Year: 2003
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Maps, maps, maps
A gazetteer with many fun links, courtesy of David Galbraith, who found the link via Research Buzz.
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Do you blog for work?
I don’t, publicly. Just an internal blog. If I did want to blog at work, I’d follow the links from this page and see if I’ve missed anything.
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Yes, I’m a parent
I read part of this NYTimes review of digital learning devices, like the LeapPad, which the boy has and enjoys from time to time. Other alternatives mentioned here, although from a quick scan, sounds like the LeapPad is still leading the pack.
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Been shut out…
…of the study for a few nights, as we try and get the girl over her cold and prepared to sleep in the crib in the same room as the boy. I’ll use that as my excuse for lack of postings. The ratcheting up of my workload at the office plays an indirect role, too.…
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Sometimes it just works
I forgot to mention that we got the iChat AV working wonderfully with the iSight and our Canon DV camera on two different computers in the same household. Good incentive to upgrade to Panther, so now we’ll see how long it takes my sister to upgrade her computer in Brooklyn. Also, once I found the…
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Sam Adams or Hefeweizen?
Cousins were over for casual pizza dinner tonight, and I sent the boy into the living room to ask his uncle whether he would like a Sam Adams or a Hefeweizen. He got the whole question out wonderfully, and returned to me in the kitchen with a coherent answer (the latter). I handed him the…
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Movie: Master and Commander, The…
On Wednesday, I went to see Master and Commander, The Far Side of the World (warning: this website brought my computer to its knees… is Flash the culprit?), the first movie made using the Aubrey-Maturin characters from Patrick O’Brian. I read Master and Commander long before I started writing here; here are my notes on…
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The problem of depth
Rajesh Jain at Emergic cites a NYTimes article about the sudden interest in Friendster and other community sites (yes, we’ve been down this road before… anyone remember SixDegrees and TheGlobe?). From the article: When two people greet each other on the street, neither can see (nor hope to grasp) the range of the other’s social…
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Panther is running
New version of MacOS X, Panther (aka 10.3), is now running on the desktop as well as the laptop. I wasn’t in a hurry, until my sister bought an iSight in the Burlingame Apple Store yesterday. We wanted to test iChatAV between the laptop and the desktop, so that set off an afternoon of backing…
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Thanks for family
Several made the trip out here, and talked to several more throughout the day. Turkey is still in the oven, but we’re enjoying ourselves. Had a nice surprise this morning when we went on a walk in Golden Gate Park, and found the Conservatory of Flowers open and uncrowded. It re-opened a couple of months…