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This passed weekend I went down to Miami for the second times since I moved up here. I spent most...
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It is time for me to move Abyssal Mind to another site. I chose the excellent TypePad service for various reasons. I think at the new site I might be able to put more effort into Abyssal Mind, and perhaps start some other blogs at http://brain.blogs.com This Radio Userland site will definately work until the end of October, and perhaps longer than that. However, I will be making all new postings on that site. Also, for those interested, I've got a new RSS Feed URL for that site (which may eventually change, though). Bear in mind that I am still ironing out the kinks for the look & feel etc. as I learn more about the powerful TypePad service. Please update your links and see you over there! -Bj
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| 23:41:22 October 7, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: Abyssal Mind |
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"What was all that dust?""Oh, that was the four horses of the apocalypse.""Really?""Yeah.""So, what were they doing?""Just riding through.""oh."
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| 23:16:46 October 7, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: ILK |
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XP Exaggerated is a very funny send-up of XP. Whittle away some time with articles like this:Mr. Mark Flopberry was initially excited when his team decided to transition to XP. "Now I can sit next to Angelica five hours a week, and sometimes she looks at me." he said when interviewed. However, all is not 'peaches and cream' on Mr. Flopberry's team. Last Friday, several members of the team accused Mr. Flopberry of breaking the build on three occasions during the week. Mr. Flopberry appeared stunned by the accusation and claimed that a bearded alien, who called himself 'Chuck', had come while his partner went to the restroom and forced him to break the build.It's The Onion for XP.
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| 22:55:30 October 7, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: Clickstream |
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I've always been skeptical of development methodologies. They ignore the fact that different organizations develop software under different constraints and in different ways. What's important is the development process, and that it address the needs of the organization while managing the process well enough to produce useful, reasonable-quality goods.Methodologies occasionally work if they are focused on specific problem domains, such as the data warehouse development methodology espoused in The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit. Methodologies should be like training wheels: you use them to learn the problem domain and ways to go about solving the problems in that domain, then you take the wheels off and evolve your process. More often, methodologies are top-down efforts to improve problems that are caused by ham-handed management.That said, I agreed to let a development manager try out XP on portions of the ETL development for a data warehouse project. The first problem was that ...
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| 22:53:31 October 7, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: Clickstream |
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Two Moroccan students get noisy. Teacher gets angry. Teacher throws students out the window. "They did not listen. They should have listened," he told Reuters by telephone. "She (the teacher) suffers depression". Obviously....
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Tonight we were on Headline News (live!) talking about TypePad. No, I don't know why I look so mean. I thought I was smiling a slight smile that made me look confident and relaxed, but instead I look like I'm...
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Tonight we were on Headline News (live!) talking about TypePad. No, I don't know why I look so mean. I thought I was smiling a slight smile that made me look confident and relaxed, but instead I look like I'm...
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Jaguar racing heads to Japan this weekend. Japan may not suit the R4 but hopefully well see Jaguar take 5th position in the championship. Webber likes the track and Wilson is more confident after his points scoring position in America, hopefully theyll both finish this race.
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| 22:02:58 October 7, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: Racing Bulls |
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Get live current US dollar exchange rates from the Internet for many countries/currencies. Fixed a bug related to user cancel response.
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Last week Adobe announced their new Creative Suite, containing updates of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive and Acrobat. dpreview favourably comments...
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| 21:50:27 October 7, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: esthet.org |
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I have some doubts that there will be great tech revelations at that gallery. So don't get your hopes up too much, but probably some great designs and some food for thought and the stomach. Thursday, October 16th, 6-10pm - Free, The Canvas Gallery1200 9th Avenue, SF
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Apologies for the rather cryptic announcement yesterday. It was late, it worked and I wanted to go to sleep! ;) As the more curious of you will have found out, I’ve set up a couple of new GDN Workspaces. One for NAntAddIn and another for a Workspaces command line client. You will find a pre-built version of 'wks'. I will try and get a release of NAntAddIn up tomorrow. I started working on the Workspaces client after getting frustrated trying to keep the NAntAddIn Workspace in sync with my local Subversion repository. My ultimate aim is to create a two way bridge between them. For the moment I’ve added a command (load) that lets me do a vendor drop into the Workspace (adding, deleting, checking out and checking in to sync up with my local version). There’s also a command to save the Workspace along with last modified and version information. This lets me store the Workspace in my Subversion repository and hopefully absorb changes made there. I’ve loosely modelled the command line ...
