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Zombie Machines, Port Blocking,
Confusion And Large Bills

Zombie Machines, Port Blocking,
Confusion And Large Bills 06/10/2004 09:49 AM
With the incredible rise of zombie machines that spew spam messages constantly, it looks like different ISPs continue to take very different approaches to dealing with the problem. As expecte d, Comcast has now started selectively blocking port 25 on accounts from that appear to be compromised. However, others are taking more extreme approaches. Over in the UK, NTL has apparently decided to just start blocking a variety of ports on all their customers without warning. This was exactly what Comcast had realized not to do - since they knew the support costs from angry and confused users would not be worth it. In the case of NTL, it sounds as if some of their support people don't even know what's going on, which is causing even more problems when users call in. Up in Canada, the story is a bit different. It sounds like most Canadian providers have reasonable plans for dealing with zombie machines - including a hybrid approach of sending warnings to subscribers who appear to have been compromised, blocking ports on just those users, or cutting them off completely if they don't respond. Most have dedicated support staff whose job it is to help clean up machines. The article reports, though, that some corporate users who don't have unlimited bandwidth are discovering that their providers aren't informing them - leading to shocking large bandwidth bills. They point out that their service providers should have let them know as soon as they noticed something out of the ordinary, but so far the providers haven't been particularly forgiving (leading at least one company to declare bankruptcy).

Starting From The Assumption That IM At
Work Is Bad...

Starting From The Assumption That IM At
Work Is Bad... 09/14/2004 02:55 PM
An article talking about a new tool for companies to monitor and block instant messaging conversations seems to start with the assumption that instant messaging at the office is bad. While it certainly can harm productivity if misused, it also can make many workers much more productive. The article notes that many employees use IM, but that few companies monitor or block IM usage and immediately complains that the industry isn't taking a "proactive response." Perhaps that's because they realize it's not a problem?

Introducing FirmTek's Flexible
SeriTek/1VE2+2 2-Port Internal, 2-Port
External Serial ATA PCI-X Host Adapter

Introducing FirmTek's Flexible
SeriTek/1VE2+2 2-Port Internal, 2-Port
External Serial ATA PCI-X Host Adapter 06/24/2005 09:03 PM
FirmTek Announces the Immediate Availability of Their Latest High-Performance PCI-X SATA Host Adapter for the Macintosh [PRWEB Jun 24, 2005]

XP SP2: Are P2P, Port Scanning, and
Port-Opening Programs Slower?

XP SP2: Are P2P, Port Scanning, and
Port-Opening Programs Slower? 08/12/2004 08:07 AM
Tech-Recipes Aug 12 2004 12:42PM GMT

Comcast's DVR

Comcast's DVR 12/05/2003 12:31 PM
And going overboard with the digital video recorder news this week, Comcast is close to rolling out their own set-top digital video recorder/cable box nationwide. The box itself will be an 80GB model from Motorola that should be able to record high-definition programming. Needless to say, not particularly good news for TiVo or any of the other standalone digital video recorders. Read...

Comcast's big bid for Disney

Comcast's big bid for Disney 02/11/2004 02:57 PM
The cable TV company's $66 billion offer for the entertainment icon would create a media mammoth.

Comcast's Hostile Tango

Comcast's Hostile Tango 02/11/2004 04:20 PM
Comcast's bid for Disney makes a great deal of sense, at some price.

Comcast's Offer for Outage: $1.43 a Day

Comcast's Offer for Outage: $1.43 a Day 04/15/2005 12:36 PM
After experiencing three nights of network outages in less than a week, BetaNews has learned that in at least one case in southeast Michigan, a customer received a credit of $2.86 on their bill to compensate for the two days of service he complained about.

