Archives for February 2003

I wallpapered the office today….

I woke up with a need to find new wallpaper, and with 2 monitors at home and 2 at work, my work was cut out for me.  Here’s some links to rockin’ sweet new wallpapers from my friend at Panic, Steven Frank.

http://www.prevision.dk/photo.html
http://mandolux.com/
http://www.veer.com/ideas/wallpaper/
http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/desktops.html

The new wallpaper (seen at right) I’m using is here.

(Cultural note: If she’s meant to represent a woman of Islamic faith, it’s possibly not accurate since: 1. Her green eyes are probably contacts.  2. Most devout Mulsim women who wear burkas avoid eye makeup. 3. The text is in an english font that harkens to the Devanagari scripts, which are Northern Indian and Indo-Aryan, not Hamito-Semitic like Arabic.)

[Scott Hanselman’s Weblog]

Bob Frankston on Boston Driving.

If you donât drive in Boston you arenât really here, youâre just visiting. Boston driving is like the Internet ö you have to take responsibility for your own survival and not rely on the benevolence of those between points A and B. Why do you think the end-to-end principle was developed here! Of course, now that I-90 goes to Logan even a visitor can find it. They gave both direction of the Ted Williams Tunnel the same name! It was so much fun to see people looking for the Sumner Tunnel which they took from the airport since you have to take the Callahan to get back. Ever since they changed the rules to give priority to cars leaving the traffic circle weâve lost the edge. And requiring all cars to stop at stop signs ö what a waste. It wasnât that way when I took my driving test (really ö 2nd and 3rd cars didnât have to stop).

Just get a car, close your eyes and enjoy the experience. Just remember that green means proceed with caution, yellow means accelerate and red means look both ways for cops.

[Scripting News]

The Best Quotes From Margaret Thatcher’s ‘Statecraft’. The Best Quotes From Margaret Thatcher’s ‘Statecraft’: There have only been two European leaders in the last century that I… [Right Wing News]

Disk Memory Below a Buck a Gigabye, and What That Portends. Now that disk capacity costs less than a dollar per gigabyte, it’s again time to look at the most disruptive… [Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]

BTW, I’ve been getting all kinds of emails saying that the Google rep did say the deal with Blogger is about synergy. It’s also in today’s NY Times article. I’m a little too close to this to say that Google has to be really careful about tying their weblog hosting service with their search engine, but it’s true anyway. I’ve heaped praise on Google in the past for their integrity, for not selling placement in search engine results. Everyone is going to be watching to see if they tilt the search table to favor their weblogs. And even if they don’t we really do need a second search engine, in case there’s too much synergy. [Scripting News]

As Halley writes, some seriously nasty snow here…

I’m finally digging out from under the blanket drifts on my bed — I’ve been sleeping non-stop since yesterday because my flu came back, the nasty thing — and now that I dug my way out of the covers, it seems the snow is really beginning to hit us hard here — so I’ll dive back under. I’ve been reading and managed to make myself some lunch — macaroni and cheese — first thing I’ve eaten in days it seems like.

It’s one of these sideways storms, the snow doesn’t just fall down, but blows in sideways with such force it looks like they’re sandblasting the the side of the building. What a winter this has been. Get those spring dresses with the flirty skirts ready and slingback shoes — give me some warm April weather and a summery spring evening in a cafe, barelegs, pretty sandals, painted toes, enough of these wool socks and boots. [Halley’s Comment]

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News Update. Jon Johansen has a new blog called “So sue me”. I find this hilarious. Subscribed. (Best of all, itâs running… [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog]