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| 11:18:02 September 26, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Outlawed |
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Some words are just really cool. I really like the word booyah!. I don't think it is used often enough...
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| 11:10:19 September 26, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: khakipants |
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Got sick of the old website look and feel. Check it out. Very minimalist.
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You ever wonder if all of these economists, business reporters, poltical consultants really understand economics at all? For almost a...
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| 10:32:35 September 26, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: kermisch.com |
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Elliot Kerman, rockapella baritone Joel Grey, cabaret emcee Phil Collins, drummer and obscenely high baritenor Sting, amazing englishman...
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| 10:21:47 September 26, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Grok This |
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In May 2002, MIT Technology Review article, Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO unvieled a concept called the Invention Factory. At this week's MIT ETC 2003 Myhrvold expanded on the concept in his keynote speech. Mhyrvold beleives that "invention" can be...
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In May 2002, MIT Technology Review article, Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO unvieled a concept called the Invention Factory. At this week's MIT ETC 2003 Myhrvold expanded on the concept in his keynote speech. Mhyrvold beleives that "invention" can be...
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(SOURCE:RED HERRING | The Business of Technology)- Applies to blogs and wikis too. QUOTE I am thrilled that social systems are getting considerable play these days, but I consider the trend as much a curse as a blessing. Here are three things that would improve the situation markedly: openness and integration among all these tools, so services interact smoothly and triple-, quadruple-, or even quintuple-entry of data vanishes. more training on how to manage social systems appropriately, so productive relationships can be enhanced, not disrupted; and more emphasis on rethinking and improving the basic tools we use to express ourselves, so we cease thinking in 7-bit ASCII email, HTML, and PowerPoint, and start communicating better and building lasting resources together. Now that would launch many new relationships. UNQUOTE
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Today is day 600 of Governor Leavitt's 1000-Day Plan. He mentioned that yesterday in his monthly press conference. The Multistate Tax Commission released a report this week on the revenue impact of permanent extension of the Internet Tax Freedom Act on state and local governments. In summary, the extension could impact states and locals by as much as $8.75 billion by 2006. Legislation will be introduced in both the House and the Senate that will authorize states to collect taxes on items purchased online. NGA is backing the bill. The House Government Reform Committee approved H.R. 3159, the Government Network Security Act of 2003" yesterday. The bill would require federal agencies to develop and implement plans to protect the security and privacy of government computers from the risks posed by peer-to-peer file sharing. Managing Your Virtual World, Internal Controls for Enterprise Technology is an article found in the most recent issue of Government Finance Review, a publication ...
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And a thousand blessings to you all on this most joyous of Juan Day's....
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| 09:25:29 September 26, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: VS Blog |
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In passed my fifth exam today, so now I can label myself an MCSD.NET! I hadn't really intended to take more than a single exam, but I found a momentum building after I got started. 70-316 : Windows-based Applications with C#, taken on 8/29This one was first, and certainly the easiest for me. 70-315 : Web Applications with C#, taken on 9/4This one wasn't much worse than the first, and certainly repeated quite a few questions relating to ADO.NET. 70-320 : XML Web Services and Server Components with C#, taken on 9/9This one was a bit trickier, as I didn't have much experience with Remoting. Still not too bad, though, and again repeated several ADO.NET questions. 70-229 : Designing and Implementing Databases with SQL Server 2000, taken on 9/18No problems here. I've been using SQL Server for 5+ years, so other than brushing up on a few things I don't use daily there were no issues. 70-300 : Analyzing Requirements and Defining .NET Solution Architectures, taken on 9/26This one scared me ...
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| 09:19:00 September 26, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Ryan LaNeve |
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We just "shipped" our 0.2 release. Architecturally, it's quite a significant release, as we've worked on our data framework: the data model and data repository quite substantially. We've also made a first very early on the Presentation and Interaction architecture. All these components are the plumbing that will make Chandler truly unique and innovative. For a serious caveat, see Blogotomy on the dark side of 0.2....
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| 09:13:46 September 26, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Chao's Blog |
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here's a little something i wrote about what i learned at the kansas/nebraska college fall retreat last week....
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"conversation" with fedex computer automated answering system: fedex:thank you for calling fedex. if you know what service you are requesting please say it now. (pause) if you need to schedule a package pickup say "schedule package pickup", if... me: schedule...
