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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Thursday, April 04, 2002Yeah, it's been a while... My blog experiment seems to have died an untimely death, but I'd like to resurrect it now. I honestly believe that this is the future of publishing and it's silly for me not to be in on it. Here's what we missed...Baby. We had a second child, Kelly Amanda, on November 24, 2001. She's beautiful. New house. We purchased an old Colonial home in Dedham, Massachusetts for $369,000 and will spend the month of April fixing it up because it's in tough shape. We had the floors finished between March 28 and April 1, the outside painting crew was in this week to clean, the inside painting crew started, I met with the carpenter and the electrician, and I got an estimate on the upstairs bathroom. It's never going to end! We will move in on the 26th. Recent writing developments. I just wrapped up Windows XP Home Networking and am nicely behind on Windows XP Power Tools, but that will be easy to fix. Next up, a title on Windows .NET Web Server. It never ends. Reading. I've read a bunch of .NET-oriented titles, which have really renewed my interest in software development for the first time in a long time. Other recent reads including Killing Pablo, Blackhawk Down, Jihad vs. McWorld, The Mothman Prophecies, Our Haunted Planet, Piloting Palm, John Adams, Stupid White Men, and probably many others. Yeah, I'm all over the place. New PC. I picked up a 1.8 MHz Pentium 4 Dell Dimension 4400 last month, and for next to nothing. Good stuff. Perhaps most importantly, it's very, very quiet. Which I appreciate. Mac OS X 10.x I continue to use the iBook just about every single day, and it's Mac OS X-only. Since last October, I've gotten an iPod, which is sweet too. But OS X isn't as good as Windows XP, and I feel I'm in a fairly unique position, experience-wise, on this issue. Linux. Linux continues to improve. But it's still a problem. After returning the old generic Lucent wireless card to Barb, I haven't gotten any wireless working in Linux at all. New experiments include Mandrake 8.2 (various betas and now the final version), Lycoris, and Red Hat 7.3 beta ("Skipjack"). Travel. Two trips coming up this month, including a stint in New Orleans with Keith next week and then Seattle the week after that. I'll stay with Joe and Rachel, which I'm looking forward to. [ Posted at 8:35 PM | Permalink ]
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