Archives for January 2003

ebay is for vintage!

i've been bidding on ebay dresses like mad. i really wanted this cute red one but this witch out bid me. At least I made her pay $66 for it. I don't think it was worth that much, but ok. it is so hard to find good vintage dresses. i should send her an email and let her know if it doesn't fit, i'll buy it from her for what she paid. i wouldn't be surprised if it shows up on ebay again... i've just installed active perl on my production webserver at work. i was told it had perl. lies. i … [Read more...]

orlando, for space not mickey

back when mar was still married to david, the whole family took a trip to orlando. i remember being sick to death of david, my mother and the boys. i was tired of the heat, and the humidity. as far as vacations go, it is pretty far down the list. but there was one thing that i did in orlando that my family didn't do. i went and watched a night lauch of the space shuttle. it was the most incredible thing i have ever seen. i remember the day that we went to kennedy. it was davids birthday, and one … [Read more...]

sbc, idiots…

so sbc has this fun patent that says it owns the right to frames like navigation, and has since 1996. now they want little guys like MuseumTour.com to pay up. i did have a web site way back in 1996, and it was using frames like navigation. i'm not sure of the date, but you can be sure that i'm going to check it out. you should too. do as pbs' cringely suggests. "...please come forward and show that the patent isn't valid." the internet is not about big business making money off the little … [Read more...]