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(GWB Gets a Laugh Out of 9/11 © 2003, John H. Farr The following is from the October issue of Ladies Home Journal. I found it here, courtesy of Michael Moore. Read it with a barf bag handy. ...)
GWB Gets a Laugh Out of 9/11 © 2003, John H. Farr The following is from the October issue of Ladies Home Journal. I found it here, courtesy of Michael Moore. Read it with a barf bag handy. Thousands of people dead and they're laughing. I'm speechless. Peggy Noonan (the interviewer): You were separated on September 11th. What was it like when you saw each other again? Laura Bush: Well, we just hugged. I think there was a certain amount of security in being with each other than being apart. George W. Bush: But the day ended on a relatively humorous note. The agents said, "you'll be sleeping downstairs. Washington's still a dangerous place." And I said no, I can't sleep down there, the bed didn't look comfortable. I was really tired, Laura was tired, we like our own bed. We like our own routine. You know, kind of a nester. I knew I had to deal with the issue the next day and provide strength and comfort to the country, and so I needed rest in order to be mentally prepared. So I told ...
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After spending a bit of time familiarizing myself with the V2 component event "model", I thought I would write down some observations just to clarify this for myself (and hopefully others too). The V2 component event model is based on...
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| 23:30:30 September 24, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: PhilterBlog |
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Go Daddy Software, Inc. has filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Arizona against VeriSign Inc. seeking a temporary restraining order against VeriSign's new Site Finder service, a paid advertising page VeriSign has established on the Internet to which the traffic associated with mistyped, and other, domain names will be directed.Go Daddy's lawsuit claims that VeriSign is misusing its position as the .com and .net domain registry to gain an unfair competitive advantage by intercepting (and profiting from) internet traffic resulting from the scores of invalid domain names that are typed into users' browsers on a daily basis.
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(Security Report Puts Blame On MS Viruses, worms and other cyber-attacks that are crippling computers with increasing frequency cannot be stopped as long as the software of one company -- Microsoft ...)
Security Report Puts Blame On MS Viruses, worms and other cyber-attacks that are crippling computers with increasing frequency cannot be stopped as long as the software of one company -- Microsoft Corp. -- dominates computing, according to a paper prepared by corporate technology officers and researchers. "The security situation is deteriorating," says the report, which is to be released today. With Microsoft operating systems used on more than 90 percent of the world's personal computers, the authors write, most computers are vulnerable to attack and networks are easily compromised...more [Washington Post] Monopoly May Pose a Security Risk Such widespread use puts all users in jeopardy, report suggests. Whatever Microsoft's strengths or failings as a developer of reliable software, the mere existence of an operating system monopoly is a critical security risk, argues a new report released Wednesday at a Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) gathering in Washington, ...
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(Security Report Puts Blame On MS Viruses, worms and other cyber-attacks that are crippling computers with increasing frequency cannot be stopped as long as the software of one company -- Microsoft ...)
Security Report Puts Blame On MS Viruses, worms and other cyber-attacks that are crippling computers with increasing frequency cannot be stopped as long as the software of one company -- Microsoft Corp. -- dominates computing, according to a paper prepared by corporate technology officers and researchers. "The security situation is deteriorating," says the report, which is to be released today. With Microsoft operating systems used on more than 90 percent of the world's personal computers, the authors write, most computers are vulnerable to attack and networks are easily compromised...more [Washington Post] Monopoly May Pose a Security Risk Such widespread use puts all users in jeopardy, report suggests. Whatever Microsoft's strengths or failings as a developer of reliable software, the mere existence of an operating system monopoly is a critical security risk, argues a new report released Wednesday at a Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) gathering in Washington, ...
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(Michael Moore Responds to "Wackos" on Bowling for Columbine. "Bowling for Truth", "Moore Lies", "Moore Watch", "Michael Moore Hates America" -- the right wing has been busy in its campaign to ...)
