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| Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
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Redraw your own conclusions 
The Godot Manifesto?
| | After reading Giles Turnbull's post-Cluetrain piece, The Long Conversation, in the Guardian, I'm thinking that the Net has become better than ever at shipping clues, but that Dorothy Parker is still right: You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think. (That's a nasty way of putting it, but a great excuse to quote Parker.) [Note: I just learned she said "horticulture." This is one of those times I wish the strike tag worked here, but alas... woops! no... look: horticulture.. thank you Susan] Among The Clueful Giles (actually, the CT authors) lists a couple of airlines, the Dean campaign (and, with qualifications, Kerry's and Bush's), Google, MeetUp and weblogs. On the whole things are better than they were in '99, but I gotta say, not that much. |
| | Maybe I'm just having a pessimistic day. |
| | [Later...] Also a correction (which I thought went in here already, but apparently didn't) to Giles' otherwise fine piece: Cluetrain didn't start when Chris Locke and I started talking. It started when Chris brought two conversations together: the one he was having with David Weinberger and the one he was having with me. If there was a departure point for the train, that was it. |
Screen flat
| | At home I use two screens: the one on the laptop, and a larger adjacent monitor. For the last 1.5 years the other screen has been a ViewSonic UltraBrite A90f*. Last night it went dark, started making loud clicking sounds, and played havoc with the laptop too. This morning it was no better. So I called the customer support line listed in the manual, and got a sexy voice warning me that I need to be "over eighteen" to proceed. |
| | There's no point. It's dead. I'm not sure I want to spend the $600+ required for a really good LCD monitor, so I might go one more round with a VDT. I also like the absence of a single native resolution with VDTs, so there's no blurring at all resolutions other than the native one. |
| | I kinda wish I'd picked one up at the computer fair, where every VDT, including 21" Sonys, was around $100. Replacing the ViewSonic with an identical one is $250 at CompUSA, but I don't think I'll trust another one of these things. |
| | [Later...] Just got pointed to this. Whoa. |
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