I have been exploring the web, in some ways as earnestly and naively, as I used to do when I first discovered the internet back in 1994. I have moved into the realm of personal weblogs, which I find extremely fascinating. This becomes most interesting if you look at the two sides of this. Several sites I have perused are by people I know. The weblogs offer an insight into their psyche and personality that, perhaps, would never be exposed in daily conversations.

The second type are random connections found by jumping from one hyperlink to another and settling down on something interesting. Not everyone's life is interesting to me, just as I am sure my ramblings and my site are incredibly boring to some out there.

I find the log phenomenon quite incredible. Just as we were all interested in the works of Anais Nin, the immediacy of the web log is, in some ways more compelling. The Anais Nin Diaries, I think are interesting to so many because they were so ahead of their time, both as intimate views of her life with so many persuasive figures of the time as well as their exploration of the sexual needs and desires of a woman.

Some of the places I visit frequently (I leave it to you to figure out who I know and who I don't):

debsue.com

Jezebel... A site for sore eyes

Peterme.com

Justin's Links

Spent the weekend painting my ceiling in my room. Dark blue. I amnow about to put stars and constellations up both as painted objects and glow in the dark elements. It is kind of fun.
I am looking for astrological relationships and starcharts to add to the imagery. Makes a nice break from the work week.


I watched the Olympic Women's Marathon this morning and am amazed at the endurance and stamina of these women. I am inspired to start running again. We have great trails outside the office and I think it is just the ticket for noon time work relief.

Ok - so I work at AltaVista. This weekend I put Google search on my homepage. This is so funny! And very cool. It searches my site as well as the web and the offerings we have at work can't do that. Besides it's free.

I finally finished working on the photos of Diana and Jovani's wedding. Geez - like it only took 4 1/2 months. I figure I probably would have taken longer if Debsue hadn't gotten her images up. I am lame.

I have completed a big chunk of the Dr. Leslie project migration from the Hypercard stacks and figure I will be able to get the Artists Bios area up fairly soon. I really don't want to live on my computer and am squeezing that work in between work, gardening, guitar lessons and painting my room.

My first web log entry and my first layoff process.
We had layoffs at work today - 225 people, 25% of our work force. It has been a crappy week all week. They announced that these were going to happen on Monday so everyone basically stopped working for the rest of the week.
As a manager, I had to instill good moral and positive thoughts to my team but how do you do that when you are feeling somewhat disillusioned yourself.

There were a few surprises today and some of my friends were let go. I had to personally lay off two members of my team. That sucked!

Hopefully next week we can all move on, move forawrd and get back to business. I just want to make cool products.

I need to get off my butt and get back in the gym. My few weeks off has turned into a year and I feel terrible since I stopped lifting weights and doing yoga.