Month: May 2000

The Christian Science Monitor Electronic Edition

“Take the civil engineer. Even if you are a fully licensed civil engineer with big
ideas, you can’t just go out and build a suspension bridge without subjecting
your plans to the guardians of public interest and safety. They are motivated
to find every hole and flaw in the design of a project because lives depend
on it, and so do their careers.”

That is what is needed, Government Code Inspectors. Like building inspectory checking to see if a structure is safe, checking code to see if it is safe.

SecureBSD v1.0
They sure have a cute Daemon.

Poor Man’s Blogger

Emacs Beginner’s HOWTO

• Running Emacs
• Emacs Modes

Anal Sex

• Not only gay men have anal sex.
• Not all gay men have anal sex!
• Recreational drugs are the number one cause of unsafe sex.

[via mouth organ]

Way Too Personal – Adventures in Internet Dating “A funny, witty & sometimes scary look at real-life internet dating…”
She posts the replies recieved from her internet personal ads.

And The Bride Wore… a really bad dress.

Lessons from the Layoffs at LinuxCare

“First off, service does not equal tech support! It does not equal training and certification. It does not equal custom development services! It can include all of these components, but it most go beyond them, by reframing a problem that your customers are struggling with, and offering a compelling outsourced solution.

Service means helping other people to get their jobs done, effectively becoming an invisible enabler of their business. When IBM or Oracle sells service as part of their software offering, they are really selling solutions, the assurance that some kind of business problem is going to go away, or some kind of business process is going to be carried on in a more streamlined fashion.”