Late Night Consoling

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Late Night with VPN

Late Night with VPN 12/02/2003 02:32 PM
David Letterman-style, Glynn Taylor of HotSpotVPN.com released his top ten list of reasons to secure your network traffic this holiday season: 10. Your Dad won’t know what web sites you've visited. 9. You will never have to change your email settings again. 8. Your traffic is encrypted at every hotspot; free, paid or stumbled upon. 7. You can improve on WEP without buying new hardware. 6. You can keep the neighbor’s script kiddy brats out of your Internet traffic. 5. You can say you took one more step to prevent identity theft. 4. You can easily encrypt your traffic when attached to someone else’s network. 3. You can safely plug in at a hotel without other guests reading your email. 2. You can prevent "wiretaps" on your VOIP calls. 1. Your Mom won't know what web sites you’ve visited....

The Late Night Triad

The Late Night Triad 11/10/2003 11:33 PM
I can't remember how I got there, but somehow I stumbled onto Jason Salavon's works page. He's got some very...

Late at Night, That's NBC Crowing

Late at Night, That's NBC Crowing 11/04/2003 06:26 AM
Letterman Lost .. NYT today .. NYT

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Vodkapundit - Late Night Rambling

Vodkapundit - Late Night Rambling 08/17/2004 08:43 PM
Vodkapundit has further comments: .. [LINK] .. here

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Future Shock, "Late at Night"

Future Shock, "Late at Night" 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
Just what you wanted, break dancing Japanese geezers
Still photos, live action and animation melted into a music video (streaming Quicktime) by Neo, a duo made up of Londoners Jake Knight and Ryoko Tanaka. More clips on their site. (via Jeansnow.net)

Late night girl talk

Late night girl talk 03/13/2003 10:24 AM
Last night my friend calls me to bitch about her man (I am so the last person to even talk...

HP-Apple negotiations ran late into Wed.
night

HP-Apple negotiations ran late into Wed.
night 01/09/2004 10:08 PM
As previously reported on MacMinute, Hewlett Packard said Thursday that it would begin selling a branded version of Apple's iPod and bundling iTunes with its desktops and notebooks as part of a new partnership...

Late night thoughts on barbarism

Late night thoughts on barbarism 06/04/2004 02:32 AM
I liked Josh Marshall's summary of the opera-bouffe-like character of the slow-motion Beltway meltdown underway, in his commentary on the Tenet resignation:

...Beside the possibility that the White House's favored Iraqi exile was an Iranian agent, that the spy chief just got canned, that the OSD is wired to polygraphs, and that the president has had to retain outside counsel in the investigation into which members of his staff burned one of the country's own spies, I'd say the place is being run like a pretty well-oiled machine.

It does seem as though one of George Bush's chief legacies may be the complete implosion of the C.I.A. -- at a time when the nation desperately needs its services. (Bush's father served as director of the C.I.A. for many years. Is there some sort of Oedipal lunacy at work?)

So now Bush will be running on a platform of -- competence? Effectiveness in the war on terror? Isn't a war on terror first and foremost a war dependent on good intelligence? At what point can we declare this charade of Republican knowhow at an end?

If you're a pragmatist, you should be running from Bush as fast as you can, out of sheer desire to see the nation's business restored to good management. If you think in moral terms, of course, it's even worse.

My friend Charlie Varon recently e-mailed me with a pointer to a diary Wallace Shawn published in The Nation on the eve of the invasion of Iraq over a year ago -- a piece of writing I missed at the time of its publication. It's a typical slice of Shawn's brand of self-lacerating thought, which will infuriate those on the right who disagree with him, trouble those on the left who might be thought to be in his camp, and cause any reader to think hard.

Shawn has always tried, in works like "The Fever" as in this diary, to unearth the connection between the comfortable lives of Americans -- Red and Blue staters -- and the privation and suffering in other parts of the world that seems to make our comfort possible. The position is beyond bleeding-heart -- it's spurting-arteries-of-guilt liberalism. However you feel about that, it has the singular virtue of cutting through abstract cant and partisan rhetoric and talking about the particulars of real human suffering.

