August, 2001: 26 posts.
Jenny and I will be moving! Just an FYI… 2001 Aug 02
Anybody want to help us move?
I now have a list of links – not all blogs – on my blog archive page… 2001 Aug 02
If ever there was an example of the problem with Dead Media 2001 Aug 03
via Nettime. Archives here.
Initially this site had a search powered by a script from Matt’s Script Archive… 2001 Aug 05
So what’s the answer?
Google! of course. Google comes around and indexes roughly monthly. What that means is that the blog will not always be instantly searchable. And day-to-day changes will only be searchable with a lag. But Google is good, and predictable.
If I can find a PHP solution that’s painless I may change again.
I learned a great deal on that first perl-based search though. Installing, configuring, testing.
Over at markmartin… 2001 Aug 05
Lab time! Why the form action mailto: stinks… 2001 Aug 06
288 Days until US Release of Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones… 2001 Aug 06
We’re playing with the software from summary… 2001 Aug 08
Thanks to Dennis W. for pointing this out over on the Web405 list.
Can’t stop listening to The Mothers of Invention’s Oh No Some lyrics: 2001 Aug 09
Oh no
I don’t believe it
You say that you think you know
The meaning of love
You say love is all we need
You say
With your love you can change
All of the fools
All of the hate
I think you’re probably
Out to lunch
Oh no
I don’t believe it
You say that you think you know
The meaning of love
Do you really think it can be told?
You say that you really know
I think
You should check it again
How can you say
What you believe
Will be the key to a
World of love?
It’s a beautiful, cynical song.
I think Jenny and I missed The Perseids… 2001 Aug 12
Back online at our new home – using Cox@Home now and not RoadRunner… 2001 Aug 17
We are nearly settled, and almost done moving… 2001 Aug 17
Even “almost” feels good.
Censorship in action: 2001 Aug 17
Learn more about why we the people should secure our rights against the DMCA at the EFF web site.
This is definitely on the spectrum with the Dmitry case – Read more here
Recent thought: 2001 Aug 19
In the face of oppression, lunacy can indistinguishable from bravery. When people goaded into not speaking their minds in protest out of fear of repression or reprisals by “the authorities” — one could argue that that is evidence of “oppression.”
Now, agreement or disagreement with their goals and ideology is a separate issue.
My tendency is to be disappointed by two things – the quickness with which police forces resort to violence, and the quickness with which many protesting people resort to violence. I’m further disappointed by the way popular media tend to lump nonviolent protesters with violent ones. In this way all anti-globalization protesters get viewed as violent and “deserve what they get” and indeed, those who would protest abortion here in the US all get branded as people who desire to see Doctors killed. I’m in favor of people getting a hearing for their ideas.
So how do those who would protest get smart? They need to organize in such a a way that they can beat the police, and the media, at their own game. Every protester in my mind needs a video camera, and an online journal. Eyes wide open, direct to the world – Media savvy. Documenting abuses by the police in realtime. I truly believe, all evidence to the contrary, that the truth will out. This is my manifesto – for those with real causes — that is, causes worth fighting for — media-savvy, nonviolent, hyper-protest.
And we have the tools – compact microphones, video cameras, cellphones, the web. So why haven’t we seen this on a global scale? I don’t know. But the means is available. Think: McLuhan meets Gandhi.
The Onion – brilliant satire – sometimes gets serious… 2001 Aug 20
At one point I wanted to be a cartoonist, and Breathed is certainly one of my heroes in that area. His insights into how the modern age is scarcely worth satirizing are worth the price of admission, and there’s much more.
Here’s what he has to say about that::
It’s like doing a parody of The National Enquirer. Can’t be done. We’re over-saturated with commentary and with absurdity, and we’re numb because of it. Nothing shocks, so what’s the fun? And irony, oh, the goddamned irony, that courses through the popular culture like a cancer. If nothing is serious anymore, then there’s nothing to satirize. Look at George W. Bush. He knows the game. He knows he’s a maroon, as Daffy Duck would say, and refuses to take himself seriously. … The game’s changed forever.
Comparative Anatomy for Server Side Scripting 2001 Aug 20
Up too late again 2001 Aug 23
New header for the main artlung… 2001 Aug 24
I wrote this to web405 in response to a thread… 2001 Aug 25
A college degree does not make a person able. And lack of a degree does not make one incapable. If you have “mad skillz” then by all means show them off — and show what a great person you are to work with. The quality of resumes that I see (yes, sometimes I’m in a position to judge resumes) is generally mediocre – they all look like grocery lists: (ASP Programmer, SQL Server, IIS, SourceSafe, BS in Computer Science, Pound of sugar, Stick of Butter).
Doesn’t every darn resume book say to use action verbs on resumes to actually try and *communicate* what you do? Like “wrote a kick ass banner management system for dot com which subsequently went belly up.” or “Managed team of 15 while fighting off clueless Due Diligence Nazis from our funders” or “fought to put proper software development cycle in place before getting canned.”
There’s a lot of great job experience out there. I think that the resumes people use to display their talents, though, are filtered, deboned, and whitewashed in such a way as to hide the experience and personality of the author.
In my opinion, resumes should strike a balance between simple communication and letting some real mojo shine through.
Made an acquisition today … 2001 Aug 25
Is there an equivalent word to anglophilia for people who love Los Angeles? 2001 Aug 25
My wife has an online diary! voz37… 2001 Aug 28
Also, after having had no interest in anything to do with code for several years, now she’s asking me things like “so how do I make the links blue.” And of course I answer that I can think of at least 4 ways to make a link blue. I will try to limit my comments as she is learning to clear and concise, and not go on ranty raves about how she should assure to markup structurally, and style with css. If I can keep my trap shut our marriage should survive her foray into HTML just fine.
Question from Dori. 2001 Aug 31
Some possible answers: I enjoy toiling in obscurity. I started blogging too late to be an A-List Blogger. People are not interested in the ramblings of a former Respiratory Therapist. I don’t pass along memes like all your base quickly enough.
Just spitballing there. Thanks for asking!
Now I have a reason to watch the Latin Grammys! 2001 Aug 31
Seriously though, the Grammy’s are a sham — as are most awards shows.
