Archive for March, 2004
happy st. patrick’s day. big parade downtown this afternoon. [ READ MORE ]
flashmobcomputing.org: ‘By bringing hundreds of people like you together in one room, we will have enough computing power to become one of the fastest supercomputers on the planet.’ [ READ MORE ]
if i ever get some time, i am going to look into lazlo presentation server. it looks pretty easy to get started with and could be fun. [ READ MORE ]
CNN: ‘The object—about 10 billion kilometers from Earth—has been given the provisional name of Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea.’ [ READ MORE ]
i got mastering regular expressions from amazon the other day. it is a great book and it looks like i will be learning some perl along the way. highly recommend it to anyone looking to learn regular expressions. [ READ MORE ]
i took rachel’s style quiz and it said i was a hipster. [ READ MORE ]
i saw hidalgo this evening and was curious aobut how accurate the story was. in typical movie fashion, the story was spruced up a little, but the real frank hopkins led an interesting life. [ READ MORE ]
the kansas democratic caucus is tomorrow, march 13th. doors open at noon and the real fun will begin at 2:00 pm. for a complete list of the 50 caucus locations, see this page. [ READ MORE ]
i have been working with amazon’s web services lately and found that for everything i have done xml over http is 50-100% faster than their soap implementation. see my wishlist for an example of amazon’s services. [ READ MORE ]
i did our taxes today. it took me over three hours, but now we get some new toys. the first person to correctly identify where the quote ‘but i’m le tired’ comes from will win an autographed dennis leonard card. [ READ MORE ]