Sean has a point:

Comparative air travel
Here's a study in contrasts for you:

Flying out of BWI:
After negotiating hellish traffic, your wife and kids drop you at the curb nearest your ticket counter. Arriving one and a half hours before departure, you'll find a half-hour line at the TSA security checkpoint (and, if you weren't smart enough to pack everything into a carry-on, maybe twenty minutes at the ticket counter). You join the unwashed massses dashing for gates, and arrive in time to get on your plane–realizing, without recourse, that you left your cell phone charging in your office.

Flying out of Clinton County Airport in Plattsburgh–
You arrive an hour before departure time. Your family walks in with you–there's two-hour parking fifty feet from the terminal. You walk in, and hand your bags over to the TSA employee who won the draw. You realize you're missing your cell, and your wife drives back to the house and fetches it for you, while your daughter falls asleep on your lap in the waiting area. Finally, as the plane arrives–15 minutes before departure–you hand off your daughter to your wife and walk into the one and only boarding area and pass through the security checkpoint.

Hmmmm. Turboprop commuter planes are starting to look good. [Sean Gallagher: the dot.communist]

I live in a city of 150,000 people and have a small airport. We are served by NWA and AA and my experience is the same as his. Low stress, less hassle, easier parking. Then again, ticket prices are $200 more…

Reader Michael Bernstein came up with an archive of John Robb's last post. Like most people on the way out, things never go well for either side. He obviously didn't get paid enough to a)be happy or b) get over it.

Original post: http://www.houseofwarwick.com/2003/07/09.html#a82

I've been a voyeur at a side show know as the “mark pilgrim experience”. Mark has created a website that monitors the changes that Dave Winer makes in his posts at Scripting News. Clever? Why yes it is. It feeds the reality TV-watching crowd that most of America has become. It's a boxing match with words and technology. It's like watching NASCAR for the accidents.

I for one am sick of it. Dave has pulled out of the fight, and Mark responded by writing a disclaimer.

Mark, I used to read your posts often and they made me think. Your descriptions of your impending marriage to your wife were oddly similar to my own. I felt as though I knew you (as much as one can online) but now I find that I am embarrassed to say that.

Please go back to what you are good at: websites, code, accessabilty and standards. Use this experience to mature your personality before the wine turns to vinegar. Or, just learn the hard way. Wait until the next peer group review in the “real world” when someone comes up to you and says “Hey, aren't you the guy that fought with Dave Winer of that RSS stuff?” instead of “Hey, aren't you that champion for web standards and accessability?”

Good luck.

I'm considering purchasing a Handspring Treo 270 w/T-mobile service. I'm looking for opinions, reviews–anything from real users. If you have an alternative, let me know.

I've got a Visor Pro now and love it, but I'm also carrying a Nokia 8260 (AT&T) on my hip. I can't sync contacts and phone numbers on the cell phone with my laptop at work or my TiBook at home.

Solutions?

Here's an interesting comment from Ed:

Chris Lydon digs the intellectual energy of the blogosphere: ìThe adrenal elite is here.î

[snip]

The dynamism sensed by Chris is a key to the power of weblogs. Traditional media is static, bound by brand and convention even when put online or broadcast on TV and radio. Weblogs are dynamic ñ not just as oft-updated personal pages, but as peer-edited components in a constant conversation.

[EdCone.com]

The “adrenal elite” comment resonates with me. I've been trying to put my finger on why I've been having so much fun lately. It's the thrill of being on the edge of a trend, going places and doing things that no one else is doing or understands. I love the look on my family and friends faces when I say, “I have a weblog.” Then I get to unload all of the cool geek info that's bottled up inside me.

Raku weekend is upon us. I've been fretting about glazing and pit firing and generally, fear of the unknown. Spent about three hours with Nathan from Springfield Pottery yesterday. He made glazes and I asked novice questions. Best thing about Nathan is that he keeps people thinking, but not too much. His advice: keep your designs and glazes simple. He's going to have sample tiles on site to help us understand what some of the glazes do.

Most of all, raku is random be design. You never *quite* know what you are going to get.

[stomach twisting in knots]

Read this review of Harry Potter and it's power over adults. I first read about it here on the BoingBoing blog. Subscribe if you don't already; it's a hoot.

I posted this in comments on Don Park's weblog:

Here's the Steve Kirks plan:

Buy Userland. Keep everyone on the payroll and harness the Dave-force for good, for Apple and Userland of course. Immediately begin to optimize the code for X.3 and integrate with the rest of the products (tie to Radio to local Apache install to serve desktop web and iSync to match content–example only) Manilla carries on as a school product, save the corp stuff for about a year down the road when it runs great on X.3

Frontier and Userland were way ahead of their times. Web page publishing using a database backend, varibles and scripting is something (Apache, MySQL, PHP) we take for granted now. Apple could easily modify the Userland intellectual property to parallel Apple's needs and feed the developer community a new and unique tool that's *cross platform*, too.

I did some googling for John Robb last night and came up with very little. I saw a cache of his Sunday posts, but now that's gone. In those few posts that appeared, he was discussing starting a weblog preferred service with expert opinions like about.com, but using weblogs.

His odd departure and the subsequent removal of his weblog discredits him more than it helps him. Dave's entry on Scripting News sounds positive, but out of respect, what else would you say here?

Was John Robb sacked?

Reading Don Park…

Ground is shaking in UserLand. John Robb's abrupt departure and blog disappearance smells bad. Dave is hinting at a bigger change that should be “net-net good news for Manila and Radio users and for the weblog community.” While going open source is a possibility, “We weren't ready to announce, John surprised us” seems to point to a buyout. My list of suspects with recent news about AOL's entry into BlogLand are:

• Yahoo
• Adobe
• Symantec
• Macromedia

Intriguing drama unfolding…

[Don Park's Blog]

and this

…We're going to try to do something fun, unique, and powerful with UserLand's position in the weblog and content tools market, and we're going to try to include the community in the business, i.e. people will make money….That means there's room for a CEO here, and a management team; it also means it's possible that UserLand will be acquired. But we will only do it if it means continuity and growth for UserLand's customers. One thing hasn't changed, the first two syllables of the company's name. That's been constant through all the changes of the last fifteen years. [Scripting News]

I'd like to add Apple to Don's list. Manilla would be a great web-based iApp and an easy complement to their education market.