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As Doctors Write Prescriptions, Drug
Companies Write Checks

As Doctors Write Prescriptions, Drug
Companies Write Checks 06/26/2004 02:09 PM
An investigation has shed light on a shadowy system of financial lures that pharmaceutical companies have used to persuade physicians to favor their drugs.

To write: perchance to try again: ay,
there's the rub or Do I Write Another
Book?

To write: perchance to try again: ay,
there's the rub or Do I Write Another
Book? 01/15/2003 08:47 AM
To write: perchance to try again: ay, there's the rub1 or Do I Write Another (PHP2) Book? Anyone who was IMing me in the May / June / July time frame may be surprised to see this entry. Things change and time makes pain and bad memories drift away. I am speaking, of course, about the O'Reilly Essential Blogging writing process which was just plain awful and made me swear that I would N_E_V_E_R write another book for money. And here I am. I've been approached by Sams to write a PHP 5 in 21 Days book and I'm torn. I just don't know whether I want to walk this road again. Here's the situation as I see it: Pros I am the PHP Journal columnist for "On the Horizon" which talks about new PHP 4.x and 5.x features so it makes sense to write this I'm virtually certain that I'd enjoy working with this editor more than my last. Shelley strikes me as just plain cool (she handled giving out books to a pack of ravenous open source folk at PHP CON with a lot of style and grace). Good self promotion Would probably generate consulting work although that is by no means clear Establishes my credentials more firmly and anchors me to PHP even more Chance to talk about things like templating and event driven coding $$$ (although there is never all that much of it) Having an editor Cons Having an editor Have to create a __good__ website for the book How will they bungle the online side of it in a new and creative way? Lose the source code? Post it wrong? Managing the book writing and blogging and consulting process concurrently Will I actually make money Does promoting parts of it on my blog make me a schill Questions If anyone out there can help with these questions, I'd appreciate it: Anyone out there buy Sams books? I haven't in years and I don't know the rep these books have. Thoughts? Example of Similar Sams Book Has anyone written for Sams? Do they pay well What are they like as a publisher? Positive, Negative, Details? Was it a good or bad omen when I dropped my review copy of "Cold Fusion in 21 days" in the sink when shaving this morning? Would you buy it? Do people buy PHP books as opposed to using PHP.Net? I myself have a bunch of PHP books but don't turn to them all that often. There is something just plain addictive about walking into a bookstore and seeing yourself on the shelf. That and once you've written one book then there is just something about it. As Robert Heinlein once remarked (and the quote is inexact) "No one likes writing but people like having written". He was definitely correct about that. Thoughts, feedback, comments strongly appreciated. 1To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. [_Go_] (sorry for the bad link but their search engine doesn't give easily linkable results) 2Oh and if you're wondering why I put PHP on the title, with PHP being the target audience I figured it would get this more attention (and syndication to other sites) from the target audience

Can I write? I want to write. But I'm
afraid to write

Can I write? I want to write. But I'm
afraid to write 06/24/2005 07:31 PM
Family and friends will think it's about them!

HoustonChronicle.com -

HoustonChronicle.com - 03/25/2005 06:36 AM
You don't suppose there is any reason why George Bush didn't personally get involved in this one, do you? .. an African American baby was just allowed to die .. six-month-old Sun Hamilton died .. That's right, 2 days ago! .. turn off the respirator

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HoustonChronicle.com - BRITAIN'S BIG
BROTHER

HoustonChronicle.com - BRITAIN'S BIG
BROTHER 04/13/2004 07:42 PM
UK's surveillance cameras raise hackles .. even more disurbing report

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"HoustonChronicle.com - Clarence Thomas
might be next chief ju..."

"HoustonChronicle.com - Clarence Thomas
might be next chief ju..." 08/08/2004 03:24 AM

HoustonChronicle.com - New Enron
indictment targetsthe man at the top:
Ken Lay

HoustonChronicle.com - New Enron
indictment targetsthe man at the top:
Ken Lay 07/08/2004 09:03 PM

HoustonChronicle.com - Clarence Thomas
might be next chief justice

HoustonChronicle.com - Clarence Thomas
might be next chief justice 08/07/2004 02:09 PM
HoustonChronicle.com - Clarence Thomas might be next chief justice .. AP story (via the Houston Chronicle) .. this could set .. initials C.T.?

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"HoustonChronicle.com - Page: Yes to
weapons of mass photography"

"HoustonChronicle.com - Page: Yes to
weapons of mass photography" 05/26/2004 09:00 AM

HoustonChronicle.com - Case of dog shot
by police is probed

HoustonChronicle.com - Case of dog shot
by police is probed 01/06/2005 11:56 AM
Dog, shot by police, spent night in shelter without medical care

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HoustonChronicle.com - Police mistake
landscaper's hibiscus for pot

HoustonChronicle.com - Police mistake
landscaper's hibiscus for pot 07/30/2004 12:23 PM
Plant is called hibiscus, but it won't get you high:Officials mistake the popular foliage for pot and storm home of contractor .. Cops Bust Pot Grower

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HoustonChronicle.com - Enron prosecutors
to seek Lay indictment

HoustonChronicle.com - Enron prosecutors
to seek Lay indictment 06/20/2004 05:01 AM
ENRON prosecutors to seek Ken Lay indictment .. Kenny-boy Lay

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HoustonChronicle.com - Freedom to ring
in Iraq, Bush says

HoustonChronicle.com - Freedom to ring
in Iraq, Bush says 09/23/2004 03:15 PM
And hold your cursor over the picture and you get the word "shooting" in a box .. this Reuters article .. Houston Chronicle

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HoustonChronicle.com - Where's my
colleagues' interest in Kerry's war
records?

