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"The moat is the one between communications and applications. Communications say things, and applications interact with things. There are crossover areas, but something like email is designed and overwhelmingly used to say things, while websites and apps are overwhelmingly designed and used to interact with things.

"It's fundamentally useful to have a divide here the way it's useful to have a divide between a book about fire and a book of matches."

-- Devin Coldewey, "AMP for email is a terrible idea", 2018-02-13 [thanks to marahmarie
for linking to this]

Woke to no Internet. The atmosphere was (still is) loud, and the trees were (still are) gesticulating wildly -- probably trying to tell me the ISP antenna had blown down. Called the ISP to request to be put on the repair list once it's safe to use their bucket-truck (which proably means Monday, because the wind is supposed to last to Saturday morning). Then there was a bang and a bunch of car horns at the intersection, as the power went out. Connecting via phone, but gonna have to conserve battery. Whee.