Reaping What You Sow

I thought that their gun control laws would end all gun crime?



Mothers protest over gun crime. Mothers of shooting victims are to march through Nottingham as part of a community-led campaign to end gun crime. [BBC News | UK | UK Edition]

The Earth is Flat!

So Apple drops the price on their 23″ cinema display by $1600.  What do I do?


I buy one.


It’s beautiful.  It’s on the Mac G4 now, very sweet.  Simply incredible monitor.


Then I decide to take the Studio Display and put it on the Windows / Linux Desktop - grab an ADC-DVI adaptor at CompUSA, fiddle with the settings for an hour (HINT:  Upgrade the Nvidia driver) and Voila — two flat panels on my desk.


It’s gorgeous.  Pics coming soon.

An 802.11b Navy

Fascinating…



War(ship) Driving For 802.11b Controlled Destroyers [Slashdot]

Boston Bloggers

Sign me up…



I’ve booked my next trip east. I’ll be in NY betw Feb 5-7, then Boston betw Feb 8-11, and back in NY betw Feb 12-16. The beginning and ending dates are fixed, but the time betw Boston and NY is flexible. I’m looking into getting a classroom for an evening session open to all Boston-area bloggers to talk about whatever we want to talk about. Here’s an idea of how these meetings work. BTW, the round trip air fare betw SFO and JFK was $340; that’s non-stop on a major airline. [Scripting News]

Missing the Dance

“Ashcroft, Mineta Miss State of the Union”. “Ashcroft, Mineta Miss State of the Union”: The Associated Press reports here that “President Bush designated Attorney General John Ashcroft to stay away from his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, making Ashcroft the successor to head the government should catastrophe strike at the Capitol. [How Appealing]