Celebrating Independence and Patriotism

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"We are here to affirm that when
Americans stand up and speak their minds
and say America can do better, that is
not a challenge to patriotism; it is the
heart and soul of patriotism"

"We are here to affirm that when
Americans stand up and speak their minds
and say America can do better, that is
not a challenge to patriotism; it is the
heart and soul of patriotism" 07/31/2004 03:41 AM

Forced patriotism on the press platform

Forced patriotism on the press platform 07/29/2004 04:56 PM

Two essays on liberty, freedom, and
patriotism

Two essays on liberty, freedom, and
patriotism 07/05/2004 04:17 PM
On this American holiday, two pieces that merit considered reading -- both via Dan Gillmor's blog. The first from Pete McCloskey in the SFChron: Patriotism (and shame) on the Fourth of July. "The word patriot is too precious to allow it to be used by the thundering rhetoric of politicians that patriotism requires not only supporting the troops but also supporting the foreign policy that puts them at risk."

The second, a Sunday column from Dan Gillmor in the SJMerc: "On Independence Day, 2004, how fares American liberty? Brilliantly, if you compare the United States with the tyrannies that still control the lives of countless people. Not badly, if liberty means the right to seek economic gain in a capitalist system -- especially if you're starting with the right connections and a privileged background. Not as well, when you look at growing pressures on longstanding freedoms."

And when you're done with those, may I suggest down loading the United States Constitution for your iPod, inserting earplugs, cranking up the volume, and taking a walk out there in the fresh summer air.

Toll brings home pain, patriotism across
USA (USATODAY.com)

Toll brings home pain, patriotism across
USA (USATODAY.com) 09/08/2004 07:15 AM
USATODAY.com - As the death toll for U.S. personnel in Iraq passed 1,000 Tuesday, much of the nation was transfixed by hurricanes and presidential politics.

Kerry Hits Back at White House, Defends
Patriotism (Reuters)

Kerry Hits Back at White House, Defends
Patriotism (Reuters) 04/16/2004 02:18 PM
Reuters - Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry, lashing out at the White House's "twisted sense of ethics and morality," accused Republicans on Friday of distorting his record and attacking his patriotism.

Yahoo! News - Kerry Hits Back at White
House, Defends Patriotism

Yahoo! News - Kerry Hits Back at White
House, Defends Patriotism 04/17/2004 03:24 PM
Whatever You Do, Don’t Question Kerry’s Patrioitism! .. the Massachusetts senator said .. NOW IT'S PERSONAL!!

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"Yahoo! News - Kerry Hits Back at White
House, Defends Patriotism"

"Yahoo! News - Kerry Hits Back at White
House, Defends Patriotism" 04/17/2004 03:09 PM

Celebrating Radar

Celebrating Radar 06/03/2004 10:47 AM
Radar technology certainly isn't new, but that doesn't mean there aren't improvements. CSMonitor has a brief overview of some new developments in radar technology, and how they'll be used in both military and civilian applications. There's one whole section on how automakers see radar as "the next big thing in safety," discussing pre-collision warning systems, blindspot watchers and adaptive cruise control.

Celebrating Holidays

Celebrating Holidays 10/26/2002 06:52 PM

NPR: Celebrating 20 years of the Mac

NPR: Celebrating 20 years of the Mac 01/22/2004 02:13 AM
It's been two decades since the Macintosh first burst on the scene with the famous Ridley Scott-directed advertisement during the 1984 SuperBowl. The Mac's 20th anniversary seems poised to set the tone for Apple's product plans in 2004, if some of Steve Jobs' comments during his keynote address at Macworld Conference & Expo earlier this month are any indication. Now it's the subject of a recent "Talk of the Nation" program on National Public Radio (NPR), which you can listen to online -- if you have Windows Media Player installed.

Celebrating a decade of Doom

Celebrating a decade of Doom 12/19/2003 11:30 AM
BBC Dec 19 2003 10:25AM ET

Celebrating Ten Years Of BeOS

Celebrating Ten Years Of BeOS 06/05/2004 10:25 AM
Eugenia Loli-Queru: PalmSource ain't gonna make a birthday party for BeOS but it would only be fair if the rest of us, [ex-]users, remember the "media OS" as the innovative operating system of the late '90s, still used by some.

Celebrating The Cult Of Macintosh

Celebrating The Cult Of Macintosh 02/10/2004 05:13 AM
The key to the Macintosh's success, or at least survival, has been its commitment to innovation and good design. By Christopher Hutsul (The Star via MyAppleMenu)

"Celebrating the Underbl0g - 2004"

"Celebrating the Underbl0g - 2004" 07/01/2004 08:50 PM

Celebrating the Body Beautiful

Celebrating the Body Beautiful 02/05/2005 09:21 PM
The human body is intriguing in all its forms. A photo exhibit features subjects both nude and clothed, giving us a complex picture of who we are as a species and as sexual beings. Commentary by Regina Lynn.

