Once again I find myself posting later than I’d like to. I know (from looking at my server logs) that a lot of my regular readers try to catch up on my site in the morning before they start work at 9am Central time, and I’ve been either really close to 9 or just after lately. I’m not sure what the solution is, but this morning I was awake in plenty of time, and was just trying to comment on the stories I found during my usual news-gathering. It look a little longer than usual.
As I say, I’m not sure what the solution is, but so far I’ve just tried to do a little more surfing in the evening before going to sleep to get a jump-start on the morning. That doesn’t really help, since I end up getting to sleep later, which means waking up later. I suppose I could completely turn my schedule around and sleep in the middle of the day, and spend all night awake and working on this for the day, but that seems a little drastic for a project that just barely covers its own hosting costs (the Google ad revenues are now up to the point where they’re paying what I would charge a customer to host a website like this, but that’s about it).
Oh well. I could go on, but that would just make this even later than it already is. I’m sorry if I’m messing up your morning read. I’d rather not, but I need to find some new solution to the problem, and I haven’t yet.
- jwz has posted CensorZilla, a list of snippets that needed to be cut out of Mosaic’s browser when they sold it to Netscape. Possibly not-safe-for-work, due to language. [jwz]
- Gotta like Isaac Hayes’ Three Laws of Robotics. [jwz]
- Argh. Another Dinkytown bar bites the dust: Bobby Z’s shuts down. Thanks to Jim for the pointer, and confirming the rumor I’d heard at least once, but dangit, that’s not happy news. [jim]
- Jim is now in The Calm before the Storm for Saturday’s event. He has links to all the press coverage they’ve gotten in there, and it’s pretty darned impressive. Among others, Recalling blood on the bricks is Nick Coleman’s column in the Strib regarding the 1934 Teamsters Strike and the One Day in July event. [jim]
- Verizon Wireless has filed the First Lawsuit Over Cell Phone Spam against some spammers who targetted their cell-phone customers. It’s not often that I wish cell-phone companies good luck, but this is one of them. [slashdot]
- Acxiom has huge amounts of consumer data, and is one of the world’s largest database companies. A Data Theft Suspect Busted recently for stealing some of that data is going to trial, and that’s good, since he’s been using the information to spam people, but I think there needs to be some sort of liability for Acxiom, too. This is the second time data’s been stolen from them, and if they’re not willing, or able, to actually protect the data, they need to face some penalties. [wired]
- Wanna buy The K.I.T.T. car from Knight Rider? Bidding starts at $40,000 next Friday. It’s one awfully geeky Trans Am. [boing boing]