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Two years smoke-free (and counting)

Two years smoke-free (and counting) 10/29/2003 01:16 AM
In two hours, I will have gone two years without a cigarette, after more years than I can count of smoking. Time Smoke-Free: 730 days, 1 hour, 43 minutes and 43 seconds Cigarettes NOT smoked: 25,553 Lifetime Saved: 6 months, 15 days, 4 hours Money Saved: $5,748.75 On of the hardest things I have ever done, but definitely worth it. Highly recommended. Also highly recommended, the Quit Net....

Twenty years of malware--and counting

Twenty years of malware--and counting 11/12/2003 01:12 PM
ZDNet Nov 12 2003 10:40AM ET

Seventy-five Years Old and Still
Counting – Henry Dreyfuss Associates
Still Make an Impact On American Life

Seventy-five Years Old and Still
Counting – Henry Dreyfuss Associates
Still Make an Impact On American Life 07/12/2004 02:07 AM
In 1929 Henry Dreyfuss founded the design firm now known as Henry Dreyfuss Associates (HDA). The firm made an impact on American life by aiding in the establishment of the fields of industrial design and human factors. Many of the firms' designs, such as Ma Bell's Princess line phone are classics. The firm continues in the tradition of excellence imbued by Henry Dreyfuss. [PRWEB Jul 12, 2004]

Counting on Social Security Benefits
Being There When You Retire is Like
Counting Your Chickens Before They
Hatch, Warns Kingdom Financial
Principles

Counting on Social Security Benefits
Being There When You Retire is Like
Counting Your Chickens Before They
Hatch, Warns Kingdom Financial
Principles 09/02/2004 02:25 AM
The phrase “if you want anything done do it yourself” has never been more relevant than with the looming crisis facing retirees hoping to survive on Social Security benefits. More to the point, the pool of income funding Social Security will not be enough to supply the benefits needed by the large baby boom generation. While the government will do what it can to ease the coming storm, it is the upcoming retirees themselves who must take matters into their own hands. [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]

Counting the F Word

Counting the F Word 05/03/2004 01:41 PM
Because you simply had to know, here's a site that keeps track of how many times the F-Word is used in HBO's Deadwood. I've been watching Deadwood and sort of enjoying it. There's some juicy acting in it — I especially liked Wild Bill, but, oh well — and an abundance of period color, but it suffers from sitting next to The Sopranos on the TiVo list....

Counting Down to Freeloader 100

Counting Down to Freeloader 100 06/04/2004 03:49 PM
You have one week left to enter the ThinkFreeloader giveaway. Get the details here and enter to win a free copy of ThinkFree Office. Don't forget to email me with your link (brian AT macmerc DOT com).

Have friends on the MSN chat network? Tired of using a second-rate chat client? Check out the alternatives in this week's Freeloader Friday.

Two weeks and Counting

Two weeks and Counting 06/17/2005 04:44 PM
Wow. I haven't posted in about two weeks, amazing. I'll blame the usual culprits of work and laziness brought about by the intense heat in...

20 million and counting

20 million and counting 12/09/2003 10:49 AM
Apple has announced that the iTunes Music Store has now surpassed 20 million songs sales. Peter Lowe, Apple's director of marketng for applications and services, announced the figures at yesterday's Music 2.0 event in Los Angeles. 45 percent of song sales for the iTunes Music Store are part of an album purchase, with single track purchase make up the remaining 55 percent. While revenue for the iTunes Music Store is considerable, Apple makes almost no money from song sales; nearly all of...

24 hours and counting

24 hours and counting 01/23/2004 04:15 PM
More or less, at least. By this time tomorrow I'll be well on my way to being well on my way to Copenhagen for the NordU parrot tutorial session. (While the conference didn't meet minimum attendance requirements some of the tutorial sessions, including mine and Allison's Perl 6 session, have, so they're on) Should be fun--it's always nice to be able to wander around a place with history. Allison and I'll be doing a get-together with the Copenhagen.pm folks Wednesday evening. That'll prove to be a good time, I expect. Dunno if I'll spend the rest of the time (Sunday...

Counting on the AWOLs

Counting on the AWOLs 03/17/2005 03:50 AM
A new GAO report exposes the Pentagon's fuzzy math regarding Iraq's new security forces.

18 hours and counting........

18 hours and counting........ 02/10/2004 02:42 AM

Professor Gets Job Counting Frogs (AP)

Professor Gets Job Counting Frogs (AP) 05/18/2004 11:43 AM
AP - Eldon Enger is all ears when he's looking for frogs. The retired biology professor is a volunteer frog counter for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

600k locked in and counting

600k locked in and counting 05/25/2004 02:50 PM

Investing in Linked In and some explosive growth numbers.

