Wednesday, April 17, 2002

Blah blah blah. That's all it is. 8:24:21 PM

Ugh. That's the problem with posting to yer blog via e-mail. Now, until I get home tonight to fix it, the post below this one will have a bogus link, since my too fast fingers didn't close an HTML tag. Two solutions (actually, the first one would be WAY nice, not just for posting stuff to a blog): Automatic correction of the kind of stupid HTML mistakes like I just made. Excel is smart enough, finally, to know that if I put a parenthesis at the beginning of a formula, but forget to put one at the end, perhaps it should just add that closing parens for me. Just close the dang tag for me! Or add a space between "a" and "href." Or whatever. More appropriate for e-mail blogs would be the capability to replace the error-laden post remotely as well. Now I'm gonna have to sit and stew all day, knowing there's a mistake sitting out there in plain view, and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. Actually, maybe this is a good thing. Something about teaching me patience? Not worrying about things you can't fix? Proofreading your posts before you fling them into the ether? I dunno. There's gotta be a lesson in here somewhere. 12:37:46 PM

Thanks to Dave for reminding me of some of the great stuff that Joel writes. Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. Yup. Just because an idea looks good on a whiteboard, or the back of a napkin, doesn't necessarily mean that anybody understands it, or that it's even worth understanding. But, hey, it looks good... 10:01:46 AM

U .S. Concludes Bin Laden Escaped at Tora Bora Fight The Bush administration has concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle for Tora Bora late last year and that failure to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt him was its gravest error in the war against al Qaeda, according to civilian and military officials with first-hand knowledge. Wow. I know that it's all too easy to second guess certain decisions, but I was under the impression that one of the primary objectives (if not the primary objective) was to kill, capture, or otherwise contain Bin Laden. 9:26:47 AM