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| Thursday, December 28, 2006 |
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Showing tendencies 
| | I score 44 on this. Also right-libertarian (more the latter than the former) here. Not what I would have guessed, but ... whatever. |
| | Thing is, I believe in limited government — in government doing what only government can do. I love business and believe in free enterprise. I understand and respect the nature and power of economic growth and its inverse relationship with taxation. It amazes me how much many of my liberal friends don't understand the great good that business does for the world, and that only business can do. And I also believe that there are certain things only government can do, or that government does best. Such as providing public safety, building and maintaining basic utilities such as roads and water systems, and providing public transportation. On that last one I split sharply with my libertarian friends, but I love what a civilizing grace public transportation — railroads especially — have long provided in Europe. |
Opposites distract
| | Somebody suggested to me that VRM is "the opposite of DRM" (Digital Rights Management), rather than (or in addition to) the reciprocal of CRM (Customer Relationship Management). I had never noticed the "RM" coincidence before. It is, indeed, suggestive. |
| | VRM is Vendor Rights as well as Vendor Relationship management. This rights thing should go both ways, no? |
| | I think lack of VRM (by either meaning) is one reason the whole Vista Content Protection Specification is such a mess. |
I vote for better oceans and icebergs
And I'm sure Charles reads all of them
| | Just visted Little Green Footballs, which had 118,632 page views yesterday (this blog had 1,270) and has racked up 3,396,026 comments, so far. |
Back up
| | The lights came back up at 10:something last night. Electric service was off for about four hours, during which we had fun cooking (with gas) and dining by the light of candles, mostly of the inexpensive votive variety. (A small benefit of being a Catholic household.) |
| | Our local news station, KZSB (though preferring to call itself "AM 1290") was off the air for most of that time. The other two stations sharing the same tower stayed on the air, even though the lights on the tower were off, meaning the station has no generator or other backup plan. |
| | This was no surprise, since the station is also the only one in Santa Barbara that also has no website. Also because it is the "Santa Barbara News-Press Radio Station", and the News-Press is among the most Web-hostile newspapers in the country. (They have it riggged so today's editorial disappears beyind a paywall that even daily paper subscribers — e.g. yours truly — can't penetrate.) |
| | This morning they were back up, giving reports of local car accidents and related stuff. At one point the morning host, "The Baron" Ron Herron — a local institution who ironically co-hosts the Santa Barbara Tech Talk show — said one of the local retirement homes was without power, then asked a caller where the home was. The caller told him to look on Google. Ya gotta love the Baron, but ... well, that's how lame the News Situation is here. |
| | I was surprised to find a fresh News-Press in our driveway this morning, with actual coverage of the windstorm. Doesn't mean there's hope for the paper (there isn't much), but it's nice to find that a certain level of basic service persists. |
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