You can’t depend on anyone but yourself. Do so at your peril. That’s all I have to say about that.
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In contrast to my earlier post about web hosting, I have to give credit to TDS Metrocom, which not only is saving me money every month on my phone bill, but installed DSL service that has worked flawlessly since its installation some months ago. Sometimes technology works. Once you’ve gotten used to a persistent, fast Net connection, you’ll never go back to dialup. It’s so basic – would anyone put up with “logging in” to their cable television? (Not that that might be a pretty good idea, considering the amount of soul-draining television Americans watch in a given year.) But unlike TV, the internet allows people to interact, research and publish whatever they want. It’s the freedom and democracy technology.
If you’re anything like me (and heaven help you if so), you’ll be thrilled that andyrooneymustdie.com is still available. I’m considering it.
Offered: a link for everyone who’s become obsessed like me.
You would think that web hosting would be the easiest of tech businesses to do correctly. Set up the servers, make sure the power stays on, and voila! So why is getting reliable web hosting so difficult? Why are web hosting techs either clueless or condescending? Why do hold times reach past the half-hour mark? Is this so hard? (I hope my hosting company isn’t reading this, or this may be my last post.) I sincerely hope that persistent web connections become the norm, so we can all set up little bulletproof servers and be done with the whole business.
On a related topic, Blogger is great, but Dave Winer (also see previous post) is right. Centralized web services depending on giant servers humming away flawlessly is a crappy model for changing the world. Microsoft’s .NET is the latest stab at this bad idea. I’m starting to feel like an NRA member with “the law” beating down my door to take my gun (read: desktop computer) away, telling me, “The police (read: Microsoft) are the only people who need guns(computers). Remain calm.” I guess Charlton Heston and I have something in common, after all.
Learning about pop culture with The Simpsons:
Marge: “Fox became a hardcore sex channel so gradually, I didn’t even notice.”
My favorite quote on the pervasiveness of information:
“You have no privacy. Get over it.”
-Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems
It’s an inescapable truth: the world would be a better place if every movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow starred Bridget Fonda instead. She even makes foreign remake dreck like ‘Point of No Return’ interesting. It’s a crime that the only work she can seem to get these days is things like playing the girlfriend in the scarily horrrible (from previews evidence) ‘Monkey Bone.’