Michael Moore Responds to "Wackos" on Bowling for Columbine. "Bowling for Truth", "Moore Lies", "Moore Watch", "Michael Moore Hates America" -- the right wing has been busy in its campaign to discredit filmmaker and author Michael Moore and his film Bowling for Columbine in particular. Last month, I wrote a response to the critique by NRA lawyer David Hardy, which has been the main source for many of the anti-Moore sites. But I was somewhat disappointed by Moore's responses to the criticisms -- Moore has always been Internet-Savvy, but up to this point, there was only a somewhat meager FAQ (the link is now dead; Google cache). In light of his pending book publication in October (Dude, Where's My Country?), Moore is now fighting back against the "Lying Liars" (an Al Franken expression which Moore has borrowed for the title of his response). On his Wacko Attacko page, he answers in detail to the most common criticisms of the film. [kuro5hin.org]
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And a part of the blogosphere goes quiet tonight as people get their Emerging Technology 2004 presentation proposals ready. Lots of people are proposing (mamamusings, Dan Brickley, Morten Frederiksen, to name a few), but of course there's only limited time and space available. I'd love to see all the proposals that are sent in to see what everyone thinks is cool enough to show off or talk about. That's the bad part about conferences, is sometimes you just don't know what you missed, or how cool it might have been. I thought about it, and realized that this would be a perfect thing for the Internet Topic Exchange, so I set up a category for it, http://topicexchange.com/t/etconproposals/. You can trackback to that URL or go there and manually do it. There's even an RSS 2.0 feed. If you've submitted an ETCon '04 proposal, get it online and let the world know about it!
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I have a question about domain names and hosting stuff. I'd like to keep the free hosting on f2o because it's all I need and best of all, it's free. Will they "forward" it to the domain of my choice...
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Continuation of Cornel West interview.
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Cornel West is a modern Emersonian. Come to think of it, Cornel West may just be the contemporary Emerson: an adventurous Christian thinker who keeps extending the question of what it means to be American, to be modern, to be human. West is entertainingly serious and seriously entertaining. He is a moral and political provocateur, a stylist and individualist. To boot, he's a prophet without honor at Harvard, as Emerson was after his notoriously unorthodox Divinity School Address of 1837.
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In 2002 RMS produced a report entitled Accessing Workers Comp Risk from Earthquakes. What if the 1906 Great San Francisco Earthquake occurred today.
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The Potion Makersolonor rasrethium is a translucent, coarse mauve powder extracted from the heart of a Snark.Pepperkatium is an opaque,...
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(TiVo Therapy Hilarious piece by Joshua Allen in The Morning News on seeking therapy as a result of TiVo. Speaking as someone who has a very active relationship with TiVo and regularly sees a ...)
TiVo Therapy Hilarious piece by Joshua Allen in The Morning News on seeking therapy as a result of TiVo. Speaking as someone who has a very active relationship with TiVo and regularly sees a shrink, the article is priceless. This exchange between Joshua and his therapist is deadly funny: It [TiVo] plants this seed in your head. This idea that you can make anything your own, no matter how prepackaged or limited or controlled. Its all just a matter of transferring it quickly and efficiently to a new realm thats completely separate from the source. And youre applying this technique to other aspects of your life. The motions shes making with her pen look less and less like writing. To all aspects, I say, glancing at her over my shoulder. As an example, I taped last weeks session with you. With the TiVo. With a pocket-sized audiocassette recorder. I then hurried home, transferred that recording to my computer, and re-edited it so our conversation went more to my ...
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(Geek Eye for the Luddites Hilarious geek take-off in Fortune on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: The experiment: Let loose three tech experts in an average family's home. The result: gizmo nirvana ...)
Geek Eye for the Luddites Hilarious geek take-off in Fortune on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: The experiment: Let loose three tech experts in an average family's home. The result: gizmo nirvana (well, almost). Speaking as a geek (and as a member of that very rare geek subspecies - girl geek), it is much easier to pass on fashion tips than to outfit a home with working tech gear. For three days the Fab Three took over the Burkes' home. And at the end, it was nearing digital nirvana. But, O, Fortuna! It is not so easy being geek.
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Mike Kestner has released a new version of Gtk#. Martin has also released his binding to DiaCanvas for C#.
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Super Strength BooksIf the link below gets you fired up, visit Bill Hinbern's site to pick up original (read: rare) copies of the old books and booklets, or get the full picture at a more reasonable cost by ordering his re-printed editions.
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| 20:55:58 September 24, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: IronOnline |
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We finally got some brand new stage lights. That was one of the number one complaints people were having. The ones we had were old and always breaking...now with new ones things are looking much brighter. (pun intended ha!)
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"I look forward to being able to pontificate about Storage in a more HCI focused context (I'm tired of talking about databases damnit!)" Ha ha ha. This is what I wrote about the talk when it was first setup. Unfortunately I hadn't thought about the fact that IBM Almaden does a bunch of database stuff. If you want to talk technical, the NL is the "most technically risky" aspect, not the database!!! If you're challenging me about the database, you are talking about the wrong technical thing. What we're doing with databases simply isn't that interesting. As my pseudo-host said afterwards... (and said I should have mentioned this more to allay people's fears, and he's probably right): desktops simply don't have that many documents. The database isn't that large. What we're doing with it isn't that exotic. Its going to work! This isn't some giant theoretical hurdle, it just needs decent engineering.
