Apparently, the Internet can improve relations with family and friends, which is pretty far from the study that said it created isolation. There’s a happy medium to anything you do.
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May 10, 2000
I went and played Walleyball with a group of people from work and some others last night. For those not familiar with the sport in question, it is essentially Volleyball in a Racquetball court where you can play off the walls. It was a really fun time, and a nice change of pace from my normal cardio and weights workout. Strangely, I couldn’t find many references to Walleyball on the Web beyond purchasing equipment and various places that have the setup to play.
I just discovered that Aimee Mann is playing in Atlanta in June. Our lucky San Francisco friends get to see her this week.
Strangely, when I log onto Napster now, there are still plenty of Metallica songs up there.
File under “not surprising to me”, my color is Black.
Some great Web, dreamweaver, and development tutorials on this site.
May 9, 2000
Steven Champeon takes Microsoft and Bill Gates to task for comments made in a Time Magazine article. I couldn’t have said it better myself.(via rc3.org)
May 8, 2000
The supermarket down the street from my house now has a self checkout system where you scan the items you are buying, then insert either cash or card based payment into a machine. It works really well, and it’s much faster than waiting in line. I was buying beer, so I still had to show my ID to the single employee overseeing the self checkout area.
What’s up with array?
Macromedia has posted more in-depth information about their upcoming Dreamweaver UltraDev, which supports both Cold Fusion and Active Server pages development with a variety of industry standard databases.
brig’s redesign is my favorite EatonWeb so far.
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.
May 5, 2000
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 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.