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Wednesday, March 6, 2002
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According to the emailed feedback from yesterday, I have at least four feed-readers -- thanks for the mail, everyone!
Now, if they're all on one feed, I should be able to get on Dave's feed chart by posting six times in consecutive hours. I'm not sure I can be bothered, though. :) [Deadly Bloody Serious]
I can't believe it's only four. I'm one of them, by the way. Either people didn't respond like they should, or they've taken Burningbird's advice and stopped reading weblogs as news feeds.
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At the end of the day I really don't care about your cat - but I do care that you care about your cat. Does that make sense. I love the opportunity to connect with people.
This is a major step forward for me. [Victor Echo Zulu]
What is it about Australia that brings out all of these fabulous bloggers?
comment () 2:30:13 PM
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I just found this listed among my weblog Events:
Can't upstream because "The server, radio.xmlstoragesystem.com, returned error code 7: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "xmlStorageSystem" hasn't been defined."
xmlStorageSystem hasn't been defined? That can't be good :)
comment () 12:29:21 PM
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Caterina Fake is trying to list every book she's ever read. That's a pretty good idea. I might try that as well. Once I've made the list, maybe I should go back and try to reread all of them. For some reason I don't read as much as I used to. Actually, I read more. But it's all web reading. Does that count?
comment () 12:20:56 PM
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Yesterday was primary day in California. I voted!
There were a couple of funny propositions on the ballot. In general, I hate propositions. My fellow Californians and I can not possibly be informed well enough on the various propositions to vote intelligently on them. That's why we have elected representatives. The two propositions in question were local to San Diego. One proposition, Prop. E., if passed, would require a vote on all general tax increases and 2/3's of the voters would have to vote for the increase for it to pass. It looks like that proposition is going to pass. Except that there is a second proposition, Prop. F, which says that for any proposition that requires a 2/3 vote to pass itself must require a 2/3 vote to pass. And that includes the current election. So, to review, Prop. E will require a 2/3's vote to pass general tax hikes, and Prop. F will require a 2/3's vote to pass propositions like Prop. E. It looks like Prop. E is getting about 54% of the vote. That would pass it. But Prop. F is getting 50.10% of the vote and that's enough to pass it, which means that Prop. E's 54% of the vote is no longer good enough to pass as it isn't 2/3's of its vote. Whew.
One question I had: Does Prop. F affect itself. In other words, if Prop F passes, then does it require a 2/3's vote for a proposition like Prop. F to pass. Which means that with 50.10% of the vote it doesn't pass. But of course, if it doesn't pass, then it passes.
My brain hurts.
This story suggests that Prop. F doesn't affect itself.
By the way, I voted against both propositions. I hate propositions.
comment () 11:53:26 AM
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REAL Software has a new section on its website devoted to specific REALbasic tutorials. The first tutorial is by Joe Nastasi and covers REALbasic windows.
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Hack Turns iPod into PDA [Slashdot]: The hack puts into like phone numbers and addresses and such and makes them MP3 tags in empty MP3 files. Put those files on an iPod and you can browse them using the iPod's scroller. I had this idea but never did it. I was looking at the tag structure of MP3 files to figure out how to generate my own and I kind of lost interest. The story of my life :)
comment () 11:10:02 AM
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There are Newtons on eBay. I want one. I can't believe they are going for less than $150. They sold new for close to $1000. Or should I say they didn't sell. That's one reason Apple killed it. That, and the fact that it was John Sculley's idea and Steve Jobs hates Sculley. I don't blame him. Sculley had no respect for the Mac.
comment () 10:29:01 AM
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I don't think I'm using categories nearly enough. I once saw a screenshot of Dave's desktop website and it had many categories. I only have a few and I don't flow my content very well to them. Categories break the content up into streams that different kinds of people might be interested in. The people who might be interested in what I have to say about Radio, probably could care less about TheBeard™.
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My referees link finally works again. It wasn't working last night and this morning. Probably due to the work UserLand is doing for the "next big thing". I can't wait to find out all of the details. It's almost as if Dave has stolen a page from Apple's playbook. Building up to the exciting announcements.
comment () 10:02:01 AM
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© Copyright
2002
Will Leshner.
Last update:
3/6/02; 10:02:02 AM.
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Day 10 of TheBeard™.