31. March, 2003 - opening day
- It’s opening day for Major League Baseball [popups] (except for the Texas Rangers and the California Angels who played last night). The Twins [popups] open on the road, and the home opener is this Friday. But why the hell does MLB have all those popup ads on their site advertising other crap? When I go there, I want to know about baseball, not about some crappy ad served up seemingly at random.
- Yesterday began Daylight Saving Time in Europe. Next Sunday here in the U.S. Just a reminder.
- Speaking of DST, Daylight Saving and MovableType points out just how hard it is to know when Daylight Savings Time starts (and ends), and it depends very much on where you are. [boing boing]
- Why Apple Shouldn’t Vote for Gore [popups]:
The failed Presidential contender is a business novice whose board nomination raises more questions about Apple’s governance
and also points out that Steve Jobs doesn’t really take the board very seriously. In fact, a pretty good rule to live by might be to short the stock of any company employing a former Tennessee senator on its board,
since the record of companies with such board members has been pretty uniformly poor. [some guy]
- Hmm. According to BlogShares, Dave’s Picks was worth $80 last Friday. Back to under $60 today. Oh well, easy come, easy go. [scripting]
- Skot describes The Fine Art Of Hemorrhaging Money on a vacation in Las Vegas. Damn if he doesn’t make the place sound awfully attractive.
- Copyproof CDs moving to market? With any luck they won’t sell.
- An engineer by any other name. There’s currently a debate in Texas over whether programmers can legally call themselves engineers. Given a lot of the code I’ve seen, I’d say many of them are lucky to call themselves programmers.
- SJSU math professor breaks barrier [popups] and proves that you can find large primes numbers that may not be twins, but that are much closer together than average. It’s not a proof that there are infinitely many twin primes, but it’s a step along the way.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:12:01.