David Pogue's review of Jaguar
David Pogue's
review of Jaguar in the New York Times mentions a nifty feature that I didn't know about -- the Calculator application can now do currency conversions. I wish it'd do binary, octal, and hexadecimal math, too, but currency conversions are certainly a nice plus.
Lawrence Lessig has a blog.
Lawrence Lessig has a
blog. The first post? A
response to Dave Winer's whining over the past week about Lessig's comments at the O'Reilly OSCON that the tech community has done nothing to stop the absurdity in Congress.
Says Lessig: "Here's the simplest thing we could do: identify 2 luddite members of Congress -- one Republican and one Democrat. Organize and defeat them in November. If Congress saw bad ideas cost seats, they'd begin to do something about their bad ideas." Of course, this is exactly what Dave Winer
proposed a month ago, and what I wrote
a game plan for a day later.
But game plans only get us so far. Nobody has stepped forward to implement the plan -- not Winer, who would perhaps be in the best position for it, not Bruce Perens...not anyone. Now it's too late for this year. There's simply no way to create a campaign in time for November. Yet people like Amy Wohl still want to know
where to send a check.
Someone needs to get the ball rolling for 2004, then. Set up an organization and start raising money today, with the plan being to disburse it between now and the November 2004 elections. Additionally, spend much of the next year trying to talk to specific members of Congress, teaching them how technology works and what their constituents want technology to do. A year from now, we'd have a few names of members of Congress who don't want to listen. That's when the campaign starts in earnest.
Only 15 months after the
Only 15 months after the last time it was synchronized, my Palm IIIx is backed up again. Finally.