February 2004

by alec on February 29, 2004

Marc’s Voice posted a link to this performance of Carmen in Seville. Awesome! Carmen staged on site in the Seville bull ring, town square, and so on. What an extravaganza!

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by alec on February 27, 2004

This arrived in my mailbox today…

As she fell face down in the black muck of the mud-wrestling pit, her sweaty 300-pound opponent muttering soft curses in Latin on top of her, Sister Marie thought, “There is no doubt about it; the Pope has betrayed me.”

Winning entry in the 1983 San Jose State bad writing contest

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Rosie O’Donnell to Marry

February 26, 2004

According to this CNN report, Rosie O’Donnell is going to San Francisco to marry her long time girlfriend. Her reason for doing so is quite interesting. O’Donnell said she decided to marry Carpenter, a former dancer and marketing director at Nickelodeon, during her recent trial in New York over the now-defunct Rosie magazine. "We applied [...]

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Scoble the evangelist

February 26, 2004

Scoble says that he has stopped pushing Longhorn in his current evangelism forays. Customers haven’t upgraded to XP, and he wants to know why. He bemoans the fact that the company’s advertising doesn’t show off any of the cool new features of products. He points out that most users don’t know what ClearType is (if you [...]

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February 25, 2004

Pingtel to open source IP PBX Another open source IP PBX. This is becoming a trend. The Asterisk IP PBX is a pretty solid piece of code already. Has it’s faults, but there it is. Now Pingtel… even includes VoIP softclients. A bit of a kick in the teeth for Xten who charges a pretty good [...]

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February 19, 2004

Carmen in Seville Marc’s Voice posted a link to this performance of Carmen in Seville. Awesome! Carmen staged on site in the Seville bull ring, town square, and so on. What an extravaganza!

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Joho on Gay Marriage

February 17, 2004

Joho published a piece on gay marriage this morning. I’ve cut the beginning out and reproduced it here. I also recommend reading the Bob Herbert piece that he references. Are we Sodom?. Bob Herbert’s column today in the NY Times "Bliss and Bigotry" made me cry. It’s a good column, but it did not provoke [...]

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This arrived in my mailbox today…

February 17, 2004

As she fell face down in the black muck of the mud-wrestling pit, her sweaty 300-pound opponent muttering soft curses in Latin on top of her, Sister Marie thought, "There is no doubt about it; the Pope has betrayed me." Winning entry in the 1983 San Jose State bad writing contest

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February 15, 2004

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February 11, 2004

MyDoom “spectacularly successful” Via Reuters, SCO confirmed that MyDoom has taken down their website. MyDoom.B is due to hit Microsoft in 2 days time.

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