Monkinetic Weblog

Jodi has started a blog of her own, and believe me when she says she speaks her mind, she means it. ;-) Check it out.

The drive in this morning was beautiful. As the days get shorter my morning drive has come closer to dawn. This morning the sunrise was amazing - the air was clear and crisp, the sunlight stretching itself over downtown Portsmouth was warm and bright. Nice way to start the week.

Woo-hoo! Mulle-Kybernetic releases an XML-RPC implemention for Obj-C. Now I can rewrite Sid.

Been doing a lot of detail software design and analysis lately. Sometimes it just gets to be too much.

ABC News: "Officials also said they had multiple fake IDs, knives, and flight certificates from Flight Safety International in Vero Beach, Fla., one of the schools the suspected terrorists were allegedly trained.

I'm struggling with mixed emotions this morning. I wrote some notes while this site was down and I couldn't post. I'll post them later. I thought I was getting over the shock, but now that personal stories are coming out, I'm wounded more than ever.

This image may one day be as famous I think as the photo of the marines at Iwo Jima.

GlennLog: Inexorable Flow of Time. Glenn Fleishman's weblog has some good, random, thoughts today. A nice bit: "Yasir Arafat looked legitimately shaken. I'm sure he didn't know. But this is what it takes to affect a man like him. This is the kind of event that changes lives, even lives like his."

I've started a WTC Mix... right now it includes: "In The End" and "One Step Closer" by Linkin Park, "Dragula" by Rob Zombie, "Alive" by POD, "Leave You Far Behind" by Lunatic Calm, "The Winner" by Crystal Method. Make it hurt. Make it loud.

But I am.

I don't have words. Others are covering events in New York and DC. I'm numb.

We went to the beach for labor day. Here's a pic of me with my niece, Caroline. Thanks God.

Silent witness where there are no words.

Thanks to my handy content management system, I've added some Dublin Core meta data to my templates. There's more metadata on inner pages of the site (due to the message architecture of Conversant) than on the weblog. Once I migrate to XHTML (another goal of this site) I'll likely redo the meta-data as RDF.

all-your-rights-are-belong-to-us

God. I haven't enough breath to say how many things are wrong with this proposed digital rights management bill. This is not digital rights mangement. It's digital rights removal. As content moves to digital formats, media companies are finding that software/hardware can make it possible for them to absolutely control how "their" content is used, viewed, etc. No more pesky "fair use" (in current copyright law). The software is creating law. The DMCA basically says, "any restriction we can put on you in the software is legal". This upcoming bill is worse. Say goodbye to taping your favorite tv-shows. Say goodbye to ripping you cds to mp3. Say goodbye to lending that book from the Library (themselves sure to be illegal soon) to a friend. The Communist states could only dream of having so much control over the information to which their subjects had access.

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God. I haven't enough breath to say how many things are wrong with this proposed digital rights management bill. This is not digital rights mangement. It's digital rights removal. As content moves to digital formats, media companies are finding that software/hardware can make it possible for them to absolutely control how "their" content is used, viewed, etc. No more pesky "fair use" (in current copyright law). The software is creating law. The DMCA basically says, "any restriction we can put on you in the software is legal". This upcoming bill is worse. Say goodbye to taping your favorite tv-shows. Say goodbye to ripping you cds to mp3. Say goodbye to lending that book from the Library (themselves sure to be illegal soon) to a friend. The Communist states could only dream of having so much control over the information to which their subjects had access.

This is a real test

God. I haven't enough breath to say how many things are wrong with this proposed digital rights management bill. This is not digital rights mangement. It's digital rights removal. As content moves to digital formats, media companies are finding that software/hardware can make it possible for them to absolutely control how "their" content is used, viewed, etc. No more pesky "fair use" (in current copyright law). The software is creating law. The DMCA basically says, "any restriction we can put on you in the software is legal". This upcoming bill is worse. Say goodbye to taping your favorite tv-shows. Say goodbye to ripping you cds to mp3. Say goodbye to lending that book from the Library (themselves sure to be illegal soon) to a friend. The Communist states could only dream of having so much control over the information to which their subjects had access.