So 77% of Americans polled by CNN/Gallup disapproved of the 10 Commandments being moved. I have only one reaction to that:
Blow me.
I mean, seriously, do these people have any idea what the hell the Constitution says about church and state? Do they have any idea that there are plenty of people in this country who aren't either Jews or Christians, and therefore might not appreciate seeing someone else's religious symbols in a courthouse? Am I missing something here, or does 77% of the United States actually believe that their religious beliefs should somehow be privileged over everyone else's?
Why GE Needs Vivendi. GE looks to hook Vivendi by default. [The Motley Fool]
Assuming GE does buy Vivendi, that links every network with a major studio/entertainment megacorp: ABC and Disney, CBS and Viacom, UPN also with Viacom, WB with AOL Time Warner, and Fox with, well, Fox. Not that NBC's some kind of independent voice now - GE's the world's largest corporation, if I remember correctly. But throw the Vivendi assets (most notably Universal MCA) in, and we no longer have a single network that's not also a producer of content - TV, film, music, etc... Vertical integration is the name of the game. Is it a good thing? I tend to think not. I've heard arguments saying that cable provides such a wide diversity of channels that the broadcast networks are not as dominant. True, but then look at who owns the cable channels:
So, basically, damn near every cable channel is owned by either one of the content producers, one of the cable providers, or some combination. Excuse me for being suspicious.
All this data came from the Columbia Journalism Review
From a CNN story about how Bush doesn't really like technology in his personal life:
"He's no Al Gore," said one Bush aide, comparing his boss to the former vice president known for his love of high-tech gadgetry, "but he's very serious about having all this stuff work."
Nice to see them admit that he's inferior to Al. Finally. =)
Ok, I found what the nutties in 'Bama are claiming is their reason for suing - removing the monument would amount to a government endorsement of "a religion of non-theistic beliefs". Uh, yeah, because Hinduism is so non-theistic and doesn't do the whole Ten Commandments thing. Right.
I confess, I'd just about given up on the Red Sox. They'd lost 7 out of 9 against the Oakland As and Seattle Mariners, the Yankees had gotten yet further ahead...they looked cooked. But now they've torn off a nice little five game winning streak, including their first four game sweep of the Mariners at Fenway since '91. They're now (pending tonight's Yankees and Oakland games) 4 1/2 behind the Yankees for the division, half a game ahead of the As for the wild card, and tied with the Mariners for the wild card (Seattle and Oakland are fighting for the West division title). They've got a real chance after all.
Fun bit - if the Mariners, Sox, and As all end the season with the same record, the Sox automatically get the wild card spot while the As and Mariners have a one-game playoff for the West. Since whomever loses that game will have a worse record than the Sox, there's no need for another game to determine the wild card. Seems nuts, but hey.
So some Christian talk show host is planning on suing to keep that commandments monument in the courthouse down in Iranabama. What in the blue hells are the grounds he's suing on? Not getting what he wants?
Hey! Rockin'! I go to post a little tidbit and discover that the Radio WYSIWYG editor is suddenly working in Netscape 7.1.
I had the strangest dream this morning - I dreamt someone, maybe my ex's parents, but I can't remember clearly, gave me a puppy, a little, sick puppy. Here's the thing - I hate dogs. With a passion. I've got a massive phobia of the things - total, crippling fear. But I was really, really loving the puppy in the dream. I woke up finding myself wanting a puppy. Seriously. Very, very weird.
McSweeney's rips hilarious hole in flash mob trend [bOing bOing]
They've got another funny flash mob parody higher up on the page as well.
Arrests at US 'holy rock'. Police remove protesters from an Alabama monument to the Ten Commandments as a judge refuses to remove it. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
Welcome to Iranabama.
... and then claims sun doesn't rise in the East.... In the latest round in the Bill O'Reilly vs Al Franken grudge match, Mr. O' Reilly attempts to prove that Mr. Franken isn't a satirist. (more inside) [MetaFilter]
Bill O'Reilly is really just a pathetic little boy, when you get down to it.
Schwarzenegger Assured, Vague [Washington Post: Front Page]
How can you go wrong with a headline like that?
Am I the only one who notices a remarkable resemblence between Rage Against The Machine's Sleep Now in the Fire and the Stooges' T.V. Eye?
