BuzzMachine: Posts from February 2003

Posts from February 2003

Made the switch

February 11, 2003 by Jeff Jarvis

Made the switch
: If you see this entry, then my DNS switch from the old, bad host to the new, good host worked.

I’m out of town for a few days, so I’ll be blogging infrequently.

Movable Type help: Hey, genius

February 11, 2003 by Jeff Jarvis

Movable Type help
: Hey, genius friends: I’m doing something stupid and I’m not able to install MT on my new host. The complete explanation is in the MT support forum, here. I’ll bet one of you will know the answer and you won’t make me feel too stupid….

: Nevermind… My brilliant son fixed it. And he doesn’t make me feel (too) stupid.

My host sucks… and I’m

February 10, 2003 by Jeff Jarvis

My host sucks… and I’m switching
: One little Instapundit link hoses my sucky host’s server and then I’m clogged like a geriatric gastrointestinal tract for hours.

I’m making the switch now: Hosting Matters for me (recommended by Insta) and myacen.com for my family (recommended by my kid’s friends).

Sorry for any of you who have been turned away at the door.

With friends like the French…:

February 10, 2003 by Jeff Jarvis

With friends like the French…
: A brilliant Page 1 on the New York Post today going after the French for siding with Saddam vs. us. The best of it is a Page 1 squib from columnist Steve Dunleavy that’s not visible online:

As I gaze out at this cemetery — the final resting place of nearly 10,000 American kids who made the ultimate sacrifice to save France from Hitler — my heart fills with rage. Where are the French now, as Americans prepare to put their soldiers on the line to fight today’s Hitler, Saddam Hussein?

Honest disagreement is fine. Diplomatic intervention to bring peace is defensible. I still have plenty of questions about the Bush war strategy and I don’t begrudge the French (and Germans and Russians and Belgians theirs).

But all this public, political repudiation of America is dangerous right now.

I grew up in a frogophobic home. My World-War-II-era parents never lost their bitterness toward ungrateful French; they vowed never to go to France. I bet you that France lost billions of American trade and tourist dollars because of this tension

The danger of thumbing your nose at us today is that a new generation could adopt this same attitude: The French don’t like us? Well, we’ll make it mutual.