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Monday, March 4, 2002 |
 Garden, day 1 wrapup: spent about $180 on soil and tools, and about 4 hours - half done (4 out of 8 planters) with the heavy work of getting the boxes ready after 10 years of lying fallow. Dirt under my fingernails... been a while...!Comments 7:21:59 PM 
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 First planter box, the lettuce box as it appeared after I cleaned it out and filled it with Soil Builder. The green plants are Butter lettuce, the red ones are Red Oak leaf lettuce - some dill and cilantro are tucked in the corners. Took a bit less than an hour, including rounding up tools, hooking up new hose etc.Comments 3:39:01 PM
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 16 sacks of Green Lawn Soil Builder came home from the nursery, which was kind enough to load the car for me. A hand truck made pretty quick work of getting the sacks into the garden. Took about an hour, round trip and ready to begin.Comments 3:36:15 PM
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 Here's the plan for the new garden. I think I will chronicle the garden on gulker.com: my wireless network reaches the garden, I think, so I can update 'from the field'. Maybe we'll set up a garden cam... Off to the nursery shortly: and then the joy of lugging 20 sacks of compost and garden soil into the side yard.Comments 8:59:26 AM
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Some good news for hight tech: all the people who flocked to the Net during the dot-com boom are emerging as Net shoppers, buoying the surviving etailers according to Bob Tedeschi in the NY Times. Also in the Times, Steve Lohr reports a boom in the computer services industry. The dotcom boom was like a Darwinian speciation event: the survivors are now settling in, growing into their niches... Comments 8:32:17 AM
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New York Times Navigator is a start page used in the NY Times newsroom. Has lots of special links for politics, entertainment et al. and appears to be the work of long-time Times' digital guru Rich Meislin. Comments 8:04:23 AM
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Wireless in the dailies today: Intel has an initiative called 'Radio Free Intel' that seeks to put a wideband radio on every Intel chip, according to Henry Norr, writing the Chronicle. The New York Times' local writers John Markoff and Amy Harmon chronicle the 'bottom-up' emergence of wireless mesh routing over informal 802.11 networks. Locally, Caffe Verona in Palo Alto has free Wi Fi, according to buddy Brad Schrick... Comments 7:56:01 AM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 11:48:00 AM
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