lightweight portals with meerkat. i wish there were more time in the day.
Monthly Archives: December 2000
i can honestly say that it never occured to me to get an issn for a weblog. don’t ask why. just back away slowly.
i don’t know cam but i visit his site often and it really seems like he’s picking up the pace on linking to anti-dsl articles – complete with titles like “dsl in distress” and “dsl utopia? it feels more like dsl hell.”
why does this bother me? because i’m scheduled to have covad come over on friday. that’s right boys and girls, if the planets align properly, i will gladly partake of the broadband pipe once again. it’s been a long wait after being cast out of paradise when i moved out of the reaches of att.
i’m giddy and i hope that if i think good, happy thoughts then the bad things just won’t happen. in with the good air. out with the bad.
covad is coming.
in today’s davenet their’s a link to an article that highlights a point that is so obvious that it becomes easy to miss – we can’t count votes precisely. we can’t now and we probably won’t anytime in the future:
“Because ballots can be bought, stolen, miscounted, lost, thrown out or sent to Denmark, nobody knows
with any precision how many votes go uncounted in American elections. For weeks, Florida has riveted the nation with a mind-numbing array of failures: misleading ballots, contradictory counting standards,
discarded votes–19,000 in one county alone. But an examination by The Times in a dozen states from Washington to Texas to New York shows that Florida is not the exception. It is the rule.”
coincidently the edge has a discourse on democracy that makes the same point – visually.
it may be one for the record books. i live in woodstock, illinois, which is “just outside” of chicago in the sense that everything is “just outside” of chicago. at least as far as chicagoans are concerned. in anycase, we’ve been getting some weather [as they used to say in maine where i grew up] and it vaguely reminds me of the “noreastahs” that would blow “downeast” maine. nasty, but fun. my ever gracious employer even ordered us to leave today. will wonders ever cease? for the record:
now
“Blizzard Warning in effect… at 635 pm…radar indicated a band of moderate to heavy snow stretching from Morris and Joliet…northeast through the downtown and the south side of the city of Chicago. Thunder snow was even reported in downtown Chicago at 630 pm. This heavy snow will continue to move across the southern sections of Chicago through 730 pm…and will affect lake and Porter counties in northwest Indiana through 9 pm. An additional 2 to 4 inches of accumulation is possible in these areas as this band passes through. Northeast winds gusting at 20 to 30 mph will cause significant blowing and drifting of snow…making travel treacherous across northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana tonight.”
tonight
“Windy and very cold with snow and blowing snow creating local blizzard conditions. Total storm accumulations 9 to 13 inches. Low 5 to 10 above. North winds 25 to 40 mph becoming northwest. Wind chills occasionally dropping to near 40 below.
yup. that’s right. it calls for temps to get down to -40 overnight. i hope our 50 year-old furnace doesn’t decide to go on the fritz.
“a collaborative weblog exploring and chronicling culture and community on the internet”
[via kottke]
it’s not super-duper technical, but if you’re into the whole ‘semantic web’ thing then maybe you’ll enjoy Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web Vision:
“In a keynote session at XML 2000 Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the Wide Web Consortium, outlined his vision for the Semantic Web. In one of his most complete public expositions of the vision to date, he explained the layered architecture that he foresees being developed in the next ten years.”