John Henry Cardinal Newman. “Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
John Henry Cardinal Newman: Shall Never Have a Beginning
Indeed!
Life, particularly the past two or three years, has taught me much about humility.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn. “Our envy of others devours us most of all.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
In MacArthur Park
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed,
In love’s hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants
3 Doors Down
I need their new album. Good Stuff
The Porch
77 degrees and only partly cloudy today in Taunton. Am blogging from the porch. Chicken dinner at 8pm. Yum.
It’s beautiful!
Amen Brother
Jon Udell: “Wake me up when it’s over.” [Scripting News]
One more reason why I love Adam Curry
taking a stand on rss. Time to come clean on an investment I made a year and a half ago. At the time, UserLand software had released a Mac OSX version of “Radio” and I was totally digging the built in news aggregator. I came up with a cunning plan: I asked Userland if I could purchase a pre-installed feed on their aggregator, which supports “RSS” xml feeds. I paid $10,000 for a one year license. To date I’ve been delighted with my purchase and although I haven’t checked recently, I’m pretty sure Userland still has me in the defaults.
Besides investing in the technology with user licenses for “Frontier” and “Radio Userland”, I ponied up to the bar and made a commitment to a format. And now I feel fucked.
The $10k didn’t ‘just’ give me an automatic base within the userland community, it got pasted on web pages all over the world and I’ve built up an audience that consists of 50% aggergator users.
But this investment is clearly being halted short by the (N)echo project.
So I’m invoking an age olde american tradition of letting my wallet do the talking. I will again invest $10k in aggregator default placements this year, but I will spread it around, to all developers who adhere to RSS2.0. Include (N)echo and you’re out of luck. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]