since so many bloggers are going to sxsw this year, ev created the sxsw baby! weblog. 06:37 pm

those bastards. "we are sorry to report that the official release date for diablo 2 has been postponed. Release is now scheduled for 06/15/2000." this may get the record for most anticipated, most postponed, and longest release time for a game. well maybe not the last, but definitely the second.

you know, if they'd just say, we'll release it 12/00. then people wouldn't start anticipating it and get so disappointed every time that postpone it. they've consistently postponed it every 3 to 6 months for the last 3 years. people will go into shock if it ever actually gets released. 02:42 pm

the difference between corporate america and a startup, one woman's view. 02:32 pm

Epidemic is the most horrible thing i've seen lately. you send ads in your email, torturing all the recipients, and then get paid if someone clicks through *and* purchases something. in other words, lots of torture and very little return. an easy way to get your friends to hate you. 11:18 am

i know, i'm being stupid and playing with the fonts again. i've had people complain because they're too small, and complain because they're too large even though i made sure they were adjustable. it seems that people don't want to actually adjust their fonts, they want a site to be readable at whatever setting they have their fonts set to. so i've decided to go with pixels. nobody can adjust them, but they'll be pretty uniform across browsers and platforms. besides that's what ev's doing so i'm just going to be a sheep and copy him.

oh one thing, i set mac fonts to 12px & win to 11px. so if any win people are finding them excessively small, let me know and i'll bump them up a pixel. 06:41 pm

friday night, i finished the wild swans by peg kerr. an amazing book that i couldn't put down and made me cry at the end. 12:38 pm

i finally got around to ordering pet food, and scheduling a regular delivery. since we never go to the store, except for pet food and toilet paper, this should make our lives easier. i ended up ordering from petsmart. petopia didn't have a good selection, and pets.com took so long to load that i couldn't deal with it. 11:56 am

elan put into words what i was struggling with yesterday. "You just don't need to tell the world when life is good. You rarely need to say a thing when you're at peace. When you're not at peace, it's hard to control your words, or much for that matter." 11:51 am

ev did a redesign while i wasn't looking. he must be trying to make money because he's using the blue and the green. despite that, c'est tres magnifique. 11:00 am

an interesting webword interview with vincent flanders. author of the book and the webpages that suck site. 12:34 pm

my sister needs to read this article about raising your rates. she's always totally booked solid, but i can't convince her to charge more. 12:16 pm

does anyone believe that we'll ever get new domains? 12:03 pm

at least one corporation has gotten smart and is attempting to cash in on 80s nostalgia. fruit of the loom is planning on reintroducing underoos because "older consumers not only remember UNDEROOSŪ but will buy them for their own children". 12:01 pm

salon's article about nethack being the best game ever, brought back so many memories. 06:46 pm

why is it that when you're miserable, and things are going badly, it's really easy to vent and talk about it a lot and let everyone know what's happening? (unless, of course, your boss reads your blog and you want to vent about what an idiot you think he is, then you keep quiet.) but when you're happy, enjoying life & work, each day flowing into the next, unbroken by disgruntled thoughts, you never mention it. 06:30 pm

the spiral is catching up with the swoosh. and then there's the blue and the green, jakob, what have you done? since i had the great pleasure of designing one of the sites listed on the blue-green stylie page, i'd like to say that the color palette was given to me by gwen francis design group, i had nothing to do with the fact that it incorporates blue, green and yellow. 06:06 pm

if you've been receiving a lot more calls from recruiters lately, you may want to hop on over to passportaccess. it seems they've got a new bot which harvests resumes directly from the web. nasty evil people. 02:40 pm

first there were the beyond layoffs, but beyond was doing lousy anyway. then boo jumped on the train, but even with all the hype, they weren't particularly successful. now amazon hops on board. is the bubble bursting? at least in the e-commerce world. 12:38 pm

some beautiful pictures of the lunar eclipse. 06:13 pm

ClickZ Network: Ten Things I Hate About the Web Business. i wholeheartedly agree with all of these. via tomalak. 05:31 pm

