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Musically and otherwise. Here's what I'm just now getting around to: The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin Even better than the one about the robots. Neil Young, Rust Never Sleeps Neil bails on a CSNY tour, heads to where the...
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| 23:56:48 December 6, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: Salmolog |
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Paid my rent, but I also included post-dated cheques for January and February rent, since I probably won't be here when they're due. The one and only time I used a post-dated cheque, the landlord (faceless company, not pointing any fingers at any particular people) screwed up and tried to deposit the cheque early. There was some hassle about that, but I don't remember it well since it was several years ago. Anyway, I made sure to emphasize the post-dated natures of the cheques by marking the enclosing envelopes appropriately. Went to Wal-Mart. Got some brand new short socks for my trip. Also went to Winners, but didn't spend a lot of time there. Refueled the car and gave it a car wash (wash all the salt off, give it a wax coat, etc.). Then went by Billings Bridge mall to see if there was any summer clothing I could get at Zellers. Also swung by Bentley and PharmaPlus while there. Changed my Rogers cable TV account to put it into a vacation mode. I'm not charged for the period I'm ...
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| 23:55:55 December 6, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: TheGS Blogs |
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I finished my doctoral dissertation last weekend, coming in just under 50,000 words. I am not going to indulge in...
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being out reproduces the inside trapped...i lived once outside dichotomies like this one...reach this hand that i can't recognize any more and if you don't care just kill it, it, me, that, just. so i can live again......
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| 23:41:44 December 6, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: entreacto |
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I just discovered Localfeeds, a search engine for feeds where the searches are based on geographic location. This seemed interesting enough, so I typed in my ZIP (10001) and was shown the most recent blogs within 50 miles of 10001 (New York City). Sure enough, there are a lot of people talking about the big snow storm we're having here. Neat.
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Today has been such a great day! =) Sanity restored, I went to my church Christmas play in the evening and realized how much I missed being it. It reminded me of how Carise said that seeing us sing at...
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| 23:29:22 December 6, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: *reveries |
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I grew up with this story at Christmas time as a short Katie in Belgium. I'm not sure if this article offends me or is really funny - probably both....
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| 23:27:31 December 6, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: happykatie |
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This day started out rough. I didn't sleep that well last night and then Jerry called out room at 7:30. I had slept so poorly that my stomach hurt. We got up and got ready and then ate breakfast. After breakfast we walked on the beach and collected shells. Tiny Shells. We also got sand blasted by the wind on the beach. At 9:50 we left with Mike and Louanne Mason on the public ...
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| 23:25:00 December 6, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: The Pordcast |
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VersionOne, built from the ground up to support iterative development, is a project planning and management tool for agile development. Enabling today’s most popular agile methodologies - Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, DSDM, etc. - VersionOne helps project teams simplify the process of planning, tracking, and scaling their agile development efforts. Read more: VersionOne
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Today's been a nice day. Woke up and had time to do little things plus cuddle and play with Wendor before leaving for my therapist. Then I had a good session with her and got to talk out a lot...
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Does your organization need requirements management? While it is a part of most notions of best practices, it is still sometimes derided as unnecessary baggage. Requirements champions can point to millions of dollars that are written off each year in failed software projects; as often as not, they contend, sloppy initial requirements were at the root of the problem... Read the article: Requirements required By Rich Seeley.
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Idea of the Week: How to SHARE Intelligence for Homeland Security...
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| 23:19:50 December 6, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: Stage6.com |
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Idea of the Week: How to SHARE Intelligence for Homeland Security...
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| 23:19:50 December 6, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: Stage6.com |
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How billions in oil money spawned a global terror network...
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| 23:16:57 December 6, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: Stage6.com |
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How billions in oil money spawned a global terror network...
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| 23:16:57 December 6, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: Stage6.com |
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OSNews: After spending a few months as a download available only to YDL.net members, Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 ISOs are now freely available. The distro now includes HFS+ support and the 2.4.22-based kernel. Other distros that run on Apple hardware include Debian for PPC, Debian for Motorola 680x0, Gentoo PPC, Mandrake Linux 9.1 PPC, NetBSD PPC, NetBSD 68k. The list is much longer than it was a few years ago.
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Expert says Saudi leadership failing...
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| 23:08:17 December 6, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: Stage6.com |
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The lawsuits between SCO and IBM had their first substantive test before a judge on Friday. The hearing resulted in a ruling favorable to IBM, granting two motions to compel discovery. IBM had asked SCO several questions, the thrust of which were to find out what exactly SCO claimed that IBM had done to violate SCO's intellectual property, and thus on what basis they were suing IBM. Since the beginning of this debacle, SCO has claimed that they knew of ".. millions of lines of code" that IBM had wrongfully donated to Linux. They also said, on more than one occasion, that they would show their evidence in court. Contrary to those statements, SCO had been dragging its feet in producing answers to IBM's questions. Their main complaint was that they hadn't gotten the anwers to their questions from IBM. These, they claimed, would allow them to tell IBM exactly what it had done wrong. Aside from the rather interesting implication that SCO didn't know what IBM had done, the complaint flew ...
