Saturday, September 11, 2004
Dateblogs
Stuart Hughes, who later lost a leg while reporting from Iraq:
Stephen, British readers may remember, was in the lobby of the South Tower when the first airliner hit.
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Elsewares
I'm at a wedding, en route to the Open Source — Open Standards conference on Monday, then another event in the Bay Area on Tuesday. In the meantime, I just put up Good Morning Foo Campers! over at IT Garage, and also recommend a few more items...
Ethan Zuckerman's How blogs selectively amplify the New York Times.
David Weinberger's Latest JOHO, which I neglected to point to when it came out.
Tom Matrullo continues do the aftermath on hurricanes in Florida. His latest begins...
The worst thing about a third hurricane story in the same region is it really screws up the news cycle. You've done the terrified citizens thing twice already. The hasty preparations, the fearful families, the brave news crews. Everyone has memorized the location of shelters that take pets. We've all heard, to a bulimic breaking point, about the gas, food, water, and ice shortages, the blasted homes, the aftermath-story chestnuts about folks cleaning up, dedicated volunteers, brave emergency managers, sincerely caring high officials, and the down-to-earth business of getting on with our lives.
Bryan has the same problem I do: lots of spams go out, apparently (though not really) from his email address. About 50% of my own spam these days consists of replies from mailer-daemons and Mail Delivery Subsystems informing me of "failure notices" for "undeliverable" crap not sent by me. I'm against the death penalty, but I'd consider changing my position in respect to spammers, virus breeders and others who get their kicks by being rude, cruel, or both, to millions of people at the same time.
[Later...] Between the last post and this one, 596 emails, nearly all spam. Sheesh.