Saturday, November 30, 2002

Sin City Backup

Two more of my reports from Comdex are up at Linux Journal:

A Losing Bet: the Last Days of Comdex, Part 2; and The Real Battle: Intellectual Property vs. Internet Protocol

There's a problem with that second one. We'll get it fixed. Meanwhile, um... read it later or something.

The gift that keeps on taking

The latest Demotivators are out. Current fave (can't stop laughing long enough to look at the rest, frankly... and we need to get back to work) is Flattery.

But if you're ugly to begin with, nothing to worry about

Metafilter says metaphors can blow up in your face.

Blogs too, perhaps. Let's give it up for Hot Buttered Death.

Naked news

Can only living things be naked? Just wondering.

I got to that thought somehow from reading Computers Go Too Far... Hey— that's MY job you're automating!, by Michael Kinsley in Slate.

Time funs when you're having flies

Sitting here at Dave Sifry's house, working on a Linux Journal piece for next March, being co-amazed that George Harrison just died and it's already a year ago.

I was thinking Jeez, it's 2002 already and it's almost over. And at Thanksgiving a couple of my elders (whose number is shrinking) told me that time goes faster the older you get. "The next ten years will feel like three." Good to know.