HoustonChronicle.com - Where's my
colleagues' interest in Kerry's war
records? 08/17/2004 05:11 PM
if you're going to use the story about Bush's records as an example .. the Houston Chronicle: .. Lee Cearnal

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3G in Australia going badly

3G in Australia going badly 01/17/2004 11:10 PM
MobileTracker Jan 16 2004 6:59PM GMT

Another CEO Blogs, Not Badly

Another CEO Blogs, Not Badly 07/09/2004 11:24 PM
Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO at Sun Microsystems, has a new blog that's off to a good start. There's a human voice on the page, and some actual insight into the person speaking. I'll be watching this one, for many reasons.

Badly malformed

Badly malformed 02/07/2005 01:48 AM
A rare, personal report from one of my very rare nightclub visits. Drunk people, the stench of urine, sweat, perfume and alcohol. And even HTML.

HoustonChronicle.com - Memos' possible
source attacked Bush in past

HoustonChronicle.com - Memos' possible
source attacked Bush in past 09/17/2004 11:58 AM
does a much better job of reporting who Bill Burkett is .. Houston Chronicle

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HoustonChronicle.com - Bush brother Neil
marries in Houston

HoustonChronicle.com - Bush brother Neil
marries in Houston 03/08/2004 11:12 PM
"Silverado," Adulterer, Asian Prostitute Client Neil Bush Marries, Again. His NEW Bride Used to Work for Barbara Bush, Who Attended the Nuptials with the First King George. How Touching. 3/8 .. his brother's wedding?

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HoustonChronicle.com - Humble company
drives DeLorean enthusiasts

HoustonChronicle.com - Humble company
drives DeLorean enthusiasts 03/27/2005 05:01 AM
they can buy a "remanufactured" DMC-12 .. De Lorean that's as good as new

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HoustonChronicle.com - Apple's iPod
success may be omen of things to come

HoustonChronicle.com - Apple's iPod
success may be omen of things to come 01/19/2004 01:57 PM
Apple's Success With iPod May Presage Ascendance Of Hardware Over Software

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The Washington Post does RSS -- badly

The Washington Post does RSS -- badly 04/16/2004 03:44 AM
I grew up in Washington, DC, and even after 20 years on the West Coast, I am used to reading the Washington Post daily, even as it has slowly transformed itself from the anti-establishment hero of Watergate in my youth to the neoconservative Republican paper of today. I have displayed its headlines on my personal news page for years, and use the headlines to pick which stories and columns to read online every day. Today the format of the headlines on my site changed drastically. The good news? The Washington Post finally started offering official Washington Post RSS feeds. No longer do I have to rely on Mike Krus' excellent NewsisFree services to get Washington Post headlines. I can go directly to the horse's mouth. The bad news? The RSS feeds are crippled. Each one has only a few headlines -- for example the Top News feed and the Opinions feed each currently have only 3 headlines. So now I only get some of the stories on the front page, not all of them. And where are the columns by my regular columnists, Colbert King, David Ignatius, and Richard Cohen (now that he has regained his senses)? The headlines also have the inane text (www.washingtonpost.com) at the end of each linked headline, as though anybody clicking on the linked headline would be taken somewhere else. It looks like something that would have been put on the web in 1995, not 2004. This is a really foolish way for them to put content out to people -- it is one of those cases where halfway is worse than none. By having only some but not all of the top headlines, they make it less likely, not more likely, that people outside Washington will rely on Post for news. By putting the stupid (www.washingtonpost.com) in every headline, instead of just the first or last one, they make it less likely that someone will want to display their headlines on their site. My guess, from years of reading the Post and reading about the Post, is that it is the result of political infighting inside the Post between people afraid of giving away their content, and people who see the value of syndicating headlines as a way of increasing influence and getting more people to read the Post online. It certainly looks like a typical Washington political compromise, ugly and satisfying neither opponents...

Three Financials Behaving Badly

Three Financials Behaving Badly 09/22/2004 12:27 PM
Do AIG, Citigroup, and Fannie Mae simply have corrupt cultures?

This has a potential of ending very
badly!

This has a potential of ending very
badly! 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
You all know I'm am seriously addicted to those evil thin mints from the girl scouts right? Well the season...

