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We had a BBC meeting, and we were productive. In fact, we've made steady progress. I got the lnx.img package building a boot floppy image; I even figured out how to use mtools and dd to put SYSLINUX on a floppy (instead of using the "official" supported way from Peter Anvin). The advantage here is that you don't have to be root to make a bootable floppy.
Subsequently, I figured out how to use user-mode Linux to test various parts of the bootable business card. User-mode Linux is coool (like xml-rpc)!
Biella's reading group met at our apartment; we discussed the first three issues of Wired (1.01, 1.02, and 1.03). Reading early Wireds now is really very educational. I thought the ads were at least as interesting as some of the articles. You can find out a lot from reading old advertising, which is one of the reasons Nicholson Baker suggests it's important to preserve paper copies of print publications. (Sure enough, the Wired web site does not have any of the print ads; it has its own banner ads which are completely distinct from the original print ads. The banner ads are selling products and services of today, and Wired is getting paid for them today; the print ads are selling products and services from 1993, and that's when Wired got paid for those ads.)
There are also exercises around observing which predictions were successful and which unsuccessful, how the magazine's politics developed, and so on.
Biella decided to create her own blog. This, in turn, reminds me that Nick took pictures of the BBC meeting.
The 802.11b network in our apartment (called catenary) is working well, and it was helpful for the BBC meeting. Does anybody know anything about health effects of 802.11b? (Watch me get lots of Google hits for that term, now, even though I was just asking the question.)
We ate Indian pizza from Zante's twice this weekend -- once for the BBC meeting and once for the reading group meeting. It's wonderful. If you're doing a Google search for Zante's, know, reader, that as of June 2002 they were at Mission and Cortland and their phone number was (415)821-3949.
I think it's going to be a busy week.
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