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Tuesday, December 4, 2001
An exponent of Napster 
| | A friend just introduced me to Limewire, which consists of a .org and a .com, both of which take Gnutella and give it a primo Java program interface. I just downloaded and fired up the OS X version, and it's an amazing piece of software. It doesn't have any of the sloth I've come to expect from Java on Mac. Suddenly I've got Napster back, with a far better UI and a P2P architecture I doubt anybody can throttle because there's no central server to turn off. And it's not just for music. It's for everything. Almost scary. |
| | Take a look. It'll blow your mind. |
Living the question
| | I should add that Mike raises some good questions here (as he often does). I want to make clear I'm pushing back on the CNET writer and her piece, not on Mike. |
Judith Unplugged
| | To the principle of Unexpected Consequences we should add Unacknowledged Dependencies. This came to me while reading Judith's latest, When the Power Goes Off: |
| | Here comes Craig to the rescue! Of course, he can¹t get into the garage — it¹s electrical. He¹s banging on the front door and then I go stumbling down the stairs to get to the door in the dark. |
| | All that after the family got cornered on rough water in high winds against a remote wall of Lake Powell over Thanksgiving. Happy freakin' Holidays, huh? |
Sales R Us
| | Ev quotes something I wrote (at some length) to help sell pyRads. The holy grail of advertising is to work as something readers, listeners and viewers demand, not as something that succeeds as a form of irritation. That's a tall order, and it'll be interesting to her how pyRads work. |
Better fun
What I was saying was that the fact that...
Back, I guess
| | Our email is working again. That's cool. Searls.com is still nowhere, though. It's mostly an archive site. Mostly I just want the data to be safe. A lot of it isn't replicated here. Guess I oughta take care of that. |
| | Woops, it's back up again. Good. |
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