Sunday, November 23, 2003

NY Times: "Some have said that Republicans were violating a presidential promise not to use the campaign against terrorism for political gain." 

Adam Curry: "It's interesting to examine a culture that mounts cameras on smart bombs to view the kill on the 6 o'clock news, but freaks out if a nipple of a [female] breast is flashed on TV." 

PocketRSS is a "Today Screen plugin and stand-alone application which allows a quick and easy method of displaying various types of RSS/OPML compliant data on your Today Screen." 

Rest of trip notes 

Tomorrow I'm speaking at Larry Lessig's class at Stanford Law School about weblogs, the election of 2004, outliners, Hollywood vs Silicon Valley, what we're doing at Berkman, and anything else Larry wants to talk about. We've been having great productive email exchanges for about a year now, it'll be great to have a conversation in person, in front of a group of students. It's free and open to the public. 12:30PM. As people to help you find the Moot Court Room. Scripting News readers are welcome to participate.

Tuesday evening in Berkeley Sylvia Paull is hosting a dinner in my honor, this will be the first Scripting News dinner in the East Bay. King Tsin, 7PM. Again, this is open, but please send me an email if you're coming so I can forward it to Sylvia so she can reserve a place for you. I imagine that we can accomodate people who don't.

I didn't buy a new laptop today. The selection at Best Buy was abysmal. I didn't want to buy one at Fry's because there is no Fry's in Boston, if I need service. I did get to hang out with Scoble and Son, we went to Ikea, and had Swedish Meatballs. I ran into a Bloggerconner in the lobby of Ikea. That's the funny thing about BloggerCon, I keep running into people you met there.

Morning notes 

Goooood morning from California!

This computer is almost completely hosed. I may have to go to Fry's today and pay retail on a new one. Oy. The dysfunction is funny -- text doesn't display in places you know it should. But then it's amazing that the most iffy bit of technology, Channel Z, is working just fine, praise Murphy.

It's been that kind of trip. The flight cross country was supposed to be jammed full but it was only 2/3 full, and the middle seat in my row was empty. They had a nice movie, which I didn't watch because I was reading an even better book. The guy next to me was a Silicon Valley entrepreneur from Taiwan whose company makes thin clients. Interesting stories. But when I got to SFO the car rental company, Thrifty, said I was a no-show and they had given my car to someone else. And they were sold out. So tired. I just stood there at the counter and said I wasn't leaving until they gave me a car. They gave me one. Drove down the peninsula and my hotel room is great. So it's been a yin-yang trip. If it holds up, the next one should be a goodie. Anyway it'll be a light day here for sure.