Month: January 2004

Ernie’s giving up. David Weinberger’s about to surrender. And Ross is saying that resistance is futile. Ouch. I was starting to like comments on my blog. I’m getting a few a day, but not the 500 that David’s getting… which makes me oddly jealous. (OK, not really.) In any event, I don’t like Ross’s suggestion…

Hi — if you’re using Internet Explorer, can you verify that the home page for this site loads properly? I’ve heard from a number of people using IE on Windows machines that the sidebar (starts with Archives, goes down from there) doesn’t show up on the side but below the main posts at the bottom…

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall Number of days between Novak column outing Valerie Plame and announcement of investigation: 74 days. Number of days between O’Neill 60 Minutes interview and announcement of investigation: 1 day. Having the administration reveal itself as a gaggle of hypocritcal goons … priceless. Here’s the thing: Democrats were all…

Salon.com Technology | No safety net for programmers The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration determined that programmers like Fusco do not qualify, because of the nature of what they’d produced on their old jobs: software. The government cited commerce and trade rules that classify software as a “service” and “not a tangible…

As I wrote previously, I purchased the TiVo Home Media Option on my TiVo Series 2 box. I love it — it has connected my home PC with my TV and stereo system in exactly the way I wanted. That said, the TiVo desktop software that is installed on the PC (which “publishes” the music…

Just a quick follow-up to this post from a few weeks ago. I’m not completely done, but some of the biggies are at least in place: Cleaned-up archives. In the top-right at the weblog, you now get a calendar of the current month, a drop-down list of all previous months’ archives, a drop-down list of…

SNL just ran a parody ad from all of the Democratic candidates except Howard Dean. “Why bother waiting to lose faith in him when George Bush accuses him of selling Ben & Jerry’s to finance his gay marriage to Saddam Hussein, when we’re saying it right now? They got a few of the candidates down…

I remarked the other day that I got the Toshiba Media Server for Christmas. It’s a TiVo Series 2 machine as well as a progressive scan DVD player. And, in spite of what I’m about to write, it’s a great machine. I love it. Of course, that I haven’t thrown it out a ten story…

Assuming Dean gets the Illinois nomination, I’ll be a delegate to the Democratic Convention in July. I’m excited.

I just completed an import of posts from my old Dean blog into TINS. (For those who didn’t know, TINS is an acronym: There Is No Spoon. It’s a Matrix reference.) Over the next week, I’ll be updating the category pages, and providing more flexibility in RSS feeds so those of you who only want…