Is This a Good Time to Buy a PC?

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""I'd just like to get together with a
guy from time to time just to -- just to
play. I'd like him to be, uh, in very
good shape, flat stomach, good chest,
good arms, well-hung, cut, uh, just get
naked, play, see what happens, nothing
real heavy ..."

""I'd just like to get together with a
guy from time to time just to -- just to
play. I'd like him to be, uh, in very
good shape, flat stomach, good chest,
good arms, well-hung, cut, uh, just get
naked, play, see what happens, nothing
real heavy ..." 08/31/2004 08:45 PM

As good a time as any

As good a time as any 05/17/2004 05:59 AM

Ted Leung is a thoughtful and not flamboyant blogger. He uses his weblog well to think out loud, and by seeing the map of his thought processes, I learn more than just about his conclusions, I also learn how he got them. This was a point that Larry Lessig made on Saturday in the great free-wheeling discussion we had at the end of the iLaw conference. He said even if no one reads your blog, you get something out of writing publicly that you can't get otherwise. Writing makes you smarter, I said, when other people expressed disbelief. But I read Ted, every time he updates, because he's a smart guy who get smarter, and helps me do that too. He makes me say Bing a lot. And then Bing Bing. And even occasionally a Bing Bing Bing.

Anyway, I can see this is going to be a rambler, because Ted's piece is the fulcrum I'm going to use to announce something important, because I want you to think about this announcement in the context of his current piece, because it exactly reflects my thinking.

As you may know, I have left UserLand. It's been almost two years, and while in some ways I wish I were there to drive the products and compete with the great companies in the blogging space, I know that I can't do it. I don't think a lot of people know that I left for health reasons, but I did.

Anyway, these days UserLand is largely a company that markets and develops Manila and Radio. My concern was when will UserLand get around to enhancing and improving the "kernel" -- the large base of C code that runs Manila and Radio -- the scripting language, object database, verb set, server, multi-threaded runtime, content management framework. It's been several years since there was a meaningful update of that code.

Products that Manila and Radio compete with don't have their own kernels, they build off development environments created by others. For example, Movable Type is written in Perl. WordPress is PHP. Blogger is Java. UserLand's products are different because they build on a private platform. For a long time we saw this as an advantage, the UserLand runtime is very rich and powerful, and offered performance benefits. When a new layer came on, for example the CMS, when it got stable and mature, we'd "kernelize" it, so it would be super-fast. But experience in the market said that, to succeed, UserLand didn't need to own its kernel. In fact, that it was the only developer using this kernel may well have been a liability for UserLand.

Here's another angle. In 1987 we sold Living Videotext to Symantec, and along with it, sold them our products, ThinkTank, Ready and MORE. I appreciate what Symantec did for us, I'm still living off the money I made in the public stock offering, but the products died inside Symantec. I'm not blaming them for that, because it's very likely they would have died inside Living Videotext had we not been acquired. But some good products disappeared. To this day people ask me what became of MORE, and tell me how advanced it was, and how nothing has replaced it. It's a sad story, and a shame, that the art of outlining took such a hit. I swore this would never happen again. There are a lot of good ideas in that base of software that you won't find elsewhere. If it disappeared it would be a loss like the MORE loss.

To fans of UserLand Software it must seem inevitable that the kernel will go this way, it sure did to me. But I am on the board of directors of the company, and I persuaded my fellow board members that it would be in the company's interest to let the kernel develop separately from the products that build on it. And that's what I want to announce today. At some point in the next few months, there will be an open source release of the Frontier kernel. Not sure what license it'll use. There won't be any grand expectations of what kind of community will develop. Even if no bugs get fixed, if no features get added, if no new OSes are supported, it will be worth it, because its future will be assured. That's the point Ted makes, and that's my reasoning behind this.

We decided this quite some time ago, but waited for the right moment to start discussing it publicly. It seems now is the right time, or as good a time as any.

A smokin' good time!

A smokin' good time! 04/18/2004 08:29 AM
The Museum of Burnt Food. Celebrating the art of culinary disaster since the late 1980s.

Good Time Mix Machine.

Good Time Mix Machine. 09/08/2004 02:30 PM
Good Time Mix Machine. Artist Rosemarie Fiore has turned a classic Scrambler amusement park ride into the world's biggest Spirograph.

TIME.com: "Good Will Come Out Of This"
-- Sep. 06, 2004

TIME.com: "Good Will Come Out Of This"
-- Sep. 06, 2004 08/29/2004 05:43 PM
Time: Good Will Come Out Of This .. Laura may not agree .. Astounding:

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Churning Out Good Copy, One Day at a
Time

Churning Out Good Copy, One Day at a
Time 04/24/2004 01:58 AM
More "Magneto is Right" spottings

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Singing thank you, for a real good time!

Singing thank you, for a real good time! 05/20/2004 02:36 PM
The Leeching Never Stopped! Archive.org is adding the complete live catalog of the Grateful Dead. There are still a few gaps, but they already offer over 1,300 shows for download. Get early favorties, all-time classics, famous guests, the last show, and nearly everything in between, in lossless and mp3 formats.

