I'm getting email about Comcast migrating MSNBC and CNN out of its expanded tier to a higher priced tier while keeping Fox News on expanded tier in a number of markets. If this is actually going ...
https://wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/comcast-channel-shifts-looking-for-info/
The servers that handle mail to wetmachine.com addresses have been scrod for going on two days now. The ISP estimates that normal email will be restored sometime middle-of-the-day today. Contin...
https://wetmachine.com/my-thoughts-exactly/mail-to-wetmachinecom-addresses/
We've created ordinary http URLs that teleport you to places in-world in Qwaq Forums, Being programmers, we could not resist the pun of calling them QRLs. The most common uses today are: Contin...
https://wetmachine.com/inventing-the-future/qrls-are-not-slurls-but-they-play-that-role-on-the-net/
I'd been wondering whether anyone on our company's Board of Directors knew who I was. I know a couple but it turns out most didn't. Continue reading
One of the really great things about the WWW, as opposed to the Internet in general, is that the Web separates the concept of naming from everything else. A URL is bit of text that names a resour...
https://wetmachine.com/inventing-the-future/a-great-miracle-happened-there/
As we did last year , we'll join blogroll amnesty day again this year. I will observe a modified limited hangout limit of 72 links in my blogroll, which number is arrived at arbitrarily, but inte...
https://wetmachine.com/my-thoughts-exactly/blogroll-amnesty-day-redux/
I just got an email from the folks at Family-Life TV , a leased access channel on a bunch of Comcast systems in Pennsylvania, that Comcast just decided to drop their programming. Comcast claims F...
Lest it be said that I refuse to acknowledge a virtue when I see it, allow me to voice my agreement with Mehan Jayasuriya over at Public Knowledge on Comcast's efforts to track down problems on T...
https://wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/something-nice-about-comcast-for-a-change/
For $40/year, this service will send an email to your loved ones after believers disappear in the coming rapture. There's a deadman switch that will send the messages automatically if three of th...
https://wetmachine.com/inventing-the-future/i-predict-a-mini-rapture/
In March, I went to a gathering of people who read Eschaton , a blog by Atrios . This guy Atrios has a pithy blogging style that I like a lot. Continue reading
https://wetmachine.com/my-thoughts-exactly/atrios-dogbark-blogging/