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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:54:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: the ugly truth
"The truth is an ugly thing and there will always be people who are
willing to ignore it for the sake of getting along. But declaring a detente*
doesn't change the fact that RSS 2.0 is a steaming pile of crap. Its spec
reads more like a half-assed homework assignment by a C-minus-level
comp-sci student than the foundation of an important data protocol. But
anybody who doesn't realize that at this point is either naive, stupid,
driven by something other than technical merit or all three. Not to name
names, Dave."
Also, I love the new Glassdog. Even though it's a "weblog."
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 20:14:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: John Ashcroft gives the best briefings
It's sort of like those "Fun with RealAudio" cartoons Robert Smigel used
to do (still does?) for Saturday Night Live, except it's live action
footage of Ashcroft's "increased terror alert" briefing.
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:41:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: ruining the web
[ http://trenchant.org/daily/2004/02/09 ]
and
[ http://trenchant.org/daily/2004/5/27/ ]
see: [ http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2004/05/28/cost.html ] which
advocates changing your writing to try and avoid inadvertently high
PageRank for search terms. Wonderful.
While I said that there was no such field as search engine
de-optimization, it looks like with people advocating the cripping of
their writing because of Google's relevancy problems, the field is now
emerging.
This probably should be a daily entry, but I actually spent time this
afternoon plugging in photographic content to auto-update this week. So.
Yeah. It's here, instead, where even fewer people will read it.
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:14:01 -0500 (CDT)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: gmail invites
Your pal,
-adam
ps - i still hate google
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 23:47:08 -0500 (CDT)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: on dave winer
promised to stop making fun of Dave Winer.
[ http://www.trenchant.org/blueblog/2000_03_01_archive.html#74413 ]
And, actually, when it comes to the current round of Winer bashing, I
agree with Evan Williams.
[ http://www.furl.net/item.jsp?id=456473 ]
That said, I can't help but think Andy Baio's Dave Winer Remix contest
[ http://www.waxy.org/archive/2004/06/16/dave_win.shtml ]
is fucking hilarious. Just listen to that first mp3, "Peopel Just Love to
Jump up and Down."
That is comedy.
Comedy for fucking nerds. (Like me.)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:39:32 +0100
From: "Alby Reid" <alby@[xxx]
To: <dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Is this on?
DodgeIt. Gotta admit this way is better.
Alby
P.S. I'll take one of those Gmail invites if you're still offering.
--
Alby (alby@[xxx]
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 00:01:04 -0500
From: Adam Mathes <amathes@[xxx]
To: dripmail <dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Fwd: Fecal Report June 24
(tomorrow?) wasn't enough for you, here's even more:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Fecal Report <djsmoothawley@[xxx]
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:43:16 -0500
Subject: Fecal Report June 24
To: adammathes@[xxx]
Cc: craighawley@[xxx]
My god. It's finally happened. After weeks of unhappiness and
dissapointing defecates, I have finally taken a perfect poop. It was over
quickly, but the cleanup took even less time...only one wipe, and then one
more wipe just to verify.
Excellent. I'd give it a 9.5/10.
[ stupid hotmail ad snipped ]
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:42:52 -0500 (CDT)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: OH MY GOD ADAMMATHES.COM UPDATED
But I "reworked" the front page of adammathes.com. (And I'm working on
changing the footers and sidebar of trenchant.org, but I'm not entirely
sure what I'm going to do... for now I finally fixed my templates so they
all use the same include so I *can* change it without editing 10 different
organizine templates.)
There's supposed to be an "academic" section on the front page of
adammathes.com with a link to a papers section and... maybe something else
but I haven't finished it yet.
I hate change but I think this is... better? For the 2 people who stumble
upon the page every once in a while. Maybe. Apparently I have way too much
time on my hands this summer.
Next up: debug and package up the decentralized imstalking (called
awaytoweb)
-adam
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:27:08 -0500 (CDT)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: this is going to be tomorrow's daily entry...
Lawsuit: Google Stole Orkut Code
[ http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,64046,00.html ]
"A small social-networking software company has filed suit against Google,
claiming that much of the source code behind orkut.com, the search
engine's popular social service, was stolen by a former engineer.
In its lawsuit, Affinity Engines, based in Palo Alto, California, said
engineer Orkut Buyukkokten illegally took the code that he had written for
the company -- which he co-founded -- with him when he joined Google.
Affinity Engines also claimed that Buyukkokten promised Affinity Engines
that he wouldn't develop a competing social-network service for Google.
Affinity Engines, which filed the claim on May 25 in Santa Clara Superior
Court, is seeking unspecified damages and royalties."
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