Monday, July 16, 2007

Today's Hotline reports the following: While answering questions adobe acrobat professional t a campaign event in Newton, IA, 6/9, McCain was asked about terrorists crossing the U.S. border. McCain: "I think we have our heads in the sand being so politically correct and being more worried about Paris Hilton ... than real issues." After pausing, McCain: "Well, actually I think most of us stayed awake most of the night last night worrying about [Hilton]. ... I sure hope she gets out soon, don't you?" (Schulte, Des Moines Register , 6/9). This, in its own way, is instructive. John McCain knows that the nation is focused on Paris Hilton because he's seen CNN talking about it. He knows she is in jail. But he is totally out of touch. He doesn't understand that nobody hopes she gets out soon. We had a national coming together on Friday, not quite on the scale of the Bronco Chase, but close. And we had as close as we get these days to a national consensus: Paris should have been sent back to jail. She should not have been released. Her release made people all over the country genuinely angry. Maybe he's too old or too insulated, but John McCain just doesn't get it.

Today's Hotline reports the following: While answering questions at a campaign event in Newton, IA, 6/9, McCain was asked about terrorists crossing the U.S. border. McCain: "I think we have our heads in the sand being so politically correct and being more worried about Paris lake tahoe hotel deal ilton ... than real issues." After pausing, McCain: "Well, actually I think most of us stayed awake most of the night last night worrying about [Hilton]. ... I sure hope she gets out soon, don't you?" (Schulte, Des Moines Register , 6/9). This, in its own way, is instructive. John McCain knows that the nation is focused on Paris Hilton because he's seen CNN talking about it. He knows she is in jail. But he is totally out of touch. He doesn't understand that nobody hopes she gets out soon. We had a national coming together on Friday, not quite on the scale of the Bronco Chase, but close. And we had as close as we get these days to a national consensus: Paris should have been sent back to jail. She should not have been released. Her release made people all over the country genuinely angry. Maybe he's too old or too insulated, but John McCain just doesn't get it.

Today I spent: 45 minutes in morning rush hour traffic, wishing painful butt ulcers on every driver who cut me off/nearly killed us both/yakked on the cell phone 30 minutes in an overcrowded cafe trying to juggle 1) eating giant burrito, 2) reading Terry Pratchett novel and 3)dodging 9-5 Dilberts at the soda fountain 30 minutes returning urgent yet completely not voicemails 15 minutes peeing (why was I cursed with the Barbie Bladder?) 7 hours enduring annual training on the titilating aspects of the National School Lunch & Breakfast unusual dice rogram 60 minutes in evening rush hour traffic, several of which were spent nearly impaling car on poorly placed lane divider poles and recovering after near heart attack Tomorrow promises to be just as soul-crushing/educational. (sigh)

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My last two posts were motivated by Sean McGrath’s piece on URLs and the social contracts they imply. So, too, this one. Sean argues for the network-value of a naming convention for URLs, namely, the inclusion in URLs-of-permanent-intent of the string ‘purl’. When I first read his post, my egocentrism led me to think he was alluding to the PURL system, launched by OCLC a dozen years ago in response to our frustrations with the ground-hog-day character of the URN meetings in windows media player plug ins he IETF . We launched PURLs with an expectation that they would be widely adopted and deployed by all right-thinking Web managers (we had a LOT of silly ideas like that…). PURLs have never been as widely deployed as were our hopes, but they are still alive and growing, and remain both useful and an instructive data point in the evolution of the Internet naming architecture. One reason I was so ready to conclude that Sean was talking about PURLS is his argument: I am thinking of nothing more complicated than a social naming convention. What if permanent URLs contained the fragment '/purl/' for example? Would that not do the trick? As a consumer, I look at example.com/purl/info12.html and can immediately infer that it is a good candidate for bookmarking. From a URL consumer's perspective, this would be very handy I think. From a URL producer's perspective, it would also be very handy. In effect, it would allow URL producers to send out signals to the world.

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Today I spent: 45 minutes in morning rush hour traffic, wishing painful butt ulcers on every driver who cut me off/nearly killed us both/yakked on the cell phone 30 minutes in an overcrowded cafe trying to juggle 1) eating giant burrito, 2) reading Terry Pratchett novel and 3)dodging 9-5 Dilberts at the soda fountain 30 minutes returning urgent yet completely not voicemails 15 minutes peeing (why was I cursed with the Barbie Bladder?) 7 hours enduring annual training on the titilating aspects of the National School Tweak UI unch & Breakfast Program 60 minutes in evening rush hour traffic, several of which were spent nearly impaling car on poorly placed lane divider poles and recovering after near heart attack Tomorrow promises to be just as soul-crushing/educational. (sigh)

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