We have come a long way
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"Dazzling, full-color shots of people
long since dead, landscapes long since
paved, and an empire long since
overthrown."
"Dazzling, full-color shots of people
long since dead, landscapes long since
paved, and an empire long since
overthrown."
01/17/2004 11:07 PMFinally .. after long long long time ..
Sonique 2 beta released
Finally .. after long long long time ..
Sonique 2 beta released
12/21/2003 03:42 PMSo Long, Long Distance (The Motley Fool)
So Long, Long Distance (The Motley Fool)
09/07/2004 02:07 PMThe Motley Fool - The Olympic Games are now history, but not
AT&T's (NYSE: T - News) $25 million ad campaign to redefine
its image. After years of getting clobbered by the regional Bell
companies such as BellSouth (NYSE: BLS - News), Verizon (NYSE: VZ -
News), Sprint (NYSE: FON - News), and MCI (Nasdaq: MCIP - News), the
company has turned its business focus from traditional phone service
to networking.
Long Live the Elephants, Long Dead
Long Live the Elephants, Long Dead
06/04/2004 01:01 AMElephants at the American Museum of Natural History are undergoing
cutting-edge, high-definition digital radiography.
The long tail's long lead
The long tail's long lead
12/22/2004 01:45 AMChris Anderson has signed with Random House to do a book about The
Long Tail, and has started a blog devoted to it. (The long tail is the
social effect of the Web apart from the hit-heavy, glamorous side of
it.)...
Long Tale of Long Tail
Long Tale of Long Tail
03/17/2005 03:58 AM
This recent post by Joe Krause about the i
mportance
of catching long tails in business is the best post I've read
in recent weeks.

So Long, Long Distance
So Long, Long Distance
09/07/2004 02:04 PMAT&T turns its business focus away from traditional phone service.
The Long, Long Arm of SGML
The Long, Long Arm of SGML
11/05/2003 08:20 PMCommenting on Tim Bray's "UTF-8+names" proposal for creating memorable
shortcuts for some Unicode code points, Kendall Clark sees the effort
as part of XML's continuing struggle against the legacy of its SGML
ancestry.
The long tail is fractal. Why I buy the
long tail, having been a skeptic
The long tail is fractal. Why I buy the
long tail, having been a skeptic
03/29/2005 03:01 PMThe long tail is jagged, fractal – perhaps as any market achieves
maximum efficiency it starts to look like everything...
A little RAM goes a long way...
A little RAM goes a long way...
10/28/2003 11:06 PMI'm not sure if any of you will notice, but I boosted wasted's RAM
from 64MB to 128MB. Now she's...
That Didn't Take Long
That Didn't Take Long
02/16/2004 02:47 PMFebruary 12: Windows 2000 source code leaks to the Web. February 15:
First exploit based on leaked code reported.
The Long Way
The Long Way
01/05/2005 09:10 AM
Ellen Macarthur is trying to break the solo round-the-world
sailing record. From
her website
you can see stills and videos while she’s enroute, and track her
progress. Meanwhile, the
Vendee Globe is underway,
with 20 sailors racing a similar course – also nonstop, and with no
outside assistance allowed. The first solo nonstop circumnavigation
was only 35 years ago, and the record has gone from
313 days to
72. It’s the slow way around, to be sure, and that’s probably
why only
a few
dozen people have done it.
Well. That didn't take long.
Well. That didn't take long.
08/06/2004 01:33 PM
The anti-Kerry book
Unfit for
Command is #1 on Amazon. Unfortunately, the book, not even
released, has entered the downward spiral of diminished credibility of
its authors. The "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" have been
found to include a man who
changed his
story right after Kerry entered the race and another who
flat-out retracts his accusations.
Meanwhile, another SBVfT member has accused Kerry of not really
deserving his Bronze Star because the events leading to it never
occured... even though the Veteran
recieved a
Bronze Star for the same day's events he claims now never
happened.
