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archive for May 2002

5/20/02 growing pains

I finally took some mirror pictures I felt okay about sending to the Mirror Project, and they were accepted!
The launch of the new DNR web site hasn’t been entirely easy—unsurprisingly. We’ve had LDAP problems, difficulty with too many simultaneous requests, and various other unexpected behaviors. Growing pains, I guess.
I take back anything bad I said [...]

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Filed under General on May 20, 2002, 'growing pains' has comments numbering merely 0.
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5/17/02 if the DNS is accurate…

We’ve secretly replaced the old DNR web site with Folger’s Crystals.

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Filed under General on May 17, 2002, 'if the DNS is accurate…' has comments numbering merely 0.
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5/9/02 completely true

I recently unearthed a transcript of the following dialogue from the large pile that constantly occupies my desk.

Scene: 6:37 pm, 11/15/01. On a plane about to take off from Minneapolis and fly to Columbus, OH.
Hat enthusiast: Is this your hat? [displays hat he's pulled out of the overhead compartment]
Guy on his way home from Hawaii [...]

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Filed under Amusing (if only to me), General, Life on May 9, 2002, 'completely true' has comments numbering merely 0.
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5/8/02 We’re number 5,278,249. We try harder.

Today was a good e-mail day.

A site called Alexa, run by the kind folks who bring you Amazon.com, ranks gohlkusmaximus.com 5,278,249.
If you believe Zeldman’s claim that there are about 5 billion sites out there, my site ranks among the top 0.2% most popular sites!
But wait. My site is almost three hundred thousand sites behind the [...]

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Filed under General on May 8, 2002, 'We’re number 5,278,249. We try harder.' has comments numbering merely 0.
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5/1/02 boot and reboot were in ein Boot

This site has been “rebooted“—that is, redesigned. I was, as you may have noticed, on the way to doing so anyway. Yes, though I have much else to say, and do, I finished redesigning the site and joined many other web designers in the “community event” known as “Reboot.” I needed to do it anyway; [...]

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Filed under Amusing (if only to me), Life on May 1, 2002, 'boot and reboot were in ein Boot' has comments numbering merely 0.
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