February 2002

Civil Liberties Quote of the Day

When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control. This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear.

By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the U.S. yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans. So far, the reaction has been a most un-American docility.

Heh.
From Dear Johnny and Davezilla, some silliness. It’s not so much that it’s funny, as that I really dig the illustration accompanying it.

Referers Madness
Last night and this morning I added a Referer tracker for the San Diego Bloggers page in PHP/MySQL. It’s cool to see how people are coming to that site. I’ll probably add something similar for my own blog as well. Any suggestions as to how to order the data?

Other stuff to say, but not now.

Hoi Polloi Linking; Badge Update; More to Come.
The infamous Cocky Bastard made a link to the San Diego Bloggers page and so, it’s getting lots of hits today. Very nifty. And hi neighbor!

In other news, Vince Outlaw and 3ones and Airshare are all sporting those lovely badges.

More changes and updates are coming on the SDBloggers page. This weekend I’ll build the “visit a random blog” tool.

It’s a badge morning!
Full of stray energy, I created 4 badges today for my various and sundry hobby / obsession / popular sites …






UPDATE: I do know how to count. That’s 5 banners. I made 4 this morning. The other one I made the other day. Though early in the morning I am less good at math than I might hope.

Leavin’, on a jet plane.
Up early. Jennifer is leaving for Miami this morning. The cat and I will miss her.

Today, this blog is one year old.

On February 19, 2001 I started blogging. That makes it one year starting tomorrow. As it happens, the answer to my question is this: I can indeed keep up with the blogging. At least for a year. I think I’m able to keep it up because I think of it as many things – a diary, a ship’s log, a changelog, an acknowledgements page, a table of contents, a news page, a “what’s new” page. All things current (and public, not everything gets blogged by me) in my life are are sucked into this amorphous thing called a blog. Maybe a better term for it would be “mental junk drawer.” Here’s a graphical listing by month, with a bar graph to indicate the number of posts per month. They are also linked so you can see the individual months.

02/20019
03/200115
04/200121
05/200115
06/200120
07/200130
08/200126
09/200142
10/200138
11/200138
12/200170
01/200272
02/200239

The third person (besides me) using the San Diego Bloggers badge is nerd boy mikey. Cool!

According to Macintouch, RealPlayer for MacOS X will be coming in April of this year.