Monthly Archives: November 2002

We’re Going to Bonny Doon

By | November 23, 2002

Saturday we joined our friends M and N and little baby S for a pleasant visit to Davenport and the nearby Bonny Doon Vineyard. The entire trip was predicated on the opportunity for N to relive a scene from the Australian comedy “The Castle” by singing repeatedly, “We’re going to Bonny Doon!” If you’re like… Read More »

Microsoft touts Unix over Windows 2000

By | November 22, 2002

at The Register The Register has a story about a whitepaper posted by Security Officethat was written by a member of the MS Windows 2000 Server Product Group. The whitepaper analyzes the move of MS acquisition Hotmail from FreeBSD to Win2K. The startling conclusion (startling only in that a Microsoft employee wrote the document) is… Read More »

Earth 911

By | November 19, 2002

Earth 911 provides information on recycling, pollution prevention, composting, fire prevention, etc. for a community based on a postal code that you enter on their web site. They cover Canada and the US now, and they have plans to expand the service to more countries. This is an excellent free service. Now, maybe I can… Read More »

Berkeley Intellectual Property Blog

By | November 17, 2002

bIPlog bIPlog was created as part of a class at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism. I had seen most of the references blogged earlier elsewhere, but it’s nice to have them collected in one place. They also have a high quality list of resources to information on the web on intellectual property issues. The… Read More »

eMusic Doesn’t Understand Meaning of Unlimited

By | November 10, 2002

Broadband Reports has an article on how eMusic has gotten confused about the definition of “unlimited”. Many users (like my brother) signed up for the promise of “unlimited high quality MP3’s for as low as $9.99 per month”. Just last week, eMusic cut off my brother for what they called “unusually excessive downloading”. Even though… Read More »

Tyrrell’s Old Winery 1998 Cab Merlot

By | November 9, 2002

Mmm. I’m greatly enjoying a bottle of 1998 Tyrrell’s Old Winery Cabernet Merlot that our friend Chris brought last time he was visiting from Sydney. I’m normally not a big Merlot fan (but not on the level of Bonny Doon’s Randall Grahm’s sharp dismissal of the grape), but this blend is quite tasty. Not quite… Read More »

Illegal Art Exhibit

By | November 1, 2002

illegal-art.org :: a project of Stay Free! I wish I were going to be in Chicago or New York sometime in the next couple months. This should be a great exhibit. To no surprise, Negativland is very well represented with audio, video, and visual (U2 album cover) contributions. Quote from the website: “The Illegal Art… Read More »