Minutia: Currently obsessed with the record: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002KHF/qid=1035586908/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-7399107-1844829?v=glance">Van Morrison, Moondance</a> 83529533daniel millerFriday, October 25, 2002publishTech: Blogger hacked I was blissfully unaware, off doing different things on the web for the entire time, but Blogger was hacked and taken offline (by Blogger, not the hacker) in order to solve the problem this morning. Should you be worried? Yes. I've changed all FTP passwords on my servers and am increasingly anxious to pull myself off this tit we call Blogger. Not much longer now and I will be moving all my blogs into my own CMS. More info: <a href="http://www.dashes.com/anil/index.php?archives/003780.php">here</a> <a href="http://rss.com.com/2100-1001-963375.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news">here</a> <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/25/1658229">here</a> ...this from <a href="http://evhead.com/">Ev</a> <a href="http://www.quicktopic.com/17/H/2PJzsGkTbtZR">here</a> Yes, turns out things weren't nearly as bad as they looked. We're fairly confident, while the attack affected a lot of users (um...all), it was relatively trivial compared to what it could have been. All information like ftp servers, etc., is in a different database than the one compromised. And we had a backup of all the data that was changed within a couple hours. 83523086daniel millerpublishMinutia: Pray I am officially working full time on helping Miriam find a solution for, or at least some relief from, her suffering. It has been managable for some time but very recently got really bad. It gives me a sense of purpose to do this...I'm grateful to at least be at/in a place where I can concentrate on helping the person I love; but it trumps everything else for obvious reasons and means that I will ignore everything and everyone else. This particular exercise (writing in my blog) is very theraputic, easy, quick, and a nice, constructive break to take every now and again, but I'm trying to lower expectations here. :) I seriously don't know how Miriam does it. She's an amazing person, and I am really the only person that understands how; because I see how she suffers and yet how she carries on, how she still works and is successful, how she makes me laugh (this morning on her way out the door to work she did a perfect imitation of <a href="http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/showcards/T/triggerhappytv.html">trigger happy tv</a>, the one where he's playing a Swiss guy in the park: "when you anesthetize me for the operation..."), and how she still creates such amazing displays of beauty <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/miriam/2002_10_01_archives.html#83474873">like this</a>. She shows a courage I've never seen before. For more information: <a href="http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/g2603/0003/2603000336/p1/article.jhtml?term=">AD</a> and <a href="http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/g2603/0000/2603000007/p1/article.jhtml?term=">allergies</a>. Conversely, if you have any information to give, <a href="mailto:spam@danielsjourney.com">send it me</a>. <img src="images/inbox.jpg" align="left">Also please understand if I don't get back to you on other things. 83511021daniel millerpublishElsewhere: Home Recording This morning on NPR I heard the last segment of <a href="http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/technopop/index.html#stories">NPR : TechnoPop: The Secret History of Technology and Popular Music</a>. Very good stuff! Gonna check out all the prior segments one of these days. Pretty much described where I'm at/coming from when it comes to the music world. Major articles and commentary on distribution blah blah blah forthcoming. I'm having major brain farts on how to actually bring about that elusive and obtuse <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/activist2.html">new economy</a> I've had on my heart for a while. Now if I just had all kinds of free time to record! :P 83510544daniel millerpublishMinutia.coment.elsewhere: Feel safer? So it looks like they caught the sniper (ballistics match <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/South/10/24/sniper.shootings/index.html">all but 3?</a> of the bullets). Do you feel safer? What about those of you who aren't even in the DC area? Were you feeling scared? Why? This last few weeks was an interesting journey of fear for me. At one point I was really <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/index.php?archive=2002_10_01_archive.xml&id_pass=83043872">scared</a>; even when I realized that this was not an isolated experience or even <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/index.php?archive=2002_10_01_archive.xml&id_pass=83022126">comparable</a>. But somewhere in the middle of all this, I <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/index.php?archive=2002_10_01_archive.xml&id_pass=83295936">saw</a> <a href="http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/home.php">Bowling for Columbine</a> and I realized thanks to that film that we are stuck in a culture of fear. And I've determined to fight that culture by choosing (as much as possible) to not live in fear. Fear is a debilitating, destructive emotion. It only helps when you have to run away from a bear in the woods. Our evolution hasn't been able to keep up with our technological advancements. What good was fear when there were so few measures you could take against the sniper? (And fear wouldn't facilitate any of those measures anyway.) Fear is mostly just for feeding dark spirits, for making us distrust each other, for distorting our thoughts, for inhibiting love. As as much as I am big on love, I am against fear. Go see the movie. 