Since that's the way we all seem to be communicating naturally, why fight it when you can enable it?

However... I have a habit of making public announcements in the hope that I will be that much more inclined to follow through. If all goes as planned, within the next couple of weeks I should have ready something that will prototype a method of providing reverse links for us webloggers. Basically, it will automate what you see at Carpe Diem today, where he has to manually list those who pointed at his site and provide links.

Unfortunately, I'm really freakin' busy and won't be able to update this today.

Why, oh why, do the large assignments always bunch up, surrounded by periods where none of my classes have much of anything to do? (Rhetorical question, I know the answers.)

Karl Martino reports on Echelon stuff in the discussion group. Great timing, I'm too busy today to hunt that out on my own.

News, Views and a Silicon Valley Diary: "I've been making it a point lately to test the privacy features of Web sites and other kinds of interactions I have with businesses. I do this both because I want to guard my own privacy, and to collect data for this journal.

Derive what you can from that statement. OK, OK, I admit it, I just wanted a "via" chain of 3. Anyone care to go further?

Actually, I'm not terribly impressed. If you examine the weights it gives, then it draws the vast majority of the information from the two tell-tale questions. If I had been less honest about my facial complexion, it would have been horribly, horribly wrong.