Posts from 2000

What Would Brian Boitano Do?

Sometimes you’re faced with difficult questions in life. Sometimes you don’t know where the answers are, what’s going to happen, or when things will start to make sense. It’s times like these that you just have to ask yourself, “What Would Brian Boitano Do?“

Stuck in the Middle with You

Stuck in the Middle with You – Stealers Wheel

Andrea Spencer Fart Mirror

A relic from when the Internet was still young

Automated Duck System

I just had the most fun I think it’s possible to have with an automated voice system. Trust me. It’s a free call and well worth the 30 seconds. note: zannah rules

Quos Deus vult perdere prius

Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat.

This Is A Call

One of my favorite songs is All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan. I have three different versions of this song: the original, and covers by Jimi Hendrix and U2. If anyone has any other versions, by any other performers, please send them my way. Thanks.

Did you know that you can use DHTML to implement Dynamic Balloon Help on your site?

I took a class in early 20th century American literature while I was a student at the University of Florida. Every essay, book, or article we read struck someone somehow. I got so disgusted by students saying, “What struck me about…” or, “I was struck by…” that I wrote a response paper asking the professor to imagine me striking a student on the head with my Norton Anthology the next time someone said something about being struck. I found a list of world wide web dangerous words today and it reminded me of that class.

Featurette Guide

I just noticed that my Featurette Guide made it into the Community section of Weblog Madness.

Conversations in the Car

Interesting conversations often take place in the car.

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.