You've gotta love this quote from a Houston Chronicle article:
"...Monday, Perry received the Teamsters endorsement in Houston at the new Teamsters hall, built with nonunion workers because Teamsters officials considered union labor too expensive. "
Given the amount of ink Dave is giving to RSS history and developments, I thought I'd better bone up on it. Here's a good article published earlier this year describing RSS, giving Dave lots of cites. Kind of makes me want to get busy and learn Perl. Hmmm...
On further review of the rural net access problem, this is a very encouraging development. Perhaps this is a model for more of rural America, Appalachian or not. Places like Wise County, VA could become preferred places to live - low cost of living, low crime, not crowded - if information workers could be assured of a strong net presence.
This will be a blessedly short week. Two full work days, one travel day, then another work day, this time in Kentucky. I'll be without broadband access for four days (is there life south of 384 kilobits/second?). There's been a lot written about the lack of net access in rural America, particularly in Appalachia, my home turf. Steve Stroh noted this early this summer, as did several universities, oddly not in Appalachia.
Decided to take the Corante headlines out of my site. Sorry, guys. I liked having some narrowcasted news on the site, but it just wasn't aligned with where I'd like to take the blog.