83510373daniel millerpublishElsewhere.Balkans: There are none righteous <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/2354129.stm">Memories live on for Croatia's victims</a> ...prosecutors in the Hague want to see the man who led the army - General Janko Bobetko - in court. General Bobetko is not planning on complying. "As a moralist, as a nationalist, and as a human, I will never go. I'm going to fight. They will not take me alive," he has vowed. It has left the Croatian Government in its biggest diplomatic quandary for sometime. The pro-western politicians in Zagreb are normally co-operative with The Hague. Not now. 83476414daniel millerThursday, October 24, 2002publishElsewhere: Don't Link dot Com <a href="http://www.dontlink.com/">http://www.dontlink.com</a> ...should we submit gravattville? ;) 83473292daniel millerpublishMinutia.comment: When even music cannot comfort... what do you do? 83469342daniel millerpublishElsewhere.comment: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia-pacific/2355797.stm">Jiang upbeat on US summit</a> <img src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38378000/jpg/_38378473_ap_laugh300.jpg"> So then I told him, "But those factories are bringing valuable jobs to the area..." 83469269daniel millerpublishElsewhere: Community What is it that makes us desire community? Relationships are work. People drive you crazy. You work through one thing to move on to the next. Being solo is much simpler... yet very few desire isolation, and those that are in isolation permanently rarely stay sane or in touch with reality. We crave, maybe even need, what causes us the most effort. It must be innate. But perhaps because in the end it reaps the greatest reward. Maybe. <a href="http://spirituallife.blogspot.com/2002_10_20_spirituallife_archive.html#83434674">...</a> 83469132daniel millerpublishElsewhere: Protest Ramp Up in Prague <a href="http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2002/Art/1023/news1.php">The Prague Post Online</a> 83423098daniel millerWednesday, October 23, 2002publishElsewhere: Daveland on Monay <a href="http://davenet.userland.com/2000/10/19/transcendentalMoney#howMuchDoYouNeed">Transcendental Money</a> I've seen people with huge piles of money who believe that if they just double their fortune they will feel truly secure. I can't help these people, but I can help people who are truly poor. 83408139daniel millerpublishTech: Nation Microsoft It's really happening. Is there any reason these products can't be less expensive except to maintain the monopoly? MS reports that they want revenue from MS Office to double--<a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,644086,00.asp">to 20 billion clams by 2010</a>. They have <a href="http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/4307752.htm">40 million in cash</a>, 7.7 billion in sales just last quarter, and their stock price <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=MSFT">has been going up</a>. Greedy, greedy bastards. Makes me want to just develop my software ideas in Java on a Linux machine. Perhaps it is time. If you have any advice to give me in this regard (you know a good machine to run Linux on, a good site to get recent, compiled versions and docs from, decent IDE's for Linux, etc.) click the "contact" link at the top, wouldja? More on the technical aspects of The Monopoly later... 83407670daniel millerpublishElsewhere: More Good Doonesbury the blog series has been continuing. <a href="http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.cfm">today's is particularly good</a>. <a href="http://www.earthonempty.com/">some particularly (to me) funny strips from the recent past</a>. you know, it's funny: i used to hate doonesbury, back in the day (those who know me know what i'm talking about). now i really like most of it. comics as barameters of social opinions? 83406796daniel millerpublishComment.minutia.GB02: Jon McGregor <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/bookerprize2002/story/0,12350,777549,00.html">Guardian Unlimited Books | Special Reports | Portrait: Jon McGregor</a> Jon McGregor was a speaker whose talk I attended at Greenbelt. Afterwards, I went to the bookstore and bought his book, which he then signed. I told him I would talk about it on the site when I started reading it. I have no idea if he's even been to the site or (and certainly not this one) had the patience to see if I would ever start reading it. Well, it's very next in the queue; I hope to start it in the next day or two; and this review has VERY much wet my appetite. He didn't make the short list for the Booker Prize, but that long list isn't very long, now is it? 83376019daniel millerTuesday, October 22, 2002publishTech: RSS and