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2003-06-02
2003-05-19
# Monday morning. Going to get some work done this week. 10:23a
2003-05-14
2003-05-13
* Excellent song about gamma rays is C&Ded by RIAA. 1:09p
2003-05-12
* Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception 5:10p–?
2003-05-07
# Dream: Mark Bernstein did a one-man singing, piano-playing comedy stageshow that made buckets of money for Eastgate. Then he got Woody Allen to do a movie version and put it in coin-operated kiosks around town with poor user interfaces, making more money.
# Dream: Two people say they're police, want to come into the house. I ask to see a warrant. They say they don't need one -- USA PATRIOT Act. I don't let them in; they force their way in. Turns out they were notorious burglars.
2003-05-01
# When I get my own place, I'd like it to be sleek and clean. All my stuff would be out of sight, and extremely large blowups of letters from beautiful fonts would grace the walls. 12:13p
2003-04-28
* Philip: Summer Trip. More fun thoughts. 10:26p
2003-04-16
2003-04-15
* Greenspun: Israel: A Backgrounder 12:10a–12:41a
2003-04-14
2003-04-13
* The Hundred-Year Language ?–1:48p
2003-04-01
# I'm in Japan.
2003-03-31
* Enormous Type Designed To Induce "Shock and Awe" 5:55p
2003-03-24
2003-03-23
2003-03-22
2003-03-21
2003-03-20
2003-03-19
* Preaching to the choir. Powerful. 5:44p
* Al Gore Joins Apple's Board of Directors. “Al is also an avid Mac user and does his own video editing in Final Cut Pro,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. 5:16p
* How High Terror Alert Works: “A red [high] alert would also tear away virtually all personal freedoms to move about and associate.” 5:08p
# ![[US Flag] THINK!](http://www.scripting.com/images/2001/09/17/thinkUsa.gif)
I wish there was someone on the right who could explain there position intelligently and carefully, so I could understand it. All that's coming through now is “French Bad! War Good!” which doesn't seem very thoughtful. 10:10a
2003-03-18
* Joe Clark on Cory Doctorow 1:54p
# JSTOR has lots of scanned images of old journal articles which are only available to paying customers. Would it be legal to copy their scans and put them on my own site? I would think so, since their scans lack “the spark of originality” necessary for copyright protection. 1:17p
# It's heinous that JSTOR has scanned in all these papers and keyed all these abstracts (the article below is from 1958!) but won't let Google index them!1:14p
# Link-Length Minimization in Networks (req. JSTOR) seems to say that the soap bubbles are doing a local minimum, not an absolute minimum. 1:13p
2003-03-17
2003-03-16
* Happy GNU/Linux Month! 10:02p
* Lessig: edwards in person. “it was moving in a way I have never before seen in a politician”. 11:49a
2003-03-15
2003-03-14
* Boycott Brand America 4:23p
2003-03-13
# Do you know of any writings or organizations that support child pornography? Email me. 10:31p
# Calling “free software” “open source” is like calling a democrat a republican. If you're from a dictatorship (the world of proprietary software) they might seem essentially the same, but where they come from the differences are significant. 1:02p
