All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

IETF News. The IETF, despite the fact that it keeps the Internet running, doesn䴜t get much news coverage. I suspect that䴜s partly because its structure is pretty well 100% opaque and incomprehensible to outsiders (and it seems to not a few insiders, especially newbies like me). There䴜s actually no such organization as the IETF but there are (in alphabetical order) CNRI (who run the Secretariat) and Foretec and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) and the Internet Research Task Force and the Internet Society (ISOC) and the RFC Editor. Anyhow, there䴜s news. Big news, I think. Most of it I don䴜t understand and the parts that I do I may have been told in confidence. The fairly severe angst coming out of this spilled over into the Jabber channels from Thursday night䴜s plenary session. I think it may be as smooth and simple as the IETF trying to do the same thing more efficiently, or it could be a lot more complicated and ugly. Don䴜t ask me to explain it; but I think it matters. [ongoing]

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interesting happenings, i wonder why, probably money related…. major changes are almost always money related.

ummm, well, perhaps there is.

this might help, but who knows.

Larger SUVs are Illegal on Many California Streets. There's an interesting article over on Slate titled California's SUV Ban: The Golden State has outlawed big SUVs on many of its roads but doesn't seem to know it. Andy Bowers does a good job of explaining how the largest SUVs often weigh more then 6,000 pounds, the traditional cutoff between light and heavy trucks. It turns out every big SUV and pickup is too heavy for my street. Here's just a sampling: The Chevy Suburban and Tahoe, the Range… [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]

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now if they would enforce the law, increase the fines, and thus make the tax break appropriate to those that need it.

it is going to get us in trouble. it verily is.

i'm not saying what they believe is right, but i think the rule change which allows her to wear skirts as she wishes is right.

go get im

People in Places. I've foregone the traditional blogroll, so I'm instead moving it into the entries, with a new blogroll category that will introduce other people's blogs (OPB). This time around, I'll introduce you to some of the blogs from people who have interesting to say about technology in human environments, including cities. … [Alex Halavais]

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hmmm, i'm not placed. hmmm, hmmm. hmmmm.

that's no way to treat and elearning guru

Why the US granted 'protected' status to Iranian terrorists. Did the Pentagon, in effect, create a category of 'good terrorists'? [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

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freedom fighters, good terrorists, etc. etc. all the words mean people that kill someone to change something.

well…. tonight was the end of oii, so i'm in my room getting ready for bed.

i ditched drinking and loudness, just not my vogue i guess.

but i walked home with Lam, who told me that beyond my 'most likely to take over microsoft' award, i was also to get something like the 'human google' award, which i find makes me quite cheeky. nothing new there though.