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Today's song: "Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box; they tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe."   On September 11, 2001, my dad was lost in midtown Manhattan, along with about 18 million other New Yorkers. I asked people to look out for him, I was genuinely worried. He was okay, he had quite an adventure, basically walking home from Manhattan to eastern Queens. Well, today, he's quite sick, in a hospital in NYC, not conscious. Once again I am genuinely worried. Last year I asked you all to pray for him, and today, as some wise Jewish person once said, "it couldn't hurt." His name is Leon. He liked to listen to Fiddler On The Roof, The Sound of Music, and all kinds of opera. He even liked the Beatles, although he would never admit it when they were in their heyday. He once told me that they wore wigs. "No man keeps his hair like that," he confidently told me when I was around ten years old. We've had our differences, I guess all fathers and sons do. Now I'd just like him to get better and live to be 100 or so. Want to hear what a 21st Century US political leader sounds like? Check this out and pass it on.  I enjoy reading Russell Beattie's weblog, esp today as he writes about a book that teaches you how to get things done. It seems Russ is procrastinating on a grand project, by reading a book on how not to procrastinate. He has a wonderful quote from Will Rogers. "When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." Interesting. I do the opposite.  Ed Cone: "Guilford County's emergence as the campaign Weblog capital of the known universe may seem an unlikely turn of events." Scott Rosenberg: "Restoring competition in the browser -- or even the "middleware" -- market is a pointless exercise today. The unknown innovation, potential productivity and profits that a more freely competitive marketplace in this area might have provided are gone now, irretrievable. The technology industry has moved on to other realms." I strongly disagree. We could open up lots of doors in the two-way-web if Microsoft were taken out of it's monopoly position in browsers. They are protecting Office from the Web. If the Web weren't paying that strategy tax there would be lots of opportunities for growth. BBC: "Microsoft is still faced with possible sanctions by the European Commission over its alleged abuse of market power." RSS and Bandwidth  A couple of comments. It's great to see one of my old programming buddies, Brent Simmons, get so thoroughly into bandwidth and RSS. Others have commented that RSS and aggregators are much like Push Technology, and they are. Remember Pointcast? Why did it go down in flames? Because it swamped the Internet with non-productive traffic. Really poor use of bandwidth. I think we're still early, that we're going to see enormous growth in this area, and hopefully we'll all get to make a bunch of money. But at some point we will show up on the radar of corporate network managers, and they're going to want to know why this isn't Pointcast all over again. By doing the bandwidth work now, we will have an answer for them, then. Now there's another reason for doing work on bandwidth. The sources of information, the feeds, have to foot the bandwidth bill for all those users. In some cases, like UserLand, we have to pay for the bandwidth for users of competitive products. Ouch! So at least we want us all to be efficient about it. Bandwidth ain't free, and we aren't in the dotcom era anymore. Namaste y'all and Happy Sunday. |
 
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