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3...2...1... blub Well, down she goes. The movers have moved into the office and I need to pack old Happy up. Her final words: uptime 4:08pm up 107 days, 15 min, 6 users, load average: 1.08, 1.13, 1.15 The command shell of death I'm not sure why, but the nice big long blog entry I just finished went to hell when I clicked on "post changes" and all the Netscape windows suddenly closed. My command shell said this: /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 64: 14400 Bus error LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 $netscape "$@" Shit. Blogrolling I was looking at the referrer logs for Searls.com and found tracks in the digital snow leading from Chris Dibona's site, which is itself a blog. I didn't know he was that deeply into photography. I should get his advice on which digital video camera to buy that will also serve as a Web-quality still camera. I'm currently leaning toward the Sony that Craig recommended a month or so ago. Can't wait to shoot some stuff, plug the firewire into the new Titanium and get down to busifun. Aaaaannnnd.... Everything is in boxes now except this Linux machine (uptime 106 days, 15:59). Joyce is off getting coffee & bagels while we wait for the debris service to haul away the dumpster and later for the moving guys to show up with their 48' trailer. Then we load up and leave. Meanwhile, Kevin's Weblog piece is up. Interesting how much different it reads in pixels than in print. In pixels I'm flattered to find that I get both the first link and the last word. And in spite of that, it's a terrrific piece. I was thinking about Kevin this morning when I was trying to decide what to do with my stack of old Broadcasting Yearbooks. They weigh a ton, and they're an amazing detailed moving picture of broadcast ownership, identities and what we abstractly call The Regulatory Environment. Should I throw them out? I wondered. Then I thought about the collective knowwhat in our web of journals and readers. Kevin writes, Weblogs let humans serve as filters and editors of content from many sources. Kevin himself is an FCC veteran. I've relied on him before to inform me on broadcast regulatory and historical matters. And hey, all these books are archived in libraries anyway. So I heaved the things. They are headed for some landfill, even as I blog.
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