Last night Jeffrey and I sat in the rocker and fell asleep on the front deck under the stars, like we've done on warm evenings since we moved here in early '98. It was one last perfect moment in our perfect house on the hill. A few minutes ago I watched the sunrise over the notch that marks East in the hills across the Bay. Summer Solstice is almost here. A very transitional time.

The movers are showing up today, a day early. We're not ready. All my work for Linux Journal is on the dead laptop, now in Morgan Hill hopefully having its digital contents moved over to the new laptop — one of those Titaniums. I was going to get up at 4am and work on my September editorial, but I don't even remember turning the alarm off. Like everything else in my professional life, it'll have to wait. Sometime today the movers will pack up Happy the Linux Box, along with everything else. Here's what Happy says in response to my uptime command — "6:17am up 105 days, 14:25, 6 users, load average: 1.08, 1.08, 1.04." What the hell: there might be a rolling blackout today anyway. Her uptime mostly measures intervals between blackouts. Blogging protocol is LWFR — Last Written, First Read — but I'm writing this first. Everything below will accumulate in LWFR mode while I write bills and otherwise deal with closing the office here.

I want to point to Paul Boutin's new blog, and to Dean Landsman's wonderful rant (complete with very New Yawk FUCKs, each in a properly angry red) against Microsoft and the high horses they ride around on, or something like that; but I can't find Paul's email in Yahoomail (which I'm using to get at my popmail account), and Dean's blog breaks Netscape 4.5 on this Linux box for some reason (too many graphics, I think). Takes about 15 minutes to load 93% of something, then all the browser's windows go blank. So I'll just stick with linking to both.

Real Blogging will have to wait until I'm back. That should be Wednesday night.

Until then, blog safely.

Three hypes and you're out

Here's David Weinberger' 3-Strikes Rule for PR. A sample from the latest JOHO, of course.

Dominate at your own risk

Some post-acrimonious thinking on making enemies with Microsoft. One quote: No single company, not even Microsoft, is the enemy. Domination is. Fuckin' D.

Both this link and the one below about Unisys arrived courtesy of my old pal Larry Gottlieb, who I mentioned a few years back in this piece about presentations. It's also about the wonderful house we're now leaving.

But we're glad we made the world safe for .gifs

Unisys apologizes for computing.

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