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I finally shifted to Mozilla Thunderbird on both Linux and Windows with the 0.3 release. Thunderbird 0.3 is a major improvement in performance v/s the earlier kludged versions where writing a large email gave you sudden flashbacks of teletypes.
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Tom's Hardware provides news about the latest hardware gadgets out there ( Visit site )
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I'm obsessed with taking pictures. I know you already know this if you peruse my sarah.pic moblog, but the photo thing has reached new heights with the addition of the Lomo cam. Want to see a bunch of cool, wannabe-artsy...
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| 23:34:58 October 23, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: sarah. word. |
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The PSG1 Full Tune Up Kit was out of production for a few months, but we now have it back in stock. Get your PSG1 to over 550 fps, with this, a 12v battery and a little magic from...
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Still catching up on my backlog of pictures.... This is the only picture of Hurricane Isabel I felt was decent enough to post. It's of a tree outside our window before the storm hit. We survived the storm with the only damage being the inconvenience of living without power and drinking bottled water for a couple days.
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Picture of Hurricane Isabel
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Picture of Hurricane Isabel
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... with matching fatface jumpers, puma trainers and luggage. Just a little bit of in-humour for the tech tour team. Needless to say its been a manic fortnight with the team up in Scotland for a week and around London & Oxford this week. Scotland was great, got to stay in the hotel of choice for anybody that is anybody in Glasgow (Hardeep stayed in the room that one of the Chilli Pepper's stayed in the night/week before). It was also the first proper test of our Hands On Labs (practical sessions were students carry out an activity which gives them experience of the .NET platform in some form - web services, mobility and.NET Framework). The HOLs are going down really well and with relatively few problems - students just seem to get their heads down and work through them, which is great for us, and going by the feedback in the evaluation forms the students seem to get a lot out of the sessions. This week was Oxford Brookes, Queen Mary London and Oxford Uni. Oxford Brookes had a top ...
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I've restarted this post six times, each of the previous five times wiping out some screed about how I feel about the erradication of citizen's rights in this nation. This time, I'll just try to focus on the specific issue pissing me off: copyright and digital rights management. Obviously, this...
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| 23:11:07 October 23, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Hammerland |
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Amazon.com launched a new service today, called Search Inside Books. In a word: fantastic. For someone like me who's spent years doing research for a nonfiction history book, it's an incredible tool. This is the best thing on the web since Google unleashed a fully searchable Usenet archive dating back to 1982. However, I am doubtful the service -- as it exists today -- will last long. It is too good..
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Nothing like a little 3 foot Diamondback Rattlesnake to get your Thursday morning going while at work....
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An Open Letter to my cat Cosette: If you truly do not want to be in the office with me at 11pm when I shut the door to the hallway, so as not to disturb Mark as he sleeps,...
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| 22:37:28 October 23, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Kittyloaf |
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Again I fail utterly at keeping this site updated. I apologize for that. Rest assured this site will return to regular updates (at least twice per week) as soon as possible, but at the moment I have quite a full plate of projects and really, really Anyway, I hope everyone's...
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There are some beautiful creations here at Cordt Photography, a great example of concept making it through to execution....
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| 22:22:27 October 23, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: light red |
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Today was an amazing day down at PHPCon in Santa Clara. I am the one Microsoft guy here and have spent the day learning by talking to PHP developers and many of the core PHP architects like Zeev, Wez, John, Sterling, Thies, George, Shane, and others... These folks are amazing developers, with great minds who have lots of unique and fun ideas. It has been a long time since I've been able to truly talk code at this level before and I can't express how thankful I am for the opportunity. Before I came down I was worried about how I would be accepted by this crowd as a Microsoft representative. Would it be hostile? Would it be open? I was pleasantly surprised by how well I was received. Everyone has been open, understanding, and engaging. We've talked about the negatives and positives of Microsoft, we've looked at ways that Microsoft and the PHP Community can work together and form a "symbiotic" relationship. We've explored avenues for making PHP run better on windows and even ...
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Love nature? It's in our genes [Environmental News Network - ENN.com]
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Mark Pilgrim has put together a few observations on Panther (that is if you consider 100 screenshots and 11 pages a few).