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In case the search puppy in Windows XP annoys you as much as it does myself, I have a quick...
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Hey! Did you guts know that in 451 to 453 Europe was invaded by the Huns? Thats one of my fifty billion dates I have to memorize for Western Heritage class. Im really sorry that I dont update more,...
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| 20:51:23 October 7, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: Halfwitted |
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Here we sit, 20 minutes until the polls close in California. Democracy in action. But from the way the press...
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| 20:43:35 October 7, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: MollyBlog |
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(Maybe they weren't "senior" administration sources? If Novak followed the journalist line, there aren't very many people who would qualify as *senior* administration sources. Bush could haul them ...)
Maybe they weren't "senior" administration sources? If Novak followed the journalist line, there aren't very many people who would qualify as *senior* administration sources. Bush could haul them all into one room, and demand to know who the perps are. Or, Novak was playing loose with the "senior", and a broader investigation is called for. Either Novak's a liar, or the Justice Department is following their "anthrax political assassin cover-up" strategy -- searching far and wide where they know the perpetrators *aren't*, in order to look like they're doing something while they avoid doing anything that might turn up the actual terrorist. Expect the FBI to drain a lake in Maryland, pretending that they hope to find a tape of a conversation with Novak -- even while the handful of "senior administration officials" are ignored.
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Yeah, I've been off this horse for awhile. All I can offer is that the political news lately has moved me from abject horror to stunned silence, and satire has become more difficult. Still, it's best to simply climb back on this thing before it gets put out to stud. Speaking of studs... Why I like Howard Dean: "We can't win this election if we worry so much about electability that the American people can't tell the difference between us and the Republicans. The great unspoken political lie, which comes from stages like this, is `Elect me, and I'll solve all your problems.´ The great unspoken truth is that the future of this country rests in your hands, not mine." Howard Dean at the Democratic Debate in Columbia SC May 3, 2003 Governor (and Doctor) Howard Dean first came to my attention as an appealing candidate last February when he picked up Paul Wellstone's mantle by declaring that he "represents the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party!". That caught my attention, and I ...
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| 20:41:52 October 7, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: SEMI TRUTHS |
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I plan to track my car value monthly to have an idea on the depreciation and the general car market. This is the first month: www.edmunds.com Camry 2000 LE - Sell value - Gold - 32,200 miles - Alarm system,...
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A reminder: I'll be reading and signing books on Thursday night at Berkeley's <a href="http://www.otherchangeofhobbit.com/">The Other Change of Hobbit</a> (2020 Shattuck Ave, 1-510-848-0413) from 6-8PM. Hope to see you there!
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Robert Fisk: Israel's attack is a lethal step towards war in Middle East (Robert Fisk, The Independent, 06 October 2003) Israel received the Green Light. It came from what is called the Syria Accountability Act, moving through the United States Congre
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Robert Fisk: Israel's attack is a lethal step towards war in Middle East (Robert Fisk, The Independent, 06 October 2003) Israel received the Green Light. It came from what is called the Syria Accountability Act, moving through the United States Congre
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There is a cruel irony to the practice of law. The better lawyers care about their clients. The better lawyers don't just see their clients as a fee, but as human that needs help finding justice. Law schools and many...
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| 19:05:23 October 7, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: livefree |
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So I finally got the new 12" powerbook. It's so nice and small and pretty. Thanks Gary. I'm also a...
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| 18:54:33 October 7, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: Caleb |
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