joining the weblog nation and weblogging: lessons learned. 02:07 pm

i just finished Dark Sister by graham joyce. it was a wonderful little book, a quick read, and very engrossing. i liked his writing so much i just went and ordered all his other books. 11:27 am

ajit sent me this link on ie transitions. they're even more scary than the marquee tag. 11:21 am

anita sent me this page on how Anchor Text Should be Meaningful in Isolation. it's from 5 years ago. i guess this isn't a new topic. 03:06 pm

elan sent me this link on bolding text to aid skimmers. my thought is that you don't need to bold text because skimmers eyes catch on links. so you need to make sure your links make sense out of context. not that i actually do that. 12:19 pm

and on that note, i'm going home. i've been up since 6:30. had to take my car in to be fixed. which it supposedly is. although i haven't tested it yet, what with all the rain. 06:21 pm

i've decided that the best time on a project is those first hours, when you map out the functionality, create personas, and scenarios, and start to put together a site map and flow diagrams. there's none of the horrible arguing, negotiating, and politiking yet. and you look ahead at a huge task that will be entirely fun to build. 06:19 pm

yes, i'm playing with the fonts again. i just bumped the windows font from x-small up to small. the reason? i couldn't read it very well on my new work computer. 05:00 pm

the latest RCFoC has stuff on futuristic gadgets and glow-in-the-dark water. 04:44 pm

the trouble with dying all your hair electric blue: when you shower, your hands turn blue, and the towel turn blue, and your neck turns blue, and your pillow turns blue... 08:22 pm

i had forgotten, and was just reminded, of the biggest reason i quit my job. they wanted me to use the marquee tag, and were really excited when they saw the mockup. shudder. i'm now severely psychologically scarred by this act. it will take me years of therapy to get over it. 08:20 pm

there are now almost 470 blogs in the portal, and i'm sure there's probably a few hundred more that aren't in there. i barely can find the time to update it, and i certainly don't have time to check for dead blogs or dig up new ones. if anyone has any suggestions for making it more useful, wieldy, and easier to maintain, please let me know. 03:11 pm

that'll teach me not to keep up with my mailing lists. cam links to this summary on the chi-web list concerning css font-sizes. i still haven't seen an ideal solution yet tho. 02:13 pm

for some reason i never really paid attention to metafilter's comments feature. it's really nice, i much prefer it to lusenet, i think it's the way it's integrated so well into to the site. 02:12 pm

prolific mentioned eddie izzard on friday, and reminded me that i needed to look for his latest video. it's not released yet, but i did find velvet underground. this interview is also fascinating. 02:12 pm

i hate it when i'm so dependent on something (blogger), that when it goes down, i feel absolute frustration. 02:11 pm

everything below is actually from yesterday, when blogger was down. sometimes i wish blogger would let you edit the date. 12:14 pm

i don't see how beliefnet could possibly work. with so many religions ready to kill because their's is the one true god, how can you hope to combine so many on one site? any section not about their religion is bound to be offensive. 12:12 pm

has anyone else been irritated by the trend towards not archiving your weblog? i often catch up on a week's worth of entries at one time, follow a link which pointed to something over a week ago, and find that it's gone off the page and disappeared into oblivion. 12:12 pm

all the comments i've been seeing about jauteria being a link slut, are so true. but haven't we all been at one time or another? it's funny, i went to an archive page earlier, looking for itn, which i couldn't remember the name of, and was mildly disgusted with the page colors. john's statement of 1/17 is apt "the old scheme (which seemed to match your subtitle better)". 12:11 pm

sigh. blogger finally went down, so i have the choice of trying to remember stuff i want to say, and putting it in later, or handcoding and converting it later. since my memory sucks, i'm hand-coding. 12:11 pm

it's now 12:40pm and blogger still hasn't gone down. not that i'm complaining or anything. hopefully i didn't just jinx it. 12:40 pm

i finally got smart and decided to put anchor tags on my dates, so now if you're feeling like you need to explicitly link to an entry. you can use for example /archive_100.shtml#1.20.00 . i keep finding more and more nifty things that blogger makes effortless. 12:38 pm

lane clarified his rant, and corrected my statement that he was another newly disenchanted web worker. and alexis ripped the whole concept of disenchantment apart, analyzing it and concluding with

