April 2008
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Better Understanding
I just made a few changes to Understanding Infrastructure, which I trust will improve it. See what you think. Continue reading
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Free Grand Canyon Plane Tour
Clicking on the picture above will take you on a slideshow tour of the Grand Canyon, shot from the right side of an LAX-bound 757 that departed from Boston. I have no idea what movie was showing at the time; though I do know I refused, as I usually do, to close my windowshade to… Continue reading
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Making the world safe for infrastructure
While I haven’t been blogging much in the last few weeks, and I haven’t also been in the hospital or otherwise slowed down, I’ve been writing for Linux Journal and the Berkman Center. Some of the Linux Journal stuff is what I write every month for issues that appear three months in the future. For… Continue reading
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The Turing Test gets harder
Used to be I could tell splog bait on sight. Of the thirteen blog comments in moderation a few minutes ago, ten were comments from splog sites specializing in sex, poker or some lawsuit-intensive disease. Usually they say something like “nice post”, which works for anywhere. Sometimes they say “facebook is the best”, the source… Continue reading
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I was overheard to have said
Matt Flynn: …a quote that I heard attributed to Doc Searls – “email is how old people communicate”. Did I say that? I feel like Yogi Berra here. Continue reading
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Time to stop blowing
In The connection between PR spam, global warming and magazines, Chris Anderson of Wired addresses something which, as both a magazine writer and reader, I truly hate: …I must concede that this problem of negative externalities is one that my own industry overlooks, too. Take those “blow-in” subscription cards that we put in our… Continue reading
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Simon says once. But again?
See this. Then this. I’m not sure what the second one is. Did “admin” rip off Simon Collister’s original post by posting it again? Was it for commercial reasons? Does it violate Simon’s Creative Commons 2.5 license? The site of the reposting, Lalalia, is a “Virtual City”, described as An open system project, based on… Continue reading
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Matters vs. Anti-matters
A ways back, on one of Steve Gillmor’s podcasts, I said that the Democratic nomination was Obama’s unless he “stepped in it” before the convention. “Gotcha” politics being what it is, Obama’s recent remarks — a few dumb words among amongst zillions of smart and/or safe utterances he’s made in the course of a campaign… Continue reading
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Rolling on
Sitting is hard for me. First, there’s the fear that I’m colonizing clots in my legs. That fear should recede when I know my IHR (a clotting measure) is between 2 and 3. Last tested it was 1, which is normal. Not good enough. Second, my chest still hurts, along with my lower back (which… Continue reading
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Lessig at UCSB, today
A quick plug for the talk to be given today at noon by Lawrence Lessig at UCSB, as part of the 2008 CITS Distinguished Lecture Series. Larry packed the house in the huge Ames Courtroom at Harvard a week ago today (photos here). He gave his customary outstanding performance, and I expect him to do… Continue reading
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The Happy Face Mine
When I couldn’t sleep last night, I uploaded another pile of pix shot out the window during a flight last month from Boston to Los Angeles. This segment runs from the Mineral Hill Mine in Arizona to Slide Peak in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles. The picture above is of the the… Continue reading
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Erring on the side of caution
A few hours ago, as I was getting ready to get the kid to bed, the pain in my chest returned. Concerned that another blood clot might be involved, I imposed on Nicco to give me another ride over to the hospital, where at length a fresh CAT scan showed the same clot in the… Continue reading
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Walking vs. Working
I’m getting so many calls that I’ve started hitting “ignore” half the time, which makes me feel like a freaking call center. I can’t take your call right now, I’m inaudibly saying. But your call is important to me. So please listen closely to the following options, because my menu has changed. That menu in… Continue reading
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Out but not quite about
I’m back home now. I feel fine, except for the fact that I’m quite the bleeder. Just before I was discharged, a nurse removed a … whatever they call it… one of those things they keep in a vein, so they can swap bottles of fluids that drip into you. And put a cushion of… Continue reading
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Lesson: obey warning signs
The short of it is that I’m in a hospital with a blood clot in my right lung. The long of it is that I don’t have other blood clots, that I’m on blood thinners for awhile, and I’ll be fine. I might make it out by this afternoon, and I’ll even be able to… Continue reading
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Quite an extinction
Geoff Livingston writes, Shel Israel did more to create the social media marketing industry than any other person with the possible exception of Doc Searls. Well, that certainly wasn’t my intention. Probably not Shel‘s, either. Continue reading
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Memphis meltdown
Comes a time in every NCAA final when a team melts down. It usually happens near the end, when the game is close, such as when Chris Webber of the Michigan Fab Five called a time out when there were none left, and Carolina went on to win the game. And to Duke when it… Continue reading
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A tour across the urban Northeast at night
Here’s a slide show compiled from shots from a left side window (6A) of a United 737 flying from Dulles to Logan. Featured are Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Jersey’s refinery districts, New York and BostonProvidence. Even from half a dozen miles up and more than that away, you can see the bright lights of Yankee Stadium… Continue reading
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What comes after blogging
Thinking it over, seems to me that blogging has for the most part become flogging, but that trying to rebadge the former as the latter is a job for Sysiphus (about whom Camus says some interesting stuff here). A while back Dave Winer said he would quit blogging one of these days. At the time… Continue reading