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whoa.

Thanks, Derek, for giving me 15 minutes of fame. (I hope you are laughing with me and not at me.)

shutdown -h now

I used IRC for the first time since '94 tonight. very strange. /msg self brush up on IRC shorcuts.

ev's quote reminds me of this quote.

I picked up two books the other day. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America by Daniel J. Boorstin and The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord. (complete text online.) They were both published in the 60's, but appear to speak volumes about modern society. I've started the Boorstin book; its definition and views of "news" and "pseudo-events" are very accurate.

yo-yos confuse cats.

Of course, Database Nation is not to be confused with *my* forthcoming book Weblog Nation: Posting our Lives. Now if I could just find a publisher. heh. just a joke. no such book in the works.

Here's the USA Today review of the new book by Simson Garfinkel called Database Nation. Garfinkel will be live and in person at the Borders in Stonestown Galleria in San Francisco tomorrow at 7:30pm. He also writes a weekly column for the Boston Globe. Disclosure: My girlfriend works at O'Reilly & Associates, the publisher of his books. But I really do like Garfinkel's writing. even before I met her. honest.

Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Ban on Net wine sales challenged. Interstate wine sales regulation is about money, not morality.

When you type up a really long icq to someone, and then it's too long to send, you are faced with two options. 1) Send through Email. 2) Cancel. I did not want to send this message through email. (partly because I don't have my email settings in icq.) I wanted to return to the icq editing window to edit its length. Unfortunately, when you press "Cancel", your long message is gone forever. Bad design.

You can tell the picture above [near the train station at 4th and Townsend in San Francisco] was taken last summer because there is a parking space available.