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Ping... still here. Nothing to say. Very busy with work and school....
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Abney Park is a Victorian Garden cemetery and now a designated Local Nature Reserve and conservation area it is a park of great historical, religious, ecological and architectural importance. Owned by Hackney Council the 'Abney Park Cemetery', Stoke Newington High Street, London N16, is managed by the 'Abney Park Cemetery Trust' the Trust has now been going for over 12 years. The park is open 7 days per week during day light hours. As you walk through the Stoke Newington High St. entrance to the 32 acre nature reserve, the visitor's centre is to your left. The visitor centre is normally open weekdays from 9.30am to 5pm as well as some weekends. On your right is an environment classroom and children's garden.
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Not the last words he uttered, or even the last words I heard from him, but definitely the last ones that mattered. I finally watched the second half of the tragic VH1 "Inside Out" special on Warren Zevon getting his death sentence from his oncologist and rushing into the studio to make one last album. I watched the first half the night it aired, and sobbed uncontrollably every two to three minutes. They chose all the right songs to play in the background, lot of brilliant counterpointing: Warren would be saying or doing one thing, usually with at least a whiff of sarcasm or irony, and a stunning Zevon song with a wickedly different take on the same subject would keep in to sweetly heckle him. No words, but if you grew up on those songs like I did, all it takes are few notes to bring back the rush of feelings they provoked. Sometimes a few words, but never all the way to the climax. I've quoted this one before, but it may be the alltime greatest title, so how can I stop myself: The ...
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( eBooks in the Public Library Conference, Tuesday March 16, 2004, New York City "Challenges and Opportunities for Libraries, Publishers & Technologists. A one-day event including case-studies, ...)
eBooks in the Public Library Conference, Tuesday March 16, 2004, New York City "Challenges and Opportunities for Libraries, Publishers & Technologists. A one-day event including case-studies, exhibits, panels and presentations from librarians and industry leaders on the role of eBooks in the public library" Open eBook Forum
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| 23:44:49 November 12, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
Source: ebook news |
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It's been quite a while since the Lifestreams dissertation has been available online. Lifestreams is the work that David Gelernter and I did back in the mid 90s on an alternative to the desktop metaphor. A number of commercial efforts have directly used parts of this work including Scopeware and Ricoh's eCabinet. Indirectly there have been reports that parts of Longhorn have been influenced by this work. In addition, there are many efforts underway today that are related to this line of research such as MIT's Haystack and Xeroc PARC's Placeless Documents (among others).In any case, if you're interested check out the dissertation.
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Another picture has been added, and i've put the results in the gallery Enjoy and keep sending them in......
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| 23:31:10 November 12, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
Source: Heppyworld |
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I looked at this a while ago, about 2 years or so. I just read an editorial from MacMegaSite. I've got x11 installed, I think I'm going to give it a try when my schedule frees up in December. [via MacMegaSite]
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| 23:28:12 November 12, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
Source: scotg.net |
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My family and I just got back from San Diego last night. What do you know, my Win2k3 server managed to stay up the whole 5 days we were gone. It was great to see it had rebooted itself in the middle of the night, last night, and was hung at boot time. Ok, back to more enjoyable things. The weather was awesome, as usual. The charbucks down the street from our hotel had WiFi access. Our hotel was in the middle in installing DSL into the rooms. The lobby had WiFi as well, but wasn't open to hotel guests, which was a little inconvenient. Likewise, the San Diego airport doesn't have WiFi yet. I'm looking at my work-load over the next month, and I'm realizing that I'll need to go dark until about the 2nd week in December. Indigo's got it's quarterly executive review with Allchin in early December. This, along with the fact that I'll need to present my Allchin materials to Rudder the week before is starting to stress me out a little bit.
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| 23:27:28 November 12, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
Source: scotg.net |
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Speaking of Nabokov, I've been incredibly delinquent, haven't I? Here's a brief passage. I always underline the physical descriptions when a character is first introduced, because it remains my greatest weakness. I flipped for a moment through Conclusive Evidence to find one, and this one jumped out at me: Nominally, the housekeeping was in the hands of her former nurse, at that time a bleary, incredibly wrinkled old woman (born a slave around 1830) with the small face of a melancholy tortoise and big shuffling feet. She wore a nunnish brown dress and gave off a slight but unforgettable smell of coffee and decay. If Jean Genet could write like that! If I could. Someday.
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Steve Muench has posted a link on his blog to the Oracle UIX roadmap. UIX components will become JSF components in the next release. And current ADF UIX applications will automaticall be upgraded to the JSF architecture.
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We went to 17 Mile drive/ Pebble Beach/ Carmel on...
