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By Perry, 6 years ago

Electronic Frontier FoundationThere are a lot of r...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

There are a lot of reasons for you and me to be concerned about how legislators, too many of whom are woefully uninformed about technolgoy and some of whom could care less, enact legislation that affects the Internet, particularly in the post 9/11 attempt to make our country more secure by making it less free . This morning, after neglecting it for a long time, I finally joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation. There's no cost for membership, but there is possibly a high cost for non-membership. I find myself in agreement with their objectives and their approach to making a difference. I'd recommend that, if you care about the future of the Internet, you examine their website and join too.

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By Perry, 6 years ago

A blogging milestoneIn the New York Times Magazine...

A blogging milestone

In the New York Times Magazine section (registration required) this morning, William Safire acknowledges that Blog has made its way into the national lexicon. He doesn't say anything profound, but the fact that blogging has come to his attention is something of a milestone.

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By Perry, 6 years ago

Blogs in BusinessMeg Hourihan, who maintains a web...

Blogs in Business

Meg Hourihan, who maintains a weblog called megnut and recently co-authored a book about blogging, has posted a chapter online. This chapter deals with «Using Blogs in Business,» which is a topic gaining increasingly popularity. The online chapter is a thorough treatment of the subject that suggests many possible applications of the technology. A good read and a good advertisement for the book in my opinion.

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By Perry, 6 years and 1 month ago

Helping others teaches meToday Paul Moor called fo...

Helping others teaches me

Today Paul Moor called for some guidance about why his correspondents kept getting returned mail as undeliverable from his account, a German ISP called T-Online.de. He wanted to understand better what happens from end to end when someone sends email to someone else over the Internet.

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By Perry, 6 years and 1 month ago

Progress at last!If you are observant, you'll noti...

Progress at last!

If you are observant, you'll notice that, once again, I've changed templates, and now it appears that Blogger has gotten its act together and repaired the ability to publish the archives. I've gone back to the original template I used when I first started using Blogger, and now everything seems to be in order again. Perhaps, now I can get back in the practice of regular publishing.

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By Perry, 6 years and 1 month ago

Infrequent updatesAlthough the Blogger status page...

Infrequent updates

Although the Blogger status page indicates their service is now repaired, it doesn't yet seem to have reached my house. I'll be posting only intermittently until this situation clears up.

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By Perry, 6 years and 1 month ago

An explanation at lastWell, by examining the statu...

An explanation at last

Well, by examining the status page I discovered the I'm not being singled out. Apparently Blogger is having a problem publishing archives for everyone. Also template editing isn't updating, so I'll just have to live with what I have for now. When everything is fixed, I'll edit the template for this blog so that the archive works and I can insert links where is appropriate. Be patient with me, and I'll try to be patient with Blogger.

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By Perry, 6 years and 1 month ago

Problems, problems, problemsAs is obvious from the...

Problems, problems, problems

As is obvious from the fact that I can even complain about it, I'm now able to at least begin posting again, but I had to switch to a new template (clearner, neater I will admit) so that I could get any text posted. However, even though I've «republished» the archives link, I still get no on-site references to the historic posts from this site. I'll keep exploring as time permits (which isn't right now) and eventually I will get everything going again.

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By Perry, 6 years and 1 month ago

TestThis is a test of the publishing capability of...

Test

This is a test of the publishing capability of Blogger. I've had to publish using a new template to regain the ability to post at all.

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By Perry, 6 years and 1 month ago

A "No Win" SituationLast night's All Star game was...

A «No Win» Situation

Last night's All Star game was the first of what is likely to be many disappointing outcomes to the 2002 season. Bud Selig, the owner of the Milwaukee Brewers and the Baseball Commissioner, was a master of irony when he said, «I was in a no win situation.» Whether there was nothing else he could do, given that the two managers had used all their bench players and used up all their pitchers, is a matter of some debate. He is clearly right that there was nothing else that he could do that fell within the scope of ordinary solutions, which were apparently the only one's he dared consider. As comissioner, he had the power to amend the rules of the game and allow the re-entry of the players into the game which would, of course, have been a dramatic departure from tradition for which he would have been roundly criticized, but he didn't. Curt Schilling proposed having a homer derby as a «tie breaker,» which would have been starkly different than anything ever done in baseball (and of course roundly criticized) but it would have «solved» the problem in an very creative way. But the comish could not allow himself to be that creative and thus he fell victim to the assumption there was nothing else he could do. When people can't think creatively in the heat of the moment and don't plan creatively before the event, they are backed into the corner and suffer from «no win» situations. This lack of creativity and planning are what constitute the greatest threat to this season's integrity, what forebodes the probability of a strike, what foreshadows a disappointing end to a promising first half of the baseball season. The All Star game ain't what it used to be, and with the leadership currently in place in baseball, it may never be again.

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