more travel. this time time i'm off to mexico. unfortunately more work than pleasure. posts might be sketchy for the next few days, since i'm not sure what the network infrastructure will be.
posted by e3
8:38:15 PM
um, maybe you have to be in a certain kind of mood to enjoy chuck and buck. whatever mood that is, i wasn't in it today.
posted by e3
8:33:20 PM
i went to the perfectly palatable finding forrester. perfectly palatable - if you don't feel the desire to think too hard about loopholes and, on occasion, are prone to enjoying a good dose of storied cliches. despite my cynical tone, i had a good chuckle or two and went on my merry way. it's not really as bad as those sourpusses at salon might lead you to believe. i think the truth resides somewhere between their opinion and the bbc's assessment that the movie is "An intelligent, subtle, in short remarkable take on growing up, being true to yourself and fighting the odds...".
posted by e3
11:22:55 PM
phew! got my own copy of the new jabber server up and running today. it's not that big a deal to install the thing. in hindsight. i had more problems getting jarl installed correctly. it requires a few special perl modules. in order to install those, i needed perl-devel package, which wasn't apparent until i had performed the appropriate degree of cursing. hi. ho. in any case, i've got big plans for jabber services, so stay tuned.
posted by e3
8:04:08 PM
haven't thought about howard zinn lately? maybe you should jump over to bad subjects:
posted by e3
10:25:57 PM
"Imperialism is the factor in American policy, not just since 1898, but in fact long before it when we were expanding across this continent and taking away Indian lands in order to enlarge the territory of the United States. We have been an imperial power and an expansionist power for a very long time. It will continue regardless of whether we have Republican or Democratic administrations in power. In fact, it's hard to tell who would be more likely to further the ends of imperialism. The Democrats or the Republicans, Bush or Gore? I mean yes, in domestic policy you can find some differences among them. Look at the appointments to the Attorney General, environmental affairs, and so on....but in foreign policy, it's very hard to find a difference."someday i'll get around to reading a people's history - although regular visitors have no doubt noticed that i haven't updated my reading list in a year. hi. ho.
posted by e3
8:18:38 PM
i'm travelling. again. but this time it's fun. or at least as much fun as a workshop on system based modeling in informatics can be. actually, the program promises good times for all - although there probably won't be as much schwag as the p2p conference, which i didn't get to attend.
posted by e3
9:24:43 PM
thanks to the wonderful world of blogging, i bring to you not one but two great bits of commentary on google's recent acquisition of the deja's usenet archives. first, monstro's perplexed as to why google specifically decided not to adopt deja's software to archive and manage usenet postings:
posted by e3
9:16:06 PM
"...deja could get a message from post to archive in under 20 seconds; google currently does it in, um, 36 hours. i watched several deja engineers optimize that down to 20 seconds -- it took them almost 2 years to get it that fast. is google going to be willing to invest that much time and energy, for something that isn't even their core product? what about all the time deja put into spam protection? gone. posting interface? gone. five years of bookmarks, all over the world's browsers and web sites? gone, and without any good way to restore or redirect them, ever. email services? gone. personalization software, saved groups, tracked threads? all gone."glenn thinks the sour grapes are a bit, er, sour [note, glenn is not commenting directly on the previous quote, but obviously he is commenting on it's intent] :
"How much did you pay to Deja.com for this access that saves you all these hours? Nothing, you say? How strange, then, that their business model didn't lead to profitability or even survival. How strange, also, that Google wouldn't want to incorporate and support the codebase of a company that couldn't turn these resources into profit. The expectation of free stuff is starting to decline, but this guy's gut reaction reveals how much we've been lulled into it."
last night, after many hours of positive reinforcement from mozilla 0.8, i was ready to post some exuberant commentary on how everyone should join the crusade and upgrade.
but then i couldn't post with blogger. o.k. i could post, but i didn't want to because of a 'cut-and-paste' regression bug. as anyone with a blog knows - there's lots of cutting and pasting. fine. then i try to be a good citizen and look through bugzilla and it wasn't working properly either. i wish i had a screenshot, because now - just this minute - bugzilla started working properly with mozilla 0.8.
in any case, it's back to the nightlies. the 0.8 branch is good. better. it didn't crash once yesterday after beating on it for quit some time. it's fast. er. faster. o.k. - it's at least as fast as the 4.x netscape browsers. maybe even a bit faster [i'm talking total speed experience, including 'new window spawning' and 'menu rendering' - not just html rendering]. the promise is there. i see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it's not complete and i guess that's why it's 0.8.
posted by e3
8:30:56 AM
but then i couldn't post with blogger. o.k. i could post, but i didn't want to because of a 'cut-and-paste' regression bug. as anyone with a blog knows - there's lots of cutting and pasting. fine. then i try to be a good citizen and look through bugzilla and it wasn't working properly either. i wish i had a screenshot, because now - just this minute - bugzilla started working properly with mozilla 0.8.
in any case, it's back to the nightlies. the 0.8 branch is good. better. it didn't crash once yesterday after beating on it for quit some time. it's fast. er. faster. o.k. - it's at least as fast as the 4.x netscape browsers. maybe even a bit faster [i'm talking total speed experience, including 'new window spawning' and 'menu rendering' - not just html rendering]. the promise is there. i see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it's not complete and i guess that's why it's 0.8.
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