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| Saturday, December 1, 2001 |
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Pluggage 
| | Saw Sam Shaber perform two times in two places — a bar and a coffee house — on two consecutive nights. She's terrific. Very New Yawk and Folk at the same time. ("This will folk you up" is one of her lines.) If her tour comes through your town, check her out. (She's at the Hotel Utah in San Francisco tomorrow night, by the way). Various former members of Little Feat and the Jim Kweskin Jug Band will be coming through in the next few days too. Can't wait. |
| | And here's a plug for Brian, who caught the latest in my endless series of bad links (now gone from the above paragraph). I'm starting to read his online book while trying to get SuSE and KDE to work on one of my Linux boxes. |
Gratuitous reproduction
| | I wanted to say something nasty about page spawning, which I consider evil, wrong, bad and ugly (EWBU, an acronym I learned from Craig Burton many moons ago). |
| | So I went to this page to learn something about the HTML and Javascript involved, and it spawned another one. |
Beer to peer
| | KaZaA has been ordered to shut down or face big fines. KaZaa is a Napsterlike Dutch site with Windows and Linux clients that describes its technology as peer-to-peer. It's done nothing so far. Even its press page doesn't mention the court order. |
Thank you for watching
| | Here's an AP story on a survey that says Internet use cuts in to TV time, by about 4.5 hours per week. There's more: |
| | Internet users socialized with friends slightly longer than nonusers did, and they spent nearly as much time socializing with family, the study found. Users and nonusers spent about the same amount of time on most household activities, like having meals and playing sports. |
| | Right now we're listening to our TV, which is tuned into the holiday music channel on DishTV. We're decking out the house for Christmas today. Very seasonal and fun. |
| | Thanks to my wife for the link, by the way. |
Pulpitry
| | Thomas L. Friedman, the New York Times columnist and author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, is a star. I saw him on Letterman last night. Dave treated him like Yoda. He sounded like yet another talking head to me, but some of his lines brought applause. |
| | His column today (link above) contradicts itself, if you ask me. Friedman wants us to "begin forging a strategic partnership with Russia," but criticizes Bush and Putin for not reaching some kind of agreement after Putin's recent visit. Kinda like looking for a baby after the first date. I'm just happy these guys seem to like each other. |
| | This is an example of what you get sometimes when you have to pump out editorials like sausages: all the same size, all on an X-times/week schedule. |
| | I still think he's excellent, by the way. |
X boxes the spot
| | I give Dell and the other PC companies about five years of life before Microsoft squashes them like gnats. |
Even though oddsmakers say Strom Thurmond will outlive him
| | David Weinberger reports that Al Quaeda is determined to smoke out "American terrorist mastermind Dick Cheney." |
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