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Friday, November 7, 2003
What's also happening 
| | Lot of stuff happening over at Linux Journal (and much more to come). |
| | First, Don Marti has posted an open letter to Jack Powers, CDXPO's Conference Chairman. I was appalled that Jack and Alan Meckler (whose blog still lacks permalinks) would even think about giving stagetime to a FUDmeister like SCO's Darl McBride. Don issues a fun challenge to Jack, who will moderate a session with Darl after the man's keynote. |
| | Second, my latest SuitWatch is out, and up. It's a long one titled Novell eats SuSE. Now what? The same piece should be up on the LJ site shortly. |
Polihackery
| | Cam Barrett showed me some of the community network stuff he's planning for the Clark Campaign yesterday, and I'm impressed. When I look at efforts like these, I see citizen choice in campaign politics evolving from support to inclusion to participation. We've been seeing this in the Dean Campaign too, of course; but I think now we're starting to see candidates trying to compete by doing a better job than the next guy of enabling, and not just fertilizing, their grass roots. |
| | By the way, Cam's tech team is recruiting right now. They need to fill at least four tech positions. |
Snooze on
| | It's 3:22am, and I'm hearing the huge freight train that rolls through Santa Barbara every morning around this time. The engineer lays on the horn, which is extremely loud, for a good three or four minutes of blasts. I once counted something like thirty blasts in all. |
| | That was when we moved here in early 2001, and took a little apartment near the beach, about 200 feet from the railroad tracks. The first time the train came through like that, it came on like the world's biggest and most insistent alarm clock. We were amazed that anybody would be able to sleep through it. |
| | Within a week we were sleeping through it. And still are. Up here on the hillside, we're about two miles from the railroad, but on a slope facing about six miles of track, so we hear the horn at every crossing, and the rumbling as well. Listening to it right now, I realize that the whole town sleeps through the same alarm, every day. |
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