August 2001

I put this in the lab because I don’t know where else to put it—HTML 2.0 – An exploration!. The idea here is an exercise in web authoring, 1996-style. Just some pointers to the original specs, and brief ruminations on how it’s a little different.

Recent thought:
Some things are worth dying for. I say this as a married, comfortable person who wants to bring children into the world.

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.

Censorship in action: why I don’t publish my HDCP results by Niels Ferguson really sickens me.

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

We are nearly settled, and almost done moving.

Even “almost” feels good.

Back online at our new home – using Cox@Home now and not RoadRunner.

I think Jenny and I missed The Perseids. We’re in the midst of moving. Hard heavy work.

Can’t stop listening to The Mothers of Invention’s Oh No Some lyrics:

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.

We’re playing with the software from summary.net right now – it does analysis of web server hit logs It is cool fast. Just crunched the raw numbers (without DNS lookups) for 4.5 gigs ( 6 months worth—23,334,050 hits ) of client logfiles in about 13 minutes time. this is on a PIII/Win2k box.

Thanks to Dennis W. for pointing this out over on the Web405 list.

288 Days until US Release of Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones.

Lab time! Why the form action mailto: stinks. Includes screengrabs.