Comcast's Waiting Game

Comcast's Waiting Game 02/19/2004 08:41 AM
Business Week Feb 19 2004 1:27PM GMT

Comcast's letter to Disney

Comcast's letter to Disney 02/11/2004 01:48 PM
The text of the letter outlining Comcast's proposal to merge with Walt Disney, sent by company CEO Brian Roberts to Disney counterpart Michael Eisner.

and why we should be concerned about
Comcast's bid to purchase Disney

and why we should be concerned about
Comcast's bid to purchase Disney 02/17/2004 11:48 AM
Saffire On Media Consolidation .. The Five Sisters

nytimes.com/2004/02/16/opinion/16SAFI.html
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Attack of Comcast's Internet zombies

Attack of Comcast's Internet zombies 05/24/2004 06:03 AM

Et Cetera: someone put a bullet in
Comcast's service

Et Cetera: someone put a bullet in
Comcast's service 01/06/2004 02:29 PM
Round up including Googles news, the Athlon 64 3400+, and a complaint about Napster 2.0.

Will A DirecTV Customer On Comcast's
Payroll Switch?

Will A DirecTV Customer On Comcast's
Payroll Switch? 08/20/2004 12:52 PM
Comcast's latest attempt at "reality TV" has some quite skeptical. Broadband Reports tells us that the latest advertising gimmick from the company to try to win back customers they've been losing to satellite TV is to put on a "reality TV" style commercial, where they follow around a happy DirecTV user as he debates whether or not to switch. Of course, the extra detail is that the happy DirecTV user just happens to be a copywriter for the ad agency Comcast hired to create these commercials. Everyone involved claims that he's free to make up his own mind -- but if he chooses poorly, it could mean (a) the end result of the experiment is never told to the public and (b) the ad agency loses a big customer in Comcast. But, they still insist... no bias at all. Of course, these days, I think most people are skeptical enough to already assume that the whole thing has been scripted in advance.

Comcast's Bid for Disney Ripples Through
a Linked Industry

Comcast's Bid for Disney Ripples Through
a Linked Industry 02/12/2004 11:35 PM
With Comcast's $54.1 billion bid for the Walt Disney Company, the knots that bind the intertwined media business pulled tighter. They may get tighter still.

Comcast's WiFi router lets your ISP spy
on you, shut you down

Comcast's WiFi router lets your ISP spy
on you, shut you down 05/07/2004 03:35 AM
Om Malik warns that the Linksys WiFi boxes that Comcast is supplying to its customers allow Comcast to remotely detect and disconnect devices on your home network, like your VoIP phone (which competes with Comcast's long-distance service).

If you scroll through the press release, you come to a section which says that the gateway supports a CableHome 1.0 "for the ability to deliver secure, managed services from Comcast’s head-end network to the subscribers’ home network." Now there is a big problem with this thing - for instance, the Cablehome 1.0 standard allows cable operators to snoop around their home networks and learn things such as how many computers are attached to the gateway and what kind of traffic they are generating/receiving. (Beware Vonage fans, this could be used to detect your Vonage ATA as well.)

In case you were wondering, where’s the juice. Go to the Cable Labs website and read this document. Scroll down to Section 6.3.1 and read:

The goals for the CableHome Management Portal include:
* Enable viewing of LAN IP Device information obtained via the CableHome DHCP Portal (CDP)
* Enable viewing of the results of LAN IP Device performance monitoring done by the CableHome Test Portal (CTP)
* Provide the capability to disable LAN segments

Link (via Engadget)

Democrats Affiliated with Gephardt and
Kerry Broadcast New Ad Criticizing Dean.
Come On Guys, Don't Do Karl Rove's Work
Hatchet Work for Him. 12/13

Democrats Affiliated with Gephardt and
Kerry Broadcast New Ad Criticizing Dean.
Come On Guys, Don't Do Karl Rove's Work
Hatchet Work for Him. 12/13 12/14/2003 09:03 AM
fear-mongering attack ad .. Robert Gibbs .. Democrats

sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/12/12/ politics2015EST0748.DTL
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Johnston McLamb Honored Nationally as
One of the 50 Best Places to Work SHRM
and GPTW Name Top 50 “Best Small &
Medium Companies to Work for in America”

