Month: December 1999

There is a Book Reviews of Jon Udell‘s Practical Internet Groupware on slashdot.

It’s hard not to believe that Practical Internet Groupware is a year ahead of the curve — Udell’s approach to technology and the seamless integration of various information stores is a tempting vision.

There are several sample chapters avialable on O’Reilly. There are many good ideas, like using NNTP with the web as groupware. I would love to try to use some of John’s ideas but alais my current employer has yet to realise the cluetrain. Anyone looking for that always hard to find gift for their favorite fozbaca could send me a copy 🙂

Blogger – the automated weblog publishing tool
Has went to version 2.0 with many nice updates. The planed first use at fozbaca.org will be a seperate template for the archive which will hopefully fix some cludgey aspects.

The Most Complete and Most Useless Collection of Pick-Up Lines just a sample

You know, I’d really love to fuck your brains out, but it appears someone beat me to it.

That made my morning. Humor does the body good.
[via linkwatcher metalog

STORM LINUX 2000

It’s Here! The download edition of Storm Linux has been released and is availble now for download. Featuring a graphical lilo/boot manager, the Storm Package Manager, a new user friendly GUI for installing, updating and removing Debian packages, we think you’ll find Storm Linux 2000 the easiest, most flexible way to get the power and freedom of Debian GNU/Linux.

Rock on. “Easy to install” Debian. Now I have something to do with my Xmas vacation.

OpenBSD Shirt Back “They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790

Hell No, WTO! by MICHAEL WOLFF
Will we all look back on the Battle in Seattle as the first eruption of the anti-brand revolution, or was it just a nostalgic moment?

What if the nineties are actually the fifties, and here, as the decade turns, we are looking at the first sign of the sixties, the turn against prosperity and mindless commerciality (mindless e-commerciality) and anti-intellectuality and the endless stupefying banality and conformity of fast food and malls and dot-coms (and just when you were thinking prosperity was fun)?

On the other hand, speaking of globalism, my favorite restaurant in the world is a chain restaurant — a highway restaurant called the Autogrill, which spans the coming and going lanes of Italy’s Autostrade. It’s an imitation of U.S. highway fast-food franchisees. Except that the food in these places in Italy is the most delicious (for the most reasonable price) I’ve ever had. Big pots of risotto. Mountains of mozzarella. Come-hither figs…

It is a scarry thought that the 90’s are being compared to the 50’s. Might explain why so many of my Highschool friends are trying to live a “traditional” Leave It to Beaver family when they start their own.
[via Robot Wisdom]

the “fuck work” manifesto on Unamerican Activities
“The “work” referred to in our assault is the mindless tedium and lack of empowerment that most jobs at most companies entail.” Right on, now who hasn’t been there.

Python Builder
Mission: To provide a direct replacement for Visual Basic on the Linux platform using Python and the wxPython libraries.
Rock on!

Richard Stallman: The Coder a Linuxcare interview