An Ego is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Athens GA has free WiFi over 24 blocks. Sigh. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/07/31/coolsc.wireless.cloud/index.html

From a SFC article: "Then there's ACD's satanic offspring, interactive voice response, or IVR, which creates the endless corridors of electronic choices from which, all too often, there's no escape. " http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/07/26/BU240543.DTL Wow, I have never had a technology I worked on refered to as satanic by a putatively major newspaper.

Is this a great country or what? Combining two of my indulgances is "Shower Shock Caffeinated Soap" http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/5a65.shtml

http://www.xml.com/axml/testaxml.htm annotated XML spec is wonderful!

Articles today are: SFChron review of Pod http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/07/29/BU197129.DTL iPod util http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/software/podutil.htm

Letter to DDJ talked about pressure on all of us to use M$ Office ( or all use OSS ) as both Nash equilibriums. I.e., you are better off doing the same thing as everyone else, the diagional of the game-theory matrix.

Mozilla's Potpourri of Rendered XML @ http://www.devx.com/webdev/articles/nm062402/nm062402-1.asp talks about native SVG in Mozilla, but I do not see it!

Learn Java Struts and MVC http://www.fawcette.com/javapro/2002_07/online/kjones/page2.asp

Wishlist: Pronto Remote and NASDAQ>5000 NYT review of new universal was once again, almost but not quite

Wishlist: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxpr/

www.ondemandmanuals.com seems useful

SFC: Owner of V Satui bought house in Calistoga with rights to "last tasting room" in Napa valley. Planning large castle , won't open for 4-5 years. V Satui and Domaine Chandon are only two wineries allowed to serve food. Fleur de Lys had original estimate of 2 mo, .35mil and it took 12 mo, $4mm but will reopen soon.

used http://www.flightview.com to track AC755. AC said it departed 16:59, 4 minutes late, flightview says it will depart at 17:23

Braves won by 10, NASDAQ up 61, CK returns - life is "good". Relatively. If you do not look too closely.

Hmm, still "Page not found" - testing continues...Oops, Post & Publish seems to work better than Post

"Call me Ishmael." Things need to begin well. And why not steal from the best; a NYTBR article claimed a survey described this as the best opening line of a novel.