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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://wmf.editthispage.com/discuss/msgReader$4343?mode=day&quot;&gt;David McCusker&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;If you don't tell folks what to talk about by stirring them up with nuisance provocation, then they might start talking about something which impedes your plans.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/stories/storyReader$1234&quot;&gt;This afternoon&lt;/a&gt; I was glad to get some pushback from Microsoft re Hailstorm. It's been pretty quiet."/>
		<outline text="I'm still sick as a dog, sleeping and reading, but I forced myself to go out and buy some more books. I'm going through the whole history of Kurt Vonnegut. I just finished &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nyt.com/books/97/09/28/lifetimes/vonnegut-jailbird.html&quot;&gt;Jailbird&lt;/a&gt;. Next I'm going to re-read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0440179483/104-9214811-3904766&quot;&gt;Sirens of Titan&lt;/a&gt;, which is one of my favorite books ever. Also bought a Douglas Coupland &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.unb.ca/web/bruns/9900/issue12/entertainment/book1.html&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt;, and before Jailbird I read Anne Tyler's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/05/20/reviews/010520.20leonart.html&quot;&gt;latest&lt;/a&gt;. In the meantime my team is shipping Frontier 7. I'm kicking back and letting them do it all. This is unusual, but they're good, and I'm sure it'll be fine."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://doc.weblogs.com/2001/06/03#onwardAndCoastward&quot;&gt;Looks like&lt;/a&gt; Doc sold his house in Emerald Hills. &lt;i&gt;Bravo!&lt;/i&gt;"/>
		<outline text="I'm still in awe of &lt;a href=&quot;http://w3future.com/weblog/2001/06/03.html&quot;&gt;Sjoerd&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;Frontier fits me like a glove. I think the nicest thing is that there's a built-in database, with a scripting language that let's you access it like in-memory data. No tiresome query building to retrieve or store data.&quot; It's been a long time since someone like Sjoerd has come along, so ready for what we do. He's right, if there's a single thing that makes building apps in Frontier special, it's the ease with which you can program databases. That innovation is already a dozen years old, and has yet to show up in any other programming environment, as far as I know."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backIssues/2000/06/03&quot;&gt;On this day last year&lt;/a&gt; I learned that one of my teachers had died. Death is around a lot these days. I have a feeling that once you reach my age, 46, from here-on-out, death is going to be around, until I myself die. On Friday the younger brother of one of my best friends died suddenly. How do you process this? What's the take-away? I know the answer, it's not hard to find -- make the most of the time you have. Every day you're alive is a day to celebrate. I'm still here! And get on with it. I object when people say Just Wait. No, I'm not a member of that church. &lt;i&gt;There's no time like now.&lt;/i&gt;"/>
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