"I believe in my Web, the way it was, the way it is and the direction in which it's going. But I don't believe in your Web. Yours is just fucked."

have to hurry and get this entry in before blogger goes down for about 5 hours. after reading this weeks bloat entry, i realized how closed mouth i had been over the last week or so. and that i didn't have to be anymore.

so, after my boss quit on 1/7/00, i immediately decided that it was time for me to move on. he was the only reason i was hanging on and trying to ride the waves of problems. but, since the founder of the company reads my blog, i couldn't really put in here that i was looking. i felt like i'd been strong-armed into agreeing with the new direction. the "so, are you on the team or not?" question certainly gave me the impression that if i was not i should get out and i wasn't quite ready to quit on the spot. i covered with "i want to see this company succeed" and they took that as agreement that i was on the team. thankfully.

it took about a week to set up interviews, finish the stuff i was working on and decide on a really interesting new company/project. all the time smiling and nodding and playing the good team member. along with putting up with "you're so valuable to us" speeches which were never accompanied by "here's a big fat raise, or here's a hunk of stock, or even here's a bonus for working your ass off on this really tight deadline". on top of which, dinner would get ordered for an executive meeting, and the engineers were offered the leftovers. when ken was around he told us to order food any time we were working real late and expense it. it wasn't just an executive only thing.

other things that i found slimy and disturbing were the fact that my old boss was not allowed to contact any employees unless they contacted him first. the fact that suddenly instead of different teams (database, server, content, qa) there were suddenly directors & peons. director meetings were held. what was mildly amusing was that there are only 2 directors (for database & qa) and neither of them had any headcount under them. the server and content teams had reported directly to the vp of eng.. what was worse, was that the db director started to act like he was manager over everybody, unofficially of course. and finally, they laid off my friend liz after telling us that there wouldn't be any lay-offs.

there's a lot more than this of course, but i'd probably be crossing the line if i wrote about it. i'm pretty close to the edge already. i think i've just stuck to the things that made me unhappy and made it unpleasant for me to work there. i guess i'll find out on that one when the lawyers contact me... 11:39 am

these Ideas to Watch look like they might be interesting, but i don't have the patience to read through them thoroughly right now. 06:10 pm

i was remiss in not linking to brier's resignation from beyond earlier this week. i had more important things on my mind. in other beyond news, there is now a beyond alumni egroup. and kendall fargo made women.com's top 10 men of silicon valley. 05:51 pm

why do these marketing tips sound so familiar? maybe because every startup i've been at or looked into has used at least one of these techniques. funny, in a sad sort of way. tomalak who i often steal stuff from and forget to credit. 05:37 pm

i'm trying very hard not to be bitchy today. it's my last day and i'm torn between explaining that certain ui decisions are stupid and just saying "whatever". i'm trying real hard for the "whatever" state of mind. but, when someone suggests we do a splash page, i have to make a nasty comment. 04:18 pm

how depressing, i had my car for 6 hours and the retractable roof stopped working. sob. now i have to take it in for service. 04:15 pm

i just got back from picking up my new car! if you're figuring that buying through carsdirect will save you all that paperwork, forget it. i still had to sign a hundred different forms to get the car. overall, my impression of carsdirect was bad. it was great up until they found me the car, it went downhill from there. it took them over a week to figure out that the reason they weren't sending out my docs was because my credit card wasn't going through. as soon as i gave them a different one, the docs went right out the door. oh well, at least i didn't have to negotiate. 04:06 pm

i couldn't possibly be incompetent, i'm always right, i always make good decisions, i'm living in my own blissful world of self-confidence. yeah, right. but, this has gotta make ya wonder. from ev who got it from jason. 06:08 pm

Yahoo! Japan! A million-dollar stock! 05:45 pm

life is good! i went and signed the formal offer letter from my new company this afternoon, and gave notice to my current (now ex) employer. it went much smoother than i expected, and i'm glad. jason's always yelling at me about burning bridges when i leave a company, i don't think i burnt too many this time around. now i'm just waiting to find out how long they want me to stick around for... 05:38 pm

