July 2000 Archives

Well, I finally made it up to San Francisco. I am currently in an Executive Apartment kinda place that is fully furnished while spending most of my free time looking for a more perminent place to stay in this city.

I still call back and forth with my unlimited mobile-to-mobile cell phone to talk to my girlfriend and such. I was talking with the PacBell PCS folks here on California street and they claim that there is no way they can simply stack on another phone number to my nokia 6190 GSM phone, which although technically is possible, is really annoying.

If I could simply keep my 858 area code number and service and tack on a 415 area code number for the San Francisco folks I would have it made, but for whatever reason they are not willing to take this on. It is really annoying when something technologically is really simple and possible, but for business or accounting reasons
(or maybe simply because of cluelless sales folks) this is not possible. So, anyone who has experience with this and is reading this feel free to send me an e-mail.

Work has been an entire new thing as well, I have been spending most of my time getting a demo box ready for the O'Reilly Conference next week, but I haven't really gotten into coding yet. I still need to get myself in a reasonable matter on all the
mailing lists again. I still haven't gotten my entire mail sorted
out yet.

Things have been heck-tick trying to get ready for my trip up north. Cleaning up the apartment, paying off all the bills, etc. etc.

I am one of the original people who started and moderated the San Diego Gothic/Industrial Community site, but although I still want to contribute and be involved it looks like there are others who are interested in taking it over. I really wish I just had more time to contribute. I definately could use the help to get it going to the full extend I would like to see it go, I am just not too sure to what extend that would really be. Usually people claim that they want to contribute, but usually they
have other interests into getting involved and in the end end up contributing nothing. I hope I can at least keep the site running and provide as much technical support as I can. I really enjoyed the San Diego scene.

Fourth of July was a blast (other then the fact that I somehow got my DSL to blow up after I unplug its power cord). I spend some time with my good friends Adam and Lidija, Rachel, Riik , Dennis and later on with my old buddy Tommy Tarka. I also got to pull out my CD DJ gear which is always a pleasure and a blast. I played a wide mix from
Haujobb, Forma Tadre to X-Cabs, Imminent Starvation, Synapscape to X-Marks the Pedwalk and Banca De Gaia.

Only if I had more money and time to play with musical equipment. it is soo entertaining. It's gotta get to a point to where you can control your MIDI instruments with perl. :-)

Anyways, I am getting nervous for my trip. I am not sure if I will have enough time to really get everything done that I would like to before I leave. At least I had a chance to see most of my MP3.com buddies this Fourth of July.