2000-05-01 18:50:11+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Hey y'all, I'm back from Vegas. Valley of Fire was awesome, the water district gardens were very neat, and the engineering involved in the Bellagio fountains was pretty spectacular. Longer report in a bit.
[ related topics: Dan's Life Nature and environment Las Vegas ]
2000-05-01 18:54:12+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Woohoo, aren't ya glad we don't live in England, where they monitor e-mail? Much better we should only have to deal with ECHELON.
[ related topics: Web development ]
2000-05-01 19:13:12+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Via Genehack, that wacked out ditz Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, needs to be stopped. First she voted for the anti flag burning amendment, now she's supporting legislation to make linking to chemistry information illegal.
[ related topics: Web development John S Jacobs-Anderson ]
2000-05-01 19:23:56+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
2000-05-01 19:26:16+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Oh, and go read the Pursed Lips entries about Scarleteen.
[ related topics: Sexual Culture ]
2000-05-01 19:57:36+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
I've wanted to get over to Europe sometime soon anyway: sex on the beach legal in Spain, or at least they're gonna turn off the lights and suspend patrols from 1 A.M. to 2 A.M. on a few beaches.
[ related topics: Web development Erotic Sexual Culture ]
2000-05-02 00:52:26+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
The long-awaited new RISKS digest has Bruce Schneier talking about UCITA, the latest attempt by commercial software interests to make sure that we're all running Linux; various teenagers breaking into sites apparently adminned by people who weren't around in the '80s, the last time that sites were so insecure that any teenager with brains could steal useful information (ummm... or so I've heard); and Microsoft Explorapedia's backwards earth, among others.
[ related topics: Free Software Children and growing up Web development Microsoft ]
2000-05-02 02:20:22+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Via Poor Clio, the Block Bonobo Foundation, celebrating "The Horniest Chimps on Earth" and what we can learn from how they interact.
2000-05-02 17:31:16+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
US stops Selective Availability degradation of GPS signals. (link will probably be bad tomorrow).
[ related topics: Privacy ]
2000-05-02 18:10:18+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
QOTD:
"There are two types of people who oppose pornography -
people who don't know what they're talking about and those who
don't know what they're missing."
--- Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, quoted in Nerve.com This Week In Sex
[ related topics: Quotes Erotic Sexual Culture ]
2000-05-02 19:26:47+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
I think that a breakup of Microsoft will simply cement the hold of Windows on the OS market. John Dvorak gives one reason why: Microsoft stifles innovation, a breakup will open up the field for others to develop for Microsoft products, which will, if managed carefully, allow the resulting ex-Microsoft companies to completely own the platforms.
[ related topics: Interactive Drama Microsoft ]
2000-05-03 01:15:19+02 by Dan Lyke / 4 comments
Hey, I may be able to see a few movies I've missed with a clear (sorry) conscience now: Via Robot Wisdom rumor has it that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman have left Scientology.
[ related topics: Jorn Barger Scientology ]
2000-05-03 01:31:55+02 by Dan Lyke / 16 comments
I realize that my discussion system sucks asteroids through capillary tubes, but perhaps ya'll will abide that and offer some feedback: I'm trying to see how ethical structures other than my own would handle a problem that a friend of mine was crying on my shoulder over last night. The friend we'll call "X" knows someone we'll call "Y". Y got into a space in Y's life where Y needed some support, so X offered a place to sleep and room to breathe so that Y could get back on Y's feet, in exchange for following a few simple rules. Some of those rules influenced other people, X put X's reputation on the line in recommending Y for some easy tasks. Y broke those rules, X complained, Y promised to do better, but didn't. After repeating that cycle a few times, finally X said "no more", with the end result that Y's probably going to end up homeless on the street. X views Y's eviction as an act of total last resort, and sees it as a decision which involves giving up any interest in whether Y lives or dies.
