Archive for June, 2004

Downtime
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004

I apologize for unto.net being down for the past week. A few months ago, Verizon started pushing their paperless billing option, and, thinking it was a good idea to save some trees, I accepted it. Unfortunately, there must have been a glitch somewhere along the way, and I never started receiving email bills. As I [...]

Conglomerate Cheat Sheet Update
Monday, June 21st, 2004

In an update to the rather popular Conglomerate Cheat Sheet, the list of corporate holdings for each of the major media companies has been reworked to reflect recent acquisitions and takeovers. The past six months have not seen any truly major moves — the same handful of companies still hold almost all of the worldwide [...]

Cars
Saturday, June 19th, 2004

Check out this harrowing photo trail of the carnage that a single one-armed, drunk driving idiot from Texas can do to a residential Bay Area neighborhood. The original disaster photos weigh in at 50MB or so on one page, so I thought this was a good chance to give my Blosxom photogallery a spin. From [...]

On Apartment Hunting
Wednesday, June 16th, 2004

I’ve spent the last few days attempting to get a handle on the vagaries of the San Francisco apartment rental market. A9 was nice enough to fly me out here to look for a place before I moved (sorry, have I mentioned that we’re hiring?). I figured that I could arrive on Sunday, find a [...]

Nigritude Ultramarine
Monday, June 7th, 2004

Probably the most authoritative source of news on the Nigritude Ultramarine phenomenon is Anil Dash’s’ site. If that makes no sense to you, don’t worry about it. If all things were right and good with Google’s PageRank, Anil’s site should be around the top of the list. The reason being, if “Nigritude Ultramarine” happened to [...]