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Bill Gates has sent anemail to the troops telling them to support Microsoft Corportation Political Action Committee (MCPAC) and it’s efforts in Washington DC.

Open Directory Project: Pyramid Power

Userland has 2 weblog surveys. How many new weblogs were started in 1999? & How many new weblogs will start in 2000?

What Dave is thankful for. What are you thankful for?

Well I’m thankful for great family, who I will be seeing shortly, and friends, especially the ones that BAIM (Big Ass Italian Meal) and the couple that wanted me as the Godfather to their daughter.

Thankfull for lots of cool technology to play with, and getting paid to do it.

Thankful to feel truly empowered to follow my dreams.

I’m happier than I have ever been. “Life is Beautiful” live it to the fullest 🙂

Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers
by Betty Alexandra Toole, Ed.D.
The Association for Women in Computing has the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award and some more info about Ada “Who was Augusta Ada Lovelace?” Well she was the daughter of Lord Byron, the poet. Ada’s mother did not want her daughter to follow in her father’s footsteps and had her trained in mathmatics. Ada is given credit for being the first female computer programer, and frist programer by several.

Why I Love my Qube I want one. We have one as a proxy at a remote location. It was soo cool to hold. Xmas gift idea 🙂

Guru Paradox: User-Centered or Self-Centered? scares me. Quality of “published” material, books written, predictions made and speaches given don’t matter as long the activities are vigirously pursued. No wonder the pundits are usually full of it. No wonder the speaches are boring. No wonder there are so many crappy books on the market.

Ease of Use vs. Sweat Equity There is something to be said for actually knowing what one is doing but everynow and then just getting the job done now is most important. I’m thinking a good marriage of Ease of Use and Sweat Equity will be MacOSX, Macintosh Ease of Use with Unix power, the toolset command line etc.