: An Old New Thing
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: Moving On, But Not So Far
: Moving On, But Not So Far
06/30/2004 07:31 PMIn his last week as editor of XML.com, Edd Dumbill says goodbye after
nearly five years of directing the web site.
The Power of Taglines: Take My Tagline
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The Power of Taglines: Take My Tagline
Test!
06/05/2005 11:40 PMStickysauce Jun 6 2005 3:32AM GMT
: XML 2004: After Declaring
Victory, What's Next?
: XML 2004: After Declaring
Victory, What's Next?
12/19/2004 03:49 PMAs part of our XML 2004 conference coverage, Kendall Clark files his
first
column, covering the first day of the conference in
Washington, DC.
The Old New Thing
The Old New Thing
06/18/2004 04:58 AMRaymondChen's weblog .. The Old New
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Best Thing at CES
Best Thing at CES
02/01/2005 09:27 PM“What was the best thing at CES? Macworld,” writes Dan Dubno
for CBS News. “After a week in Las Vegas, at the Consumer
Electronics Show, I had seen all there was to see...Yet something was
missing at CES, and a week later, at Macworld in San Francisco, we
found it: the new Mac Mini and the iPod Shuffle.” [Jan 27, 2005]
TV the next big thing?
TV the next big thing?
06/10/2004 04:36 AMYes I know, you are wondering if I have lost it. To be honest when I
read all the fuzz about it I thought "TV?...
Getting beyond the next big thing
Getting beyond the next big thing
08/15/2004 09:32 AMMcKinsey says a post-boom tech industry can profit mightily by taking
stock in the operations of many slower-growth industries.
One New Thing
One New Thing
01/29/2004 12:59 PMOne New Thinghttp://nlrp.blogspot.com/Weblog of Lynette Reville, a new librarian in Australia, who
is on a library-like quest to find One New Thing to learn every day.
Her companion website is the
New Librarian's Resource Page
. Both are resources that you need to visit. I will be adding One
New Thing to my
eCurrent
Awareness 2004 Report.
Is This Thing On?
Is This Thing On?
07/02/2004 10:46 PMJesus, hanging on the cross, says, “Peter, come here.” Peter,
thinking he is about to receive a profound religious truth, tries goes
to Jesus but...
This thing still on?
This thing still on?
02/05/2005 10:19 PMFor a variety of boring reasons I spent some time today upgrading my
old Windows 2000 box to WinXP. I believe that Radio has survived the
transition, but this is a test post to make sure...
The Next Big Web Thing - Really
The Next Big Web Thing - Really
03/13/2003 10:22 AMWhat happened to Web services? Well, they're out there, being
developed by Microsoft and Sun employees as well as folks working on
other platforms. But, thankfully, what keeps showing up on the radar
is not the position papers produced by vendors' marketing departments,
but rather the quiet, diligent work of the W3C, which will have the
last laugh, in my humble opinion.
One More Thing...
One More Thing...
06/05/2005 10:47 PMIntel
Inside the Apple.
Next best thing to being there
Next best thing to being there
11/15/2003 08:46 AMLos Angeles Times Nov 15 2003 7:38AM ET
Oh, And One Last Thing...
Oh, And One Last Thing...
04/18/2005 10:21 AMSteve Jobs is finally getting his wish: an user interface that is
really good enough to lick
Say one thing, do another
Say one thing, do another
03/06/2004 01:54 AMIf It's Not One Thing...
If It's Not One Thing...
06/06/2005 12:15 AM I've been gone for a while ... and for too many reasons to count,
but I'll try.
- Family problems months ago that are ongoing
- Preparation at work for some changes
- New car, and the financial wrangling that made it happen
- Possible new work in the future
- Built foundation of that possible new work
- Upgraded Mac Geekery and codepoetry to Drupal 4.6 (on the same
install, no less)
- Worked so hard, slept so little, immune system went down enough I
picked up shingles – yay me
So, while I'm doing my best not to scratch everywhere, I'm looking
at the tech news as of late and realizing that there is absolutely
nothing interesting going on until the 29th. Sure, sure, Adobe is
trying harder to be the Microsoft of the media applications market,
and succeeding, and other little fun things going around and around,
but overall it's just your average monkey business.
But, damn, did you see Apple's stock price? Down $10 in
just a few days for no real reason. Well, the whole market went to
crap along with it (the Dow dropped over 500 points) so it's not like
a bias or anything but ... wow.
