Thursday, January 30, 2003
With more laws we'll all be lawless
Apparently it's still legal in Youngstown for the police to watch you piss in a public toilet.
It's also legal here to vote in the matter.
Back up
I've been told you need a spleen to blush. I don't have a spleen ('cause of this, which reads worse than it is, and removing the spleen 41 years ago made no difference, which is why it's still kind of a mystery), or I'd blush over this.
Downtime
Several things happening at once here.
First, I'm getting a new business-grade connection from Cox, which will supply me with IP addresses and not just DHCP (and blocked ports so I can't set up a server). It's 3x the price and .5x the speed on the download side (from 3Mb to 1.5Mb). But it's necessary to make my Linux and other boxen Net-native.
Second, I'll be moving a lot of Searls.com over to a new hosting service. Hope there won't be too many interruptions. That'll happen this weekend, or later.
I won't go into the rest of it, which isn't technical, but it's necessary to get my business life in better shape (basically, I suck at that stuff). So I'll be going dark for the next few hours.
Cue up the National Anthem...
And...?
Howard Coble is no longer with the Telecom/Internet subcommittee. I'm having trouble following who went where, and what the new lineups are. Sources of (in some cases apparently conflicting) info are here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
Ted lives
David Conspiracy, cont'd
In response to my posting about RSS yesterday, David Janes (whose blog is here) points to Janes' Blogosphere, and a current post exlaining what he's up to there. David Galbraith explains why Google doesn't take advantage of RSS. Dave Winer explains how to support enclosures in aggregators. And David Raynes is way too technical for me (so are all these guys, actually), but looks like he's up to some interesting stuff.