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Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Today I learned about an old PSA aired in the NYC area called We're Not Candy. I've heard the audio, which is hilarious. But I really want to see the video. I was told the song is sung by little pills. Shoot me an e-mail if you have a copy of the video.

posted by Kirby | August 27 01:50 PM | comments (4)

Monday, August 18, 2003

Camp Murphy Pix Online

From beer to cliff jumping to beer to wiffle ball to Boones to tubing to beer to Beirut to beer, Camp Murphy has it all. Latest pictures are in the gallery.

posted by Kirby | August 18 11:28 PM | comments (0)

Catch up post

Power returned to the West Village Friday afternoon, just in time for Melanie and I to leave the city. We headed to Lake George in upstate New York for a weekend getaway at Camp Murphy. It was great seeing everyone over the weekend. We didn't want to leave but we had too. I'll have photos posted in the gallery later today.

posted by Kirby | August 18 10:27 AM | comments (0)

Friday, August 15, 2003

Slow return of power

My last posting of the night. It seems that power is slowly returning to the island. As I type this I can hear the rumble of the Path train beneath the apartment building. I could see stars from the fire escape earlier but now the stars are being replaced with the glow of city lights. I'm guessing Time Square or the Upper West Side finally has power.

For me, I'm still sitting in the dark rockin' out to tunes on the iPod. Candles light the apartment. And I'm missing Melanie as I eat my midnight pasta. I spent the evening hanging with the next door neighbors. Beers on the fire escape. We wandered out for a bit. Blind Tiger was closed but Chumly's, a place that never disappoints, was open and serving cool beer.

The street is still very dark. Oh the things that must be happening in the dark corners of the city.

I'm glad Melanie is okay. I talked with her a little while ago to say good night. She will be home tomorrow morning just in time to pack her weekend bags for Lake George and Camp Murphy.

Good night all and here's hoping for a bit of electricity in the morning.

posted by Kirby | August 15 12:36 AM | comments (2)

Thursday, August 14, 2003

Darkness

I finally talked with Melanie. She is fine and safe. A nice New Yorker in Brooklyn has taken her in for the night. I miss her but I'm glad to know she is okay.

Meanwhile, I am going to walk around the city for a bit.

posted by Kirby | August 14 10:22 PM | comments (2)

Getting dark

It's starting to get dark outside. Should be a unique night in the city. I just might have to walk around a bit.

Still no word from Melanie. I'm sure she is safe, but she is probably very annoyed. And I don't blame her. I hope she gets home soon. I really miss her. If you have heard from her, please send me an e-mail or make a posting on this blog. Thanks!

posted by Kirby | August 14 08:22 PM | comments (0)

Phone service

And for those wondering, mobile phone service seems to be out but the land lines are working. I am in the process of looking for a non-electrical phone (i.e., non-coreless) so people can call the apartment and so we can call out. As of right now, the Internet is the only way to reach Melanie or I. Well, as long as we have battery power in the laptops.

posted by Kirby | August 14 05:08 PM | comments (0)

Power Outage

As many may have already heard, New York and other major cities are experiencing a major power outage. For family and friends, I am home and fine. Melanie arrived back in NYC earlier today and was in the process of making it home when the power went out. I'm not sure if she was on a bus or in the subway. I hope she had not made it down to the subway just yet as no subways are running and people are stranded in the dark. I will update the site as soon as I have an update on Melanie.

posted by Kirby | August 14 05:05 PM | comments (0)

Monday, August 04, 2003

Novell buys Ximian

The Register: "Novell is beefing up its Linux play with the cash acquisition of Ximian. The company has confirmed that it will continue to support Ximian-sponsored Mono and GNOME open source projects."

I'm interested to see if this becomes a positive move for Mono.

posted by Kirby | August 4 05:08 PM | comments (0)

Saturday, August 02, 2003

C# on Linux

For grins I decided to install the latest version of RedHat Linux version 9 and play with Mono. Mono is an open source effort to port the .NET Framework to other platforms. Once I had everything installed, which was fairly simple and straight forward, I wrote a sample console application using C#. It compiled and ran without a problem.

For fun, I decided to copy the .exe to Windows XP and run the same program under Microsoft's .NET Framework. I was delighted to see that the program ran without the need to re-compile. I also copied a program to RedHat that I had compiled using Microsoft's .NET Framework 1.1. It ran under Mono without a problem.

There are still features of the .NET Framework not yet implemented under Mono, but there is a lot that is there. Even a test of XmlSerialization ran without a problem. And best of all, I was able to run programs under the two different operating systems without the need to recompile. Now how sweet is that!

posted by Kirby | August 2 08:22 PM | comments (0)

Blues Cruise

Melanie gave me a sweet surprise the other night as we celebrated two years together. She treated me to an evening on the Blues Cruise with a live performance by Buckwheat Zydeco. For those wondering, the Blues Cruise is a cruise around New York harbor with live music. Buckwheat had the boat a-rockin' and Melanie is the sweetest girlfriend ever for treating me to this unexpected surprise.

posted by Kirby | August 2 08:22 PM | comments (1)