The Long Emergency
The Long Emergency
04/07/2005 10:24 PM
The Long Emergency is coming,
according to
James Howard
Kunstler. Welcome to the new agrarian future. Buy 40 acres, a
mule, and maybe some stock in the railroads.
Low tariffs, for how long?
Low tariffs, for how long?
08/28/2004 02:47 PMTechTree Aug 28 2004 5:39PM GMT
Listen to Joe Long!
Listen to Joe Long!
11/11/2003 06:52 PMJoe Long, the Product Unit Manager for XML Enterprise Services at
Microsoft, talks about the Indigo migration story in this recorded
presentation on MSDN. If you weren't at Joe's PDC talk and think you
don't have 37 minutes time for this, you can still not afford to miss
listening to the prescriptive guidance section starting at slide 60,
if you ever have or will cross an application domain boundary with a
Remoting, Enterprise Services or Web service call on the current
stacks.
Just like me, they long to beClose to
you
Just like me, they long to beClose to
you
07/09/2004 01:33 AMCAN'T KEEP HANDS OFF EACH OTHER .. his homosexual fantasies .. Get a
Room
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Brian Eno on the Long Now
Brian Eno on the Long Now
11/04/2003 09:27 PMTim O'Reilly writes, "Musician/producer BRIAN ENO will be giving a
rare free public lecture next week at Fort Mason in San Francisco on
Friday, Nov. 14, in the Herbst Pavillion. Coffee bar opens at 7pm,
lecture at 8pm. Directions to Herbst Pavillion are here. This is not a
concert. Brian Eno will be speaking about 'The Long Now.'"
I must go.
Teaching CSS: there's a long way to go
Teaching CSS: there's a long way to go
11/19/2003 01:41 AMThis email to the css-discuss mailing list does a
great job of describing the confusion and frustration that still
confronts traditional web developers who are only just starting out on
the road to mastering CSS. When you've "got it", it's easy to forget how
much of a paradigm shift it is away from old school table methods.
Here's an extract:
Step
Eight.
Just when you think you're settling down into a slow and steady
learning curve, this is about when you start getting emails from
everyone who uses your site describing all kinds of variations on your
layout as it has been interpreted by their varying browsers and
platforms. This stage is the most important of all, the one where you
realize that CSS support is far, far more random than any HTML
workarounds that you've been dealing with for the (insert personal
experience here) years you've been making web pages.
(Excerpt from an email from a user of one of my sites: "the new
color and stuff on the homepage looks good, except on my computor
[sic]
some of the pages are cut off at the bottom and have big gaps in
them")
Maybe a good analogy to make here is one with Linux: both are great
in principle, but if you aren't comfortable with what you are doing
you can run in to a whole bunch of problems. I wouldn't recommend
anyone who is still on the CSS learning curve to move a big commercial
project to pure CSS,
just as I wouldn't suggest a Linux newbie start hosting their own
internet facing server.
At any rate, it's obvious that we as a community still have a long
way to go in creating useful resources for people who want to make the
switch to CSS.
A little Latitude goes a long way
A little Latitude goes a long way
12/25/2003 04:20 PM As a former 'southlander', I used to think that I understood what the
Winter solstice was all about and...
We've Come a Long Way, Ladies
We've Come a Long Way, Ladies
02/17/2004 01:15 PMBut women are still falling short financially, even when besting men.
Sony's new PSP has a long way to go
Sony's new PSP has a long way to go
04/05/2005 04:32 AMI Can Only Study So Long
I Can Only Study So Long
12/13/2002 05:22 PMThis site is now using a new version of my RSS parser. The new
version is slightly more efficient but much more functional. I am
going to torture test it for a few hours and if all goes well, which
it seems to be thus far, I will release the script for download
tonight. Among the new features of the parser, is that nearly all
information is available from RSS feeds, not just the <link>,
<title>, and <description> elements. Conditional GET
statments and caching were retooled a little, but they're functionally
identical to the old version.
Jeffrey Zeldman over at Zeldman.com has introduced a new sidebar on
his page called "Relevant Externals", where he links to "independent
web productions". I am proud to have ReadingEd.com among the great
sites in that list. Thanks Mr. Zeldman.
