Archives for March 2002

I just want toilet paper that doesn’t scratch up my ass.  Best High-Tech Toilet? [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

How I spent my morning.  A 5:15am phone call, a two hour drive, lots of crisis management, and a two hour drive home.  Easter rocks. 

I have always loved this quote.  Helen Keller. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

I watch JAG every Tuesday.  So should you.  TV Drama, Pentagon-Style: A Fictional Terror Tribunal. A television drama is a striking demonstration of how the Pentagon’s image builders take Hollywood just as seriously as they take the news media. By Katharine Q. Seelye. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Thank god.  CBDTPA / SSSCA Won’t Be Passed This Year, Say Leahy [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

Absolutely amazing that this building withstood those pressures.  Leaked FEMA/ASCE Draft Report On WTC Collapse [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

Pretty interesting.  Paolo at eVectors wrote up his deployment of the Radio Community Server.  Every person at his company uses Radio on the desktop.  They publish personal weblogs to the Intranet via an RSS server.  They use Radio categories to publish topic specific weblogs.  Their Intranet server aggregates RSS feeds from the multiple employee weblogs (both their main weblog and their category specific weblogs).  The Intranet server also integrates data from their accounting system (this could be generalized to extend to any source of application specific data that is aggegated centrally via web services), hosts discussion groups, manages task lists, and serves as centralized document store.  Their Intranet is a portal to all the information, people, and feeds that are available.  Nice. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]