Archive for July, 2002
common sense misses the train
So this is what all the hubbub was about this morning on the commuter rail. I was wondering why the conductors were talking to some of the passengers about medical emergencies on the train. Apparently, a man suffered a heart attack on a commuter rail line yesterday and the train continued to make the scheduled [...]
a truce in the software wars
First, Adobe sued Macromedia over patent infringement for the use of “tabbed palettes” in their interface design. Macromedia countersued Adobe over patent infringement for elements of a drawing-based editor for Web sites and a “hierarchical structure editor for Web sites.” Adobe won it’s lawsuit and $2.8 million in damages. Macromedia won it’s lawsuit and $4.9 [...]
down the drain
You probably don’t give much thought to what goes down the pipe when you drain a sink, run the dishwasher or, most importantly, flush the toilet. It disappears. You don’t think about it. That is, of course, if you are fortunate enough to never have a serious drain problem.
Marlin and I, on the other hand, [...]
the scathing self-critique
I am boring. For the life of me I can’t understand why hundreds of thousands of you visit this site daily, hanging on my every last word. I read my own blog dozens of times each day, forcing myself to diligently check for comments as required by all A-listers (note the capital "A"). I am [...]
cutting corners
For those of you who have come here for advice on mitre cuts for crown mouldings (and I know you’ve been here, I’ve seen you in my referrer logs), I have one piece of advice: run. Run for your life. Sure, I was all full of confidence after buying a deluxe compound mitre saw and [...]
and they’re off!
Those of you who have visited leather egg and may (or may not) have enjoyed reading the late-night, oftentimes inebriated musings in the comments section from my friends Jack and Jan may wish to pay a visit to Sportsman’s Camp Blog. It’s live, it’s raw, it’s (probably) unedited, and it’s coming to you from the [...]