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1999 news archive 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 For the most recent news, go home. 15 December 1999 CAUCE published my summary of state antispam laws in their newsletter. This is an adjunct to the work I do for The Suespammers Project. 9 December 1999 I was interviewed for a story in the San Jose Metro about furries. You never stop coming out, you know? 29 November 1999 Believe it or not, I'm doing the nine-to-five again, this time as a Senior Account Executive for GCI Group. Score! Read the full story of how it happened. 11 November 1999 This article from Wired News is the best overview I've seen of the peculiar Silicon Valley high-tech P.R. market. Thanks to fellow P.R. flack and antispam activist John Mozena for the link. 1 November 1999 My suespammers.org project was a Yahoo Pick of the Day on Friday, and was the Political Site of the Day today. 12 October 1999 So much has happened in the last few weeks -- where to begin? I've started a company (Pop Computers) to produce and deliver PPC-based motherboards; registered several business names, including Bandwidth P.R., Geller Communications, The OpenPPC Project and The Suespammers Project; picked up two new clients, QuArc Inc. (not launched yet) and Rockstar Studios Inc.; parted ways with past client MyOwnEmpire to focus more on "geeky" companies (my forte); and started hiring people to handle the load. I guess this means I'm making it. Scaaaaary... 2 September 1999 Everybody hated the picture that used to be in the corner of this page (me with the big unstylish glasses), so I changed it. Nyah. I also uploaded my PGP public key for the paranoid and geeky. 1 September 1999 The past three weeks have been insanely busy because of the explosive growth of The OpenPPC Project. Ralph Giles and I founded it after meeting through a discussion on Slashdot; as I write this, the mailing list has over 50 members and averages 17 posts a day. Write me if you're curious why it's such a big deal. 26 August 1999 Vince Vitale, an accomplished writer for publications including PC World, MacWEEK and Legal Technology Newsletter, is now helping me out part-time. 3 August 1999 It must be genetic: Here's an entertaining article my father wrote for the August 1999 Writers Online Magazine, "Five Ways to End a Play: Tips from Shakespeare and Others". 2 August 1999 Client MyOwnEmpire launched! Go, poke around, earn shares in the company, share the magic. My username is "tom" -- use it to earn me a referral share when you register. 10 July 1999 I've been kicking around the idea of publishing a newsletter about bulk e-mail issues, written from a pro-commerce and anti-spam perspective. Before launching into it, I want to find out whether it has a market: If you have an opinion, please respond to this market research questionnaire. Thanks! 3 July 1999 Got back from a 10-day trip back East. It included visits to: My hometown of Mount Kisco, NY, where my mother celebrated her 65th birthday My old summer camp in North Salem, NY Hancock, NY, due to a flat tire A bar in Ithaca, NY frequented by Cornell undergraduates, followed by a night sleeping in the parking lot of the way-cool Wegmans supermarket John Levine's home in Trumansburg, NY Herkimer, NY, for the famous Herkimer Diamonds A state park in Western Massachusetts (ooo! bears!) Daniel Dern's home in Newton, MA A memorable night in a Susse Chalet... nudge nudge, wink wink... Anthrocon in Valley Forge, PA. 21 June 1999 Instituted the "What Tom's been up to" rubric at the top of my home page. It's the question most often asked of me, and not always easy to anwer. Now I can just say, "Uh, I dunno, but I think my Web site does." 9 May 1999 As you can see from the little box underneath my mug, I finally added a site-wide search engine. Let me know if you discover any bugs. 8 May 1999 Now it can be told. After six months of writing for Productopia, my work is finally available to the public (via a partnership with Netscape Netcenter). I wrote the buyer's guides to inline skates, clothes washers, clothes dryers, skateboards (not on the site), dishwashers and microwave ovens. More to come. 15 April 1999 Woo-hoo! It's fun to do P.R. for a company with an interesting story: journalists are quick to pick it up, and you end up looking smart. That's what's been happening with MyOwnEmpire, that soooper-secret Portal project I've been working on. See this 700-word story from the front of the S.F. Chronicle Business section. 7 April 1999 Got annoyed by how Al Gore is abusing the noble term "Open Source" on his campaign site, so I created a "derived work". Here's the parody, along with my commentary. 19 March 1999 Led a panel about "What excites game publication editors" at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose. It went swimmingly, and tapes are available from The Sound of Knowledge. 18 March 1999 Just to get you up to date: I've been doing lots of writing over the past few months, including about 30,000 words for an e-commerce site (soon to be released) and a 14,000-word manual for Adhesive Software. I'm also doing P.R. work for a sooper-secret portal project. 5 February 1999 Started playing the trombone seriously again after a hiatus of about seven years. 18 January 1999 Spent the past four days dancing with seven-foot ferrets, among other things. Film at 11. 11 January 1999 I say I throw a hell of a party, and Wired News apparently agrees. (I organized this event for the two clients mentioned.) 10 January 1999 I've added a way to sign up for my mailing lists via the Web. It's not pretty, but hey: My ignorance of perl is exceeded only by my ignorance of C++. 9 January 1999 Happy New Year! And happy Macworld Expo to all who attended. I organized two talks, both of which now have notes online: Other OSes on the Mac and The Value Proposition of Linux on the Mac. This page was last updated on Monday, February 09, 2004 at 2:50pm CST. All contents copyright 2005 by Tom Geller.