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Me, Alaska Airlines/American Airlines, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are off to Seattle tomorrow.
Be online late tomorrow night, after meetings and a client dinner.

Downloading some large files using my home network. You may see some unusual performance results in WebPerformance while this is going on.
Do not adjust your set.

Any suggestions on media for tomorrow’s travel? I am stuck in the air for 7 hours flying to Seattle.

John Robb, one of the founders of the fine company that I work for, agrees with my opinion that Auto-Link is the final crack in Google’s “Do no evil” facade. [here]
It is also an issue that could see MSFT come out and stomp Google into a googol of tiny pieces.

Read this online this morning. I was broken, crushed, disturbed. [here]
In some ways, it is appropriate to hear of his suicide. I could not envision him fading slowly away from disease or dementia.
May he have a safe journey in the Great Land Shark.

Looks like I know what I will be reading on my many hours on the plane Wednesday and Friday. I have many new HST books I bought months ago…never cracked them. Now I am compelled to re-visit the place where I discovered that the madness I felt when I was 17 was shared by others.
In the accutane fuelled psychosis, I found HST. I discovered that if I wrote down those thoughts, those ideas, those flashes of dangerous confusion, I could survive the meltdown of my brain chemistry.
Twenty years later, still recovering from the Accutane damage to my brain chemistry, I am actually impressed that he chose his own exit strategy. HST was always a master of the situation. He most likely reached the point in his life, made in the coldly rational, if inexplicable, madness of his mind, where it was time to bow and depart, rather than be carried of the stage.
I do not condone or condemn his exit. But I understand that he needed to go this way. For him, it was the final act. The final trip.
You will always live on. Those who do not understand you, what you meant to the rest of us, they have never had to look into their minds and see the bats, the lizards, and the monsters that live there. Hey faced those creatures and drank with them for 67 years. May I be so lucky as do be able to find that balance.
The gargoyles and bats of my mind raise a toast to you, Hunter.

Someone who sees his departure the same way I do. [here]

Read mere from Dan Gillmor here.
If either of the parties is interested, I can scrub the rust off the Steel Cage I have in the basement, a leftover from the old Browser Wars era.

Great article in the SFGate/SF Chronicle on blogger burnout. [here]

Dave Winer lost his iPod for a few hours today. [here]
Me, I can’t imagine why I would want one. Guess I am not hip enough to be an A-List blogger.

Steve Rubel posts that the creator of Microsoft SmartTags is the Sith Lord behind Google’s AutoLink Feature. [here]
His homepage is here. If you create HTML and want to tell him how you feel about AutoLink, email him here.
Seems that he specializes in recognizing linguistic and conceptual pattern in electronic documents, most likely for the purposes of identifying them in search algorithms.

C|Net News Article here.

Just upgraded cURL on the servers to 7.13.0. [here]
Let me know if you see any weirdness in the WebPerformance data.