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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Geek Travel Adventures, cont'd 
MoVegasblogging
| | For more about Apachecon, and what I talked about in the keynote, get on the SuitWatch newsletter list from Linux Journal. Or wait for it to show up later in the archive. The mailing goes out in the wee hours tomorrow. |
One-click government, coming up
| | Britt Blaser (also Richard Gayle ) asks, What would our government look like if it were as customer-centric as Amazon? He adds (among many other thoughtful things), |
| | ...no one is thinking about e-democracy on a large enough scale. |
| | Everybody wants smaller government except the government. Everybody wants government to have a better User Interface. Everybody wants the government to be as user-friendly as Amazon. Everybody wants transparency everywhere in government: voting auditability, legislation, cloak room deal-cutting, pork, contracting, etc. And we all want the cost of government to drop like ISP pricing. |
Sony-English translators wanted
| | Every geek I've consulted here at Apachecon can't figure out how to get past the error message produced by my Sony Clié (in the MS Gate program) when I command it to copy a file from Memory Stick (MS) to Internal. |
| | If any of the rest of ya'll have any ideas, lemme know. |
Revenue chest
| | Moxie has some fun suggestions for raising tax money in California. Here's one she passes along from the porn princess who ran unsuccessfully for governor against Ahnold and the rest of the herd: |
| | Mary Carey had a brilliant idea -- I cringe as I type that, however one must give credit where credit is due. |
| | Why not impose a tax on all non-essential cosmetic surgery. Like boob jobs. If you got the 5 grand to drop for the big fake double D's from your married boyfriend how about chipping in on a tax that will keep our roads nice and pot-hole free. Your new chest will thank you for it as you cruise down the freeway in your big stupid SUV. |
| | Speaking of which, the tax may work in Virginia, where a the picture above was shot by a friend of a fellow Virginian, who forwarded it from Bangkok. |
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