Tuesday, June 01, 2004

I abhor a pot that isn't simmering. 

Julie Leung: "If you give a girl a blog then she'll want an RSS feed. And if you give a girl an RSS feed, she's going to ask for an aggregator." 

Don Park: "Iraq will be worse even if Iraq becomes a strong ally of America and Iraqis are drowned in everything American for the next 50 years like Korea has been." 

Ian Bicking: "Sorry for wasting your time." 

Darren Barefoot says the Smug Canadian needs to check his facts. 

Miseldine: "187 days smoke free." Good work! 

Via Robb via Isenberg: Historians vs George W Bush.  

The Smug Canadian makes a good point, sometimes we have to get involved and try to fix the world. But, imho, this isn't one of those times.  

An announcement I missed when I was in Europe in April. "BMC Software agreed to acquire Marimba for $239 million in cash." 

Ray Slakinski: "Nucleus will download a specified RSS file, and look for .torrent files that match any of the specified keywords." 

Computerworld quick-study piece on RSS. 

A medical weblog aggregator from Jacob Reider, MD. 

Jeff Jarvis is promoting a site called Spirit of America. I don't know much about it, and I don't sign up for political causes I don't know much about. I see other bloggers singing glowing praises for it, but sheez, how could they know? I don't think bloggerdom should be used like TV talk shows. I said I don't stand up for causes I don't understand. I guess that's a polite way of saying that I don't even like what they're doing. I think we need to get over ourselves in America, our time is just about over, unless we stop guzzling so much gas and start electing leaders with brains, morals and courage. I feel I have to say I like Jeff, I really do, he's come through for me twice at BloggerCon, and I appreciate that. But his politics are 180 degrees opposite mine, even on tactics. I think the best thing the US can do for the world is get our own house in order and stop trying to fix the world, something we're exceedingly bad at.