Inktomi Webmap gives a different domain name as the longest. i couldn't get it to work tho, so i don't know if it counts. 04:58 pm

the longest url on the web: Llanfairpwllgwyngy llgogerychwyrndrob wllllantysiliogogo goch 05:37 pm

i apologize to all the mac people for the inconvenience these stupid font sizes have caused you. as of now, 4:20pm pst, they should be fixed. if they're not, let me know and i'll bump them up another size. i finally ended up using javascript to do a useragent detect and then write the font size based on that. which is probably what i should have done in the first place, but i was lazy. 04:22 pm

i can't seem to win on the fonts thing. i had them set to small, but then read somewhere that that made them not resizable, so i should be using ems. so i set them to ems and they're unreadable on macs, but they're resizable. now i've reverted back to small, at least that'll make them readable everywhere. now if i could figure out the non-scrolling issue... 12:33 pm

so, does every young, successful, internet worker who got on the webtrain in 94/5/6 go through this i sold out to the man phase? where their ideals are shot to pieces by our capitalistic society. don't get me wrong, i agree with most of what lane's saying (especially the bit about tabular navigation), but i seem to be seeing these kinds of rants more often. is it just that the web has become so commerical that people can't take it anymore? 07:26 pm

we watched office space on saturday. liz said it was her current favorite movie. it was really funny, but not as brilliant as i had been built up to expect. but, if you want to see someone acting how you've always wanted to at work, watch this movie. 07:13 pm

meg announced that she's going to be talking on a panel at South by Southwest, which reminded me that i really wanted to go this year. especially after reading peter's account of it last year. so i went to check pricing and was shocked to see it only cost $205. i was expecting $1600. and airfare is only going to cost $219. including hotel, i think this whole conference will be under $1000. and of course, the most interesting people are speaking. 06:45 pm

it's so odd how you can read someone else's site and see so many parallels with your own life and personality, the same yet so very different. 10:07 pm

and another in the same vein. Why Startups Aren't Gothic. 09:54 pm

this Exit Strategy story has apparently been making the rounds, but i just saw it for the first time on my dog. it's so eerily real, quotes like "most other engineers' angry outbursts: managers were idiots, marketing people were idiots, all the other programmers in the group were idiots, the tools she had to use were written by idiots, and so on" or "a victim of excellent ideas but too little marketing done too late", just seem so familiar. 09:51 pm

people feel secure on the internet because of 128-bit encryption, secure sessions, digital certificates, secure socket layers, right? nope, they feel secure because "it's easy". at least according to this report. thanks anil. 09:16 pm

i've been soo bored this weekend, hence the redesign. i ran out of books to read, and didn't feel like re-reading anything. so i just spent the last couple hours digging through sfsite and amazon and buying books. now hopefully, i won't be in the same state next weekend. 08:31 pm

after mentioning in my intro to the weblogs-social list that i hadn't redesigned in almost a year, i realized that i was sick of my design. and lo, this is the result. 05:25 pm

i also added an update notification link to the portal, since my updates have become so sporadic. 04:11 pm

playing with spyonit, i discovered their developer page which promises lots of powerful customization, but currently just has a page change wizard. so there's now a link on the left that will update you when my blog get updated. 03:46 pm

continuing on the blog circle meme, MTH·ology does an update on his blog circle. and of course, i found it through a link from pb, a member of the circle. 03:05 pm

stating the obvious reviews spyonit. a tool that lets you know about updates across the web. 02:59 pm

wetlog has some interesting blog-circle theories. he also checks some blogs using bobby to prove an accessibility theory. i'm happy to say that eatonweb passes. 02:52 pm

i wish i'd seen this story earlier: Passwords of PacBell Net Accounts Stolen. if i had, i wouldn't have ignored the pacbell email telling me to change my password. 01:39 pm

i finished obsidian butterfly late last night. it was thoroughly enjoyable, and as good as all the other anita blake books. now i must wait impatiently for the next one. the best part about this book is that you learn a lot more about edward, and in the process a bit more about anita. very good book. 01:10 pm

