1998
DecemberBest tunes
The Brazil bug is biting hard this year. I guess that sounds a bit grotesque, but when you find another culture with a rich mine of 70's jazz/funk/bossa nova to plunder, you take the dive. Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben, Gilberto Gil, and Gal Costa could have topped the list but to pick a winner its Joao Donato and the Quem Y Quem record. That mumbly voice and the rock solid gooves, beautiful. And I'm thankful I can't speak Portugese, who knows what he's talking about?
September First class in Masters Degree
Took my first class in HCI, or what sort of counts in the advanced part of HCI, Design and theory of E-Commerce. Yes, E-commerce is the new buzzword with Amazon and all these soap places building out sites right and left. Hard to keep track of them all, but apparently if you can convince people to give up their Credit card number, you can actually make money at this web thing. Or more likely, go IPO and people will throw money at you. Enrollment is up 33% quarter over quarter, so the boom times are here. I'm just trying to figure out how to build this micro-payment thing into the golf site Jack Brzezinski and I are paired up to build for the final.