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Green Day gets the whole online music thing. They are selling pre-labeled CD-Rs with their album art so fans can download the songs from iTunes and burn to a disc, much like buying it in the stores .

I’m taking a sushi cooking class tonight. Cooking is probably the wrong word for it. More like “preparing” sushi, I gather. I cautiously starting eating sushi again after the incident earlier this year. As long as I stay away from the yellow tail I seem to be fine.

I remember the first time I ever watched someone eat sushi. It was my second tech job and I was sitting in the lunch room with my new boss. Steve came in with what I know now is a take-out platter of sushi from Lund’s. I remember thinking how swank and hip it was to be working at a dotcom eating sushi. I hoped one day to be that trendy.

“If you are going to be weird, be confident about it.”

Dottie visited the vet’s office this weekend. About two weeks ago after rough-housing with the neighbor dog she began to limp on her back left leg. She’s 7 now, we knew that when we adopted her that she would eventually have hip problems due to her size. I wasn’t really ready to deal with it yet, though. Luckily Courtney was kind enough to join me at the doc’s. I didn’t want to hear any bad news.

After a little poking, and a little more prodding than Dottie liked (she cowered behind me after the prodding part) the doc gave us suggestions for glucosimine supplements and a starter supply of rhimydol for the tough days. After popping a few of them Dottie seemed to liven right up. She can now go back to giving me dirty looks and slobbering on my face while I sleep.

I grabbed my camera and snapped a few photos over at Joe and Grant’s new work space in Minneapolis. I could get used to having my own loading dock.

I just finished reading Snow Crash. It’s a science fiction book about a time when people commute between reality and the Metaverse. For all intensive purposes this book outlined the concept of The Sims. It details a parallel universe that people “goggle” into. They control avatars in this other world and interact with others just as they would in reality.

Taking in to consideration that Snow Crash was written in 1991 it is absolutely amazing to draw comparisons between what seemed like sci-fi back then and how it exists today. We are close to Neal Stephenson’s idea of the Internet. Lets just hope that a Snow Crash virus is never released.

Mozilla’s latest version of Firefox takes the cake when it comes to features. I converted over to Firefox about four months ago. I was impressed with it’s speed and reliablity. Not to mention the growing number of virii targeting Internet Explorer had me hiding behind the couch with tin foil over my head.

The PR1.0 version of Firefox implements a new feature called Live Bookmarks. If a site has an RSS feed Firefox notes it at the bottom right corner of the browser window. The RSS feed can be bookmarked and the headlines from the site will show in the browser bookmark list. A very handy little feature for those of us that browse the Internet at break-neck speeds. RSS is a very handy little standard which cuts through all the glitter of the Internet to deliver information quickly and precisely.

Drew sent me this great Googled fact: Fort Motylinski in the Sahara (near the bottom of the page). It’s better than meaning “butterfly”, which is the other translation I’ve heard of.

I just posted photos from my State Fair 2004 trip. Ah, I can still smell the cow shit. What fond memories!

Instructions for installing Linux on a dead badger.

This may come in handy some day.