Needless to say, since X once viewed Y as a close friend this is a matter of some emotional turmoil. And it likely involves one more person on the street, a problem which affects the general quality of life of the culture I live in. I don't see a solution other than the one taken, but I'm wondering if some of my more economically liberal readers would offer their takes on the ethics of the situation. What can be done when someone's unwilling to take basic actions for survival? And how does this differ from the person who spends commute hours with the "will work for food" sign at an intersection, and the rest of their day sipping tallboys under the local bridge?
[ related topics: Ethics ]
2000-05-03 16:33:48+02 by Dan Lyke / 1 comments
We need to find a way to get David Steinberg's web archiving set up to be automagic, 'cause I read his essays via e-mail, and then don't always remember to check Sexuality.org 'til they show up. Anyway, the latest Comes Naturally is on the need for privacy.
[ related topics: Web development Privacy Sexual Culture ]
2000-05-03 16:36:52+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Just to make it look like I'm completely sucking up to Debra Hyde, if you hadn't gone and read her 'blog when I told you to, her essay on the Scarleteen situation is on this week's Clean Sheets.
[ related topics: Interactive Drama Web development Erotic Sexual Culture Weblogs ]
2000-05-03 16:39:39+02 by Dan Lyke / 4 comments
A couple of people are having comments truncated. If you're one of those people, please email me a description of your browser environment. I've had no problems with Netscape 4.61, Lynx 2.8.1rel.2 or XEmacs20/w3-mode all under Debian 2.1 Linux. After I deliver some software mid-day I'll try to check via a Winders box.
[ related topics: Flutterby Meta ]
2000-05-03 16:50:34+02 by Dan Lyke / 2 comments
ROFL: If you've participated in a Seder, you must go read today's Rhymes with Orange. (I hate to do this, but the 2000-05-03 Rhymes with Orange image is here because they don't have an easy way to link to a given day otherwise).
[ related topics: Interactive Drama Web development ]
2000-05-03 16:55:45+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
I'm taking back the mantle from John, this week Keith Knight tackles walking in LA. And, hey, Keith is signing his new book down at the Depot in Mill Valley this evening, I hope to get there.
[ related topics: Humor Web development Books John S Jacobs-Anderson ]
2000-05-03 17:07:36+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Also on Sexuality.org, an essay exploring masochism as a spiritual path. "In the early eleventh century, monastic hermits in Italy took up the practice of self-flagellation and fled the monasteries to take to the public streets and churches. Called the sect of the Flagellants, and organized by St. Anthony, these monks would work themselves up to frenzied desire and could reach consummation only in torn flesh and self-degradation."
[ related topics: Religion Web development ]
2000-05-04 22:42:54+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Via Davenetics, web readers generally ignore graphics.
[ related topics: Web development ]
2000-05-04 22:50:28+02 by Dan Lyke / 1 comments
Aaaahh, yes, via Eric comes another compelling use for Flash: Three's Cumpany (adults only...).
2000-05-04 22:58:28+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
C'mon folkks, we can't let 'em beat the Golden Gate: the "guess the date of the next skyway bridge jumper" pool: "the beautiful skyway bridge has become the attraction of choice to many a troubled soul. it's the #3 bridge in the country for suicides, striving to be #1."
2000-05-04 23:09:38+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Tara reviews the new Raging Search engine.
[ related topics: Web development ]
2000-05-05 19:01:38+02 by Dan Lyke / 1 comments
Via BradLands, a trip down memory lane: Anyone else remember Beagle Bros software for the Apple ][? My fingers were wired for G.P.L.E. for the longest time, and a friend and I even worked up a two liner for one of their contests, a lame lo-res Space Invaders type game (that didn't win anything). Plus, say what you will about modern day web design, the absolutely coolest graphic design themes of any software company, ever. And their Peeks and Pokes chart was a necessity for any AppleSoft programmer. And they had great suggestions for floppy disk care (do kids these days even know what a 5.25" floppy was? Damn, programming was really fun back then. I mean, it's still got its moments, but...
