The Sun

works better than a shovel

The best way to clear the driveway and the walk is to let the Sun do it. Other times, when you know that the Sun won't do it right, someone has to go out and remove the ice. Maybe salt is used. It just needs to be safe. The Sun and a warm breeze does it better than salt and a pick-ax.

The site has been significantly changed as you can see if you come here with firefox. I know have an earthquake going on when you visit here. This sight is a-rockin', and you can come on in without knocking. Welcome to the new age of digital media (best viewed in firefox, tested in Chrome but it don't work (you need to use four or five separate styles to hit all of the various extensions for the various CSS transform functionalities.)

When I envisioned this kind of a web architecture I didn't want to have a 'newspaper' looking old media style POS (piece of so-called unbiased reporting?) page. But I also wanted a feature where I could dial back to an earlier time on the page. I quickly realized that also means that the styles also need to be 'dialed back'. But I am unwilling to do that for a bunch of different reasons. Basically it is a lot of extra and pointless work. If you want time coded styles you may find that you never actually use the older versions, or want to use them. If you really need to do the 'way back' at that level you also give yourself over to needing to reproduce all of the scripting, etc, 'the way it was back then', always being able to recreate every long forgotten used-to-be as if anyone is ever going to care. They don't. They don't care now. They won't care in the future. They don't. So I'm rocking every single page of mine. If you 'go-back-in-time' on my page you will still get the image earthquake effect for as long as I am too lazy to take it out of here. And that isn't happening until I make a first version of a js distribution (I call it that because it will be as destributed as my pages, and will be a necessary part of the future viewing of this site). And will my policy be to have a 'way back' feature for the software? I don't think that I can. I don't think it is possible. I think that as I evolve my interface that distribution file will also go through reviseing. and it won't be necessary to have a feature, a developers feature, of the 'way back' for all of the scripts that will be in the ami-pub-distro-001.001.beta_beta.js

and, of course, since there should be a versioning system for distributions that are 'let out wild', I will say that if anyone were to need such a 'way back' feature, they could try and craft one for themselves if they wanted to. but the js distro for a site doesn't ever have to work for anyone else's site if the distro-guy (that being the web-site maven himself, dude-willicker, or coder-guy aarchittectt who made this site what it is) doesn't want it to work for anyone else. So I could do whatever I want talking to my domain and have features, ajax features, that some hacking-caugh from shank-town in the far-away (where people are forced to be slaves to fear, where they live in the delusion that the world is in constant battle with itself, who do not appreciate that they are stepping into mud and crushing the happy flowers of bright futures by having a 'war-stance' in cyberspace. Like any of us here in the ether can do anything to you that you don't know about and make your world lousey when we are not doing it. And, I suppose, because I can't really know this, maybe there are real threats in cyber space? If so then if there are those who are out there tryting to fight it then they know not to bomb a farmers field. This website is like a farmer's field. The farmer is trying to grow ideas on how to present websites that don't suck free of the corporate money-whore urges of ancient families of (imaginary, most likely) nepotistic scaredy-cat children of the children (probably just the stuff of fiction) of the children of the . . . some number of generations back, we can not know how many . . . imagined concorers of the great ancestors. But isn't it all just a grand fiction? The stuff of legand? We are supposed to celebrate our ancient great ancestors so let us do that by not having a war in Cyber space. I declare a demilitarized zone in this column right here, right now. There is not battle of the bit bots going on here. If I grow a flower in full view of you and you are smart enough to use the way that I grow a flower of your own then you knoww . . . that it is a gift of sharing . . . we are supposed to be like this. . . . and praise the holy ancients. So. Peace be with you my breathren in Cyber space.

Oh, maybe some will say that I am being a whining pussy by begging those at war in cyber space to leave me alone. Soldiers,, righteous soldiers, never want to harm innocents. It is because of the innocents that people are modivated into battle. Why should we fear the people who merely want teir voices to be heard and that real justice and freedom should prevail in this world? Anyone with a stance of being 'at war' against 'threats' in an imagined place: cyber-space, that has got to be a person modivated by something that he (or she) at least things is a moral stance.

If this is elevated to the level of an army of cyber warriors then . . . well, come on, they are not going out to stomp on innocents. Why should we feel threatened unless we have something that we aren't doing right ourselves?

But to meet the accusation with a response of 'oh, no, it couldn't be us' seems a form of denial that is almost admiting that htey are doing it. If they are doing it they have been doing it for years. And if they have been doing it for years then why is it suddenly today a problem that this is going on? And how could our government say that there is such proof of coherence by this alledged group of warriors (in cyber space). I would think that if you think that they are really doing this then you would put up a spoof bot network, a shadow world, and let them go in there. And then prove to them that they are doing it, to the real leaders over there (if it is really happening, do you think that the head of their government would even know?) and then have their rulers tell the most eggrigious of the mud rakers (raking mud is sometimes a way to find rare metals) to "stop it".

The insecure networks of the West pose a danger to everyone. When banks and corporations do not follow through with security, and outsource responsibility meanwhile vacations over and over again, then is everyone who walks through the door that you didn't lock is a criminal bent on your destruction. If the IP departments of major banks and governmental institutions have been fixated on other things and leave their networks wide open, can we blame those who suanter through really? it is a tempting target. Well of course we can blame them. But are they really our enemies? Or are they just trying to say 'heads up! you leave your doors wide open!'

The internet was designed to make sharing data reliable and easy. Now that it is like that we are all suppose to imagine that things that aren't 'secure' are somehow broken. But some types of security involve not being a threat in the first place. You are not a problem so you are not targetted by those who are looking for problem makers. That is how I want this web site to be. But that doesn't mean that I won't speak hard truth to power. But I will choose the audience: people mature enough to know that they should welcome the skeptic's assessment. The skeptic may be incorrect, but his (or her) heart is usually in the right place.

Midnight Laundry

Here is another excerpt:

In Cambridge. On Mass Ave. Stranger things have happened? Can love really happen so fast? Just ask the folks at the all-night midnight mass Christmas sing-along.

The above excerpt is from my collection of stories called Midnight Laundry

Feb 21, 2013

"got anything? I got nothing."

Hey, it's overcast today.

 
  When it is your time
 to lie down
 and be found
 will I be around? Will I
      be around?

   And if you are sad
    and your heart is down
   can I invert
          your frown?

  Don't die
      from being old
  or from the cold
      we all get sad sometimes,
  it hurts
     the truths
  of living.