Scott Loftesness

Doc Searls is taking the train to San Jose today from his home near Santa Barbara. No, I don’t think they have WiFi on-board (yet!).

Last train I took was a year or two ago when I took Amtrak’s Coast Starlight from Portland, OR to Seattle. What a great time that was! It’s about a 4 hour ride — leaving Portland around 5 PM (they were late that day so we didn’t leave until about 6:15 PM).

As soon as the train started rolling out of the station, they announced the Dining Car was open for dinner. I headed back, sat down with a couple complete strangers and proceeded to have one of the nicest meals in memory! We enjoyed each others comraderie and had a very good dinner at the same time. It was dark quickly so we didn’t have much scenery to look at — which made the conversation even more interesting!

Judith Shulevitz writes “The current craze is for something called a blog. The name is the diminutive of ”Weblog,” an online news commentary written, usually, by an ordinary citizen, thick with links to articles and other blogs and studded with non sequiturs and ripostes in sometimes hard-to-parse squabbles.”

We’re getting very poor performance out of our AT&T Broadband-provided cable modem — and it’s been that way all week. We called last night and they wanted to send someone out to check the modem (that’s not the problem) — on May 20th (earliest available date). And they call that “customer service”?

IBM now wants Sun to join the WS-I initiative.

A story about RFID tags and the Auto-ID Center at MIT.

A quick read overview of the Web Services Description Language.