[ related topics: Apple Computer Children and growing up Web development Games ]
2000-05-05 19:52:36+02 by Dan Lyke / 2 comments
I feel officially left out. I haven't gotten either the I Love You worm or its siblings. I have, however, gotten a gazillion annoying email messages warning me about them, which has wasted more time than what'd happen if I got the message itself (since my computers run an operating system I'm far less vulnerable to those problems than most), but having just read The Virus Creation Labs I also understand even more clearly that most of the hype is generated by hucksters trying to sell more snake oil.
Since I've only seen one of the new dollar coins in the wild I've been wondering about the isolation of economic systems recently, I think something similar goes on with the 'net: It just happens that the people I tend to interact with aren't the sort of drooling idiots who'd fall for this (Yeah, I know, with hubris like this I'm really tempting fate).
[ related topics: Technology and Culture ]
2000-05-08 20:23:22+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Ahhh, the politics: Frank passed along a note that the Clintons are going to attend O'Connor's funeral, but "O'Connor had a long-standing order to keep Bill Clinton out of St. Patrick's Cathedral - no matter how important the occasion." Interesting conundrum, given that we do funerals for the living, not the dead.
2000-05-08 20:26:37+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Shamefully stolen from Genehack, where John has obviously been more effective at keeping up with the Scary Devil Monastery than me, the Netizen Perl training materials. I've corresponded with Skud and seen her notes on developing the courses and based on that, without having done much more than glanced at them yet, can recommend them as good ways to learn about Un*x, Perl, CGI, and the like.
[ related topics: John S Jacobs-Anderson ]
2000-05-08 20:40:21+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Debra has proclaimed today Scarleteen day. If you were so inclined you might send strokes the way of the editors of Scarleteen
, and if you read the Oxygen profile of Scarleteen you might wanna compliment those guys on their choice of topics.
Why do I think it's important? Well, I just spent much of the weekend assisting at a Tantra workshop and it was a good reminder of how far from the sick standards imposed by this culture I've come, and how much more there is to work on. Instead of actively trying to screw with kid's minds we should try to teach them the truth, that way they won't regret all those wasted years when they've been adults for a few decades.
[ related topics: Religion Interactive Drama Web development Photography Sexual Culture ]
2000-05-08 22:17:39+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Cam has been getting some moronic flames, to which I can only add this small consolation: Cam, at least the people who're flaming you aren't wasting your time by asking you questions about a point of view, to which you write a careful reasoned response, to which they then respond "No wonder I thought your site sucks. Maybe I'll come back when you grow up and vote Republican." Or words to that effect... Blessed are the incoherent one line flamers, for they wasteth our time less than some. Note: Since Flutterby hasn't gotten publicity in a long time this hasn't been an issue in a while. None of my recent correspondents should feel that they're in this class.
[ related topics: Cameron Barrett ]
2000-05-08 22:21:06+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Via RobotWisdom, Gödel's Theorem.
[ related topics: Jorn Barger ]
2000-05-08 22:24:33+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Via riothero, I'm Looking For A Needy God.
[ related topics: Religion Web development ]
2000-05-09 04:11:50+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Marylaine comments on voice recognition in My Word's Worth.
[ related topics: Web development Marylaine Block ]
2000-05-09 18:03:23+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
This idea stuck with me for a day:
"None of Lotus Cloud's lovers was ever jealous. now that simply isn't
human if we're talking about love, but is very human indeed if we're
talking about worship. One is not jealous of a fellow worshipper, and
the pure in heart will always recognize a goddess."
--- Li Kao, a character in Bridge of Birds
by Barry Hughart
[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]
2000-05-09 18:54:01+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Spectator Magazine has two reviews, one positive on Sex: The Annabel Chong Story, the other negative on Sex: The Annabel Chong Story. After my <link url="/archives/1999_Mar/04_AnnabelChongmeetstheOlympics.html">musings on Annabel Chong</link> last year I really do need to see this movie.
