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August 12, 2002
You go, Dan!
And then, in case Dan’s rant has lifted your spirits, go re-depress yourself by reading the letter to Ashcroft from some cowardly, skunk-assed members of Congress.
(I still stand by my 3 precepts for Digital Rights Management.)
Click on the fragment of an image below to see my pop-under…one that might just end the threat of terrorism. [Hint: Can you spot Osama?]
If you don’t have the Flash view, click here (350K) to see a Gif version of it.
Note: Yes, this is the same as the entry from Sunday. But I pushed it down the page by adding more entries, so I’m rerunning it.
Mary Lu links to my Anti-Terrorist PopUnder (Hint: Can you spot Osama?) and points out that DLink has introduced a camera that doesn’t need no stinkin’ computer to broadcast to the Net.
By the way, Mary Lu is in Palm Springs looking for a Wifi connection on which she can piggyback. Does this make her a WiFampire? or a WiFasite? (But only in the best senses, I assure you.)
Meanwhile, in the miscellaneous world, I hear that the Danish Board of Technology has published a positive review of Small Pieces (“Små elementer løst forbundet”) on their Web site. Since my knowledge of Danish is limited to “med syltetøj” and “udder syltetøj ,” I’m afraid I’ll have to take the editor (Mette Bom) at his word…
Ole Andersen responds quickly to my Danishism:
Correction I: it is “uden”, not “udder”
Correction II: ‘at her word’ – Mette is a girl’s name..Apart from that – yes, it is a positive review.
1. Damn online dictionaries!
2. Sorry, Ms. Bom
Martin Roell has blogged a pithy quote from Curt Cloninger in an article that responds to the cry: “”Man, you dudes are taking this online stuff waaaay too seriously. You need to unplug, turn off your computer, and go for a walk or something. Get some perspective.”
But the online world is not a game of Mario Brothers. The online world is networked, which means there are living PEOPLE out there. Yes, the computer is the interface to this network, but the network itself is comprised of people, not computers. Any place where people share beliefs and concerns and humor and friendship and commitment — that place is a real world.
That’s not a bad way of summarizing Small Pieces Loosely Joined. Of course, the interesting thing about the Web is that it is also a game of Mario Brothers and an infinite variety of possibilities not real enough for the Real WorldTM.
An unrelated fact (except in the way that everything is related by metaphor): Martin also has a photo of an open-air theatre in Dresden that has become an underwater theatre because of the overflowing of the Elbe.
August 11, 2002
The Internet Multicasting Service claims to be the only non-profit group bidding to run the .org top-level domain. ICANN will decide this in September.
I don’t know enough to feel like I couldn’t be fooled, but if you do, then let me know if I am. Or whatever.
Mike O’Dell, who, as former chief scientist at UUnet, is orders of magnitude harder to fool than I, responds:
they are smart, savy, and good guys.
Click on the fragment of an image below to see my pop-under…one that might just end the threat of terrorism.
If you don’t have the Flash view, click here (350K) to see a Gif version of it.
August 10, 2002
Mary Lu covers Charleton Heston’s announcement that he has Alzheimer’s with more grace and understanding than I would have. So, I defer to her…
Dave Rogers is taking his need for glasses as an omen for advancing age. Yo, Dave, the real sign of advancing age is that everything becomes an omen of advancing age.
And I’ve got more bad news for you, Dave: Wait till you get bifocals. After I got my first pair ten years, I went back to the optometrist twice because they weren’t adjusted right. He conscientiously reground the lenses. But still I’d get fisheye effects looking at near things through the top and blurring looking at far things through the bottom and funhouse mirror effects off the sides. “So,” said the weary optometrist who by now had lost any possible profit from his work for me, “you’re telling me you’d like your eyes to work as well as they used to.”
Ten years later and bifocals still suck.
Trellix, a pioneer in easy-to-use online authoring tools, has integrated weblogging straight into its Web site design set. Why doesn’t every web site creation system come with blogging tools? Seems so natural.
You can read Trellix founder Dan Bricklin on the new offering here.
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