scott rosenberg boils the aol-tw merger down to one of the most important details The geeks vs. the marketroids. open systems vs. closed systems. 01:04 pm

there's nothing more frustrating than running out of memory, restarting your computer, and then finding that all your x-windows settings disappeared. 05:52 pm

i had to buy this HeadBlade for jason. just so i can watch him use it, of course. thanks cam. 03:06 pm

no links today. i've been mindlessly coding all day and haven't had time to look at anything. i'm going home to read the new laurell hamilton book obsidian butterfly. 08:02 pm

aside from all work related issues, i'm happy. today i 6 month vested on my stock. ahh, taste the freedom. 07:51 pm

my tolerance has gone *way* down. yesterday, i get an email asking me to catalog all the graphics that i'm still waiting for on the site. like i have *time* to run through the site and make up a list. i was good, i refrained from the exceptionally nasty reply that i could have written. today, i get an email, saying that the junior level html coder we interviewed 2 months ago is available all next week, and "it seemed like he could jump right in", just in case i need the help. it would take me a week to train the damn kid, not to mention the fact that i'm not having trouble with the html, i'm held up waiting for the f@#$$ing graphics that he was supposed to give me a week ago. 07:48 pm

peter always finds the coolest stores online. netsetgoods has plenty to drool over, especially the furniture and the mark lange titanium watches... 07:54 pm

and in case you feel the need to make fun of the digerati, there's also the ditherati. courtesy of anita. 12:28 pm

apparently i'm not the only one who feels the need to self-censor when it comes to discussing work. 12:23 pm

Who are the Digerati?" 06:38 pm

the death of the paragraph. 06:36 pm

i didn't realize this, but ender's game is getting made into a movie. via dandot. 04:58 pm

this is the most horrible story i've ever heard. Man jailed for cooking cat. the cat survived. 02:27 pm

a town named half.com is just too scary. 02:20 pm

ah, finally, theStreet stops charging. i was getting really sick of the "you tried us, and left, so we've added this great feature, won't you come back?" emails. i was wondering when they'd get a clue that all i wanted was it to be free. 02:15 pm

public service announcement: very first blog IRC chat night, 01/12/00 8:30pm EST, EFNet server #BlogIRC channel. end announcement. 02:05 pm

blog poems. who said we weren't cultured? 01:44 pm

well they've cut back, they only hit the portal 1500 times today. if anyone has any clue, why someone would want to do this, please let me know. i'm dying of curiosity. 10:53 pm

i have finally achieved the pinnacle of fame, ok maybe not, i just wanted to write something dramatic. the blog portal is listed in chapter 17 of this book connecting online. i don't know whether that means i'm actually in the dead trees book or not, but i like the quote:

"Portal of Web logs: sites with daily rants and raves about the Internet. Internet public relations professionals take note."

in this sfgate interview, christopher alexander states that "the possibilities opened up by the internet has made his seminal work, "A Pattern Language," obsolete". i would be happy if the customization he talks about happens, but i just can't see it. people buy houses around here, they don't build them (unless they're multi-millionaires). 06:57 pm

ok. i was shocked by the aol/time-warner merger announcement, but i was going to refrain from mentioning it, since i'm sure everyone else has. but this is even worse! pbs and aol cross-promoting? 04:27 pm

i think i linked to an old sgi buzzword bingo card last month. here's a newer version. 04:21 pm

eric was nice enough to do a whois lookup that actually worked (unlike the one i did last night at network solutions. he came up with Regus UK Albany House which i think is this division of the regus conglomerate. why they'd be hitting my portal page 4000 times is still a mystery. 11:43 am

i was just going through my server logs and discovered that i had 3764 hits to the portal from a single ip address (212.140.163.71). i can't figure out who it is or even conceive of why they'd need to hit that page almost 4000 times. very odd. 10:35 pm

