A Los Angeles business person had established a near-prefect, self-sustaining economic system that managed to also do some good for the community at large.
Of course, the government had to put a stop to it.

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OK. I’m having a lot of problems with MT-based weblog right now. Sometimes the main index of the blog disappears (it gets rebuilt as a completely empty HTML page) or it gets only partially built when I rebuild the files. Occasionally, when somebody posts a comment, the main page rebuilds as a blank [...]

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USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll
March 10, 2003 Team (First Place) Record Pts Last Week 1 Colorado College (33) 26-5-5 593 1 2 Cornell [...]

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The only thing I miss about Linux desktops is the little bomb icon labeled “kill.” You could click on the bomb, then click on any window and it would close the window immediately. This was very useful since, despite everyone’s claims about Linux stability, the desktop shit was always taking dumps and leaving [...]

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Did you see “Sunshine State”, John Sayles’ movie about Florida? You should. It rocks. There’s a character in it who is the washed up former leader of the band Skeeter Meter. Have you heard The Allman Brothers Band? Have you heard Lynrd Skynrd? Then you’ve heard Skeeter Meter. [...]

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Sometimes I really miss the old “new” economy days. I miss being able to blather on in a mixture of psuedo-mba/geek speak and getting a room full of people whipped into pants-wetting fits of ecstacy, reaching for their checkbooks and licking their lips.

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I’d like to hear some analysis and debate on this article from you’ns.

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If you’re a Cat Power fan, and you go see them on this current tour, be sure and give a shout to my boy Colemen, who’s playing in the band. Nice one, Coleman!
Chan (Cat Power) and Coleman, as well as Rob Mallard and a few other folks, are some of my idols [...]

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Serbian Prime Minister Assassinated
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro – Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic—who
spearheaded the revolt that toppled former President Slobodan Milosevic in
October 2000—was assassinated Wednesday by gunmen who ambushed him outside
the government complex, police sources said.
Djindjic, 50, died in a Belgrade hospital after having been shot in the abdomen
and back.
Two people were [...]

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As I drive north on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, I take the first left past Peachtree Parkway, which is Peachtree Corners East.

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From my project manager trying to describe a trick situation:
“As far as the transport work go, we in a catch 20-20.”
Wow. I need a numbing. Now.

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Who’s your daddy?
Who’s got a 100Mbps switched backbone?
Who has a VPN capable, stateful-inspection, NAT firewall/router with MAC-address masquerading?
Who rocks with two WAPs with 128-bit WEP encryption and MAC-level filtering?
Who installed an always-on, bridged ethernet ADSL modem with 1.54Mbps download speed?
THIS GUY!

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Some senior manager at my company sent out an e-mail announcing that, from now on, we should try to not use telephone directory books, but instead should rely on:
www.superpages.com
www.whitepages.com
www.switchboard.com
The problems with this:

It’s about five years too late.
He left off the product of one of our largest and most lucrative clients [...]

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I just found a very well-designed Flash application that provides either expansive or pithy interactive, real-time financial information about everything. I cannot tell you how important this is. Check it out. (via Nick Denton)

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