March 2000

So far the most ridiculous example of ecommerce frenzy is Merrill Lynch eShopping. When I first saw the link I though it might be where I could buy that Merrill Lynch baseball cap I’ve been dreaming about (sarcasm). It turns out to be an ecommerce jump page, as if this investment bank thinks there’s a…

Spoke with two (Razor)fish last night as they left to form their own company. They’re filled with excitement, even though they had to unload all their stock options earlier that day. A year ago I had similar plans, figuring I’d either go the ecommerce route or get a great job, and ended up with the…

I remember back when I was in high school thinking I was smarter than some of my teachers. Looking back, my first reaction is, of course I wasn’t as smart as them, I was just a smartass, obnoxious teenager. Though the youth I meet these days are pretty smart, smart enough that makes me wonder…

Woohoo! Very impressive new Blogger design. Kinda diesal meets 1999 Orange and Blue. Love the fonts.

Not very happy about the state of the presidential race, as the two saner candidates pulled out. I really don’t want either Gore or Bush in the White House, and my instincts tell me Bush will win, and though I’m politically closer to Gore I have less faith in Gore. Besides, having Tipper as first…

Officially joined the Unitarian Church of Montclair yesterday. Feels good.

My step-father cracks me up. When he leaves messages on my answering machine, it’s as if he’s talking to me. “So let me know if you’re coming down, OK?” (long pause) “Is Sarah coming?” (long pause) “Alright, I’ll see you.”

nerdy-but-neat sig: “Don’t anthropomorphize computers – they hate that.”

A neat email feature: It scans your email message for the words “enclosure”, “enclosed”, “attached”, “attachment” etc. and if it finds one but you haven’t attached anything, it asks, “Did you forget the attachment?”

I hate when newspapers, who usually work hard to reach objectivity, endorse political candidates. Therefore, I hate it even more when the NY Times does it. I hate even more when they bash my favorite candidate, Bill Bradley, because they don’t think he has enough pizzaz.

Match.com wrote back regarding my 2/21 letter: It was complete form letter babble. Not much in the way of customer relationship for a company whose whole business revolves around relationships.

It occured to me the other day that XML and commas in comma delimited files do essentially the same thing, the former is just a much richer delimiter than the latter. I guess it’s matter of shifting meaning between the processor and the data, achieving the right balance there.