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As you may know I work in the lovely retail business. I have heard a lot of shit in my day. This is the best one I have ever heard. I am standing by the meat dept. and this young...
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once again i'm browsing my web site stats and noticing odd referrers showing up in the logs. let's have...
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| 23:56:50 November 5, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
Source: veldt.com |
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A little late, almost Thursday but it's still Wednesday in Washington. How do you feel about weight and fitness in regards to your lovelife? Would be involved with a person who weighed the same or more than you? Don't you...
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It's official: Vertical Horizon now has ten songs to their name that we've determined to be at least 75% appropriate for sci-fi, fantasy, or anime music videos. The only other band that comes close to this is the Wallflowers, with four. Don't ask me how they do this. We just watch (and occasionally read) stuff, then listen to songs, and the songs fit. Tuesdays, we go over for dinner and Farscape with Kelson's family. Scapers, get ready to wail: last night's program was "Self Inflicted Wounds." Both episodes. For non-Scapers, yes, it was as big an emotional wringer as you may have guessed. When we got home after a round of coffee and sympathy, I checked a hunch on the lyric sheet for the latest VH album, Go. Bingo--"Won't Go Away" has now officially joined the ranks of the video-able. At the risk of sounding like an IMDb summary, get the full list here...... In chronological order of idea solidification: 1. "Everything You Want," Babylon 5, Marcus and Ivanova. The first video idea ...
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One problem, maybe the main one, with Tablet PCs today is the lack of ink-based applications. Microsoft's "Think in Ink" contests are definitely are great way to get more developer traction to the ink-enabled platforms. But my attempts at coding ink applications have led me to think that it'll take quite some time before rich ink applications flourish. More samples and articles demonstrating interesting techniques are needed to get developers to invest more effort in ink-specific challenges....
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SocialText cofounder Ross Mayfield had one of the highest rated sessions at the ACC2003 conference. This is why I am very happy that he will make time in his busy schedule and lead us through the latest developments in the area of Social Software. No book to read this time (I know that that makes many of you happy :-) but check his blogs, worth a read independent of whether you have time on Friday the 21st or not: Many-to-many, Socialtext, Ross Mayfield. Instead of just talking about Social Software, we came up with the idea of using social software already leading to, during and may be even after the event. In reality we do use Social Software since the beginning with our Yahoo Group and the Futurist Salon Companion Weblog. This time we will add a couple more things, to give you the opportunity to use the tools and make up your own mind about how useful these are in what circumstances. First up: Public Mind a site created for demand aggregation. Harry Max is the founder and he ...
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(A couple of weeks ago, I went to Washington to visit my mom, and arrived in the mdst of major flooding.)
A couple of weeks ago, I went to Washington to visit my mom, and arrived in the mdst of major flooding.
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Tired of other filesharing communities such as Napster, Gnutella, and Scour Tired of Napster Clones in general Looking for something new Get ready to change the way you think about peertopeer filesharing. NeoModus' Direct Connect. offers a complete set of tools to locate any type of media. New Modus offers a windows explorer look and feel to share any type of media. It makes money through serving advertisement to the subscribers. I have heard very good reviews on their products; however, I haven't used them myself yet. They are based in Berkeley, CA.
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The BBC reported today that a probe launched when I was around 5 years old has just reached the edge of our solar system. Voyager 1 is around 8.5 billion miles away from home, transmitting a signal of less that 1 millionth of a watt. More detail is up on the NASA website.
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It isn't exactly project hell, but it's close. I've been to project hell several times. Being a connoisseur of the various circles of project hell, what I'm doing now is more like heck, with a few dalliances in the first two circles of hell. Thus, extracurricular blogging slowed down this month.The nice thing about my current project is that it has a long and involved history, much like the history of napalm, with it's deep roots in the combative use of combustion going back to Greek fire. The project's history stretches back to the dim recesses of an earlier age, at least from the perspective of the users and sponsors.I've never been on a data warehouse project that took more than a year to get from start to a usable application. The projects usually delivered a first release within 6-9 months, and the first deliverable was always usable. Until Project Speedbump.When Fred Brooks answered the question "How do projects get a year behind?" with "One day at a time" he had not yet ...
