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Heh. I just got an email that had, at first glance, no headers. Weird. Then I realized what was going on - they were there, but not visible because they were white text on a white background (I could see them if I selected the text.)
How in the world can you specify the text color of email headers? It makes no sense that you can do that.
Wow, I actually did some work on this site yesterday. Amazing. And I revised my links over there on the left. But I'm still finding it hard to post much of anything.
Maybe you can help. Got something that should go on this page? (Your guess is as good as mine...) Why not send it in? Use the lonely contact link. Other bored readers will thank you.
I have not one single insightful thing to say about google buying blogger. This must be the most important blog related story ever, but I'll be damned if I can figure out why.
Obviously I'm reaching here, but maybe it has something to do with internet developing beyond a polling type consciousness. The old model goes like this: check a bunch of sites, see if anything new is happening; wait n seconds; check again; repeat. That's polling. You can make it near instantaneous by reducing n towards zero, but it's still polling. This is what gives us the 15 minutes of lag on google news.
Perhaps with the acquisition of blogger, internet (which, if conscious, is so through google) moves to something like trigger based consciousness. Instead of having to constantly check to see if anything is happening, it will already know when anything is happening because people will be blogging it through google's system. Bloggers become the neurons of the active consciousness.
The rate of posting (combined somehow mathamagically with outbound link targets) becomes the standing wave of consciousness for internet.
Wow. Very large crowd. Great vibe. Great day.
We're eating some oysters at the bar in grand central and warming up a bit. Not sure we accomplished anything, but it was fun trying.
We'll be at the anti-war march protest on Saturday. Meet on the steps on the NY Public Library at 11:30 if you want to join us.
It appears as if the whole world is conspiring to make me feel smart. And the crazy thing is, this doesn't seem like a good thing to me. I'd actually prefer if someone, you know, in a position of power was playing the role of having a clue.
I've noticed that I get the same spam emails to many of my multiple addresses. This gave me an idea for filtering spam. Set up an email address for yourself that you never give to any person you want email from. But you make it widely available on the web. This account should get all spam. Now have your regular accounts check every incoming message against the messages in your spam account, and throw out any matches.
This doesn't really solve the bandwidth wasting problem of spam (it actually makes it a little worse,) but it would be pretty good against the time wasting problem.
This is the first time I've been out of bed in two days. Still not fully recovered, but on my way. I haven't been sick like that in a long time. Really high fever. I didn't even look at the web once.
I walked into the coffee shop today and Tim was sitting at the counter. "Jim" he said, grinning, "I've come over to your side." At first I couldn't figure out what he was talking about. Had he slept with a girl? No, he bought a Mac.
Short interview with the wife and two children of Philip K. Dick.
(OK, yeah, it's not that interesting, but c'mon, we're talking PKD. Any explanations are helpful.)