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Monday, November 12, 2001

Survey: "Was the crash in NY today an act of terrorism?"

Survey: Exercise yous remember we'll have an airline industry in the United states in a few months?

Proper name withheld: "Another scary terrorist vector to recall most: I was driving dorsum to LA from SF on the 5 and noticed that the CA aqueduct flows right underneath the highway at least 3 times. What happens if someone dumps nuclear waste into this thing? Or the Colorado river? Two or three well planned dumps could potentially decimate the unabridged CA water supply. In that location should be armed guards patrolling these water systems esp when they are exposed to major throughways. I can tell you from my last ii bulldoze-bys that in that location is no one out in that location protecting us."

Simon Brutal: PocketSOAP i.ane.

Are flight recorders obsolete? Why not have an HTTP connection from the airplane to a static server somewhere very far away. Stream the flight recorder data to the server on the footing. And then when a aeroplane crashes, no need to chase. Something like a weblog for each plane in our skies. As an bonus they could offer cyberspace connections to 802.11b laptop-using passengers.

From NTSB via NPR, they've recovered the flight recorder.

John Robb: "A flop put into a fly fuel tank would reach pretty much what happened."

ten/29/01: "Wireless-applied science company Qualcomm is working on a satellite-based system that would be able to circulate existent-time jetliner cockpit conversations, flight information and video of passengers to controllers on the basis."

Doc uses his mind: "If you're sitting in a swamp on Rockaway Bay backside a duck bullheaded wth a Stinger shoulder-held anti-aircraft missle launcher, an Airbus is a mighty large duck. You don't fifty-fifty have to aim very well. Your Stinger is a rut-seeking missle. It goes for an engine."

Mapquest photo of the Rockaway neighborhood.

Annova: "At this point, there's no indication of a terrorist attack, but it certainly can't be ruled out in the current environment."

MSNBC: "At least four homes were ablaze Mon after an American Airlines 767 aircraft crashed about the heavily populated Rockaway Beach area of New York Metropolis, non far from John F. Kennedy International Airport, NBC News reported on Monday. The Airbus-300, Flight 587, was heading to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Commonwealth."

The plane crashed into Beach 130th Street in Rockaway. I know the area. My grandparents lived on Beach 146th. That'south the neighborhood my female parent grew upwards in. I was but there with my mother and uncle in August. "All circuits are busy at present. Please endeavor your call later. 090T."

Chuck Newman: "I tin run across the smoke from my office."

Here's a map of the crash surface area.

Reports: AP, CNN, BBC. "The Dow index dropped 200 points on hearing the news."

WSJ: "How bad is the mood going into the Comdex computer trade show this year? So bad that one of the show�s organizers really called drug company Eli Lilly & Co., maker of the antidepressant Prozac, to see if the Indianapolis company wanted to sponsor the event."

Dan Gillmor is in Malaysia. Watch out when Dan leaves the country. He was in Africa on Sept 11. Heh.

Tobi Schaefer asks a large question virtually Blogger.

Happy birthday to Chris Locke!

This picture is probably but of involvement to me and Evan Williams and a handful of other people. Back in August I was able to connect the outliner in Radio with Blogger using its XML-RPC interface. Information technology's futuristic. Someday, imho, almost people will edit their weblogs in outliners.

Last nighttime I did probably the final pace in the Weblogs.Com corner-turn. I got the favorites-based desktop version of Weblogs.Com working in the beta of Radio 7.1 (not released still). Information technology was a pretty smooth transition. I expect that other people will do like interfaces in Python, Java, Perl, etc. The primal to performance is distributing the prefs-based stuff, and store and return-through-favorites on the local computer where in that location's plenty of unused CPU bandwidth. And a note to designers who are starting to dearest XML, check information technology out, a very simple XML feed is backside this useful interface.

Now's a good time to pitch the Tuesday Luncheon With A Programmer concept. (Or meme, as Chris is sure to remind me.) Designers, discover a programmer and get to lunch tomorrow. Y'all pay. Enquire the programmer to explain how Weblogs.Com works. Since y'all're paying y'all tin ask for more info, until it makes sense. Information technology's a bootstrap. One time nosotros go great interfaces accessing Weblogs.Com in all environments we tin can add together more than services. This is how we build a user base. Now, is in that location money in it? Merely if the Spider web starts alluring investment again. But that, slowly but surely is a bootstrap as well. Ane step at a time.

The Cluetrain mail service list is filled with talk of blogging.

Marker Pilgrim: "Jakob is off his mobile-phones-are-gonna-exist-the-wave-of-the-future-any-day-now boot, too as his micropayments-are-gonna-be-the-wave-of-the-hereafter-any-twenty-four hours-now kick, and back to his bread and butter: kicking websites when they're downwards."

AP: A vote-by-vote review of untallied ballots in the 2000 Florida presidential ballot indicates George Due west. Bush would take narrowly prevailed in the partial recounts sought by Al Gore, but Gore might have reversed the outcome - by the barest of margins - had he pursued and gained a complete statewide recount.

Macscripter.Internet: XML-RPC support for osaxen.com.

Let'southward promise Uncle Osama likes Windows XP.

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