Scripting News

Sun, 08 Aug 2004 03:25:43 GMT

Pictures from this afternoon's BBQ at the Scobles.

Sun, 08 Aug 2004 03:28:18 GMT

Can you spot Allen Searls, son of Doc, in the photos?

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 12:04:26 GMT

New comment management features for Manila.

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 16:15:25 GMT

The Guardian asks us to forget the bloggers, and they have a replacement in mind, the vloggers.

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 19:08:57 GMT

John Markoff, the self-proclaimed blogger from the NY Times, is still poking fun at his fellow bloggers. He's so clever, I've decided that my pompous lie-filled advertiser-owned "fact-checked" newspaper is Scripting News. ";->"

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 16:12:26 GMT

I'm happy to report that my hotel room is a non-smoking room that doesn't smell like smoke. But the sign the hotel puts on the desk could use a little editing. For the continued comfort our non-smoking guests. Hmmm. What does the word "continued" add? Maybe they weren't comfortable to begin with and will only be comfortable if you don't smoke in this non-smoking room. And I'd love to see a room that's "equipped" for smoking. Perhaps it comes with an iron lung. An EKG machine? A nicotine patch on the pillow at bedtime? Or maybe a huge fan in the floor and the ceiling to move smoke quickly into the atmosphere outside the hotel? When I was a smoker I always wished the airlines would provide bathroom-like places for smoking with those kinds of fans. Anyway, net-net I'm happy to be able to sleep in a room that doesn't smell like an ashtray.

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 17:42:39 GMT

Here's the edited version. "This is a non-smoking room. Don't smoke in this room. Non-smokers can tell you smoked here. If you smoke in a non-smoking room we will bill your credit card for the cost of removing your smoke, it usually runs around $25,000. If you want to smoke, we'll do our best to find you another room, it's much less expensive."

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 12:29:53 GMT

Kerio Personal Firewall helps users "control how their computers exchange data with other computers on the Internet or local network."

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 12:08:50 GMT

A .NET bloggers dinner in Boston, August 18.

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 04:35:24 GMT

Phil Haack: "The firewall built into XP blocks incoming traffic, not outgoing."

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 04:48:09 GMT

On this day last year Scoble was hanging with someone even more interesting than yours truly. Item 2. Lest anyone doubt that we lost a great blogger when Douglas Adams died, here's a piece he wrote, six years ago today, about his nose. Item 3. He wrote a testimonial for Scripting News. "His opinions are passionately held, well-informed, intelligent, argumentative and quite often wrong." Heh.

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 12:10:11 GMT

Julie Leung wrote up my visit on Thursday. I didn't need a visitors badge, but I did have to take a ferry (which was very nice) and I was charmed by two new special friends who showed me their unusual blogs posts, on paper, if you can believe that. A generation is on the way to whom blogging is no big deal, esp when both Mom and Dad do it. I asked for Julie's help in planning a west coast con, since she flew all the way to Boston to help make the second one such a great success.