How Do You Steer This Thing?

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Steer IT right

Steer IT right 05/05/2004 04:55 PM
Computer Times Asia May 5 2004 9:19PM GMT

Mongo the Steer Gets His Title Back (AP)

Mongo the Steer Gets His Title Back (AP) 02/14/2004 06:46 PM
AP - Mongo the steer may now be Mongo the steak, but it isn't too late to give the dethroned state fair champion his title back, a judge has ruled.

Friday Flashback: Steer Clear of the V

Friday Flashback: Steer Clear of the V 11/14/2003 09:08 AM
TheStreet.com Nov 14 2003 8:33AM ET

Ex-insider helped steer deal

Ex-insider helped steer deal 02/12/2004 02:43 AM
Boston Globe Feb 12 2004 6:04AM GMT

Croatian Banned From Walking Pet Steer
(AP)

Croatian Banned From Walking Pet Steer
(AP) 05/27/2004 05:00 PM
AP - Police in the coastal town of Split prevented the owner of a 1.43 ton bull from walking his pet along a popular promenade, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Developer: Analysts' Forecasts Shouldn't
Steer Java

Developer: Analysts' Forecasts Shouldn't
Steer Java 06/30/2004 07:48 PM
The president of JavaLobby says Sun's financial health is a secondary thought to the majority of the platform's developers, who just want to share knowledge and resources to improve it.

Gartner: Steer Clear of XP Starter
Edition

Gartner: Steer Clear of XP Starter
Edition 08/13/2004 06:11 PM
Gartner analysts are advising users to steer clear of Microsoft's low-cost alternative to Windows XP, Windows XP Starter Edition, saying that the lack of features will likely frustrate users due to its inability to grow with users as they gain experience.

Siebel, PeopleSoft Steer CRM Tools
Toward Customization

Siebel, PeopleSoft Steer CRM Tools
Toward Customization 04/25/2004 09:59 PM
Siebel 8 will fill enterprise demand for standards-based architectures with more flexible integration capabilities by moving the CRM platform to an architecture based on J2EE and Microsoft's .Net.

Access for all Dedicated Head of
e-Government to steer Blair's 'e-agenda'

Access for all Dedicated Head of
e-Government to steer Blair's 'e-agenda' 12/15/2003 11:34 AM
BBC Dec 15 2003 10:00AM ET

This thing still on?

This thing still on? 02/05/2005 10:19 PM
For 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...

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]

Next best thing to being there

Next best thing to being there 11/15/2003 08:46 AM
Los Angeles Times Nov 15 2003 7:38AM ET

Is This Thing On?

Is This Thing On? 07/02/2004 10:46 PM
Jesus, hanging on the cross, says, “Peter, come here.” Peter, thinking he is about to receive a profound religious truth, tries goes to Jesus but...

Say one thing, do another

Say one thing, do another 03/06/2004 01:54 AM

One New Thing

One New Thing 01/29/2004 12:59 PM
One New Thing
http://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.

Getting beyond the next big thing

Getting beyond the next big thing 08/15/2004 09:32 AM
McKinsey says a post-boom tech industry can profit mightily by taking stock in the operations of many slower-growth industries.

The Next Big Web Thing - Really

The Next Big Web Thing - Really 03/13/2003 10:22 AM
What 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.

Oh, And One Last Thing...

Oh, And One Last Thing... 04/18/2005 10:21 AM

Steve Jobs is finally getting his wish: an user interface that is really good enough to lick

One More Thing...

One More Thing... 06/05/2005 10:47 PM

Intel Inside the Apple.

If 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.

1. Family problems months ago that are ongoing
2. Preparation at work for some changes
3. New car, and the financial wrangling that made it happen
4. Possible new work in the future
5. Built foundation of that possible new work
6. Upgraded Mac Geekery and codepoetry to Drupal 4.6 (on the same install, no less)
7. 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-

TV the next big thing?

TV the next big thing? 06/10/2004 04:36 AM
Yes I know, you are wondering if I have lost it. To be honest when I read all the fuzz about it I thought "TV?...

The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing 06/18/2004 04:58 AM
RaymondChen's weblog .. The Old New Thing

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Gillette's New, New Thing

Gillette's New, New Thing 05/24/2004 12:41 PM
Gillette is counting on the new M3Power shaving system to differentiate its line.

Too much of a good thing

Too much of a good thing 07/16/2004 08:21 AM
Forget 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 PM

What 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 PM
Howard 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.

The Opera Thing

The Opera Thing 01/17/2004 10:42 PM
See that gap Opera 6/7 inserts in this web layout? That CSS bug has been fixed in Opera 7.23+. Opera fans, take note.

BlogPet, best thing ever

BlogPet, best thing ever 07/29/2004 08:45 PM
oh please oh please oh please english version!

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

Click to view the complete scene.

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.

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. Link

Read the whole thing

Read the whole thing 06/03/2004 06:36 AM
Ray Bradbury .. translation

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that bad journalism thing

that bad journalism thing 06/15/2004 03:18 PM
i think it's the Tribune's way of saying they think nobody read Choire's NYT piece

"it's a Catholic thing."

"it's a Catholic thing." 04/29/2004 09:09 AM

the damn thing

the damn thing 06/07/2004 04:11 AM
NotCon '04 .. NotCon

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Can Diversity Be a Bad Thing?

Can Diversity Be a Bad Thing? 04/12/2004 03:34 PM

vs. 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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The in thing: Outsourcing

The in thing: Outsourcing 05/14/2004 01:37 PM
CNET May 14 2004 5:39PM GMT

Only thing getting larger

Only thing getting larger 03/08/2004 11:23 PM
The 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. ...

