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Friday, December 7, 2001
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 Friday, December 7, 2001
started 12/7/2001; 2:33:48 AM - last post 12/11/2001; 4:33:28 PM
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Doc Searls - Friday, December 7, 2001 
12/7/2001; 6:33:48 AM (reads: 4865, responses: 2)
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Tireless 
| | Alan Reiter has a started a blog on wireless, joining Glenn Fleischmann and others on that front. The Wall Street Journal also has a front page lead story this morning (the link is here is for subscribers only, I think) about how Jim Selby has unwired Aspen by saturating it with free 802.11 WiFi wireless access for any computer with a wireless card. |
| | I'm wondering if WiFi is as far as our wireless imagination can stretch. With Open Spectrum we can add enormously to what's possible here, in both reach and bandwidth. Kevin Werbach has been thumping on the issue (see the link above, plus this one). And I thumped with what I thought was a pretty good piece at the Linux Journal site. But it didn't get one comment. Now I'm wondering what it's gonna take. |
Discovaria
| | Finished putting Christmas lights on the house tonight, supervised by the kid. |
| | Then he wanted to hear "Puff the Magic Dragon" on the computer, so I fired up Limewire and crossloaded the song from who knows where in a matter of seconds (@ 158kbps, it said). Then he asked for La Bamba. I nabbed both the Richie Valens and the Los Lobos versions. The kid likes mariachi music, so we grabbed a few more Los Lobos items, including a coulple of mariachi numbers. What an incredible band. All due respect to the mariachi stuff, our quick favorite became Evangeline, essentially a Cajun number. |
| | Then we went to sleep on the roof looking at the stars, bathed in warm Santa Ana winds that poured over the mountains from the desert. Saw a bunch of shooting stars, too. |
| | [Later...] Sure enough, the launch went fine. Those are the pictures, above. |
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Susan Kitchens - Re: Discovaria
12/11/2001; 7:35:28 PM (reads: 537, responses: 1)
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Doc,
Glad you saw it too, and posted pictures. I linked to your pix from my site and in the process discovered something rather bizarre. Your little blue arrow next to the word Discovaria doesn't link to this page, but to a page with a section called 'Discovaria' dated exactly 5 months before, on 07/07 of this year. Wild. (additionally amusing, the topic was John Taylor Gatto, whom you've quoted before and on whom I've riffed here in your discussion group.)
So.. does this mean that you need to have wholly unique names for each of your little subheads? You update your site using Radio, right? Intersting implications... I guess they're saved as shortcuts, and lo, you can't use the same word twice. At least that is what it looks like from afar.
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Doc Searls - Re: Discovaria
12/11/2001; 8:33:28 PM (reads: 574, responses: 0)
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Arg. My bad.
RadioUserland has a "rules" feature that's very handy. Set up a format and memoroize its rules by "Add Bookmark" under the Bookmarks menu, and you have a rule set you can use indefinitely. One I created on 07/07 has been my daily format ever since. Every new day I flip my home page, save as the current day (changes the title), insert Rule Set 1, and change the date from 07/07 to the current day. That day I set only the day, not the month. Duh.
Anyway, I make these kinds of mistakes often. One reason I'm not a programmer (though I owe one a lunch).
Go try setting up the link again. It's fixed.
And thanks for everything, including catching my errors.
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