Aptenobytes

Feb 28, 2001

Oh my aching back. I slipped a disk on Sunday. This is not a fun thing. If you can avoid doing so, avoid it.

Feb 20, 2001

Revealed! The source for the phrase "All your base belong to us" :

Apparently it's from a goofy vido game. Now you know... like you were wondering in the first place, but i was.

So Napster is offering a billion dollars to the RIAA for the right to legitimize themselves . Note to self : do not, I repeat DO NOT invest in Napster. As about a dozen people noted on Slashdot when this came up, napster wants us to supply the content, on our hardware, using the bandwidth we pay for, said content created by somebody else, and get us to pay for it, and at the same time remove the rebellion from it. Oh yeah that's gonna fly like the Hindenburg.

When are these bozos gonna realize that the genie is out of the bottle. Libraries don't hurt bookstores, and mp3 sharing is equivalent to a library. I've said it before and I'll say it again. People like stuff. They like stuff that they can point to and say "that's mine". With the combination of attacking P2P technologies and the SDMA, they're screwing themselves both ways. They are making their best customers their enemies and with the secure digital music intiative, they're destroying their ace card ; that if we buy from them, we have a legitimate version we can do what we want with. The way things are going, the mp3 you pull of the net for free will be more useful and portable than the encrypted "secure" version that you purchase that you'll only be able to play on MPAA approveed hardware. Can someone explain to me what those idiots running the music business are thinking.

Feb 12, 2001

I'm using this site as a test bed for learning
Cascading Style
Sheets

so if anything breaks, please let me know at
thom@idar.com

and let me know what browser/OS combination is breaking.
Learning is fun!

Still working way too much, so nothing exciting has happened
in my life lately.

I really have to do something about this lack of free time.

I really have to do something about this lack of free time.
I've been working on a few projects lately. We've begun fixing
up the house a little bit. We started by diggin down the
basement and reinforcing the foundation. Next, we'll fix up the
front of the shop. Then we'll decide what's next.

The other project is trying to set up some wholesale
accounts for the store. We've been putting together a catalog,
and been trying to contact a few american galleries and stores
to see where our jewellery would best fit in (and who wants to
carry our stuff).

The next project is related to the catalog we've been
developing. Lara has been taking a bunch of pictures of our
jewellery, so now I've got lots of material to revamp the
gallery section of the business web site. This has inspired me
to decide to implement Cascading Style Sheets throughout the
site.

In my spare time I'm continuing my coursework towards
earning my Fellowship in the
GAGTL . It's being a long haul.

Someday I might actually get a day off... but I'm not sure
I'd know what to do with it...