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Take a look at the two-year chart of the euro-dollar exchange rate....
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From an old UNIX fortune cookie: brain fried, core dumped.
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Now for some real data: the International Monetary Fund's working paper from July 2000 entitled The Currency Composition of Foreign Exchange Reserves (warning: big .pdf file) includes some hard data and offers some educated conclusions. Based on past practice throughout...
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This is a crucial victory for indie films. Without it, most could not win Oscars, meaning most could not have a shot at making any money, meaning most would not get made: Studios partly reverse Oscar screener ban Hollywood studios partially reversed their ban Thursday on special video copies for awards groups, capitulating to widespread criticism that the move would make it harder for smaller films to win Oscars. It still sucks, though, because of this: The new agreement will allow "screener" copies to be sent to the approximately 5,600 Academy Awards voters, but not the far larger pool that hands out lesser honors. That means groups that present the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards, critics prizes and other movie honors will have to see films at theaters or at screenings arranged by studios. Oscar voters, meanwhile, can watch movies at home on copies sent by the films' distributors. It's by winning those other awards--or at least getting lots of nominations--that smaller ...
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(SOURCE:VentureBlog: Ubiquity Breeds Utility)- Read the full post for more details. Disagree about 802.11a. People will go directly from b to g I think. I think he's right about everything else though. Newspapers don't have zero value to me, but they do to most kids toay. QUOTE In the late 1980s, Dartmouth College was the most wired campus on the planet, running 10Mb Ethernet into every dorm room. Today, Dartmouth is the most unwired campus on the planet, with 560 access points covering 200 acres. At a recent conference here, Larry Levine, the head of computing services, challenged attendees to find a single spot on campus and surrounding areas that did not have 802.11 coverage. Even the boathouse, adjacent sections of the Connecticut river, the ski lodge, and sections of the ski slope are covered! If you wanted to know where wired communications were headed in the late 1980s, all you had to do was go to the Dartmouth campus and look at their homegrown email application, Blitzmail. ...
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Let's start with something provocative. Project Censored's Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2002-2003 includes U.S. Dollar vs. the Euro: Another Reason for the Invasion of Iraq. In November 2000, Iraq began selling its oil in euros. Their thesis is...
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Well, looky there. The Newtons Around The World gallery has been blessed with a new crop of images, many from first-time contributors. A big whack of the mitts for contributors Sam Gerstein, Claudio Guzman, William Heavenor, Ben McCorkle, Ross Olson, Anth
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New feed: I really want that t-shirt.
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Google's purchase of Sprinks is yet another very calculated move. A move that could have been very well "predicted" by...
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Yes our cat is From Hell...
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| 22:17:33 October 24, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Photopunker |
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We went through some diversity training at work recently. The woman who came into speak with us gave out the following set of guidelines for learning: 1. Release the need to be right.2. Welcome one another's thoughts and opinions.3. Suspend...
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Those of you who know me know that I have been buried in piles of work lately. I could barely remember the password to get back into my blog. I am leaving for PDC tomorrow at 3:15 pm. Wait! I just looked at my tickets and I leave at 12:55 pm. Good thing I decided to write this entry. I can't even tell you what events I am going to. I guess I will have to find out when I get there and all my work is left in Portland. Here is to a great week!
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I just bought a Kingston 512Mb Compact Flash card for my Digital Camera for £78. I remember paying £400 for 16Mb (4 x 4Mb SIMMs) in about 1992 and thinking it was a good deal :-|
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(This week's solar flare could actually affect "GCI" in a couple of ways: it could dink with our satellite and/or it could affect the repeaters along our undersea fiber that runs from Portland to ...)
This week's solar flare could actually affect "GCI" in a couple of ways: it could dink with our satellite and/or it could affect the repeaters along our undersea fiber that runs from Portland to Whittier. I have to say, there is a definite coolness factor happening when one works for a company that actually cares about solar flares...
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I started working on the Bearlyknits cardigan this week. So far, I am really enjoying it. I have never done...
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| 20:41:48 October 24, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: adnohr blog |
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The past two years, we have told them they can play up if they wish (and if they request at...
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| 20:41:35 October 24, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: UCDS Chess |
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Party's membership makes important decisions to prepare for 2004...
