An excellent Salon interview with Eileen Richardson from Napster.
Matt, who seems to be full of great ideas, is working on this project as a part of The MetaFilter Network. What a great idea.
“The gem cannot be perfected without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
Confucius
This weekend was a fantastic reminder of how much I dislike festival style music shows. There is nothing like a bunch of drunk morons looking to start fights and packed into a relatively small space. Oasis proved to be very low energy live Friday night, and we didn’t return to the show on Saturday or Sunday because of the nasty crowd.
Aimme Mann’s new CD, Bachelor No.2 or the last remains of the dodo, is quite good. Some of the songs are the same as those on the Magnolia soundtrack.
I finally got the March and April archive pages up. The legacy archives will follow soon.
I bought a new Television for my new apartment. It’s very very nice.
The annoying Javascript error messages that everyone was getting should be gone now. I’m hoping to get the last few weeks of archives hooked back up today too.
It’s going to be a fun weekend, my brother is coming into to town from New York, and Atlanta’s Spring music festival, Music Midtown is this weekend. There aren’t too many bands I want to see, but I need to get out of the house and socialize.
This whole I Love You virus thing has been really annoying for some people and brought other people’s networks down. Personally, I received more emails warning me about the virus and trying to inform me of it’s dangers than anything else. What do you call these emails? They are almost a mutated strain of the virus itself.
Well I completed the majority of my move over the last two days. I should be back online now and posting on a regular basis again. My new apartment is, of course, full of boxes that I need to sort through. I still have some furniture to buy, but I got a bed and a neat two person lounge chair for my living room. I’m hoping to be out of the old apartment altogether by this weekend.
Jim points to this article about Palm moving to ARM processors. It’s a natural move for them, and I guess they could license or buy newton technology from Apple if they wanted. This has some potential.
Did I mention that I like Dandot’s new design quite a bit?
Kudos to Waferbaby on the beautiful redesign.
I have lost 25 lbs since SXSW.
I went to Crate & Barrel yesterday to look at beds, and brought my digital camera so I could easily remember what beds I saw in which store. I found one I thought would be a good candidate for my apartment so I took out the camera and shot a couple of pictures of it. Almost immediately, a snotty salesperson descended on me and informed me that they didn’t allow any pictures. When I explained why I needed to take them, he said that I had to have him take Polaroids of the items I was interested in and that I should wait for him to come back and help me. He then went back to helping another customer for almost a half an hour before I finally got angry enough to leave. Guess I won’t be buying my bed, or any of my furniture, at Crate & Barrel.
I can’t ever remember feeling so drained physically, mentally, and emotionally. The strange thing is that I seem to have huge amounts of untapped energy that is carrying me through this time period in my life. I’m deep in the process of breaking down my half of our apartment, and expect to be in my new apartment completely some time next week. Once I do that, I really think that I’ll feel a lot better about things.
I’m starting to really pack my stuff for the impending move. Lots of memories keep leaping out of drawers and boxes to make me smile.
Crazy weekend. Still trying to recover. Good friends are hard to find, and I’m appreciating mine more every day.
Today is jack’s last day, which is a very sad one for me. I’ve really enjoyed working with him over the last six months. Nine of us took him out for a Thai lunch and had some fun.
I went with some friends to see Kids in the Hall last night. I thoroughly enjoyed myself, I think partially because I needed to laugh very badly.
Almost everyone who sent me new apartment advice said I should shop at IKEA. Unfortunately, they aren’t very Internet friendly, make it very difficult to get a catalog, and don’t have a store in the Atlanta area. Fortunately, Sara, one of my fearless co-workers(I guess you would have to be fearless to work with me, just ask Jack why he’s really leaving.) brought me in the catalog she had at home. When I whipped out the floor plan for my new apartment, voila no measurements of any kind. That makes no sense whatsoever.
Anger was a place to hide.
WebVan went preview in Atlanta today. Yeeha I say.