Sunday, August 12, 2001

Hello-O! I'm up HERE!

I wanted one of these when I was a kid. Still do. I'm watching Bell company film footage from the Sixties on the Discovery Wings channel, which is reason enough all by itself to get a TV and satellite system.

Slappy feet

I'm writing this (and wrote all the below, frankly) where I've never written on a laptop before: in front of the TV. Right now I'm gawking at an old PBS dance special, live at the (Clinton, so it has to be old) White House, with Savion Glover and his tap dance group, Not Your Ordinary Taps (NYOT). Good God, they're amazing. And now there's a jazz trio of geezers, none under 80, I don't think, that are unbelievably good. Wow.

Okay, that's it for now. I gotta crash.

Putting kinks in the links

I'm glad so many people (including Ev — see right here) are grooving on what John Waterson wrote here about linking the other day. Good stuff. Has me experimenting differently with links.

Deplugged

Well, I'm writing this on a laptop on my lap in the deep fringe of my wi-fi router/hub/base, about 30 feet away. What I've learned so far, after fooling around with two different laptops and two different base stations (the XRouter Aero and an Apple Airport), is that these things (the base stations) don't always get along and have about 1/8 the coverage of the average cordless phone.

Okay, maybe 1/4.

Or 1/2, if your house or office has one room and no walls.

Maybe I'll have more encouraging things to report tomorrow after I screw around a little more with the placement issue.

Open Clues

As you may have noticed, we've open sourced the full text of The Cluetrain Manifesto.

But don't let that stop you from buying the thing, okay?