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| Tuesday, June 5, 2001 |
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Is there a way just to order decaf? 
| | I just went to the Fortune site, and it served up this: |
| | Unable to execute the command 'javac servers/ app1-d/pagebuild/_data_3/_fortune/_docroot_sa/.... [snip] yada yada yada for, like, a whole page of this jazz [snip] Make sure that you have the 'bin' directory for your JDK in your PATH variable before starting Dynamo and that you have enough swap space. |
| | Am I wrong or is there not a better way? Or do I really have to make sure the bin directory for my JDK is in my PATH variable oogoo boogoo? (By the way, I have no idea what the "detailed exception" below is about. It's just... there.) |
| | The detailed exception is: java.io.IOException: Not enough space |
| | I mean: I try. I really do try. But shit. |
| | I'm on a T1 here, and still it takes @#$%^ forever to bring up some of these pages, if they come up at all. If things keep going this way, odds are I'll die waiting for some javascripted Web page to come up. |
| | Will .Net make it worse? How could it not? |
| | Here's the irony: we say we want simplicity, but with few exceptions (the Volkswagen Beetle, the original Palms and Macintoshes) we don't. We'll decorate the obvious and complicate the functional until all we have are left are complaints and sales. |
Chumming for crawlers
| | Paul Boutin from Wired writes with thanks for some of the inspiration behind his new piece on search engine optimization. My shorter version: quote & you'll be quoted; link and you'll be linked. I suppose the obverse would be quote not, lest ye be quoted; link not, lest ye be linked. I believe this is the prevailing ethos for many companies that Google and Inktomi are glad to oblige. |
| | Can't say that's always true, though. I just went looking for Craig Mundie's Official Response to something that responded to something else, etc. I'm tired of it too, but I needed it for a story I had already written that I hope won't make it even more tiresome once it comes out. Anyway, along the way I discovered that CNET, ZDNet and pretty much everybody from the mainstream press includes an average of, I would guess, zero links in its stories. Lotta harm that's done, huh? |
Fishrolling
| | RageBoy points us to FishRush, which has a blog with "daily comments & observations" that run monthly, more or less. It's good. Dig (or dip) it. You might find yourself at this page, which mentions this page, which has this quote from another Cluetrain also-blogger: |
| | We'll be damned if we're gonna sink an artesian well into the subterranean Sea of Hate our customers have for our company. |
| | Can't believe I missed it. Or maybe I didn't and just forgot. Whatever. We're not marketing here, so it doesn't matter. |
After a supplier failed to deliver on the long-promised absolution engine
| | The Vatican has ruled out online confessions. |
I was going to subscribe, but now I dunno
| | The Head Lemur points to this piece in The Economist and tells me "You have been uncovered as a west coast hippie!" (True, but I trained as one on the East Coast. Maybe you can tell.) It's such a heap of useless shit I don't even know where to begin. (See? That's East Coast hippie talk.) So let's start here: |
| | Connecting mobile phones to the Internet thus provides a lucrative opportunity for mobile operators, who can act as gatekeepers, to dictate what their subscribers can gain access to, and how much they will pay for it. This sort of thing makes Internet old-timers throw up their hands in horror. But the chance to impose tolls on the Internet may prove too tempting for mobile operators to resist. |
| | For some perspective on the business smarts of mobile operators, check the story on the left front column of the Wall Street Journal today (this link should work even if you're not a subscriber). One quote: Seldom have so many seemingly savvy executives gotten their signals so crossed. And seldom have governments so successfully exploited out-of-control tech hype. |
| | So I'll give the last word to the Lemur: The mobile phone internet has about as much chance of happening as the day that microsoft posts its source code. |
Starting under
| | It's hard to keep my mind on work when I know that on the 22nd we'll have the old house cleared out and too much stuff for the new one — and we've barely started working on it. What are we going to toss that didn't go the last time we moved, only three years ago? Last time we filled a big dumpster and many boxes with garbage and recyled paper. Guess we'll just deal with it when we get up there next weekend. |
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