Too bad O'Neil is backtracking on his accounts of the Bush administration.  His words matched my expectation of Bush perfectly.  When Bush got elected, I expected him to look for excuses to attack Iraq.  And I would have been surprised if he paid attention to anything other than the Bible and the picture of Saddam Hussein after he got to the White House.  Baloonfoot indeed.

I think O'Neil spoke the truth and now he is acting like a chicken.  The sad thing is that I am not surprised.  Only thing missing is Osama bin Laden announcing that he attacked America because he learned of a secret plot by Bush to invade and occupy Iraq.  Sheesh.  I'll bet Arnold the Terminator would make a much better President than Bush.

BTW, check out the 30 second ads at Bush in 30 Seconds site even if you are pro-Bush.  Ads oversimplify as usual but they are hillarious and very well done.  I am impressed.

Tommorrow, I will be attending the Geek Dinner Jeremy Zawodny is organizing for Tim Bray.  See Jeremy's original post for time, location, and direction.

Update:

Well, it's tommorrow now and I am afraid I won't be able to attend the dinner on account of being buried under a mountain of unstable code.  I am trying to dig out as fast as I can but I have a feeling I will be seeing sunrise instead of sunset by the time I get out.  Argh! 

I am not sure what to make of Ghostzilla, a mozilla-based stealthy web browser that shows grayed out web pages inside other application's windows.  It even does tabs!

I haven't been keeping track of what is going on in the MP3 player market, but I haven't seen advertisements for MP3 devices that can communicate with each other.  Why bother downloading music from the Internet when you can just get them from friends you meet or passing strangers (via Bluetooth).  Are there such MP3 devices?

Everyone of the MP3 devices has some means to upload music into it so all you need is a device that either download or resample from one MP3 player and upload into another.  Eventually, you won't even need the bridging device when MP3 songs can be beamed across devices with a single button.

Hmm.  That turns each MP3 devices into a inbox of sort.  Receiving messages from secret admirers and ads from street vendors this way could be a little surprising though.

Here is an interesting food for thought: What would Wiki for Kids be like?

In Talibanism in Technology, Deepa Kandaswamy lists seven reasons why women in technology remain invisible.  Unfortunately, Deepa leaves out two important factors: interest and ego.

Most women I have met, regardless of age and background, are simply not interested in technology.  While they do get impressed with latest electronic gadgets, they don't seem to get the same kind of urge that drove my son to spend an entire day tearing apart my old Dell laptop when he was 7 years old.  Without that seemingly innate interest in technology, one cannot excel in it.

Also, most women seem to have relatively smaller ego-sphere (aka personal space) than guys do.  Ego-spheres are present not just in the physical realm but also in virtual realms like CVS, history, and mindspace.  Since most women seem not as interested in asserting their ego as guys, their presence in those virtual realms will be smaller.

Come on ladies, give Don a sound beating.  He asked for it.  ;-p

Update:

Thinking more about my comment on ego-sphere, I think guys give other guys more space than they would girls, probably to avoid conflict.  When people sit down in a long chair like the one see in subway trains, guys sitting next to girls will open their legs wide but guys sitting next to guys will be more moderate.

Of course, there are tiresome jerks who break this unspoken rule.  Tiresome because giving in to them is not an option.  Being male is not easy.

Nova Spivack say Humans Should Intentionally Seed Life on Mars.  Great.  Next we'll see Save Mars Activists storming NASA.  Ahem.  Is it too late to donate my DNA?  What would a civilization be without at least one copy of me?

Going from one memory to another, I was surprised to find many references to DaynaFile by Google.  Ages ago, I was contacted by a company based in Salt Lake City: Dayna Communications.  They needed someone to write system software that enables Macintosh to read PC disks.  What a crazy idea, I thought.

Anyway, I was one of the few guys outside Apple who could write such stuff so I spent a year communiting back and forth.  Why so long?  Well, I had to convince Mac that 5 1/4 inch PC disks were Mac disks and integrate seamlessly with the Finder as well as other Mac applications.  Bridging various differences between DOS and MacFS, particularly Mac's resource fork, was real fun too.

After the product shipped, I ran across some Dayna folks at a MacWorld show demoing the stuff and they told me that, when one of their customers found my name displayed prominently on the boot screen and asked about it, they had to make up a story about Don Park being a code name for the project.  Oops!;-p