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30 June 2003

Nat Friedman — Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:00:00 +0000

I really miss my little sister Peach. Though we only ever talk every month or two, I think I have the best relationship with her of anyone in my life.

Ponder: as digital records of life — photographs, videos, emails, IM logs, etc — become more and more common, is it harder or easier to cope with the death of a close friend?

(NB that my sister is not dead, she’s at the beach right now.)

29 June 2003

Nat Friedman — Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:00:00 +0000

This weekend a bunch of us crashed at Dave‘s place in Rockport. Chilling, drinking, swimming, frisbee.

Alex in the backyard.

Jimmy, Joe, Dave, Alex and I hung out on the rocks near the beach, and at night we drank wine, lay on the grass and counted the satellites flying by.

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Been working on the dashboard a bit recently.

22 June 2003

Nat Friedman — Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:00:00 +0000

Some of Larry Page’s original PageRank slides.

18 June 2003

Nat Friedman — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:00:00 +0000

Various GUADEC things: photos, blog, live audio stream, minutes of Sunday’s board meeting. People blogging the conference: Jeff Waugh, Michael Meeks.

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Apparently my comments about the KDE clock preferences dialog in an osnews.com interview a few weeks ago motivated the KDE clock team to “fix” it.

13 June 2003

Nat Friedman — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:00:00 +0000

11 June 2003

Nat Friedman — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:00:00 +0000

Sitting in my kitchen at three in the morning working my ass off. Again. These are the good times. No, seriously. They are.

Also: I could listen to A Wolf At the Door all night long. It’s like Thom Yorke and Lou Reed made a baby, and it was this song.

My best memories of Wolf are: walking through Paris with my WiFi geiger counter, looking for a cafe with an uplink, the mp3 playing in the background two months before the album was released. And: leaving the office at 4am and riding my bike through the empty streets of Brookline with this going on repeat.

10 June 2003

Nat Friedman — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 22:00:00 +0000

Two photos of Jimmy I took with my new phone:

6 June 2003

Nat Friedman — Thu, 05 Jun 2003 22:00:00 +0000

(09:59:55) jimmy: oh man… claire balderson from the bbc world service just signed off with, “this is clizell baldizell for the bbc world sizell. for rizell my nizell.”

2 June 2003

Nat Friedman — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 22:00:00 +0000

The front wheel, seat and lights were stolen off my bike today, leading to several hours spent in two different stores collecting all the missing parts.

Friday I got an AT&T mobile phone to replace the Sprint one I’d lost to last week’s aquatic deluge. This weekend I determined that AT&T has basically the worst reception in Boston; zero bars at my apartment, one bar at work if I’m lucky, and, Sunday afternoon, no signal at all across the street from the AT&T store.

Today, they wouldn’t let me return the 3-day-old t68i I’d bought, since I’d lost the box. Nor would they let me use Jacob’s box.

So I went to T-Mobile to get a new phone, only to discover that I had a past-due account with them: apparently six months ago when I briefly had a T-Mobile Sidekick they had my address listed wrong and weren’t automatically billing my credit card as I’d believed. So they wouldn’t sell me a phone without a $500deposit.Andfuckthat.

Shit.Andnowmyspacebarisn’tworking.Icannotfuckingbelievethis.