yesterday i finished reading "netscape time", perhaps the most depressing book i've read in recent history (note that david sedaris books are on the whole not very depressing). the "we're doomed" fatalistic optimism reminds me of the early days of the company. the similarities don't stop with late night trips to 24 hour breakfast joints (them: denny's; us: IHOP) or a respected businessman with one successful company under his belt (them: jim clark; us: nat) meeting a softspoken, young midwestern college student (them: marca; us: miguel), but continue on with the rebellious hackers (them: jwz; us: joe), in-your-face-products (them: mozilla; us: rupert), and underhanded corporate tactics intended to undermine innovation (them: microsoft trying to get a seat on their board and owning ~20% of their company in exchange for dial-up networking api reference; us: well, the best i can come up with is bynari not allowing access to their web site from *.helixcode.com after they created a unique blend of ours and apple's web site. i'd like to make up something about mono and some company but i fear that some people either have no sense of humour, or too much. sometimes even i can't tell any more).
at times, i couldn't help but imagine what my life would be like if i had a couple million to throw around. what a glorious world it would be if i could finally unite ask jeeves and webMD. web jeeves! jeevesMD! i can already hear the market drooling.
i got GStreamer to build and even play oggs and mp3s on OS X. however whenever it gets to the evil threading voodoo in gstreamer, violent deaths occur.
what's up with MLP not getting that emmy? seems like the old boys network is at it again.
my laptop doesn't seem able to do S-video- and VGA-out at the same time. that would have been pretty slick.
joe or i really need to start dating a tall girl. our ceilings are like 10 ft tall, so we can't change the lightbulbs even when standing on a chair. nat has been out of town too much recently to be of much help...
sigh. on the way to lunch i dropped my iPod and now it keeps hanging when i try to play stuff and when i connect it to my laptop it does this disk-spinning-slowly-with-a-magnifying-glass thing which makes me believe that it is busted.
i used to think february was the worst month / now i'm not so sure