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Sunday, April 20, 2003
Beyond personal 
| | Bryan points to the Social Software Alliance, which is a Good Thing. Too bad the BoF this week is scheduled at the same time as the one on Journalism, which I'm also involved with (and slated to participate in). |
| | I believe the blog is the perfect foundation upon which to house a personal DigID infrastructure. |
Translation: It's not a phone, it's a haircut
| | This ad in the L.A. Times yesterday outraged a friend who thought it was "racist" and worse. I just thought it showed that phones were now fashion items, and essentially disposable. |
| | They're the new lighters. |
POGE, cont'd
| | Credit where due: POGE is, to the best of my knowledge, a well-recognized but heretofore non-initialized principle. The initialization I owe to David Sifry, who uttered it over the phone one day. Think of it as a corollary to KISS. |
| | One advantage of POGE is gradual improvement. From their beginnings, all members of the LAMP suite (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python, Perl, PostgreSQL) have been triumphantly adequate efforts. Their adequacy keeps growing, of course, because so many who apply them contribute back to their steady improvement. But their appeal remains a matter of uncomplicated utility, not does-it-all polypurposefulness. And that seems to be the main difference between XMPP and SIMPLE. |
Sunrise
| | I haven't been to a sunrise service since I was a kid, I don't think. But as dawn breaks over the South Coast here in California, remembering them gives me warm fuzzies. |
| | Every other Easter (or perhaps more often than that, I don't remember) we visited our cousins in Graham, North Carolina. Their house sat in the middle of 17 acres of lawn, gardens and woods, making for excellent Easter egg hunts. Easter almost always came at the height of Spring, too. Flowers everywhere. |
| | Now the old place is empty and all but one of our parents (my mom) are gone. But nearly all the cousins have kids, and some of us have grandkids, which my late uncle called "reinforcements." |
| | Life does more than go on. It increases. |
Close to home
| | In Lies.com, John Calender has been looking at the war/anti-war nondiologue that's been happening in his town, which is just down the road from mine (I can see it from here), and worries about the intellectual junk food most citizens get from TV news and talk radio: |
| | ...what about that nearly 70% of US citizens that are getting their news from the cable news channels? It gets worse with the hard-core fans of right-wing talk radio; these people get a non-stop stream of fantasy entertainment, and a lot of them actually believe it, with scary consequences. |
| | He quotes some plainly wrong letters to the editor in his local paper that have gone unanswered, and adds, |
| | Those of us with access to better sources of information have an obligation to share that information. And not just with the other well-informed folk we interact with online, but with people in our own geographic community who don't have access to those sources. |
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