John F. Potter, Co. A – Potter wrote a number of columns as a “regular correspondent” to the Cortland Gazette and Banner, under the pseudonym “JFP”. His columns for December 1861, January, February, March, April and May 1862 are available on this website.

I love twitter (see my twitter), but I’d love it more if it was easier to pull out the old posts. While thinking about this, I’ve registered tweetvault.com until I come up with a business plan.

I went to the Coliseum to see the Raiders play the Bears yesterday. This was my first time at the Coliseum, and the club seats were really nice. However, the game was terrible. The Raiders have absolutely the worst offense I have ever seen.

Finished reading Sgt. Piggy’s last night while stuck on the train. His introduction on how he got into writing a comic strip is worth reading.

Finished reading a Handful of Dust. Very Uneven

Check out this video on ZDNet.

As Philip Elmer-Dewitt points out, Mac sales soared in Q1. This was mostly due to laptop sales. I’m part of this soaring, because I bought a MacBook recently. Why did I finally choose a Mac over Windows? One reason was that my kids use Macs at school. Another was that I don’t do Windows development anymore. The main reason, though, was that I took a look at Vista and decided it was too much trouble to go through the upgrade. Moreover, I couldn’t save money by buying a Windows laptop, because Vista’s requirements meant that I had to buy a higher-end laptop to run it. So, the Mac won out.

I just spent two very enjoyable days at the MySQL Conference in Santa Clara. My take on the conference has been published on ZDNet by Dan Farber in this post: MySQL’s success leads to customer frustration. The headline is Dan’s, not mine, though I concur with the sentiment.

Scoble has another post on the subject of full-text RSS vs. partial-text RSS in which he argues that major sites like ZDNet would gain more than they lose by offering full-text feeds. I think he just doesn’t understand the economics of running a major content site. Scoble could link to ZDNet every day and it still wouldn’t affect the traffic. He is just too small a fish in the internet pond. Meanwhile, splogging of ZDNet content is already a problem that is causing us pain, and probably hurting us in Google. Full-text RSS would just make that Google problem worse, and would probably cost more traffic than ZDNet would gain from Scoble’s increased willingness to link.

So, I am not the most prolific blogger anyway, but I have become even less likely to blog now that I have Twitter. Most of what I have to say is more suited to 140 characters than to a blog entry.