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I've temporarily lost my mobile (it's in the building somewhere,) so if you need reach me my email here is the best bet.
Thinking, again, about implementing categories. This way you could assign posts to specific categories, and readers could select views of the page containing only content in specific categories.
But every time I start to think about this the idea grows into some general purpose meta data scheme, and eventually ends up competing with the idea of web pages. In other words, if you make a really complete category system for a weblog, aren't you just duplicating the idea of having multiple web pages?
That's not very clear. I'll try to explain this again soon.
Bruce Sterling has a new non fiction book out: Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years.
Mildly interesting year end Google Zeitgeist featuring most searched for terms in a variety of categories.
In other google news, this wired article: Google vs. Evil has gotten lots of weblog attention. Seems like a non story. But there sure is a lot of attention being paid to whether they will slip up or not. Sounds like jealousy if you ask me.
December's Cryptogram is a good one. Bruce Schneier has some interesting comments on the Department of Homeland Security.
It's so interesting to read someone who's mind is trained on computer (and computer network) security write about national security. I hope someone is listening.
The Creative Commons has launched. This is the Lawrence Lessig backed non-profit that is providing ready made intellectual property licenses that creative folks can download and use to properly place their works into the public domain.
In one way this doesn't seem like much to me, but I think it may turn out to be important. Any project that raises the visibility of donating works to the public domain is a good thing in my opinion. And making the process completely simple, and free of legal fees, is even better.
OK, I admit it, I'm kind of hoping there will be a transit strike tomorrow. I'm sorry Wheel, I know it will hurt. But I can't help it. It's like the feeling I used to get hoping for a snow day. The city will be absolutely brought to a halt. It'll be something to see. If it does happen I'll try to take a walk and get some pictures.
Still, I imagine they'll come to some eleventh hour settlement. And that will probably be for the best.
Forgot to mention that I was walking by Katz's Deli yesterday morning and noticed there were about 50 Santa's inside. That probably explains something but I'm not sure what.
A look at the Chandler Agent Framework.
"I can't tell what's Massive and what's not anymore."
Wired article about the computer tech behind the battle scenes in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies.