Monday, January 31, 2005

1967: "United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting." 

The full article in PDF form.  

Good/bad news -- this weblog crossed a bandwidth threshold in the last few weeks, it's now serving more than 10 megabits per second, which happened to be the limit of the server it's running on. Access gets flaky as it bounces off the limit, and for the last couple of hours its been pegged at the limit, making it largely inaccessible. I just upgraded the server, if you can read this it means we're back on the air. Later tonight I'm going to move things around again to make better usage of the servers, so there's sure to be another outage or two. Dig we must! 

Two SJ Merc articles on podcasting. Password protected but cypherpunk-cypherpunk works. 

Wellesley College breaks ground, offering free blogs to all alumni. Harvard did this first, but doesn't make such a big deal about it. 

TiVO releases a developer kit. Too late? 

New header graphic. 

Scoble's FAQ on rel="nofollow". 

Dan Bricklin understands the role guilt plays in software. "Instead of making you feel bad for 'only' doing 99%, a well designed system makes you feel good for doing 1%." 

MSN product manager: "If I want to meet with a products manager for Windows there needs to be three lawyers in the room."