Archive for April, 2003

Williams or Downs?

Monday, April 28th, 2003

Are you more like the kid with WMS, or the kid with DNS? The difference between these two forms of mental retardation is absolutely fascinating, and in my opinion represents two extremes of a dichotomy that is useful for categorizing all people — not just those classified as mentally retarded.
WMS people and DNS people have […]

Blah Blah, XML

Sunday, April 27th, 2003

Anyone want to take bets on how soon “The Reg” starts using Word or InfoPathto publish articles to their blog?
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Among other things, we tried Duke’s at Alki Beach for the first time this weekend. We would definitely go back, and recommend for good food at a good price. The chowder was great, steamed clams were […]

Mundania

Friday, April 25th, 2003

This is life as a cog in a BigCo wheel:
1. This week I got a “ship-it” prize for helping to ship Windows Server 2003. I am not sure what I did to help ship Windows Server 2003, but I snatched it and ran before they had a chance to notice anything wrong.
2. Yesterday was “take […]

New World

Sunday, April 20th, 2003

Michael Winser’s blog first introduced me to the perspective that we are experiencing “a disease that spreads like the common cold but kills 4 percent of its victims”.
This puts me in an interesting dilemma regarding a previously planned trip to Hunan this fall. Skipping or delaying the trip is highly undesirable, but since it’s a […]

Radioactive Hiring

Thursday, April 17th, 2003

So I leavetown for a week with no Internet access, and when I come back Scoble has been assimilated! Scoble is hinting that another well-known blogger is going to announce soon. If it’s who I think it is,all I can say is we’re definitely getting an infusion of talent and energythese recentmonths.We search for people […]