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Tuesday, June 11, 2002
Auf wiederbloggen  I'm off to München in a few hours. Between now and then I have a lot of work and packing to do. After that, the blogging can't help but thin out a bit. Can't wait to get there, though. JabberConf should be fun. Parting kvetch Says here you can't download IE 5.1 for OS X (even though it's free). You have to load it off some CD that comes with your machine. Now, I happen to believe that Apple is doing a lot of things right these days, but this isn't one of them. Maybe it's a Microsoft restriction. I have no idea. Whatever, it makes no sense. All it leverages is user irritation. So I'll haul along the pile of CDs that came with the machine and make the change in Germany, if I need to. Meanwhile I'm sticking with Mozilla. [Later...] Thanks to the same readers for finding a downloadable copy of IE at MacUpdate.com. There's a song in here somewhere Eric Raymond offers his Top Ten Reasons why he is not a Liberal, then another ten on why he's not a Conservative. I love his skewering of icons. About Bill Clinton, he says, Sociopathic liar, perjurer, sexual predator. There was nothing but a sucking narcissistic vacuum where his principles should have been. Liberals worship him. And about Ronald Reagan, he adds, A B-movie actor who thought ketchup was a vegetable. His grip on reality was so dangerously weak that the Alzheimer's made no perceptible difference. Conservatives worship him. Kinda reminds me of Robert Hughes' brilliant 1992 book, Culture of Complaint, in which Hughes excoriates political correctness, and then turns around and does the same to what he calls "patriotic correctness." I've been on the phone with Craig talking about how the Net's infrastructure is the product of anarchy. Can't think of a better way of describing the process. It helps that process to have guys like ESR knocking us out of our political ruts. Related: congrats to Judith on her new blog design. Rock on Phil Wolff says blogging : journalism :: garage bands : symphonic music Still, there's something rather formal in the subject of Blogging Goes Legit, Sort of, in Wired News:
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