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History is nothing more than a vast collection of todays.
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Step Three: Moving Day
There are still a few things to take care of (aren't there always) but I might as well announce that the move has been made. If you have bookmarked or blogrolled me, first of all, thanks! I appreciate the patronage. Second, please modify yer link to point at http://www.robertkbrown.com/. If you've subscribed to the RSS feed, http://robertkbrown.com/index.rdf is where you can find the new one.Automatic redirection of pages here will be made much simpler by the fact that my new MT archive structure mirrors my Radio archive structure. In other words, content that appears at http://radio.weblogs.com/0101146/2002/08/01.html will now appear at http://www.robertkbrown.com/archives/2002/08/01.html. This will all be automated later today, after I return home. I'll manually go in and update pointers from old to new for my fiction and non-fiction entries, but there aren't too many of those.
Thanks again. See you at the new digs.
Anniversary Plans
Thanks to the travel section of the Sunday morning paper, Melissa and I have a destination for our anniversary. It'll just be a weekend getaway, but still. Should be nice.
Two From Tim
Morning reading finds a couple of good links from Geodog. First, a solid summary of Bush's assault on civil liberties: 1) passion for secrecy; 2)arrogation of power to self; and 3) cynical motivation. Also, he's been recently added to The Lefty Directory.- Knowledge Streaming
A term that I've heard quite often over the years -- especially as a consultant, brought in to build some system or another for clients -- is "knowledge transfer." It's not quite an afterthought, but it does tend to get lumped into some of the marginal project deliverables like documentation and testing. The feeling is that it's a one-time thing. Your developer sits down with our developer for half a day maybe, explaining where everything is and any potential roadblocks. There's a mind-lock, and knowledge transfers directly from one brain into another. Neat. Tidy. Unfortunately, even if it actually worked that way, it would still be a one-time deal. This is related to a general failing of most project-management systems in that they're typically used only once, at the very beginning, but are seldom updated. What you need is constant communication, a knowledge stream, that ensures everybody is on the same page. I see weblogs as one piece to that puzzle, a part of the stream. They will help you stay current at the same time they present an easy portal to the past. If I were still a consultant, I'd re-word my proposals to talk about creating a knowledge stream with the client, using all of the appropriate tools to facilitate that conduit. - Bagel-rific
Yummers: Bruegger's everything bagel, toasted, with veggie cream cheese. - And So The Race for 2004 Begins
The NYT (registration, etc.) has an editorial from Al Gore:The economic debate, now as then, is fundamentally about principle. The problem is not that Mr. Bush and Dick Cheney picked the wrong advisers or misunderstood the technical arguments, but that their economic purpose was and is ideological: to provide $1.6 trillion in tax giveaways for the few while pretending they were for the many, and manipulating the numbers to make it appear that the budget surplus would be preserved. It was pre-Enron political accounting.
- Zut Alors
Watched Amelie again tonight. What a joy. If it wasn't already so late, I'd pop The Double Life of Veronique into the VCR. Perhaps tomorrow. - Once Again
The problem with Google and weblogs (also see "Death by Blogging") is clearly illustrated in this search from my referrers log. I am the number one result of searches for don lerman pictures. First of all, and this is a sporadic problem, it doesn't link to the actual page where those posts were made. If it went to the cached version to see the correct date, you'd see the second problem: Don Lerman ate almost two pounds of butter in five minutes! The picture is from Roche Harbor. What a disappointment it must have been when the lead-in text read .. Pictures don't do it justice. ... Crazy Legs Conti ate 168 oysters in 10 minutes. And Don Lerman ate seven quarter-pound sticks of butter in five minutes. ... only to discover pictures of the San Juan Islands. - Fingers Crossed
I really want to grill some burgers for dinner tonight. This is the radar image from about half an hour ago. The collection of squares on the right is the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. I'm in the lower-left square. The wall is moving in our direction.
Do I try to beat it out? Or after the downpour comes, do I wait for a lull in the storm?
News.Com: "For a mainstream Web site such as MSNBC, blogs offer a stepped-up level of editorial control over the often raucous ramblings from readers in online discussion boards. The site closed the popular boards last December because of the high cost of monitoring discussions that often turned into obscene flame wars." [Scripting News]- Welcome
My niece, Paige Albay Thomson, was introduced to the world at 1:16 AM this morning. Her older brother spent the night with us last night, so we were expecting the call. Haven't met her yet, but we'll be visiting the hospital soon. Congratulations to my brother and sister in law! - Setec Astronomy
First spotted on Geodog's blog, Judge orders U.S. government to release names of 9/11 detainees. - Opinions
Two from the op/ed page of this morning's paper. I wonder when news media will begin looking to weblogs for content on their printed pages? Because, frankly, I've seen both of these opinions stated elsewhere over the past couple of weeks (especially the Orwell bit). - Bullies In Action
So we're at Blockbuster, picking up a couple of movies for the weekend. There is a man renting a video in the line next to us. Our cashier is trying to figure out the confusing combination of coupons that I'd brought, so I'm able to listen to the cashier next to us explain that there is a balance of $4.25 on the man's account. The man begins to explain, repeatedly, that he dropped the video off right at noon. He went to the pizza place for lunch next door. He made a special trip. He dropped it off. At noon. How can you possibly charge me? Can we work out a deal? I don't have enough money. Can we let it slide? I dropped it off. Why can't you help me out, here? I made a special trip. It was excrutiating. Apparently he only had enough cash on him to rent the one movie he came in for. The manager tried suggesting that when there are actually people in the store, and you're having lunch next door anyway, it might be a good idea to go into the store to ensure there's no "extended viewing charge." Let's see what time you guys processed it. I dropped it off at noon. I made a special trip... what? Seven o'clock at night? Why... why... And then he stormed off. Unbelievable. He probably used to work out schemes to get free pizzas just by complaining loud enough and long enough that the driver took longer than thirty minutes. I was glad to see that the young cashier didn't give into this guy. Correction: the cashier did cave, when he almost immediately offered to cut the late fee in half. What I'm glad about is that the guy didn't get what he wanted -- that he didn't have even two more dollars in his wallet to pay the late fee -- and had to walk away empty handed. - Hi. I Queue.
Went ahead and took the bait on daypop, and tried the five minute IQ test. I was surprised. It's basically a vocabulary test. Big whoop. I'm not gonna say what I got, but it was above the threshold (126) for qualification in this cool club of cognizant citizens. Did I pay the sixty dollar entrance fee? Hmm. This must be part of the test. A paradox: to be included in the special society, you need to be above the line; but if you're above the line, you probably won't waste your money.
