Dave Winer summarized the Web nicely:

It's about publishing without middlemen.

And I guess it's true - the childhood of the web is over.

Found a cool new comic strip. Randolph Itch 2:00 am. Witty stuff.

I removed my comments feature. No one was using it and it was only slowing the site down. Maybe some day.

Gosh. I just notices the long gap between updates on my blog. 8 days. As if I didn't have anyhting to write about.

Joel is really getting up to speed with himself. He is all around our apartment checking everything out while chatting along. And he's finally comfortable with daycare too.

I'm working on Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Quite a big book (928 pages). It has some cool quotable stuff and locations and characters feel real.

Roger Ebert wrote a column about Do-it-yourself movie commentary tracks. Neat idea. With a good implementation, it could be very cool. Heck, I might even pay for some cool commentaries. But I fear the technical problems... like for europe movies are shorter due to the 24->25 fps conversion.

Joel brought a nasty virus from day care and the whole family had a weekend in bed. Some stomach disease. I don't think I've ever felt worse. Absolutely horrible.

Business 2.0 has the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. Some picks:

2. A dozen Burger King marketing execs suffer first- and second-degree burns while walking over hot coals as part of a team-building retreat in October.

27. The Express Desk, which attaches a notebook computer to the steering wheel of a car.

44. 20th Century Fox spends a reported $15 million to produce the comedy movie Freddy Got Fingered (Tom Green)

62. Advance and Omni brands of cigarettes unveil new slogans: "All of the taste ... Less of the toxins" and "Reduced carcinogens. Premium taste," respectively.

63. Philip Morris also attempts to counter antismoking measures in the Czech Republic by commissioning an economic analysis of the "indirect positive effects" of early deaths -- savings on health care, pensions, welfare, and housing for the elderly.

Can't say the world is boring...

Paul Zebe might be a distant relative: The Weinitschke Family of Kreis Grottkau.

"A collection of clients' quotes, unadulterated." Hilarious stuff.

Kurs5in has a nice article on Greg Egan and Stephen Baxter - the New Hard Men of SF.