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| Tuesday, July 23, 2002 |
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Eight hours later... 
| | ... and I'm here in my hotel, eating a dinner of bar food in the room, getting mayonaise all over the mouse. |
| | It's been a long day. I left at 10-something, did some errands, discovered I'd forgotten my credit card, went home, left again at 11, and pretty much crawled all the way to Newport Beach, where I had lunch with my daughter about 3. Somewhere along the way I joined the GeekPAC board (we're making progress!) in a conference call meeting, when I wasn't talking to various members one-on-one. Then between 4:30 and 7:00 I continued crawling down to San Diego, spending the last hour on the phone live to The Linux Show. |
| | It was actually a lot of fun. Beat listiening to SCAN on the radio. I think Jeff Gerhardt is sick of my voice by now, though. |
Leaving the nest
| | Okay, I'm heading south for OSCon. Driving the old piece'o'shit Subaru (incredibly, I'm still driving it) stopping for visits along the way. Should be back on line late today. Meanwhile, I'll leave you with some Things of Beauty: Judith's latest on what's happening with her birds. |
Minor tech support item
| | Anybody know how to get Mozilla to open something othr than its own email client when you click on a mailto link? It must be a simple pref setting, but I can't find it. [Later...] It appears to be a user-fixable bug. Thanks to Richard Bounds for a quick response on that. |
| | Oh, here's another one: how do you get History to appear on the left margin, like it does in IE? I think it does that, but I don't remember... |
Getting Real
| | Tomorrow I'll be seeing Real CEO Rob Glaser in San Diego. I'll have a few questions of my own, but I'd like to get some additional thoughts from the rest of ya'll both for my talk with Rob and for my Linux Journal coverage of the subject, which will be ongoing, to say the least. |
| | [Later...}I finished the first piece a little while ago and it should be up sometime today. Hopefully soon. |
Transparency, again
| | Tom: Fraud's worse for markets than violence, because it's invisible. |
| | It's what you don't know that you don't know, no? |
| | I like my frauds visible. They're funnier that way. |
Light up your night
| | See, the Aurora is something of a halo on the Earth (surrounding the North and Sough magnetic poles), and the solar wind pushes that halo to one side: the side away from the Sun. You can see the current halo right here. Last fall the Aurora was clearly visible (and photographed) as far south as North Carolina and San Diego (where I'm headed today). |
In days of old when radio was bold...
| | Dean Landsman and I were in radio at the same time (the mid-'70s), in the same region (Raleigh-Durham), and didn't know each other. Later, in the late '80s nd early '90s, we became friends through the Broadcast Professionals Forum on Compuserve, one of the best online communities I have ever known — and one of the many victims, ultimately, of AOL's selfish and dim-as-dirt ideas about how to move online communities to the Web. (The Forum's ultimate WizOp was Mary Lu Wehmeier, by the way — she explains here) I went on to co-found an ad agency and move to Silicon Valley, while Dean became one of the sharpest consultants in the radio business. |
| | We're both long since out of broadcasting now, but in this post here Dean gives us a real good picture of how good consultants worked when the business still had use for them. |
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