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Sunday, September 3, 2006
Sad news 
| | I remember Craig going way back to when I was still in the advertising and PR game, back in the 80s. He was a terrific guy, as well as an outstanding professional. |
| | Here's a site for remembering Craig and sending messages to his family. |
A river in your hand
| | By the way, the kid and I went warcycling yesterday, checking out wi-fi access points at civilized regions along the Goleta sloughs, using the 770. The kid handled the whole operation from his bike. Did pretty well considering that we actually discourage computer use and encourage just being out in Nature. |
| | I liked keeping up with the rivers of news from the NYTimes and the BBC, which I have bookmarked on the thing. Again, they seemed live, while many other sources seemed static. |
| | Interesting observation. Upper income people lock up their access points more than middle income and retired people. Or so it seemed to us yesterday, anyway. |
Not an Onion headline
| | As if we need more proof that the Net has eaten the tube. |
Taking notes...
| | When brokers turn into toll-takers, it's time to throw the bums out. |
| | If the government is an operating system, it's time to get out of the DOS era. |
| | If you let your politics show, you're failing. (Context: Britt's new service to governance, currently in the works. It's not partisan. In fact, it works to transcend partisanship.) |
| | Wondering (for my part)... if government is an OS, what's the source code, who can hack it, and how? Betcha Joe Trippi has an answer. |
Wanted: fewer craptops
| | I've had a lot of laptops in my life, and two stand out as solid and reliable: an IBM ThinkPad T40 and an Apple 17" Powerbook (the original 1GHz one). Both early-2003 vintage, both still going strong. The late-2005 vintage 17" Powerbook I'm using now (alongside the old ThinkPad) is marginally (.67Ghz) faster than the original, but much more flaky around power managment (sleeping, waking, hooking up to stuff). |
| | I'm interested in a new Lenovo-made ThinkPad, and I'd like a new MacBook Pro 17" as well — especially since it will run Linux gracefully too, I'm told. |
| | But I've heard about lots of problems with Intel-based Macs — enough to discourage shopping, even though I'm not in the market right now (and probably won't be for a long time... or for other things I'd like more, like a car). |
| | Seems to me that Apple hardware reliability is sufficiently suspect to put a caution flag in front of prospective new customers. (Even if service is, from what I gather, better than most.) As for Lenovo, not sure. |
Conversion conversations
| | Pull-quote from the Lemur: |
| | the internet is too important to be taken over by con men, flim flam artists, and thieves. |
| | The Lemur is now helping John Bransford and giving him a second chance. |
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