Matter is neither created nor destroyed

I’ve been slightly peaved that the air transportation industry got a big bailout from the government. They weren’t making money before 9/11. Could it possibly be that they are losing money because they aren’t good business managers? In which case government handouts aren’t going to help them. Oh well, at least it kept some people employed till it runs out. I’ve also wondered about all the major losses the networks have had for their commercial-free television.

Oh, thats why it didn't

Oh, thats why it didn’t work

It would appear that when setting properties in style objects in Mac IE5 with JavaScript you have to specify the units. So statWindow.style.left=480 won’t do it. You have to put statWindow.style.left="480px". PC IE accepts both.

I was just checking out

I was just checking out the NEARfest site and they have a cool line-up of prog rock June 29th and 30th. Steve Hackett and Nektar are the headliners for the festival. Caravan is coming back to the US for the first time in 28 years. Echolyn, Le Orme and Enchant are the only other bands at the festival I’ve heard. Hmm, Swedish band Isildurs Bane will be there. sigh If only Sweden could spare another prog band and let the Flower Kings play. What a great mix of neo-prog, classic prog and Canterbury prog.

I'm fooling around with some

I’m fooling around with some ideas I’ve got about decay versus freshness. I want each entry to decay and fade from view after someone has read it. (I made a test page that did that using cocoon2 but I’m going to write a new one that’s all javascript based) Just like in real life I wanted to have a force to counter decay. Thus I’m playing around with this idea of entry freshness. The longer groups of people dwell on an entry the fresher that will make it and thus bring the entry from ruinous decay. At the moment I am just calculating dwell time.

I just picked up Ico

I just picked up Ico for the PS2 and I have thoroughly enjoyed playing it so far. You play a boy who was born with horns and has been cast out of his village to die in an empty castle. You escape your tomb and discover a quiet beauty named Jorda who needs to be rescued. Now you have to solve puzzles to navigate your way out of the castle and avoid spirits that roam the castle who will steal your soul. The game is in many ways an update of Sokoban, one of my favorite games. You have the added challenge that you have to guide Jorda through the puzzles with you.

Recent work conversation: me: "Did

Recent work conversation:

me: “Did you get that email I sent about the billing market changes for Indianapolis?” team lead: “Yeah but I didn’t read it. Your emails are really long.”

Proudly fighting the agents of brevity and laconic discourse since 1987.

When did I start worrying

When did I start worrying about my health all the time? It seems like for the past couple of years I overreact to the slightest pain in my body. The worst are the chest pains. I get them and I wonder if I’m having a heart-attack or a stroke. I get nervous about what I should do. Do I perpetuate spiraling health care costs and go to the emergency room? Do I take the good citizen route and just grin and bear it wondering if its serious? In the case of the chest pains I think they are the result of sleeping funny, or nerves getting pinched but I don’t know that when it first happens. Since when did I worry so much about getting seriously ill or dying?

JJ has started Mazie Project

JJ has started Mazie Project 2002. He is hoping people will send birthday cards to his grandmother. She turns 70 on January 26th, 2002.

• Get a birthday card.- Follow the link to get her address.- Mail the birthday card.

My friend Randy called me

My friend Randy called me about it this morning, twice. Twice because I didn’t answer the first time he called. Chris linked to it. Just what is it? It is a secret nestled in the American South. It’s not just a secret, but a meta-secret for many other secrets are nestled inside of it. It is home to the brain power behind every US rocket that has launched astronauts into outer space. It is Huntsville, Alabama and CNN has an article about it.

I think the fact that

I think the fact that a burning yule log won its TV time slot in New York speaks volumes about the state of television today. It won the 8am-10am time slot beating out WABC’s “Good Morning America.

Best quote from the article: “Every year we get so many requests from people to bring back the yule log”

If you want a fire on your television I believe the Short 7: Utopia DVD has this in the “Junk Drawer” area of the DVD. I’ll pop it in when I get home tonight and make sure.