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How many of you have put in a firewall long after the network you are protecting has been well established? It seems like anything else, and maybe even more so with technology, users of the networks get very fine tuned...
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Contribute! | Policy | PhilosophyAt our team meeting today, discussion about shuffling offices. Rank being equal, you get office perks strictly on the basis of how long you've been there. Due to space constraints, we are obliged now to double up. The boss was explaining the new configuration and how folks would be doubled up according to "... er ... what's the opposite of 'seniority'?" About four people at once offered the obvious: juniority.
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Elf is much funnier than I would have guessed. The costumes and the setting make you think about Jim Carrey's How the Grinch Stole Christmas, but thankfully Elf is more like Tom Hanks' Big set in a Christmas context. Elf isn't really a "Christmas movie", it's just a comedy that is set in the mythology of Santa Claus. The main character Buddy (played by Will Ferrell) is a human boy adopted and raised by an Elf in Santa's work shop. As a grown man (of appearance only!) he travels to New York to find his Dad (James Caan) who never knew he was born. Dad is the typical Christmas movie anti hero, the grouch to be converted, and Buddy handles the job (of course) in a hilariously innocent way. The comedy has lots of laughs and makes very nice use of Buddy's elf upbringing. He may have been a disappointment in Santa's workshop, but he still picked up a lot of abilities that set him aside from your average adult regressed to the age of 10. Good work by writers and producers and excellent ...
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I discovered Eric S. Raymond's blog today. ESR is a noted technology pundit and open-source advocate, and he apparently has many other interests, too. In this article, he notes the similiarities between the Nazi resistance at the end of World War Two with the current Iraq Baath party resistance. The reference to this article is particularly interesting, as it details...
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I'll be doing a half-day course on ETL tool selection at the TDWI conference in Boston in May. As I develop materials, I'll be posting some of them here. In the meantime, if you are interested in evaluating data extraction tools for data warehousing, I re
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| 23:00:57 November 11, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
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I'll be doing a half-day course on ETL tool selection at the TDWI conference in Boston in May. As I develop materials, I'll be posting some of them here. In the meantime, if you are interested in evaluating data extraction tools for data warehousing, I refer you to the ETL product checklist I wrote on the topic> last year.
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| 23:00:57 November 11, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Clickstream |
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So, today I looked at my unofficial college transcripts, and it appears that I have fewer credits than I thought I did. I need 27 credits to complete my degree. Which, if I want to accomplish this in 2 semesters,...
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Have you ever saved a GIF or JPG image from the web and IE changes the format to BMP? Other than it being an annoying new feature, and quite pointless, there is a work around for this: Delete the temporary internet files by selecting Tools, Options, General tab and select the Delete Files button Here is Mircosoft's KB Article...
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(SOURCE:Burningbird: The Value of Human on a Humanless Web)- Shelley pens another magnificent piece on the semantic web; it's about the people and any technology that enhances the relationships between people is worthwhile; anything that doesn't should be questioned. Burningbird continues to be a must-read blog! As for people blogging and writing on their laptop at conferences, I write down stuff in real time at conferences for the people who are NOT at the conference. Writing for the people at the conference to use in real time is pointless I agree. QUOTEWe talk about how the Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it. We sometimes forget, though, that it is people who act as routers in this case, not machines. We attend conferences because we want to experience the discussion in person. or at least, this is what we say, and I remember conferences and sitting in the back so that I could watch people's reactions to the words, or look into the speaker's eyes and see ...
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Navy Newsstand Eye on the Fleet Photo Gallery NOAA Photo Library
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| 22:12:01 November 11, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Paul's World |
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Today one of my father-in-laws turned 5 followed by a zero. That is to say that if he were a dog and he lived this long he'd be in the Guiness book of whirled records (at what point will they upgrade to CD or MP3?). But he's not. Clair is a neat guy and a fabulous father-in-law. He likes golf and despite that he still works long hours. This is quite a feat since most people sho like g...
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| 22:08:39 November 11, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: The Pordcast |
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Just had to link to this entry, the photos are staggeringly lovely. Burningbird: Melancholia The writing, and the rest of the blog, are also nice....
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| 22:08:22 November 11, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Europundit |
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Today, I have been approached to help migrate a Zope based system to Drupal. After removing some superfluous contrib-modules, the main task was to transplant the 660 existing users to the new system. After some hassles it was possible to extract the user data in xml format. With only minimal effort a script was written and the site had 660 new users. The site in question is the drupalized my.gnus.org site. It caters for the Gnus user community. Gnus is a news- and mailreader that runs in Emacs and XEmacs. A quote from the my.gnus.org community about my.gnus.org and Drupal: «As it's a page dealing with the news and mail client whose features are a superset of those other clients offer we were looking for a CMS which offers us the same.»
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so i am currently toying around with 2 that's right, 2 forms of comment-spam filtering. One is a blacklist that does content-based filtering, the second is a bayesian smart plugin that learns what is spam and what isn't. Hopefully together,...