What is sampling?. What is sampling? To some, sampling is an art. To others it's a question of permission and legality. With modern technology, movies and tv shows can also become great sources of samples, as seen in the The Top 1035 Sample Sources List. [MetaFilter]
Nifty link there for the top sample sources - did you know that Blade Runner is the most sampled source ever, it seems?
posted by kirkaracha to Culture August 20 2:25 PM. You've got to get wood on the sweet spot.Salon reviews "a romance novel containing both explicit sex scenes and baseball" revolving around a fictional team based on the Red Sox Class A affiliate Lowell Spinners. [SportsFilter]
From the review:
It's also odd to read a romance that is set in Lowell, Mass. Nothing against the fine people of Lowell, but I've spent time there, and romance is not the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of this old factory town.
Ok, I live in Lowell, half a mile from the ballpark inq uestion...and honestly, I can't say he's wrong. Kind of a bleh town, overall.
The Atom Project. So the Japanese, still firmly plunged in the midst of their very own "Great Depression," are considering a proposal that would have the government spend 50 billion yean a year over three decades to develop a humanoid robot with the mental, physical and emotional capacity of a 5-year-old human.
The proposed name of this venture? The Atom project, named after the Japanese cartoon character known to Americans as "Astro Boy." [MetaFilter]
Is this for real?
So what do you do when your group has hired a consultant, he turns out to be not near as good as advertised, and then you discover his resume online, and he's obviously and absurdly lying about what he does for your group? We've got a guy who's put us in that position. His resume seemed ludicrous to me when we hired him, exaggerated up the wazoo, but the Powers That Be decided to hire him anyway. He's been very bad at his job, and, while telling a friend about one of the more comical exaggerations in his resume, I discovered its latest version. He claims to be using process and software here that he quite simply isn't, things he couldn't even be confused about. He says he's done things that never happened, etc...what can I do at this point? My boss seems kind of laissez-faire about it, and the guy's out in San Jose while we're here in Massachusetts. He got his contract renewed (over my objections, before discovering the resume crap) a little while ago, and is with us (in theory) through November. The guy's making a LOT of money and provides nothing of any value to us at all. Would it be wrong of me to tell my boss that we should get rid of this doofus?
One of the fun things about the Neuros, my mp3 player and all-around snazzy gadget, is that it's got a quality mic and can record straight to mp3. This got me thinking about the idea of audioblogging - it's easy enough to transfer files from the Neuros to my laptop, so why not? The hangup I'm encountering now is an easy way to store the mp3s on the web. Radio doesn't upstream mp3s, though it does upstream wavs (which I could use as well, but are just too big to be worth it), so I'd probably have to store them somewhere else and just reference them from here. Not a crippling problem, obviously, but it makes the process more difficult than I'd like, especially if you compare it to the myPictures tool and how easy it is to add images to your blog through Radio. Is this something (mp3 upstreaming) it might be worth asking for as a feature in Radio? Has anyone else come across an elegant solution to this?
It's hard for me to emphasize how great a game Halo is. The graphics are stellar, the sound is unbelievable, the physics are my favorite of any first-person shooter I've ever played, the weapons, especially the sniper rifle, have a great feel - not to mention the nifty, if at times inconvenient, fact that you can only carry two weapons at a time. I've beat it - admittedly, on easy - and I'm still going back for more. In fact, I'm having a hard time motivating myself to go to work today, rather than sit home and play Halo...ah, sweet addiction...
Want to be Bill or Gareth Gates?. A quarter of teens in a poll say they would rather be a tech star than a pop star. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
Good for them.
Well, blogs.salon.com is down - again. This is just plain annoying, especially since it's past the time we can expect to get a reaction out of the West Coast support people. I can actually update, but can't see the results. Oy.
Finally... A movie for the 1% Nation: AMERICAN SPLENDOR IS NOW PLAYING AT A THEATER NEAR YOU!!!!!. SEE! Harvey Pekar, file clerk extraordinaire, wrestle with mortality. DREAM!! with Harvey as he plots to re-sell his used books and records for absurdly inflated prices. FEAR!!! for your sanity as Harvey takes you deep into the bowels of a Cleveland veteran's hospital. RAGE!!!! with Harvey at the aggression and general obtuseness of people around him. He's a reasonable guy. He's also a noted jazz critic, book reviewer and radio commentator. Now Playing At A Theater Near You. [MetaFilter]
I cannot emphasize enough - SEE THIS MOVIE.
