Month: October 2002

not that I haven’t had internet access in my living room before, but this is the first time that it’s come in from another room & another computer. yeah, I finally figured out the networking thing, with a positively antique hub. for the time being, the cable is strung rather loosely across the hall & living room floor…tomorrow’s task is to route the cords so that there’s no chance I’ll trip over them while getting ready for work at 6 am. 😛

(which I guess is one argument for WiFi, but the argument against is that we already had a hub, 2 network cards, and enough cable to stretch from my office to the living room, so no additional expense…always an important factor in geekery.)

sniffly, sore throat, and a particular wooziness. but last night I actually got a reasonable amount of sleep, and today I worked at home, and tonight I feel much more like a real human being.

in other news:
on Tuesday night, I was watching Buffy, and Willow was wondering if another character were “Googleable”. first time I’ve heard anything like that on TV.

bad news in the blogosphere…John Hiler has Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, and one of stavros’s oldest friends was in the blast in Bali. makes the ongoing snarkiness over RSS, or the debates over CSS font sizing, look pointless by comparison. (and aren’t they just.)

found via Mark P. – algorhythm.org – good stuff.

oh, and this caps an old discussion amongst friends: Earthlink to offer blogging tools. (via blogroots)

– Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
– Microsoft Make-up

– The Prior-Art-O-Matic: “It’s a featureless cube that pings when it’s ready!” 🙂

also, David W. writes about generosity, arrogance, writing and the web (in just a few pithy paras, also managing to throw in a story about Byte magazine).

I talked about the unpleasant neurosis I share with many writers: the need to be the smartest person in the room.

gotta think more about that….

I don’t trust this president and his advisors.” Rep. Pete Stark
also, I’m apparently late on this one, but it sort of amuses me: War Cry.

the more I think about this war thing, the more I get sick to my stomach.

okay, it’s time for me to get moving; there’s a pile of aspen boughs still calling my name, not to mention an enormous pile of little papers in the front room, not merely calling my name, but actively taunting me. oh, and I want to use my J&P gift certificate, so there’s a phone call. (must write about that later…for some reason, it won’t take my cert. on their web site. idjits.)

as a writer, I find this mildly terrifying:

Ninety-eight percent of all books are inaccessible to my child for any amount of money…

– Riding along with the Internet Bookmobile

– The Netword Society
– The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the Emergence of Recreational Evil

(both via Rebecca Blood)

– someone has to ask…

– aqTree2 – file under list, menu, tree, or click to expand. (seems to work in Moz and IE. not likely to work in Opera or N4.)