Johnston McLamb Honored Nationally as
One of the 50 Best Places to Work SHRM
and GPTW Name Top 50 “Best Small &
Medium Companies to Work for in America” 06/30/2004 03:11 AM
Johnston McLamb CASE Solutions, Inc. has been named among the top 50 Best Small & Medium Companies to Work for in America. The list was announced on June 28th before 12,000 human resource (HR) professionals at the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) 56th Annual Conference & Exposition in New Orleans [PRWEB Jun 30, 2004]

Work-Life Balance Tilting Too Much
Towards Work

Work-Life Balance Tilting Too Much
Towards Work 11/14/2003 02:51 PM
One of the downsides to the fact that people can work whenever they want is that it's sometimes hard for people to stop working. According to a study done in Europe, many overly stressed out workers are asking their bosses to cut their hours and salary just to gain back some control over their lives. Meanwhile, many bosses in IT are increasingly worried that their staff is going to burn out. Of course, a lot of that could be solved if companies hired more people, but they still seem hesitant to do so.

starting the car

starting the car 02/01/2005 09:19 PM

Eric and I were chatting about how cool Garage Band was and we decided to try collaboration over the Internet. I grabbed some samples off of a talk Lawrence Lessig gave in Helsinki, laid down some beats and "started the car". The I passed it over to Eric. Eric laid down some more tracks, added effects, mixed it and sent it back to me. I added some metadata and posted it to archive.org (being processed now) and "Permission Granted" was born.

We just figured this out a few minutes ago, but I think Permission Granted will be a collaboration between Eric and me. We're "co-pilots". We'll mess around putting samples from talks and discussions to music. We're still sort of not-stupid-enough-to-be-funny, but not-good-enough-to-be-cool, but hopefully we'll the the hang of it soon.

Starting the car (2.25 MB mp3 / 2.70 MB ogg)

Update: Where we got the title of the track...

Eric Haller

“why don’t you start the car, and i’ll jump in”, something i heard bob dylan say to tom petty on a tape of them drunkenly playing the lounge of a holiday inn one night when they were on tour together.

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Starting Out

Starting Out 04/13/2004 04:43 AM

Starting a Startup

Starting a Startup 03/14/2005 06:25 PM
Paul Graham has an absolutely fantastic essay that every entrepreneur should read.  Here's the summary...You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money...

What you should know before starting a
doctorate...

What you should know before starting a
doctorate... 07/03/2004 01:43 PM

A few days ago an interesting article on Graduate schools circulated around the web. The article suggested that Graduate school has many of the features of a cult and that some people staying on to undertake postgraduate studies almost needed to be deprogrammed until they understood that there was value in life outside the Academy. Here (just in case you don't have the stamina to read a short pithy well-written article) are the first two paragraphs:

Several years ago, the professional career counselor Margaret Newhouse wrote an essay for The Chronicle called "Deprogramming From the Academic Cult." Newhouse argued that graduate school in the humanities indoctrinates its students into believing that they are failures if they do not remain inside the ivory tower, even if there are no suitable academic jobs for them. Career counselors, she argued, have to find ways to persuade unemployed Ph.D.'s to believe that the outside world is not evil and that they are not apostates if they do something besides teaching and research.

Although I am currently a tenure-track professor of English, I realize that nothing but luck distinguishes me from thousands of other highly-qualified Ph.D.'s in the humanities who will never have full-time academic jobs and, as a result, are symbolically dead to the academy. Even after several years, many former graduate students grapple with feelings of shame and failure that, to outsiders, seem completely irrational.

A little under seven years ago I left a doctorate in Classics that I'd been undertaking at Bristol University. I'd been working on my PhD for three years - time initially very well spent and which produed enormous amounts of reasonably good-quality work. Over the first two and a half years or so I produced around sixty thousand words on models of the mind, mythology, story-telling and identification; I'd taught various undergraduate classes on drama, mythology and Ancient Greek language and I'd produced two papers (on on anachronistic interpretation and one on The Bacchae) which I delivered at national conferences in Nottingham and New York. However, from the beginning of my second year I started experiencing a slow deterioration in my work, had a number of crises of motivation and started to feel that I was being overwhelmed by the material and sheer amount of commentary and opinion that I needed to get to grips with. I started to feel that I was never going to be able to produce work that I was going to be happy with - that I was never going to find the answers that I was looking for. Then followed a few months of highly self-destructive behaviour when I felt that I was starting to fail, followed by a few months of anti-depressants and then the final realisation that if I was going to complete my work it would take me years of penury and misery and that I was likely to have problems finding any kind of employment afterwards. And then the realisation that I no longer had faith that the work I was producing would have any kind of impact or be taken in any way seriously. And that's when I decided to quit.