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| 22:04:55 November 11, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: poliRANT |
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so i am currently toying around with 2 that's right, 2 forms of comment-spam filtering. One is a blacklist that...
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| 22:04:55 November 11, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: poliRANT |
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ITLnetWith improved wireless access, the web is getting more mobile. ITLnet now has its own mobile formatted page, ITLnet PPC.more >
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| 22:00:00 November 11, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: ITLnet |
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Coconino Classics Early 20th cientury classic newspaper strips. The greatness of some of these cannot be overstated. Krazy Kat, Little Nemo... Via The Sound and Fury weblog...
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| 21:30:44 November 11, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Europundit |
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5 days till the wedding - Michael is sick, Georgia is sick, and I'm just sick of Michael and Georgia :P And Elliott. I'm seriously considering putting an ad in the Trading Post for him. He drives me INSANE. He's...
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| 21:18:52 November 11, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: edible.nu |
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(This is LondonTo avoid anti-war protests, George Bush tries to shut down London during visit White House security demands covering President George Bush's controversial state visit to Britain have ...)
This is LondonTo avoid anti-war protests, George Bush tries to shut down London during visit White House security demands covering President George Bush's controversial state visit to Britain have provoked a serious row with Scotland Yard. American officials want a virtual three-day shutdown of central London in a bid to foil disruption of the visit by anti-war protestors. They are demanding that police ban all marches and seal off the city centre...
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(This is LondonTo avoid anti-war protests, George Bush tries to shut down London during visit White House security demands covering President George Bush's controversial state visit to Britain have ...)
This is LondonTo avoid anti-war protests, George Bush tries to shut down London during visit White House security demands covering President George Bush's controversial state visit to Britain have provoked a serious row with Scotland Yard. American officials want a virtual three-day shutdown of central London in a bid to foil disruption of the visit by anti-war protestors. They are demanding that police ban all marches and seal off the city centre...
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| 21:10:43 November 11, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
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There has been many suicides by famous people. Some are huge (Kurt Cobain, Freddie Prinze) and some are more obscure (Jim Ellison, Wendy O. Williams). Here's my ranking of the top 4 ways famous people have killed themselves (there weren't...
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There has been many suicides by famous people. Some are huge (Kurt Cobain, Freddie Prinze) and some are more obscure (Jim Ellison, Wendy O. Williams). Here's my ranking of the top 4 ways famous people have killed themselves (there weren't...
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I was so wrapped up in posting about the move and issues surrounding the house the other night, I didn't...
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...average response time from Fantastic Stories is about 90 days. However, there's a longest time out of 517 days. Gods,...
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Here's intern Eddie workin the phones answering questions about Jingle Jam(SD Sports Arena, Wed Dec. 3rd). If you wanna holla at him the number's 619 570 1903! --billyblast ...Get your own moblog - realtime imagesGet Ringtones Now!
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Here's intern Eddie workin the phones answering questions about Jingle Jam(SD Sports Arena, Wed Dec. 3rd). If you wanna holla at him the number's 619 570 1903! --billyblast ...Get your own moblog - realtime imagesGet Ringtones Now!
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Wasn't I supposed to grow up to be Jean Genet? I can't even remember his damn name. His book titles, those were easy: The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers. Thank God for Amazon, so I didn't have to look like an asswipe asking, "Wasn't I supposed to grow up to be that French guy who wrote The Thief's Journal?" The truth is, I didn't even like The Thief's Journal, though I can't say I got more than half a dozen pages. I wanted to. Didn't quite know what to make of it, though. Wait! I know why it stuck with me. I decided that was exactly the book I wanted to write, only good. ("Heaven is exactly like where you are right now. Only much, much better.") I want to be the good Jean Genet. Or get good enough to understand Jean Genet, realize his brilliance and then transcend it. It took me a few tries to get Naked Lunch, and I did really enjoy it the second time through, but I never wanted to do that myself. Too ugly. Too vile. (Do I need a quickie recap on Jean Genet? The ...
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(This is LondonTo avoid anti-war protests, George Bush tries to shut down London during visit White House security demands covering President George Bush's controversial state visit to Britain have ...)
This is LondonTo avoid anti-war protests, George Bush tries to shut down London during visit White House security demands covering President George Bush's controversial state visit to Britain have provoked a serious row with Scotland Yard. American officials want a virtual three-day shutdown of central London in a bid to foil disruption of the visit by anti-war protestors. They are demanding that police ban all marches and seal off the city centre...
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I have started writing a desktop blogging gui using php-gtk. It is about 90% done at this point. It is my first desktop application (aside for some hello world java apps, and a few tries a rebol).
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For some reason, the sharing feature of iTunes slipped my attention. Since I now use my PowerBook as my primary machine, I also keep my mp3 files on it--since I am without an iPod. :( The only bad thing is...
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