Archives for May 2002

I’m sorry, are you a National Security Specialist? No, but you are fucking rich.  That doesn’t make you a supermind in this area.  Geesh.  Warren Buffett: Nuke attack ‘virtually a certainty’ [CNN]

Too funny.  New York Police Facing Massive Retirements Are Recruiting in Boston. WBZ May 6 2002 10:20AM ET [Moreover – moreover…]

He’s a friggin idiot and rapist.  Contradictory Tyson faces press. Tyson admits biting Lewis, then denies it later in interview promoting heavyweight title fight. Washington [USA Today : Front Page]

Incredible.  Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said he believed something like this was “impossible in this day in age, in the European Union, in the 21st Century”. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]

Oh yeah!  TIME.com: Sneak peek at Matrix II [CNN]

This is a wild idea.  This is something I would love to see.  A small town newspaper builds a site with Radio.  It provides Radio to all of the community leaders in town, such as the local fire department, the police, the schools, the community organizations, the local sports teams, the zoning board, etc.  All told it provides 50 licenses, templates, and a location to post ($2k).   It then links to these organizations via its home site and aggregates RSS style news.  It accepts more community weblogs from others that buy the software on their own and begin to publish (my town’s girls soccer team has a Radio weblog, through no work done by me).

It then sells Radio, plus a place on their main site, to local businesses.  $250 a year.  The local travel agents, the real-estate agents, the landscaping businesses, etc all post new info on specials, tips on what your next purchase or activity should be, etc.  There would easily be, in most 20k person towns 100 small companies that would do this = $25 k.  All the paper would need to do is point them to the location to download the software and link to them.

Now, most of this could be done without an RCS server and simply through FTP, a static host (available at most ISPs for low $$), and linking.  Simple.  An RCS and some manipulation of RSS newsfeeds would add another level of sophistication and community building.   

Think of the benefits!  All the news you could ever want on a town in one place = fresh, decentralized, and useful.  Produced by the people who make it. Excellent. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]

Amen to that.  I use EasyDNS for DNS Services as well.  Domain Registration Done Right. I was turned on to easyDNS through TidBITS and Adam Engst, its publisher and my friend. I, like most right-thinking people, have been dissatisfied with Network Solutions since 1994. They have never seemed to master the most basic Web technologies: Web-based interfaces, passwords, self-service, databases, etc. It was beyond me that in 1996, they seemed to manage everything through email that was manually entered into databases. It’s beyond me in 2002 that you can’t seem to get them to perform a single transfer correctly, partly because they rely on a complicated system that involves email. I’ve tried other domain registrars and been left cold. I won’t mention them because none of them demonstrate the incompetence of Network Solutions, but rather just don’t quite get it right. I’ve read a number of articles lately about how Network Solutions has allegedly tried to delay domain registrar transfers to frustrate users when their renewal fees are up. easyDNS is a breath of fresh air. Their site is well-designed and easy to use. They immediately want you to create a single Web-based account accessed over SSL that you use to manage all of your contact information, domains, and payment. They also throw in more … [GlennLog]