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The mainstream media is ignoring promising news about adult stem cell research, according to an article in the Weekly Standard written by Wesley J. Smith. Stem Cell News That Isn't Fit For Print...
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I thought I would upload a preview of the new platostn.com website.
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Last week at Guerilla .NET in London, I was talking to one of the students, who was a Microsoft Consultant, about a remoting problem he had been involved in. The problem occurred when using the HTTP channel and the BinaryFormatter, when ASP.NET was hosting the remote component instead of the server side HTTP channel. The client side channel was unable to interpret certain types of failures (such as timeouts) and so was passing the resulting text or HTML to the BinaryFormatter who attempted to interpret the text as though it were a binary encoded message. This resulted in a weird SerializationException about formatter version mismatches - Ingo talks about this issue in his remoting FAQ. This makes it very difficult to diagnose the actual error without using a tool such as Simon Fell's TcpTrace. Now I had never seen this bug - which is strange considering how often my demos go South - so it was all the more surprising when I hit it the very next day when delivering the remoting ...
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I admit it: these "how-to-do-proper-oo-programming" articles make me confused. Although I've been programming with classes and tend to judge them as a nice abstraction mechanism for certain problems, I still can't see the value of the "sophisticated object oriented + patterns solution". It isn't obvious to me, at all, that the last one would be the most maintainable solution. Sure, it might be the most flexible solution —although the word "flexible" has many interpretations too—, but adding flexibility comes with a cost, too. The example is relatively simple and having similar flexibility in a larger scale program would make it huge, in lines of code, compared to the hacker's solution. Lines of code is surely not a great measure of maintainability, but say the hacker's solution of a larger program would be 2000 lines of code and the sophisticated solution 8000 lines. Understanding and handling such amount of code would become a big task as of itself. What I would really like to ...
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I was asked about how I accessed Word to do auto summarize for the "jot" stuff. First, let it be...
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I agree with about 95 percent of this piece, and hate to sully an otherwise fine column by making a fuss over what amounts to a throwaway line, but I have a little rant to make. The older I get, the more I realize that while guys are good, men are great. Within the past couple of weeks, I have actually gotten to be around some real men, and, up until this point, I didnt realize how much I missed themmen who camp, men who climb, men who fix cars and build things. Men who can work hard, get mussed and, all the while, can sing, write poetry, paint and interior decorate. Men in mechanics uniforms, men in three piece suits, men who cry, men with scars, men with families, men in love; there is something in me that makes me their biggest fan. Maybe its their logic and rationale in contrast to my emotionalism; their ability to be straightforward and to the point; their shoulders, their jaws, their chiseled noses. I think I spent a good half hour one night examining the curves in Gary ...
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Answering comments is turning out to be more interesting than trying to explain my ideas which is, I suppose, part of the idea behind Blogs. In any case, I've had a slew of comments about REST. I admit to not being a REST expert and the people commenting, Mike Dierkin and Mark Baker in particular, certainly are. They tell me I'm all wet about the REST issues. I'll dig into it. But I admit, I don't get it. I need to be educated. I'm talking to our guy, Mark Nottingham, about this who does understand it all, but I also will be at XML 2003 in Philadelphia on Wednesday if people want to explain to me the error of my ways. Let me explain why I'm confused. I don't want to depend upon HTTP because I want to be able to use things like IM as a transport, particularly Jabber. So I want some protocol neutral way to move information back and forth. Maybe I'm wrong here, but I'm particularly wary of HTTP because in many cases I want the "sender" of the message to know reliably that the receiver ...
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And here is the finished yellow yarn! This is one of those cases where the intensity and range of colours only partially shows in the photo unfortunately, but you can get a good idea of the finished colours. I...
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I saw The Last Samurai, and right at the end, I wanted them to put this up on the screen: "... and this, my friends, is how I got my Sony 52 inch flat-screen." or maybe "... and this, kids,...
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If anyone gets a chance, check out our home page, click on the single button on the page and let...
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I'm working on a stat page for use on my new personal page host... and I want to know if anyone sees a problem with this code... or if they think they could improve it... <?php require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/config/db_config.php"); $connection = mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_password) or die("Error connecting. Please contact Administrator."); mysql_select_db($db_name, $connection); $this_page = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]; $IP = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]; $ref = $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]; $user_agent = $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]; $notfound = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; if ( $notfound != NULL ) { $this_page = $notfound . " [404]"; } $date_auto = time(); $query = "INSERT INTO stats (page, ip, ref, user_agent, date_auto) VALUES ('$this_page', '$IP', '$ref', '$user_agent', '$date_auto')"; mysql_query($query, $connection); ?>...
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I've been running SpamAssassin for a while, ever since I wrote this article. Last week, I enabled a couple new...
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