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| 22:31:33 November 5, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
Source: Clickstream |
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I disappeared. I know. Sorry. I was working on a freelance contract for a very large online service provider in the DC suburbs, and spending half the week in Reston, VA and half the week here, trying to catch up with myself as I went, and everything that wasn't basic life support functions fell by the wayside. Now I am back in New York, working for an agency whose offices I could, if necessary, walk home from without collapsing from exhaustion at the end of the trip (provided I'm wearing sensible shoes), and emerging from hibernation. What brought me out, blinking, into the sunshine, was this: death. Or the threat of it. Eddie Izzard has a routine where he says the Anglican Inquisition would have offered sinners not "repent, or death!" but "cake, or death?" Everyone of course would prefer cake. As would I. I would even prefer the threat of cake to the threat of death. The week began with a death threat against the marvelous Emily Nussbaum. You'd think by now people would have ...
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Apparently the man responsible for the rash of murders that took place during the 1980s, Gary Ridgway, confessed to the murders of 48 women from Seattle. This makes him the most prolific killer convicted in the US. Now I wonder...
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| 22:19:09 November 5, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
Source: poliRANT |
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Apparently the man responsible for the rash of murders that took place during the 1980s, Gary Ridgway, confessed to the...
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| 22:19:09 November 5, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
Source: poliRANT |
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The custody hearing has once again been continued. The judge is not going to be there tomorrow. We don't yet know when the next trial date will be....
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| 22:17:58 November 5, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
Source: budro.net |
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Admittedly, that’s not what he’s trying to do when he says: People mumble about arch until they go use it for a while and realize it is about 3-5 years behind BK. Here’s what he was saying about BitKeeper four years ago, in 1999: The problem with most systems is that they don’t scale. They all work great for 1-5 developers. It doesn’t matter which one you choose. However, they all tend to fall apart when you have 1000 developers. Since we have experience in source management, having designed and implemented most of Sun’s TeamWare source management system, we are quite familiar with the scaling problem and feel that we can provide a better, more scalable and more reliable answer. We did it before, and this one is better. Without taking away from anything Larry was meaning to say, that still seems like pretty high praise for arch, to me.
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Brent Rector - Book! Chapter 1: The Longhorn Application Model!
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(A List of What Makes WinFS Cool. Serge posts a list of what he thinks makes WinFS cool along with links to more info. [Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet])
A List of What Makes WinFS Cool. Serge posts a list of what he thinks makes WinFS cool along with links to more info. [Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet]
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PDC Session Slides & Code. Not all PDC sessions have slides and/or code yet, but most do. Enjoy! [Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet]
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Happy 18th Birthday! Happy Birfday! Now you're legal! Watch out! <wink> <wink>...
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So sian of studying... was blasting linkin park songs... reading their forums.. So many pple are commenting how easy their songs are to play... a bit weird if you are a fan yet still dissing at them... anyway saw this.....
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| 21:33:37 November 5, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
Source: First Weblog |
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Man, oh man. This is not what we need right now. Rich Rock of SOHH just wrote an exclusive about a murder attempt on Joe Budden, the mixtape to record deal emcee I highly touted on this site months ago....
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This has been a busy week... And a strange one. I have been so busy with everything that I hardly have time to just sit and think. Monday at work I was running around doing the job of two, and On Tuesday I was asked to pick up a Third responsibility. There is no extra pay, and I suppose it will look good on my resume, but I think that it is wearing me down. I am starting to get gray hair... At first I did not pay too much attention to it, but It is starting to get pretty noticeable *sigh* My work week is now one where I am constantly busy, seriously constant workload. And I do not get a break because I keep on volunteering. I have also been working on the House, Planning life, and going to school.I need a vacation I think, and I need a little space. On those few times where I find myself with nothing to do, I play a videogame, or surf online, or write a journal entry (Like I am doing now).Tuesday... Sucked... I was doing this project at work, and finished around 9:25am, I normally ...
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Last Friday was Halloween. We didn't celebrate it because we're fundamentalist killjoys. However, we did go up to Sherman where Jessica's cousin's family did celebrate it, and it was great fun watching the little ones get excited. It was not fun to see the 14 year old's doing Halloween. I think their parents should have said, "No, you're not 8 any more. Plus the odor from y...
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| 21:11:30 November 5, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
Source: The Pordcast |
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I am collecting URLs of ArcIMS and CF sites. Can anyone who has one (publicly available) put in a comment with the URL ? Thanks....
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I feel like a great weight has been lifted from my heart. I just spoke to K on the phone....
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I can always tell when the fibro's getting worse, because the unreasonable panic attacks return. Those are the attacks that...
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Never heard that term before - but I think it's good.
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