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Welp, I stayed up very late last night after Jer asked me to do some changes to docs.jabber.org. I also updated the page for jabber:iq:version and added a new overview of Group Chat.

Before all that, I was over at mrOpie's house with my notebook... we watched that post-modern / punk version of Romeo & Juliet (with Claire Danes & that Leo dude). It's been awhile since I've seen that, and mrOpie hadn't seen it. I really enjoyed it... Kenneth Branuagh's version of Hamlet is far better though. :) Yes, I am a Shakespeare fan... I've read Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Julius Caeser, Macbeth, Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venus and A Midsummer's Night Dream. Love them all (except Merchant.. I didn't really care for that one).

We also worked on some stuff with JabberCentral. I'm starting to form some clear ideas of how to seperate the content from JabberCentral.com:Support and Jabber.org:Docs. As Jabber.org moves to SourceForge, we'll re-do the site to be just for developers. So I'll have one clear audience for all of the documents. As JabberCentral.com opens, we'll have all of the user oriented docs there. So there is a clear focus there too. Right now I've got to work on splitting up Dev & User docs and polishing them up for their respective new homes.

Aphrodite Mozilla rocks. I just wish there were right click menus. And I want to use *my* bookmarks!

I picked up Our Town and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. That was the only Ayn Rand book that Half Price Books had.... It's going to take me awhile to get it all read, but I'll just take my time with it.

Today I hope to do a lot of reading and not much computer work. Sunday. Aaaaah. Hamburgers anyone?

Ok, I forgot about updating with those links last night. Here they are:

Ok, this is the second time I've written this. Mozilla crashed for the first time today while I was writing this post.

Anyway, I'm not really sure *what* I did today. I know I wrote 9 news items for JabberCentral.. and I know I fiddled with date for like an hour and a half.. Oh, let me tell you about that.

Date is evil. Actually, date's documentation is evil. I'm going to fix that. It seems as though --date='s format is not documented anywhere. For hours I was feeding it ISO-8601 dates, thinking it was working fine. Why should I not think it works fine? When I give date a bad format, it yells at me and says it is bad format. But when I put in IS-8601 dates, it just does wierd things to them and acts normally. So anyway, deltab finally told me to try using some weird format like "YYYYMMDD HHMM" .. that worked. Perfectly. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

The big monthly Jabber meetings are over at Jabber, Inc. I still wish I could have gone. Maybe next time... erbo sent me a photo from his camera with the four Jabber, Inc. dudes. It's weird to see these people's faces after talking with them so long.

For fear of crashing mozilla again, I don't want to open another window to find the following to URL's.. I'll post a new item after I found them. They are two URLs of the new building that Webb and Jabber, Inc. will be occupying. Webb gets floor 6, and Jabber, Inc. gets like part of floor 7. It's the first new building in downtown Denver in 13 years. It's a cool looking building too. Anyway.. this week is over. Time for the weekend!

Yay!! I'm done entering in articles for Time Pieces!! I hated doing that. Now I just need to go through and do clean up work, but that's not near as bad as putting the articles in. Then I'll get the forwards and contents done... then output to PDF and tada!!! Yay! I really like my design for that project. I want to make sure it looks good for a portfolio.

I think I'm going to get a couple of friends and go to Enron Field's opening day. It'd be cool to be able to say we were there on opening day.

Got back from going over to mrOpie's house to tinker with his i-opener. He got his in today, hopefully mine will come in Monday or Saturday. We talked a lot about Jabber and JabberCentral.. always gets me more excited about things. Or maybe it was just the high suger content in my Caffe & Cocoa drink at Barnes & Noble / Starbucks.

Almost the weekend! woo!

Wee.. this week has gone by fast. I'm not really sure what I've gotten done either. I know I've worked on some articles for JabberCentral, but I'm not sure beyond that. Like I said, crazy.

Anyway, not much to say yet... I'm going to hit PageMaker hard today...

Woop.. thank goodness for DocBook!

That's pretty much all I did today! That and responded to info@jabber.org messages. So many stupid messages.... naah, they aren't really, just annoying. I also downloaded a complete BUSH album from emusic.com, that was cool. Also took up all my bandwidth all day.

temas says he's gonna take a camera to Colorado this week.. DizzyD, Jer and temas are heading up there for some meeting at Webb, Inc. All us #jabber people want to see what our fellow money makers look like in real life. That'll be nifty to see. :)

I really need to get this PHP work for ChristianAnswers.net done this week.. AND Time Pieces (a pagemaker project..)... AND Writing Forms!