Celebrating Ten Years of BeOS -
OSNews.com

Celebrating Ten Years of BeOS -
OSNews.com 06/06/2004 03:12 AM
rambling, nostalgicpiece on Ten Years of BeOS .. not getting any younger .. Eugenia Loli-Queru .. OSNews highlights

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Celebrating Spam's Ten-Year Anniversary

Celebrating Spam's Ten-Year Anniversary 03/06/2004 02:04 AM
Slashdot Mar 5 2004 6:44PM GMT

Celebrating Holidays and Special
Occasions on Websites

Celebrating Holidays and Special
Occasions on Websites 10/28/2002 11:23 AM

Music labels should be celebrating the
Grokster decision

Music labels should be celebrating the
Grokster decision 08/23/2004 06:36 AM
Cory Doctorow: Jim Griffin, founder of the Pho music/tech mailing list, weighs in with an impressive and passionate email about the P2P-legalizing Grokster decision and what it means for music labels.

Here's why you should applaud today's decision: It brings us closer to monetizing peered sharing and putting real money in the pockets of artists, labels, publishers, and other rights holders. How? Because it moves them one step closer to the correct judgment, which is that it is now impractical and inefficient to control the quantity and destiny of digits -- especially so those that carry mass media like music -- in the increasingly friction-free world of digitization. When that judgment is drawn, service licensing begins. Until that judgment is drawn, product-based control continues in vain. Publishers long ago accepted technology and license it today -- they licensed Napster -- and their revenues are climbing; sound recording companies continue to resist every new technology and refuse to license, and their revenues are falling. This decision will benefit the music business the same way getting arrested for drunk driving benefits an alcoholic, summoning forth the day of reckoning and hastening rehabilitation.

This judgment doesn't destroy distribution -- it enables licensing. How? It reminds one of the parties in the licensing battle that one of the vines it was relying upon to to cling to the past will no longer be viable. Hyper-efficient delivery destroys distribution, meaning that the just-in-time delivery of digits will eventually destroy their distribution entirely. That is a ways off, but from what I'm hearing back-channel it is not too far off, as Apple prepares its tiny wireless iPod with no hard-drive but enhanced Wi-Max (metropolitan-wide high-bandwidth wireless) connectivity; it won't destroy downloading over night, but it will take a whack at its market share, and slowly but surely shift the market away from distribution/downloading and towards delivery/streaming.

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President celebrating Easter at Fort
Hood

President celebrating Easter at Fort
Hood 04/11/2004 01:09 PM

Celebrating Martin Luther King Day
(19-Jan-2004; 0.9K)

Celebrating Martin Luther King Day
(19-Jan-2004; 0.9K) 01/22/2004 02:38 AM

ARAB NEWS: People Warned Against
Celebrating Valentine’s Day

ARAB NEWS: People Warned Against
Celebrating Valentine’s Day 02/15/2004 09:19 AM
good practice of Islam

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Independence Day

Independence Day 07/04/2004 08:54 AM
Free Internet Press Jul 4 2004 1:10PM GMT

Tekmark Global Solutions Celebrating 25
Years of Technology and Business
Innovation

Tekmark Global Solutions Celebrating 25
Years of Technology and Business
Innovation 12/19/2004 03:32 PM
Tekmark Global Solutions (TGS) one of the nation’s largest privately held providers of information technology, telephony, business solutions and consulting services to companies worldwide, today will celebrate 25 years of growth and prosperity in New Jersey. [PRWEB Dec 19, 2004]

Rational calendar with 364 days, extra
week celebrating Isaac Newton

Rational calendar with 364 days, extra
week celebrating Isaac Newton 01/04/2005 08:35 AM
Cory Doctorow: An American physicist has developed a "rational" calendar of 364 days, in which each date falls on the same day of the week every year, thus saving profs the bother of drawing up new homework schedules every September.

His constraints meant eight months would have different lengths than they do now. March, June, September, and December would each contain 31 days, while the other months would each get 30. To keep the calendar in synchronisation with the seasons, Henry inserted an extra week - which is not part of any month - every five or six years. He named the addition "Newton Week" in honour of his favourite physicist, Isaac Newton.

"If I had my way, everyone would get Newton Week off as a paid vacation and could spend the time doing physics, or other activities of their choice," he says.

Despite this incentive, Henry says he has encountered resistance to his plan - mainly because people would be "stuck" with a birthday that always falls on a Wednesday, for example. Henry, who is among that group, is not moved by the argument. "You have my permission to celebrate your birthday the preceding or following Saturday," he says.

