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  • Windows remembered!

    Doug’s Dynamic Drivel. It is nice to see that Fred Langa at least remembers what Windows in the early days was like. I’m sure it will be lost in obscurity, but the work of those folks was amazing. I had the chance to watch folks like Brad Silverberg, David Cole, John Ludwig pretty much singlehandedly…

  • Skiing in February

    We are trying to figure out where all the snow has gone this year. It sure ain’t easy to find. A bunch of friends had just an awful time at Whistler over the Thanksgiving and Washington conditions are terrible. But, here are some of the options we are looking at: RSN. This is just a…

  • Christmas Shopping 2002

    Well the Christmas season has come and I’m still jamming to get all my presents out. Here’s where I’ve been. Sadly, compared to the last three all Internet christmases for me, there was narry a deal to be found and most of the .com’s and startups have dried up. Just look at Pricegrabber to see…

  • Referrer Linking

    IAwiki: ReferrerLinking. Iawiki.net seems to be a good place to find links and informaiton about doing various cool tricks like Referrer linking. Here’s a good page on how to do it and the various techniques that you can use.

  • Welcome to the new look

    Tongfamily weblog. I finally got the new look up for tongfamily.com on a new hoster. This now uses

  • Snow tire choices

    Tires. I need snow tires and tirerack.com has just been great. These seem like a nice choice and reasonable price plus good performance on the dry and rain as well.

  • Digital will transform the music and film industries — whether they like it or not.

    Forrester Brief – My View: Digital Denial. Interesting thoughts from George himself on entertainment industry. A good perspective. John Souza made less in his lifetime than Mel Gibson makes per movie. Wow! We’ve been thinking about where entertainment is going over at Ignition. This is just fuel for the fire. It is interesting to see…

  • Cometa launches This is the

    Cometa launches This is the project to build a huge nationwide 802.11 network. Very exciting and well covered. Interesting to see notes about it from Reiter’s Wireless Data Web Log :

  • Hot Blog Trends Spotted on

    Hot Blog Trends Spotted on the loose seem to be three big things: RDFWeb: FOAF: the ‘friend of a friend’ vocabulary. Most of the cutting edge folks are implementing this. I read the spec and literally can’t tell what it is for. Changeable blog skins. These mainly take advantage of CSS to flip different photos…

  • Hosting Unstood (volume ii) BLOGGED

    Hosting Unstood (volume ii) BLOGGED —at the-protagonist.net. Another amazing site. This is supposed to be hosted by a 16 year old in the Phillipines. Amazing, not sure I believe it, but pretty amazing. She is another person who does hosting of others via this incredibly complex ISP network: The Protagnist is an 800MB virtual server…