Perhaps this is too much naval-gazing, but then, what’s a journal for? I was talking to a tenant the other afternoon. Young kid. Switching from English to Computer Science, if I recall. When he was moving in, I noticed he had a Power Book, and I allowed as how I was pretty firmly entrenched in … Various thoughts, moral and diverting?
Day Two. Looking for that Pot of Gold (subtitle: at the end of the rainbow) Some random observations. About half the notebook computers, maybe more, are Apple Titanium Powerbooks, or variations of iBooks, but mostly Apple. Might be me. But I counted less than a dozen other computers out, and the Apple notebook seemed rather … South By So What
I missed the web awards, and I barely got to hang out with anyone. Not that it mattered much. The only workshop I managed was [url=http://www.alistapart.com/]Zeldman presenting two “[url=http://www.v-2.org]web [url=http://www.whatdoiknow.org/]personalities” and it was titled “because we can.” While it was an interesting panel and all, and I meant to get that kid’s URL, the young … SXSW first afternoon
First, it was the feds visiting me at one job. I couldn’t have been nicer – which surprised the field agents. Then it was two officers. At least one APD wasn’t too surprised, because I’ve been solicitous of his welfare in past encounters. Friday night, it was the local police at the door again, this … Alarming trend
I spent close to a year worrying my way through some technical aspects of web design just so I could make my own life easier, especially when it came to managing a live horoscope, automatically delivered, every Wednesday night at midnight. Didn’t want it to interfere with the rest of my carefully crafted lifestyle. And … Napping flint, binary construction
Tech issues resolved, well sort of… I’m using a [url=http://www.lowendmac.com/pb2/2400.shtml]PowerBook [url=http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,51283,00.html]2400c/180. I got to messing around in its System Folder [system resources for the computer], and I found one little extension that wasn’t loaded, so I tried that, slipping in the cheap Ethernet card, trying one last time to get the cable modem to come … Tech issues resolved
I’m a little out of the loop on this one because I’m so far from being decided, either way. On the very eastern edge of Town Lake, backed up into a barrio, there’s the Holly Street Power Plant. When I was reading yesterday’s [url=www.dailytexanonline.com]Daily Texan, there was a front page story with excellent graphics. But … Holly Street Protest
I knew this was coming along, I knew I had to be ready for it, but even with the best mental preparation, I still wasn’t quite ready for this to happen. There was a knock on the front door. Package delivery service, bright and early, and me, looking my haggard best. “Sign here,” the driver … The Change
Weather didn’t bother me a bit. I hopped by the apartment’s office, seeing as how it was the first of the month and all, and I kept hearing a voice in my head, “With 57% of the precincts reporting, we have declared a winner….” It was that tone of voice from way back, long ago … Gray Sunday afternoon