Newsreaders are NEET-O! SO, I finally got <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/rss.php">my RSS feed</a> going after a long time of thinking about the best way to do it and procrastination. It still may change as time goes on, eventually I'll create an actual XML file instead of doing it on the fly like I do now. The details on my feed are: Right now I'm keeping formatting and links in the description field. No images tho. And only the first paragraph of text. And the last 5 entries... You might want to check out this very well done newsreader as well: <a href="http://www.feedreader.com">FeedReader</a>. I'm using it right now, and let me tell you: Get an RSS feed on yer site! Going to the actual site is so inconvenient! :) Plus no guesswork--you know it's been updated! No deep dissapointment when your favorite blogger in the world has taken the last hour off. :) <img src="images/FeedReader.jpg"> color image with less crop: <a href="images/FeedReader0.jpg">59K</a> what happens when you then click my link, or double click the headline: <a href="images/FeedReader1.jpg">61K</a> My feed is also <a href="http://feeds.archive.org/validator/check?url=http://www.danielsjourney.com/rss.php">valid</a>. 83363431daniel millerpublishTech: Nonprofit Company Builds Interpersonal Information Manager <a href="http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4327025.htm">Mercury News | 10/20/2002 | Dan Gillmor: Software idea may be just crazy enough to work</a> Dammit! This looks like exactly the same kind of thing I want to do!! This is both very encouraging and a "I'm late to the game" kind of feeling... Mitch Kapor smiles at the half-serious question: "Are you crazy to try something like this?'' For more than a year, Kapor and his small team have been working on what they're calling an open-source "Interpersonal Information Manager.'' That makes the Chandler business plan perhaps as important as the product itself. Kapor, founder of the software company that sold the influential and hugely successful Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program in the 1980s, is funding the initial work through a non-profit foundation. Why does this matter? For one thing, it may succeed. For another, it could be a model for other such projects. The best place for information about this product seems to be <a href="http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/">Mitch Kapor's weblog about it</a>, on the <a href="http://www.osafoundation.org/index.htm">OSA Foundation website</a>. 83353183daniel millerpublishBalkans.comment.elsewhere <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/2347643.stm">BBC NEWS | Europe | Bosnians jailed over mosque riots</a> 83326674daniel millerMonday, October 21, 2002publishComment :: <a href="http://overtherhine.com/unsung.html">Unsung...</a> ...by Linford Detweiler ...I finished reading this book last night. It is a book you could literally read in 15-20 minutes total. More of a pamphlet, really. Makes me feel like there is some secret meeting I should know about. The working out of this poetic propaganda of the heart. But for such a short work, it is so, so worth it. "I want to be known (if I am to be known at all) as one of the great lovers of life. I want to make love to these days in new--or at least tender and timeless--ways, to make the trees sigh and the sky kneel for a closer view. (If a few others close their eyes and smile for a few momoents with me, it is enough.) I want to dip this paintbrush pen into the best places of my heart--those places I have all but forgotten--and paint pictures that might convince even me that I was not born in vain... "Like me, you're dying to give the world something beautiful. We all want to write our names on something good. This is our life's work. It is our way of saying thank you for that which cannot be put into words, for that which can never be repaid." Read this book outloud. Read it outloud at your meeting-togethers. Have someone stand in front of the throng, big or small, and read gently from its tender pages. Pause between sentences. Close your eyes between paragraphs. Breathe a little more through words as they drift off your tongue, into the air, misty angels. This is <a href="http://www.sevenmagazine.org/index.php?archive=082002_02">my new text</a>. 83304692daniel millerpublishMinutia.Comment :: What do You do for a Living or How do You Live? If you're looking for a reason to give: need another web host account (~120 clams/year), two more domain names (~50), and to register my non-profit (~500). Then my plans for the world can begin to take shape. :) In other good news, I sold one golf <a href="http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=dealingwith">shirt</a> to some cul friends! Can't wait to see it around. :) Related to all this, the other day after I talked for a few seconds about what I do with my days, somebody said to me, "You are *really* living the artist's lifestyle, aren't you?" Now, first, we won't even begin to look at the stab this is to all artists and artistry as a lifestyle or livelihood. But the issue isn't what I do, it's that at present these things do not fit into our existing economy. While I have some potential products in the fire right now, nothing I *currently* do provides me an income. Boo hoo. So is that still how we judge our worth? I have the opportunity right now to pursue my dream of being a sustainable artist and integrator (more on this term later). I found some seeds in the back of the old shed and now i'm starting to push them into the ground. I'll have to water them like crazy, go out there every day and monitor their progress, pull weeds, fertilize just the right amount (not too much). And hopefully when they grow into plants the rabbits don't come by and chew them all up! (But hopefully I'll get by without fences.) This is a thread that is about to really come out in full force. Again, more later. In the meantime, here are <a href="http://www.sevenmagazine.org/feb02/daniel.htm">some older (but not too old) thoughts</a>. 