Elsewhere, G.K. Nelson of Stonefishspine laments about being
distracted from his regular web duties while learning some new web
tricks. Happily I notice he mentions my work there in a good light.
I have always been a big fan of Stonefishspine, both for its handsome
presentation style, and its intellectual content. I'm honored.
I contributed to ZENcat, you should too.
Sebastian Van Sande has introduced Open Channels which parses content
out of selected RSS feeds (using my RSS parser) for your viewing
pleasure.
And now for another installment of "It Came from the Server Logs"...
phil ringnalda dot com - http://philringnalda.com/
Bitacora Tremendo (spanish) - http://tremendo.com/bitacora/
leuschke.org :: free over a regular base -
http://www.leuschke.org/log/
Brandon Lee - http://bigredswitch.com/blog/
Back to finals preparation...
Getargs-Long-1.0.1
Getargs-Long-1.0.1
09/16/2004 05:07 PM10 years on and still a long way to go
10 years on and still a long way to go
12/08/2003 02:22 PMnewmediazero Dec 8 2003 1:36PM ET
Exit Long Ago
Exit Long Ago
12/06/2003 07:57 PMReuters via Wired News Dec 6 2003 6:40PM ET
The Long Line
The Long Line
12/09/2003 01:24 PM Apple must be
putting something in Tokyo's watersource. Long Time
Long Time
04/12/2005 11:10 PMI got a raise today, prorated 4.9% increase so about $500 instead of
$1200. Boo and Yay.
Just as long as it doesn't go to
penalties.
Just as long as it doesn't go to
penalties.
06/24/2004 05:09 AMPortugal, then. The European football championships go on, which for
the stateside readers will mean nothing, but which here, before even
the quarter finals, have already taken on their usual mythic
qualities. England are through to the knockout stage, but...
So Long, Hubble
So Long, Hubble
01/17/2004 11:18 PMHubble casualty of Bush space plan: Sometime in the
future, we'll be mourning the poor Hubble Space Telescope. It was
good while it lasted.
The Hubble Space Telescope will be allowed to degrade and
eventually become useless, as NASA changes focus to President Bush's
plans to send humans to the moon, Mars and beyond, officials said
Friday. NASA canceled all space shuttle servicing missions to the
Hubble...
Did you know that when the Hubble was first launched (then
subsequently — and infamously — fixed), there was a program where amateur astronomers
could submit proposals and, if they were accepted, could use the
Hubble to test their own astronomy theories?
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Long Live 2D
Long Live 2D
07/20/2004 07:54 PMEarly development
Getargs-Long-1.0.0
Getargs-Long-1.0.0
09/15/2004 11:38 PMThe Church of the Long Now
The Church of the Long Now
07/16/2004 01:16 AMJuly 02004 I believe that the folks over at the Long Now project
are onto something, although they don't seem to quite realize it. They
point out that civilization has a "pathologically short attention
span" and are addressing this problem by building a 10,000 year
clock that "ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo
comes out every millennium". They have a charming way of prepending
a zero onto the date (so that 2004, for example, becomes 02004) to
emphasize this point of view. Their goal is an admirable one - to
focus humanity's attention on timescales that extend beyond a
single life, but they don't seem to have thought very deeply about
the underlying philosophy. I propose that the Long Now has profound
implications for our species - implications that range from the
mundane to the practical to the spiritual. What better way to
organize and direct such implications than to form a new religion?
All rational thinkers, hear me: Welcome to the Church of the Long Now.
Through eyes long since gone
Through eyes long since gone
05/12/2004 07:06 AM
A photo taken by my paternal grandfather of the fire at the Purina headquarters in February 1962.
It was so cold that the water was frozen by the time it hit the
building and turned it into an ice palace. I put a few more of them
into a small gallery
of grandpa's photos.
