i’m not really sure what to make of the announcement of the aol-backed mozilla foundation on the same day that aol-tw dismantled netscape. i suspect it will mean a whole lot of nothing once the dust settles.
here’s to hoping the mozilla foundation can find stable sources of funding.
this article on animal emotions starts out with an obvious observation that bears repeating – that any animal owner can chew your ear off with stories about animals that appear to be just as emotional as humans.
mauja, our very emotive malamute, is goldmine for stories. malamutes are notorious for “talking”. they don’t bark per se, rather they’ll “talk” to you in what sounds something like choppy, wolf-like howls and moans, and after you’ve been around a malamute for awhile you find yourself engaging in long-winded conversations about one thing or another. and if a malamute is unhappy, watch out. they’ll let you know and give you and earfull. maybe they think you’ve been to park without them. or maybe you’ve been away for a little too long. or maybe they really think you might be able to be convinced to give them a little human food. they’ll come up with a very convincing argument using all their powers of persuasion.
when we had to put harper down, we witnessed the depths of a malamute’s emotions. he was in a royal funk. and bitchy. and he’d tell you how unhappy he was. endlessly. scoff if you will, but mauja was depressed and i don’t need a new study to verify that.
is it just me or does the news.com title to the aol blogging story seem like a quaint anachronism, what with the space between ‘web’ and ‘log’. i thought only the gray old lady did that kind of thing anymore.
i’ve updated the rss feed to make it ever so slightly more readable. i chop item descriptions off at 500 characters and previously, as jon udell noted, you could be left with a truncation that “didn’t respect” word or sentence boundaries. well, john made those comments over a year ago and i’m just now getting around to fixing it, which should give you a peak into my profound ability to procrastinate.
for now, i’ve just added a “…” at the end of a truncated post. this might be a first step towards providing two different feeds, abridged and full-length, but i’m not sure. in case you’re wondering, i didn’t start truncating my rss feed in an attempt to drive traffic to my site. honest. at the time, i thought it did improve readability a bit, but more importantly the rss 1.0 recommends that the description field should have a maximum length of 500 characters.
just in case you’re wondering. i did finish the flying pig marathon in may, i just never updated the site. mighty clever of me, no?
and i am now training for the chicago marathon in october. i’m on my own modified training schedule and my long run is already 10 miles, so maybe i’ll hit a half marathon or two before chicago. anyway, what i’m really saying is that i’m back to updating the “accidental marathonists” section of the vast wasteland. so check it out, if you’re into reading about someone who’s just a sedentary as the guy trying to pretend that he can run marathons.
i’m confused. if the cia was asking britain to drop iraq uranium claim in september 2002, why is it now accepting responsibility for uranium assertion in the state of the union speech? perhaps i’m missing something obvious.
update: so much for being overly clever with falling on the sword title. thanks technorati!
