Let’s see, in Cuba you can’t buy a computer because the government is afraid you’ll use it in subversive ways, but in the US, according to Senator Hollings, et al., you will only be allowed to buy the computers that have the technology to make sure you don’t do something subversive like infringe copyrights. Which one is the free democracy again?
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We’ll be celebrating my wife’s new job all weekend now! Obviously she’s excited about this. I am too. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll miss working with her and being together every day, but she’s going to be the PR Director for a non-profit organization, doing some of the stuff she loves. She’ll be writing, and…
I had planned on posting something yesterday. I had planned on doing a lot of things yesterday that I never quite got done. Not that there was any sort of sudden emergency or technical problems that required my attention, I was working strictly from my tasklist for the day pretty much all day. It just…
In light of what I said earlier about marketing hitting the blog world, here’s some further reading: Chris has a much lengthier piece about weblogging as marketing tool. Doc and David Weinberger have put together an article called World of Ends about what the internet is, and how to stop mistaking it for what it…
It looks like, unless something drastically changes over the next three weeks, that the drive to Gnomedex this year will be part of a much larger, and longer, vacation plan. Last year, of course, I drove from Des Moines up to Fargo, ND to visit a friend, and then across to Montana and down into…
For all the good intentions I had, the laptop never even got powered on all weekend. We arrived home safely this evening after spending the weekend in Johnson City, TN. I was having much too much fun visiting Angela’s alma mater, ETSU, and listening to her grandparents tell stories about this family that I’ve married…
RE: Web hosting forum: After careful consideration and another email exchange with That Hosting Company, I am temporarily taking this particular forum down. I do this, not because of any legal threat, but because I am trying to work with THC and allow them to work to correct the current situation without having to worry…