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Tuesday, November 19, 2002
Like we said 
| | In retrospect, I should have made it clearer up front that licensing is one of those subjects I consider extremely important (kind of like gravity) yet deeply boring (kind of like, well, licensing). I fear I kind sound like I'm insulting the subject, which wasn't my intent. |
| | Anyway, Lisa did a very good job of holding me still long enough to get the thing together. Well done. |
Another scary truth
| | Michael Wolff: ...nobody is going to conferences anymore. Conferences -- people paying lots of money to go to a rarefied setting where they can meet people who are better than they are -- are part of the ever-receding boom culture. |
| | Thanks to Halley for the link. |
Domination is conversation
| | John Robb: Find a topic, blog it , own it. Great advice. |
Train on
| | A friend of mine attended a talk by Craig Newmark of Craig's List last night in San Francisco, and reports that Craig had kinds words about Cluetrain. |
To say the least
Meteor drizzle
| | The meteor storm of the century that arrived in the wee hours of yesterday morning was something of a dud, relatively speaking. Mary, Doug and I joined a few hundred other skywatchers parked as far as we could space ourselves from other cars on the roadside just over the first mountain east of Las Vegas on Lake Mead Drive. The moonlight was so bright you could risk driving without headlights and see color in the rocks. Maybe two dozen of the brightest stars were visible in the sky, and that's about how many meteors we saw in the hour we were out there. That's quite a lot under normal circumstances, but nothing like glorious spectacle we witnessed a year ago. |
| | By the way, I think Comdex was something of a dud, too. A shadow of its former self. And I hear Key3Media, which puts on the show, will be filing for bankruptcy. |
Intended consequences
| | Still in email hell here, though I'm hoping to have it worked out by the end of the day. Meanwhile there are over 1500 items sitting on the server (3/4 spam, I'm sure), and the pile is growing like an evil blob. |
| | Over the next week I'm hoping to get a new Net connection (slower but more reliable "business class," with real IP addresses and stuff), a new hosting service, one or more Linux boxes to play with (long overdue here)... plus other fun stuff, while I finally give the G4/500 laptop a rest. Watch the Linux Journal site for details as they develop. |
Somebody. Anybody. Eventually.
| | For a while I've been wondering why this comes up when I try to play a DVD on my laptop: |
| | DVD Player encountered a serious error. The current machine or system configuration is not supported. [-70013]. |
| | Now, after a long series of trials and errors, I can tell you it might mean Apple's DVD player (3.2) on a G4/500 Titanium Powerbook (under OS X 10.2) doesn't like it when you also have an external monitor hooked up. In my case I get that message when I have my Sony 21" Trinitron working as a second screen. |
| | Anyway, thought I'd put that information out where it can be found (since I came up with nothing the last couple times I tried, and the tech guys at one of Apple's stores last couldn't find any reference that might shed light on the issue). Even if it's not your problem (or mine anymore), we blog to please. |
Off the road again
| | Las Vegas and Santa Barbara aren't that far apart — less than three hundred miles, I'd guess. (Heck, why guess? Says here it's 283 miles.) Anyway, it took three planes to get from one to the other yesterday. Sat in seat 6A on all three, too. Got kinda tired of it. |
| | Anyway, I'm unpacked now (at about 1am), and ready to crash. |
There are responses to this message:Re: Tuesday, November 19, 2002, Hamish MacEwan, 11/21/02; 12:37:41 AM DVD error suggestions, Reed Laughlin, 11/20/02; 4:51:02 PM Routing Around DVD Error, Bret Fausett, 11/20/02; 1:12:14 PM Re: DVD error, Tyromaniac, 11/20/02; 8:45:36 AM we blog to please, Jonathan Blocksom, 11/20/02; 6:21:27 AM
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