| Music | June 23, 2002 | Archives |
 If you peer in those windows above the flower box, you'll see me sitting or standing (a sit-stand desk is a must for anyone who spends eight hours a day at the computer) in "the quarters" as we call it. We couldn't go on calling it the garage after spending so much money on it. Someday it will be finished. Rumor has it the plumber comes on Tuesday. And the space around the windows will be painted white soon to match everything else.
On the first day of summer, the temperature obligingly went up to 85. We put the last section of dock in and have been canoe training the pups. We paddle out to the islands in the lake and let them explore.
They don't really swim yet, but they get in and out of the canoe enthusiastically.
Speaking of pets and life at the epicenter of animal dander, here are cats Zena and Dexter snoozing in the ironing basket.
At work this week, I've spent a lot of time preparing us to move to Java servlets and Java Server Pages for our web apps, rather than the heavy CGI programs in Delphi. Oracle loves Java, and Apache on Linux is the best web server arrangement. So if we're Javaliciously multi-threaded with Apache on Linux, we're where we ought to be. Melissa was in Augusta the other day, so we went out for a fancy lunch. Melissa orders a hot dog the way some people order a latte. Woofy's is a classic Maine roadside stand.
Speaking of fearless innovation, I leave you with this photo of Emily Newell, daughter of Patricia and Don, who comes up with these great outfits. The adolescent who is a not afraid to be her individual self is pretty rare. Emily, you're my hero. |
I'm very motivated to instigate the new and better way because it means investing in my skills base. 
In reading I've just finished Lawrence Lessig's The Future of Ideas, which were he not a lawyer, could have been 50% shorter. It's about how changes to Internet architecture and ridiculously extended copyright laws and software patents will suppress economy-driving innovation if left to continue, and how best business practice defeats itself in the end.