Month: February 2000

Peter’s (I live here) guide to Colombia has sitemaps at the bottom of every page. Good idea.
[via linkwatcher metalog via eatonweb]

I caught the link to Andrea’s Weblog below. Nice comment, fozzie. For those of you out there who don’t know (and why would you?) I just got back from seeing an ‘internet chic.’ She is awesome, and I am very much in love. We met online and now I am moving to her city. It is a very romantic tale, one I hope to tell to the kiddies 🙂

Controversial Software Patents

“The news that Amazon has received yet another patent has raised awareness that patents are an increasing threat to the openness of the Web and could stifle innovation. We’ve compiled a list of recent patents that you might want to examine for yourself and comment upon.”

AskTog: OS X, a First Look

“OS-X may work out and it may not, but let�s not confuse it with an advance in user interface. At best, it will catch up with itself, should they decide not to cripple the Finder.”

Andrea’s Weblog: How we met…
Emailing turns to love. Now there is something about the story, like I have heard it before.

I oppose Amazon.com’s 1-Click Patent

“As one of the founding programmers at Amazon.com, I was very dismayed to learn of the company’s legal attempts to enforce its
1-Click (TM) patent.”

Ask Tim — Software Patents Issue
O’Reilly Network has also started a patent site. You can also An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos.

“I really am a girl, I really do exist, and I’m really not an SF web design team.” /usr/bin/girl

Joke
An engineer was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, “If you kiss me, I`ll turn into a beautiful princess”.
He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket.
The frog spoke up again and said, “If you kiss me and turn me back intoa beautiful princess, I will stay with you for one week.”
The engineer took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket.
The frog then cried out, “If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I`ll stay with you and do ANYTHING you want.”
Again the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket.
Finally, the frog asked, “What is the matter? I`ve told you I`m a beautiful princess, that I`ll stay with you for a week and do anything you want. Why won`t you kiss me?”
The engineer said, “Look I`m an engineer. I don`t have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog, now that`s cool.”
Thanks DeathOnLegs 🙂