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| 23:01:44 November 12, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
Source: Mischief Inc |
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Apparently, Microsoft is developing its own news search service in competition with Google News. Many companies have been very active in this field since Google first launched its automatic news reader and categorizer. Check out the Beta version at http://207.68.185.57/. The links are provided by Microsoft's partner and one of the legends in this field, Moreover.com. According to Microsoft, their new technology allows MSN Passport holders to browse the news and personalize the feeds. It also intelligently figures out what kind of news the users likes to see and picks the headlines according to their preferences. Related: Sarkhat Persian version
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| 22:55:00 November 12, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
Source: /var/log/blog |
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I'm still kind of embarassed to admit I like The OC, but it really does enthrall me. I'm way behind, though. It wasn't going to be on for a month, so I kept putting off watching it. I'm always scared not to have anymore of something. I still have five pages left to read in In Cold Blood, because I can't bear not to have anymore. I actually have two unread chapters in Conclusive Evidence, the freaking book I named this blog after. Just love it too much to spend every word. But now the OCs have been piling up, I think I had five left to see, so I watched one each of the past two nights. Didn't cry like the first couple episodes, but did come close once, at an unlikely moment. It's kind of annoying the plot gynmastics they keep putting these characters through, but I'm falling in love with nearly all the main characters, and the dialogue is joy to behold. (The banter is starting to remind me of the first few seasons of Gilmore Girls.) And that boy--that 25-year-old man playing a boy, ...
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I'm still kind of embarassed to admit I like The OC, but it really does enthrall me. I'm way behind, though. It wasn't going to be on for a month, so I kept putting off watching it. I'm always scared not to have anymore of something. I still have five pages left to read in In Cold Blood, because I can't bear not to have anymore. I actually have two unread chapters in Conclusive Evidence, the freaking book I named this blog after. Just love it too much to spend every word. But now the OCs have been piling up, I think I had five left to see, so I watched one each of the past two nights. Didn't cry like the first couple episodes, but did come close once, at an unlikely moment. It's kind of annoying the plot gynmastics they keep putting these characters through, but I'm falling in love with nearly all the main characters, and the dialogue is joy to behold. (The banter is starting to remind me of the first few seasons of Gilmore Girls.) And that boy--that 25-year-old man playing a boy, ...
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You might say the region around Trincomalee in Sri Lanka has lost a thousand acres of coconuts a year for the past twenty years, thanks to the ongoing civil war in the country. Here's an article about how the...
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Speaking of Nabokov, I've been incredibly delinquent, haven't I? Here's a brief passage. I always underline the physical descriptions when a character is first introduced, because it remains my greatest weakness. I flipped for a moment through Conclusive Evidence to find one, and this one jumped out at me: Nominally, the housekeeping was in the hands of her former nurse, at that time a bleary, incredibly wrinkled old woman (born a slave around 1830) with the small face of a melancholy tortoise and big shuffling feet. She wore a nunnish brown dress and gave off a slight but unforgettable smell of coffee and decay. If Jean Genet could write like that! If I could. Someday.
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Speaking of Nabokov, I've been incredibly delinquent, haven't I? Here's a brief passage. I always underline the physical descriptions when a character is first introduced, because it remains my greatest weakness. I flipped for a moment through Conclusive Evidence to find one, and this one jumped out at me: Nominally, the housekeeping was in the hands of her former nurse, at that time a bleary, incredibly wrinkled old woman (born a slave around 1830) with the small face of a melancholy tortoise and big shuffling feet. She wore a nunnish brown dress and gave off a slight but unforgettable smell of coffee and decay. If Jean Genet could write like that! If I could. Someday.
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Check out this color picker! Selects the entire scheme for you. Also, don't miss the “Scheme” dropdown and the brightness/saturation sliders. RAD! http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html
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probablement des messages d'erreur et autres désagréments en vue dans la mise en page de ce carnet... Chers lecteurs vous me pardonnerez j'espère. Mais c'est pour 'la cause' : la version 2 de activeRenderer est près de sortir, et j'ai accepté de donner un coup de main pour en traduire certains pans. P.S. Je crois avoir réussi ce que je voulais pour le moment... au niveau de la mise en page. Pour résumer et rebondir sur le commentaire de Younick, cet outil est aussi l'idéateur intégré de Radio Userland. Très pratique pour créer une page téléscopique. Merci Gilles pour cette promotion d'un des outils qui bien apprivoisé peut se montrer parmi les plus intuitifs pour créer ou mettre à jour un document type feuille d'idées qu'un groupe pourrait partager. Arrêtez-moi si je dis une bêtise, mais quel est le fou furieux qui s'intéressera à un plugin d'idéateur pour wiki ;)
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I started to try out TreasuryDirect today. TreasuryDirect is a government-owned web site that helps individual investors to participate in US Saving Bonds easily. As promised, the site operates like a breeze: it just take me 10 minutes to set...
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These things are becoming quite popular and the last free icon editor online went offline from overuse. So when I saw this favicon generator while getting updates for my html editor, I knew I had to act fast if I wanted to use it! The generator takes any image and gives you a 16 x 16 .ico version of it.