"Susan Crawford did not have a good
time"

"Susan Crawford did not have a good
time" 01/05/2005 04:20 AM

It's a Good Time to Stay Neutral

It's a Good Time to Stay Neutral 05/17/2004 12:02 PM
TheStreet.com May 17 2004 3:46PM GMT

"the good news from Iraq just keeps
getting better all the time"

"the good news from Iraq just keeps
getting better all the time" 04/11/2005 11:43 PM

Shark Tank: But it seemed like a good
idea at the time

Shark Tank: But it seemed like a good
idea at the time 06/17/2004 12:11 AM
This pilot fish is on the phone with his uninterruptible power supply vendor, trying to find out whether he can get a replacement battery for his very, very old UPS.

Shark Tank: But it seemed like such a
good idea at the time

Shark Tank: But it seemed like such a
good idea at the time 07/27/2004 11:27 PM
It's the 1980s, and this systems programmer pilot fish is helping another programmer work through a coding problem when he comes across an interesting piece of code.

Telegraph | News | I had a good time at
Guantanamo, says inmate

Telegraph | News | I had a good time at
Guantanamo, says inmate 02/10/2004 04:09 PM
I know Guantanamo Bay isn't nearly the Gulag some make it out to be, but downright pleasant? WTF? .. how utterly wrong, ignorant and anti-American they are .. From the Telegraph:< .. Telegraph

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Google listing a good time to recall
dotbombs

Google listing a good time to recall
dotbombs 05/10/2004 03:05 AM
Business Report May 10 2004 7:02AM GMT

Review: 'Golf Fore!' a swinging good
time

Review: 'Golf Fore!' a swinging good
time 09/06/2004 02:20 PM
CNN Sep 6 2004 6:29PM GMT

Good time waster: simple sliding tile
puzzle

Good time waster: simple sliding tile
puzzle 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
My dad sent me the url to this java-based slider tile puzzle, and it has killed half my work day so far. He solved it in 48 moves. I guess 44 is the minimum. I can't solve it! If everyone who reads Boing Boing spends ten minutes on it, it will result in 312.5 man-days of wasted time! (It didn't work in Safari for me; I had to use IE) Link

Kids Have a ‘Doggone’ Good Time with
Launch of RAGGS Kids Club Band Video
Series

Kids Have a ‘Doggone’ Good Time with
Launch of RAGGS Kids Club Band Video
Series 08/10/2004 03:43 AM
[PRWEB Aug 10, 2004]

Using Technology to Re-Experience the
Good Old-Fashioned Way of Customer
Support, Putting Businesses and
Customers Back in Time - Live
Face-to-Face

Using Technology to Re-Experience the
Good Old-Fashioned Way of Customer
Support, Putting Businesses and
Customers Back in Time - Live
Face-to-Face 08/27/2004 01:50 PM
iSupport.tv has announced its live face-to-face and interactive online customer support services, helping business to reach more customers, increase sales, and reduce support cost in a timely and cost-effective manner. It is live face-to-face services because with one click, customers will see a live face. It is interactive because customers can ask any questions via webcam, microphone, or text chat and get answers in real-time. [PRWEB Aug 27, 2004]

""BERKELEY – With the Democratic
National Convention over and the
Republican one beginning next week, it
seemed a good time to check in with
George Lakoff, the UC Berkeley professor
of cognitive linguistics whose scrutiny
of the language of politics has..."

""BERKELEY – With the Democratic
National Convention over and the
Republican one beginning next week, it
seemed a good time to check in with
George Lakoff, the UC Berkeley professor
of cognitive linguistics whose scrutiny
of the language of politics has..." 08/27/2004 01:45 PM

Good idea and a good service. Can anyone
say how can I register to gmail, and if
attchment size is large then

Good idea and a good service. Can anyone
say how can I register to gmail, and if
attchment size is large then 07/13/2004 01:33 AM
TechTree Jul 13 2004 5:44AM GMT

KILLER, COWARD, CON-MAN GOOD RIDDANCE,
GIPPER ...MORE PROOF ONLY THE GOOD DIE
YOUNG

KILLER, COWARD, CON-MAN GOOD RIDDANCE,
GIPPER ...MORE PROOF ONLY THE GOOD DIE
YOUNG 06/08/2004 05:47 AM
KILLER, COWARD, CON-MAN GOOD RIDDANCE, GIPPER ... MORE PROOF ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG .. How People View The Dead Is Shaped By Personal Experiences .. Greg Palast on the Reagan "Legacy" 6/7 .. And another

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Calling Nurse Google Patients are taking
advantage of health Web sites - some
good, some not so good

Calling Nurse Google Patients are taking
advantage of health Web sites - some
good, some not so good 06/05/2005 11:44 PM
Gadsdentimes.com - Sun Jun 5, 12:53 pm GMT

Does A Good Game Make A Good Movie Idea?