If you believe the narrative that I've just told you (and there's no reason why you should simply swallow it whole - I've taken considerable license with it for speed and clarity) then you might well be asking yourself why I went from doing good work to leaving academia completely, and whether I regret it. I ask whether you believe it because I'm not sure that I believe it myself - I find the whole period difficult to interpret and difficult to feel confident about because of the sheer weight of the different interpretations, personal relationships, arguments, tensions and various senses of betrayals that I came - by the end - to associate fully with my time in doctoral work. And here's where the article about the cultishness of Graduate School comes in again. Because whlie I don't necessarily believe that it does have cultish tendencies, I do feel programmed by circumstance to forfeit my right to a public opinion about it. Any statement I make about academia - or my experience of academia - that isn't entirely complimentary must necessarily be seen in the context of my own failure to complete the process. Because I'm not now Doctor Coates, any statement I make that puts any blame on anyone other than my own inadequacies can be dismissed as sour grapes or an inability to accept failure or inadequacy in one field or another.

I'm not going to fight this assumption - I feel comfortable in admitting that whatever else may have led to my ungracious departure from academia, I clearly did not have the necessarily discipline to carry through the work I'd started to its conclusion. I failed. But I've seen a lot of other people fall hard off the back of the academic lorry as well, and a good number of them I believe have done so not because they've failed the system but because the system has failed them. And they feel similarly confused and conflicted - unable to determine where the failure was their own. Even many of the people I know who have completed their doctorates have experienced the burn of tarmac on their departure from the academy. These people were intellectually able, self-disciplined and strong and fought through the academy with all the discipline and strength they could muster and were still brought low by it. And worse still, these people feel the same anxiety that I do about talking about it - any rejection is in itself an admission of failure. Here's where the academy's cultishness emerges most strongly - because it's an institution where you can only fail yourself and your leaders. They can never fail you.

I want to talk a little about the reality of post-graduate work for people who are considering it because I think you should know what you're letting yourself in for. Courses which are mostly taught are almost always achievable. That's not what I'm talking about. I'd recommend a Masters course to almost anyone. On the other hand, Universities often encourage their pupils to stay with them at their University because they get money for students. I would advise you to never do this. It can be very difficult for undergraduate students to adjust to the new roles and status that undertaking a Masters should afford you. It's particularly difficult if you're doing those role-changes with people you have been used to being highly deferential towards. And why would you want to work more with them anyway? Unless they really are the world-leading experts in their fields, you should be looking elsewhere for different perspectives, different expertises and different lessons to learn. You'll learn much more from a new teacher than from the one who has already articulated much of their approach and beliefs and ways of seeing the world through your undergraduate work with them.

Masters aside then, what of the research degree? Here I'm going to be blunt. First things first, please believe that academic departments get money for postgraduate students and that more money means more and (and more stable) jobs for the staff. You must never forget that while all academics have altruistic motives, they also have a vested interest in encouraging you to stay with them. Again consider why they're suggesting you continue your work, and think particularly hard if they're advocating you staying with them.

Next think about your skills and expertises and whether or not you actually want to be an academic after you've tried to complete your course. Now think about whether or not you're going to be the person who actually gets the really hard to come by academic job afterwards (this is particularly true in the Humanities). If you don't want to be a History lecturer and do academic research for the rest of your life, then don't do a doctorate. If you're not sure, then get sure before you sign on the dotted line. Academic jobs are not easy to get and they'll all be looking for certain skills and expertises that are relevant to the teaching of your discipline. If you want to spend years doing research into an incredibly obscure branch of history, then bear in mind that no one may wish to teach courses in that particular obscure branch of history. If you're going to be revolutionarily cross-disciplinary, then consider - are there any departments in the world who could hire you when you were done? And if not, then don't do it!

