Month: July 2002

  • Oh the irony!

    We’ll be celebrating my wife’s new job all weekend now! Obviously she’s excited about this. I am too. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll miss working with her and being together every day, but she’s going to be the PR Director for a non-profit organization, doing some of the stuff she loves. She’ll be writing, and…

  • Random weekend thoughts

    Some things to ponder over the weekend: Umm where are you priorities? this story of a man who grilled a kitten has hit the Daypop Top 40, with all of appropriate condemnations, including a letter-writing campaign. That’s all fine, but if that’s blogworthy, where are you people on the abduction, rape, and murder of a…

  • Store order

    Just a quick note. I noticed that someone purchased a baseball jersey from the One Man IT Department Store. To this individual I say, thank you, first off! Also, would you consider dropping me a line and letting me know about the quality of the baseball jersey? I like to keep up with what Cafepress…

  • Morning Notes

    John Hiler says: This is the dark side of blogging: the emphasis it puts on our egos. If I write something and someone else blogs it on their site… well all of a sudden, I feel validated and great about myself. Same thing goes with press mentions: you read a few articles that mention you…

  • More aggregators

    In the interest of being thorough, (and in providing service to the 4% 2.68% (to be exact) of my site visitors that use a Mac,) a Mac news aggregator freeware program became available. It’s called NetNewsWire Lite 1.0b2, from Brent Simmons. Early reviews are positive but, not having a Mac myself, I can’t really verify…

  • In the news

    First off, the landlord called again this morning. They found where the check had been deposited, their mistake. *huge sigh of relief* An Open Offer to Utah State IT Employees -this is a good idea, let your people create blogs and share knowledge with each other, or even outside their organization. I’ve suggested the same…