All of which is a roundabout way of introducing this observation by Shawn:

Why are we being so ridiculously polite? It's as if there were some sort of gentlemen's agreement that prevents people from stating the obvious truth that Bush and his colleagues are exhilarated and thrilled by the thought of war, by the thought of the incredible power they will have over so many other people, by the thought of the immensity of what they will do, by the scale, the massiveness of the bombing they're planning, the violence, the killing, the blood, the deaths, the horror.

Now, I'm sure this sounded over the top when Shawn published it in March 2003. And it may still sound over the top to you today. What a thing to say about a president! Or about any human being!

Still, it's always seemed critically important, in trying to understand the Bush administration's march of folly, to remember that its entire top leadership (with the exception of its one half-hearted multilaterist at the State Department, who nobody listens to) consists of men (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld) who never served in combat. The next level down of leadership -- the architects of the Iraq policy, men like Wolfowitz and Feith and Perle (and let's not forget Rove) -- have no record at all of any military service. For such leaders, I can't help thinking, "the violence, the killing, the blood, the deaths, the horror" must necessarily remain abstractions -- at best, matters that one can turn one's gaze away from (as the government has literally done with the taboo photos of returning military coffins), and at worst, as Shawn argued, bearers of vague quasi-sexual excitement (as we saw with the pumped-up macho display of the "Mission Accomplished" tableau, now so painfully embarrassing).

The experience of combat service doesn't inoculate a leader against making mistakes, nor does it turn more than a few people into pacifists. But surely in most cases it burns into the brain an awareness of the essential seriousness of war. And that, finally, seems to have been Bush's failure with Iraq, one that even conservative supporters of the president -- like the historian Paul Johnson in today's Wall Street Journal -- are beginning to admit.

Bush drove the nation to war and threw an army into the field without taking the enterprise seriously enough. He didn't plan, he didn't study, he didn't question, because these are things he does not do. He has told us as much. And the people he trusted to do these things for him were equally unwilling to treat the situation with the gravity it deserved, instead using it as an opportunity to settle political scores or put into motion long-hatching schemes and delusional geopolitical chess moves.

I can't help thinking that, had more people in the White House ever been on the receiving end of a bombing raid or taken barrages of enemy fire, this administration might have proceeded with somewhat less criminal a level of recklessness and incompetence.

Late Night with John and Elizabeth
Edwards

Late Night with John and Elizabeth
Edwards 07/28/2004 01:02 PM

Late night thoughts on browsing the Iraq
tag on Flickr

Late night thoughts on browsing the Iraq
tag on Flickr 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
One of the most striking developments in the web over the last year has been the sudden popularity of sites like Furl, Flickr and Del.icio.us, where users can categorize the data or photos they save with keywords, more colloquially called tags. Everybody in what Kellan has called the Internet chattering classes has been talking about tags, and a word for them, folksonomy, has even been coined, discussed and debated. Even Mr. Metacrap himself has signed on as an advisor to Flickr, and can be found on Flickr happily adding metadata to his photos. I've always been reluctant to rely on someone else to store my data. I tried each service soon after it was released, but didn't find any of them compelling enough to use on a daily basis. Furl I liked, but I was nervous about having all my data stored for me on the net by a company without an obvious business model, and then I found a better way to store data locally using Slogger. Del.icio.us I tried but couldn't make heads or tails of until Joshua Schachter explained it in person at ETech 2004. Flickr I tried at the same ETech, but at the time I was blocking Flash in my browser, so all I ever got was a blank screen. So much for being an early adopter. However, I have recently started to use Flickr and Del.icio.us on a regular basis. Why? Because they turn out to be great ways of following a conversation on the web. I display the RSS feed for my Del.icio.us subscriptions on one of my personal portal pages, and it updates hourly with what other people have bookmarked about topics that interest me. I couldn't make the John Battelle's Web 2.0 conference this year, but in addition to reading the blog coverage and press coverage, I searched Flickr's web20 tag and got a good idea of who I know who was there. Once, months before the fact that US soldiers were torturing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib was revealed to the world, I came across a site where American soldiers in Iraq were posting photographs on the internet and wrote about it. I wondered at the time what the effects on our democracy would be of soldiers being able to send photos of their experience directly to the citizens, unmediated by our media conglomerates. As we found out from the photos...