Oh, and Lawrence Lee over at Userland has gotten my comments counter working again. Thanks, Lawrence!
Yes! I have a project! I have work to do! Woo!
I was getting a little frustrated at flailing along, trying to establish projects for me to be working on by myself. I had a few minor feature requests kicking around, but nothing actually *significant*. But today, I've been asked to look into a drastic change in how we handle permission to check into our branches, which is something I've been doing prelim. work on for a while now. This is nice - finally, some purpose in my life. =)
Paul Krugman: 'The road to ruin' [The Smirking Chimp]
I'm digging the "faith-based deregulation" line... =)
Moon colony 'within 20 years' [BBC: Science & Nature]
I'm 25 now, and long past the raw fascination with space, right? Hell no. I'd give my left leg to live on the moon. Surely they'll need some build engineers there eventually...I mean, outsourcing software development to the moon is the next logical step, right? =)
Idi Amin Dies, Funeral Services To Be Followed By Light Buffet. Plastic::Politics::Death: Brutal dictator's passing to be commemorated with fava beans and a nice chianti. [Plastic: Most Recent]
...tasteless?
=)
Top UN official dead in Iraq blast. 6.30pm: At least 15 people killed · 'Suicide' bomb attack in Baghdad · UN headquarters targeted [Guardian Unlimited]
Oh, this is bad - the sec. general's special representative to Iraq was killed. This is *bad*.
*taptap* Is this thing on?
It looks like we (being the blogs.salon.com server) are back up, after being down for something like 10 hours. And I had something I was going to write earlier but have since forgotten...damn...
SCO makes legal case to its resellers. LAS VEGAS - Mixing James Bond video clips with dry analysis of legal contracts and source code, The SCO Group Inc. made its legal case over IBM Corp.'s alleged misappropriation of Linux source code to 650 developers and channel partners at its annual SCOForum trade show in Las Vegas on Monday. [InfoWorld: Top News]
As was pointed out at Slashdot, there's something ironic about a company in a massive lawsuit over copyright violation using unauthorized clips from a James Bond movie.
So I went out and bought a couple CDs recently. I ended up with Joy Division and Love and Rockets' greatest hits collections - I don't really have near enough familiarity with either of them to know which individual albums to buy. I'm really liking the Love and Rockets right now - I dug the song you actually sometimes hear on "alternative" radio when they're playing '80s songs ("So Alive") and the rest of the songs seem to deliver along the same lines - there's variation, obviously, but it's not like that one song was a complete aberration, utterly unlike the rest of their catalog. I'm pleased. The Joy Division's going to take a little while to get into, though...
...are we up yet...? The backend of Salon's Radio server was quite hosed for a while there. Couldn't post anything for a couple hours. Here's hoping we're back...
A/S/L???. Community Memory : the world's first public computerized bulletin board system, set up in 1972 with an ASR-33 Teletype machine. Also, please welcome Benway, possibly the world's first net personality (beating Miguel and Quonsar by a couple of weeks). More on Benway in Steven Levy's book Hackers. [MetaFilter]
Sometimes, I hate work. Or at least my job. Let me make it perfectly clear that I love what I do - I have never found anything that allows me to function as well as my current job. But my group...there's no communication. My boss is very often not here, and never goes to cross-functional meetings. Instead, it's me representing the group - but without any actual authority. To make it worse, everyone else outside the group perceives me to have that authority, so I'm expected to make commitments on behalf of the group, and to be informed on everything going on with the group. This ends up meaning that I have to do everything that comes up at these meetings personally, because otherwise it won't get done or, in the best case situation, I won't be told anything about it. I don't know what to do about this...my boss doesn't seem to know what to do, or even see how bad the problem is. His boss seems to only know what my boss tells him, which isn't much. I'm thinking I'll just have to push through - like I said, this is what I want to do and it'd be stupid to leave. But it's so frustrating sometimes...
Asia 'needs billions of condoms'. Asia is facing a huge shortage of condoms needed to prevent the rise of HIV/Aids in the region, the WHO warns. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
I know, it's a serious matter, and I shouldn't be smirking, but c'mon - it's Monday morning. I can't help myself.
