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| Sunday, July 23, 2006 |
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Shouldn't we wait until I get the first one worked out? 
Doing good
| | This last week in North Carolina was a remarkably international one. I got some great hang time with my cousin Charles Crissman, who holds a high position in CIP, in Lima, Peru. |
| | And yesterday at Ruby's wedding I found myself sitting across from Anton Zuiker and his wife, Erin Shaughnessy Zuicker, who (like Charles and other Crissman cousins and spouses) are Peace Corps veterans and looking to do good by connecting on-the-ground work with on-line effort as well. (Backshot.) |
| | Anton and Erin's interest vector trends toward Africa, from which Charles and family moved recently after a number of years (in Nairobi, Kenya). I'd love to connect them with Ethan Zuckerman and others who have already beaten paths over there. |
| | As another bonus, I listened with gratification one evening at the beach as Charles and Todd Carpenter, who works with BioOne, talked about a pile of interesting comonalities, the most important of which was an Open Access approach to publishing research results. |
Overseen
| | Got a call from somebody who says they saw Tom Friedman on MSNBC this morning, talking about getting past IQ as a measure of human potential. Seems he sourced yours truly and had nice things to say about stuff I've said about the subject. |
| | If anybody has a link to the piece, or a podcast of it, on the Web, I'd like to see it. |
He's back!
Net native vs. Net naive
| | Almost everyone missed the political significance of the Edwards endorsement (and use) of BitTorrent to distribute video. Aside from being an efficient use of technology, it is also a non-infringing use of BitTorrent. From a legal standpoint, the more non-infringing applications there are, the weaker the case of Hollywood as it goes after BitTorrent, as they have attacked other P2P technologies. Having a major national candidate using the technology for non-infringing purposes helps strengthen the case, and while I have not endorsed anyone for President in 2008, I do thank Edwards for stepping up for technology. This has a lot more impact than the kind of things bloggers usually ask candidates to do, like blogging their personal thoughts... |
| | I thank Edwards too. He's not naive about the Net. Using BitTorrent shows that, on the contrary, he's native. |
| | Right now politicians are lining up against the Net, and behind lobbyists from Hollywood and the carriers (telcos and cablecos). |
| | It's always good when any politician, regardless of political stripe, lines up with the Net rather than against it. We need more of those. |
Stuck in Dulles
| | At least we got out of Raleigh. Got there at 4:30am, and it was a zoo. Large crowds of unhappy people in lines that didn't move while agents behind counters waited on phones while looking at screens that offered few if any choices, since planes needed to get out of town hadn't come in, or weren't coming in or... whatever. |
| | Anyway, our scheduled 6:30am flight left at 9:40 and got us here to Dulles, where United has many more choices for finding our way to the West Coast. Problem is, everything is oversold, and the prospects of getting on standby are not large. Or so they say. |
| | So now the kid and I are sitting in a waiting area, hoping to hear — sometime, eventually — our names called on the speaker system. |
| | Between the last sentence and this one, I got an automated call that said, This is United. With an Easy Update. Reminder message. Flight sixty one. Thirty one. Operated by Sky West Airlines. Will be departing. On time. At twelve. Oh eight. Pee Emm. From gate. Eighty-Five. That's flight. Sixty one. Thirty one. From Los Angeles. Internetional Airport. To Santa Barbara... I hung up. Pointless to keep listening when my ass is still in IAD. |
| | Still, worst things first. |
| | [Later...] Okay, our names got called, and we're booked now, to get as far as Los Angeles. Then we drive a rental car to Santa Barbara. It'll be a long day, but we'll get home today, which is good. |
Shots up
Coasting
| | It's 12:09am. I just got back to my sister's place after having a fabulous time at Brian & Ruby's wedding in Durham. I'm soaked from unloading the car in a thunderstorm The kid and I get up in less than three hours to drive to RDU, return the rental car (explaining how they have to reimburse me $187 for the tire I had to replace, which will surely take time), then get on an early flight to Dulles, then LAX, then Santa Barbara by early afternoon, Pacific. |
| | Then tomorrow I fly to Portland for OSCON. Gonna be a busy few daze. |
| | Hope I can post a few items before I get to bed. |
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