October 30, 2007 – 9:59 pm
Oh yes, most definitely. The cats were not happy.
It’s nearing mid-summer, and time for the ephemeral cactus flowers to appear, like this one on the stair to my door.
February 6, 2006 – 11:40 pm
Mavericks Big Wave Contest on Tuesday! KTVU and SFGate.com covering it. There’s QuickTime video from the finals, including Grant Baker’s winning ride and a SFGate photo essay.
November 20, 2005 – 6:08 pm
Clay Shirky gave a talk at the Long Now Foundation last Monday on “Making Digital Durable”. If you read Clay’s essays, most of this won’t be new, but it was nice to hear him pull several threads together.
Things that jumped out at me
“Classes of errors unrelated to the mode of production.”
“Who can categorize?” Everyone, at [...]
October 3, 2005 – 11:17 pm
Great news on the bookstore front: Clark Kepler’s renegotiated his lease, secured funding, and the store re-opens on Saturday, October 8th.
Part of the plan is to solicit memberships in the store. I don’t know what that means, exactly, but we’ll learn more soon.
September 3, 2005 – 6:56 pm
Lee Nau just IM’ed me with news on Kepler’s Books: Clark Kepler may have some financial help to keep the store open.
People have rallied behind the store. There’s already a weblog dedicated dedicated to the cause.
September 1, 2005 – 12:39 am
[ via Cynthia, who told me that Rika posted about it. ] After over 50 years of selling books on the Peninsula, Clark Kepler has decided to close his store.
That leaves Books Inc., who took over the space used by Printers, Inc. store in downtown Mountain View, as the only independent new bookseller in the [...]
August 18, 2005 – 11:56 pm
I’ll be at Bar Camp, the indyrock version of Foo Camp, this Sunday, and possibly Saturday morning.
I think it’s a grand idea, and I’m happy to see the Foo Campers working with the Bar Campers to connect the groups this weekend.
I’ll have swag, and plan to talk about Stupid XSLT Tricks on Sunday.
Update: Kellan suggests [...]
August 18, 2005 – 11:27 pm
Only in Silicon Valley would the anniversary of a programming language make the gossip page of an alternative paper. From the San Jose Metro’s The Fly column:
This summer is the 10th anniversary of PHP’s original release date, prompting parties among its champions in Quebec, Germany and Lerdorf’s Fremont home, where he drank champagne with friends [...]
August 17, 2005 – 9:46 pm
Before tonight’s vigil in support of Cindy Sheehan (q.v.), Karen Meredith, who also lost a son in Iraq, thanked us for coming.
She leaves for Camp Casey this weekend, where Sheehan and supporters wait for President Bush to speak with her and other bereaved parents.
August 17, 2005 – 9:14 pm
Nina Rosenberg’s looking for people to help knit small red sweaters, one for each American solider who has died in Iraq, for an art project.
One of the people at the MoveOn vigil for Cindy Sheehan in Mountain View held a placard advertising the site. She said that the sweaters are easy to knit and an [...]
Some friends who are rasing kids in California are tired of the status quo.
The schools lack nurses, psychologists, gym teachers, art teachers, administrative assistants, custodians, music teachers, librarians, and so many more positions. It’s all been cut, and the parents have filled in. In June, we will present a bill to you, Governor Schwartzenegger.
And, if [...]
Found a great piece about Suck.com’s history written for the 10th anniversary of the site’s launch.
Suck.com’s style: new content daily, the writers’ snark, and their simple (for pre-CSS) design influenced plenty of Webloggers.
My favorite piece remains the piss-take on Silicon Valley Techno-Libertarians.
John Cowan recycles Malvina Reynolds:
Little boxes in the colo,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes, little boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
There’s a Dell one and a Sun one
And a Blue one and a Compaq one
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they [...]
I missed Buzz’s Weblogger Dinner last night because I found myself moderating a disagreement between my XSLT templates and our designer’s HTML prototype.
Tomorrow morning I’m up for the Dashboard sessions. They’re in the big hall this time, so I hope to get a seat.
Thursday I’ll be there for WebKit and Safari sessions. But I will [...]
