It would behoove me to establish my own domain name soon. From a recent conversation:
| Tommy: | All the good ones are taken. |
| DH: | No; you have to be creative. |
| Tommy: | You're reminding me of the truth. |
A few days later, I mentioned to JW that I was having trouble thinking of a good domain name (indeed, I've been trying to invent one for a Long Time Now). He went off and thought for a while, and emailed me a raft of suggestions; I wrote back and explained why they were all too long, or taken, or not to my taste. I realized I was only telling him what my domain name shouldn't be, and made sure to also explain what it should be. Then it occurred to me that maybe the guidelines I was giving would be more clear if accompanied by examples, so I made up a few sample names. For some reason, that process (making up examples that weren't supposed to be great, just enough to suggest the concept) gave better results than I'd gotten by racking my brain over the past year. I haven't hit on a wicked cool name yet, but I'm making progress.
Sometimes, to be creative, it helps to go in through the side door. Know what I mean?
Saturday 08.28.04
I haven't written here in a while. Sorry about that.
Nowadays, for the sake of international legibility, instruments in cars
are labeled
with icons: a
drawing of a gasoline pump for the gas gauge, an oilcan for the oil pressure
gauge, and so on. How would you wordlessly label a vacuum gauge?
One gauge
manufacturer evidently thinks you use arrows pointing
inward from a circle. I guess they decided a drawing of an upright
Hoover would've been too frivolous.
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Sunday 08.08.04
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Thursday 08.05.04
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we," Bush said. "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." (reported by the Associated Press)
Wednesday 08.04.04
YAJEAAM : yet another journal entry about Amr Mohsen
From an article on the web:
Facing 23 criminal counts including solicitation to murder a federal judge, former Aptix CEO Amr Mohsen entered not guilty pleas on all counts at an arraignment Wednesday (Aug. 4). But there was no judge to hear them, because all judges in the Northern District of California have recused themselves from the case.According to that article, Amr now has an August 12 appearance scheduled before Judge William Shuve [sic] in Sacramento. I think they meant to say Judge William Shubb.
So, why do I keep writing about Amr Mohsen? Several reasons. One, his case is now fascinating by dint of how quickly his charges have escalated; his brother Aly's attorney said "I've never seen a case go so bad this quickly." Said attorney also pointed out that "Aly faces just the original perjury and obstruction-of-justice charges having to do with a notebook in a piece of patent litigation that he wasn't involved in and under no circumstances does he benefit from." What, would perjury not be a big deal if you're only doing it as a favor for your brother?
Update: a Missouri newspaper quotes Amr's brother:
"The alleged indictments are based on old civil litigations resulting from the rivalry between two giant electronic companies with a long history of patents disputes," Aly Mohsen said.I'm of the opinion that perjury is corrosive to our system of justice, and deserves to be prosecuted irrespective of whether an alleged perjurer is proud or a serviceman.
"As a proud American citizen and a member of the U.S. military, I have no doubt that justice will prevail and I will be exonerated and cleared from all charges."
UPDATE: Aly Mohsen plead guilty on January 24, 2006.
Another reason to write about Amr is simply that I've got an audience. This little journal gets a few hits a day from people who've typed Amr's name into a search engine. I'm happy to provide y'all with news and links. Previous journal entries about Amr can be found here, here, here, and here. Also, I have archived a number of court documents relating to Amr's case.
Meanwhile, the occasional glowing bio of Amr can still be found on the web, and the Islamic Chamber of Commerce of Silicon Valley still lists Amr as its chairman.
Of course, an indictment simply contains allegations against an individual and, as with all defendants, Amr and Aly Mohsen must be presumed innocent unless and until convicted.
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