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Oh my god, I don’t believe it. Here is a link to an article by Senator
John Ashcroft circa 1997, entitled Keep
Big Brother’s Hands off the Internet. Of course, although you can
have these principled views when it is of no cost to you, be sure and
abandon them if you find that you in fact are Big [...]
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Ha! I got it done! I now have a function that will execute a save on
all the .txt files in my directory. This will make everything have the
full calendar, as well as redo everything when I change the
template. I found a function called “weblog-map-directory” which
allowed me to pass an anonymous function that gets mapped for [...]
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This one comes from my wife, of all people, someone who forwards an
internet joke about once every five years. It’s a page devoted to a
deep theological question of great importance to automobile crazed
Americans: What
Would Jesus Drive?
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It’s true - I have a bit of a lisp, and I’ll be doing a bit of
programming in Lisp. I have so little Lisp experience, though, that
everything is frustrating. I barely know how to do anything. The task
I want to do is so simple, yet it has taken me months to tackle it
because I have [...]
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I got my stuff in the mail from the eBay auction, screen cleaners and
Prism protectors, chargers for AC and the car. Just in time not to be
able to use them on the trip. They’re a little more nondescript than I
was expecting, being completely unlabeled OEM looking things. I can’t
say I care that much, as long [...]
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I did forget to talk about some useful stuff that did happen at the
panel that exploded. Both are about me being wrong, which quite
frankly pleases me. Discussions like this are about getting your
opinions out and hearing about others, not shouting down those that
differ from you. In the first, I made the assertion that I had [...]
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Israeli PR
Heard a very interesting episode of
Alternative Radio on WREK today. This dealt with the
Palestinians and how the news coverage in America has a slant even
more pro-Israeli than that in Israel itself. It had some interesting
stuff about how the Israelis use PR firms as a tool in their
occupation of the West Bank. It’s available on [...]
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I wrote up an entry about the ebook panel that went to hell, but I
don’t think I’m going to put it in here. There’s nothing to be gained
by it, as it wasn’t particularly useful or fun as a panel. Tempers
flared, some unflared, some stayed flared and then we all left. I was
already pissed off by [...]
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Orycon Wrapup
Here are some entries pasted from the laptop:
Sitting in PDX waiting to board my flight. Still 45 more minutes until
then. I allotted two hours, leaving the Doubletree on the 5:55 shuttle
for an 8:05 plane. Of course, it took nowhere near that long and by
6:30 I was sitting and waiting, even with getting the extra special
wand [...]
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I just had the eBooks panel, which was at best a cluster fuck. Oh
well. There were multiple shouting matches (I was involved in zero of
them, other than asking people to stop), numerous political agendas on
display (I made sure to say when I presented mine “Here is my
particular political agenda”), and not a lot of usefulness. [...]
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Oh shit. I logged in to write about how good this panel just was, and
I see in my e-mail that Thomas Fuller has died. Damn damn damn damn!
He had a heart attack recently and now he has died. I’ll write about
the Orycon stuff later.
I was not what you’d call a close friend of Thomas. I [...]
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Just before Orycon begins. One downside of being here early, being on
east coast time, and me being me is that I’m up and raring to go,
and nothing has started rolling yet. I’m in the internet cafe, up on
the wifi. They are going to put an access point in the lobby, which
should be cool.
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Very brief entry from the hotel room on a dial-up. I’m hoping to see
if I can do a little internet research on the wifi for my 3 PM
panel. Sushi was good last night, as was hanging out at Paddy’s with a
variety of friends from PDX. Lunch today with other friends before the
con proper gets rolling.
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Since I can, here are the entries I typed in over the last 12 hours of
my journey here.
I’m in Denver airport. I am hooked into their wifi network, but I
can’t get out to the public internet unless I’m willing to pay $9.99
for 24 hours or more for more access. I’m not. The cool thing is [...]
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Holy shit! I stopped into a Kinko’s near where the sushi joint is to
print out the cheezy flyer. Not only did the Kinko’s print driver
stuff install flawlessly, not only did my flyer print first try
without issues, but it looks good! Added bonus, since you have to
attach to the network to print TCP/IP, I have access [...]
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Today is free day, so I breakfasted on pumpkin cheesecake, with a
Snickers for mid morning break. Perhaps in Denver later I’ll have a
Big Mac. I don’t think Bill Phillips requires that every free day be a
full style Roman bachanalia, but it sure doesn’t forbid it, so what
the hell?
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So I came in to work at 6 AM since my flight leaves earlier than I
thought. For once, my spasticity about travelling pays off, as I
double check reservations, call the hotel, check the flights, etc. The
earlier confirmation had me leaving at 1:40 PM, but now I’m leaving at
12:05 PM. What a joy it would have [...]
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Ah, mystery solved. The search on “evil genius dave slusher” was
actually done by a friend of mine, one that I didn’t even know read
the blog (hi Nick). Wow, weblogging brings people together. I feel a
song coming on.
I’m going to try to do some weblogging Doc Searls style whilst at Orycon,
actually carrying the laptop with [...]
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I’ve done a little bit of trying to wrangle a shindig with my buds in
PDX for tomorrow. E-mails have exchanged, and I’m trying to get a
quorum together for sushi buffet at the fabulous Todai in Pioneer Place. After that can
be revelry at any number of watering holes around there. I’m looking
forward to the trip, despite [...]
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After a long absence, the band of the day is back! This time
it is a musician I heard on WREK yesterday, Shannon Wright. She has a
haunting voice and the song I heard yesterday “Dirty Facade” is kind
of slow and spooky in the best way. I know nothing about her that
isn’t on the web page, although [...]
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