Anyway. I'll have a long biting insight ready just as soon as the
hydrocodone wears off... -scratch- -scratch-
Too much of a good thing
Too much of a good thing
07/16/2004 08:21 AMForget spam -- our real conundrum is the overload of legitimate
e-mail. But help is coming.
"watch the whole thing "
"watch the whole thing "
07/16/2004 03:18 PMWhat a sick thing to do...
What a sick thing to do...
07/25/2004 04:03 PM
Bush administration seeks to block consumer drug
suits. White House says injury claims undermine FDA.
Gee. I don't know
wh
y we might need some legal recourse against drug manufacturers?
Weasels!
Joe Trippi's next big thing
Joe Trippi's next big thing
07/26/2004 07:41 PMHoward Dean's campaign wizard is now a consultant without a candidate,
but he's giving John Kerry free advice: Reject public financing and
turn to your base to neutralize the Bush money juggernaut.
Thing you don't want to see in the
morning
Thing you don't want to see in the
morning
08/05/2004 03:56 PM
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Very early in the morning, I walk out with the firm purpose of taking
the garbage out. I walk in, turn on the lights by waving my arms
frantically (the motion detector apparently works only if your body
mass exceeds 120 kg - the local cats apparently can grow very big) and
something is not quite right. I see shoes from the corner of my eye.
"Shoes?", I think to myself. "Shoes, dangling from the
ceiling?"
I look left and yeah, a pair of mens' shoes is hanging a meter and a
half off the ground. With pants and all.
My stomach curls up in panic.
Half a second later, my brain catches up and I laugh.
Definitely another one in the category of things you can do with your laundry but
probably should not.
How Do You Steer This Thing?
How Do You Steer This Thing?
07/16/2004 05:22 AMCan biker moguls Senior and Paulie Teutul of American Chopper leverage
their brand?
Is there such as thing as too much
memory?
Is there such as thing as too much
memory?
08/14/2004 11:54 AM
Munich Bans
Memorial Plaques Munich has decided to ban memorial plaques to
Jewish, Sinti and German citizens deported and murdered during World
War Two. Jewish leaders, fearful that the plaques would stir up
anti-Semitic fervor, supported the ban.
These plaques are the work of a German artist,
Gunter Demnig.
”He first had the idea in the early 1990s when he was unveiling a
memorial for the Sinti and Roma victims of the Holocaust.
“An elderly woman approached him and insisted that "no Gypsies
ever lived here". "It is so easy for people to deny
something. I wanted to ensure that this would not happen," he
says. (BBC).”
This reminder of the holocaust brought to mind the
Pinkas Synagogue
in Prague, as well as the
Viet Nam
Memorial
and the
AIDS quilt --
monuments that really changed me.
About that whole Internet thing...
About that whole Internet thing...
04/01/2005 01:10 AMA major study on the Internet initiated by the US Congress was
released today... over six years late. Needless to say, a lot has
changed.
The Opera Thing
The Opera Thing
01/17/2004 10:42 PMSee that gap Opera 6/7 inserts in this web layout? That CSS bug has
been fixed in Opera 7.23+. Opera fans, take note.
Put that filthy thing out!
Put that filthy thing out!
02/18/2004 12:04 PM Smoking
banned from the Irish workplace (including pubs) from March 29th
Looks like all of us smokers will have to comply. Personally, I can't
wait for the ban to come in as it will be further incentive for me to
fight the addicition. Hopefully the ban on smoking at my office will
mean it'll be easier to stop.
All that said, I wonder how it's going to be enforced? The way I see
it, the only way it could be properly enforced is through the public
being prepaired to report transgressions to those charged with
enforcing the law. Maybe the fear of that will make sure that business
owners see to it that their workplaces are smoke free.
Is Subscription the Next Thing?
Is Subscription the Next Thing?
07/15/2004 07:10 PMSource: John Battelle's Searchblog - Can I imagine giving Google $40 a
month to get the WSJ, Times archives, BBC archives, all my favorite
blog archives, and whatever other universe of paid content I might
want to add elegantly served...
It's like that spiderman thing all over
again
It's like that spiderman thing all over
again
07/10/2004 06:43 AM
Friday Saturday Flash Fun -
MorrisseyDance (warning - cheesy
audio) Read the whole thing
Read the whole thing
06/03/2004 06:36 AMRay Bradbury ..
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Interesting Thing of the Day
Interesting Thing of the Day
06/04/2004 03:50 AM
San
Francisco’s Terra Infirma and other
Interesting Things of the Day.
Putting the muse back
in museum was another that struck me with its focus on
unconventionally-themed museums, reminiscent of the roadside
attractions in
Gaiman's
American
Gods.
