Chipping the web – 105
March 16th, 2007 5:59:53 pm pst by 
Sterling Camden
Revolution: How many of you remember 1968? Prague Spring, USS Pueblo, Tet Offensive, My Lai, MLK and RFK assassinations, Columbia protests, Hair, French May, The Catonsville Nine, DNC Chicago, Tricky Dick, the White Album, Revolution. it was a confusing year for an eight year old boy.
Seth Godin: “Monopolies work to protect something that wouldn’t belong to them if we had a chance to start over.” Hmm… could apply to extended copyrights and patents, too.
We parents worry too much. Safe at second base. Damien’s pooped .
Shelley Batts shares one aspect of her personal evolution .
I knew there was a good reason (thanks, theheadlemur ).
The return of the Commodore .
Apotheon plans to write software to use to write about writing the software for writing about writing the software for… (I hope there’s some tail recursion optimization here)
Alice (of Wonderland or Not) has added me to her blogroll. Woo hoo! Thanks, Alice! Nice new theme, BTW. And thanks for enabling full text feeds!
Posted in Share the Love | 
4 Comments » RSS 2.0 | Sphere it!
Subscribe by Email
That’s because copyrights and patents are a state-sponsored monopoly. Thomas Jefferson actually used words exactly to that effect in discussing copyrights and patents in his letters.
I hope so, too. In fact, after that, I’m not sure what I’m doing any longer. I thought I knew what the project was going to be, but now I’m not so sure. Could you run that by me again?
Actually, I’ve been thinking about this concept a lot. I have an idea related to software development and, for that matter, any other sort of cross-over technical/creative work, that relates to this idea of eating one’s own dog food. Look for it in the first few posts that will appear at blogstrapping once I get things underway. The word “philosophy” may appear in the title of that post.
Darnit, I mistyped. That should be blogstrapping. Sterling, if you’d adjust that link, I’d be grateful. Delete this follow-up or not, as you desire.
Adjusted, apotheon.
I was just having fun with the recursive (or at least reflexive) nature of your project.
Obviously you’ll have to achieve a critical mass in order to even use the product, so you won’t be able to use it to post about that seminal stage of development. But after that it should get quite interesting as you add all the features expected of a mature blogging platform (but in a more elegant incarnation), and then even more interesting as you discover new things to add beyond what blogging platforms now provide.
[...] 105 in octal is 69 decimal, and 105 decimal is 69 hexadecimal. What goes around comes around, in true 69 fashion. [...]