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| 20:21:00 September 24, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Design Fu |
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Best correction ever: In 1950, Time magazine printed the following suggested correction in its letters column: Shouldn't Ausserordentlichhochgeschwindigkeitelectronenentwickelndesschwerabeitsbeigollitron [Time, March 13] read Ausserordentlichhochgeschwindigkeitelectronenentwickelndesschwerarbeitsbeigollitron? (Rev.) T.M. Hesburgh C.S.C. Notre Dame, Ind. Time's terse reply: Yes, as Time's Los Angeles and Philadelphia...
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Well, I can never really tell, but I felt like the Almaden talk was a disaster. I didn't establish credibility with the audience, and worse I ended up peppered with technical issues by a sprinkling of developer-types in the room. Defending Storage on a technical level would be hard pressed to do in an hour, and I was giving an HCI talk. I think this would have been ok and ignored by HCI people except that I didn't spend enough time definitively demonstrating the HCI problem and moved on to quickly to airy-fairy things. With an audience that was less concerned (I guess they were legitimately concerned) I think I could have flown the general outline of my talk and it would have been interesting (more interesting than the talk that I should have given that probably would have worked). I tried to do something more sweeping than a nitty gritty "here was the problem we solved" -> "here was the solution we proposed".... because to me the really interesting stuff is not the specific design ...
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| 20:16:00 September 24, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Design Fu |
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We recently used a very powerful (but unseen) capability in the MyST platform to build portions of kLogNews.com.
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tracert www.MysticalMatthew.com Tracing route to MysticalMatthew.com [212.187.158.83] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 30 ms 99 ms 100 ms m2-1a.neo.lrun.com [24.93.177.1] 2 261 ms 107 ms 104 ms unnamed-24-164-99.neo.rr.com [24.164.99.97] 3 118 ms 75 ms 53 ms srp0-0.polkoh1-rtr2.neo.rr.com [24.164.96.66]...
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An immature look at maturity. stop failing all my classes stop wearing T-shirts break my relationship with Apples in Stereo,...
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I subscribed to Credit Score Monitoring service from eloan.com to keep tracking of my credit score. This $29.95/year service will show me my credit score once every month, and tell me key factors deciding my credit score. Before I choose...
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this morning at work, in the earliest moments when i was just getting into my groove, one of my supervisors was over, well, supervising me. since i'm still new they like to keep tabs on me and clue me in...
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Freaky! Cat-With-Hands...
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The Northside Columbus Day Bocce Tournament takes place October 11-12, 2003 from 9 AM [^] 4 PM. The Northside Columbus Day Bocce Tournament, sponsored by the Northside Neighborhood Association, is a fundraiser to help restore and beautify San Jose[base ']s only public bocce courts but it is also a celebration of the contributions of the Italian-American community in San Jose and throughout the Santa Clara Valley. Men and women, beginners and experienced players, are invited to enter four-person teams in a friendly competition. The winning team will be crowned tournament champion and will walk away with a prize of $1,000. Bid on silent auction items available during the tournament and enjoy cuisine from participating restaurateurs. Entrance fee per team is $100 ($25 person). Tournament limited to first 32 teams to RSVP with their payment. Deadline is October 6, 2003. Play for the money or just play for the fun as you celebrate the contributions of the Italian-American community in ...
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Be prepared for some possible downtime or weirdness from Mindsmith.net, lineparty.net and lineparty.com over the next few days as I change over all of my sites to my new Web host, Dreamhost. Things should be back to normal this weekend....
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Some time around one year ago, I joined the American Civil Liberties Union. Yes, the ACLU. I guess I felt, as an American, it was time to do my small part to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. For the first time in my life, I became a card-carrying member of the ACLU. But this blog entry isn't directly about politics or law or the work that this particular organization does. It's about the customer experience I had in dealing with the ACLU. It all started when I joined through the signup form on their website . . .
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It's time to get back to this one: The President Of the Untied States Lied about the events of 9/11. It is documented. It is indisputable. It has never been questioned in the mainstream press. Why not? There is a clear and present Lie. There is a coherent examination of this right here. Have a gander. And I'll add one of my own: how come if the last plane was, as reported, drove into the ground by civilian heros with cell phones that worked in the sky...then, um, how come the wreckage was spread over 2,000 square miles: that's a pretty big dispersal pattern for a ground impact, even for a heavy plane with full tanks of Jp-2...
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| 17:29:55 September 24, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Generality |
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