[ related topics: Web development Erotic Sexual Culture ]
2000-05-09 18:54:41+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
in Scarlet Letters, some wonderful musings on virginity and rites of passage: "I reject the notion of virginity utterly. I reject the idea that I may only come to a given act as an innocent once, and that anyone besides myself may give a finite weight to the importance of any aspect of my life. I refuse to have but one rite of passage, as I refuse to be stifled from growing, changing and becoming who I am at any given year, day or in every moment."
[ related topics: Web development Erotic Sexual Culture ]
2000-05-09 19:59:09+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Todd tells me I need some nerdliness to balance out today's distinctly sex bias, and suggests the NASA snake robots. Hello, anyone got a 10 foot pole I can not touch this with? Seriously, though, the snake as a model for propulsion gives a vehicle that can work through 3 dimensional environments and with less dependence on gravity for traction.
[ related topics: Web development Erotic Sexual Culture ]
2000-05-10 01:45:43+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Keep getting caught off guard by those oh-so-smarmy sysadmins who blow you off with the "Oh, that's in the European common toad book" to your common questions? Here's help: the O'Reilly Animal Index.
[ related topics: Web development Books ]
2000-05-10 17:25:04+02 by Dan Lyke / 1 comments
The proprietress of Shiny Blue Grasshopper (I'd use her name, but it doesn't appear immediately on her blog) suggested that All About My Vagina might be on-topic here. It's one woman's perspective on topics from cervix to licking to pap smears to soreness written very matter-of-factly, and while I haven't run into anything new yet it's always nice to get another perspective.
[ related topics: Weblogs ]
2000-05-10 17:58:29+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
The new Clean Sheets is up, with a review of Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex, a sampling of Richard Meade's photography (which, to me, comes off as technically clean but not speaking to my soul), new fiction, and Chris Bridges on group marriage.
[ related topics: Humor Books Photography Erotic Sexual Culture Marriage ]
2000-05-10 18:18:47+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
I've raved about the photography of Eric Boutilier-Brown before, and, of course, recent discussion has mentioned Scarlet Letters. So what could be better than Eric Boutilier-Brown's photography in Scarlet Letters?
[ related topics: Web development Photography Erotic ]
2000-05-10 21:19:06+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Ain't it great that Microsoft has incoherent wacko spokespeople, and then is cheeky enough to deny it?
[ related topics: Web development Microsoft ]
2000-05-11 21:34:32+02 by Dan Lyke / 3 comments
Question of the day:
Q: How many Microsoft programmers does it take to write really good software?
A: More.
[ related topics: Microsoft ]
2000-05-12 00:07:04+02 by Dan Lyke / 6 comments
Since I can't get through to <link url="http://www.slashdot.org/">/.</link>, I'll point to the Salon article instead: Microsoft built an almost but not really implementation of Kerberos that's broken in some really wonky ways. They'd been working with the Kerberos folks, then broken that trust, when pressed promised that they'd release the details, but they've done so only with an NDA. Someone posted the Microsoft Kerberos docs on /. and now Microsoft's pissed. C'mon, kiddos, haven't we all seen this game played before? Security which depends on obscurity isn't. Using Microsoft products in enterprise applications is equivalent to using lead paint in nurseries. Sure, it's cheap and effective at the time, but...
[ related topics: Web development Games Microsoft ]
2000-05-12 09:53:30+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Keith Knight on more little victories.
[ related topics: Humor Web development ]
2000-05-12 16:49:02+02 by Dan Lyke / 1 comments
Oh. My. If anyone doubts that it's been September for quite a while, look at the glories of this little B2B ad sheet promoting email advertising:
"Wilke's company and others are already moving into the next frontier: e-mail written in HTML, which allows the message to look and feel just like a Web page and lets companies maintain a consistent brand image."
Sorry folks, I will no longer reasonably consider that line about how claiming the net has been dumbed down is elitist and wrong.