Today was a decent day, especially without English class. :)

I did all the edits for newface2 for JabberCentral, updated some protocol stuff on protocol.jabber.org, looked at more Jeeps (online), dreamed about getting $1,000,000, and enjoyed the wonderful Aphrodite chrome for Mozilla.

Can you believe that Texas is the only state in the USA that you can't buy a car direct from a dealership on the Internet? How ancient is that? There was an article about it in the Houston Chronicle yesterday, they were saying that lawmakers want to protect native Texas dealerships and blah blah blah. Oh well.. not like I'm going to be able to buy a new car anyway.

I hear Circuit City is canceling all i-Opener sales. I still haven't heard anything from them. When I called my store, they didn't have any info about it.

Going to go read some... temas is bringing up some interesting ideas regarding open source experimental projects with different forms of control (anarchist, democratic and benevolent dictatorship [standard open source project])... interesting ideas there.

Sheesh!! I *finally* am able to post!!

The other day (I guess about a week ago now), after a apt-get upgrade, netscape started giving me those horrible Bus Error's. I've done everything everyone suggested to me.. But anyway, the password I had written down for Advogato didn't work so the only way I could access the site was from Netscape's cookies. Finally realizing that Mozilla uses the same cookies file format as Netscape, I copied my old Netscape cookies file to Mozilla's cookies.txt and it worked! Yay!!

Anyway, been a busy week... I've been working on some articles for JabberCentral.com.. Still waiting for stpeter's comments on that... I started working on updating all of Jabber's DTD's.. sheesh we have a lot. x-virge and I still need to finish those. I finished 1984 last weekend, it was really good. I enjoyed it. My dad and I are trying to figure out how to get a mid-1990's Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited, I'm hoping to get one soon. I really hate having to share with my parents -- I've been doing that for about 2 1/2 years.

Seems as though everyone is playing with XFree86 4.0 these days. I'm still gonna wait for X Force's debian packages. I'd be scared to try and have both X's installed at once (since it would be hard to uninstall 3.3.6 because of all the dependencies).

I'm still on spring break! Yay!!

On to looking for more Jeep Grand Cherokee's with mrOpie!

Yo Yo!

Pathetic day. I didn't get to vote!! I was mad. The state republican party convention was going to be held right here in Houston this year, so it would have been super cool. The thing was that I went to a DPS office outside my county to get my new license (this was back in January). They sent my voter reg card to that county's office and that county sent it to mine and mine didn't get it processed in time. Thus, I can't go to the precinct meeting and I can't go to the state convention. Bummer.

I *still* didn't get my writing done for JabberCentral. I have got to do that this week so stpeter can look over it. I was able to get the info to Brave GNU World though.. I was very pleased with that. Jer did some major editing on it, but my main points and ideas were still there. :) It will be interesting to see how they write up the article, it should be very good. The major focus was on how Jabber is good for other things beyond normal IM.

Just as I finished studying FDL1.0, they release 1.1. Great. I really did like 1.0, I heard there are some good improvements in 1.1. I'm gonna be sure to make all Jabber docs under the FDL. It doesn't seem apropriate for my articles though.

WinJab is sweet!! I was shocked at all the cool things pgmillard has in it. File transfer, version, time, lots and lots of cool things. An excellent client. I hope Gabber has some of these great features!

I'm off to order an I-Opener at Circuit City (gag) and look at some designs of journals at Barnes & Noble. I need some ideas for my senior writing portfolio.

It's been an interesting weekend. Didn't get much done, but that's ok... I finally got back into some good reading. Started out with 1984 and am going to tackle some Ayn Rand stuff later. I'm ordering the Cathedral & Bazaar from Page1Book.com ASAP, it's even more interesting now that Eric Raymond is actually related to my life (still in a distant way, but related nonetheless!).

After going with mrOpie to Circuit City and Barnes & Noble, we rented Mystery Men on DVD and headed over to his place for a bit. Over at Circuit City, mrOpie took part in the I-Opener madness.. sure wish I could do that too... The lady at the Starbucks/Barnes & Noble was really nice to us, even gave mrOpie the extra hot chocolate and cream! Must have had something to do with the big tip we gave her (wow was she surprised when I chunked in those $$'s).

I'm heading off to Half Price Books again for some Ayn Rand and any other good books that this $10 will buy, I'd like to get Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea some time too.

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