Friday, December 05, 2003

Just after 10PM Eastern, the snow has started. Scary! 

Jim Moore took a picture of his son in the woods by his house outside Boston today. A big blizzard coming in tonight from the south. The scene is going to look quite different when the boy wakes up tomorrow morning. 

I'm getting nowhere getting my Windows XP-based laptop connected to the Internet. The wireless connection is excellent, but it's not getting an IP address over DHCP, or so it says. When I look at the properties of the connection it sure seems to have a good IP address. Checking the status it's sent 78 packets but only received 1. When I try to "repair" the connection (not sure what that means) it churns for a minute and then says "Please contact your network administrator or ISP." Yeah I'm sure Verizon is going to be a lot of help. (Sorry for the sarcasm.) If you have an idea of what I should try next, post a comment here, please. 

There's a snow storm headed our way. "Driving and walking would be dangerous and that people should remain indoors unless travel was 'absolutely necessary.'" 

Hey there's a new award site and Scripting News is nominated for Best Overall Blog. Thank you thank you. Now y'all can vote for my humble weblog, and for that I would be most grateful, because as much as I like being nominated, I like winning much much more.  

John Foster sends a pointer to an abbreviated rendtion of They All Asked For You. Mike Donellan sent the most complete lyrics. I'm still looking for one that includes the names of all the New Orleans food they talk about, like red beans and rice and crawfish etouffe. There's some that I can't figure out wtf they're talking about. And while I was writing that, my new laptop arrived. Yehi. 

Andrew Grumet: "BitTorrent will probably be the killer app for dealing with RSS enclosures when they catch on." 

Talking with my brother last night we hummed a few bars of an old New Orleans favorite. "I went on down to the Audubon Zoo and they all aksd for you. The monkeys aksed. The tigers aksed and the elephants aksed me too." It's a silly little song, that's why it's so much fun. I told my bro we could get the lyrics on the Web, but I just looked, and they still ain't there. Come on Internet. Let's get this show on the road.  

Gotta love this. Here's a developer who created a tool that claims to support the full RSS 2.0 spec. Even Radio doesn't do that (but it comes close).  

Jeffrey Henning: "Some commentators have taken our idea of nanoaudiences as a sign of the failure of blogs." 

After much thought and mind-changing I bought a Creative Rhomba. Deciding factor was ease of use and reliability. Reviews of the Archos box were not great. Downside is that the voice recorder in the Rhomba produces WAV files so if I want to generate MP3s, I'll have to run a converter of some kind.  

It's time for a new banner for Scripting News. This one comes from a series of pictures I took on 5/28/00, on a boat on a canal in Venice, on a trip to Trieste, with my gracious host, Paolo Valdemarin.