Monday, March 04, 2002

Cool.  The Joy of Text (Ads). I swore they'd be launched today. It's already been way too long since OSDN pulled the plug, and my wife is starting to get awfully worried about the bills. So there I was last night, around 10 o'clock, having just finished a twelve hour day writing the credit card billing code. I announced a Text Ad test period on #K5. And then the lights went out. I mean, literally, the power went out. The foghorns blew and the wind howled, and inside the house, it got eerily quiet with no whirring little case fans. But was I daunted? Did I curse this ill fate? No, not I. I dug out my headlamp, fired up the laptop, plugged it into the phone jack, and got back to work. It was a very Bruce Sterling moment. The upshot of all of this is that Text Ads are finally here. [kuro5hin.org] 11:25:54 PM     Gimme.  New Episode II Trailer Coming Soon [Geeknews] 6:14:14 PM     Quote. Mark Twain. "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." [Motivational Quotes of the Day] 6:13:06 PM     Daschle can kiss my ass.  Democrats are annoying me more and more each day.  Government's backup-plan creates rift. Secrecy surrounding shadow government irks some lawmakers. [USA Today : Front Page] 6:11:37 PM     Fascinating.  Swiss vote to join U.N.. Country to become the United Nations' 190th member after 200 years of neutrality. War on terror [USA Today : Front Page] 6:10:37 PM     Benjamin Franklin: "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worthy reading, or do things worth the writing." [Scripting News] 6:10:12 PM     Can you recycle my shit?  A world drowning in litter. To avoid drowning in our own rubbish, we urgently need to recycle more waste, writes BBC News Online's David Chazan. [BBC News: sci/tech] 6:09:37 PM     Oh yeah.  I still want to go there for Sunday High Tea.  Ritz-Carlton Boston to reopen in October with restored Dining Room. Boston Business Journal Mar 4 2002 10:17AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] 6:06:17 PM     What a mess.  Quite frankly, living in Boston, I'm pretty sick of hearing about it.  Morons in the News: Secret Meetings and Money Juggling. Now Bernard Cardinal Law has to deal with angry victims who want details about a secret advisory board that met to deal with the problem of pedophile priests...for the last nine years! Meanwhile, the funds to pay off the victims are drying up and honest Catholics are left holding the tab... [Morons Dot Org] 6:05:47 PM     This is too funny.  John Hiler: Google Time Bomb. [Scripting News] 6:05:00 PM     Well, no kidding.  Job Security for me.  Curious employees are biggest security risk. The devil inside [The Register] 6:03:01 PM     Your personal character and integrity have much to say about your public character and integrity.  Crowe's 'brutish' behavior could cost him an Oscar [USA Today : Front Page] 6:00:07 PM

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