[ related topics: Web development ]
2000-05-12 19:23:40+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Who wouldn't want to live on Cowshit Lane?
2000-05-14 22:27:10+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
So after this morning's hike we were reading the paper while waiting for a seat at Inn Kensington
, an awesome breakfast joint if you're over in the east bay, and noticed that the paper had a picture of Bill Gates captioned with some call for better Internet security... Uhhhh... Isn't that like David Berkowitz asking for handgun regulation?
[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]
2000-05-14 23:28:10+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
As an antidote to all the Microsoft bashing going on around here, you could go read the new RISKS digest which serves as a reminder that all software sucks, including Eudora (can run native code on user's machine if they click on a URL in email), Netscape (can improperly validate SSL sessions), and, of course, the usual expected array of IIS and Outlook bugs. Plus a useful rundown of the recent Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision on encryption code as protected free speech.
[ related topics: Interactive Drama Web development Microsoft ]
2000-05-15 01:57:21+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Evidence the gene pool needs more hydrogen peroxide: A friend of mine consluts at lawyer's offices. At one such office she set up around the requisite warnings about the "ILOVEYOU" worm, including warning notes pasted to each monitor. A day later she gets a frantic call from one such lawyer complaing about not being able to open an attachment. Even after getting the third degree, "don't you think it's funny that a client would be saying 'I love you'?", "do you see what it says on this warning sign attached to your monitor?" said lawyer was still distraught at not being able to open the attachment. Sigh. Not enough sand.
2000-05-15 18:01:55+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Via Eric, although I think I've seen it somewhere else too: > - YOU HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE UNIX VIRUS - > > This virus works on the honor system: > > If you're running a variant of unix or linux, please forward > this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your > files at random.
[ related topics: Free Software Interactive Drama ]
2000-05-15 18:13:42+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
My <link url="http://www.flutterby.com/archives/do.cgi?action=browseentry&id=1">very first entry</link> was to The Blue Dot, home of the work of Spencer Tunick. Frank passed along some of his new (at least to me) work in America Zone, with the comment that this was "not <link url="http://www.chattanooga.net/">Chattanooga</link>". You might be surprised, Frank, Tunick's Naked States tour covered a lot of ground.
[ related topics: Ziffle ]
2000-05-15 18:18:41+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Marylaine looks at Teaching as Performance.
[ related topics: Web development Marylaine Block ]
2000-05-15 18:24:14+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Stolen from Camworld, more innovation from Microsoft: deliberately interfering with Palm. "Among the most potentially damning of the evidence is a Microsoft e-mail that was written last July, less than a month after the antitrust trial concluded. The Justice Department described the e-mail, written by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, as directing Microsoft employees to redesign software to harm competitors that run on Palm Inc. software." To my mind it's hard to find an ethical basis to justify punitive damages based on monopoly status, but boy there's sure room for action based on a hell of a lot of deceit and theft.
[ related topics: Cameron Barrett Web development Microsoft ]
2000-05-15 18:30:20+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Via Genehack, a tie-in to my recent trip to Vegas: NT runs those big video billboards.
[ related topics: John S Jacobs-Anderson Microsoft Las Vegas ]
2000-05-15 22:00:35+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Internet Explorer cookies are world readable. This is beyond moderately disturbing as the cookie spec says we as programmers can depend on this not happening, so not only does this screw user security over totally, it can even break correct code. For programmers, this is also a good reason to never store a password in a cookie.
2000-05-15 22:11:12+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Sex was the topic for a while, now it's ragging on software: BUGTRAQ vulnerability database stats. Wonder how many of the Linux aggregate issues are the same problem duplicated for different distributions?
[ related topics: Free Software Web development Erotic Sexual Culture ]
2000-05-16 17:05:37+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Turn on your Java: Sodaplay does a mass and spring simulation.
2000-05-16 17:06:43+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Ooooh, go check out "Blame Microsoft" on Genehack.
