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Saturday, April 13, 2002
Blog globally, buy locally 
| | Mark Pilgrim is getting engaged and wants help picking out a local jeweler in Chapel Hill (around which I lived for many years before heading West in '85). If any of ya'll can help him out, please do. |
DisconNICted
| | Gina Smith has left NIC. I was just wondering recently what she and the company have been up to, since they've been kinda quiet for awhile. Odd: for some reason News.com has links in that story to every entity other than the company in question (unless I'm missing something, which happens way too much of the time). |
The unwired shall inherit the New Earth. And share it.
| | More proof that The People will do what BigCos and BigGovs either can't or won't. Thanks to B!X and other alert readers for the links. |
Business as unusual
| | Last night a customer support person named Rebecca stayed long after her shift was over to make sure my VISA statements going back several years would get to me by fax. This wasn't what I expected from a credit card operation as huge as the one United Airlines runs with FirstUSA. It was a pleasant surpise and a real butt-saver too. So here's a big thank you to Rebecca and her company. |
Dean back in his zone(s)
| | Dean Landsman, tireless Yankees fan (go Met/Giants, etc.), old radio pal and all-round good guy, has returned to Deanland. Nice to have him back. Dean is also inviting discussion on his Radio blog of Anti-Semitism and the worsening situation in Israel. |
Advertising irony
| | While we're on Google, it seems that lookups of my name (at least for now) bring up a little adlet for Ultrabar's Free IE Toolbar Generator. |
Progress in the ongoing death of the DMCA
Reconnections
| | While I was in Salt Lake City last week, I met David Politis, a smart and creative guy who remembered that many years ago our respective agencies once competed for the business of the same doomed company. |
| | David's latest piece for desertnews.com is about hard times at Lineo, which for several years was the highest-profile embedded Linux company. Among other things, Lineo worked with Sharp on the embedded form of Linux in the new Zaurus PDA. I hope both Lineo and the Zaurus make it. (Here's a CNET review.) |
Hot news
| | There's a very nasty fire in the Southgate area of Los Angeles right now. It's displacing everything else on the 11pm news. |
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