Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Rick Boucher, a Virginia congressman: Time to Rewrite the DMCA. (courtesy of Doc) 11:50:30 PM     FoxNews has a piece on celebrity weblogs. 6:50:48 PM     Congress sues White House over Enron. Congressional investigators go to court to force Vice President Cheney to give details of his contacts with failed energy giant Enron. [BBC News: world]  Complete with an unflattering picture of Cheney; but that's okay, I like the flavor of spin in my news. If you ask me, the whole Bush/Cheney/Polititians At Large angle of the Enron isn't a question of scandalous doings in government, but a campaign finance issue.  You can't expect to allow corporations to give enough money to make Solomon blush, and not have undue influence over the decisions of elected lawmakers. 6:49:00 PM     Okay, so now my categories are working, and I have a minor complaint.  <%radio.macros.xmlCoffeeCup()%> still points users to the homepage RSS feed, no matter which category they happen to be viwing at the time.  Is it possible to fix this?  I'll have to do some more digging... 6:14:55 PM     As I talk to my fiancee, my family and some of my friends, the consistent criticism is, "You know, I don't understand most of what's on your weblog."  This is a problem.  I don't want my non-geek friends and family to have to browse through all my geeky stuff to read what they want.  So I've turned on categories on my weblog, and have two: Personal Stuff and Geek Stuff.  All my posts will continue to come to the main homepage, but if you're only interested in one or the other, just check out those. 5:59:15 PM     Motley Fool: ".NET will make writing network-aware applications in Visual Basic easier. This makes thousands of corporate VB developers excited. Pretty much no one else who pays attention to the technology instead of the marketing seems to care at all."  [Scripting News] 5:39:40 PM     I woke up this morning to a couple of inches of snow on the ground.  There was no snow when I went to bed at around midnight.  It's been snowing steadily all day; it's gorgeous out, but it's very cold, the roads are nasty, and it's only going to get worse.  Overnight they're saying we'll get a winter storm that brings 12 to 16 inches of snow that will mix with sleet and freezing rain with "significant ice accumulations expected."  You know, for somebody who was raised in Georgia, this is kinda freaky. 5:37:34 PM     Garth says he's going to give CurrentBook a look.  Thanks! 9:01:57 AM

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