2. December, 2003 - good day
- Yesterday was a good day for me. I’ve already finished most of one of the tasks on my list, and gotten started on a couple more. A few hours online yesterday evening found Christmas presents for over half the people on my list (most should arrive by this weekend), and I’ve got a couple ideas for the rest, but need to check some of the toys out in person before I buy. I also got the first draft of the Christmas letter done, and have appointments for estimates from the movers and the floor refinishing guy. Cripes. It seems a little panic can turn me in to a pretty productive guy.
- A Machine for Sitting talks about the Freedom Chair from Humanscale, and with Niels Diffrient, its designer. The chair looks like it might be a good thing to replace one of my Aerons that keeps breaking (the tilt-limiter seems to be the weakest part of an Aeron). I’ll worry about it after I’m moved, but I want the reference here so I can find it again.
- OWASP did a security review of PHP, and PHP and the OWASP Top Ten Security Vulnerabilities is their report. Interesting if you’re writing PHP code to serve up web pages. [openbsd]
- Joel has an essay on how making software is Craftsmanship, and why craftsmanship is important when building software. Once again, he shows he’s a pretty smart guy.
- Modem moguls’ paths diverge: a profile of Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, who made modems a happening thing. Hayes got the fame and his name on the company. Heatherington cashed out early (at age 36) and hangs out at home puttering around with cool toys. [boing boing]
- Qwest to test VoIP with 200 customers in the Twin Cities. I haven’t signed up for a VoIP service yet. I’m in watch-and-wait mode still, but what I’d really like to see is some way that if I’m using it, I don’t have to pay the $4 or so for
access
to long-distane service on my regular line. [press-patch]
- MobileWhack is a new blog devoted to cool things you can do with cell-phones. I probably won’t be reading it, since I don’t even have a cell-phone at the moment, but I bet some of my readers will think it’s cool. [boing boing]
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Last updated on Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:39:08.