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Fred ‘Mister’ Rogers Dies of Cancer at 74 - He was right, there are beautiful days in the neighbourhood.

Iraq Inspection results ‘limited’
“The UN’s chief weapons inspector Hans Blix says the inspections aimed at disarming Iraq have produced “very limited” results.”
Hope for Postwar Peace, Democracy
“We will remain in Iraq as long as necessary, and not a day more. America has made and kept this kind of commitment before - in the peace that followed […]

Home again, and what a great day in Vancouver. It was one of those business trips that really came together. Two and half weeks is a much more tolerable amount of time away than three. Strange how that is.
Now of course which way to go and how to get there will be […]

“Salon. Today, NASA released details of the e-mail exchanges (that occured days before the failed re-entry of STS-107) between NASA engineers on whether the shuttle would come apart on re-entry. In my view, if NASA was using weblogs throughout on their organization’s Intranet, it would have helped surface the concerns of these smart […]

Never did get around to commenting on the pyra/google deal…saw this quote and figure enough said -
Drivers Motivation
“The people who don’t understand why Google bought Pyra strike me as rather like people who, aftering watching a car pull into a gas station and seeing it fill up, stand around trying to puzzle out the […]

According to the fortune cookie: “You will step on the soil of many countries.”
Weird. or rather…
“The cookie told me so”, Homer Simpson

Well almost home; i.e. I’m back in Canada. Of course flew back into another serious Canadian snow dump but either way glad to be back. Toronto got socked on Saturday by a snow storm and it still seems to be coming down on and off. I’m watching the snow plows now try […]

“Some style guides online (comments, as usual, in the link tooltip):

BBC Radio News A-Z style guide, and how to write for radio.
Carnegie Mellon Writer’s Style Guide.
The Economist style guide.
Guardian Style guide (introduction).
provenance: unknown, web copy guide [thanks John Senki].
The Times Style Guide.

Some style guides available as books:

Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style.
Wired Style: Principles […]

“Ultimately, I don’t see a long term future for HTML as an application development solution. It is a misapplied tool that was never meant to be used for anything other than distributed publishing.
The reality is that we are trying to do too much with a language that was never meant for such heavy-duty applications. […]

Well my new favourite choice for a name for this blog (domain) has been registered elsewhere. Another well made mistake. Back to the drawing board. If only hokum didn’t have that secondary definition.

Looks like I’ve found my next desktop computer…
Desktop Cray

“I’ve been brainstorming with some teams here at Macromedia about how we might help with software for the blog world, and I’m interested in what you all think. Are there things you wish were easier to do? Are there things you can’t do but wish you could? Is everything just fine as is?
For example, […]

Using the Starbucks T-Mobile High Speed Wireless Service at the Farringdon Starbucks in London. What a great idea. Dial up hotel internet providers in Europe are in trouble. And so they should be. Sign up was a breeze (although I hope they don’t spam my email, I accidentally entered my […]

I find myself removing the mainstream news RSS feeds from my aggregator - Globe & Mail (they don’t have summaries), CNET, eWeek, etc. It’s not that I don’t want to read that news I guess I just find it a different pace than the more personal links in all the blogs I subscribe too. […]

My hotel doesn’t even have modem ports in the rooms…let alone high speed.

Arrived safely in London. Good to be back and I’m staying in a different part of town this time…Kensington. Of course all I can think about is Mrs. Kensington from Austin Powers every time I hear the word. Very cool area.
Looks like the Globe and Mail redesigned their site recently. […]

Came across another news aggregator…looks interesting…at least for the name News Monster.

“Sharing the available domain name of the week duties, and helping me pick up the slack for being out of town last week, is the indubitable Peter Schwartz. No[t] being one to simply browse through the visceral gems on my site, Peter felt moved enough to send in the following suggestion:”As I was listening to […]

Times of London
“In all my 38 years, I have never before felt such a sense of personal shock. I am shocked that so many of my friends would rather a brutal dictator remained in power ? for that would be the direct consequence if their views won out ? than support military action by the […]

I was sitting in an internet cafe at a 7-11 in northern Norway checking my webmail and there’s an email from a friend from school. Not just any school…he’s the one person I went through school with all the way from kindergarten through to graduation in grade 12.
Small world.
Haven’t been in touch […]