From the introduction to Joe Conason's new book, "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth" - excerpted at Salon:
If your workplace is safe; if your children go to school rather than being forced into labor; if you are paid a living wage, including overtime; if you enjoy a 40-hour week and you are allowed to join a union to protect your rights -- you can thank liberals. If your food is not poisoned and your water is drinkable -- you can thank liberals. If your parents are eligible for Medicare and Social Security, so they can grow old in dignity without bankrupting your family -- you can thank liberals. If our rivers are getting cleaner and our air isn't black with pollution; if our wilderness is protected and our countryside is still green -- you can thank liberals. If people of all races can share the same public facilities; if everyone has the right to vote; if couples fall in love and marry regardless of race; if we have finally begun to transcend a segregated society -- you can thank liberals. Progressive innovations like those and so many others were achieved by long, difficult struggles against entrenched power. What defined conservatism, and conservatives, was their opposition to every one of those advances. The country we know and love today was built by those victories for liberalism -- with the support of the American people.
Aggregators Attack Info Overload. Internet news addicts are turning in droves to so-called aggregator services, which relieve information overload by condensing multiple sites into a single feed. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News]
...and, of course, I'm reading about this article through an aggregator... =)
Oh, and I caved and bought the Lester Bangs. More on that tomorrow. =)
If you haven't been watching The Wire, the only excuse you could possibly have is not having cable. This season has been very different from last year, but has still be damned intense. I'm not entirely sure where the final episode (coming next week) will go, but I'm pissed I've got to wait a week - which is exactly what story-arc TV should do.
I just read that there's a biopic on Sylvia Plath coming out - starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Seriously. That's just not right.
Oh, and I just saw the greatest Freaks reference ever on the Simpsons. Good stuff...
One last thing before bed - far and away the niftiest search I have ever had result in a visit to this site: "how to speak snoop dogg language". That rules. So hard.
So...once again, you come back and expect we'll act like nothing happened, just go right back to our old comfortable relationship without so much as a kiss-my-butt-by-your-leave. Huh-unh, that don't fly here, Mister Smarty-Pants. Hell hath no fury like blog readers scorned.
Well? what do you have to say for yourself? Give it up, Mister. Dish. WTF with the nearly complete neglect since May? Huh?
[Bet you're sorry about turning on those comments now, aren't you? ;-) ]
Nah, I deserve it. =) Yes, I've been all slack-ass, and honestly, I don't have any good reason. I was working on a big project at work that absorbed all my free time in the office, which put a serious crimp on my blogging-at-work-style, and I've been spending as much time with Arwen (yes, I've revealed her name, and yes, that IS her real name) as I can. But really, I just fell off pace. I think I should get a certain amount of leeway when you look at my output - I needed a little while to recharge, don't you think?
But I didn't want to be one of those eternally frozen blogs, abandoned by their authors to the web, until such time as the hosting site gives up on them. I miss y'all. Oh, and I couldn't let my hit count keep falling...I'm down to like 49th of all time! This must be stopped! =)
Dan Gillmor says he might vote for Schwarzenegger. [Scripting News]
I wouldn't vote for Aaaaaahnuld for all the tea in China, but I'd sure as hell vote for Warren Buffett. Not just for his comments on Prop. 13 - California's got some deeply fucked up property taxes, screwing over someone who's just moved in and dumping the tax burden onto income taxes. But Buffett - man's got his head on straight. No one in this country has been better at reading the markets and seeing where they're going over the last forty years, and he understands that taxes are NOT a bad thing inherently. If Aaaaaahnuld actually listens to Buffett's advice, he might not suck horribly as governor - California is so obviously in need of a tax hike that it's not even funny.
SCO to IBM: Abandon that damned illegal GPL, you pirates!. Take your hands off the GPL and back away from the keyboard... New twist in the SCO vs. IBM and the rest of the known computing universe: it appears SCO's primary argument in their case will in fact be that the GPL is invalid, trumped by US federal copyright law. (Quote redirect from via Inquirer from Wall Street Journal). And apparently, I'm not alone in beginning to think there's merit to the "Microsoft's behind all this!" conspiracy theories, since these "coincidences" are really starting to pile up... [MetaFilter]
For those of you who haven't been paying attention, SCO, a relatively small operating system company who happen to own the Unix trademark these days, are suing IBM, and hence Linux in general, for copyright violations. Basically, they're saying that IBM took code from Unix and put it into Linux, thereby illegaly transferring SCO's intellectual property into the public domain.
