompson
06:19:17 PM,
Tuesday 1 August 2000
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Well, that's that, then.
03:45:25 PM,
Tuesday 1 August 2000
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Nothing to do, nothing to do, put some mustard in your shoe.
11:35:17 AM,
Tuesday 1 August 2000
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Coming soon: a program to convert numbers into words, the result of a programming challenge between Kerne and me. (or at any rate, he was writing one, and I challenged him to a race. It's all very exciting.)
01:10:02 AM,
Tuesday 1 August 2000
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That's another possibility of being delayed, she said.
11:47:29 PM,
Monday 31 July 2000
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Hmm... I'd better look that up.
05:01:06 PM,
Monday 31 July 2000
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Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
04:57:22 PM,
Monday 31 July 2000
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"In addition, over the course of the next several weeks we will be upgrading our internet servers".
--Computer Services, several months ago
01:46:51 PM,
Monday 31 July 2000
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"Who is responsible?" is not a question about who responsible is.
11:59:50 PM,
Sunday 30 July 2000
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http://www.airwise.com/airports/us/SFO/SFOpark_costs.html
11:25:45 PM,
Sunday 30 July 2000
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Who would have thought--there are terminals available in the workstations section of www.onsale.com.
05:35:57 PM,
Sunday 30 July 2000
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"To call what Metallica produces 'intellectual property' stretches the imagination to its breaking point."
--Charles Collum
04:08:34 PM,
Sunday 30 July 2000
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"...the student left is depicted as a menace threatening freedom of research and teaching; the student movement is said to have placed the freedom of the universities in jeopardy by seeking to impose totalitarian ideological controls. That is how the state capitalist intellectuals describe the fact that their near-total control of ideology was very briefly brought into question, as they seek to close again these slight breaches in the system of thought control, and to reverse the process through which just a little diversity arose within the ideological institutions: the totalitarian menace of fascism of the left! And they really believe this..."
--Noam Chomsky
02:01:12 AM,
Sunday 30 July 2000
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And you know he hates to be kept waiting 'round.
08:06:13 PM,
Saturday 29 July 2000
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What should we do now? We have time to saunter downtown if we want.
06:23:45 PM,
Saturday 29 July 2000
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You have. One. New message. And. Four. Old Messages.
02:38:44 PM,
Saturday 29 July 2000
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