Wednesday, April 09, 2003

So I just enabled the mail to weblog feature. If you are reading this then it works. Cool........ Update:  So this is a pretty cool feature.  Anyone know how to add a subject to the post? 11:28:15 PM    Talk to me! []

Radio acting all funny So my news aggregator is not working at all.  Kind of annoying. Anyone have any idea's? 10:44:27 PM    Talk to me! []

A book About Blogging, written by bloggers, w/ a little help...from Dan Gilmor Dan Gilmor: I'm working on a book, and invite you to be part of it. The book will explore the intersection of technology and journalism. The working title is "Making the News" -- reflecting a central point of this project, namely that today's (and tomorrow's) communications tools are turning traditional notions of news and journalism in new directions. These tools give us the ability to take advantage, in the best sense of the word, of the fact that our collective knowledge and wisdom greatly exceeds any one person’s grasp of almost any subject. We can, and must, use that reality to our mutual advantage. I’m doing the typical research: reading, interviewing, thinking, organizing, etc. I think I know a lot already about this subject. Naturally, I also am aware that I could know a lot more. So let's practice what I preach. To that end, I hope you will become a part of this book, too. You can start by reading the outline below. My publisher, O’Reilly & Associates, agreed that this was a good idea. How can you join the project?   Please tell me what you think of these ideas. More that that, please tell me about specific things you know about that would a) help illustrate the concepts; b) refute what I’m saying; and/or c) provide further nuance and context. This is what is so exciting to me about the way the internet is going.  I truly believe that weblogs are a revolution.  It brings something that has always existed, word or mouth, to a level un-thought of in ages past.  No longer are we dependant on what BIG MEDIA reports, no longer do we have to believe that BIG MEDIA always presents "all sides" of an issue, which is hardly ever true.  We have people, experts really, around the world, weighing in.  If the comments are good, people read them, and pass them on.  Before you know it, if you are a weblogger, you are reading an opinion/facts/truth you never would have thought of.  Then because of the power of this, it makes the jump to BIG MEDIA, and the world learns what we already knew.  I've long since given up going to the TV for my news, BIG MEDIA is only a part of where I get my facts.  And that is how it should be. 10:26:13 PM    Talk to me! []

One for me, 10 for Microsoft InfoWorld: A little advice for any company looking to sell off part of its operations during these troubled times -- you might want to check with Microsoft first to see how much it's going to cost you. Basically, when you sell a bunch of computer systems, you still have to pay the full extent of the software license contract, for software you no longer own, BUT as soon as the licenses are transfered, all the benifits of the contract dissapear.  Gotta love Microsoft, 10:15:18 PM    Talk to me! []

A group has held discussions with another group on the best way to continue to repress populations, and limit the freedoms of citizens.... The Groups are the Justice Deptment and Congressional Republicans. NYTIMES: Working with the Bush administration, Congressional Republicans are maneuvering to make permanent the sweeping antiterrorism powers granted to federal law enforcement agents after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, officials said today. In short, the PATIOT act was ONLY passed because it contained many "sunset" clauses.  Basically the majority of provisions in the act expire at the end of 2005.  The republicans are trying to shortcut this by attaching a proposal to eliminate the sunset provisions to an anti-terrorism bill.  Ohh, and by the way, this new "antiterrorism" bill will eliminate the need for the feds to show ANY connection to a foreign power or terrorism group in order to obtain a secret survailance warrent, with basically NO restrictions, and no need to report to anyone what they do.  Isn't that wonderful  7:33:23 PM    Talk to me! []

Spammers Beware! Slashdot reports: jhylkema writes "According to the Seattle P-I, the Washington state legislature has unanimously passed a bill that makes it easier for spammers to be sued for $500 per message by allowing them to be sued in district ("the people's") court. This should put an end to the many problems that potential spam litigants have faced here. You can email Governor Locke here and ask him to sign it into law." I actually don't have that big of a problem with spam.  I get maybe 1 or 2 spam messages a week, with no filters of any kind.  Of course, I have probelly 15+ e-mail address(on my two domains, school, and free ones) set up in a forwarding system to my primary, which no-one ever, ever gets, and e-mail is never sent out from it.  If an address starts getting bad, I drop it, and move on to another one.  I highly recomend getting your own domain, it costs about as much as an e-mail address you would pay for.  It gives you an insane amount of control over e-mail address, and the ability to have lots, and easily forward mail.  Anyway, thats how I solved my spam issues, but then again, I am also a technology geek. :-) 7:11:00 PM    Talk to me! []

Caste system continues to put the people down.....at Microsoft.. Microsoft....Treat people badly...no way!   9:06:23 AM    Talk to me! []

Answer to Hourglass Riddle.... Following is the Answer to the hourglass riddle.  DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE ANSWER Step 1: Flip both the 7 minute and the 11 minute hourglass Step 2: When the seven runs out, flip it again Step 3: When the 11 runs out, there is four left on the seven flip the seven one over. Step 4: Thats it, Fifteen minutes have elapsed. RIDDLE NOTE:  If I put an answer up here, it is because I figured it out.  Its much more fun that way. :-)   12:24:32 AM    Talk to me! []

Have I ever mentioned how much I love Librarians? The humming noise from a back room of the central library here today was the sound of Barbara Gail Snider, a librarian, at work. Her hands stuffed with wads of paper, Ms. Snider was feeding a small shredding machine mounted on a plastic wastebasket. Article at the NY Times  (free reg. required), about how librarys are acting out against the Patriot act.  Good, short read. 12:17:52 AM    Talk to me! []

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