Posts from July 2000

Songs of the Moment

The previous two songs of the day, if you found them on bling, were You Can’t Always Get What You Want – the Rolling Stones This is truly one of the best songs ever written. Sometimes you just have to say the title over and over again. And realize that it’s wrong. My Brave Face

Form Letter

From a very poorly-worded letter from an insurance company: Mr. Gagne, your benefits can include: Death… Disability… Unemployment… Knowing the Gagne family will not lose their home no matter what the tragedy er… uh… thanks…

Anti-Mac

Anti-Mac – By exploring alternative interfaces that transcend the principles behind conventional graphical interfaces, a human-computer interface emerges that is based on language, a richer representation of objects, expert users, and shared control.

Dealing with Irrational People

Once again, Jason is scouring the ‘net to find me valuable information. This primer on Dealing With Irrational People could be very useful …

In Which He Ponders a Scavenger Hunt

Now that I think about it, I probably have an incredible amount of worthless crap around here, too. I wonder if any of it isn’t worth anything either …

Walking Blues

I have to walk in front of the CEO’s office on my way to my office at HSND. This morning she said she didn’t know who I was because I was wearing my Red Sox hat. “I don’t recognize you unless I see that shiny blonde hair!” I laughed and took off my hat so

Blogging Poem

Apparently I’ve upset some of you by working all day today! This, via ICQ: Are you alive today? Are you dead? O! When will you blog the crazy thoughts in your head?

Blog Featurettes

If you know of a featurette that I didn’t include in the featurette guide, please be so kind as to let me know.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.