evil runs scared, but it can never escape
fortunately the real battle is not in the physical plane, but unfortunately we don't seem to be in strong enough agreement as a whole to realize that and act upon it
if society and cultures are to converge with any benefit, greater self-awareness is necessary
turns out Jabber::RPC::HTTPgate isn't for xml-rpc access to Jabber, but carrying xml-rpc data between Jabber servers, piggy-backing on the Jabber protocol
still trying to connect to Jabber via xml-rpc... this time
I'm trying Jabber::RPC::HTTPgate
instead of just the http and
wcs modules from cvs
oh, yeah, and on Halloween tonight the moon is
blue
wow, Webmin is
great... I can't believe I hadn't seen that before
Apache Toolbox
looks useful, too - but I haven't tried it yet
finally launched the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education's site... it uses ZOPE
DMCA protest in SF was good, felt useful... I wore my US
Patent Office "selling monopoly rights to common sense for
over 25 years" shirt, signed by Alan Cox (from
ThinkGeek.com, but they don't appear to carry it anymore)
about 150 people or maybe near 200, but spirited
the overall level of issue-awareness seems to have
improved in the last few years, but damn it I want to
create a recommendation engine! (patented by Amazon) or
rather, I'd like to create a lot of recommendation engines,
and allow aggregation/syndication between them
resist "cyber crime" legislation in your multitude of local
jurisdictions which (further) limits your rights to speak freely and read... the goal is to eliminate or
streamline copyright, patent & intellectual property
laws, not beef them up!
it is certainly far easier to prevent new legislation than
to repeal it and work it out of systems-in-motion
triage, triage, triage !
simply making it to
the 21st century by blind luck is
meaningless... and has no bearing on successfully making it
over the repeating-epic-tower-of-Babel cusp we find
ourselves near; the everlasting balancing battle between
convergence & divergence
I'm reading Neal
Stephenson...
...then they fight you...
now that they know the name of who they're fighting
a sizeable hurdle takes the form of so many would-be victors excited at the prospect of change (finally, from their perspectives especially), and glad that Microsoft and the big-corp way will not win
it slows because they need to find out why the change is happening, how it affects their perspectives, and focus on those differences
change is more painful than learning from others perhaps because it's learning from ourselves
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