[ related topics: John S Jacobs-Anderson Microsoft ]
2000-05-16 17:24:58+02 by Dan Lyke / 3 comments
Sigh. I'm going over to another dark side: Today's all about learning Java Servlets. So far as I can tell, that's mod_perl for a crippled slow version of C++, but most days it doesn't pay to argue with the customer.
2000-05-16 17:30:31+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
So Marylaine suggested that I read Joe Kurmaskie's Metal Cowboy. It's not really a coherent book, more a collection of quick essays and vignettes of Kurmaskie's various bicycling trips through the U.S., New Zealand and Australia, but still quite readable (perhaps moreso because with my life the way it is right now I can read it in dribs and drabs). One of the things that struck me is that with road-books like Blue Highways
and Metal Cowboy
and such the experiences that the travelers find so rewarding are quite often the regular lives of other people. As we make the tradeoffs that keep us home, it's important to remember that home can still be worthy of a story or two. Anyway, I'm enjoying the book.
[ related topics: Books Marylaine Block ]
2000-05-16 17:35:37+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Columbine realizes that we've become a nation of spectators. For me, a recent reminder of this came when I moved my TV into another room for a party and never moved it back. Now it's not an easy distraction while I'm eating or doing any of those other things in the main part of the house, and I became more conscious of how much entertainment I was consuming rather than providing. But for a harsh reminder, go look at the living rooms of your grandparents if they're still alive. How many people that you know actually have the skills to make that old upright piano sing any more? And yet before radio that's what people listened to after dinner, which meant in any random gathering it was expected that there'd be at least one decent pianist.
[ related topics: Interactive Drama Technology and Culture ]
2000-05-16 17:40:50+02 by Dan Lyke / 1 comments
How many people actually participated in the "Million" Mom March?
2000-05-16 19:15:20+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
2000-05-16 20:12:53+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
[ related topics: Web development ]
2000-05-16 22:29:21+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Dan Hartung thought this "American Beauty"esque nude with roses and body paint was better suited to Flutterby than his 'blog. He was right, an interesting idea, although I think if I try to do it I'd light the model's face a little brighter, her eyes tend to get lost. On that topic, Mary Anne, who moved her web page recently, was bemoaning the lack of a camera in her diary, I offered to loan parts of my kit and she declined for the moment based on lack of time this summer, but to anyone else out there interested in photography and wanting to share equipment or expertise, I'm looking to learn more about people photography (not just nudes) and am interested in learning about portraiture, lighting techniques for faces, and working with models.
[ related topics: Interactive Drama Web development Photography Erotic Sexual Culture Weblogs ]
2000-05-17 16:42:26+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Eric Boutilier-Brown has some new work in his Photo Diary, and along with the images in Scarlet Letters he's also got some images in Artifacts.
[ related topics: Web development Photography Erotic ]
2000-05-17 16:44:06+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Keith Knight on LA and movie connections.
[ related topics: Humor Web development ]
2000-05-17 16:51:27+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Via Scripting News, should a business be grown like Ben and Jerry's or Amazon?
[ related topics: Books Dave Winer ]
2000-05-17 17:05:39+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
So I've got a silly question: What's a reasonable punishment when a company like AOL "borrows" from its shareholders without their knowledge via "irregular" accounting, like calling advertising capital costs? It's plain that the gamble paid off, and real impositions on the company would hurt the investors, but not doing anything is just encouraging deceitful business practices. Heard on NPR, this link via Tarsh.
2000-05-17 17:44:38+02 by Dan Lyke / 2 comments
I got a call from a recruiter yesterday. First off, why do these recruiters all have cheesey names involving "millenium"? I know, it's ironic, I guess "fly by night" would be too close to the mark. Second, why don't they have a script that runs their contact list names through things like IMDB, maybe the Dr Dobb's index, things like that? It wouldn't take any more of their time, and it'd sure narrow down the topic of discussion quickly, probably even save them time long-run (not to mention cut down on hang-ups). I suppose asking that they actually understand any of the terms they're bandying about would be way over the top. Strike three: Their web pages should not be "under construction" done with cheesey Microsoftisms. I'm confused, what exactly are they supposed to be adding to the process?