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feel a bit like this today And you may ask yourself What is that beautiful house? And you may ask...
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| 08:46:57 September 26, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: simiant.com |
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Darlington out at Premiership Wolves but not disgraced. Goals from Rae and Gudjonsson enough. Words by Kevin Luff.
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| 08:22:18 September 26, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: DFC Online |
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Triumphant weightlifters head to VancouverYou're never going to guess where they're coming from. Hint: Iraq.
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| 08:21:21 September 26, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: IronOnline |
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The linked InfoWorld article is a fairly good representation of both sides of the outsourcing U.S. IT jobs to other countries. I also have mixed feelings about large scale IT outsourcing - besides the obvious downward pressure on my own consulting rates, I worry that the U.S. will give up its competitive advantage in developing new technologies once competing countries develp a critical mass of technology. On the other hand, I do believe in globalization - doing work and manufacturing were it can be done least expensively - if third world country workers are not exploited and environmental concerns are addressed fairly. Like most issues, there are two reasonable sides to this argument.
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[update - 2] : Dave has decided that he can not handle the guilt of taking people's money to go to the PDC - he'll be there some other way.. He's refunded to those that donated.. Guess Roy Osherove was right (and those that commented there). Dave Bettin, one of the best developers I've ever worked with really wants to go to the PDC - he's asking for some help. Dave worked on my team when he moved from Java to .net full-time, and I was amazed to see an "anti-M$" guy turned to "Hey, Microsoft has it right!"
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| 08:13:00 September 26, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Philip Rieck |
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I just ran across a month old blog by Chris Double on using continuations for implementing web services. Good stuff! (For Smalltalk, Lisp, Scheme programmers mostly).
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In the last several years, I have have watched the growth of two technologies: web services and the semantic web. At least web services are taking off.... The linked article is a light weight media promotion by IBM and Microsoft - still, both companies get credit for supported standards like SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, etc. For Java programmers, Sun's Web Services Toolkit offers a complete software stack - one problem though is if you read the license agreement you will quickly notice that Sun does not give you the right to use their web services kit in commercial applications (you need to but their Sun ONE stuff). Again for Java programmers, the free version of GLUE from themindelectric.com and Apache Jakarta Tomcat with Axis provide kits that can be used commercially.
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Today I ordered my G5. Didn't think I'd be getting one until next year, so I'm pretty excited... Here are the specs: Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 512MB DDR400 (That'll change soon...) 250GB Serial ATA Super Drive ATI Radeon 9600 Pro Internal BlueTooth Module I'll post more information and pictures when it arrives... Looks like shipping is a little slow due to demand... My G5 should ship on or before October 10th... I can't wait!
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| 07:59:38 September 26, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Japanamac |
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Ways your weblog can promote diversity.
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The French have released a deck of cards that list the most dangerous american leaders. I might have to buy one of these.
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Don’t read this entry if you wince, cry or look for a meat cleaver when people talk about how fit, trim or otherwise not overweight...
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| 07:46:43 September 26, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: parsed |
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(The Undistributed Future Brad DeLong bangs his head against the wall. When book-fetishization, entrenched prejudices, and administrative neuroses run up against budgets, they will fall. Have every ...)
The Undistributed Future Brad DeLong bangs his head against the wall. When book-fetishization, entrenched prejudices, and administrative neuroses run up against budgets, they will fall. Have every university press "publish" books that it doesn't believe will sell 2000 copies by putting .pdf files up on their respective webservers. If all university presses did this tomorrow, the crisis in scholarly publishing would be solved--as would the difficulty assistant professors have in finding publishers. We can move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom tomorrow, if we will just open our eyes and abandon our false consciousness. The High Energy Theory subfield of physics moved from journal articles to webservers as their principal locus of intellectual activity back in 1995. It's been nearly a decade since then. Why have the rest of us not followed them?
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The Latest Obsession I've become obsessed with Jeffrey Zeldman's Daily Report. In fact, I've just sort of become a Zeldman fanatic. I'm reading his book (Designing with Web Standards), I check his site daily (sometimes more), and I'm in...
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| 07:44:31 September 26, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Mudpiemarie |
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The recent court battles over the FTC Do-Not Call List are probably more important than we realize. I don\'t think it is a clear-cut as it seems.
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