Joseph Duemer and Stephanie Young have been having a discussion about 
that SUV poem, bashing it pretty thoroughly. Not to take issue with them, but it reminded me of Eldorado by Edgar Allen Poe. Confirming the demographic of the advertisers, I know the poem from the John Wayne movie of the same name, in which the poem is quoted.
- The cherry tree in front of my house is in full blossom. I took a few pictures yesterday -- here's a snippet of one
sub cxerizarbo
dum mi forestas
laboron
abeloj zumas
(under the cherry tree, while I'm away from, work, the bees are humming)
PatrickWeb has an interesting take on wifi
There was a long list of reasons ten years ago for why the Web would never turn into something serious -- certainly not into something that could be used for secure business transactions. The same list of shortcomings is being attributed to WiFi today security, scalability, reliability, business model, etc. Just like the Web, WiFi is grass roots, standards based, and very decentralized. Just like with the Web, there is no stopping WiFi from becoming mainstream.
Of course, I could just argue that its an interesting rhetorical style
There was a long list of reasons 10 years ago why the Gulf War was a bad idea, but it turned out OK, so similarly the War with Iraq must good.
But I think he's onto something here. I remember when my brother
told me about this thing called Mosaic that I had to see. When I got back to Western, I
immediately set up a web site and started authoring HTML documents to the support the biology
lab I was teaching. I wanted students to be able to access the documents outside of our lab, so I went to the head sysadmin and asking him if they were planning to install web-browsers in the computer labs. "I don't know, man," he said. "They use a lot of bandwidth. I don't think we're
ever going to install web-browsers." That was probably in early 1994.