Dumky: "What if you could order a pizza from your networked Tivo?"
I was talking to a guy I know tonight about Fahrenheit 9/11. I pointed him to a couple of critical pieces, the centerpieces of which are that the film isn't fair. He responded, "of course, as Moore said, it's an op-ed piece." Interesting. The imdb says it's a documentary, and the word "documentary" appears in at least a few places on the movie site, but from the interview or two of Moore I've seen, I too got the impression that he was making a case.
The public radio beg-fest is on. My local station has been promoting the Greater Boston Food Bank as part of their fundraiser. What they didn't say is that you can donate directly to the GBFB. I donated to both.
Mark, I apologize for calling you a liar. I was feeling defensive and exasperated about a technical issue that I didn't understand. An issue that had very public consequences. You misread the situation and said some hurtful things. Now I understand the technical issue, and am unburdened. It wasn't like you said, but I believe that you believed what you were saying at the time.
Btw, I pointed to Dave's comment about Six Apart because I thought there was an important difference. Look at the baby squirrels grow up essay. It's thoughtful, sympathetic and supportive. Really, really supportive. Afaik nobody from Six Apart came close to reciprocating. One person did offer TypePad hosting, did not offer public support to Dave -- nothing approaching "So try to give him the benefit of the doubt, and try to work with him" as far as I know --- and made their comments on a thread where a number of folks were offering migration help. Migration help. If I wanted to help a user with a Manila export file, I'd start by trying to find them a new Manila host. If I was a competitor, and I found myself talking to these users, I'd like to think I'd say something like "look, the best thing for you to do now is get set up in an identical environment. Later, if you want to talk we can compare features and price, but right now you should focus on making yourself whole." I didn't see how adding the extra complexity of data migration could possibily make a user's life better, so inferred that there must have been other factors coming into play. I don't think I was wrong.
It's been a great year Dave, thank you! Instead of the regular Thursday meeting we're going to have dinner at the Bombay Club. Please post a note here (same link as in Dave's post) if you're coming, we'll call the restaurant tomorrow afternoon to tell them how many to expect.
Dave: "One difference between what happened to SixApart and what happened to me, is that I came to their defense, and they joined the mob."
Paul Callahan: "I would never have been able to find all this stuff without RSS feeding it to me."