Late-night internet cafes risk losing
assets

Late-night internet cafes risk losing
assets 12/17/2003 03:43 PM
Bangkok Post Dec 17 2003 2:45PM ET

Late Night With Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist

Late Night With Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist 11/14/2003 06:59 AM
marathon of jackassery

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Late night snack nabs hungry thief
(Reuters)

Late night snack nabs hungry thief
(Reuters) 05/04/2004 10:56 AM
Reuters - A German burglar who took a bite out of a meatball during a night raid on a sandwich shop was caught after forensic scientists ran a DNA test on it.

"Late Night With Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist"

"Late Night With Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist" 11/15/2003 03:18 AM

Dean's Late-Night Battle Cry May Have
Damaged Campaign (Los Angeles Times)

Dean's Late-Night Battle Cry May Have
Damaged Campaign (Los Angeles Times) 01/22/2004 11:39 AM
Los Angeles Times - MANCHESTER, N.H. — Howard Dean's overheated concession speech in Iowa may have inflicted irreparable harm on his campaign, intensifying concerns that Vermont's former governor is prone to outbursts and fits of pique that make him unqualified to be president, analysts said Wednesday.

Note to Self: Don't Read Scoble Late at
Night or Microsoft Bloggers Now Added

Note to Self: Don't Read Scoble Late at
Night or Microsoft Bloggers Now Added 03/19/2003 10:27 PM

Note to Self: Don't Read Scoble Late at Night or Microsoft Bloggers Now Added and a Rant

A wee bit tired this morning.  I made a quick round of my normal stops in the blogosphere last night and I happened by the Scobleiz er.  Now I've met Robert in the real world and I always get something out of reading his stuff -- but it usually doesn't cost me sleep.  You see what happened is Robert pointed me off to Microsof t Watch and a list of Mi crosoft bloggers with weblogs.  So I thought "Wouldn't it be nice if they were all indexed".  And there I was making sure they got stuffed into the system.  Here's what I found:

• Probably more than 50% of them were already in our database.  Go figure.  I guess that either a) people are adding themselves or b) the RSS auto discovery routines I wrote work better than I initially thought ;-)
• Microsoft bloggers use a plethora of different tools.  I do think, however, that the dominant one is Radio.  Blogger, Movable Type and other systems are also represented
• Not all Microsoft bloggers have RSS feeds
• Topics span work and personal
• Devhawk.net did a really smart thing with Feedster -- he added it to has blog's UI essentially as a "virtual table of contents".  Good idea.  I think I need to offer some viewing improvements if people are going to do this.
• Someone needs to teach the "gotdotnet" folks what RSS is.  Also I couldn't believe their HTML source when I was poking around. So get ready for a vent.
  
  <RANT CLASS=NASTY BILE=HIGH FRUSTATION=SEVERE>Go look here and look at the __VIEWSTATE input element.  To me that's just plain lame.  Use a session, send a cookie and use your horsepower for this, not my bandwidth with every page view.  And if you really want to barf then click around a bit and go here.  They seem to be encoding the entire viewing history in a really nasty way and shipping it back to you every single time.  It just gets bigger.  After navigating thru like 3 pages I had 6,554 bytes sent down the wire that did nothing for me.  Thanks for nothing.</RANT>

I guess its not all that bad actually but it just seems damn silly.  I hope that's not a dot net feature but I'm afraid that it is.  Sigh.

Jobs places late night phone call to
iTunes winner

Jobs places late night phone call to
iTunes winner 07/12/2004 05:55 PM
As noted earlier today, the 100 millionth song downloaded from the iTunes Music Store was purchased by Kevin Britten, of Hays, Kansas...

