Entries from February 2003
My name in lights
Jon Lebkowsky, local blog dude, has written an article for the Chronicle that quotes me. He’s going to post the unedited text (about 2x the length) on his site at some point.
Drupal
Drupal is a general-purpose content-management system (CMS) for running news-and-discussion sites like (to use the most obvious example) Slashdot, though perhaps not such busy ones. I’d been considering toying with something like this for some time, and finally got around to installing it today.
The only hitch in something like this is that you need to [...]
Soulful dance music and other beautiful sounds
Mix of the Week hosts hourlong MP3/RA files consisting of, well, reader-submitted music mixes. I’m listening right now. It’s cool.
Via Mitsuhiro Takemura’s Blog (I really need to follow more Japanese blogs).
Blog Day Afternoon
The community of Austin Bloggers agreed to have a “blog day” today, where we’d all write about the same topic, being “what would you do with four free hours in Austin?”
When I think of things to do in Austin, I think of doing things outdoors. My ideal four hours would probably consist of a bike [...]
Patriot Act, the sequel
Read this now. This is a fairly brief and clear writeup on a bill being crafted by Ashcroft that will make the original USA Patriot act look benign by comparison. This abomination hasn’t been brought before Congress yet, but we must act so that when it does, it is shot down in flames.
Webberville-Manor loop
After too long off the bike, and a long run of foul weather, we had a nice day today, so DuShun and I agreed to go riding. I wanted to do something relatively flat, so we headed out towards Webberville. With the wind at our backs on the outbound leg, we made good time, hitting [...]
Blob blog
How do you like the new look? Thanks to the wonders of CSS, most of the work was in making the oval graphics, and that didn’t take long. That and tweaking a few CSS settings, but I was pretty much able to do this in my spare time over one late morning.
I’m guilty of one [...]
Is Google too big?
Google’s recent buyout of Pyra set the whole blogosphere abuzz, but it also seems to have prodded some people to wonder whether we should worry about Google being too important, too big, too valuable, too secretive.
At Austin’s blogger meetup the other night, Prentiss asserted that private projects like Google and archive.org were too important to [...]
Room to let
I’ve got a room to rent in my house. I’ve been having a hard time filling it: I’ve been advertising the vacancy for a little over a month. Usually doesn’t take this long to find a renter, and this time, I’ve had very few respondents to my ad (and fewer who are remotely appropriate). It [...]
As long as I’m on the subject…
Patrick Nielsen Hayden occasionally writes about the south with some very clear insights. It was on his site that I found the best counter-argument to the southern-apologist position that “the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, it was about state’s rights.”
Right. The state’s right to do what, exactly?