i find it interesting how my ego can fluctuate so easily. at the end of november, i was on top of the world. worshipped by those around me for my code, my ui, my html, even my lame graphics. i then spent a month having those things ripped apart in meeting after meeting. and then everything else that's been happening at work. it's all left me feeling completely inadequate. and try as i might, i can't recapture those feelings of godhood. maybe it's just the high of completing a development cycle and the low of being behind schedule with the deadline less than a week away. who knows, maybe this time next week i'll be feeling god-like again. 10:21 pm

i'm feeling rather depressed. we went to dinner with my family because my step-sister from boston is out here visiting. she's a really cool clothing designer and i'm jealous because i've always wanted to be that cool. that's not why i'm feeling depressed tho. my dad called me a capitalist, which is entirely true, but he's just jealous because i'm buying a new car while he's just bought a used buick. but that's not what made me depressed either. i know this is taking much too long.

anyway, relaying the capitalist comment to jason on the drive home led to a discussion of how you have to be either a billionaire or a corporation to make any difference to the american political system. and the whole reason that system exists is to serve corporations and really rich people. so i said that we either needed to make a huge amount of money, or move out of the country. jason's comment: "welcome to my hell". he then went on to state a third option, start your own corporation. but you have to have an idea to do that. "that's your job", he says.

so here i am feeling depressed because i can't come up with that brilliant idea, but irritated because he's given me the hard job and acts like it's my fault we can't start a company. 10:10 pm

i'm sure you've all seen the evolt.org Browser Archive. i'm just saving it here so it doesn't take me 20 minutes to find it again. my netscape 4.7 has been freaking out on me lately. the scroll bar scrolls itself, sometimes violently, and sometimes key strokes don't work. i think i'm going to revert to 4.06. 12:09 pm

wow, netscape Netcenter redesigned. it's, um, scary. thank goodness the only reason to ever go there is for browser upgrade/patches. 11:49 am

this mystery meat navigation article has been under heavy discussion on the webdesign-l mailing list. i finally found the time to read it. i agree with the concept as it applies to sites that are trying to make money, but i think that artistic sites or sites that are not trying to funnel people to the buy button should not necessarily be constrained. 11:33 am

we watched Dark City last night. the concept was quite good (at least i thought so last night, i'm having my doubts now), but the execution was terrible. scott recommended it, so we kept waiting for it to be brilliant. sigh. 11:14 am

i talked to my dad today. sometimes i forget that he has valuable experience and insight into the corporate world. i told him some of the stuff that's been going on at work over the past week. his viewpoint was insightful and he was able to quickly pinpoint what was happening and why. sometimes the old man surprises me. 08:14 pm

finally an internet appliance that actually seems useful. the rim pager with service from go america doesn't use wap but instead uses a text-based browser. it has a small keyboard and includes an email app. imagine checking email *and* replying on the go. 12:23 pm

the latest RCFoC has an interesting review of the rocket-ebook. apparently, it passed the test of his "tradition book-loving wife". he also mentions the everybook which seems more attractive because of it's higher (300dpi) resolution. but it is much larger. 12:03 pm

sfgate has an article on keeping employees. from what it says, i don't think these firms are doing enough. 11:12 am

an interesting article on the state of thesearch engine. 11:03 am

scribble pointed me to Inference Find!. i really like the way they organize their results. 11:22 pm

The Editing Room - Matrix: The Abridged Script starts with "she's dressed in leather because she is FEMALE in a SCI-FI THRILLER." and gets funnier from there. via david chess. 11:10 pm

phrases of the day/week: "if started your own company, what would you do?", "you know you're incredibly valuable to the company", "my door's always open", "i feel like we're all a family". 10:33 pm

the more things change, the more they stay the same. all the graphics and text that absolutely had to be delivered to me today weren't complete. so there's no point in working this weekend. i guess that's probably a good thing. 10:30 pm

bob sent me this poem this morning and it just fits my day.

