Joel Spolsky, Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt. Great article, and he's very right. I've been meaning to blog it for awhile but just got around to it. Good comments too.

"Strategy 1 Just Do It" is totally the way it is. We had a similar proverb at that place I used to work. It went something like: "Better to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission". People also underestimate how important strategy 5 is, and it's inexcusable for people who have to use their brains all day to not have their own offices.

One more thing: Julio (in the comments) made a good point. "do not be afraid to say NO. Just say NO when a no is deserved. Hey... I got into many fights with my boss because of this. On my first week. But man he learned to respect me after this." It surprised me when Julie used to do this at work, but she was definitely right. Took balls though

What was that again? "The only reason you're a girl is 'cause you played your balls off!!"

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Chandler: You understood that?
Joey: Yeah, my uncle has a really big tongue.
Chandler: Is he the one with the really beautiful wife?
Joey: (nods)

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I want to make my weblog support the Blogger API. How cool would it be to be able to post to my site using Radio?

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Oh my God there are so many Radio 8.0 weblogs now that look exactly the same!

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Eeew, gross!!!.

"NOW that Taleban rule is over in Mullah Omar’s former southern stronghold, it is not only televisions, kites and razors which have begun to emerge. ... Visible again, too, are men with their ashna, or beloveds: young boys they have groomed for sex."

"Kandahar’s Pashtuns have been notorious for their homosexuality for centuries, particularly their fondness for naive young boys. Before the Taleban arrived in 1994, the streets were filled with teenagers and their sugar daddies, flaunting their relationship."

"Cultural differences?" Some interesting comments over at lgf. It really bothers me when people equate having moral issues with homosexuality with "homophobia" or "bigotry".

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Yes, blogging is definitely a phenomenon. There's now a blogger code like the geek code of yore. And the headings on the page are XHTML compliant... oooh.

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Hmm, yet again via Scripting News (Dave is on a roll with me today), from Jonathon Delacour, a quote from Carolyn Hax's book: "Before anyone's pants come off, all women should assume they'll get pregnant and all men should assume the woman will want to keep the baby. Everyone can work backward from there."

That's similar to how I've always looked at it, although it's a little different. My rule has always been that if I was willing to have sex before I got married, I'd also have to be willing to abort the baby that might result. Obviously I'm not willing to abort the baby...

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Also, via Scripting News, Dan Gillmor: 'Google effect' reduces need for many domains. His argument is thus:

In the early days of the web everyone registered tons of domains to try to specifically match the name of their company or a specific topic. But, "with the rise of search tools that unerringly bring you to the page you want, the need for a highly specific domain name -- one that a casual Web user would be able to guess -- has practically disappeared." This is causing "the separation of the domain-name database from the real-world lookup", and taking some control away from Network Solutions. Thanks to the Google effect, we may not need "thousands of new domain suffixes to go along with .com, .org and the like", because "if you and I can quickly locate the Web address we're seeking, who cares what it's called?".

Where would we be without Google?

A tiny bit of pushback on icann.Blog.

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On Scripting News today, Dave announced that NewsIsFree supports the Cloud element of RSS 0.92. This is neat, I never totally understood how this worked before, until I read his longer description.

Basically, the way I understand it... in your RSS you have a "cloud" element that has address of a server in it which accepts HTTP-POST, XML-RPC or SOAP messages. If you want to, you send a message to the cloud server saying "Let me know when there's an update". Then every time there's an update that server will notify the client that there has been a change. Really elegant distributed stuff.

Here's a longer description of the cloud interface. Good, I was wondering when the notification expires. It expires after 25 hours, so if you ever decide to stop supporting notification you can just say "No" and give a message to explain next time anyone tries to register with the cloud. I'm impressed.

Oh, here are some good points as to why this scheme won't scale.

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