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Thursday, July 15, 1999
Two years ago: To See the Summer Sky
Lance "Glassdog" Arthur has started a discussion forum on his site, and I've been posting there the past few days. He's using the UBB software, which I like. Yehoodi.com uses it (they are a NYC-based swing site), and Retro magazine does also. I think it will be a fun place! Right now the problem is that there is some funkiness about the DNS service, and from home I can't see the page if the URL is written as http://glassdog.com, only if it's written as http://www.glassdog.com. I can see it ok from work though.
I think you need a certain amount of traffic for any of these interactive forums to sustain themselves; that's why pamie's forum works so well. She has lots of readers, a certain percentage of them are willing to post, and the site owner chiming in and consistently prompting the discussion. It almost doesn't matter what software is used, if it's threaded or not, or any of these technical issues, if the people want to participate.
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I was studying some books tonight, on a technical topic for a new project I'm working on. It's a subject that I know the basics of, but I'm learning it at a whole other level now. Exciting!
I'll be taking these books along this weekend, on a camping trip! I'm going up to Bellingham to see Jack and his daughter H---, and we'll take his minivan out to some state park or campground. I think he doesn't want to push the rustic factor this first time, for my sake. (And maybe for his back's sake?)
I made myself laugh earlier. I was looking at Yahoo maps, to see if it would be practical to take the back roads part of the way on my drive north. I found that even after I figured out the roads, I kept clicking the arrow to move the map north, all the way to Bellingham, then zooming in so I could see the actual street that Jack lives on now. Awww...
Saturday, a year ago, is the anniversary of the first real "date" that Jack and I went on (though we'd met for coffee one time before). I remember I liked him and found him attractive -- I kissed him in the parking garage when we said goodnight, partly to force the issue when it seemed like he might not kiss me. I didn't want things to be ambiguous!
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