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Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:34:51 GMT

National Weather Service alerts are available in RSS 2.0. Bing!

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:38:02 GMT

I subscribed to the feed for Massachusetts. "There are no active watches, warnings or advisories."

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 19:33:30 GMT

I was trawling various referrer logs, and came across Richard Stallman's personal site, where he points to something I wrote. We've certainly gotten into a few heated discussions, but when it comes to keeping the Internet free of ownership by media companies, we're on the same side. I like.

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:15:02 GMT

Chris Lydon interviews Joe Trippi, Dean's campaign manager.

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:10:22 GMT

Simply Live Anywhere: "You need the power of a heavy jetliner to get an idea off the ground."

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:59:18 GMT

It took me a while to figure out who Moose is. It's Jessica the Librarian, a Thursday night regular. Moose?

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:53:40 GMT

Press release: "Weblog software leader Six Apart and NIFTY, one of Japan's leading ISPs, have announced a licensing agreement to provide Six Apart's popular TypePad weblogging service to over five million NIFTY subscribers in Japan."

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:09:07 GMT

My four year old Sony Vaio is too old, the CPU is slow, the OS is out of date, and it's thrashing awfully, and I feel like treating myself to something new. Dave Jacobs says I should get a ThinkPad, and after talking with a couple of other people I decided to buy one since I can get a huge discount through Harvard. I called their order line, and in ten minutes we had zeroed in on the unit. Fast, lots of memory, great warranty. The guy puts me on hold to confirm they have it in stock, and never comes back. Twenty minutes later the phone system offers me five choices that make no sense. I hit Operator. The guy has no idea, and unlike the first guy, who was pure IBM (competent) the second guy is like jello. Can't get him to help me. So I say goodbye and call back, and wait another twenty minutes. This would be a perfect IBM commercial. BTW, lots of the glitches are things that could be fixed if they hired a user to tell them how silly, repetitive and even contradictory the phone messages are. And the music they play, pretty sexy stuff. At IBM? The world has gone crazy. It's official.

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:03:01 GMT

Andrew's looking for a new laptop too.

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:16:42 GMT

Friendster user on Friendster: "...the fantasy that we are all rock stars, that everyone's ass looks great in leather, that everyone is sexy."

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:03:42 GMT

Today's song: "I want the world to change for me!"

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:04:05 GMT

A Seattle reporter who covers Microsoft has an alternate view of ApacheCon, including Chris Pirillo's keynote. On the other hand, Doc Searls says it reminded him of BloggerCon.