Monday, October 07, 2002

Dan Shafer askes for Meta-Weblog Services ...and Dave links to it...  I'd say "SlashDave" effect, but that URL's already taken. ;-) I'd post something meaningful to the Community Server Wiki, but a "is this what yousguys a been workin on?" dropping is better left to email, or a less public humility of a weblog post. ;-) 11:35:04 PM    Your 2 cents... Currently.   Old computer ads I recall reading some fellow PyCS blogger's memories of their first computers. I started out on a Tandy Color Computer I and II (cheap step-brother of the TRS-80.)  My wonderful science teacher Mr. Vogt got me hooked and gave me his tape cassette program subscription pack and boxes of Hot CoCo and Rainbow magazines. A treasure I hang on my wall at work from these is a full page ad of a smiling, greying Isaac Asimov under the banner "My Radio Shack Micro Color Computer Has Incredible Power and Performance." ...The CoCo II DID have twice the Mhz of a Commodore 64 (although half the colors) and ran OS/9 Unix off a floppy!  Now if it only would have run Python instead of RS-DOS BASIC ((c) Microsoft). 8:51:41 PM    Your 2 cents... Currently.   Another vote for Unit Testing... Sam Ruby adds insight and personal preference commentary to the longstanding debate of data type paranoia. 8:27:46 PM    Your 2 cents... Currently.   Wackyness in Southern Iowa. "In the early hours of the morning, .NET, Microsoft's platform for XML Web services, saved a five-year-old boy who fell down a well in Ottumwa, Iowa. " I spent 10 years of my youth in Ottumwa, Iowa... 8:19:22 PM    Your 2 cents... Currently.   Dude...I can't shop at Dell So I got this $30 "US Battery Settlement Rebate Coupon" to spend at Dell... I can't find a thing for my Inspiron 5000e laptop for under $30! (10 minutes of browsing dell's website.) So I called the 800 number...walked through the corridors of "press this for that", and within 30 seconds was talking with a sales rep.  "I'd like to buy something around, or preferabley undr, $30 for my Inspiron 5000 laptop." response: "Just a minute"...transfer tones...manly pre-recorded-words-now-assembled voice telling me to shop on-line at "dublUdublUdubLUdot..." or call back tomorow, and click, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Dude! I got somethin' to blog about! 8:05:21 PM    Your 2 cents... Currently.

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