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Brian passed away after battling brain cancer (the same thing that killed my dad) for the past year and a half. He was reserved yet hilarious, often delivering one-liners with such a straight face that you didn’t know he was kidding around with you. Brian was the type of guy that didn’t take shit from anybody and he feared nothing.

I feel very fortunate to have known Brian. He invited me into his home on several occasions, where BBQ and beer would flow with a never-ending supply. My fondest memories though will be sitting with him in his poker room after the BBQs had winded down, with 5 or 6 of his other friends. We’d shoot the shit and have drinks and play poker for hours on end.

My thoughts go out to Meghan, Elvis, Julie, and everyone else affected by this lousy situation.

You can read a little about Brian over at the SFGate site.

Like Bob Dylan said, Just remember that death is not the end.

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For the record, why digg is blocked dot com is not my site. I don’t know who it belongs to or why they linked to me. That is all.

Here’s a nicely done website. Sweet.

What the hell is this? Apple refuses cash? As in, “This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private” type of cash? Does this make them bigger than the government?

For me, it depends. Where am I sitting? What are the pot odds? Who am I up against? I’m a big ol’ chicken and would probably fold this hand. Or would I?

Elsewhere…hrm…I was happy that IMAP was finally being made available to my email service then I realized that I didn’t really care after all. Since I’m always connected and loathe mail clients I really have no use for IMAP for my mail accounts. Also, there is something twisted in getting excited about a protocol.

Leopard. Yeah, sounds cool. Won’t get it for my aging laptop at home though. Will probably install it at work for compatibility tests. I’m actually sick of reading about this thing. It’s everywhere and, as above, I find it unsettling that people are excited about an operating system. We’re talking about a thing that controls internal memory and input/output requests to hardware. Blah blah blah, Leopard. Blah Leopard blah. Yeah.

Remember, Ace Six will usually beat Queen five. Don’t be so hasty to go all-in with such a shit hand.