I really wasn’t ready to see flags at half-mast again.
I hope that it’s some small consolation to the families of the crew members that they wanted to be there, despite the risks.
Several years ago, I wrote a haiku about the Challenger disaster. It fits Columbia, as well:
January chill:
Seven begin a journey,
never to return.
Oh yeah…..
Happy birthday to Me! 🙂
Over the past few months, I’ve been getting a lot of hits from people who are coming from search engines while hunting for information on “alabama car tags”. What’s up with that? I’m pretty sure that my Car Tag Saga isn’t what they are looking for. If you came here looking for that info, could you just leave a comment here about it? No big deal, I’m just curious about what people are actually hunting for.
A few weeks ago, I applied for membership with the Jabber Software Foundation. The vote for new members was yesterday, and all 17 people up for membership were voted in as new JSF Members.
The responsibilities are pretty light — particpate in the jabber mailing lists, evangalize Jabber technology, and participate in the quarterly meetings. I was already doing the first two, and it’s no big deal to spend my lunch hour online for the meetings once in a while. And eventually I hope to actually contribute something interesting to the community. JabFoaf is at least something, but it only appeals to a very small portion of the community.
Eric Sigler has whipped out a prototype of the FOAF Comment Identity idea. It’s still in its early stages, but it’s a good proof-of-concept!
Ben Hammersley has taken an idea of Dave Winer’s and added a cool twist to it: Using FOAF For Comment Identity and Followups.
I’ll probably work on implementing something like this on my site…in my Copious Free Time. Ahem.
Sam Ruby (who I really should add to my blogroll) is testing excerpts for his pingbacks. Here ya go, Sam, excerpt away!
BTW, my blog auto-excerpts pingbacks, too. But I’m scraping the HTML, not the RSS.
