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Dave Winer linked to a <a href="http://vote2003.ss.ca.gov/Returns/gov/mapB.htm">map</a> showing the voting breakdown. Other than the Bay Area, Arnold ran the table, getting 48% of the vote. What I find to be the most amazing statistic is that in a state of 35 million people, only six million voted - around 18%. Actually, it's probably a good thing that more people aren't politically interested. Can you imagine what life would be like if most people were...
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You know, when I was a kid, I never ate with chopsticks at age 2. How times have changed. Jack sees us eating with chopsticks and she wanted some of her own. We got her some kids practice chopsticks. She...
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Welcome back! I've been in the process of moving the old weblog to this new location. In theory the old pages are still here. More to come as I get things rearranged a bit....
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I am in the Power up section and have got stuck on the lift - the sierra website suggested restarting in developer mode using -console -dev and then entering the tilde key and noclip. HELP, I restarted the program through the run mode as suggested but I cannot activate the tilde key (~). I closed the program and rebooted but now when I start up the program I am in the developers mode but I still cannot get the tilde key to activate the console. I am still stuck on the lift but now I cannot...
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I just finished listening to the .NET Rocks show with ScottGu and I am pumped! IntelliSense in the inline code view of ASP.NET and also in the xxxx.config files! Ooh, I want in this beta program so bad I can taste it!
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I got an email from Holmes Wilson at downhillbattle.org. They are putting together a legal defense fund to help support those who have been sued by the RIAA. I think this is a great idea, and a great example of...
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(Looks like I made the right move, from California. Oy, real oy. The political process in the US is officially broken. And fiction is officially reality. Commence chaos.)
Looks like I made the right move, from California. Oy, real oy. The political process in the US is officially broken. And fiction is officially reality. Commence chaos.
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| 12:26:20 October 8, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Brain Off |
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The discipline Operations Research (OR) has been highly influential. Robert McNamara and his Best and Brightest used OR techniques to plan and justify the way the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations ran the Vietnam... er, situation. (Eventually McNamara resigned, troubled by LBJ's decisions.)In 1979, Russ Ackoff wrote a paper that was a milestone in management thinking, though it is little known. Published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society at the height of OR's influence, The Future of Ooperational Research is Past (pdf) indicted the ways that OR had come to be used by its many practitioners. Ackoff followed that paper with a more hopeful one, titled Resurrecting the Future of Operational Research (also pdf). Shortly after he published these papers, Ackoff started the discipline of Social Systems Science and founded the Busch Center at Wharton, funded largely by Anheuser-Busch, one of Russ's major clients over time. Russ now heads Interact Design in Philadelphia. ...
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| 12:25:56 October 8, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Sociate |
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Magnatune encourages file sharing as part of it's business model: Music Label Cashes in by Sharing "Berkeley-based Magnatune calls its approach "open music," a blend of shareware, open source and grass-roots activism. " "What I'm fighting against is, No. 1,...
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Community Services for Enterprise Blognets While your firewall protects you from intrusion, it also cripples the community software that keeps the blogosphere hopping. Here's are some of the services you might want to bring inside to help your blognets grow and prosper. The list grows, changes, and is not complete. I've grouped these services, arbitrarily, into three categories: Discovery, Reading, and Writing. Discovery services help you find stuff and navigate, and understand blognets and the blogosphere as a whole. Reading services help you keep up with relevant information. Writing helps you author and publish. Basic blogging service is extra. In your workplace: Which 3 are mandatory for a blognet pilot? What risks do you assume if you don't provide these services? Which services might you be better off operating in support of public employee and customer weblogs, even though they are the open blogosphere's services? What policy and IT operations issues do these services raise? ...
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I've mentioned elsewhere that I'm a big fan of Russ Ackoff's thinking. Frustrated because I couldn't find a description of his methodologies for interactive planning and idealized redesign, I got permission to post a paper describing those processes (pdf format). I began to write a summary, but it is so crisply written that I recommend you read it yourself. What I will say is that idealized redesign made me realize that if you never take the time to imagine what you really should be doing, as an individual or organization, you'll never get there. It also brought home to me just how difficult a process redesign is, because we are so wedded to assumptions we don't notice, historic business models and other, often dysfunctional baggage we take for granted.
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| 12:10:27 October 8, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Sociate |
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Giga was in Borders the other day and picked this up for me. I had no idea they had written a book about Eva. Apparently, it's been available in the UK for a while now, I guess due to...
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Giga was in Borders the other day and picked this up for me. I had no idea they had written a book about Eva. Apparently, it's been available in the UK for a while now, I guess due to...
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It was fun, and hopefully I didn't put my foot in my mouth in some way. Donna is a very...
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Oh sure, just when you think you have a good idea, you read a PDC blog about somebody else doing the same thing<img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.robzelt.com/blog/aggbug.ashx?id=41cba557-d0b4-4234-a309-2b685cd2efa5">
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Hollywood turned into California - Arnold won. Sony is innovating once again: PSX game & entertainment system will be launched...
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| 11:52:19 October 8, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Flow Of Time |
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The rush to sweep in a celebrity with a barely coherent political vision is a perfect example of why I have a love-hate relationship with...
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So, I realize I'm not teaching a writing class. And I realize that I'm teaching art and animation students. But, these college students are horrible writers. In order to get a better idea of my students' specific interests, I assign...
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Hey, we got reviewed on slashdot. Thanks for the positive review.
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My article on the Dispose pattern is online. It is appearing in the October issue of the .NET Developer's Journal.This is my first attempt at writing for a journal and I would like to thank Derek Ferguson (Editor-in-Chief), John Gomez (Open Source Editor), and Jean Cassidy (Managing Editor) of SYS-CON media for their help.
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For the love of the ocean, she rocked the boat.--Charlotte Tall Mountain[thanks, Anne!]
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| 10:57:47 October 8, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Aimée's Blog |
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The next Democratic Presidential Debate is tomorrow (Thursday, October 9th) on CNN, 5 p.m. Pacific (8 p.m. Eastern) from Phoenix, AZ....
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Well, something went horribly wrong with a recent upgrade to the software at my hosting company, but until it's fixed, you, yes, you, my single reader, may notice that it's not possible to view comments. Just as well, it's not...
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| 10:54:00 October 8, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: john |
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2 years ago I had the worst theme park experience ever at Worlds of Adventure. Incompetent employees who can't work a register. Ride crews who can't get the fast pass system down. Food that just plain sucks. Confusing directions and...
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A youth movement is actively gaining momentum in support of Governor Dean (article from the NYTimes, requires registration)...
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"Hello! Just ringing to remind you of how much I love you ..." "Are you doing something bad?" "Of course I am! What else do you think prompted me to ring up and tell you how much I love you?"...
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| 10:40:00 October 8, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: d-log.net |
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I've never been a big fan of Sandra Bullock. Don't think she's a great actress and never thought she was...
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