Thanks to Scoble for this. [here]
Jeff, I apologize for any harm our bashing may have caused you.
However, AutoLink is still inherently evil…
Month: February 2005
For those that are interested…
I will be at RedWest from 9:30AM – Noon today, and then at MSNBC from 1-3PM PST.
Call me if you know the number…
In Redmond
In my hotel in Redmond…beat. Been up since 2:45AM EST, and it’s now 11:52PM EST.
Working on tomorrow’s meeting data. Going to bed very soon…
At Logan…
I work for an elightened company that pays for airport wi-fi. So here I am at Logan, watching the flotsam and jetsam of the modern age drift in and out of the nearly abandoned terminals at 4:15AM.
No really intense observations, other than I am early, which is nothing new if you know me.
Waiting for the Alaska Airlines borading gates to open up…
Will be offline most of tomorrow
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.
WebPerformance may be flaky for a few hours
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.
Media for travel tomorrow.
Any suggestions on media for tomorrow’s travel? I am stuck in the air for 7 hours flying to Seattle.
John Robb sees Auto-Link as a serious fiasco
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.
Marc Canter: Thompson was the original blogger
All bloggers owe their heritage to the original Gonzo.
Marc Canter
Amen.
The subjectivity and raw opinion in HST’s work colours my writing to this day. it is difficult for me to write professional, technical documents without wanting to launch into a preternatural screed (two words I learned from the Good Doctor) on the topic I a writing on.
I was accused by a VP in my company last week of not being able to dumb myself down to deal with where our customers are in relation to where I am. HST had no patience with dumbing down, or pulling punches. He told people what they needed to know in as visceral a manner as he could.
May blogging honour the heritage of HST.
Hunter S. Thompson, RIP
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]