Work shock Personal Notes6/6/2000; 1:38:29 PM In the space of the past month, I've moved out of the dorm back to my parents, moved to my apartment from my parents, completed planning a wedding, gotten married, gone on a trip out east, re-arranged the apartment and set up an internal network (so we don't have to buy seperate printers, scanners, etc.), and now that I'm going back to work 8-5, well, it's a lot like culture shock except it's time I'm not used to managing yet.

I'm back! Personal Notes6/5/2000; 8:33:16 AM It's good to be back!Hopefully this is the last long outage this site will experience in a long time. I may or may not 'cover' the news today, but check out my wedding photos and stories below! I'll be posting the honeymoon day-by-day too, we've got some nice photos and stories for that. This site will also be redesigned a bit to continue with the News Item conversion, but I've got to get back to real work for now, so.

Misc. Announcements Administrative6/5/2000; 8:33:13 AM Misc announcements:I've finally finished what I started before the wedding, and have organized my site into various catagories. It'll be some time before I can get icons for all of the catagories, but in the meantime, I can now create a Site Index page, which lists all the catagories of stories I have.I wanted to do that as I think this site will also become useful as a historical resource.

May 20th, 2000: Our Wedding Day Wedding & Honeymoon6/5/2000; 8:32:55 AM Whew! It's been a hectic past three weeks! Finals week, then a whirlwind week of planning & moving into an apartment, then this little "wedding" shindig that we had been talking about for so long that I almost ceased to believe it would actually happen... but it did!I'll be putting a summary of the wedding & honeymoon for all to see, but it's also going to serve as a scrapbook of sorts and as a way of remembering what we did years from now, so it may seem a little detailed Clicking all of the pictures except the cake top picture will lead to a more full-sized version.

Privacy activists lobby Congress for greater Net protections Surveillance and Privacy from Government6/5/2000; 8:32:35 AM April 10, 2000: "Privacy advocates today urged Congress to extend constitutional search-and-seizure rights to the Internet to protect from Big Brother consumers who shop, join groups and bank online." Uh.... why does Congress need to expand the constitutional protections? They apply already; Congress can delimit and clarify, but I hope the 'privacy advocates' aren't truly pushing for "

Jakob Nielsen's Spotlighted Links Internet/Weblog Culture6/5/2000; 7:18:15 AM April 25, 2000: April 25, 2000: "The true danger comes from allowing access services and browser software to be integrated with content services. Thought police. The one way to ensure the continued growth of the Web, freedom of speech, and democracy is to keep bit transport and Web navigation as two separate layers that are not allowed to give preferential treatment to any content services.

TAP Controversy: Lawrence Lessig, Round Two Internet/Weblog Culture 6/5/2000; 7:18:13 AM April 25, 2000: TAP Controversy: Lawrence Lessig, Round Two: "But Raymond believes that no regulation is necessary here. That apparently the invisible hand will save us from networks of control. Where's the evidence? Putting aside ideology for a moment, can you point to one example in the history of the United States where owners of a telecommunications network voluntarily architected that network as open and maintained it over time as such?

Dueling to Be the King of Web Content Internet/Weblog Culture 6/5/2000; 7:18:12 AM April 25, 2000: "Even as they expand, both syndicators will face the challenge of sameness -- as in the degree of that they confer on customer sites. 'If you go to two different sports sites, they often have the exact same stories,' says Steve Outing, a columnist with trade magazine Editor & Publisher and co-founder of Content-Exchange.

Maryland governor signs UCITA UCITA6/5/2000; 7:18:10 AM April 25, 2000: "Glendening signed the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) into law Tuesday. UCITA will take effect Oct. 1; as things stands now, Maryland will be the first state to enact the software licensing measure."Well, THAT'S not good.

Yahoo! vs. Free Speech Political Speech6/5/2000; 7:18:08 AM April 25, 2000: "All the big portals have rules governing the types of banner ads that can run on their pages. Some portals have specific guidelines for political advertising. Those guidelines may be good-faith efforts to set ground rules. But in some cases, they have the effect of diminishing the quantity and quality of political expression online. Yahoo!, for example, has a blanket policy prohibiting negative banner ads.