I’m finding the Times-Picayune breaking news weblog to be the most informative and reliably updated web-side news source on the aftermath of the hurricane in New Orleans. Unfortunately, as a local paper, they haven’t seen fit to prep and post maps of the city and affected parishes. The dual MetaFilter threads have continued to proffer interesting data and updates, but the server has been crashing all day.
Willya looka that
Seattle P-I: “From Seattle’s lively blogosphere, a group is born – Chapter that meets monthly may be the biggest in world.”
On a map of the blogosphere, Seattle would probably stick out as a blinking hot spot for push-button publishing. Blogs of all kinds emerge from computers all over the city and its environs. Some cover urban culture (Seattlest.com), politics (SoundPolitics.com and Horsesass.org) or techno-babble (chris.pirillo.com), while others reveal blow-by-blow entries of personal struggles.
Biggest in the wold? My god. Too bad Daymented’s gone! Congrats, you Thursday fiends! There’s a nice pic of Anita and Jack. I only hope I never see coverage of the League’s (currently overdue) meetings in the paper of a morning.
Pass
Reluctantly, we’re passing on the house we were bidding on. Inspection revealed a slew of first-year expenses which we have concluded that we cannot develop informed estimates upon by the time we need to close the deal, which would force us into a buying-in-ignorance situation. We’re passing.
Dammit.
Under the Boardwalk
How do you say Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang in Portugese?
Britain Says Man Killed by Police Had No Tie to Bombings. [NYT]:
“LONDON, July 23 – Scotland Yard admitted Saturday that a man police officers gunned down at point-blank range in front of horrified subway passengers on Friday had nothing to do with the investigation into the bombing attacks here. The man was identified by police as Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year-old Brazilian, described by officers as an electrician on his way to work.”
Fantastic work, 007.
RSS subscribers may find an even less politic remark that I regret. As someone who in his youth fled at high speed on foot from police officers, it will be no challenge to decipher my sentiments here, although I do feel sympathy for the police officer who executed the man in good faith. I do use the phrase ‘good faith’ mockingly, but not the word ‘sympathy.’ To my surprise, at 39, I find I have friends and relatives who have chosen law enforcement as their career. My sympathy is genuine.
This is London
As might be expected, sumit says some sensible and determined things about today’s events.
time
after an in explicable interregnum, bloglines is operable upon the Treo, thanks be to God. My newly longer commute allows nearly twenty-four hours of blog postings to be despatched whilst en route.
Alas for the limitations the Palm broswer places on moblogging.
Note to the League: I will post links to moblog tools I use. I believe our inductee may have some use for them.
Tanggentially: I may be in a suit-wearing mood, but it’s too early to say. Said suit would be a black early-sixties sharkskin, very two-tone. I lack a hat.
Siffy
You know, I’ve mentioned this before, so forgive me. The SIFFbloggers are really going to town over there – four, five posts a day, comments, building traffic, the whole schmeer. It makes me so proud.
Sniff.
oh yeah
In other news, Apple squeezes underperforming chip partner by making public announcement confirming years of rumors. Mac geeks dispirited; Intel, Apple, IBM stock down. So far no one I have read has asked: what does this mean for the G5 Xbox?
It won’t be me, because I could care less.
two k!
whoo dawgies! sometime in the last, um, hour, the two-hundred-thousandth site visitor looked in upon us, presumably in response to the previous link-oriented post. Welcome, post-two-kay site visitors!