Saturday, June 19, 2004

SpywareInfo RSS 2.0 feed. Subscribed. 

Help, I can't play music on my ThinkPad running XP. 

Jon Udell on the Google PC. 

NY Times reviews Bill Clinton's memoir. 

One of my own weblogs, not updated since November 2002, was in the lifeboat, and was rescued. It's interesting to see the old sites. Many of them were deliberately shuttered by the people who created them. Makes an interesting story. I wonder if anyone will be interested.  

Technical update on the hosting transition.  

I'm still getting billed for some items from my Europe trip in April. The wonderful cell phone I rented, for one week, cost (sit down) $472.53. Holy shit. Now some of that has to be the terrible exchange rate from dollars to euros. And some of it is a total ripoff. Oy. I better get a phone that works in Europe. Andrew has one. He says T-Mobile is the way to go. Postscript: Christoph Jaggi explains. 

Today we added a link to encoding examples for descriptions in the RSS 2.0 specification. 

Better late than never. Don Park is a friend.  

Scoble: "When there are technology users in pain, we should do whatever we can to take care of them." 

Wes Felter posted a thoughtful response last night, and I posted a response to his. 

Jeneane Sessum: "A 9/11 of sorts for the weblogs.com bloggers." 

Matt Haughey snapped this picture. Did things get blown out of proportion? Vastly. No sites were lost, nothing was murdered, all the data is safe, it was nothing like 9/11, the users are okay, a bunch of people showed how nasty and selfish they can be, we were hit by Slashdot traffic and trolls at a time when our server was already buckling under the load, and we were finding it impossible to communicate with the people who were affected. The press did a quick superficial job. Now we're over the rough spot. One can hope that next time it happens people aren't so quick to believe the lies and hysterics, and that people who understand technology stick around and help clear up the bullshit.