Archive for June, 2003

Beautiful day!

Monday, June 30, 2003 14:12

It's beautiful in San Diego. I work downtown, and the city is filled with goggle-eyed tourists and people dressed comfortably. The city seems to be in a good mood - people smile your way, people nod hello. I walked down broadway, down 5th avenue, and then up the ...

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Dark Forces

Thursday, June 26, 2003 21:38

Pres. Bush 1 minute and 40 secconds after being told by his cheif of staff "America is under attack" on 9/11. Interesting to note the lack of Secret Service activity. Here he is 4 1/2 minutes after being told the second plane had hit the second ...

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Reporters w/o Borders paper

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 21:04

"The number of Internet users in China doubles nearly every six months and the number of Chinese websites every year." ... "In mid-June this year, more than 50 Internet users were in prison around the world, three quarters of them in China." The Internet under Surveillance - Obstacles ...

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June Gloom

Monday, June 23, 2003 21:49

We're so spoiled here in San Diego with wondrous weather that we have the nerve to complain about "'June Gloom." Where do we get off expecting perfect weather all the time anyway? The nerve we have! Thing is, I can't wait till the weather is better. Hmmm... ...

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Wi-Fi in Downtown

Sunday, June 22, 2003 21:25

A strange thing happened on Friday after I booted my laptop in the conference room - instead of logging into the wireless network our radio engineers had set up last year, the machine automatically found at least three Wi-Fi access points I could log on to: "Leslie," "WITHOUT_WIRES," and another ...

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A moment as the trolley goes by. Downtown San Diego.

Saturday, June 21, 2003 11:45

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Linus Torvalds career path ala Visa

Tuesday, June 17, 2003 20:27

1. Work on open source projects 2. No profit 3. Get jealous; go to .com startup; startup tanks 4. No profit 5. Return to open source projects 6. No profit 7. Being considered the leader of the FREE world, one of the best coders, most honorable people, having made ...

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Muslim Hate At UCSD

Wednesday, June 11, 2003 8:47

This story about Muslim Hate at UCSD is appalling.

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Fray Day in San Diego

Tuesday, June 10, 2003 9:17

Someone should do a Fray Day here in San Diego. Who volunteers to organize it? :-)

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Artists and Writers

Friday, June 6, 2003 16:51

The next meeting of the Starving Artist Group is this Sunday! When? Sunday, June 8th, 2003 Where? 1751 University Ave (Hillcrest) Corner of University Ave. and Park Blvd. Building phone: #11 What Time? 2:00 pm All artists invited! Writers Monthly.US ...

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heh

Wednesday, June 4, 2003 23:04

So this guy goes to a pet store in Silicon Valley and he needs to get a monkey. He goes up to the sales rep. and asks if he could have a look at their monkeys. So the rep. takes him over to these three cages, goes over to the ...

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Normal Heights

Sunday, June 1, 2003 15:15

Sitting at brunch this morning with Joe, eating the best breakfast I've had is a really long time at Antique Row Cafe and what do we see?

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