28 Sep 2002
So the first plans for today were to start packing. We get the house Tuesday, and loose the apt on next Monday, giving us a week to move out and clean up the apt. And maybe I could have looked in on the Mnet hack day event that is supposed to happen every Saturday.
Then Jason called and said that he was closing on a house and wanted to move this weekend and only had the weekend to get it all done before he started his next rotation that was a lot more hellish than the current (he is a resident in Norfolk, VA. The pain hospitals put medical residents thru should be illegal).
THEN my grandparent’s plans to visit Charlottesville and go to a football game at VMI, where my cousin, David Latimer (link to his teams roster on ESPN) would be playing for Furman against VMI, worked out and we chose that.
Laura and I had a lot of fun. David made some great tackles and a interception. I greatly enjoyed being with both my grandparents and my great aunt and uncle.
I brought my cell and a prepaid calling card with the thought of maybe calling zooko and saying hey, but I got pretty into the game. Even ignored a paper on Tarzan, the anonymoizing p2p IP layer.
What I really need is a cellphone/pda that can send and receive packets. :)
28 Sep 2002
Reading Martin Peck’s blog tonight. I must say he’s hit the nail on the head in this entry about what I am trying to do with my own work in p2p networks. It’s all about building Doc Searl’s favorite word: infrastructure.
Hopefully we can get “Mnet Roadmap” out soon so I can outline where I want to go building infrastructure with Mnet.
19 Sep 2002
Big things affect little people, I’m learning. Today Charlottesville goes into phase 2 water restrictions. This directly effects me it that one of Laura’s jobs is at a plant nursery, and if I understand her right, they will be asked not to water their plants any more. The business at the nursery has already been slowing down, some because it’s the end of planting season, but a lot because no one is allowed to water their gardens. They do a lot of business landscaping as well, and that has compeletely dropped off.
While some say this is the worst in 50 years, it’s hard to say that this is caused by us puny humans. But if it is our descendants are not going to like us.
19 Sep 2002
I’m missing updates from zooko on his blog. He’s being a good dad and making money, rather than entertaining his crazy friends on the internet with his insights, he’s making money (much like I need to be a good husband and MAKE $$$ FAST). But since his blog audience includes his mom, we have some Irby updates. In the last picture on the page Irby looks much like my littlest brother, Henry (aka Henrymonkey).
19 Sep 2002
The guys behind musicbrainz now have Relatable’s new sound signaturing code. The last version was very good at recongizing a WAV, mp3, and ogg of the same song where the same, so hopefully they’ve improved this. I’m enthused.