Now, there are many, many levels of absurdity to the suit. For one thing, a lot of the functionality that SCO has pointed at was put into Unix by a company that was later bought by IBM. Which doesn't quite make sense to me as being a legit cause for a lawsuit - IBM, for all intents and purposes, put the code in question into both Unix AND Linux. Can't they do that? But anyway...
Here's the really fun part, though - the story above. The GPL, the General Public License, is the most prominent open source license, first put forward by Richard Stallman and the GNU movement. It's the most demanding - it's been often referred to as a viral license. Anything it touches, any code that uses its code, etc, must also be released under the GPL. This is in contrast to the BSD license or the Apache license, both of which allow more commercial use. Linux is licensed under the GPL. The GPL has yet to be challenged in court - the FSF and other supporters of the license have gotten alleged violators to settle and either pull the GPL code out or release their source.
Now we're seeing our first GPL challenge. And it looks goofy. Copyright law allows you to make one backup copy of any piece of software you buy. SCO is saying that makes the GPL invalid, since it allows you to copy any GPL-ed software as much as you like. As far as I can tell, that's completley and utterly full of shit. What, I can't say "Here's something I wrote, feel free to give it to anyone." without violating copyright law? How does *that* work?
Of course, the best part of it all is that SCO got bought a few years ago by a company named Caldera. The new company renamed itself back to SCO, but its leadership, etc, came from Caldera. And Caldera was a Linux company - contributing code, selling a distribution. Hell, SCO was selling a distro themselves until recently. I still can't figure out why the hell SCO is doing this, even if they are being used as a stalking horse by Microsoft. Suing IBM? Damn! IBM is massive and smart, with really good lawyers and a lot of cash on hand. Oh, and they're almost certainly in the right legally and morally. What's the point for SCO?
I can't seem to help myself. I just keep *buying*. Right now, for example, I'm fixated on that Babylon 5 box set I mentioned below, Gore Vidal's Burr, inspired by the recent PBS American Masters on Vidal, and Lester Bangs' Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, because I've never actually read it. Last weekend, I bought a couple books, a video game (only twenty bucks, but still...not like I don't own enough already!) and the first DVD set of The Sandbaggers, a nifty British spy show from the '80s. In the week since I bought it, I've watched exactly one episode. I've read half of one of the books I bought last week. I haven't touched the video game. But still, I want more...
Daily Kos points out a Fox News poll that puts Bush/Cheney against Gore/Hillary for the '04 election. Bush/Cheney wins by 11%. That's not bad at all - neither Gore nor Hillary are running, and a LOT of people hate Hillary so blindly they wouldn't ever consider voting for her. Time to reconsider, Al?
Can someone please give me a good reason not to buy this? It's the first three seasons of Babylon 5, on DVD, for 28% off sticker price. But it's still over 200 bucks. Damn!
posted by lilnemo to Basketball August 15 3:17 PM. NBA Draft 2001; The Green Reach, Or The Picks That Wouldn't Die...Joe Forte may not last through his rookie contract. Ouch. Let's jump into the wayback machine and discuss what the hell happened to the Celts draft class of 2001. Or should I say, whats left of it. Is this the worst series of picks by one team in a single draft? What are your favorite draft snafus, reaches, or horror stories?More inside... [SportsFilter]
Augh. Don't remind me.
That said, the Joe Johnson pick was a good pick (he was slipping, looked really good, and hey, it was, what, the 10th pick?), and one that's given the Celtics value - he basically was turned into a third of a season of Rodney Rogers and a few years of Tony Delk. Not bad. Kedrick...I can't really explain this one. We could have gotten him with the 21 pick, I'm sure, not that I'd've done that either. And Forte...oy, Joe Forte. Yeah, we passed on Tony Parker, Gilbert Arenas, Richard Jefferson, and more. It's a shame it took 'til Vin Baker for Wallace to get canned - this draft should have done him in earlier.
POWER OUTAGE TRACED TO DIM BULB IN WHITE HOUSE --- The Tale of The Brits Who Swiped 800 Jobs From New York, Carted Off $90 Million, Then Tonight, Turned Of. Greg Palast goes after Bush Sr. and Jr. policies and their allies in the energy industry as villains in the blackout and disfunctional US power grid; the article is also relevant to California, making clear Bush/energy corps responsibility for part of Cal [Blog Left: Critical Interventions]
Palast is completely insane, but he's always a good read.
