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Archive for June 2004

if you sent me email…

Posted on 6/8/2004

my mail.com account had some sort of crazy outage — I’ve only been able to get at it one try out of 10 the last week or so, and this morning I had this lovely message in my inbox:
Valuable User,
We apologize for the problems you have been experiencing while
attempting
to access your e-mail account during […]

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bike!

Posted on 6/4/2004

I’m dance-y happy….
yesterday, C was at the bike shop around the corner from our house and spotted a bike he thought I might like.
I’ll back that up for a second by admitting that I’ve never learned how to ride a bike. the year after I got my first bike was the year Dad died…and […]

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ouroboros update

Posted on 6/2/2004

not too much to report; it’s been a few days since I’ve done any coding, but I’ve been using the thing in the meantime and I’m happy with my work so far. seriously, I find it’s more seamless with my preferred process and mental model. that, and I’m actually using more of […]

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a source of calm

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my computer came back yesterday, and today I started in on the task of finishing installing software and setting up my files, preferences, etc., etc.
the tech guys left it with the default color scheme, which I may tweak a little, but not that much, because today I had the happy coincidence of running into a […]

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the pain of technology

Posted on 6/1/2004

I got a c compiler downloaded in rpm format and installed, but I still couldn’t install the software. wtf is up with that? (y’know, this is why I gave up on Corel Linux 4 years ago, although in that case I couldn’t even mount the CD that the software came on! if […]

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Hi! This is Elaine Nelson's site, which used to be at epersonae.com, and which is sometimes known as emergency weblog.