Help! Help! My Internet connection is failing! Upshot, no posts.

I don't have time to code this right now, but here's an idea for a Google API app. It's just the sort of thing webloggers would go for, a vanity macro. Scrape your referers pages, extracting all google queries and extracting the "q" parameter.Run these through the Google API, looking for search terms that you're in the top 10 for.Store all of these.Every so often (6 hours, or maybe every post), pick one of these results, and create a Google box to upload to your page.

In which I receive a non-response and an incorrect response to a query about the CBDTPA [Erehwon Notebook] Regarding my earlier post about the grass-roots denouncement of the CBDPTA being essentially non-news, this provides some good, albiet anecdotal, evidence that supports my feeling that way.

'The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to oppose the use of "blocking" as a way of regulating content on the Internet. 'The vote (460 in favour, 0 against and 3 abstentions) this morning means that ISPs will not be forced to restrict access to Web sites.... '[Ms Gosling] added that blocking is "technically difficult, democratically questionable and undoubtedly inefficient" and believes that there are far better ways to deal with content issues, such as using special hotlines and ratings systems.

This is an anti-blog-post. This story is totally unimportent. Thanks for anti-reading.

'The idea seemed simple: figure out who the good guys are, give them easy-to-recognize and hard-to-counterfeit ID cards and let them breeze past airport security. 'Everybody would win, advocates say. Holders of the "trusted traveler" cards would save time. Screeners would have fewer bodies to inspect — there were 1.8 billion in 2000, according to the Transportation Department — and could concentrate on identifying potential terrorists. And passengers would feel safer.

There's an art to reading reviews. But it's easy to learn. Three simple rules: Ignore all positive opinions. (Listen only to statements of fact.)Ignore flames. Watch for the reviewer with an ulterior motive. (My personal canonical example, a movie reviewer reviewing the movie they would have written, not the one they saw.)The most importent thing to look at is the negative comments, esp. as compared against the positive. Are some people complaining that the software is hard to learn, while others rave about the power?

Yep, the US has decided it has jurisdiction. What a shock. (I'm deliberately not reporting every time this case twitches; it's not even interesting until it actually gets into court.)

The Register: Windows Messenger 'Trojan update' [diveintomark] I feel OK using XP, still; I'm still confident that I can disable this stuff. But I have to admit I'm getting more hesitent to recommend it, the more they do this. Pity. If it wasn't for Radio Userland, I wouldn't need Windows. If only I could afford a Mac!

I decided against putting my April Fool's page as my homepage; too many interesting people linking to my page to risk a bad impression, IMHO. But you can see what I prepared here.