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Recently I was talking with one of my favorite Internetinformation marketers, and he brought up a point that I'venoticed before and perhaps you have, too.It's this: People pay more money for fewer pages - fewerwords - with ebooks. And the smart ones do so gladly.In this article, I'll show you how to cash in on this trendyourself as an information marketer, while at the same timeproviding your customers with FAR more value than they havepaid for.Let's get one thing out on the table. On the face of it,paying more money for fewer pages sounds like a paradox, atbest - or a scam, at worst. But I am convinced the high-priced information I havepurchased has been some of the best money I've ever spent.And I bought a lot of this kind of high-priced informationlong before I ever heard of ebooks, or other kinds ofInternet-marketed information.Today, I feel the same way. Here's why:Ebooks (good ones, anyway) provide something you just can'tget in a traditional printed book. Often, you'll find ...
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This is perhaps the first balanced statement I've ever heard about Linux, ever. If you want to use Linux for something, it's perfectly fine. Using Linux doesn't automatically make you an open source bigot. It doesn't make you a Microsoft hater. But for God's sake, if you want to use Linux, use it because it actually does the job better. Don't try to convince yourself that it's better/faster than Windows at a particular task, even when it really isn't. I've lost track of the number of times people have tried to tell me things with no factual basis, like "Linux is more stable", or "Linux has better security". My favorite is, "Linux has better memory management than Windows", from someone who actually knew nothing about how Windows memory management works. Before deciding that Linux is inherently better than Windows at something (like memory management, process scheduling, or security), try reading a book about it. You may have changed something (like switching to a different OS), it ...
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| 19:44:08 October 24, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Semack.Net |
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Friday, October 24 @ 9pm : The Lizard Lounge, Cambridge Sparkola celebrates the release of their second album, Handclaps and Slapbacks at the Lizard Lounge with guests Seks Bomba (12am), The Irresponsibles (10pm) and Thea Wolfe (9pm). Download an MP3 of "What's to Say" from...
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Am 21.Oktober begann der Prozess gegen Marco, Daniel und Carsten aus Magdeburg wegen "Mitgliedschaft bzw. Rädelsführerschaft in einer terroristischen Vereinigung". Sie sollen politisch motivierte Sachbeschädigungen an Behördenfahrzeugen und Limousinen begangen haben. Dafür werden sie jetzt mit dem Paragrafen 129a verfolgt, dem Terrorismusparagrafen, der z.b. Gruppierungen trifft, die Mord, Kriegsverbrechen oder Völkermord begehen. Mit dem Terrorismusparagrafen in der Hand konnte die Polizei Grundrechte außer Kraft zu setzen und Ermittlungsmethoden anwenden, die nichts mehr mit rechtsstaatlichen Prinzipien zu tun haben. [Erfahrungsberichte von Marco, von Daniel und von Carsten] Besonders im Vorfeld des für bundesweiten Aktionstages aus Protest gegen die Aushebelung der Grundrechte durch den Paragrafen 129a wurde eine Hetzkampagne gegen die linke Szene der Stadt gestartet, an der maßgeblich die "Magdeburger Volksstimme" beteiligt ist. (Aktuelles aus Magdeburg) Update: An der größten ...
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2 weeks ago I got into a carcrash, a car crashed into the rear of the car I was sitting in, everybody was fine. This is a scetch I made for the insurance company to figure out whose fault it was. The place where it all happened was in Amsterdam-Zuidoost. I am the 'X' on the drawing, pretty artistic huh?
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10/22/03 Once you understand how to change a structural or alignment problem on your self and can understand its implications...
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Do cowboys dance to Michael Jackson?...
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| 18:35:10 October 24, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Snapturtle |
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I'm at the hoedown. Save me. Please....
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| 18:30:37 October 24, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Snapturtle |
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There is a story on CNN about a company selling personal submarines for $845k. I would like one but what I really really want is the Deep Rover which is amazing, it's two hemispheres of acrylic, has pretty much 360 degree visibility, and can dive to 1000m. No price on the website for that one though. (here's another page with some more photos).
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| 18:26:00 October 24, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Xarg blog |
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As I was walking into work this morning, I heard a student say 'This is me talking.' Bizarrely, he didn't follow it up with anything. It seemed to me the ultimate in phatic speech- utterly meaningless....
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This week's Friday Feast takes a look at an insightful new interview of Jeffrey Zeldman, A List Apart's new site design that everyone's talking about, and user-friendly approaches to website information architecture. (1086 words, 25 links, 2 images)
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Albert DePrince wins Abramson Award; Abramson Scrolls Go to Uwe Reinhardt, J. Paul Horne, and Albert Merlin
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