Everyone seems upset that we’ve found no WMDs – for instance – Philip Greenspun points to some UK news.

Seems to me our government set too tight a definition for WMDs. Didn’t September 11 demonstrate that the worst WMDs by far are people and organizations of people? With trivial technology, just people can cause all kinds of harm.

If I was in charge of the case for the war, I would have included people and organizations within the definitions of WMDs; particularly people and organizations that foment and export hatred of our culture/society (or really any culture/society, as it is the hatred and the actions that hatred bring on that we want to target).

But then, no one asked me.

I am a huge fan of reading RSS inside outlook or my mail client of the day, totally agree with Greg on this. Now I just need some more features. How about preview of postings from those sites that only publish headlines in their feeds – i’d love to get the first 3-4 lines of their article right in outlook so I could decide whether or not to go to the site.

Joel on Software - Fixing Venture Capital – hey I’m pissed at Joel because he didn’t list my blog or tong’s blog as examples of vc blogs.

Seriously it is a good thoughtful piece from an entrepreneur. If Joel was in Seattle I’d take him to lunch and learn more. I don’t think we’ve done any of the things that he considers most heinous (like a no-shop) but he may have a point about the fundamental misalignment on risk. Tho I am not sure it plays out today like he suggests – I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone at our firm telling a startup to spend more, faster.

I generally agree with Bob Frankston that Bluetooth is troubled. But I did manage to make my first use of Bluetooth yesterday – I sent a picture from my Nokia 3650 to his t68i and it worked amazingly. And then he sent a business card back and it worked.

The #1 way I’d use this would be to transfer entire phonebooks between phones if this was possible. Right now the phones just let you send single contacts at a time, this sucks.

The goals of this digital ID DIY project at Escapable Logic seem great. I remember talking with Ben Slivka when he tried to add Passport support to his site and gave up. An easy to implement simple digital ID effort that works for me and my close circle of friends would be great, I have to look into this more.

A useful compilation of links – The Furrygoat Experience: Win 2003 Security Guides. The Threats and Countermeasures doc is huge – don’t make the mistake I did of blindly sending it to the printer.

Please consider – Lawrence Lessig

The Chronicle: 6/6/2003: Scholars Who Blog, pointed to by some of my friends at Forest Ridge. Good discussion, much worrying about whether blogs are just a fad. Maybe the current technology is a fad, but self-expression and self-publishing seems pretty durable.

Just finished Cousin Felix Meets the Buddha: and Other Encounters in China and Tibet by Lincoln Kaye. Great read, very much enjoyed especially the title story about his travels with a living Buddha – fascinating.

I upgraded my server today to Windows Server 2003. Kind of rocky so far, a lot of events thrown during setup and on reboot, and some troubles getting some services to run. still, http server seems to be alive, tho i can’t access the net as a client. Probably should have read the “planning guide” and actually thought about things before I just rammed it on the system. Forgive any rockiness the next couple of weeks as I get things worked out.

Eric says he is alive. Eric my 2 cents on the first things for you to do: host outside the microsoft.com domain, and add trackback support so we can see who is commenting on you.

Hey sam and phil, this seems to relate to some of the ideas we were talking about … Putting the World Into the Wide Web - An instant messenger that knows where you are. By Paul Boutin

Looks cool. I wonder if it can be hacked to be automated – Airzooka.com, Airzooka toy shoots a blast of air up to fifty feet away!

Good source of utilities – Larkware Site Index

Per Weblogg-ed Vol.2: Using Weblogs in Education, looks like there will be some education/blog activity at the NECC conference here in Seattle. I think this would be fun to visit, I may show up just to see what people are talking about.