Doctorates don't count for much outside academia - and in fact they may count against you. If you can't find a directly relevant area for subsequent professional work, then many employers are likely to look at a 25-30 year old person with three-six years of post-graduate work as being a strange and slightly worrying employment prospect - they're going to be too smart for their own good, too ivory-towerish, too specialist, out of touch with the way that the "real world" works. If you're working in an area where there's a lot of commercial interest (say the way in which people use technology) then you may very well find enormous career opportunities open up before you. This is not likely to happen if you've spent six years writing on gender roles in Baudelaire - no matter how ground-breaking the work.

And here's the other lesson - doctoral work is professional training. You have to think about it like that - you're being made into a lecturer / professor / teacher / researcher. The aim of doctoral work is not - no matter what anyone tells you - to think up good stuff and write great works and reveal your genius to the world. The aim is to make professional people who can teach undergraduates, deliver papers and - yes - also (subsequently) push the discipline further in one direction or another. You have to approach your post-graduate work in this way. The most successful doctoral students in my experience are the ones that are thorough and careful and take on relatively unambitious projects which don't stretch the assumptions or structures of the discipline too much. They're the ones that finish their doctoral work and go on to useful teaching positions (and then may or may not start exploring more widely). It's definitely not the best and the brightest, the most imaginative thinkers or the people with the great ideas that get through. If they get through its because they're thorough and their careful and their professional and treat it as it should be treated - as a job of work rather than a calling or an exploration.

Which brings me to drop-out rates. Another thing you won't be told is how many people don't complete their doctorates. I've heard various figures mentioned, but I believe that around 50% of people who start doctorates don't get a PhD out of it. This may be humanities only or it may be throughout the academy. An enormous proportion of people simply never finish the things because it's not quite what they were expecting when they started. And many of these people will feel like failures, will come into the job market late and will find it harder to get ahead in their new chosen career. It's not clear to me whether it's harder to get a job with a completed irrelevant doctorate or an incomplete one. It's not easy with with either.

And then there's the day-to-day atmosphere of it. When you're doing research, you work almost exclusively alone - for three to five years. You should spend large periods of that time in a library - ideally (again taking into account that this is a training course and a career) you should use the working hours that you might expect from a job - eight hours a day. You will get paid either nothing or a barely livable wage to do this work (again - more true for humanities students). This is not a glamourous occupation, by any means. And as I've said before, there is no glamour in the work itself, a restricted chance that you'll get a career in academia and a very real possibility that by undertaking this work you're going to make yourself less employable. The "positive" aspects of the lifestyle (apart from your gradual progress towards getting your doctorate) are limited, but you do get relative freedom to think and explore ideas, you are forced to be self-motivating and self-determined and - when things are going well - you will get self-respect and the respect of some other people (who in my opinion are rather easily impressed). These freedoms, and the self-respect and the respect of others that you get from undertaking a doctorate will stay with you (to an extent) if you go into the badly paid field of academia. If you do not, they will swiftly evaporate.

Which brings me (briefly) to my final point. Do not believe there is no worthwhile life outside academia! It's difficult sometimes, when you've been in the education system for getting on for twenty years to remember that there's an enormous panoply of jobs outside academia and not al of it is sullied by the feeble crust of crass commercialism. It is more than possible to find enjoyable, ethically-sound, world-improving work outside academia - and in fact it's probably no harder than it is to find similar work inside the Academy. The stereotype (and the assumption of many potential postgraduate students) that study for the sake of study and the stretching and mental gymnastics of intellectual work are somehow naturally superior and elite practices would holod more water with me if such warming up regularly translated into actual attempts to build or refigure the world in positive ways. If such goals are your intent - consider carefully what effect you are actually likely to have. Is the respect of a narrow and dishevelled set of peers (and a steady stream of undergraduate neophytes) enough to get you through the night? If not, consider that there is good work to be done outside University and that some of it pays rather better and is equally interesting.

