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Anyone who has done a modicum of software design is familiar with use cases - (usually) short blurbs that describe all the ways the software can be used.

Boy my brain is tired. I've spent most of today trying to comprehend the Charlie Foxtrot that is my company's main database. The business rules involved are insanely complex, and are giving my a Grade-A headache. Oy.

This article in the NYTimes includes a comment on the origin of the name of Google's mystically powerful PageRank&trademark:

Eric Olsen (via Dave) on blogs:

Brad got his photos from the AZ(+NY) blogger bbq ("blog-b-q?") up online. My vote for best pic: Damien wows us with New York mouse pads ("3D!").

Damien and Brad finally showed up. After a great dinner of teryaki chicken and (slightly tough to be honest) steaks, we're sitting down for a bit o' Taboo...

Esther Dyson is quoted on Evhead:

"A conference is always an attempt to orchestrate. Now, it is also something to annotate." Lately I've had this whole annotation thing stuck in the back of my head. Inspired perhaps by the W3C's Annotea, or perhaps by the semantic-web brainwashing I've been receiving over on

Posted 2002 Apr 06 00:00

Well, it's started! Mark and his wife Kim got here first. TiBook count: 2.

I've been using Launchbar from Objective Development for a few weeks now. All I can say is... DAAamn. That's a FINE pice of software. Launchbar indexes all your applications and documents (all configurable) and then gives you access to each of them in as little as 3 keystrokes.

I totally ripped the title off from some other blog, or movie. Anyway, my life has been too dominated by work, and a few other things, to post lately. But here I am.