Month: <span>April 2001</span>

Aaron would probably get a kick out of this story found on Plastic: Teenager Brings Down School Board
8:14:30 PM  

CNN: California governor reaches deal to buy Edison’s power lines.
8:13:50 PM  

Jeff: “I don’t know about you, but I’ve got the willies today…”
5:20:37 PM  

Salon: Made women. “The Sopranos deals with female emotional and sexual desire better than any other show on TV.”
4:00:45 PM  

CNET: Jurors misstate MP3.com payment. “Jurors who ordered the online music provider to pay nearly $300,000 to a record label for copyright infringement say they made a mistake: What they really meant was $3 million.”
12:49:58 PM  

The Register: MS Passport – let the games begin.
12:49:19 PM  

SF Gate: Displaced Musicians Might Find New Home.
12:47:54 PM  

Plastic: Satisfied With Results Of Previous Downtalking, Bush Now Forecasts Economic Upturn
12:47:08 PM  

CNN: Depleted uranium is safe, says EU
12:43:19 PM  

Glenn Fleishman: “Dave Winer has become ubiquitous. His life’s work appears to have led up to this point where, as a single individual representing an independent software developer, he may have the power to force Microsoft to open its gates.”
2:35:10 AM  

LA Times: Scientists to Seek Undersea Volcano.
2:34:38 AM  

The Register: MacOS X is ‘crap’ – Torvalds. He doesn’t like Mach one little bit.
2:34:10 AM  

RockMom.com: “How do bullies get their way? The divide and demean their opponents, calling names and backing up the names with violent deeds. They are big but lack self-confidence and resolve. Stand up to them and they melt away. Unite and they move aside. George W. Bush, bosses in general, their attempts to achieve control limit them as they do their opponents.”
8:04:35 PM  

One really nice thing about managing my weblog with Radio UserLand is that despite the fact that my site was down nearly continuously for three days during the Spring 2001 Cleanup, I was still able to make updates. As soon as the server came back up, I hit my Publish button, and Presto! there’s all my stuff. “Oh yeah, that’s right,” I thought to myself, “I own my data.”
7:17:33 PM  

CNN: Dutch airport suffers second fire. “Sunday’s blaze began when a fryer overheated in the airport’s Burger King causing a blast and sending flames and smoke through the ceiling.” Whoops!
5:17:51 PM  

Nando (AP): Rabbi arrested for soliciting sex from minor online.
7:13:15 PM  

Salon: I hate TV. After eight years of half-hour chunks and three-minute breaks, a TV critic bids the idiot box goodbye. Almost.
4:54:37 PM  

Morons Dot Org: Signs of Intelligence: Philadelphia Mayor Engages his Brain?.
4:54:02 PM