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scriptingNews outline for 1/20/00

Author:Dave Winer
Posted:1/20/2000; 5:43:39 AM
Topic:scriptingNews outline for 1/20/00
Msg #:14634
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A crash on "EditThisPage.Com" around noon, restored from backup, some lost data, should effect many but not all sites. Now to make matters even worse, all the emails announcing the lost stories are coming thru the server. I just got an email from Julie McCarthy of National Public Radio asking where everyone was staying in Davos. It's gone. No kidding. Oy! Our apologies. These things always happen at the worst possible time.

Fortune: Even the webmaster can be replaced. "If a programmer is indispensable, get rid of him as quickly as possible." Amen.

Another great quote from the Fortune piece: "A century ago worried telephone company executives calculated that everyone in America would have to become a telephone operator if Ma Bell scaled up to reach out and touch the nation. In fact, that is precisely what happened: Instead of operators dialing numbers, we do." I bet Shrage would get "Manila".

Dan Gillmor met with Dan Bricklin yesterday, the story is on both their sites. I keep going around in circles on this one.

Is it just me, or is it universally galling to point at Wired now that Lycos has a pseudo-frame at the top of each page? Wired, like Netscape, is one of the emblems of the web. Lycos is an also-ran search engine. I'd prefer if it were the other way around.

SJ Merc: $40 million jet for Jobs.

Here's a wonderful place for people to whine away the hours.

Man, I really hate the background color on that site.

In the Wizard of Oz, the scarecrow wished he only had a brain. "Well what would you do with a brain if you had one?"

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

I'm involved in an interesting discussion on the XML-DEV list which is being covered by the Eclectic weblog.

NY Times on Transmeta: "The company said its top-of-the-line chip, the TM5400, would have a clock speed of 700 MHz and would consume, on average, about one watt of power, far lower than today's low-power Intel chips, which can consume 10 watts or more. That chip is intended for subnotebook portable computers that run Microsoft's Windows operating system."

WSJ: "If super-fast fiber-optic connections won't fly in Palo Alto, can they make it anywhere?"

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