HoustonChronicle.com - Embattled DeLay
is losing support, poll finds

HoustonChronicle.com - Embattled DeLay
is losing support, poll finds 04/03/2005 06:15 PM
come home to roost .. houschron .. Wow

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HoustonChronicle.com - Text: Tom Ridge
press conference on terror threat

HoustonChronicle.com - Text: Tom Ridge
press conference on terror threat 08/03/2004 09:01 AM
the text of ridges comments whenever he wuz splainin the latest threat .. Text: Tom Ridge press conference on terror threat

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Three badly hurt in plane crash

Three badly hurt in plane crash 08/28/2004 08:20 AM
Three people were seriously hurt when a small plane crashes and bursts into flames close to a south coast airport.

Plaintiffs Say Microsoft Still Behaves
Badly

Plaintiffs Say Microsoft Still Behaves
Badly 01/17/2004 10:42 PM
New York Times Jan 17 2004 7:33AM GMT

HoustonChronicle.com - Neighbors with
bats, sticks capture suspected child
predator

HoustonChronicle.com - Neighbors with
bats, sticks capture suspected child
predator 05/25/2004 06:01 PM
Neighbors with bats, sticks capture suspected child predator .. Old-Skool Mob Captures Perv

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Re: Somebody exploiting (badly designed)
yahoo service?

Re: Somebody exploiting (badly designed)
yahoo service? 05/11/2004 04:31 PM
Charles Mansmann (May 11 2004)

El Reg badly misguided on cyber-terror
threat

El Reg badly misguided on cyber-terror
threat 03/06/2004 02:04 AM

The Democrats and the Republicans are
about to lose badly to the Internet

The Democrats and the Republicans are
about to lose badly to the Internet 01/11/2004 07:56 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Jan 11 2004 5:53AM ET

Hateful mouth and fingers that express
themselves so badly...

Hateful mouth and fingers that express
themselves so badly... 11/10/2003 11:06 PM

Some of the things I'm thinking about at the moment - at work and not at work - that I'm having real trouble articulating for some reason but that maybe I can do something with if I set some of them free:

• Collaborative online experiences for friends, small groups, one-on-one interactions - going places to do things with friends, co-browsing, co-experiencing, what it's like being at the cinema with a friend, backgrounded/instinctual non-verbal communications, presence-and-flocking, hello, Non-stranger-spaced, non-subject-focused discussions, tiny permeable-membrane reducers, three degrees;
• Routinely time-shifted media, ubiquities of recording and collation technologies, "Death of live", time-based design and the end of time-based content, programming in the middle of the night is as important as during the middle of the day, navigating insane scheduling information, worn paths, distribution technologies, bittorrent;
• Simplicities of structures, metadatas, identifiers, organisational principles, multi-use tags, clumpings, technological strata versus social orders;
• Leaderships, relationships, political managements, social engagement as game, rules of games, message-boards as prime structural spaces to test political systems, American free-market reputation economies, capturing ill-formed relationships, alpha behaviour, dominance, leadership, leader-led vs. leader-less groups;
• Information in the air, tiny LCD screens, scrolling data printed on milk-cartons, teddy bears that react to the weather, Ceefax, smoke-alarms, application-updates through the radio...

Gah. I can't think properly. Too much stuff piling up unexpressed. Too many things I'm not expressing properly. Too many opportunities not to produce stuff of suitable quality and value.

tiddles.co.uk - tim's badly drawn cat
web site

tiddles.co.uk - tim's badly drawn cat
web site 08/03/2004 04:30 PM
»tiddles.co.uk – tim’s badly drawn cat web site.«

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Somebody exploiting (badly designed)
yahoo service?

Somebody exploiting (badly designed)
yahoo service? 05/11/2004 02:57 PM
Aleksandar Milivojevic (May 11 2004)

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");document.write(tite);document.write(" 05/01/2004 10:43 PM
Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs .. Kentucky Derby is this Saturday

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Cabot Tower. Anyone can see it’s a
badly disguised rocket on top of hill

Cabot Tower. Anyone can see it’s a
badly disguised rocket on top of hill 03/14/2003 01:09 PM
Furni ture Of Mass Construction. “We found the warehouse in question contained no weapons of mass destruction, just a load of cheap flat-pack pine furniture from Sweden. Who would have thought that the instructions to build a coffee table would be that complicated.”

Engrish hilarity on badly bootlegged
Star Wars DVD

Engrish hilarity on badly bootlegged
Star Wars DVD 06/17/2005 03:34 PM
Xeni Jardin:
Badly translated subtitles on a pirated copy of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith provide many happy moments of beverage-through-nostrils yukkage. Sample: Anakin to Obi-Wan --"I was just made by the Presbyterian Church." Link to "Backstroke of the West," as the movie's title is translated here. Hard to believe this is real, but even if the post were a hoax, it's a fun one. (Thanks, Bonnie)

Dell Wants A Bigger Piece Of The School
Pie; How Badly Does Apple?

Dell Wants A Bigger Piece Of The School
Pie; How Badly Does Apple? 06/23/2004 10:50 AM
It's past time for Apple to renew -- really renew -- its focus on the education market. By Dennis Sellers, Macsimum (via MyAppleMenu)
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