2003-03-07
* Audio Hijack Pro: Save speaker output to a file on OS X. 2:09p
* RMS on Speaking Engagements. I can imagine myself saying a lot of this. 1:43p
2003-03-06
2003-03-05
* Wired News story on MusicBrainz with short quote from me 11:02p
* Supreme Court Rejects “Trademark Dilution” Claim 9:53a
2003-03-04
2003-03-02
* BSA Goes After People Distributing “Pirated Copies” of OpenOffice 11:43a
* Down and Out in Entertainment Weekly 11:39a
* ISBNv6 11:30a
2003-02-28
2003-02-27
# Switching to PST 2:18p
# Happy birthday, Ada T. Norton!
2003-02-26
* QUINN GIVES BIRTH LIVE 12:13a
# How come whenever I come up with a cool idea for a program I want to write, I find out someone else has already written it within a week? 12:19a
* Onion AV Club: Joss Whedon. 10:36a–11:07a
2003-02-25
* The author of 777 Mathematical Conversation Starters gave a talk at school today. Looks interesting. 4:51p
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2003-02-24
2003-02-23
2003-02-22
2003-02-21
2003-02-20
# ATTENTION PROGRAMMERS (yes, I'm looking at you, Apple!): Please use atomic updates for your user's important data files. (This has been a programming safety announcement.) 1:32a
# I got to be a Supreme Court Justice for Wallace v. Jafree and Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier. 11:02p
2003-02-19
# Can anyone explain to me how Peppercoin works? Reading the site, the article, and the paper I can't see how it's better than batching charges at the bank. 12:12a
# Got second false positive today; both to-date were uninteresting. 12:06a
* Warren Ellis: “I'll send a squad of finely trained San Francisco death pervert girls into [Cory Doctorow's] warehouse home where they will wear his dangly bits as grisly murder trophies.” 12:58p
2003-02-18
# OK, I need to stop wasting time. 12:15a
* bash-completion is cooler than I thought! add “. /etc/bash_completion” to your .bashrc; it completes apt-get, remote scp directories, cvs -options, etc. 12:00a
* Don Marti to Equifax: “As you can see from my credit report, I am 34 years old in 2002, and I began working in 1966, at the illegal age, both mathetically and child labor-wise, of minus two.” (cite) 12:26p
* Matt Webb: Okay, concept. “Maybe the 1980s were really visual, the 1720s extremely tactile. These things must go in waves, in fashions” 12:13p
# Looking thru history: about a year ago vorpal was set up, I drove in a car for the first time, and Brent Simmons left UserLand 10:54a
2003-02-17
* Danny O'Brien gets the hang of diapers on a practice baby 6:44p
* Snowed in: 1, 2, 3 3:56p
* Official Sponsor of W3C Smut 3:26p
* Sen. Robert Byrd: “On this February day, as this nation stands at the brink of battle, every American on some level must be contemplating the horrors of war. Yet, this Chamber is, for the most part, silent -- ominously, dreadfully silent. There is no debate, no discussion, no attempt to lay out for the nation the pros and cons of this particular war. There is nothing.” (cite) [berry] 2:19p
2003-02-16
* Paul Graham: Why Nerds are Unpopular. Excellent thoughts on school, suburbia, and society. “It seems to me there is something wrong when it's routine for smart kids to dwell on suicide.”11:20p–12:15a
* Dan Hon: CNN removes portions of Hans Blix's speech that disagree with US from transcript 12:09p
* Bruce Schneier: “Seems that it is official Microsoft corporate policy not to be seen in public with Bruce Schneier.” (cite) 10:05a
2003-02-15
* Brent Simmons: “Parsing RSS is like walking across a field of broken glass. (And the glass has been heated to just below its melting point. And your hair is on fire.)” (cite) 12:43a
# Larry said that after the MP3.com Beam-It case was lost, MP3.com couldn't pay the millions of damages they owed so they got bought by the record labels and then the record labels turned around and sued the defending lawyers for malpractice. “These are mafia tactics!” Larry said. So now, he says, no VCs or lawyers will touch the stuff. 8:59p
* Chicago Media Action 8:57p
2003-02-14
# Spam subject: "JOE MILLIONAIRE invites YOU to join NOW!" 8:48a
2003-02-13
# Where does the time go? 1:10p
* Tinderbox Slogan: “Are your research notes on cocktail napkins?”
* Reversible (about) is very clever! (1, 2) 10:12a
* What was John Glenn thinking when he was crouched in the rocket nose-cone awaiting blastoff? “I was thinking that the rocket had twenty thousand components, and each was made by the lowest bidder.” 9:18a
* New DMCA Indictment: “The hacking community should understand from this announcement we've infiltrated their chat rooms and Web sites, and we are identifying targets and bringing charges when appropriate,” Mr. Spertus said. (cite)
* 2003dnssec: True DNS security is near! 8:54a
2003-02-12
* Manual 12:27a–1:41a
# Sometimes I feel like I'm trapped in a libertarian version of Fox News. The list of bad things the government is doing is endless. 12:05a
* wow, apparently in california you can tell when an elevator is out of service because pings timeout. 9:54p
# Congress: We just make the laws; we don't make them constitutional! 9:36p
# It's weird that two people emailed me today about RSS 3.0 after months of silence. 1:53p
# Starbucks' Motto: A Starbucks on every corner -- sometimes two! 11:49a
# Pandora's Declaration: from math import sin 11:31a
2003-02-11
* MouseZoom makes your Mac's mouse G6 fast. Zooooooooooom! 5:38p
* T-Shirt: “The government is taking away my civil liberties and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.” (cite)
2003-02-10
* 100 stories of unfamous people 11:17p–11:20p
* IMS asks for IANA function. Yay! 12:39a
* First Issue of TEKKA out! 12:38a
2003-02-09
* reading CHIPS 3:03p–3:22p
* On the other hand, what I really want is for RealPlayer to give a continuous stream of music (so you don't have to keep going back to the site), with thumbs-up/thumbs-down buttons that go into a collaborative filter (so it learns what you like). I remember Imagine Radio (which they sold to Streamspincast or something) was like this, except for signed bands. Of course, they got shut down by the RIAAPolice. 12:27p
* Garageband.com, once you figure out how to get it working (hint: don't use Safari), is pretty nice. It's basically what I want: a continuous stream of new music from new bands. Nothing super-great, but it makes fun background music. 12:06p
2003-02-08
2003-02-07
* Action Item! 12:32a
2003-02-06
* Wow: Bill O'Reilly screams “shut up!” at a guest who disagrees with him. 5:59p
* Wow: only 17% of americans know that no hijackers are from Iraq 11:36a
* Brewster Kahle talk 11:00a–12:30p
2003-02-05
2003-02-04
* Report of the Privacy Commisioner of Canada: “Let me be blunt: "The United States made us do it" cannot be a sufficient or acceptable justification for the Government to intrude on a fundamental right of Canadians.”
