A wonderful article by Mark Simonson on the scourge of Arial.
Archive for March, 2002
30 Mar
2002
The Register has a transcript of their interview with Benoit and Dominic at Applewood in Menlo Park (across from the old Be building).
≡ 11:54 am
The Register has a transcript of their interview with
Benoit and Dominic at Applewood in Menlo Park (across from the old Be
building).
Man, my wife’s mashed potatoes are the best. Even on day 2.
In the “let’s all be thankful that didn’t happen” category: a 1960s Beatles version of the “Lord of the Rings”.
29 Mar
2002
This account of a certain consulting company’s San Francisco office is really shocking to me.
≡ 9:58 am
This account
of a certain consulting company’s San Francisco office is really
shocking to me. I interviewed in that office (the one they’re still
in); I remember the different floors, the soda fountain. Crazy.
Well, OK, things aren’t quite back to normal yet. False alarm.
29 Mar
2002
As of about midnight last night, the httpd/php problem was traced to mod_gzip and resolved.
≡ 9:54 am
As of about midnight last night, the httpd/php problem was traced to
mod_gzip and resolved. dsandler.org should be back up to full
speed again.
Domain Name: LEMONLYMAN.COM
Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.register.com
Referral URL: http://www.register.com
Name Server: NS.WARNERBROS.COM
Name Server: NS2.WARNERBROS.COM
Updated Date: 19-feb-2002
Wow, there was nobody on 101 this morning. I’m at the office,
and it’s 7:20.
What about the problem of evil? Go work on that and leave the draperies be.
27 Mar
2002
By the way, the thing with dsandler.org today is that it will throw away your browser’s first request.
≡ 1:45 pm
By the way, the thing with dsandler.org today is that it will
throw away your browser’s first request. Yeah, I know, it’s really
sucky. I’m told it’s being worked on.
Asteroids champ found. He died 13 years ago, however,
“rounding up his cat”. “The fate of his cat is unknown.”
Meg Hourihan: Taking the “you” out of user.
Yikes, this page looks bad in Netscape 4.7/Mac. Oh, well.
Well, we’re back up here at dsandler.org. We may go down again.
We may not. We’re wacky that way!
26 Mar
2002
I was recently directed to an excellent (no, really) advertisement for backup software:
≡ 11:19 am
I was recently directed to an excellent (no, really) advertisement for
backup software: The Tao of Backup.
(Of course, since dsandler.org is down right now, you can’t
read this and don’t care.)
Crap.
The water heater in our apartment building exploded. Not likely to be fixed by tomorrow.
Weird routing problems today. Or DNS problems. Or something. It’s spotty,
like everything about the Internet. (I don’t like spotty or irregular or
nondeterministic behavior in computers. “They’re supposed to be our
faithful servants!”)
[self appendToBooklist:Piloting
Palm];
Highlight of my day so far: testing out my long-atrophied foosball
muscles. (I won two out of three games, if you must know.)
Slashdot has picked up the
VeriSign story.
