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I got to try out Dialpad from the telephone side of things today when my sister called me from Tempe, AZ. It seemed to work pretty well actually. In fact I didn’t realize that she was calling me through her computer until she told me. I’m going to have to download the software and try it myself now.

iGeek: OOD or API?

Scoble is back. I’m Not A Salesman

Unsurprisingly I’ve been fairly busy this morning, but I’m just about caught up on all the things that cropped while I was away.

I came across this article by Matt Haughey yesterday, but wanted to link to it before I completely forgot about it. Building An Online Community: Just Add Water There’s a lot of good info there for anyone looking to create the next big web gathering place.

Well, time to start plotting out my tasks for the next two weeks before school starts here at work.

Well, it’s back to work for me tomorrow. Hopefully everything will still be in one piece when I get back.

Now it’s time to enjoy myself for one last day.
Her Blue Haven is definitely the most moving web and baseball related story I’ve heard in a while. Here’s the website that Sarah Morris invests so much effort into.

*Update:* Sarah Morris now has her own website: “Sarah’s Dodger Place”:http://dodgerplace.com/.

We’re in Tempe now and I managed to get Kristen’s Internet connection up and running earlier this afternoon so I finally have my first opportunity to post. It’s been a fun trip so far, but very hot. I’m really looking forward to finally returning back home to Spokane tomorrow night. I miss Mary.

Well, today’s the last day I’m going to have any form of Internet connectivity (high speed or otherwise) for the next week or so. Guess I should make the most of it.
I came into work early today so that I can get started on my vacation this afternoon and I’d have to say it’s been a very busy, but productive first three hours. I’ve stll got a lot of stuff to take care of though.

Hmm… looks like the courts/congress are going to have to move fast if they want to block the release of Windows XP. According to CNET Windows XP could see a September ship date.

Personally I’m pretty ambivalent about XP. I’m much more interested in the arrival of MacOS X 10.1.

The Starting Line: Tech sector could learn from ’80s While I’m not a tech investor, I’m always interested in what’s going on in this segment of the stock market both currently and from a historical perspective.

Speaking of history and the 80’s, I was just thinking about the first big report I had to do for school. The year was 1983, I was a nine year old in the 4th grade, and my topic was unsurprisingly computers (specifically personal computers by today’s standards). If I recall correctly, the report took place shortly after the Christmas that my parents had purchased a TRS-80 Color Computer for our family and I brought it along to demo a few things. I remember buying some kind of computer magazine that reviewed all the new models as part of my research and later using some of the pictures for my report. Thankfully I don’t think there are any videotapes of my presentation floating around, but I wonder if the report itself is in a box somewhere out at my mom’s house. That could be a fairly significant historical document : ).

This movie from today’s Seahawk practice is a good illustration of why linemen aren’t normally tasked with fielding punts. Apparently after practice this morning the offensive linemen took on the defensive linemen in a fewest punts dropped challenge to gain an additional curfew hour. In the end the defense won.

I can’t believe the week is half way over. So much for my plans to make up for all the entries I won’t be making next week.

I spent part of the morning playing with Ethereal under x-windows. It was interesting watching network traffic, but strangely the only tcp packets I was picking up were originating from my computer or communicating directly with it. I’m guessing the campus network manager has done a pretty good job of locking things down, but I’m curious to do a little bit more investigating.

Flaming Pear Software has some seriously cool Photoshop plugins.