Dave Winer has been releasing updates to Little Outliner, which is a browser based implementation of his outlining tools.
Little Outliner creates and edits outlines written in OPML, which is an XML-based file format for outlines that Dave created. If you only need to view and edit files, Little Outliner is all you need. Dave recently released a web service that renders an OPML file as a web page, the net result is a simple way to create a nice looking web page. I’ve decided to use this to create my /now page, all I have to do is edit the file in Little Outliner. You will find the link to this page in the footer the pages on this site.
You may notice that the subheads in the page have a littlle upside down triangle, those are parent nodes of the source outline, the following indented text are children nodes. If you click the triangle the node will collapse, click it again and it expands. By default all of the nodes render as expanded but you can configure a node to collapse by default. Click node you want to configure as collapsed, then click the suitecase icon on the left toolbar, click the plus button on the Edit attributes window; in the left field enter collapse, in the right field enter true, and then click Save. Refresh the web page and you see node/head you configured will be collapsed.
Trump seems to think the most important measure of his success is the stock market. The reality is that the stock market is driven significantly by emotions, either confidence (bull) or fear (bear). The only tool a President really has in relation to the stock market is his or her ability to lead. People know leadership when they see it, and they look for leadership for confidence and void of seeing such leadership have fear. Consequently, the stock market is telling us much of what we need to know about President Trump and that is he is not a leader, but this was obvious in 2016 to anyone willing to see beyond the theater perpetrated by Trump and everyone around him. After we get through this crisis I wonder whether we will truly place blame where it belongs, which is how a person of Trump’s deep character flaws and probable mention disorder was elected. We need to truly look at how we elect Presidents and make changes…. that or Congress has to get a whole less political and much more representative of ALL Americas and execute it’s oversight obligations given it by the Constitution. (The Senate had it’s chance of saving tens of thousands of lives when it had the chance to remove Trump from office.)
Trump has been running for re-election from the first day after he was elected President. A politician constantly running for re-election cannot lead, and we need leadership. The leader we need now has only one objective, to save as many lives in the near term and long term as possible. I don’t know if such a leader exists, worse I am not sure the American people have the will to allow such a leader to exist.
The temperatures the last couple of days have had highs in the 40s and with it I’ve been feeling the affects that the COVID-19 lock down has put on all of us more than in the past. Really wanting the temps to warm up so that I can sit outside on the patio.
Deflector-in-chief making America great.
I don’t get 4K displays on computers. The fact that the new Samsung Galaxy Chromebook has a 4K display, is super thin, and has relatively poor battery life is not surprising. I bet a 1080P display on that device would be much better.
I’ve been out of college for 35 years so I was not aware of the insane increase in the cost of college text books.
Hebrew Word of the Day - Hosanna!, please save us! - הוׄשַׁע-נָא
Ho•sha na, Hosanna, is a liturgical word in Judaism and Christianity. It means: ‘save us (or someone’s name) please.’
“Following Jesus, we need to trust the down, and God will take care of the up. Although even there, we still must offer our yes.” – Richard Rohr
Peace be with you! #Hope4All
Leadership is not appointing people in positions because of their loyalty, it’s appointing them for their competency. Chelsea Clinton is more qualified to lead any public health crisis than Jared Krushner, as is her mom in leading the country.
Republicans, good politicians, terrible leaders.
“The relationship between America and China was not “normal” before COVID-19. It was in rapid decline. And that decline has left Americans more vulnerable to the disease. The lesson of this plague isn’t that America should stop cooperating with China. It’s that America must rebuild the public-health cooperation that the Trump administration helped destroy.”
Trump’s Break With China Has Deadly Consequences
In November Americans will hopefully have the opportunity to decide whether to replace Trump as president and for that we not only need to assess how he and his administration handled this crisis, but also the ways in which he was responsible for it.
The isolationism he has been putting in place has contributed immensely to how bad COVID19 has been for the United States. As far as disease is concerned, imports and tariffs have nothing to do with it, rather it’s about the tremendous amount of global travel that occurs every single day. Even if you restricted travel to China you can’t stop the possibility of an American being in a conference room in Germany with a person who traveled there from China.
Isolationism does not work, that’s the lesson the greatest generation learned and of which we are being reminded today. Let’s heed the lessons well and revert to the wise decisions of prior administrations, Democrat and Republican.
The military knows how to manage a supply chain to the front line of a war, the White House needs to get out of the military’s way to let them handle the supply chain on the war against COVID-19. Given them a mission!
Is the current state in which you have to do less really abnormal, or are you being convinced it’s abnormal through everyone’s complaints about it?
What everyone’s getting wrong about the toilet paper shortage
Georgia-Pacific, a leading toilet paper manufacturer based in Atlanta, estimates that the average household will use 40% more toilet paper than usual if all of its members are staying home around the clock. That’s a huge leap in demand for a product whose supply chain is predicated on the assumption that demand is essentially constant.
It’s not irrational!
How many people do you personally know that have COVID-19? I know of two, one of whom has described what it has been like and frankly it’s really scary. Yes, if you are healthy you should survive but it sounds like one’s body can be pushed to the brink. Our body is a balanced system and a failure can cascade very quickly. Today it feels like the disease is closing in.
There is now a nice dashboard for Michigan’s COVID-19 data. COVID-19 is like catnip to data visualization
We need journalism as it existed in 1780 now more than ever.