83302824daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.theooze.com/soularize/speakers/scandrette.htm">mark::scandrette</a> Had no idea he spoke at Soularize. Might have made me go, what with two people I admire there. Found out via <a href="http://myvalentine.blogspot.com/2002_10_01_myvalentine_archive.html# 85580251">Evans</a> admire. ad mire. heh. 83299071daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.cfm?uc_full_date=20021021&uc_comic=db&uc_daction=X">Doonesbury Town Hall and Web Presence- Daily Dose</a> on blogging. 83297839daniel millerpublishAmazing how productive you can be with a good night's sleep. And how much production can drive you on to produce more... which makes you not want to sleep... which would make you less productive... this seems a bad cycle?<a href="http://spirituallife.blogspot.com/">...</a> 83296930daniel millerpublishComment :: Bowling For Columbine <a href="http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/home.php">Bowling For Columbine : In Theaters October 2002</a> I saw this movie yesterday afternoon. Highly recommended. It is a little scattered; some heavy handed bits thrown in that don't fit the overall message of the film. I think if you go in with a political hat on you will be disappointed. Go in with a human hat, thinking about the values that make for a better humanity, and you will glean some great stuff from this film. Very important. And the best soundbite was from a <a href="http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/media/clips/index.php">Marilyn Manson interview</a>! What a dude! (Also check out the "history of the united states" clip on that page.) (ALSO, the GOOD part of the Manson interview is not in that clip! Crap!) The main thing about the movie was an integration of some themes I've been exploring here as of late: Fear; and mostly fear driven by media. The film's comment on America's collective social fear was its most important, methinks. Led to a great conversation over dinner, which trumped going to see Bill Mallonee for the 5th time this year (or playing at an open mic), where some nice people mostly listened to me think outloud while I put together some of my ideas about how to use new networks to help more artists become sustainable. More soon. Great quote (and I'll be paraphrasing here), from a Canadian punk kid who'd skipped school: "Canadians solve problems by talking. The U.S. solves problems by dropping bombs." 83295936daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news1199/potter.html">Harry Potter Books Drive Our Kids Insane!</a> :: I was actually at a church last night, the corporate mega kind; don't ask me why or how or to go into any detail. It was, uh, interesting. Anyway, on the way out we passed by a "halloween" display which had all these books about Harry Potter and weejee boards and halloween. "What is a Christian to do about { }" was usually the title. So I searched the net for the truth about Mr. Potter, and here is it. 83254647daniel millerSunday, October 20, 2002publish<a href="http://disengaged.blogspot.com/">Living, Learning, Losing, Loving, and Laughing</a> :: Found someone who links to me/reads me (?). Part of <a href="http://mattybubar.blogspot.com/">Matt</a>'s crowd of thinkers. Will be adding a reciprocal link soon. 83254118daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.sfcg.org/">Search for Common Ground Film Festival : Conflict Resolution, Conflict Prevention</a> The second annual film festival on the theme of cinema and video as media for reconciliation and conflict transformation will take place at Visions Cinema Bistro Lounge in Washington, DC, on November 1-7, 2002. The 21 films emphasize the common humanity shared by people in conflict and reveal why they feel, think, and act as they do. While not ignoring the differences that divide people, the films highlight the commonalities among them. The festival aims to recognize the achievements of socially conscious filmmakers, to strengthen the influence of film and video in transforming conflict, and to move audiences beyond viewing to engagement and dialogue. Included will be films from or about India, former Yugoslavia, Israel, Palestine, Vietnam, Korea, and Sierra Leone, among others. We will be at as much of this as possible. Check out the films that are going to be shown a little bit down the page <a href="http://www.sfcg.org/actdetail.cfm?locus=Arts&name=programs&programid=309">here</a>. 83253929daniel millerpublishWhere does the time go? Where did it come from? 83253425daniel millerpublish