Dan Shafer is blogging the Giants game tonight (Dan is a big sports fan and an even bigger Giants fan). Go Giants! Hey, Dave, you happy that the Yankees got knocked out? The playoffs this year are actually interesting. Oh, and Dan is absolutely right about Barry Bonds. The guy deserves far more accolades than he is getting. So what if he's arrogant. Arrogance is OK if you can back it up year after year. Barry does.

Dave Winer is grousing about the W3C's latest patent policy changes. I think he's right on to be asking whether the W3C relevant anymore? Hell, last time I looked 95% of its own members don't follow its own rules. Speaking of which, what industry is best about predicting which publishing or sharing technology will be best? That's right: the porn industry. (They were first users of all sorts of tech, including VCRs). Recently I did a quick look around the most popular porn sites (about 20 sites linked off of easypic.com). None use the W3C's latest standards. Until the porn guys start using a technology you won't find many others using it either.

Mark Pilgrim is getting an all-digital photographer to do his wedding. That's awesome. I wish mine would do that (we were forced by Harvey's to hire their firm). But, we'll have plenty of digital pics anyway. Candids taken by friends are often times better than the pro stuff anyway and who wants an album of 8x10-inch images? Yeah, my angel does. Too bad we'll only look at it a dozen times or less over the next 10 years. Did I mention that the wedding industry is horrible? It's a rip off of major proportions, but what you gonna do? You wanna get married and angels have dreams. Oh yeah, Mark: film is already on the deathbed. I wish I could afford an 11megapixel Canon SLR.

Ahh, interesting case for Web designers. Seems that a blind guy is suing Southwest Airlines because its site doesn't follow accessibility guidelines and doesn't work with his screen reader. Well, I'm on the side of the blind on this one. It really isn't hard to figure out how to build an accessible Web site. Anyone who charges deep-pockets companies for doing Web sites should make sure his/her sites are up to date, standards-based, and accessible to all browsers, not just Internet Explorer. To me, that's what it means to be a professional and if you aren't a professional you have no business building Web sites for big companies. Just like if you aren't a professional pilot you have no business flying Southwest's planes. Does anyone not know how to build accessible Web sites? There are tons of resources out there.

Hmm, you know, I'm looking at Doc Searls weblog and wondering why I love his writing so much. And I think it's due to his use of italics. Now that I've gotten a design I like here and my templates are nice and compact (and no one has complained about how my site looks on their browsers lately) I find I'm starting to change the way I write. For instance, this theme looks best with longer paragraphs, so I find I'm using the "P" tag less and less. I also find that I'm considering using typographic devices. I guess I could go overboard with this...

Will Rageboy come up for air? Ok, the thesis last week was that Rageboy was dreaming about sex with his angel. Then he stopped posting. Come on Rageboy, we want details. Photos. First-hand accounts. Titilating stories. You know, the porn of your life. But, no, he's silent. Hmmmm. Of course, I shouldn't throw rocks. My angel has sworn me to secrecy. No Scoblecams in my bedroom. Not that I'd lower myself just to get traffic. No sir, no sir! I bet Marc Canter has never been naked with +his+ IBM ThinkPad! Heh. Did you know that if you put the word 'angel' into quotes in Radio you'll get this instead:

Marc Canter is a force of nature. Man, he turned on the blog gas today! I love his photo posts. I'm too lazy to post pictures here. I guess I'm in Marc's target audience. If he can give me a blog tool that can take photos off of my Nikon, stick them in my blog, all automatically with minimum of work on my part, then I'll be happy.

Speaking of which, wouldn't it be cool to have a blog camera? You know, a camera that helps you blog about the images? Maybe a digital camera with a RIM-style keyboard on the back? Take an image, write a bit with your thumbs, and then when you reconnect to the next (802.11 anyone?) it'll upload that photo and your notes to your blog. Nah, too obvious a product. Hey, Marc, maybe we should patent that! Heh.

Yeah, the countdown to the big event has started. Nope, not my wedding dummy, the introduction of the Tablet PC! Which means, we've found another cool TabletPC Web site to add to our list.

Hey, maybe we should start a TabletPC weblog? Nah, then we'd have to link to articles deriding the tablet like this one in the Register today. Hey, it won't save the tech industry and it won't cure cancer, OK? But I still want one.