"i made it down the tunnel and crushed my very so it thought it was a nicety but untold secrets never flow if i get more density perhaps i can read then write but minus the reading side perhaps it would get better you see i want to find that thing i want to find and get into"

the big news of the day is that my boss quit. of course, i could say a lot about that, but i feel the need to censor myself lately, at least when it comes to work situations. if you're really curious, email me. 02:46 pm

posts will be sporadic over the next week. i'm working myself to death again. what's new? 02:43 pm

judith pointed me to rob's amazing poem generator. this is what it came up with:

eatonweb vomiting up now.
using blogger.
go somewhere familiar
and having a weblog. or
anything. the net, but really important.

a mildly interesting, but very accurate review. Comparing Pitas, Blogger and Manila. via robot wisdom. 07:19 pm

The Manifesto of January 3,2000. there's something about this that resonates as true to me. 09:07 pm

ugh. what a day.i feel like i've been through the grinder. do you ever just sit back and wonder "what the hell am i doing here?". so many issues, so many unknowns, so much potential for both good and bad, and i won't know if i've landed on my feet until february. and on top of that i've got 6 weeks of work compressed into the next 9 days. hmm, maybe i'm feeling like this because of that. the one good note of the day is that carsdirect found a car for me and it's exactly the one i wanted. i was beginning to worry that i'd have to settle for something. 08:52 pm

jen's entry today reminded me of what i really love about weblogs. getting that window into someone's head and having a fresh perspective on life. 10:30 pm

i just eavesdropped on the oddest irc conversation. jason is chatting on the "pantera" channel and starts talking to a guy who's seen his pantera log. since jason's never mentioned it to anyone yet, i tell him to ask how the guy found it. it turns out geoff is a regular reader of my blog. strange, but it gets even weirder. geoff says he's from new york, so jason mentions that i'm going to new york with my sister in may. geoff turns around and says he's going to a cousin's wedding in may in santa cruz. small world, i would have bet huge amounts of money that those two worlds would never have crossed. maybe that's a personal bias. 10:10 pm

i'm very rarely repulsed by something i read on the net, but this one just gives me chills. (scroll down to "I think I don't like girls anymore.") 03:51 pm

Screenshots of websites affected by Y2K. now i don't have to do this myself, not that i have the time or anything. 03:16 pm

the prototype clock of the long now foundation was finished in time to chime at midnight new year's eve. 01:54 pm

the beauty of y2k. apparently the date is january 3, 19100, at least at qoop (upper right). 01:34 pm

it looks like the killer app of the internet will be leveraged for another useful service person-to-person online payments. send someone an email invoice, they enter their credit card and email it back to the financial institution, the money gets deposited into your account. yay, no more check writing! 01:20 pm

this web informant article on buying a car from carsdirect explains why i just ordered my new car from them. i haven't completed the process yet, but hopefully it's as pleasant as his. 11:28 am

i hate it when i write an entry that i would like to edit or delete the next day. because i don't feel right about editing/deleting entries after the fact, i have to sit and stare at an entry made late at night. or i can write a disclaimer like this one. i didn't intend to come off as whinging about no one linking to my blog. although reading it now it certainly sounds that way. i just thought it ironic that the blog portal would show up in a list of blogs and not my blog. i'll shut up now. 11:02 am

i find it really sad that in a list of weblogs, more often than not, my portal will be mentioned and not my blog. that said, for a directory, 1st-spot has a pretty good list of weblogs. that'll teach me to not do a thorough search. brad pointed out that my blog is actually mentioned further down the page. doh. so i don't look really stupid, i'll just make a snide comment about a portal being listed under weblogs. ;-) 10:44 pm

Himself finally roped me into creating a webpage for him. i managed to convince him to do a blog, using blogger. don't go there unless you want to read lots of boring stuff about a car. 06:14 pm

victor reminded me that money lost is not the only evil of the mythical stock options. there's also the lost intellectual capital. if you're staying at a company for options, but you're not learning new skills, you're slashing your own wrists career-wise. sadly, there are still some non-executives who do make lots of money from options, so even when you logically *know* that it's a waste of time, you still dream that it'll happen to you. 12:26 pm

as the new year begins, i want to look ahead instead of back. hopefully this year will be as much of a learning experience as the last. thank you all for reading this weblog on a regular basis, giving me input and answers to my questions, your emails have made it all worthwhile. happy new year. 12:02 pm