Sat, Jan 25, 2003 There is a MSFT blogger dinner tonight.  It should be fun.  It seems like more and more people are blogging.  There is also a shindig happening at Crossroads on Tues.  I'll probably try to make it to that one also since it looks to be a much bigger audience.  It looks like it is going to be happening at 6pm.

Thu, Jan 23, 2003

I'm really liking Syndirella.  One of the sites that I read a lot is the Luminous Landscape but it doesn't have an RSS feed.  Instead, I've used the html scraping feature of Syndirella to parse out news items.  The mechanism is pretty limiting, but I was able to make it work.  Here is the data you need (save the file and import to Syndirella): LumLandscape.xml

Wed, Jan 22, 2003

Dave Winer shares that he was surprised that one of his drugs is $400 per month.  Just last week I went through the same thing.  A drug that I've been taking retails for ~$400 a month.  That is over $13 a pill.  Every night I take a night out to the movies (well, in 1995) and my insurance pays for it.  Online you can find it from US pharmacies for as little as $325.  Canadian pharamacies are selling it into the US for $150. 

With a wife who is a doctor and a pretty good understanding of economics, I understand why this discrepancy exists.  I've also been to Ruth's Chris and El Gaucho on the drug companies dime.  The drug companies are setting themselves up for a peasant uprising.

I didn't notice because the health insurance plan has no copay.  The pharmacist kept telling me how lucky we are to have such great insurance.

Tue, Jan 21, 2003

Back in Seattle, Radio still sucks, haven't writtem my own yet.

I spent the weekend down in sunny San Diego with the in-laws.  Walked on the beach.  Had In-n-Out and Del Taco.

Have an all day offsite tomorrow -- only problem is I don't know where it is yet.  I guess I'll just wing it.

Thu, Jan 16, 2003

Okay, enough people have given me crap.

Tonight I'm going to write my blogging tool.  Expect changes here.  I'll probably break the permalinks but that is okay as I don't have much here yet.

Thu, Jan 16, 2003

Gary Burd has a new blog.  I worked with Gary back in the day on the IE 4 team.  After that he moved on to doing much more interesting things.

David Bau also has a blog, but it looks like he doesn't update it much.  David was also on the IE team back in the day but he is much more famous now for his little windows helper: Dave's Quick Search Toolbar.

Wed, Jan 15, 2003

So I was doing a very narcissistic thing and looking up my name on google.  I found a super early post to a grafitti board.  This dates back to 1994.  However, I know that I had a computer up and running on the internet at least in my junior year of high school -- 91-92.  It is amazing to think that I've been living with the internet for over 10 years now.

When I first started working on IE, I jokingly told people that "this whole internet thing would blow over."  Well, it did and it didn't.

Wed, Jan 15, 2003

Again, I'm answering Michael's posts up here -- it is probably better then sending him email or IMing him.  If you want to collected related links, there are couple of ways to do it -- one is a system of pingbacks or trackback (which I haven't wrapped my head around yet) and the other is to look at your referrer logs [diveintomark.org].

Apparently, the great thing about standards is that there are so many.

Wed, Jan 15, 2003 A friend of mine (manager in XBox user test and husband of one of Rachel's fellow residents), Boyd Morrison, was on Jeopardy! tonight and won.  He is going to be on again tomorrow night.  He threw a party at another friends house and we watched tonight.

Tue, Jan 14, 2003

Okay, I put information on my page about where my house is so now you can check to see who else has registered and is near me. 

It looks like they don't keep enough precision on the position in their data base so here is a map with my real location.