If you're considering a longer research-based degree, please consider carefully what you're letting yourself in for. Remember the key facts: only fifty percent of people come out of the other end of this process with a doctorate and even then they have to look towards finding (mostly pretty badly-paid) work. Many of them won't that work despite having proved their discipline, committment and intelligence. Do yourself a favour and make sure that you go in with your eyes open - that you know how unpleasant the work can be, that you know what a risk you're taking with your time and with your life, that you're strong enough to deal with the self-doubt and the humiliation and the shame and the anxiety that the work can cause and that you're totally sure of the career path that you are choosing for yourself, before you agree to continue with your studies. If you don't do this, then you may very well find yourself in a cult that genuinely believes that everyone else is basically wasting their lives and from which there is no easy or elegant way to escape.

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Starting a Web Community

Starting a Web Community 05/13/2004 01:58 PM
"Forum operators typically find that the first few thousand posts are the toughest - once you are at that level, you probably have something going, even if it's not quite enough to launch your forum to the six or seven digit level."

ENT is starting to happen!

ENT is starting to happen! 05/11/2004 01:43 PM
(ENT2.0 mod RSS1.0) = 0.

Time for ENT 2.0?. It's very interesting to read Danny's toughts about ENT and RSS 1.0. Maybe it's time for a new release of the ENT specs, RSS 1.0 compatible. Oh... and what about Atom?
[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

I've certainly thought about things which, with the benefit of hindsight, I would have done differently.  I was never comfortable with having the topic name as the text content of the <topic> element and I've no idea why I did it, there are other bugbears in there too.

I'd also like to give more thought as to how ENT feeds can be supported by topic map resources in real applications.  At the moment we don't publish XTM or XFML maps out of K-Collector but we could (I used to publish XFML from liveTopics but those files got big!)

Lastly I would really like to make a push for ENT support in other applications.  It seems a shame to me that, more than a year on, no other applications seem to have picked up on the benefits topic based aggregation offer to users.
[Curiouser and curiouser!]

Right on to Paolo and Matt!

Here we go!

I highly endorse using ENT as a way of us all standardizing on attaching keywords to RSS feeds.  On both sides.

More 3G In The US Starting Next Week

More 3G In The US Starting Next Week 07/15/2004 03:41 PM
Back in February we noted that, even after the acquisition announcement from Cingular, AT&T Wireless was still required to launch 3G service in four cities by the end of the year, or be forced to pay back the $6 billion NTT DoCoMo gave them. So, it's no surprise to hear that AT&T Wireless is on track to have four cities launched by the end of the year. They have $6 billion riding on it, after all. However, the surprise news may be that such service could launch next week. The four cities in question are San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix and Detroit, and the pricing isn't quite as ridiculous as you might expect. Following the $80 rule, they're offering business users unlimited 3G data at $80/month. For consumers, though, the price is a more Sprint-like $25/month. They'll apparently be supporting two phones and a datacard for laptops, though, it seems likely that the datacard will only work on one of those $80/month business plans. Speeds should be slightly slower than Verizon's EV-DO offering (only available in San Diego and DC right now), but should still be fairly useful in the 200 kbps to 300 kbps range. The question remains, though, if the combined Cingular/AT&T Wireless will build off of this offering, or if they're just doing it to save the $6 billion. Such a network is a lot more useful when coverage is nationwide, instead of four (or two) random cities.

"starting in Japan"

"starting in Japan" 08/05/2004 08:39 AM

Two Things I Am Starting to Like

Two Things I Am Starting to Like 09/17/2004 08:17 AM

Just a couple of quick impressions to share with you this morning - not full blown reviews by any means, just two things that caught me off guard last night. The first is Salling Clicker, a bit of software for OSX that turns most Bluetooth devices into a remote control for a ton of functions. I had used it before, but I started digging into the demo last night and found a lot of stuff I hadn't noticed before, like how it can automatically mute and pause iTunes when you get a call, or how you can use it as sort of a totem to let your Mac know when you are home again, so it can start up the programs and services you enjoy. I'm not quite convinced to drop the $20 for it yet, because I'm trying to only buy stuff I need now, not just things that are amusing, but it's certainly much cooler than I first realized.

