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Tuesday, August 22 2000

Please think good thoughts for the Deepleap gang,

they deserve it.

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Last night, I tried to do the Right Thing

and went to bed early hoping to prevent an itchy throat from becoming a cold. Unfortunately, the condo-weirdos across the street decided that it was 80's revival dance party night. Bic lighters, shiny dresses and Solid Gold dancing on the balcony. In their determination to party like it was 1999, one of the revelers was heard to say that they were just going to keep at it until someone called the police. If you think that one man trying to act and sing like Annie Lennox is bad, let me assure you that four is decidedly worse. Don't believe the hype. The 80's were bad bad years.

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Jacob Weisberg : The Complete Bushisms

"When I'm talking about—when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me." Updated weekly, in case you're looking for a reason to laugh or cry....

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Rex Jakobovits : WIRM, A Perl-Based Application Server

"Perhaps the people who make application servers consider Perl's lack of strict type-checking a liability for large applications. Perl is "just a scripting language," they say, best used for quick-and-dirty programming. But experience shows that Web information systems are best built using such small, freestanding components, each of which encapsulates a limited chunk of user interaction. Clearly, Perl fits the bill in this regard." Meanwhile, Randal Schwartz has rewritten png2html in Perl which is cool since I could never get the original C program to do anything but dump core....

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Julian Midgley : Agnostos

"is a simple web-based task management system, allowing you to maintain a set of todo lists for a number of people, departments and workgroups. ... The system is designed for ease and speed of use, and is primarily intended for small companies or project groups; it's designed simply to overcome the mental stack overflow I often experienced working as a project manager in a small company."

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Monday, August 21 2000 ←  → Wednesday, August 23 2000