: An Old New Thing

: An Old New Thing 07/07/2004 07:49 PM
In Kendall Clark's first week as managing editor, he says hello to new challenges and old friends.
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I put up with more than my girlfriend
does

I put up with more than my girlfriend
does 03/08/2004 11:07 PM
In an ideal relationship, shouldn't the annoyances be equally distributed?

Man Stalks Ex-girlfriend With GPS

Man Stalks Ex-girlfriend With GPS 09/05/2004 04:42 PM

Imaginary Girlfriend for Sale

Imaginary Girlfriend for Sale 03/15/2003 02:45 PM
"Nerdy? Creepy? Alone?" Hide these facts from others with the Imaginary Friends Instant Girlfriend and "silence the piercing voices and echoed braying laughter of your detractors once and for all" (03-15)

My girlfriend flaunts her money

My girlfriend flaunts her money 12/22/2004 01:34 AM
She's very Wall Street and I'm very nonprofit.

"Break up with your girlfriend with a
PowerPoint"

"Break up with your girlfriend with a
PowerPoint" 09/23/2004 09:50 PM

Ex-girlfriend at Caroline trial

Ex-girlfriend at Caroline trial 06/09/2004 08:35 PM
A former girlfriend of the man accused of raping and murdering a British schoolgirl will give evidence at his trial.

Killer's ex-girlfriend arrested

Killer's ex-girlfriend arrested 04/17/2004 11:16 AM
A 16-year-old girl is arrested by police searching for escaped killer James McCormick.

"100 Things to Do with Your Boyfriend or
Girlfriend... Instead of It"

"100 Things to Do with Your Boyfriend or
Girlfriend... Instead of It" 01/26/2004 03:28 AM

Donald Trump Proposes to Girlfriend (AP)

Donald Trump Proposes to Girlfriend (AP) 04/29/2004 10:40 AM
AP - There's a new member of Donald Trump's "A-Team." Following Ivana and Marla, model Melania Knauss became engaged this week to the billionaire developer, Trump spokesman Norma Foerderer said Thursday.

Internet Explorer: The Girlfriend from
Hell

Internet Explorer: The Girlfriend from
Hell 12/19/2004 03:14 PM
Imagine, for a while that your girlfriend is MSIE: She frequently gets infected with STDs. She frequently shows up where...

Kerry girlfriend won't give up web shame

Kerry girlfriend won't give up web shame 08/20/2004 04:02 PM
Gee wiz: this is bad

How to not make your girlfriend feel
good

How to not make your girlfriend feel
good 06/22/2005 03:01 AM

Today after the WABC Father's Day Fight Against Prostate Cancer 5 mile race in Central Park, New York City:

Him: So how'd you do?
Me: Not too badly. I ran about nine and a half minute miles. I don't know though, it seems like I should be able to go faster than that.
Him: Yeah, I watched the eight minute milers and they don't look that different from you.
Me: Yeah, sometimes people pass me and I see them and think, I should be able to go that fast.
Him: Yeah, like this guy today. He was doing six minute miles, and he was in his sixties. And he was flying! And he only had one arm!
Me: [silent]

Girlfriend tells of outback fear

Girlfriend tells of outback fear 05/18/2004 04:20 AM
The girlfriend of British backpacker Peter Falconio tells a court of the moment he was shot dead in the outback.

Donald Trump proposes to girlfriend

Donald Trump proposes to girlfriend 04/29/2004 12:01 PM

Falconio girlfriend faces court

Falconio girlfriend faces court 05/26/2004 02:53 AM
Peter Falconio's girlfriend tells an Australian court how she was left bloodied after a 2001 outback 'ambush'.

Scolari says Portugal like an ugly
girlfriend (Reuters)

Scolari says Portugal like an ugly
girlfriend (Reuters) 06/19/2004 08:50 AM
Reuters - Spending 20 days with the Portuguese team this month was like seeing a girlfriend in the harsh morning light for the first time and realising she was ugly, coach Luiz Felipe Scolari says.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Girlfriend 'hit
with alligator'

BBC NEWS | Americas | Girlfriend 'hit
with alligator' 07/18/2004 08:20 PM
to get a 3-foot alligator flung at you .. bbc

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Man glues hand to girlfriend in prison
(Reuters)

Man glues hand to girlfriend in prison
(Reuters) 08/05/2004 12:10 PM
Reuters - A German prisoner in Madrid and his girlfriend glued their hands together during a jail visit in an attempt to fight the man's possible extradition to Germany, judicial sources say.

Rosie weds longtime girlfriend, slams
Bush

Rosie weds longtime girlfriend, slams
Bush 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Rosie marries longtime girlfriend, slams Bush .. The best newpaper headline ever! .. tee hee, this headline is funny .. headline

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"Rosie weds longtime girlfriend, slams
Bush"

"Rosie weds longtime girlfriend, slams
Bush" 03/06/2004 02:05 AM

Online chat, games worry on-the-road
girlfriend

Online chat, games worry on-the-road
girlfriend 07/08/2004 10:08 PM
Suntimes.com - Thu Jul 8, 04:41 pm GMT

Man jailed for putting nude cellphone
pictures of girlfriend on the Internet

Man jailed for putting nude cellphone
pictures of girlfriend on the Internet 05/13/2004 03:26 PM
National Post May 13 2004 7:08PM GMT

"Paul Ford's attempt to explain Phillip
Pullman to his girlfriend"

"Paul Ford's attempt to explain Phillip
Pullman to his girlfriend" 06/24/2004 04:50 AM

Larry Flynt To Claim George Bush Helped
Girlfriend Get An Abortion In The Early
70s

Larry Flynt To Claim George Bush Helped
Girlfriend Get An Abortion In The Early
70s 02/18/2004 01:06 AM
not going to be a pretty election .. finally confirmed .. Daily News

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How Do You Steer This Thing?

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