10 years online

So, in response to a request I received last week, I dug up my notebooks. I've kept notes rather diligently since getting slapped upside the head by someone I worked with for having poor time management routines (skills? I had no time management skills).

Anyone, I was floored by what I wrote in 1993 and 1994. I forgot that by this time in 1993 I was actively helping publish books to the internet (using gopher and ftp...bet three out of four of you don't know what gopher even is). I wrote a gopher server for VM. Was working on one for MVS until it became apparent that we really needed a web server. The web server itself got shot down by people in the Networking divison in Raleigh.

Anyway...I just thought it was funny that a lot of the problems I took notes about in 1993 and 1994 (before I was actively involved in www.ibm.com) came up over and over again when I was working on ibm.com, and you even see now.

I guess we never learn. I sure didn't, and I know IBM hasn't.

wonder who signed off on the flight plan?

GM's Saturn apparently has a blimp. Said blimp is flying around the NYC area tonight. I happened to be on the promenade with Frisket and a pair of binoculars and spotted the blimp floating over New Jersey heading towards Manhattan.

Some time passed, and passed and it finally flew up the harbor. And towards downtown Manhattan. And literally right up West Street (from my perspective) towards the WTC site. Now, it may have been hugging the shoreline but it was still flying rather low (I'm sure intentionally to get all of those eyeballs). Low flying aircraft of any sort are looked on with suspicion around here, and flying low over the WTC area is just incredibly stupid. It wasn't even in stable level flight but bouncing up and down 100 feet at a time.

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