Archive 2003
Flu Season! Wabbit Season!
Everybody in southern California seems to be falling ill, so I'm sure it won't be too long before I'm KO'ed as well. Perhaps if I keep enough green “liquid death” (read: NyQuil) coursing through my veins, the bugs will remain at bay? Taste is the first thing to go when I get sick – which [...]
Happy Thanksgiving
Before everybody disappears for the holiday weekend, I wanted to extend a personal “thank you” to all my regular visitors, lurkers, bashers, and supporters. Y'all rule! True friends have made 2003 a year worth pulling through (and its not over yet). Tomorrow, we'll join hands and celebrate the miracle of our friendship. Let's just hope [...]
The Emperor Has No Clothes
If you say that Outlook 2003 is better and faster with client-side operations, you're dead wrong. I detailed the downgrade in today's Windows Fanatics newsletter. Too bad someone hasn't developed a specific benchmarking utility so that I could prove (beyond a shadow of a doubt) how OL2k3's code is crappier. You may think the program [...]
Screw You, Outlook 2003
I can't stand it anymore; it's time to roll back to Outlook 2000 and pray to GOD IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE that someone keeps future versions of the PIM from going straight into the crapper for anybody not connecting to an Exchange server. If you rely on POP3 or IMAP, you'll be just as disappointed [...]
Kentucky Fried Conspiracies
I have a theory: Doc Searls is really Colonel Sanders. The resemblence is uncanny, and if you think about it for a second – the chicken king disappeared (allegedly due to death) right about the same time our faithful blogging cohort became better known. Speaking of random folks in Santa Barbara, I'm also a little [...]
The Pukey Little Puppy
I would like to register a formal complaint against the American cracker industry. Seems they can't produce a salty wafer without using the life-sucking virus known as hydrogenated oil. Why so passionate about this particular morsel this morning? My Vegas venture was cut short when I fell victim to food poisoning. At one point, I'm [...]
The Doc Is In
Silence has been golden for me lately. 2003 is coming to a close, but I'm starting to learn who my friends are. I'm sitting in the front row for Doc Searls' keynote at Apachecon. He's doing a fantastic presentation on the “untold story” of this underground digital juggernaut. I was happy to introduce him (and [...]
Start of the Season
It is believed the decorated Christmas tree originated in 16th century Germany. In Italy, children place their Christmas letter under their father's plate. Lucy wants real estate for Christmas in 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' Nutcracker figurines originated in Germany in the 1700s. 'Jingle Bells' was originally called 'One Horse Open Sleigh.' December 25 was chosen [...]
Softshelled Fart-bombs
In case you were wondering, it's not a good idea to scan your social security card with a sheet feeder. Flatbeds work much better for these little buggers. Lucky for me, I happened to have a metal doohickey (from the computer repair kit my parents gave me a couple of years ago). After a few [...]
Adventures in Cream
Ack! Every other pint of heavy whipping cream has this crap called Carrageenan. For some reason, it gives me a headache. Clover could be counted on to deliver a quality product, but it's only available at local Whole Foods stores – one around the corner from my apartment, and the other sits further down the [...]
Jewel of a Day
What's been happening in my little world? Everything. I don't mind being cryptic when I want to be, but right now I have to be. Change has been in the air, and this past week has been quite a revolutionary one – further punctuated by a fantastic meeting this morning with Veronica and friends. All [...]
Staff Infections
Dear Carl's Jr. staff: when one orders a six-dollar bacon guacamole burger, one expects guacamole to come with it. Dear apartment complex staff: when one's roof springs a leak on Friday night, one expects it to be fixed by Wednesday of the following week. Dear Oberto beef jerky staff: you have the best flavor on [...]
Baaaaaaaaaaack
Lockergnome has officially relaunched. I'd like to thank the academy, Jason, and Chance.
My Official Title
For years, I've struggled to define my path. People ask what I “do” for a living, and it's difficult to give them a specific title. Writer? Entrepreneur? Geek? They just don't work, because I've always done things differently. To put a finer point on it, here's what someone just called me: a technical Renaissance man [...]
Life is…
(a) kicking ass; and (b) kicking my ass. Regular Lockergnome operations were suspended last week while we did a little spring cleaning. Turns out, there's more dust under the couch than previously anticipated. That, and we've decided to go out and buy new pieces of furniture. Oh, yes… and it's not spring. I've been so [...]