"Stopdesign | Starting Over"

"Stopdesign | Starting Over" 05/30/2004 02:36 PM

I'm starting to like the French - more

I'm starting to like the French - more 05/23/2004 03:19 PM
Anti-Bush film wins Cannes prize, in France, of course.

Anti-Bush film wins Cannes prize, in France, of course.

Via BBC News: Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 wins the Palme d'Or at Cannes, with a 15-minute standing ovation.

There are scenes from the movie here.

Not only do the French went against Bush during the War in Iraq, now they make Anti-Bush films win in Cannes... I wonder if I will be allowed to enter the US next time...[Loic Le Meur Blog]

Loic is one of teh nicest Frenchman I have ever met.  I told JY -when I met him at the Technorati devcon - my story of getting warm Coke in Cannes - and why I didn't understand the French.

"If I want my Coke cold - and I am the customer - then I should get it!"

But now that the French are doing all the right things - I may have to live with my warm Coke.  NOTE:  Actually I am trying to ween myself of my Coke addiction.  JUST SAY NO TO CARBS!

Starting May 19, 2004

Starting May 19, 2004 05/29/2004 06:07 PM
Dan's account of malcolm gladwell event .. Notes from a Talk by Malcolm Gladwell .. Fireside chat with Malcolm Gladwell

danbricklin.com/log/2004_05_19.htm#gladwell
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Cowboys Cut Starting QB Without Saying
Why (AP)

Cowboys Cut Starting QB Without Saying
Why (AP) 08/04/2004 08:39 PM
AP - In a stunning move the team wouldn't explain, the Dallas Cowboys cut Quincy Carter on Wednesday and handed the starting quarterback's job to 40-year-old Vinny Testaverde.

Quick Tip: Blocking Some CNN Ads

Quick Tip: Blocking Some CNN Ads 01/11/2004 07:56 AM
Techfocus Jan 11 2004 3:41AM ET

Blocking RSS advertising

Blocking RSS advertising 12/17/2004 06:38 PM

Jason Kottke talks with RSS reader developers about blocking ads in RSS feeds.

Blocking Generic Ads

Blocking Generic Ads 01/03/2005 08:20 AM
Got the Ebay, Shopping.com, etal AdSense saturation blues?

RF-Blocking Wallpaper

RF-Blocking Wallpaper 06/20/2004 06:50 AM

AOL Blocking 95% of all Newsletters

AOL Blocking 95% of all Newsletters 02/13/2004 02:30 PM
14 out of 15 newsletters could not make it through the AOL filters.

CMP Says It's Not Blocking Google

CMP Says It's Not Blocking Google 06/25/2004 11:54 AM

CMP Techweb.com's editor in chief, Fredric Paul, says the report I linked to yesterday is incorrect. He writes:

Anyway, we saw that you picked up the CyberJournalist piece on CMP blocking access to our stories from Google News. I don't know where that came from, but it is wrong. We do not and have never blocked access from Google or any other search engine. That's easily testable, try it yourself. We do, however, intercept links from certain competitors who reproduce significant portions of our stories on their own pages -- sometimes even stealing the first link-- before they finally post a link to our original material. In most cases, the intercept we put up allows the reader to then click to their intended destination. Other major technology publishers, including IDG, do similar things. We're not just old media, and we're not completely clueless.

"DARFUR UPDATE: I SYMPATHIZE WITH THESE
SENTIMENTS but it won't work: If the
Sudanese government can't or won't act,
and the threat of international
sanctions (the U.S. already has
sanctions in place) doesn't work, then
troops it must be. The ideal..."

"DARFUR UPDATE: I SYMPATHIZE WITH THESE
SENTIMENTS but it won't work: If the
Sudanese government can't or won't act,
and the threat of international
sanctions (the U.S. already has
sanctions in place) doesn't work, then
troops it must be. The ideal..." 07/05/2004 02:41 PM

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