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Thursday, September 19, 2002
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 Thursday, September 19, 2002
started 9/19/2002; 1:53:53 AM - last post 9/19/2002; 4:10:50 PM
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Doc Searls - Thursday, September 19, 2002 
9/19/2002; 5:53:53 AM (reads: 5317, responses: 3)
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Famous lasting words 
| | Anyway, an extreme bummer. |
| | Long known as a methodical, less-than-prolific artist, Zevon is now in a different gear. |
| | "I've been working frantically," he said. "But you know, imminent doom lowers the bar a bit." |
| | Some get the awful, awful diseases
Some get the knife; some get the gun;
And some get to die in their sleep
At the age of a hundred and one.
But life'll kill ya. |
You had to be there
| | I just checked out KPIG's MP3 stream. They're playing recordings of live concerts, rather than their live stream, which is offered currenly only through a RealAudio subscription (available currently only to Windows users, which sucks, but we're used to it). |
| | I don't know what's on there exactly, but what they just played was a knockout song. Amazing. |
| | I like the featured PigSqueal joke (scroll down) too. |
And you thought your job sucked
| | I just got a call from a telemarketer from AT&T. He sounded like a recording, but he wasn't. He just played one on the phone. |
Blog of the Day
| | So why doesn't Hollywood fight all of these land grabs and raise a stink about how it is crippling their ability to make films? I guess it's because the marginal cost of having to clear rights (even to the point of paying people who might not really deserve it) is meaningless to a big budget film. But it's not a small cost to the fledging filmmaker. And so if you do the math you can see that the net effect is to hamper creativity, which is the opposite of "promoting" it. This is another example of how the law disconnects from common sense. |
MTBC, about two hours
| | I use two browsers most of the time on OS X: Mozilla 1.1 and IE 5.2.1. Both crash, reliably and frequently (Mozilla slightly less so). I'd like to use OMNI or Opera, but both still lack (as far as I know — I may be missing some clues) the formfilling and history features of the Leading Two, which are dealbreakers for me. |
| | Under Classic a crash would have also brought the OS down, or at least required a prudent restart, so I guess I should be grateful. |
| | [Later...] I'm downloading OMNI and Opera to give them another shot. |
His Guard let him down
| | Aunty Beeb is a slut. Take the internet, for example. There's not a subject that hasn't got her flashing her online knickers up and down the Strand. News? No problem. Sports? Certainly. Education? Both O and A-levels, my dear, no extra charge. |
| | Makes it a much more tempting link to follow than the cleaned-up — no, make it blurred-up — version. |
Have two hearts
| | I've seen Bonnie more times than I can count, all back in North Carolina, which I left 17 years ago. She's so freaking good. Still. Older now, but shit, so am I. |
| | Lyle was a first. Exactly as I expected except for whatever the hell was wrong with his leg. He had this brace contraption around the calf of his right leg, with spikes that looked like they went in through the skin. Kinda hard to ignore. He performed mostly sitting down, except for the encores with Bonnie. |
| | Hmm... maybe there's something on the Web about the dal with the leg. Let's see... |
| | Anyway, they were both outstanding. So were their bands. If you get a chance to catch a show, go for it. They wrap the current tour in San Diego on the 21st and in L.A. on ther 22nd and 23rd. |
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Alwin Hawkins - Re: Thursday, September 19, 2002
9/19/2002; 6:54:03 AM (reads: 478, responses: 0)
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Shawn Yeager - Re: Thursday, September 19, 2002
9/19/2002; 5:00:31 PM (reads: 467, responses: 0)
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Doc, I recommend that you give Chimera a try. You can have a look at http://chimera.mozdev.org/. It's a derivative of Mozilla, but is very minimalistic (browser only, no mail or news) and while only at version 0.5, has been rock solid for me. IE crashes like clockwork on my system and Mozilla is simply too bloated and slow. With this as background, I've been very happy with Chimera.
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lou josephs - Re: Thursday, September 19, 2002
9/19/2002; 8:10:50 PM (reads: 539, responses: 0)
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Scanning the web trade rags today, show not much progress being made by Congress on rolling back the web copyright fees. Congress will recess and go home, please remember at the polls to vote them out, all of em. Time for a broom in DC. Re-Election is more important than Homeland Security or any bill getting through in the next couple of weeks. However my old company RCS has a product that is "exempet" it's called I-Selector. Details are at www.rcsworks.com and www.rronline.com. Activate is the streaming back end. Windows Media thou..
Most of my browser crashes come from memory issues in Windows...
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