* Ben Franklin's Autobiography: “Gov'r. Thomas was so pleas'd with the construction of this stove, [] that he offered to give me a patent for the sole vending of them for a term of years; but I declin'd it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz., that, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.” 6:20p
* Dive Into Mark's 404 5:42p
2003-02-03
* Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine 11:59a
# I got to try a tablet PC for the first time. ?
# I don't understand why today's xdaliclock is less realistic than the one from 1984. 12:31p
2003-02-02
* Observer: Bush, NASA ignore warnings that the Shuttle was unsafe? (Class, please turn to Visual Explanations, Chapter 2.) 2:43p
# My headache seems to have gone away. I wonder if it was the food, the awakeness, or the exercise. 2:40p
* ibid (whole article is good): “XML is the drug-addicted gang member who had committed his first murder before he had sex, which was rape.” 11:32a
* Erik Naggum on XML: “Robbery is not just another way of making a living, rape is not just another way of satisfying basic human needs, torture is not just another way of interrogation. And XML is not just another way of writing S-exps. There are some things in life that you do not do if you want to be a moral being and feel proud of what you have accomplished.” 11:29a
* simonstl: Is civility harmful? “I think alienation is important” 11:26a
* EU refuses to apply criminal sanctions to noncommercial copying! (cite) tx Donna Wentworth 11:24p
* Scary: Police checkpoint incident. Now you can be forcibly removed from your car, handcuffed, thrown to the ground, and have your wallet removed just for driving home from work! 11:01a
* Fascinating: How to fly without ID! 10:46a
* Dave Winer: Moon Missions. “Yes it's sad they died. Yes. But it's also great that they lived.” 10:39a
# Ugh. I've got a really painful headache. 10:11a
* wonderful rave for Japanese game Ico 2:00a
2003-02-01
* Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle (aka Appendix F) by Richard P. Feynman 12:32p
# Wow, the week went by so fast 12:22
2003-01-31
2003-01-30
* Jeremiah has his own activity log 12:17p
# maybe we should prounounce NGSCP (neé Palladium) as NUG-scup 10:26a
2003-01-29
# Now I know exactly how pointless my life is. (-3627 points.) See you tomorrow. 12:02a
* New Yorker Science Fiction: Jon. “I will turn to her and say, Honey, uh, honey, there is a certain feeling but I cannot name it and cannot cite a precedent-type feeling, but trust me, dearest, wow, do I ever feel it for you, right now.” 10:42a
2003-01-28
* Uncut Interview with Cory Doctorow 7:25p
* “"According to Jewish law," deadpanned Yossi Vardi, an Israeli software entrepreneur, "life begins when the fetus becomes a lawyer."” (cite) (I have a pic of me and Vardi someplace.) 1:30p
# I think I have a bit of a cold. My nosed is all stuffed up and my throat is sore and gunky. 1:25p
2003-01-27
# Wow, apparently I get 8 spams a minute. 9:34p
* UNIX HATERS website 10:45p
* Fair Use, Hillary Rosen's Switch Ad 8:20p
* listening to Danny O'Brien's talk 6:59p–7:55p
# Second verse, same as the first, only thing different is the lyrics are worse. 8:55a
2003-01-26
# Writing this book is great fun! 3:06p
2003-01-25
2003-01-24
2003-01-23
* Is this real or a joke: PR10.com? 10:42p
2003-01-22
* watching Between Iraq and a Hard Place ?–1:12a
* imaginative pastures 10:13a
2003-01-21
* mixerman 6:17p–9:44p
* mixerman / orasis 4:28p–5:58p
* more mixerman 10:52a–11:29a
2003-01-20
* seeing what Ping's up to 9:10p–9:48p
* reading mixerman adventures [jwz] 8:10p–9:00p
* reading upsideclown 5:27p–6:00p
# This log has made me much more conscious of how much time I'm wasting. 4:50p
* Joe Clark: “Let's not go quoting overrated anecdotalist curiosity Edward Tufte here.” (cite) 11:03a
* John Burkhardt: SUV Angst. “Its not "God Bless America" for these folks. Its "God Bless Me".” 10:25a
2003-01-19