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| Friday, July 26, 2002 |
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Parking towards home 
| | The talk went well, and now I have to drive home. It's gonna be a long one. See ya later. |
| | [Later...] Just got in. Drove from 3 to 10pm. Taking seven hours what the train does in 5 for less money. Plus the train has comfortable seats and (if you get in the right car) AC power for your laptop and your cell phone charger. Put wi-fi on there and you'll rescue Amtrak. (Not a bad idea, huh?) |
Good guys come through
| | Rick Boucher and two other Congressmen have come up with a bill to keep webcasters, and webcasting, alive. |
Radiation therapy
| | Randy Michaels, called Radio's Big Bully by Eric Boehlert in Salon, has resigned as CEO of Clear Channel, the commercial radio deregulation jihad. |
| | It's hard to find defenders for Michaels, but it's fun to point to some of the more eloquent detractors. Here's one that was sent to me by a reader. |
Talkage
| | I'll be speaking in Dave's slot in the Emerging Topics track at 1:45 this afternoon. Before OSCon, Tim had wanted me to give something like the Infrastructure talk I had given at Jabberconf in Munich. Yesterday, Phil Windley, who had seen the slides from that talk when I still had them up on the Web, suggested I look into filling one of today's schedule openings. I did, and now I'm on. |
| | The title is Infrastructure: how geeks build it, why Holllywood doesn't understand it, and how business can take advantage of it. I'll talk about blogging, but the focus will be more along the lines of my favorite one of Dave's slogans: Ask not what the Internet can do for you, ask what you can do for the Internet. |
| | The one bummer is that I'll be leaving just in time to hit Friday traffic, all the way from San Diego to Santa Barbara, with Los Angeles in the middle. When I told a cabbie about it yesterday, he said "sell your car and buy a plane ticket." |
| | It's tempting. But I'm not sure I could get enough money for the car. |
Fear and drinking in San Diego
| | Overheard last night while sitting in the lobby bar with Dan, Glen Elin and Bruce Sterling: |
| | The Net's down! We'll run out of bloxygen! |
| | Fuck you and the whores you rode in on. |
| | Guess you had to be there. |
| | Later Richard Stallman joined us and we went out for dinner at a fish place. A fun time. |
| | While the other guys took a taxi back to the conference hotel, I took a bike rickshaw to mine. There was a full moon, and bits of cloud formed and vanished among the tall buildings downtown. The driver was a young Slovakian guy who was earning money toward school back in Bratislava. He was studying some kind of technology. I gave him a nice tip. |
| | The high speed connection in the hotel was useless, so there was no way to blog until now, back at OSCon. And since I'm talking today, I gotta get straight to work. |
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