|
| Thursday, August 15, 2002 |
 |
Speaking of air 
| | Just got an email from United Airlines that contained this paragraph: |
| | Over the next 30 days we are intensifying our cost-cutting efforts and presenting new proposals to our suppliers, union leadership and employees. In the event we are unable to reach agreement with our stakeholders on necessary cost reductions, we are simultaneously preparing for the potential of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing this fall. While no decision has yet been made, we would consider reorganization under Chapter 11 to ensure continued normal business operations while we restructure our company. |
| | It also said the existing frequent flyer program would persist. |
Air head
| | I loaned my Airport wireless base station to the press room here at Linux World until a short while ago, when I needed to leave the show for the last time. So I packed it in a little black bag, picked up my briefcase, headed up the escalator at Moscone, walked out front, set down my briefcase and Airport bag, made a call, picked up my briefcase and left. Ten minutes later I remembered the Airport. When I got back it was gone. Security and Lost & Found haven't seen it. |
| | Everything you see below for today, and for most of yesterday, ran through that thing. And now it's gone. |
Skinny water
| | I'm in the press room at LinuxWorld, where I've been talking with two very fit-looking skinny guys: Donald K. Rosenberg and Rick Lehrbaum. Here's their not-so-secret key to fitness: they swim. |
| | Gotta do more of the same. |
| | Meanwhile, I'm guessing I'm at least a few pounds down on the Atkins diet. My pants are getting loose, anyway. |
| | Amazing how many people are on the same regime. At a bar the other night I was wondering out loud about what to munch. A woman in the next seat said, "You doing Atkins?" Apparently there's a certain signature quality to confusion about what's okay to eat and what's not. |
| | "Eat the olives," she said. "They're okay." |
| | Pretty much every drink other than water isn't. No orange juice, no beer, no soft drinks, nothing sweet or thick with carbs. |
| | No bread, either, which has been an austere discipline for me. The thought of eggs without toast has never been possible before, and it's barely possible now. But I'm finding that I can resist food, which is new for me. I've done it before, but never for very long, and never when it involved bread. Now it's been over a week, and it's getting easier every day. |
Today's assignment
The problem
| | What amazes me is that Coble is interested at all. Is there a single constituent in his part of North Carolina who either suggested or urged forward this legislation? I doubt it. |
A modest preposition
| | He said something smart. If the govt wanted to stop spam, they could. He's probably right. Government of the people, by the people and for the people, has perished from the earth. Now the govt is for Hillary Rosen and Jack Valenti. Taxation without representation. |
| | Now that We the People have become We the Net, the new principle is power from the people. Not just for. |
Death to software patents, lesson N:
There it grows
| | Phillip Pearson's Blogging Ecosystem has outgrown its old quarters (it's bloating past 6 kiloblogs) and now lives at a new URL. Change your blogrolodexes accordingly. |
| | By the way, BoingBoing is becoming the alpha blog, which I think it deserves to be. |
Adventures in coolness
| | Unrelated but damn coincidental or something: Dave is #1 in a "hack google" search. |
| | Chewing the shit with Dave, he just said, A SOAP interface for mapping would be killer. Think Google for maps. I'm looking here while he's talking. Now we're looking here, here and here. |
It's what you don't know, no?
| | Like, I didn't know Zoe Lofgren had voted for the DMCA. But I'm glad she's back on the right side of the issue. |
discuss
Copyright 2009 The Doc Searls Weblog
|