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Still Dependent on Independence Day

Still Dependent on Independence Day 07/03/2004 03:13 PM
Did you ever have one of those moments where you just wanted to haul out the old 12-gauge and blow grapefruit-sized holes through enything even remotely digital in sight? It happens all too often. If I could have found the shells before I cooled off… The bottom line is that my digital dreams of lying around on the porch entertained by streaming audio coming over the Wi-Fi airwaves went kaflooey in spectacular manner. It all started innocently enough when I got my hands on some money. I’d been planning this part of The Grand Upgrade for some time. I’d just go out and buy a Linksys broadband wireless router and a matching ‘.g’ card for my antiquated IBM Thinkpad and I’d be flying high. Right. First up was to get the router in place and running the part of the network that is to remain wired. That only took a 20 minute call to their tech support. Their people are rather obviously of Indian descent, but are capable people with a good deal of patience. I did my best to understand and together, we finally got the thing working. It wasn’t hard, but what I still fail to get is why neither the Quick Start manual nor the main manual had this set of instructions in them. Being quick on the trigger, I took notes on the provedure. I figured I’d better, since the sequence of steps took no logical sequence. Suddenly, it all clicked. I now had every system independently sucking down bytes from the Internet without the chance that taking one down would trash the others. Wonderful. Then I got stupid. Or optimistic, though the two are very close. I decided I’d try setting up the notebook card. Boom! Brick wall. File errors every time I went through the setup. Then I took a look in the Hardware Manager, since I had a good power light on the thing, just no ‘Link’ lights. More bad news- a yellow and black exclamation point. Further investigation revealed that “The device cannot be enabled because IRQ Steering is not enabled on this machine” or words to that effect. Worse yet, the message encouraged me to change the settings in the “machine BIOS” in order to enable IRQ Steering. Since the machine is old enough that it originally came with Windows 95, I leave it to you to guess how effective that would be. Oops, sorry, last BIOS update released by Big Blue was in 1998 and had been in place for quite some time. Another call to the good offshore folks showed me that without IRQ steering, there just wasn’t going to be any fun stuff like a Wi-Fi connection to the Internet. End of story. So, the card was reluctantly returned to the retail wonderland it came from and I gave up (for now) on my digital dream. Some day when I get the needed cash and there isn’t any domestic disaster lurking in the wings, I’ll do what I need to, which is to ditch the old clunker and buy a newer old clunker that can support my need for surfing. So ends the tale of failed Independence for Independence day.

Declaration of Independence

Declaration of Independence 07/04/2004 05:12 PM
A couple of borrowed links in honor of the 4th: Susan pointed me to this lovely site about the Declaration...

"Happy Independence Day"

"Happy Independence Day" 07/05/2004 02:40 PM

Device independence

Device independence 02/10/2004 02:49 AM

For a team of collaborators, Groove synchronizes both the sets of applications available in a given context (or "shared space") and the data written by those applications. If you drop your laptop on the floor you can effortlessly recover everything into a fresh instance of Groove on a new machine.

Of course this works only for native Groove apps. Browser history and bookmarks, Outlook settings, and a million other things are handled in a million other ways -- or not handled at all -- because desktop operating systems aren't Groove. A general solution would require OSs that work like Groove, and applications that send messages rather than write files. Well, come to think of it, why not? [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

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Whee! I'm in Roppongi, in bar Geronimo,
celebrating my birthday. Again, Harajuku
turned out to be a deathtrap to my
wallet...

Whee! I'm in Roppongi, in bar Geronimo,
celebrating my birthday. Again, Harajuku
turned out to be a deathtrap to my
wallet... 04/22/2004 09:04 AM
Anyway, I'm using a friend's borrowed 3G-phone to blog. :-) *warm technofuzzies*

U.S. Troops Mark Independence Day (AP)

U.S. Troops Mark Independence Day (AP) 07/05/2004 06:16 AM
AP - Fireworks lit the night sky over Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit as U.S. troops gathered to celebrate the 4th of July holiday with Iraqi National Guard soldiers on a bank overlooking the Tigris River.

Independence for PC Unit at Hewlett

Independence for PC Unit at Hewlett 06/17/2005 03:54 PM
The Hewlett-Packard Company tapped the former chief executive of PalmOne Inc. to run its personal computer division, re-establishing that business as a stand-alone unit.

Scots independence 'inevitable'

Scots independence 'inevitable' 09/05/2004 07:31 AM
New Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond tells the BBC that independence for Scotland is inevitable.

Kerry Wants Energy Independence for U.S.

Kerry Wants Energy Independence for U.S. 08/06/2004 02:47 PM
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Friday pressed the case for American energy independence as a step toward better national security, talking to farmers on the western edge of Missouri.

Finding Financial Independence

Finding Financial Independence 07/02/2004 07:59 AM
David Gardner reflects on freedom and retirement this Fourth of July.

Digital Independence Conference

Digital Independence Conference 01/26/2004 05:24 PM
I'll be speaking this weekend at the Digital Independence conference in San Francisco. Looks like an interesting lineup.

Mutual Fund Independence Day

Mutual Fund Independence Day 06/25/2004 01:52 PM
New rules force fund board independence, and that's a good thing.

Kosovo independence 'impossible'

Kosovo independence 'impossible' 04/22/2004 02:24 AM
Serbian foreign minister Vuk Draskovic says the creation of an independent Kosovo is impossible.

Atlantic Coast's Independence

Atlantic Coast's Independence 06/16/2004 04:37 PM
The regional carrier launched a new discount venture. The company has a shot, but the risks are great.
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Celebrating Independence and Patriotism