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| 21:47:15 November 12, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
Source: Design-A-Blog |
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Been thinking about that guy all day. Never did buy either of the books I got hung up on, so I was dinking about riding down to Tattered Cover (our one great Denver institution, a luxurious five-story bookstore packed with quiet alcoves fitted with plush wingback where you can nestle in and read for hours) to buy a copy of The Thief's Journal, or at least peruse it. No time. So I'll just continue obsessing about the idea, that's my preference anyway. Found a wonderful entry from a site devoted to the boy. Check out this opening: French novelist, playwright and poet Jean Genet was born in Paris on December 19, 1910. Abandoned by his parents, he spent much of his youth in an institution for juvenile delinquents. At the age of ten, he was accused of stealing. Although innocent of the charge, having been described as a thief, the young boy resolved to be a thief. "Thus," wrote Genet, "I decisively repudiated a world that had repudiated me." Between 1930 and 1940, he wandered through ...
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Been thinking about that guy all day. Never did buy either of the books I got hung up on, so I was dinking about riding down to Tattered Cover (our one great Denver institution, a luxurious five-story bookstore packed with quiet alcoves fitted with plush wingback where you can nestle in and read for hours) to buy a copy of The Thief's Journal, or at least peruse it. No time. So I'll just continue obsessing about the idea, that's my preference anyway. Found a wonderful entry from a site devoted to the boy. Check out this opening: French novelist, playwright and poet Jean Genet was born in Paris on December 19, 1910. Abandoned by his parents, he spent much of his youth in an institution for juvenile delinquents. At the age of ten, he was accused of stealing. Although innocent of the charge, having been described as a thief, the young boy resolved to be a thief. "Thus," wrote Genet, "I decisively repudiated a world that had repudiated me." Between 1930 and 1940, he wandered through ...
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Been thinking about that guy all day. Never did buy either of the books I got hung up on, so I was dinking about riding down to Tattered Cover (our one great Denver institution, a luxurious five-story bookstore packed with quiet alcoves fitted with plush wingback where you can nestle in and read for hours) to buy a copy of The Thief's Journal, or at least peruse it. No time. So I'll just continue obsessing about the idea, that's my preference anyway. Found a wonderful entry from a site devoted to the boy. Check out this opening: French novelist, playwright and poet Jean Genet was born in Paris on December 19, 1910. Abandoned by his parents, he spent much of his youth in an institution for juvenile delinquents. At the age of ten, he was accused of stealing. Although innocent of the charge, having been described as a thief, the young boy resolved to be a thief. "Thus," wrote Genet, "I decisively repudiated a world that had repudiated me." Between 1930 and 1940, he wandered through ...
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I see that I've caused a minor controversy in rejecting one particular submission to the Carnival. Jim at Snooze Button Dreams, who had submitted a piece of erotic fiction that I chose not to include in the Carnival, writes this:...
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| 21:37:29 November 12, 2003, Wednesday (PST) |
Source: Dead Ends |
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I'm still kind of embarassed to admit I like The OC, but it really does enthrall me. I'm way behind, though. It wasn't going to be on for a month, so I kept putting off watching it. I'm always scared not to have anymore of something. I still have five pages left to read in In Cold Blood, because I can't bear not to have anymore. I actually have two unread chapters in Conclusive Evidence, the freaking book I named this blog after. Just love it too much to spend every word. But now the OCs have been piling up, I think I had five left to see, so I watched one each of the past two nights. Didn't cry like the first couple episodes, but did come close once, at an unlikely moment. It's kind of annoying the plot gynmastics they keep putting these characters through, but I'm falling in love with nearly all the main characters, and the dialogue is joy to behold. (The banter is starting to remind me of the first few seasons of Gilmore Girls.) And that boy--that 25-year-old man playing a boy, ...
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Ominous was the only word that popped to mind when I saw this at approx 5:00pm. There was also lightning and rolling thunder. Weird. And a little scary....
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So I’m winging off to Phoenix again, for the second time in three weeks. Only for tomorrow and Friday, at least. I’ll try to write a longer post on the plane, and see if I can’t snap a couple pics of the place, if Jen will let me take the camera.Also, Riley provides us with a moment of comedy gold: Yes, he’s sleeping in the bathroom sink.
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So I’m winging off to Phoenix again, for the second time in three weeks. Only for tomorrow and Friday, at...
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As some comments in my previous blog entry illustrate, I think people simply don't grasp the magnitude of the Web. There are (conservatively) 10 million Web sites on the Web. Let's say (conservatively) that each Web site has 50 unique Web pages. That's 500 million Web pages that the Web browser has to work perfectly on. Let's imagine that the browser has done a fantastic job of emulating all the quirks of WinIE and Netscape 4, and that it is really good at laying out malformed HTML. An awesome browser would be (conservatively) 95% compliant, which means that it would have some sort of bug or problem on 5% of those 500 million Web pages. 5% of 500 million Web pages is 25 million malfunctioning Web pages. Let's now assume that only 10% of those Web pages are even seen by someone using Safari itself. Now we're down to 2.5 million pages seen by Safari users. If only 10% of those users even bother to report a bug, that's 250,000 unique bugs that have to be screened. This is the reality ...
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