Jason Anderson - Late night with the
Burton team (Visual Studio Team System),
Part II #

Jason Anderson - Late night with the
Burton team (Visual Studio Team System),
Part II # 07/16/2004 03:03 PM
Part II of "Late Night with the Burton Team" takes you further into the new world of Visual Studio Team System. If you missed it, Part I is here. (The clip here is the second 30-minute segment out of a two-hour session filmed late at night a few weeks ago -- the rest of the session will come next week). In this segment, Jason Anderson and Tom Arnold talk about, and demonstrates, Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2005.

Late, Late Surge Hits Online Tax Returns

Late, Late Surge Hits Online Tax Returns 02/01/2005 09:22 PM
five Feb 1 2005 11:47AM GMT

Too little, too late?

Too little, too late? 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
CNET: Microsoft plans wireless software push. Every time Microsoft signs up another handset maker, Symbian does too. Last week, it...

Maybe too late, definitely too little

Maybe too late, definitely too little 05/07/2004 02:45 PM

Better Late Than Never

Better Late Than Never 10/29/2003 01:13 AM
This pilot fish is up all night troubleshooting a failed payroll job, but the boss sees him stumble in at 9:30 a.m. -- and declares that from now on the IT shop starts work at 8 and stops at 5 -- no exceptions.

A little too late

A little too late 05/17/2004 12:05 PM
Open Source release of Frontier?.

Wow - UserLand plans open-source release of Frontier kernel. The kernel includes things like the UserTalk script interpreter, all the UserTalk builtin functions, the Frontier ODB and the Frontier web server.

I don't expect that it will gather as many developers as the big open source scripting languages, but it would be a worthy addition to the community. It used to be cutting-edge, and the system still has a bunch of great ideas, despite having been surpassed in various areas (speed, reliability, debuggability, popularity) by other competitors. Enough to be worth saving, for sure.

Just off the top of my head, I can think of some interesting projects to do with the Frontier source:

- remove the dependency on the GUI, so it could be run as a Windows service on NT/2K/XP (as modern server software does).

- once that's done, a UNIX port might not be so hard. Presumably it's fairly portable already, as right now it runs on two different versions of Mac OS as well as Windows.

- perhaps after those two, or perhaps first, someone could rip out UserTalk and make a standalone interpreter, so you can use it the way you might use Perl or Python at the moment.

- this is a bit of a long shot, but if you could make the UserTalk interpreter support the Python module API or something similar, a whole bunch of open source libraries (DB access, etc) would suddenly be within reach.

Anyway, that's all for now. Announcements of open-source releases usually precede the actual releases by quite a while, so don't hold your breath. When this release actually happens, though, it will be a lot of fun :-)

[Second p0st]

OK - I'll say it.

Dave Winer and Frontier were my main introductions to the web, CMS, webapps, personal publishing and open standards.  Without Dave - I wouldn't be sitting here today.

I can remember Dave telling me about this guy Eric Raymond - and his Cathedral white paper.  It really pissed off Dave.  He had made his Frontier tool available - for free - in the early 90's and had had direct experience in dealing with people expecting a whole lot for free.  Yet Dave knew that by having a strong developer community behind him - that's all that mattered.

So Dave spent a few years trying to figure this all out.  He then made the decision that he HAD to charge for Frontier - or else he'd never get corporate uptake.  This is just as Linux and all the open source stuff was starting.

So now jump to years later.  Frontier is finally open source - but it's too late.  Php and python came along, Zope, Drupal - all sorts of stuff that does exactly what Frontier and..... well let me correct myself - not EXACTLY what Frontier does - as it STILL is a revolutionary IDE - as the integrated outliner makes o-o programming actually culpable.

But there are still problems with Frontier - memory leaks aside.  And it sure seems like it's five years too late.  That doesn't mean folks should'nt use it.  My buddy Paolo uses it for his eVectors knowledge management stuff.  Radio is built on top of Friontier and gives unprecedented extensibility that I'm sure many a MT user wishes they had.

I spent years pitching Frontier as the backend solution to our front-end needs.  Most people would look at me and say "Huh?"  But I'm proud of Dave and Frontier and I hope that LOTS of college kids give it a try!

