Archive for October, 2003

Sounds Great When You’re Dead

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003

I feel bad for Elliott Smith in a number of ways. He was unhappy, and had terrible struggles in life, and now it appears they were unbearable and he had to leave. That’s really enough.
In exiting this way, though, he condemned himself to a worse fate. Mr. Smith has now entered the Pantheon of Sad […]

How to date me after I have been dating my cat for several years

Tuesday, October 21st, 2003

It’s time to move on.
Pouss has been probably the best relationship of my life, but we both want to see other people and it’s clear that we’re going to be better off as friends. Dating a younger person hasn’t bothered me, but she really has a very different life to lead than I do, and […]

Happy Halloween?

Thursday, October 9th, 2003

I have read that Halloween is now the second biggest grossing holiday for retailers, after Christmas. It’s certainly a very big deal now. Stores begin putting out their displays more than a month beforehand, movies are released for Halloween, and anyone who has anything to sell begins to “tie in” their sales pitch to the […]

I am miffed.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2003

I wish to update my BLAWG with the remote XML-RPC client. But, none of them work for me. I get mysterious, cryptic XML errors instead. My logs show my nothing of value, just a “200 OK” in my web log, and a spew of incomprehensible XML in my client window.
I guess I can’t be cool […]