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  Tuesday, March 25, 2003
Dinner with the Queen

This evening, at the National Press Club, I had the opportunity to have dinner with Queen Noor of Jordan to hear her discuss her book, her life, and the future of Jordan. It was wonderful!

A gifted speaker, a talented writer, her book Leap of Faith, was available to be autographed and I picked up a copy out of habit. I'm such an infovore. She had a lot to say about the world we live in, and surprisingly, more of it was optimistic than I had expected! She isn't convinced we've ruined our reputation in the Middle East, which I found to be quite surprising, giving the level of condemnation coming from the Arab Press. She was also optimistic regarding the possibilities for Democracies in the Middle East, but that we have to first solve the Palestinian/Israeli crisis. I think she may be onto something, but I have a feeling until we have people that can talk to each other, and have power over their people, I think we're up a creek.
10:18:15 PM  comment []   

Post Blog Deconstructionism

Robert is on his way to a new product, Epistulae (love the name by the way, Robert), that may well change how we view blogging.
  • epistula (-ae) n. a written communication, letter, epistle (Latin)
    • Decentralized blogging
    • This is not meant to be revolutionary, but rather evolutionary
    • Taking the Tao of *osxom in another direction
  • Why do this?
    • Providing a means to combine static and dynamic content without the use of a DBMS or CMS
      • The filesystem is the database
    • Breaking out of the constraints of a blog-like system
      • Down with the Blog!
      • Reverse-chronological
      • Entries disappearing into the aether
      • Associating static content with particular items

1:20:43 PM  comment []   
Happy Birthday Erik!

Today is my brother Erik's birthday, and he's out somewhere on behalf of our nation serving his country aboard USS Louisiana.

Everyone take a few seconds, think a happy thought, smile just a bit, say "Happy Birthday Erik" and then leave a comment below. You may not know my brother, you may not know me, but do a fella a favor, and wish him happy birthday in the comments and we'll see if we can't get it to him somehow.

Me, I'm just facing toward the Atlantic Ocean and shouting Happy Birthday every once in a while.
12:46:08 PM  comment []   



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