The Rocket, 1921 - 2000
It's difficult to describe just how sad a day this is in Quebec. see also :
Radio Canada : Le Rocket est mortLeah McLaren : Growing up on therapy
"Today, in my 20s, I've noticed that most of my friends my age have been in therapy at one point or another. Some of us were coerced; others went willingly, even eagerly. ... If therapy is a language for the baby boomers, it has become a way of life for many of their children, millions of whom were passed from child psychologists to adolescent specialists to university mental health clinics throughout the 1980s and 1990s." I went around the time I was seven or eight, posessed by a young child's fury at the injustice of being born of parents too dumb --in my mind-- to see the obvious and perfect logic in simply getting remarried. I don't want to knock the good work that many therapists do but I was pretty disappointed when I realized the guy I was seeing had *no* idea I was just saying what he wanted to hear. I wonder if that was the point of the exercise...
This Morning talks to Niall Ferguson
author of "The Business of Politics and the Economics of Democracy" (real audio)
The Slashdot Kiddies : What Will the Internet of the Future Be Like?
Interesting, but I worry that few people are seeing the forest for the trees. There's another aspect that is troubling : I'd like to hear what people *want* the future of the Network to be and it fucking sucks to have to consider that as a separate issue. How lame is it that we ( and I include myself ) find it so hard to reconcile our hopes with our expectations? see also :
The trouble with having a recursive imagination and then
Angela Gunn : Hoax in the machineO'Reilly Beta Chapter : The Camel Book v3.0
Meanwhile, XML.com has an article on AxKit,
XML Web publishing with Apache and mod-perlApparently, the burning question
on the minds of Americans is
why does Canada have so many female pop singers?