June 30 - got "MilesQuintetItalyBWmp4" on the videos page. The colorized version is enhanced somehow, but it seems fake. But looking at them again, it's great to have both of them. Listening to it again, it's just awesome. Herbie is playing so well and he's so young! Now he's an elder statesman. Here he is making his bones.
June 28 again - put together MilesQuintetItaly.mp4. This was on Youtube. I got it in the best quality I could, no commercials here! It's interesting. Teatro dell'Arte, Milan, Italy, October 11th, 1964 according to the YT page. Pretty sweet. Some weird things - after Autumn Leaves ends, Miles plays a little on the piano. My Funny Valentine piano solo is very short - Miles mad at Herbie? They are playing the standards like with George Coleman, but it gets a little out. Not much, though. The colorization seems really questionable to me, but that's how it is. Would rather have a copy of the black and white. Further in, I think the audio/video sync is a lttle off. I saw these guys live in Buffalo in '77, with Freddie Hubbard of course. Miles not into nostalgia I guess. Man, the swinging when they go into 4 on All Blues is something! God bless the creators of yt-dlp. Still checking it - the piano solo on All Blues is awesome!
June 28 - created a page about a great piano solo by Herbie Hancock in 1963. AllOfYou.html. Was listening to it intently driving home. We were talking after Zen about one of the members singing "What a Wonderful World" at a show organized by another member, last week. Great art like this recording is one of the best of the things that are wonderful in this world. So sad that there is so much wrong today.
June 26**5 -- NYT has a feature on "The Lethal Risk of Seeking Food in Gaza", about the "Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed" as "Deadly violence has erupted frequently around...the aid sites". This is quite a spin on the facts that:
1. Israel has blocked thousands of aid trucks from UN organizations.
2. Everyone says that it is the IDF that is "erupting" the "deadly violence" -- in plain English, the IDF is killing starving people seeking food.
3. Israel cut communications, having targeted journalists and medical workers, to prevent the truth getting out.
When people are shot, it is not a case of something "erupting". There are people pulling the trigger.
I'm glad I'm not giving the NYT money these days.
June 26 again**4 - doing some fooling around, I see I can run Caddy server on my Fios home network on my Arch box and things...just work! Dyndns to the rescue!
June 26 again**3 -- via archive.ph, I can see that WaPo also has nothing on Gaza, Palestine or Sudan.
June 26 again**2 -- just for fun, looking at the NYT front page in archive.ph. Nothing on gaza, palest* or sudan. A feature on skimpy men's swimsuits though, and a conversation with Peter Thiel.
June 26 again - correction, the latest story is that Israel is "halting" aid because "Hamas steals it" (found on Reuters web site with a search for "Gaza"-apparently this is not worth bringing to the front page -- correction(again), it is linked to from the front page, not prominently). So that's even worse. A search for Sudan finds this, I guess also not front page material : "GENEVA, June 24 (Reuters) - Over 40 people, including children and health care workers, were killed in an attack on a hospital in Sudan at the weekend, the head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday." Aren't these human beings?
June 26 - I still see reports at least once a day of double digit deaths in Gaza at "humanitarian" aid distribution sites. A while ago there was news that the Internet no longer worked there. Although I saw one thing saying it was working again, I don't think it is, because I'm not seeing the steady stream of horrific videos from there that was happening prior to it being cut.

I don't see much about lack of food and water, but I see some, and don't see any stories saying the supplies have increased. Basically, as far as I can tell, Gaza is still hell on earth. We're all distracted very effectively by the shenanigans with Iran.

There is also the matter of the 250+ innocent Latin people sent three months ago to CECOT in El Salvador. They are no longer in the news, but I believe they are still there.

I would post these ideas on Bluesky or Facebook, but that doesn't seem to really have any effect. The constant stream of ridiculousness from Trump officials continues, for instance Pam Bondi "not aware" of reports of masked ICE agents kidnapping people.

I feel like expressing all this, so I'm doing it here - screaming into the void.
June 22 - well, here we are. I updated this: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/war-powers-are-for-congress?source=direct_link& . It's a tool for people to contact their senators and representative about the war. Trying to figure out what can be done. Imagine Peace!
June 19 - Happy Juneteenth! Created warpowers.html. Contact your Rep. and Senators, reclaim the people's control over warmaking!
June 17 - added video of Brad Lander, NYC controller, being arrested by masked thugs. BradLander.mp4
June 15 - gaza0615.html
June 12 - It seems they've cut the internet to Gaza. So, there's no telling what's going on there. This is in "Barron's" from Agence-France-Presse (AFP). screen capture of Barron's headline and first paragraph about internet cut to Gaza
June 9, again ** 3 FreedomFlotilla.mp4 deadman's switch video from activists on "Madleen" ship.
June 9, again again - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKqZI6roHfj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
June 9, again - an example of what can be done with a link to prepopulate an email. Email governments whose citizens have been kidnapped in international waters!
This link generated at https://www.sender.net/mailto-link-generator/.
June 9 - testing creating a link that prepopulates an email for a visitor to this web site when they clink on the link. Link text
June 7 - sad to see that Bill Atkinson, a great hero of developing the software that made the original Mac work, has died. This quote is on top of the Hacker News thread:
From Walter Isaacson's _Steve Jobs_: > One of Bill Atkinson’s amazing feats (which we are so accustomed to nowadays that we rarely marvel at it) was to allow the windows on a screen to overlap so that the “top” one clipped into the ones “below” it. Atkinson made it possible to move these windows around, just like shuffling papers on a desk, with those below becoming visible or hidden as you moved the top ones. Of course, on a computer screen there are no layers of pixels underneath the pixels that you see, so there are no windows actually lurking underneath the ones that appear to be on top. To create the illusion of overlapping windows requires complex coding that involves what are called “regions.” Atkinson pushed himself to make this trick work because he thought he had seen this capability during his visit to Xerox PARC. In fact the folks at PARC had never accomplished it, and they later told him they were amazed that he had done so. “I got a feeling for the empowering aspect of naïveté”, Atkinson said. “Because I didn’t know it couldn’t be done, I was enabled to do it.” He was working so hard that one morning, in a daze, he drove his Corvette into a parked truck and nearly killed himself. Jobs immediately drove to the hospital to see him. “We were pretty worried about you”, he said when Atkinson regained consciousness. Atkinson gave him a pained smile and replied, “Don’t worry, I still remember regions.”
He made this happen on a 128_K_ machine at 1984 speed-in assembly language. "the empowering aspect of naïveté".
June 2 - a new month! Don't have any pithy words of wisdom rn though.....