Saturday’s round of the WRC Rally New Zealand is over, and Marcus Gronholm is still in charge, even after flipping his Peugeot on SS13. Richard Burns is currently almost a minute back in second place, and Subaru’s Petter Solberg is another 50 seconds back in third place. Sebastien Loeb continues his fantastic season holding down […]

Posted on April 12th, 2003 by admin
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Wonder what programming will be like 100 years? Here’s an article that theorizes about it. There’s a fairly interesting Slashdot discussion about it (and here’s my $.02 about it).

Posted on April 11th, 2003 by admin
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First, after six whole weeks, the World Rally Championship is running again, this time in New Zealand. The weather has been wetter than usual, negating any disadvantage early runners like Richard Burns (current driver’s points leader) might have. But the conditions haven’t stopped Marcus Gronholm, as he leads the rally after day one by almost […]

Posted on April 11th, 2003 by admin
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I am desperately trying to wrap up this consulting project. I want to start my new job as soon as possible (and my new employer would like me to as well), but these folks just won’t play ball. I don’t ever want for a big company, no matter how much they will pay me. It […]

Posted on April 9th, 2003 by admin
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Salon has an interesting article (sorry, you’ll have to click through an ad to read it) about a new program called CRACK (Children Requiring A Caring Kommunity) that pays drug addicts to take birth control or get sterilized. I’m not really sure how I feel about the whole concept, and it would probably take me […]

Posted on April 8th, 2003 by admin
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I’m now in multi-tasking mode. I’m trying desperately to get the PNC project out the door, so I can start the full time position ASAP, but PNC is doing their best to prevent that. 99.85% of the development work is finished, but it seems as if there may be some issues with some of the […]

Posted on April 7th, 2003 by admin
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Big changes are afoot for Mozilla. Lots of good news too, mostly in the form of ditching the kitchen-sink model that has made Mozilla a bloated process-vampire. A few interesting bits: * Phoenix will become the browser for Mozilla. * The yet-unreleased Minotaur will become “Thunderbird” and become the mail client. * The development model […]

Posted on April 2nd, 2003 by admin
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This sort of response scares me a little bit. Why would Britain already begin to distance themselves from something like this if there wasn’t a chance it would happen? This is exactly the sort of situation I feared when we started this war. I think the last thing we want to is to be taking […]

Posted on April 2nd, 2003 by admin
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First…I accepted an offer for a fulltime job yesterday. I’ll be a Java monkey for a little collaboration software startup. Should be interesting. The work consists of using the newer Jakarta-Apache frameworks like Turbine and Velocity. Despite the fact it’ll be a paycut from consulting, not having to worry about things like health benefits is […]

Posted on April 1st, 2003 by admin
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