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| 21:59:22 October 23, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: icblog |
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Este fin de semana, por fin, tendrá lugar en Iruñea la cuarta edición del hackmeeting, que este año lleva el lema "HACK3ÑA. Hack your mind / okupa tu mente". El hackmeeting es un encuentro de la comunidad y la contracultura digital donde se plantea el trabajo de los hackers como una fusión de la tecnología con los movimientos sociales. Constituye un espacio en el que, además de compartir conocimientos técnicos, se plantean debates de contenido político en torno al software libre, la propiedad intelectual, las redes informáticas, el control social o las nuevas formas de comunicación que permite la telemática. Al igual que en las anteriores ediciones, el hackmeeting del 2003 tendrá lugar en un centro social okupado, este año será en el gaztetxe Euskal Jai de Iruñea. El Euskal Jai ha sido remozado para la ocasión (se espera la asistencia de más de 250 "hackers" de diversas procedencias). Se han habilitado nuevos espacios y se le ha dotado de la infraestructura necesaria. El programa ...
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Jon and I had a couple of entries about workarounds for some PDC problems. Apparently we got in trouble for posting them before Monday. Stay tuned, they'll be back when they're actually useful. We'll try to keep you updated with information about Windows "Longhorn" People & Groups. We'd also love to hear your feedback when you get a chance to see it next week. Jon will probably have more in-depth technical information and bug workarounds because his team worked on the People & Group controls. But, I'm better looking...
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Thanks to Text America for hosting my PDC photoblog. There will be a separate photoblog over on the PDCBloggers site too. Tons of us will be posting photos. Please post your own photos as well!
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Thanks to Text America for hosting my PDC photoblog. There will be a separate photoblog over on the PDCBloggers site too. Tons of us will be posting photos. Please post your own photos as well!
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I am thinking of Erika, who always said she would not see her 30th birthday. She was right, though I wish she could have been proven wrong. She lied later in life. She did things that in retrospect, were harmful...
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Students, Nuns and Sailor-Mongers, Beware If the allegations of this article are true, we Americans have much to fear from our current administration. From the passing of the Patriot Act to the wanton destruction of the environment, it appears that our current President and his accomplices seek nothing more than to break down what once made this country great. Now, another basic tenet of the founding of America is in jeopardy: free speech. The above...
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In playing around with regular expressions in Python, I came up with the following very simple CamelCase parser. I really like this style of writing out regex. It's much more readable than the typical compacted regex that I am used to seeing. simplecamelcase.py: # simplecamelcase.py - a really simplistic CamelCase parser import re pattern = re.compile(r''' (?x)( # Begin group b # word boundry [A-Z] # Find an upper case letter (S*?) # consume non whitespace [A-Z] # Find a second upper case letter (S*?) # consume more whitespace b # end word boundry ) # end group, repeat as neccesary ''') testString = "This is a TestCase of a VerySimple CamelCaseParser." find_camel = lambda s: [u[0] for u in re.findall(pattern, s)] print find_camel(testString) # Prints ['TestCase', 'VerySimple', 'CamelCaseParser'] I have found that Python is a pleasure to putz around with pretty much everything, and regexes are no exception. You can find more information at Kuchling's Regular Expression HOWTO and ...
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Newly found bird loses only known habitat [The EnviroLink Network]
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The city of Knoxville 2003 five week five event "Clash of the Titans" is finally here. This years contestants include a plumber, a teacher chick , a pizza delivery guy, a city planner, a telemarketing dude, an engineer, a...
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| 20:49:41 October 23, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: bUGLY |
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Michael Thomas of the Triangle Internetworkers (INW) has an interesting idea. The Triangle Internetworkers is "a geographically defined, loosely knit group of technology workers who like to get together once a month and socialize." Between monthly gatherings the group hangs out on a busy, sometimes noisy, and comfortable mailing list. Michael sees value in the group's discussions and wants a way to share this value on the web by developing a community website that is driven by content posted to the INW mailing-list. To make it easy for mailing-list subscribers to opt-in to the website and to ensure that the mailing-list's unique eco-system remains intact, Michael wants to develop a system based on simple markup-language that subscribers can use, or choose not use, within their email messages. The markup will indicate the message content and message meta-data like title, category, etc. He's written up the requirements and the motivations behind this idea and some initial design ...
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Google can't find the directions on removing a microwave oven door - damn it!
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| 20:07:33 October 23, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Pavleck.Com |
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On Monday, October 20, BBBSF (Bob's Big Blank Spot Filling) HQ received a distress call from Ephemeron.net in regards to the sudden appearance of a large blank spot atop their main page. Having arrived to find the situation neutralized, our...
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| 20:05:07 October 23, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Ephemeron |
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Clinton negotiates lower AIDS drug prices for Africa. Where's that 15 billion again George?...
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| 19:57:04 October 23, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Entropy |
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