But updates might get a little sparse for the next week or two while I adjust to the new job. For those of you who are local, I will be at the faire booth this weekend. (And may, in fact, be *running* the booth for a day or so… but that’s another story)
But this? M$ is dumping support for Outlook Express. Crap, man. I actually use that. Not ’cause it rocks so much more than anything else, but cause it’s such a honking pain to import my outlook tainted mail into anything else that I’ve given up trying. And the big, bloated piece of crap that is Outlook 2002? Bleah. Just kill me now.
Scott Andrew has some thoughts on privacy and blogging:
When most of us think of privacy and weblogs, we think of obvious things like pseudonyms and slapping password protection on a directory. I have to admit that when Joyce approached me with the idea, the first thing I though was, “oh, that’s like LiveJournal” and “what’s wrong with .htaccess?” So much of the talk about weblogging concerns unfettered sharing (via posting, comments, syndication, Trackback, etc.) ? little, if any, voice is given to the opposite.
The knee-jerk response to this is the well-worn “don’t put it on the Web, then!” which admittedly is the best solution. But this becomes unworkable as weblogging continues to weave itself into the fabric of business and everyday life.
Unworkable how? Just because *everyone* (or so it sometimes seems) has a camera phone or a moble blogging device of some sort, how does this translate into the idea that it will soon become *impossible* to keep our thoughts and visual adventures off the web?
Does Scott truly believe that technology is about to become that intrusive or that bloggers have that little self control over the blog/not blog reflex?
What can I say? Some new faces, some old faces, and we weren’t open an hour before the first kerfluffle happened. As regards said camping spot kerfluffle…. one side was right, one side was wrong, but no one had any right to drag the poor rose girls into the middle of it. (Especially not the new kids - this had *nothing* to do with them.)
Other than that? I *liked* the overcast mugginess. It was at least better than the steaming sunlight or the afternoon downpours. Much time was spent with mom. Met some new and very cool folks. Hung out and kevetched like always.
So… same old, same old. Well, except that now even *rennies* are starting in the the “why aren’t you two married yet” thing. Good god.
So tomorrow Faire starts. For those of you who will be attending, you can find me at:
I’ll also probably be doing the morning parade for mom’s booth most days I’m up. I’m not expecting to be able to get up there every day, but I will be up most Saturdays - if you want to come down and suprise me, make sure it’s on a day I’ll be there for. (I’m looking at you, Caz/Nashua crew.)
You can order your tickets online, or just print out some discount coupons. (’Cause the entrance fee still sucks)
Matt! Here’s the info for the direct bus route from the Port Authority to the faire.