Microsoft pulls WindowsUpdate.com to avert Blaster. Microsoft Corp. has pulled the WindowsUpdate.com Internet address in an effort to thwart an attack on its systems by computers infected with the Blaster worm, the company said Friday. [InfoWorld: Top News]
So is Microsoft actually saying that the only really safe way to run Windows is to disconnect it from the net? 'cos this sure sounds like that.
Y'know, the more I look at that title (Andrew Bayer is Fairly Unbalanced), the more I think I might keep it that way...
But then again, it'd be ignoring the brand visibility of Andrew Bayer is Dreaming of China. =) And more importantly, wouldn't get the questions asking why I'm dreaming of China, exactly.
I've gotten myself a couple toys recently - an XBox (Halo is, quite frankly, the best first-person shooter I've ever played. The only flaw it has is the lack of bots - no multiplayer-without-other-players, an essential feature for shut-ins like myself. Oh, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic rocks hard as well.) and a Neuros. The Neuros is an MP3 player, 20 gig, bigger physical size than an iPod, not quite as snazzy...but it's got Ogg Vorbis support in beta, which is great, since I've ripped nearly my entire CD collection into Oggs (smaller files for the same sound quality as MP3s, and it's an open standard - which makes me feel warm and fuzzy). It also receives FM and can record that, or record from its built-in stereo mic, an external mic, or line-in, and encode on-the-fly into MP3 or WAV. It also has this nifty little feature (that I admittedly never use) that records 30 seconds of a song off the radio and then, next time you go online, identifies the song. But the best feature of all is that it can broadcast a very low-powered FM signal...in other words, I don't need one of those annoying tape adapters to listen to it in my car. Quite handy. I like this toy bunches.
Bush urges US grid upgrade. North America struggles to restore the power supply as President Bush calls for the power grid to be modernised. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]
...which, of course, can be directly translated as "Deregulate and use my energy company buddies! Except Kenny Boy - he makes people angry for some reason.."
Well, that was fairly interesting. I think (though I could still be wrong) that the comment counter script src call is only included if the %commentCount% macro is in the %commentLink% value. So I've removed that - let's see if this works...
Ok, I've re-enabled the comments, but not the comment count - that's what's breaking on me, and I think the comments will work without the count. There is still a javascript error that hangs the page for a while, though - that's the sourcing of the count. I'm trying to figure out how to disable *that* without evaporating the comments too... So if you feel like saying hi, please do. =)
Something I don't love about my job: there's three of us in my group. One of us is on vacation this week. The other one who's not me was home on Monday and Tuesday because his wife was sick. Ok. Vacations happen, and I cannot begrudge a man staying home to take care of his couple-month old kid when his wife is sick. But she's better now, and he just left. Yesterday, he left the office at 1. He left at 4 on Wednesday. This wouldn't be that bad, but he does it regularly - it's just more noticeable this week.
Did I mention that he doesn't get in until 11?
Yeah. He logs on again from home and runs the builds, answers some emails, etc, but it leaves me as the only one in the office all week (except when I was late on Wednesday morning thanks to a root canal) for most of the morning and most of the afternoon. When your group's primary responsibility is supporting developers on-site, this is a problem. Argh.
New Yorkers urged to stay away. Mayor Michael Bloomberg asks New Yorkers to stay home as electricity gradually returns to the eastern US and Canada. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
No! Don't tell the Neu Yawkers to stay away from NYC! Then they'll come bug the rest of us! Noooooo!
Oh god - now I remember what it was like to be blogging all the time - and never getting any work done. Oops. I'll have to use my meetings as an opportunity to do actual work - I've got wireless on the laptop and would feel naughty blogging in the middle of a meeting. That's just pushing it. Blogging or playing DreamCast at my desk? That's one thing...doing it where someone else could see? That's where I draw the line. =)
Just sped up my page-load time considerably - I killed Trackback. The Salon comments/trackback/etc server is just plain *hosed*. Takes forever to do anything...
Alpine prince to give up power. Liechtenstein's Prince Hans-Adam says he will retire from active politics in favour of his son in exactly a year's time. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
The question here, of course, is whether anyone will actually notice the difference.
Upstreaming is going soooooo slow right now. With the problems I've been having with Radio today, I'm not sure if it's me or the massive load hitting the Salon servers due to the NY Times article about Julie/Julia.
