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No Green Card For Linus

This is completely ridiculous. Linus Torvalds can’t get a green card because of INS beuracracy. But it gets even worse. According to a recent San Jose Mercury article: U.S. immigration law sets aside 140,000 employment-based green cards each fiscal year. But because of the green card backlog, about 40,000 cards were issued in fiscal year 1999. The approximately 100,000 unused spots don’t roll over to this fiscal year, so they’re lost.

It's just not a good thing when you're forcing valuable tech workers out of the country when more and more the economy is being driven by the very industry they work for.

Internet Week has a pretty informative article on <a href="http://www.internetwk.com/lead/lead012600.htm">migrating your existing Windows NT network to Win2k</a>.  This is an issue we've been exploring here at Gonzaga for a few months now.  Thankfully, since my building is highly Mac-centric I only have a few PC workstations and a couple servers to deal with.  I will say the Win2k Professional Beta 3 installation on my office PC went very smoothly and it has a fairly obscure network card.

This San Jose Mercury article has the <a href="http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/ads013100.htm">lowdown on all the Super Bowl commercials</a>.  And that one with the stupid ad that I couldn't remember was <a href="http://lifeminders.com">lifeminders.com</a>.

I was certainly pleased to see this <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/200001/newer.shtml">rumor</a> on Apple Insider yesterday.  I love my PowerBook and would definitely prefer being able to just upgrade it to buying a new one.

Super Bowl Sunday

Jamie Zawinksi has updated his site with step by step instructions on how to construct a large cd rack out of plumbing pipe. Not only does this turn out to be an expensive proposition, but it doesn’t even work all that well.

I was hoping for a competitive game, but this year’s Superbowl ended up being a little bit too close for comfort since I was rooting for the Rams. Still, games like this are a lot of fun, especially when your team comes out on top.

I wonder how long it’s going to be before we see the Kurt Warner Story on television or in theaters?

As is typical for the game there were many enjoyable commercials (an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one now that I think about it) and as anticipated a ton of dotcom oriented ones as well. I thought the one during the second half with a few typewritten sentences telling how pathetic they were at making commercials, was unfortunately truth in advertising. Not only did they have a crappy URL (not catchy enough) that I can’t remember for the life of me, but they only showed it twice. Sad. Slashdot offers in depth coverage.

Saturday Surfing

Hmm, Saturday’s almost over. But then I suppose that’s obvious.

I think hearing about Dave Winer’s experiences at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland has been pretty cool. A lot of people in weblogging circles are pretty down on him, but I have a lot of respect for the guy and what he’s doing for webloggers and the Internet as a whole.

It’s going to be fun watching the Super Bowl though. I always enjoy the new commercials, since they’re usually a step above the typical television advertisements we’re bombarded with.

Hoops and Stuff

I got in quite a bit of sports this weekend. I watched GU finally beat USD at USD (in overtime no less). Then today I caught the end of the Jags/Titans game and all of the Rams/Bucs game. I was surprised by the outcome of the first game and pleased with the second as it means Jeff Robinson, one of my dad’s former basketball players, will be playing in the Super Bowl. Another weekend has come and gone. Work has been going well overall though so I can’t feel too bad.

Superbowl

I have not worked on my site here much at all this weekend. Sorry Nichole. Of course once she gets her’s going I’m going to give her a hard time too.

Find the answer to your questions here.

Watching the Super Bowl was kind of interesting this year. I went over to Dale’s house. His daughter Breanna ended up being more entertaining then the game for me.