Updates around my personal blogosphere:
- Esta has mostly thawed out after being stuck at home for a few days by the blizzard.
- Craig has apparently been able to dig out enough to get to work, only to be confronted by an eternal truth: for a few days after a blizzard, snow is neither created nor destroyed, just moved from place to place. Specifically, in front of one’s car.
- Tin Man makes surviving the snowfall a heroic act: “When you put on a hat and scarf and gloves and trudge out into the snowy winter wonderland, you’re not just keeping your body warm. You’re helping postpone the eventual entropic death of the universe.”
- Moxie reflects on the hazards of fame: disguises and having one’s bandwidth sucked dry by fans of Joe Millionaire.
- Julie Powell managed to move on with the Julie/Julia Project in spite of having no water by skipping straight to lamb stew. Ah, lamb stew…
- William Gibson regrets having to miss his DC book signing but is making up for it by walking down the middle of Broadway, which has been rendered totally impassable by snow.
- Greg debunks the myth of the pacifist French by reminding us who sank the Rainbow Warrior, made the African colonial experience even more brutal, and elected a far-right-wing fella like Chirac to the presidency. Oh yeah, those French, a bunch of daisy waving peaceniks.
- Dave Winer, having struggled through configuring Manila for Weblogs at Harvard, is turning his attention to bringing Manila up to date. As a blogger who has stayed on Manila while Radio went zooming by, Dave, you have my thanks.
- Doc Searls, currently backing up his returned PowerBook (we devoutly hope), sends us to go try to find the 404 of Mass Destruction.
- Ross Mayfield is starting a new company, Socialtext. And he may already have competition from Microsoft.