Archive for September, 2004

Lands End
Sunday, September 26th, 2004

Update: These photographs have been relocated to http://www.unto.net/unto/gallery/album/san-francisco/. Went for a walk on Saturday. What amazes me is that this is physically within the confines of San Francisco. We just didn’t have things like this back in New York.

SFO, 2
Sunday, September 26th, 2004

Update: These photographs have been relocated to http://www.unto.net/unto/gallery/album/san-francisco/. Several shots from around San Francisco in September.

On Why Gmail Really Matters
Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

I’ve raved about Gmail before. About how it is hands-down the best webmail platform out there today. About the efficacy of the spam filters, about the usability of the interface, and about the power and convenience of the search features. But what I haven’t said explicitly yet is why it is all so important. You [...]

Dutiful George
Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

I just had this wonderful mental picture of an Army Sergeant, veins bulging out of his tree-trunk neck, standing over a prostrate, 20-year-old George W. Bush, screaming “I don’t give a shit who your daddy is, maggot! Now drop and give me 20!!” Of course, it was the National Guard, not the Army. And they [...]

On Eclipse
Tuesday, September 21st, 2004

My first job out of college was at Microsoft. To compound the inherent humor in that, I was hired as a Program Manager and assigned to the Developer Tools group. My product? Visual J++. This is funny because I pretty much a) hadn’t used Windows before moving out there (being a Linux and Mac guy [...]