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Las Vegas performer in critical condition after performance goes awry.
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I read an article about how “lame” Saturday Night Live is on MSNBC. And thank the lord the word is out. SNL used to be good around the early 90’s. Yet most of their “stars” are dead or retired. I...
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| 23:37:05 October 3, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Photopunker |
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Since then I'm part of the RSS Bandit community I usually read my (mostly geeky) news feeds in a half hour at morning. So I was happy finding the <a href="http://dwlt.net/tapestry/dilbert.rdf">Dilbert feed</a> that makes me also smile.
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When I was fifteen, I was a paige at the Ramsey Public Library, for $3.35 an hour. I worked after school and summers shelving books in the air conditioning. This...
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| 22:20:46 October 3, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Photolog |
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Concentrate on the the four vertical dots in the middle of the image above for 30 seconds. Now, close your eyes and tilt your head back. Keep them closed: You'll see a circle of light. Keep staring at the...
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For more than a decade Jay Rosen has been a frustrated advocate of people-first, bottom-up "public journalism." The premise of his project (and his book, What Are Journalists For?) was that, as an act of civic conscience, major media might abandon the celebrity circus approach to covering, for example, presidential campaigns. The idea was laughed at, left for dead after the 1996 season. Yet now, strangely, he believes we're in sight of real public journalism -- not as a matter of corporate or professional conscience but because: the tools of journalism are being democratized.
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My one-week worth of break is coming to an end this Monday when I start school again for the fall semester. I’m looking forward to another Game Design story related class online. This time it looks like we will be...
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| 21:54:44 October 3, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Photopunker |
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AsWiki (Wiki Engine)
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| 21:53:49 October 3, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: RAA |
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Aahh, Halloween approaches. We know not because the weather is crisp and the leaves are a'changing. We know because the...
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Thanks, Chan! This was a fun one. Snob Status It's touch and go, KWK - you're 61% snob. You're a...
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Since I last posted something here (looks like this blog business is not for me) a lot of stuff happened in my life: - I left my job on Lexicon Genetics and joined MySQL AB - MySQL AB acquired all rights to Eventum, and we will release an open-source version of it in six months - Some redneck driver hit my car and lied his ass off saying it was somehow my fault - Got my car fixed (they paid for the repairs) - Moved to another apartment so I could get a separate home office - Continued developing new features to Eventum And now we will finally start using Eventum (still in beta) for our support customers....
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Artists and youth -just keeping it real. Announcing the arrival of the Storytellers Inc.'s full color book, Your Name Ain't on the List, written by 14 teenage youth and local artists.
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I got a ticket today. Unlike most whiney bastards who get tickets, I can honestly state that I didn't deserve...
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Given the recent hoo-ha over currency exchange rates (a bit of economics that affects me directly), I've started rereading Paul Krugman's The Accidental Theorist, hoping to get a better handle on the whole issue, which involves, among other things, the US current account deficit, the Bank of Japan's interventions to keep the yen weaker, the question of whether the dollar needs to be weaker (or, really, how soon the dollar should be weaker), and if 80's-style trade protectionism will make a comeback. The Economist devoted much of its recent Survey on the World Economy to this (last week's issue, still at your local library if you're interested), and so did William Pesek in a recent column. Much of this stuff, is, admittedly, over my head, but I know enough to be bothered by some neo-protectionist rhetoric I'm hearing from folks back in the States. Give me some time, I might even be able to articulate my concerns. Eric Gower, author of The Breakaway Japanese Kitchen (which I own a ...
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Mark Morford's column in the San Francisco Chronicle captured the essence of Apple's design so well. This is the point. Detail and nuance and texture and a sense of how users actually feel, what makes them smile, what makes the experience worthy and positive and sensual instead of necessary and drab and evil.
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Why aren't there any 7-11s around here? Those places kick ass. Their slurpys are awesome. I have to drive 116 miles to get to the nearest 7-11. Ridiculous. We should protest. Comment here and maybe we can start a petition....
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I’m not too sure, personally, but first read suggests to me that VeriSign’s notice and press release on the suspension of the Site Finder wildcard address seems, well, arrogant. What is it for everyone else, yes or no? Maybe on second reading later I might well conclude otherwise. Balance wise, the ICANN’s responses in the form of a threat/demand/’request’ and advisory both make fun reading. Ho ho ho. (Now, I wonder if I should still try doing a satirical take on the service?)
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Why does Maria Shriver look so bad? According to her biography, she's only 48. I think she looks pretty bad for 48. Maybe being a member of the Kennedy family is really hard. Or, maybe its just being married to...
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Kerala, a region of India that just might be the coconut capital of the world, claims to have the highest "teledensity" --- ratio of telephones per capita --- in all of India. Compared to Europe and North America, the word...
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it seems only fitting that this of all race numbers i've had is the largest. and bright orange. heh. i attended my first ever pre-marathon expo today, which doubled as packet and chip pickup. it was held downtown, so i...
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DCOracle2 is the Oracle interface module for Python I use most often. It is advertised as "beta", but quite suitable for production use, aside from a few minor rough edges. There are a few others, most notably cx_oracle, but I can't vouch for them. Debugging applications that make use of DCOracle2 can be challenging, as with any database environment, specially in a multi-threaded server context. I have developed a small utility module to aid in development. When it is imported, it will automatically trace all database calls made through DCOracle2, including arguments such as bind variables. More interestingly, it will also automatically run EXPLAIN PLAN on queries taking longer than 2 seconds (by default), to aid in tuning SQL statements. As a side bonus, if run by itself, it provides a (very basic) SQL shell that does offer command-line history and editing, something Oracle hasn't managed to provide in SQL*Plus in almost 30 years :-) This code works with Python 2.2 and DCOracle2 ...
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Matthias Felleisen announced that the latest CVS for DrScheme allows you to write <a href="http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/Tmp/spy.jpg">Python in DrScheme</a>. Nifty. I've noticed that DrScheme has a Java view as well - with Python support, it supports all the languages that I write in Eclipse except Ruby.
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ICANN tells the most-hated company on the web to shove Site Finder where the sun don’t shine.
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FILM legend Sir Sean Connery has agreed to be patron of the new Scottish National Photography Centre in Edinburgh.
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A MAN attempting to walk naked from Land's End to John O'Groats was back behind bars today after being re-arrested hours after he walked free from court.
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A MAN attempting to walk naked from Land's End to John o' Groats was last night behind bars after being re-arrested only hours after walking free.
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MADONNA'S decision to marry in Scotland has been a critical factor in dragging the National Trust for Scotland back from the fiancial brink.
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DECLARING that "the people know my character," Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger struggled yesterday to put allegations of sexual misconduct and Nazi sympathies behind him.
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SMG remains in a £1m contractual dispute with Carlton Communications over how much the Glasgow media group pays for its advertising slots to be sold.
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