Wednesday, July 10, 2002
Until the next one comes along, which should be in a week or so, at the current rate
The cable guys came, and the problem is now fixed. [Later...] Orrr... not quite. Now I get the error message only 4 times out of 5 rather than 9 out of 10. I'm sure we'll solve this anyway. Faith in technology. Gotta have it.
What the hell. It's too hot here anyway. I'm gonna go get a haircut and a swim. See ya later.
Frontiers of identity
Andre Durand (PingID projenitor, among other things) is gonna be a dad. Very cool. I've done the trip a number of times, and it never stops changing everything. Congrats to the growing family.
Revisiting the tip jar
I wrote about the Tip Jar System quite a bit a couple years ago. Ken Kennedy has put up something at SourceForge that's going somewhere with the idea. Dig it.
Extending clarity
Over at Linux Journal I just added a Forum topic that expands a bit on what I wrote yesterday in Is Transparency the Killer Virtue?
If you feel like joining in, please do.
So sad
Writing file sharing's final chapter, by Gene Kan. Dave points to Gene's blog.
Terminal asymmetry
It's still hell to post. Or to do anything in an upstream direction. Can't wait for the service guy to come at noon or whenever.
Fortunately, I actually have a backup cable modem. But I still need the service guy to make it work.
No schniz
...they translate my comments as “Hollywood bize kendi ürettigi yildizlari sunuyor. Biz de internet araciligiyla siradan bir kisiyi yildiz yaptik. Fena mi?” Can't they even get the oblative right? Besides, I think "yildizlan sunyor," while correct in a pedestrian literal sense, really doesn't capture the sense of what I was saying. I think "kisyildzik aryiskadilzi" would have been much closer, as I'm sure you all will agree.
HooRIAA!
Andrew Orlowski: Congressman vows Pigopolist legislation. About Congressman Boucher's plans to introduce legislation tht brings sanity to the creeping & creepy copyright law that's doing away with Internet radio, among many other good and useful tings. A sample:
Boucher has scoped the battlefield, defined it in terms we can understand, and elaborated a battle plan, and now it's up to the rest of the community to see how far this notion flies.