Audio feeds of
recent articles are available, and well read, but it seems that most
of the clips are intended to become available by subscription-only.
Regardless, many of the
past
year's articles make for fascinating reads. (via
bsag)
the damn thing
the damn thing
06/07/2004 04:11 AMNotCon '04 .. NotCon
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"it's a Catholic thing."
"it's a Catholic thing."
04/29/2004 09:09 AMBlogPet, best thing ever
BlogPet, best thing ever
07/29/2004 08:45 PMoh please oh please oh please english version!
that bad journalism thing
that bad journalism thing
06/15/2004 03:18 PMi think it's the Tribune's way of saying they think nobody read
Choire's NYT piece
Thing Knowledge
Thing Knowledge
06/18/2004 12:53 PM
My friend Alex at University of California Press gave me a review copy
of the book
Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific
Instruments by Davis Baird. Sounds heavy, but on first glance it
seems that Baird has balanced deep philosophy with fun machine
history! The illustrations and vintage photographs are a treat too.
I'm looking forward to digging into it. From Peter Galison's blurb on
the back:
"Grappling with a wonderful assortment of objects--from
antique orreries to modern spectrographs--Davis Baird draws the reader
deep into fascinating questions about the nature of knowledge. As
lucid on the semantic account of theories as it is on the inner
workings of the cyclotron, this book that brings the laboratory to
philosophers and philosophy into the laboratory."
Warning: At $65, it's a pricey book, probably due to a limited print
run.
LinkThe in thing: Outsourcing
The in thing: Outsourcing
05/14/2004 01:37 PMCNET May 14 2004 5:39PM GMT
Can Diversity Be a Bad Thing?
Can Diversity Be a Bad Thing?
04/12/2004 03:34 PMvs. Linux GUI:
Owen found an interview that really, really hits the nail on
the head about a big problem with Linux.
Right now, the Linux community values "diversity" too
highly to ever get a single, consistent GUI, let alone a good one. At
the same time, it holds on doggedly to its (often ancient) Unix-rooted
traditions and conventions.
Finally, it's hard to get a really large group of Linux developers
to do much of anything beyond a single "project." A GUI is not a
"project." It's the whole OS from the user's perspective, and it must
be from the creators' perspective too or it will
fail.
This is so true. One thing that has always bothered me about Linux
is the lack of a consistent file structure. One distribution puts
certain files in one place, and another puts them somewhere else.
This was such a big problem, in fact, that the United Linux consoritum was put
together specifically to define a common file system. However, Red
Hat didn't play ball, and that really marginalized any chance of
success.
As for the GUI problem discussed above: Gnome or KDE? Why? Why
don't they get together and build the GUI to end all GUIs and
just make life simpler for everyone? The different Linux
distributions and GUI essentially create multiple "virtual OSs."
You're running Fedora and KDE, or SuSE and Gnome, or Slackware and
something else.
You also see this when installing software. I'm using Red Hat
Fedora, so I need to find an RPM specifically for my distribution.
This isn't the same thing that will run in SuSE or other
distributions. In fact, they may not use RPMs at all. You may need
to compile them from source, etc.
About 18 months ago, I made a concerted effort at using Linux on
the desktop. I posted here about the lack of consistency:
While I appreciate the cowboy, wild-west, open-source
attitude as much as the next guy, I also appreciate not having to
relearn an interface for every new app. With Linux apps, Lord only
knows what the menu commands are going to be. Right-clicking on the
workspace may reboot the machine for all you know. CTRL-A works in
some apps, not in others. Double-clicking has all sorts of different
behaviors as well.
Let me say that I haven't found this issue to be the case with
Fedora, but the premise holds true. Linux developers look at their
one little corner of the OS. They are tactical. No one is looking at
the big picture — the strategic picture.
Perhaps the best thing to happen to Linux would be for Red Hat to
destroy all competitors and become the Microsoft of Linux. If
everyone was using Red Hat, and there was one monolithic entity
working on developing the platform, maybe this would provide the
cohesion the OS needs to make real inroads on the desktop.
Far be it for me to agree with Owen about anything, but this
interview is right on the money.
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Only thing getting larger
Only thing getting larger
03/08/2004 11:23 PMThe few that each of us receive is just a fraction of the online
enhancement craze. A Google search for "penis enlargement" yielded 1.8
million hits. ...
Gillette's New, New Thing
Gillette's New, New Thing
05/24/2004 12:41 PMGillette is counting on the new M3Power shaving system to
differentiate its line.
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