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Reuters Photo: "The World Trade Organization meeting was delayed on Tuesday because protesters had stopped the U.S. and other delegations from attending the opening ceremony at a downtown theater, officials said."

this quote came up in conversation today. I wonder how it relates to the web.

whoa, mthology has a new look. me gusta!

A weblog is not a contest to be won, in my opinion. While it may be a game, I think a major objective of the game is to get more people playing so the game continues. (it's not about beating others out.) There is no way that all players would be able to agree on a winner, so any title a weblogger "wins" would be meaningless. (Can you tell I've been reading Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse?)

Ceci n'est pas une blog.

I used to work in Petaluma, CA. It looked just like this.

e-irony: I ordered a book called Nanotime from Amazon. They said it would ship in 3-5 weeks.

Just to allay your fears... I will not be participating in the weblog banner free-for-all. We all see enough banners already. However, I would like to plug my friends' weblogs. Their links are to the left. Thank you.

And, of course, I'd like to see people having auctions on their own site (with their own design) at the same time that it's on ebay.

I bought two old computers through ebay this weekend. It was great fun. Each seller had a 3rd party pseudo-automated back-end for processing orders. One of them was called Andale. I think there's a real business opportunity there...especially if someone could allow any individual to accept credit card payments.

Jorn Barger came up with a simple way to explain regular expressions with exuberance. beautiful.

I'd like to send a C₈H₁₀N₄O₂ thanks to the woman at Grateful Bagel who made the best soy mocha ever this morning. Thanks! zing!