For Your Listening Pleasure
Mark Nottingham points out that, if you’re so inclined, Apple provides audiobooks of the Democratic National Convention in iTunes Music Store.
Category: General
House Stuff
Tim Jarrett has sold his house in Seattle and moved back to Boston, where he is having some issues with his new house. In the course of his adventures, he links...
A Plan of Action
So I know where I’m going with this journal, here’s my plan of action. dump the data out of Radio Userland dump the data out of MySQL, or at least l...
Cold Mountain
Just finished watching Cold Mountain. Think I’d like to read the book; it’s on our shelf. My initial expectations for the movie were set by Tim Jarr...
Over the Hill
The New York Times reports that the market knows that the peak has been passed: “To me, that was a very bullish sign from the market,” said Thomas B...
Not Watching
I don’t think I’m the only one who wants to watch the fencing matches, though I may be the laziest member of the potential audience: I’m not w...
Partial Translations
The news media have done a partial translation of the name of Moqtada al-Sadr’s militia. They’ve translated “army,” but not “mahdi...
Attention to Synchronicity
CoolTown Studios and Larry Felton both just mentioned Glenwood Park. I think it’s kind of funny when two things coincide like that, even if only in the si...
Isn’t Postel’s Dictum Just Good Politics?
RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol: [B]e conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
The Idiocies of Categorization
The Washington Post reports on radio advertisements which complain about Teresa Heinz-Kerry categorizing herself as an African-American. Another ad attacks Tere...
Bruce Schneier for National Security Advisor
Netcraft has an excellent interview with Bruce Schneier.
Just Wondering
um, why is WordPress’s default template ugly?
Assume the Net Works
I’ve given up Radio Userland’s aggregator. I had to do it cold turkey, but I did it. I tried SharpReader for a week, and while I like some of the fe...
JetBlue needs 37 Signals
Using a 56kb dial-up connection, I really notice failures in the web applications which assume network state will persist, or which have, under other circumstan...