Does A Good Game Make A Good Movie Idea? 04/24/2004 04:00 PM

Strengthen The Good: Strengthening The
Good: The Gulf Coast Community
Foundation Of Venice Hurricane Charley
Disaster Relief Fund

Strengthen The Good: Strengthening The
Good: The Gulf Coast Community
Foundation Of Venice Hurricane Charley
Disaster Relief Fund 08/23/2004 06:46 AM
Strengthen The Good: The Gulf Coast Community Foundation Of Venice Hurricane Charley Disaster Relief Fund

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When it comes to wireless security, good
enough is simply not good

When it comes to wireless security, good
enough is simply not good 09/17/2004 10:38 AM

What's good for General Motors is good
for America

What's good for General Motors is good
for America 03/23/2005 10:53 PM
GM in trouble: "If you erased the company name from the balance sheet and showed it to a forensic accountant, the recommended treatment would probably be to seek protection from creditors by filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. " GM's troubles are as much a result of the exploding costs of health care as they are due to the company's dropping market share. In Canada increasing health care costs (PDF with many charts) are taking a greater and greater share of government expenditures. In the US it's hurting big employers and regular people. But either way the problem doesn't seem likely to get better any time soon.

Unitarianism: good enough for two
presidents, not good enough for Texas

Unitarianism: good enough for two
presidents, not good enough for Texas 05/19/2004 02:47 AM
The state of Texas has denied Unitarians tax-exempt religious status because the church "does not have one system of belief." As Julia notes, Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams were sufficiently convinced of the Unitarians' religiosity that they actually were Unitarians.

Never before -- not in this state or any other -- has a government agency denied Unitarians tax-exempt status because of the group's religious philosophy, church officials say. Strayhorn's ruling clearly infringes upon religious liberties, said Dan Althoff, board president for the Denison congregation that was rejected for tax exemption by the comptroller's office.

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Site Maps : Is Good Enough for
Google.com, Good Enough For Me?

Site Maps : Is Good Enough for
Google.com, Good Enough For Me? 10/30/2003 10:22 AM

Good enough for the White House, but not
good enough for the bedroom.

Good enough for the White House, but not
good enough for the bedroom. 05/17/2004 11:55 PM
"The sacred institution of marriage should not be redefined by a few activist judges," said the President who was appointed by five activist Supreme Court Justices.

The man who, between the two major candidates in 2000, got the fewer amount of votes went on to affirm that "all Americans have a right to be heard in this debate."

Good Intentions don't always equal good
results

Good Intentions don't always equal good
results 04/18/2004 05:43 PM
It would seem that in my life when I intend to do something that is when everything will surely do...

Good data needs good plans

Good data needs good plans 07/30/2004 08:31 AM
Express Computer India Jul 30 2004 12:31PM GMT

Picture quality is not very much good.
LCD is also not good

Picture quality is not very much good.
LCD is also not good 09/16/2004 05:48 AM
TechTree Sep 16 2004 9:03AM GMT

Shark Tank: What good is a good name if
you can't use it?

Shark Tank: What good is a good name if
you can't use it? 06/05/2005 10:55 PM
It's the late 1970s, and this pilot fish works as a teller for a big regional bank. That means he's all too familiar with a recurring problem generated by the techs at headquarters.

Top Ten Ideas of '04: "What Once Was
Good--or Good Enough--No Longer Is."

Top Ten Ideas of '04: "What Once Was
Good--or Good Enough--No Longer Is." 01/04/2005 04:46 AM
"Decline in quality caused by staying the same: In the commentary and opinion category, standards have gone up because of competition from the blogs and other venues, especially the political mags. Compare 10 minutes of scrolling with Atrios to 10 minutes with a Richard Cohen column."

Likely Bedfellows - If it's good enough
for 60 Minutes, it's good enough for the
DNC

Likely Bedfellows - If it's good enough
for 60 Minutes, it's good enough for the
DNC 09/15/2004 03:40 PM
NBC Asks DNC to Cease and Desist 'Fortunate Son' Ad .. asking them to pull .. this current flap .. NBC's lawyers

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Good for you, good for Microsoft - here
comes WinXP SP2

Good for you, good for Microsoft - here
comes WinXP SP2 05/13/2004 12:14 PM
You know it makes sense...

Good Teeth, Good Health

Good Teeth, Good Health 05/24/2004 08:17 PM
These two books deal with teeth from different angles.

"Time, time, time. It's such a current
subject." ...

"Time, time, time. It's such a current
subject." ... 12/02/2003 01:06 AM
"Time, time, time. It's such a current subject."

-Microserfs

eBay item 5563490518 (Ends Mar-12-05
19:34:43 PST) - TIME MACHINE ! For Time
Travel ? very low reserve

eBay item 5563490518 (Ends Mar-12-05
19:34:43 PST) - TIME MACHINE ! For Time
Travel ? very low reserve 04/18/2005 06:42 PM
Bet your very own non-working, fake as hell looking time machine here .. buy a time machine on eBay .. enchère .. 2239 .. dit

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