FTP Problems

I'm having FTP problems with Doteasy. All of a sudden I cannot blog or use Transit to FTP to my account. I'm getting this:

Could not retrieve file listing
Error -162

So I tried everything I could think of and nothing worked. I wrote in to Doteasy so we'll see what happens. In the meantime, I'm forwarding from bizstone.com to bizabah.blogspot.com so I can post.

What Should I Write?

When I was a kid, my mom took us a bunch of times to a restaurant in Waltham called The Chateau. I would have a side order for dinner—two big meatballs. The place mat menus where paper and we would flip them over and draw on them with one of the pens my mom kept strapped to her checkbook with rubber bands. I always asked, "What should I draw?" It didn't really matter what she said, I just needed a starting point. "Draw whatever you want." was not helpful. If she said "Draw a flower." That would be fine because then I'd say, "No, I'm going to draw a truck."

On the way home I would roll around loose in the back of the station wagon marveling at the fact that the moon was following us. But that has nothing to do with this anecdote. The point is, I'm thinking of writing another book but I'm looking for that starting point again. What should I write?

The Bruce

My cat is on the front page of Blogger. That's like the ultimate cat photo post, right? Nice! Seriously though, Bruce is mad cute. Update: Bruce is also on the Googleblog. First cat post on the Googleblog?

Pipes

Some pipes at Stanford.

Nice

A screenshot of Odeo just rolled by on the Blogger post scroller.

Tom Cruise Kills Oprah

CommonTunes is a community directory of freely available music.

Google Maps Dashboard Widget

I just downloaded the Google Maps Widget. Super cool.

Catchy Colors Photoblog

Zoods

I saw Batman Begins yesterday. It was the best Batman movie of them all. Really good stuff and fun to watch. Dark, like it is supposed to be.

Once A Year!

On Genius: "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

Evan At Seven's?

Evan is in Boston drinking beer and I'm out here going to blogging meetups in San Francisco. What kind of whacked out interdimensional vortex type think is going on?

More KRON4

Here's bjorke's photo from the blogger meetup.

Girl Cory and Biz?

Where am I in this photo? Am I a cloud? Or could it be that there is someone else named Biz in the world? I'm going to investigate that cloud theory a bit today because that would be cool.

On The Way To A Blogger Meetup

We were driving to a blogger meetup and I really just wanted to see if the new phone number for Audioblogger worked. It does! Still that's no excuse for my lack of professionality. "Always act professional" that's what I always say. That's my thing.

Entrance to the Squirrel Cave by Livia

I haven't even gotten the new camera I ordered yet and Livy is already out exploring with the old one. I predict a lot more animal and animal related photos.

A Podcasting Book Already?

I know things are moving really fast in the space but this book is a bit premature: Podcasting: Do It Yourself Guide. I mean, Odeo hasn't even launched yet. Also, where's the audio version?

Free Speech? No, Terrorism!

If you run a successful web-based activism campaign, you might be put on trial as a terrorist. David Sugar (who happens to be a founder and former Chief Technology Officer of Open Source Telecom Corporation) has the story: America's War On Speech and the SHAC 7 Trial.

Seven members of an Animal Rights group known as SHAC (Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty) are on trial as "Animal Enterprise Terrorists," each facing 23 years imprisonment and perhaps a potential ticket for future Guantánamos, all for the dangerous and violent act of publishing a web site.

Maybe the real reason they're in this fix is that they were actually successful in spreading the word about a company that practices animal vivisection (a controversial and yucky thing). In the four years of legal activism and campaigning, this animal testing lab went into debt and got kicked off the New York and London Stock Exchanges.

Zoom

The Golden Gate Bridge via Google Maps. Neat.

UFO?

Spotted at Wists: An UFO discovered by Google Maps?

Cool Idea

Slashdot Review is a ten minute review of recent Slashdot items plus a new artist song at the end of the show.

It's Official

Stewy Buttercheeks finally got himself a legit job with a badge and everthing. Dental, the whole deal. Whew.

Oh My

I have a new and wonderful concept of what the Blogger Dashboard means to me. I think my body is changing. This is going to be distracting. What's even worse is that I discovered this in Kottke's remaindered links (which, as we all know is picked over many times a day by several thousand people.)

"I had kept my Blogger Dashboard minimized for easy access, so I could post at will." That's right folks, The book based on the blog is out and thirty-two percent of it is already taken off at Amazon.