My brother-in-law has started scanning in pictures given to him by my
95 year old grandmother which were taken over the course of my
grandfather's life. It's so strange to see these images taken by a man
who was always remote and stoic. He was a brilliant mechanical
engineer and mathematician who introduced me to cryptography when I
was 7 via the cryptoquip in the newspaper. He patiently explained
letter frequency and how to make a crib. Every time I pick up a
draw-string bag from a store, I think of him since he designed the
machine to make them but, being an 'Organization Man' straight out of
Whyte's book, he shared none of the profits that the company reaped
from his design. Grandpa was also the guy who, on Christmas, would
take a pocketknife and slowly, carefully unwrap the paper from each
gift and fold it.
While I respected his intelligence, I never really liked him very
much as he made it impossible to warm up to him. I have an exceedingly
vivid memory of him talking to me on my 10th birthday about 'niggers'
and my immediate reaction of thinking much less of him for it. My
mother always remembers him taking back a box kite he had made for me
only to give it to my cousin. I didn't think much of it at the time
since Robin was only 1 week younger than me, but he had been born
retarded due to a negligent doctor with a pair of foreceps and I
thought maybe he needed the kite more than I did in the guileless
näive way that children tend to see such things. Later in life I would
come to understand that he and my grandmother had a long history of
playing favourites - from my father's brother, to my oldest sister, to
Robin.
I spent several summers over at their house and can't really recall
that I learned anything about them as people aside from what was
obvious and already known; they loved bridge with friends, he was a
type II diabetic and they were active Masons. They used to take me to
various Masonic functions and even then I was cynical enough to think
of it as a creepy cult-like organisation. They were inscrutable in
many ways. It's is particularly odd to see these photographs that he
took not only because I didn't know that he liked photography, but
that he took more than just the usual family snapshots and appears to
have been reasonably good at it. My father bought an Olympus OM-10 at
one point and I don't know that he took many photos with it since work
was his life. I imagine that had he lived to enjoy some of his
retirement that he would have taken a lot more pictures. I started
getting interested in photography about 10 or 12 years ago and I
wonder now if it might be hereditary. :)
George, my grandfather, died from a massive heart attack at the ripe
age of 84 while roofing his house, which wasn't a bad way to go all
things considered. I cursed him at the time since it was right before
my Calculus 2 and Differential Equations exams and he was helping my
understanding of them tremendously. Looking at the few pictures my
brother-in-law sent to me, it makes me wonder if he might have had
some redeeming qualities as a human being that I didn't or couldn't
see when I was much younger.
"I'm fat but healthy!" Not for long,
you aren't.
"I'm fat but healthy!" Not for long,
you aren't.
05/12/2004 02:29 PM
Scientis
ts know that being fat reduces your lifespan, making you more
susceptible to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and a host of other
bad things. However they are only beginning to understand why.
"Fat tissue is now recognized to be the body's biggest endocrine
organ," producing 25 known signaling compounds and a variety of
proteins.
PeopleSoft CEO Says So Long
PeopleSoft CEO Says So Long
12/28/2004 07:35 PMTheStreet.com Dec 28 2004 10:51PM GMT
"your long wait is over"
"your long wait is over"
02/07/2005 02:02 AM"The Long Road to War"
"The Long Road to War"
03/19/2003 10:44 PMLong Distance Wi-Fi
Long Distance Wi-Fi
08/09/2004 10:16 PMTeens' wireless feat could be world record: Quite a feat took
place at DefCon.
In the end, their 55-mile amplified connection exceeded last year's
winner by 20 miles. Then they turned off their amplifiers and broke
the record for an unamplified connection at the same distance.
While not yet confirmed, the connection appears to be a world
record for a ground connection. The Guinness record for Wi-Fi
connection is about 192 miles, achieved in 2002 by Swedish Wi-Fi
equipment maker Alvarion and the Swedish Space. But that record was
achieved using a Swedish weather balloon, which some experts say isn't
comparable to a ground measurement because there are fewer obstacles
to block a signal.
The Swedish team also used amplification in setting the mark, while
the DefCon team maintained its connection even after turning off the
amplification.
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