Scripting News

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:31:03 GMT

Trial balloon: "A simple addition to discussion group software makes it easy for a user to go to one place to monitor all conversations he or she is part of."

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:47:04 GMT

Slashdot: "Kevin Mitnick is getting back online and can start taking email tomorrow, January 21."

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:58:17 GMT

Jenny: "I will never buy SimCity 4 because I can tell how addictive it is just from the web site."

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:16:43 GMT

Tom Hume: "Track comments provided as RSS feeds." Yes, of course, that is a valid option. I decided not to promote that because I don't want comments mixed in with the news aggregator, any more than I want news mixed with email. Each platform has its purpose. And there's the problem of when to unsubscribe from a comment feed. There doesn't seem to be an answer to that. Third reason, it's time to solve the global identity problem. We can't trust Microsoft to do this. By now they must know that.

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:39:01 GMT

John Burkhardt shares his angst about SUVs.

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:21:09 GMT

Tucker Goodrich: "This innocuous little fly just invites being peed upon."

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:52:10 GMT

Wired: "The fact that movie and consumer electronics industry groups are not in on the new alliance is notable."

Start me up

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:39:46 GMT

Good morning. A few notes on starting up my weblog. It's 4:40AM Pacific, which is 1:40PM in Paris. In a few minutes I'm going to be interviewed by a German newspaper in London. The first W in WWW stands for World. No kidding.

I go to my Manila site and Flip Home Page. Then I click on the Edit With Radio button. I bring the Radio app to the front. There's the outline. I choose SN Rules from the Boilerplate sub-menu of the Bookmarks menu in Radio. It adds the rules you see in the screen shot. (Or you will see when I link it in after taking it.) But I get ahead of myself.

Then I add a new headline. Start me up. It's the first line of a Rolling Stones song. One that they sang in their HBO concert in NYC on Saturday night, which I watched on Sunday, thanks to my TiVO. No commercials to skip, by the way, so no BigCo exec to piss off. Paid for, out of my $70 per month fee to Hollywood and GM. Why do I always mention this? Becuase I pay them every damned month so they can get on TV and call me a pirate. Huh? Oy.

Anyway. Then I have a blank outline. Unlike some writers, I love a blank slate and never have trouble filling it. My psyche generates lots of stuff. I try to filter out the angst. I've learned that's not popular. It's still there of course, just filtered. A day has begun. Ahhh.

More Stones lyrics: "My eyes dilate, my lips go green. My hands are greasy. She's a mean, mean machine."