Oh the joys of being self-employed.

I worked 32 hours last weekend. Mind you, it was a long weekend, but still... 32 hours.

Last week altogether, probably over 80 hours. Maybe 100, I don't know.

Am I complaining? No.

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eWeek: Thinking outside the Cube: Mac OS X for X86

This article started out great, saying the author didn't get the deluge of flames he expected for mentioning OS X for Intel, but then this...

Learning from BeOS

Okay you lost me. I love the BeOS, I've bought EVERY publicly available version ever released for the x86 platform including 5.0 Professional, but you can't compare it to OS X. Sorry. I didn't finish reading the article.

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Salon: Artificial stupidity -- about Jaron Lanier's "ONE HALF OF A MANIFESTO".

I was lucky enough to see Jaron Lanier in person in 1993(94?) at the University of Victoria. I don't remember the exact reason for the visit, there must have been some sort of VR or Internet or Cybersomething going on. I missed his electronic virtual-reality music demo the night before (argh!!).

Hmm, maybe this was just after new backbone for Vancouver Island was installed which UVic was the hub for, maybe it was something to do with that and all the Internet-related cyberspace goodness it would bring to the school. I dunno.

Jaron was on stage with William Gibson, who read 45 minutes of a draft of what would become "Virtual Light", a novel I rushed out to buy in hardcover but still haven't read (sigh).

Oh, Gibson's narration was so awesome. His American accent, I still remember it clearly. I had just finished reading Neuromancer, had only been on the Internet for about 2 years, all VT100 of course via the Victoria FreeNet Association, on my Macintosh LC II 4MB/40MB with a 14.4 SupraFAXModem v.32bis external modem (that was very fast back then! My friends with 9600bps modems thought they were fast!)

If I remember correctly, and I might not, Jaron spoke about all sorts of things that evening -- VR, Cybertech, Internet, music, etc. He and Gibson talked about various things together, and the audience participated. Did I ask a question? I think so, but I can't remember what. Damn, why can't I remember these things?! It really upsets me I can't remember these things. Sigh. For some reason I think whatever I said/asked was really stupid and was hacked to bits by Jaron.

I had a picture of Jaron (I still have it somewhere), a side-profile of him with his big hair. I think the picture was from Monday magazine or the UVic student newspaper. He hung on my wall, a hero, I wanted to do what he did.

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Radio UserLand: RFC: Labels in OPML

How cool is this, my name was used 20 words away from Doug Engelbart in the context of the same idea!! That makes me smile. :-)

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Macworld: Dawn of a New OS -- "Mac OS X's Arrival Is Apple's Opportunity to Prove It Is Listening To Its Customers"

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Found at Mr. Barrett:

Seattle Times: Lifestyles: SpeedDating puts Jewish singles together; the rest is up to them

Check out the URL -- SeattleTimes uses WebObjects! :-) I am a WebObjects developer. If you need WebObjects development done, or need some new WebObjects developers mentored, give me a call.

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Doc Searls Weblog: An Open Letter to Meg Whitman (CEO of eBay) -- "What would happen if MUTE buttons on TV remote controls delivered "we don't want to hear this" messages directly to the advertisers who pay for commercial television? Advertising as we know it would be dead in a day."

I've very disappointed to hear about eBay's move to the dark side.

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