Late Summer

Late Summer 09/06/2004 02:00 AM
Vancouver’s summer was good but ended, more or less, August 10th, so when on this last weekend the Sun manifested, we felt recompensed a little. Herewith some illustrated words on flowers that end in -ia, learning about the world, Jericho, harvesting and fishing...

No Late Fleece

No Late Fleece 03/30/2005 11:34 AM
Blockbuster pays the price for its deceptive "No Late Fees" campaign.

Not too late to pile into IT

Not too late to pile into IT 01/10/2004 01:37 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Jan 9 2004 11:22PM ET

FC Now: Late to Work?

FC Now: Late to Work? 09/08/2004 02:03 PM
It rained early this morning in New York City. Hard. So hard that train tunnels flooded, traffic backed up, trains were rerouted, and practically everyone...

Working late

Working late 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Ugh.. Just hanging about, watching the doors on the L9 tapedrive....in a few minutes the backups will start humming away...

Quite frankly, it's too late for this

Quite frankly, it's too late for this 07/12/2004 07:17 PM
MadCowering - a weblog about BSE, very nicely done, and, as of today, using a hacked up version of my fedex-tracker to RSS hack. Moo! Meanwhile, there's a new Perl module for the Atom API. Out today, very nice looking....

IBM makes late DRM bid

IBM makes late DRM bid 04/27/2004 07:15 AM
xCP system backed by Intel, Matsushita and Toshiba

Too late to rebuild IT?

Too late to rebuild IT? 06/18/2004 06:26 AM
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the debate about how to dramatically improve the IT infrastructure needs to get going soon.

You'll never get lost (or be late)

You'll never get lost (or be late) 11/16/2003 01:27 AM
US News Nov 16 2003 0:01AM ET

Don't Be Late, Integrate!

Don't Be Late, Integrate! 08/31/2004 03:16 PM
TechWeb Aug 31 2004 6:32PM GMT

You're Too Late for This Fund

You're Too Late for This Fund 04/15/2005 10:07 AM
When one good fund closes, others are still open.

Cato'$ Late$t

Cato'$ Late$t 01/19/2004 01:55 PM
"This is either intellectual incompetence or intellectual dishonesty." So wrote Howard Rheingold about Adam Thierer's latest missive from Cato. I wouldn't call it "incompetence," given the custom of his community (DC). Nor, given the standards of his community, is it quite dishonesty. You are where you sleep, and Cato sleeps in the land of lobbyists.

Yeah, I know, I'm late

Yeah, I know, I'm late 03/15/2003 12:09 PM
Guess where I'm going today? The mall. Yeah, doesn't seem that odd does it, well it is when you haven't...

Late News

Late News 05/29/2002 02:26 PM

Late to the mobl0gging game

Late to the mobl0gging game 12/19/2004 03:21 PM
After nearly a day's worth of fiddling (and two years worth of delay in getting a mobile with a camera), I've got my phone posting photos to both Flickr and my new sidebar section Photographing. Right now the pictures are just junk shots from around the apartment as I trouble-shot many issues. And here's a weird one for those of you contemplating the Nokia 6600: I was unable to send my photos (as multimedia messages) to anyone until I'd first sent one to myself. Wha? Yup. That's what T-Mobile support told me. I said to the woman, "Well it's good I called. How on earth was I supposed to figure that out? Why's it like that?" And she said, "That's the way the system is designed." Of course that's the way the system's designed. [Insert requisite rant about retarded systems design here.] Aside from that, I'm psyched for more moblogging about town. Now I just need to get out of my bathrobe and actually go "about town."

Man in Chase Says He's Late for Court
(AP)

Man in Chase Says He's Late for Court
(AP) 07/22/2004 06:11 PM
AP - Putnam County Sheriff's Deputy John Hedrick was surprised when a speeding vehicle he was chasing squealed into a county parking lot and its driver got out and ran toward a judicial annex. Turns out, the suspect was late for a very important date — in court.
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