Cloudy Thinking

The best gift I received this Christmas was a boxed set of DVDs for the first season of the TV show 24. DVD Vision is my term for watching TV shows this way. It’s a big deal.

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Lynette Luna of Fierce Wireless has an interview with Ron Resnick, president and chairman of the WiMAX Forum.

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Ian Delaney writes about Footnote. a way to view a large collection of historical documents.

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Tom Zeller Jr. writes in The New York Times about a video game contest that ended in the tragic death of Jennifer Strange.

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Ester Dyson (who said “Always make new mistakes”) sent out this letter to her mailing list.

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Amanda Chapel a.k.a. Strumpette writes about “… an exhilarating downhill slide toward cultural chaos.”

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As regular readers know, about a month ago my Cloudy Thinking blog was subjected to a severe Botnet attack (distributed denial of service). This attack forced my ISP to disable the blog comment function.

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At my work we use IBM (now Lenovo) laptops running Microsoft Windows XP. Two things may change that equation.

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John Markoff writes in The New York Times about “Zombie Computers” used in botnet attacks such as this blog was subjected to recently. It’s not a pretty picture.

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Jacob Weisberg writes in Slate: Our Iraqi Mistake, What was it, exactly? It’s a good read.

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On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 9:49 PM, Ron K. Jeffries (beta tester) wrote to Sarah Allen, who manages the Laszlo Mail development team. (more…)

SiliconValley.com ran this quote from L.A. Times columnist Joel Stein:

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Here’s what my Internet-fearing editors have failed to understand: I don’t want to talk to you; I want to talk at you. A column is not my attempt to engage in a conversation with you. I have more than enough people to converse with. … Not everything should be interactive. A piece of work that stands on its own, without explanation or defense, takes on its own power.

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