licentious radio

Saturday, February 2, 2002
[8:06:12 PM]

I didn't know! A few people stumbled across my little weblog. Fine and dandy; hello. Even more interesting is weblogs.com, that lists recently updated weblogs.

See, I got caught up in building websites for famous companies, and while I was doing that, most of the fun went out of the web. Every big company got a big website, but they're almost always wretched. By that I mean they don't work at all, or if they work even a little bit there are so many problems it makes me want to scream.

But if you ignore the big companies, there are people doing really interesting things. (Zeldman [zeldman.com] is a good place to start looking.) But this weblogs.com list will get you surfing like it's 1995.

Deliciously, weblogs.com sorts by most recent update. Now, is that relevant, or just randomizing? Mostly, it's randomizing. But it means if you post often, you're often at the top of the list. And if you also have a catchy title, (or probably a title that makes it sound like you're a woman) you'll get people reading this stuff you type. You could build traffic. You could build flow. Who knows where it could end!

It's kind of fun.

[7:27:19 PM]
The joy of Amaya: Doesn't support the (blinkin') <blink> tag.

[4:38:02 PM]
smbtar!

smbtar -s computer_name -x share_name -u user_id -t filename.tar -v filename filename directory directory ....

The joy of Samba: backing up windows computers from unix computers.

tar: dumped 16828 files and directories
Total bytes written: 1152631808

[4:21:55 PM]
Dave Winer on Dan Gillmor: "It's people, not machines." Yeah, but just think when we get computers smart enough to fetch a beer from the refrigerater. "You wanna Molson or a Blatz, you lazy bas...." That'll be the day.

[3:40:44 PM]
Hey! 020020202 is a good date. Kind of makes you proud to use y10k-safe file naming conventions.

[3:01:49 PM]
One very good thing in Palo Alto is the Stanford Theater. They're going through every Cary Grant movie. The other day I saw "She done him wrong"; written by and starring Mae West. I suppose I've seen some Mae West movies, but not for a long time. Bawdy lines, she wrote for herself.

[1:37:19 PM]
Mae West to the first energy company executive: "Is that George Bush in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

Mae West to the second energy company executive: "Is that George Bush in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

Mae West to the third....

You can tell it's an old joke, because it doesn't mention Ken Lay.

Mae West to Ken Lay: "So that really was George Bush in your pocket. Never mind."