2000-05-17 18:05:00+02 by Dan Lyke / 1 comments
The new Clean Sheets has a roundtable on polyamory, a mouthorgan article on human smell, and new fiction and review.
[ related topics: Web development Erotic Sexual Culture ]
2000-05-17 23:06:18+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Flutterby has been verbose the past few days 'cause I'm ankle deep (and standing on my head) in learning Java and need to take frequent breaks to assimilate stuff. At this point I think I've got a handle on the language, but I'm still trying to understand the lore that'll open up why things are implemented in a certain way. That was the big step in learning Perl. It's frustrating to have a language that's so C/C++ like in some ways, but it's obvious that the C/C++ way of doing things isn't the way the designers meant the language to be used, and the book authors have deliberately dumbed down their text so I can't see, for instance, the "right" way to do specialized text parsing, or whether in lacking a CPAN like structure using external modules for software to be installed on someone else's server is a viable idea. The struggle continues.
[ related topics: Books ]
2000-05-17 23:59:19+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Via FactoVision, the Pentagon has banned fancy PowerPoint presentations. My faith in the universe is temporarily restored: "Just as word processing made it possible to produce long, meandering memos, the spread of PowerPoint has unleashed a blizzard of jazzy but often inoherent visuals."
[ related topics: Web development ]
2000-05-18 17:20:45+02 by Dan Lyke / 5 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
[ related topics: Free Software Web development ]
2000-05-18 17:50:04+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
[ related topics: Free Software Web development ]
2000-05-18 18:10:16+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
[ related topics: Free Software Web development ]
2000-05-18 18:16:06+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
[ related topics: Free Software Web development ]
2000-05-18 19:59:59+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
[ related topics: Free Software Web development ]
2000-05-18 20:10:39+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
[ related topics: Free Software Web development ]
2000-05-18 21:33:41+02 by Dan Lyke / 1 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
[ related topics: Free Software Web development ]
2000-05-19 20:39:44+02 by Dan Lyke / 2 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
[ related topics: Free Software Web development ]
2000-05-19 20:42:41+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
[ related topics: Free Software Web development ]
2000-05-19 21:35:51+02 by Dan Lyke / 1 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
[ related topics: Free Software Web development ]
2000-05-21 02:52:28+02 by Dan Lyke / 4 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
[ related topics: Free Software Web development ]
2000-05-23 02:00:01+02 by Dan Lyke / 3 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-23 03:29:14+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-23 07:25:28+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-23 07:36:20+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-23 18:37:10+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-23 19:07:31+02 by Dan Lyke / 1 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-24 19:08:16+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-25 00:24:13+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-25 00:26:08+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-25 01:10:27+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-25 01:11:01+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-25 06:01:44+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-25 06:04:06+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-25 18:18:41+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-25 18:25:41+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-25 19:29:41+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-26 19:19:32+02 by Dan Lyke / 3 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-26 19:41:11+02 by Dan Lyke / 2 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-27 22:10:10+02 by Dan Lyke / 14 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-27 22:18:27+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-28 21:50:07+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-28 22:06:52+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-29 02:11:13+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-29 18:37:39+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-29 18:59:23+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-29 19:39:25+02 by Dan Lyke / 1 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-30 01:44:02+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-30 20:15:30+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-30 23:48:22+02 by Dan Lyke / 2 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-31 05:41:37+02 by Dan Lyke / 1 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-31 17:49:37+02 by Dan Lyke / 0 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-31 18:23:06+02 by Dan Lyke / 1 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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2000-05-31 18:29:08+02 by Dan Lyke / 4 comments
Alright! who sold Big Blue a clue?? I love fads like Linux :)
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