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Month: September 2004

  • Surfing One Huge Wave

    The site that hosts this video tries to pawn this off as a shot of someone surfing Hurricane Ivan but the comments seem to agree that this 70 foot plus monster was off the coast of Hawaii at a place called Jaws and that the guy did make it after all. Still, the video has…

  • House Hunting

    Tyler and Julia now get in on the game and construct the perfect home with sofa pillows. Some heated debate then tears over where to put the kitchen then a gentle lesson on re-sale value and financing options then its off to bed for both of them.

  • Cracking open the nut

    In contrast to my earlier post, The Guardian writes about the benefits of online versions of old media outlets (in this instance the Wall Street Journal) opening up their subscription walls to bloggers in order to drive up interest (and ad banner traffic) on their sites. Here is an instance where the “meme-of-the-moment” culture of…

  • Old Media: Beacon or Servant?

    Over on Due Diligence, Tim Oren posts a lengthy but well-worth it read summarizing the conundrum old media faces as it’s 350 year old business model is chipped away by the superior flexibility and reach of digital media indexed by search engines and distributed by RSS. The business proposition of subscription bundles to both the…

  • Otis School Picnic

    Tyler’s school had a school-wide picnic today. Jello eating, three-legged racing, water balloon toss, potato sack racing, and pot luck picnic. Tyler’s making some good friends.

  • NJ Mother thrown out of Laura Bush Rally

    Not local news for us anymore but Sue Niederer, a mother who lives up the road from our old house in Pennington, was thrown out from a Laura Bush rally in Hamilton, NJ. When Bush mentioned the troops abroad, Niederer shouted, “When are yours going to serve?” referring to Bush’s 22-year-old twin daughters, who aren’t…

  • Firefox moves into 1.0

    The popular alternative to Microsoft Explorer, Mozillla’s Firefox, released it’s 1.0 preview on Tuesday. There’s been a steady increase in the number of Firefox installs as folks start to move away from IE in the wake of all its security problems. On my personal site, I’ve seen Mozilla and Safari traffic grow to where it…

  • The much overstated demise of RSS

    CNet today sums up the current debate of the future of RSS. Robert Scoble at Microsoft set off a firestorm when he claimed that RSS is broken because of the bandwidth spikes set off by readers everywhere that are set to go off on the hour. Dave Winer, defender and champion of the protocol, quickly…

  • Crazy Weather, Man

    Watched an entertaining report from a CNN weatherman “reporting live from the eye of Hurricane Ivan” as he tried to hold an intelligent conversation while holding himself up with one hand on a rail and another on his microphone. He kept getting swept off camera with cries of, “whoa bessy” and then clawing himself back…