What's a weblog you ask? Simply put, it's a webpage that is updated frequently. It's similar to a news page that updates multiple times during the day. The new part is that people are writing software to make these pages easy to set up and maintain. I'm using a website called 'blogger' to do mine. Click on the link down at the bottom of this page to check them out.
As always, please feel free to send me any comments and/or suggestions.
1:41:39 PM
Boy, now here is a company that has a good idea of how to keep employees. I have purchased any number of pieces of equipment from Small Dog Electronics and am continually impressed with them. Keep up the good work guys! DOG HEALTH INSURANCEDogs are such an important part of our lives that Hapy and I decided to offer our employees a new benefit. We developed a health insurance program for dogs, and we now offer it to our employees. Each employee may register up to two dogs with our program and be eligible for veterinary care at the company's expense. Why would we offer this benefit? I am a firm believer that dogs as companions are significant stress reducers. We always have a few dogs wandering around our office, and many of our employees have canine friends. I think that dogs make my employees happier and more productive workers.
12:22:23 PM
Now here's a word I had almost forgotten about and really needs to be used more often! glark /glark/ vt. To figure something out from context. "The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was originally `glork'; the context was "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the January 1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured that hacker usage mutated the verb to `glark' because glork was already an established jargon term (some hackers do report using the original term). Compare grok, zen.Taken from the online Jargon file here.
11:00:20 AM
A friend of mine found this as a sig line on an e-mail message. Quite amusing. Microsoft is a cross between the Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately, they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to do their programming. (Simon Slavin)
4:44:53 PM
I goofed off for 15 minutes this afternoon and this is what happened.
11:48:43 AM
Remember the HungerSite? It's that site with a bunch of ad banners on it and every time you visit it, that generates some revenue that is used to buy food. Well, the people who brought you that (GreaterGood.com) have added another page just like that, the Rainforest Site. Every click through buys 19.2 square feet of forest. So, let's get clicking people!
10:45:03 AM
This is a BIG deal! President Clinton just ordered the military to turn off the scrambling system in the GPS satellites. What this means is that everyone with a GPS receiver can now get the same accuracy that the military has had for years. All the receivers are now accurate to about 10 meters instead of 100. This is way cool!
9:43:59 AM
Yesterday I had one of my long cherished dreams shattered. Or at least upstaged. Back while I was still going to the University of Akron for my undergrad, I wrote Quatris, a variant of Tetris using AppleSoft Basic on an Apple II. It was a small time hit there on campus. A few years later the University built a glass tower building (the Polymer Building) and I looked at one day and said "Wouldn't it be fun to wire up the lights on each window to a computer and "play Tetris on the Polymer building." Well, a bunch of kids in a dorm over in New England have done it. Here are some pictures. And from what that site says, someone over in Amsterdam has done it too.
Bummers. But as my friend Karl said, "Consider it a call to action." I need to start acting on those good ideas and stop just dreaming about them.
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