Here's the USA Today review of the new book by Simson Garfinkel called Database Nation. Garfinkel will be live and in person at the Borders in Stonestown Galleria in San Francisco tomorrow at 7:30pm. He also writes a weekly column for the Boston Globe. Disclosure: My girlfriend works at O'Reilly & Associates, the publisher of his books. But I really do like Garfinkel's writing. even before I met her. honest.
Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Ban on Net wine sales challenged. Interstate wine sales regulation is about money, not morality.
When you type up a really long icq to someone, and then it's too long to send, you are faced with two options. 1) Send through Email. 2) Cancel. I did not want to send this message through email. (partly because I don't have my email settings in icq.) I wanted to return to the icq editing window to edit its length. Unfortunately, when you press "Cancel", your long message is gone forever. Bad design.
You can tell the picture above [near the train station at 4th and Townsend in San Francisco] was taken last summer because there is a parking space available.
soon, we may have this: Weblog Summit 2001. Some possible panel discussions: point and clique, date formats: the right choice, opening links in new windows: pros and cons, the neale problem: real-world solutions, do-it-yourself team weblogs, weblog addiction anonymous.
sxsw is turning into the first big weblog event. I mentioned to ev and meg last night that it's like a weblog coming out party. I'm wondering if companies will see this community of talented, energetic, self-publishing people as a market that needs to be addressed and/or catered to. Things could start changing rapidly once our little secret is out.
ev's pic of today is stunning.
Derek pointed out that Canon is adding a digital model to their EOS series. I'm all giddy and drooling. Most of the pictures you see on this site were taken with a Canon EOS camera.
Thanks for sticking up for my poetry, meg. Actually, any attention is good for my poems...they get so little. ;)
In the CD player this morning: The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Hipocrisy is the Greatest Luxury.