Archive for October, 2001

I finally found a cool reflected surface for The Mirror Project in the laundry room of my building, and I submitted the photo.

Em and I finally went to Venice Beach today, and I have to say, I wasn’t that impressed. I expected to see lots of men with no necks, wearing neon spandex and leather weight belts. There were none. It was just a loud boardwalk with pretty crappy stores. The beach was pretty nice, but [...]

At work we just built a modular e-commerce engine, and our first successful orders went through the system. As a thank you, the team was given gift certificates to amazon.com. I bought myself a new digital camera that is small enough that I can take it with me anywhere. It’s about the height and width [...]

I went to see Ben Folds with Andy last night..it was definitely a worthwhile event. He played pretty much everything from the new album, as well as a couple of b-sides. And then the encore came, where he played old Ben Folds Five songs solo..that was great, and two songs in a roadie came up [...]

I found this speech by Bill Clinton to the Society of Association Executives linked on Metafilter. It’s about life post-september 11. After watching President Bush’s first official press conference last week, and finding it bland at best and cringe-inducing at worst, the difference between these two men is staggering. Clinton is such an accomplished speaker, [...]

Wow. BloggerBot was linked on Scripting News and Blogger.com..this generated a lot of traffic and users (4,000+ hits to the webserver in a day), and the AIM server couldn’t handle all the bot’s messages it was generating, and kept kicking it off..well, message queueing has been implemented, and the problem seems to have been alleviated. [...]