Archive for July, 2003

Southern New England Weblogs

Friday, July 18th, 2003

SNEBloggers: “This is a community site
developed to help link bloggers in the Rhode Island, Connecticut and Southeastern
Massachusetts area together and provide a resource for relevant news and events.”

PDC is Too Expensive

Wednesday, July 16th, 2003

neopoleon.com: “this kind of screws me over since I’m an independent contractor.”

Users and Pavers

Tuesday, July 15th, 2003

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: “The romance of the Net came not from how it was built or how it worked but from how it was used… America’s romance with the highway system, by analogy, was created not so much by the first person who figured out how to grade a road or make blacktop or paint a stripe down the middle but by the first person who discovered you could drive a convertible down Route 66 like James Dean and play your radio loud and have a great time.”

Pictures of the Invasion

Tuesday, July 15th, 2003

Channel 10 has a
gallery
(via motor
skills
)

Rhode Island Invades Sovereign Nation

Monday, July 14th, 2003

Boston.com:
“The chief sachem of the Narragansett Indian Tribe was arrested Monday by
state police in what onlookers called a ‘violent’ raid of the tribe’s
new tax-free tobacco shop.”

Miguel takes a bullet for Don

Friday, July 11th, 2003

(here’s the original)

Ken Levy on Whidbey XML Tools and SVG Goodness

Friday, July 11th, 2003

From my O’Reilly Network Weblog: Whidbey XML
Tools Preview

Shhh… they might be listening

Thursday, July 10th, 2003

Geekzone:
“… Russian authorities requested providers to disable security
mechanisms in their mobile networks, to allow eavesdropping on all
calls. Mobile users were notified of the reduced level of security in
their calls by an icon on mobile phones, showing either an exclamation
mark, or an unlocked padlock…”

Who’s blogging this?

Thursday, July 10th, 2003

I got sidetracked today trying to get the .mov of my
presentation
down to a manageable size (mostly spent time trimming the video
sequences down), so I haven’t written much on the talks at Applied XML. See this thread on GotDotNet for a list of who’s
blogging the show.

Playing nice on public wireless networks

Thursday, July 10th, 2003

The OSCON Wiki has some great
advice
on playing nicely on
their wireless network. Aside from the site-specific details about static addresses, this advice should apply to other public
wireless networks you may encounter in your travels (read it, learn it, live it).