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| Monday, July 15, 2002 |
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And ain't it just like a friend of mine... 
| | John Branch is The Tarheel Pundit, subtitled "A weblog from North Carolina." |
| | Whatever, it's a good blog. |
| | Sitting in Seattle (which in July is like Santa Barbara but with volcanoes), I find myself missing North Carolina. I love that smell the grass and the red dirt give up in the hot summer sun, the afternoon thunderstorms, the fireflies rising up to form galaxies in the oak trees... |
Opacity as a failed business model
| | Following a thread from Steve MacLaughlin (Saltire, above) to Andrew Sullivan to William Safire, I'm beginning to think the current malaise on Wall Street expresses both the devaluing effects of failed opacity strategies (in accounting, in technology promise, in IPO schemes, you name it) and the realization by investors that the transparencies valued by customers and employees offer no betting advantages. When clarity becomes a commodity, what the hell is it worth? |
| | But that's okay, because advantages shift to more valuable qualities, such as intelligence, hard work and know-how. And that goes both for companies and the entities that invest in them. |
Budget car, waste time
| | I left Santa Barbara at 5:15am, and LAX at 6:53. Landed in Seattle at 9:15, planning to reach the Linux Journal office not long after 10, since I carried my luggage and had a rental car waiting. |
| | Then I spent an hour waiting for Budget to get me a car. First the line took forever, then after I finished doing the paperwork at the counter, they told me to "wait over there" for my car "to come in." After my heels had cooled for about fifteen minutes, they sent me over to the booth that dispenses the keys, where I was stuck behind an angry woman with a problem. That was another ten minutes. After that ended, the kid in the booth thanked me for my patience. I bit my tongue at the tonsils, loaded my stuff in the Taurus (does any car have a more renty personality? I don't think so) ran straight into traffic on I-5, then road work in downtown Ballard. |
| | Finally got here a few mintues ago. It's noon. |
| | But it's beautiful outside. Seattle at its best: one of my favorite urban graces. |
My preference would be sleeping, but alas.
| | I'm flying to Seattle in a few hours, and just starting to pack and prepare. Meanwhile the G4/500 seems to have no Classic mode. Not good. (I'm writing this on the G4/800 while installing a new Classic OS on the G4/500, hoping that solves the problem. No idea.) |
| | [Later...] Now I get "You do not have sufficient permissions to run Classic from /privateBê. Please correct permissions and restart Classic." I've reset every permission I can find, but I've got a funny feeling about this /privateBê shit. |
| | Anyway, I'll be teching or sleeping, then flying and working. Not likely to be a bloggy kinda day. |
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