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Tom, yessir! I loved it! Also, check me out…5k Credits linkage!

Postal Service to offer e-mail. Wow, you could get spam from the gov’t!

Did any of you follow the The 5k Contest? Although this contest is over now, I followed it from day one with great enthusiasm. The jist of the contest was simple–no web page/site could exceed 5 kilobytes in size total. What a concept! I am a huge fan of fast web pages and it is amazing what some people did with only 5k. The winners are on this site along with the original rules and all of the entries. Enjoy!

Suck: Daily adds to the Mozilla slamfest. I wish I could say that they didn’t deserve it. But, they do. More to say later.

Thanks Tom, I especially liked designshops.com: How to Write a Kick-Ass Proposal. I’ve been looking around for a site like this, one that caters to the small time web developer. I think they did a good job too.

Since my first post blew because I didn’t do the hyperlink, allow me to mend my ways by doing the hyperlink correctly, the link is designshops.com, and by including another link which you may find interesting. This one is chickenhead, and as a far as overall design and originality goes, it is one of my all time favorite sites on the web.

Hello all, my first post here. I thought I would start by passing along the url to one of my favorite web design sites. It is DesignShops and http://www.designshops.com. If you are ever in need of inspiration and ideas when it comes to your web pages, this is good place to browse.

Super Greg… too much for words. But, strangely like Curry, also too much for words. I wonder?

I’m finalizing the mailing list. Getting ready for the first mailing, if you are not on the list and want to be… click on the “mailing list” link above to sign up, or just tell me to add you.

Okay, that’s it. I’m not going to suffer any more of these click hungry EMU/ROM sites. I’m tired of waiting for downloads that never come, I’m tired of going to these “top 25” voting sites so I can access downloads. Please help me find a good solid arcade game ROM site that will not fucking run me around banner ads and voting scams. No, I’m not naming names… I understand why they are doing it, but I don’t like it. I don’t want to initiate any boycotts or anything. I just want a nice FTP site for MAME compatable ROMS. Any help would be much apprecieated.

Check out Ben Brown’s network of stuff, very cool.

Paxtonland is very hardware-centric… We love thinking about hardware, talking about hardware, and buying hardware. On that note, Rich has a pretty nice system he’d like to sell. Here are the details:

Inwin S500 Mid-Tower Case
with 300 Watt Athlon-Approved Power Supply
550 MHz AMD Athlon CPU w/Heat Sink and Fan
Biostar M7MKA Motherboard
128 MB 133 MHz SDRAM
13 GB Western Digital HD
Toshiba 16x CDROM
3.5″ Floppy Drive
US Robotics 56k Internal Modem
KTI 100/10BaseT Ethernet Card
Sound Blaster Live!
NEC 15″ E500 Monitor

Will Sell For all $950

Note: No Video Card, Mouse, Keyboard, or Speakers, however he’d be willing to set these up at cost.

E-mail Rich if you want it.

Hollywood looks to kill hyperlinks in copyright fights. Evidently, the latest ploy of the hollywood/music industry legal pit bulls in the battle against “piracy” is to attact the premise of linking. Cases and opinions are pending that could have a remote possiblilty of effecting how we link. Remote, but real… this always scares me, when supreme courts decide things that are so far reaching. Technophobic baby boomers and their plaintiffs in action, once again.

Please take time to read the entry on Greasy Skillet dated 7/25, I was rather taken with it. I can’t tell you how many times I have allowed this to happen to me. I wish I could go back and relive every time… and do it differently, at least. I think that these are the ghosts that haunt us when we are old. Great work David.

Last week I was heading for work. Traffic was kind of moving slow, it was earlier than I normally go in. I was sitting in the line of cars, you know, stop and go. Detroit is not as famous as Washington DC, New Youk, or L.A. for traffic jams, but we hold our own among the urban sprawls. I noticed a mother duck and her 4-5 babies moving towards the highway and it’s 4 lanes of bumper to bumper traffic. I could feel panic rise as she got closer to the cars. The highway is divided, so she could really go no place if she managed to get herself and the babies across. I was looking around at the other drivers to see if they noticed her, no one seemed to. I finally moved past her so that I had to skew the mirror way over to the right so I could still see her attempts. Eventually I moved out of sight. I wonder what became of her?

Excellent Metafilter discussion! I’ll say that out of approx. 30+ internet users that I know (not developers), not a single one uses Navigator. Of course the AOL users don’t even know what a browser is. : o Why does AOL use IE? Long term contract?

I found the Master Compatibility Chart very informative.

Dean, there is great confusion about (XML/XSL) MSXML and IE 5+. From discussions that I’ve participated in during the last 10 days, every other question pertains to the latest namespace and how to install MSXML 3.0. I found this Unofficial MSXML XSLT FAQ site to be very helpful for installing the latest version.

Regarding newgroups, I have “subscribed” to the XSL-List — Open Forum on XSL. The archives alone are a wealth of knowledge.

The Ultimate Bad Candy Web Site as opposed to the abundance of mediocre bad candy websites…

I had a lot of fun kicking around disturbing auctions I found this on glassdog.com, I spent hours in there. Most of the items there are impossible to categoize, but they tried anyway.

Caspian’s Den – Writing – Pride and Prejudice: The Platform War Comes to the Web (via arstechnica)

Baby Greetings from The White House – Yes, Bill and Hill can send a card congratulating a new arrival. Consider this for a shower gift, if you want to get off cheap.

I’ve always searched for the perfect cup of coffee. Everyone who know me well, knows they can always get a cup of stiff coffee at my house. I’ve reasearched the topic a great deal. I still think that percolated coffee is best for taste and caffeine content. This small gathering of data presented in a handy reference table called the Erowid Caffeine Vault : Content in Beverages supports my claims.

Of course all of the cooking references, books, how-to’s say that the filtered one pass method is the preferred method for taste. But, that’s what cream and sugar are for. Do your own research, there are a few good starting points:

Coffee Review
Coffee Universe

The Coffee Science Source

The Wired Java Fanatic

The Koffee Korner

CoffeeTV
The Coffee Kid
Stairway to Coffee
The Absolute Authority on Coffee

Here is a fascinating MetaFilter discussion, that I’m embroiled in about the lack of product from Netscape/Mozilla and adoption of web standards. This is all in relation/reaction to the WsSP!’s open letter to Mozilla. My hope is that the letter will cause them to do what I said about a week ago, hurry up and get it done already.

cat-a-pult to hell with PETA…

Relationship Goes Sour as Girl, 16, Glues Boyfriend’s Penis to His Body. Now, that’s a sticky situation.

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