Last week I had another great dinner in San Francisco with Reid Hoffman, founder of Linked In. Reid is one of the most impressive and visionary friends I know.

I am very proud to join its investors list. Reid has secured Series A financing of $4.7 million in November last year. The investment was led by Sequoia Capital, the venture investors behind well-known Internet brands such as Yahoo!, Google and PayPal. A round with business angels that I participated in will be announced within a few weeks.

Here is some information about Linked In's recent growth, if you are interested:

600,000+ users (30,000+ growth per week)
28,000,000+ email addresses sent through Linked In (3,000,000+ growth per week)
12 months old

Within the 600,000+ users:
265,000+ international users
120,000+ senior management-level users
8,000+ entrepreneurs
10,000+ VCs
100% professional users

and 28,000+ in France only.

Congrats, Reid ! [Loic Le Meur Blog]

Oh goodey. 600,000 more locked in people.  Isn't the world a wonderful place to make money?

I wonder if Reid, Joi and Loic will be investing in military industrial complex companies next?

Sure LinkedIn is just a wonderful vehicle for meeting people - but at what price?  And who owns that data?  Who owns those people?  I wonder why Reid doesn't support FOAF or being open - at all?  What does that say?

And why would Loic invest in such a company?  To make money - that's why.  At our expense.

Oh - did I forget to say - Reid is just such a nice guy!

Technorati: 2.4 million and counting

Technorati: 2.4 million and counting 05/20/2004 08:41 PM
Yesterday evening I visited Technorati's first "develope rs' Salon," an event at which non-developer bloggers and "content producer" types like me were made to feel quite welcome. You can find blog notes about the event from JD Lasica and Christian Crumlish.

Dave Sifry and Kevin Marks presented the latest stats from the "cosmos" of blogs that Technorati tracks: 11-12,000 new blogs are added each day. (Roughly 45 percent are abandoned over time.) Over 200,000 new blog postings per day. 2.4 million blogs total tracked.

That's some serious volume -- though it pales compared to the total size of the Web that, say, Google surveys Technorati specializes in tracking, and keeping up with, the part of the Web that's constantly being updated. The blogs it follows provide a collective editorial filter on the news and the Web (see for instance the Technorati "Current Events" page).

Among the most interesting graphs were those that demonstrated the size and dynamic importance of blogging's "tail end of the curve." There's a vast number of blogs that don't have thousands of readers or links; maybe they only have ten or a hundred people reading them and linking to them. But, both individually and aggregated into small relational groupings, they provide a wealth of data about what people care about and what's on their minds. Sifry said that Technorati is trying to figure out better ways to "expose the really interesting stuff that's going on in relatively small communities."

The room was packed with three or four dozen developers and blog enthusiasts filled with pizza and beer and the unquenchable notion that their code could make a difference. Technorati is a small startup company (eight on staff now, Sifry said) with a clear and honestly communicated notion that it will at some point need to bring revenue in via advertising and subscription services. But right now it's at that happy moment when its programmers can just explore new ways of making their users' worlds more interesting.

Counting TrackBack Pings

Counting TrackBack Pings 03/13/2003 10:15 AM
Antonio at blogpocket.com came up with some PHP code to count the number of TrackBack pings for the standalone TrackBack...

SCO Countdown: Counting Down To The End
Of This fiaSCO

SCO Countdown: Counting Down To The End
Of This fiaSCO 02/18/2004 01:08 AM
http://www.scocountdown.com/ .........One minute left................

Carb-counting bagels

Carb-counting bagels 12/24/2003 01:21 PM

They are a most evil creation, vile and bland, an affront against nature and taste buds and most likely God and so forth. (491 words)

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Counting lines of code

Counting lines of code 07/15/2002 11:40 PM
CNET Jul 15 2002 11:00PM ET

Of Grouping, Counting, and Context

Of Grouping, Counting, and Context 08/05/2002 10:44 PM
In this month's Q&A column, John Simpson examines the use of XSLT keys for grouping and the count() function.

Counting bandwidth usage in PHP

Counting bandwidth usage in PHP 08/05/2004 03:48 AM
Here's a question: is it possible, given a bunch of videofiles on your server, to keep track of bandwidth usage with PHP (+ Apache, Linux)? Maybe something like mod_throttle/3.1.2 can help? I am thinking through different ways of dynamically generating different SMIL files (with PHP) based on how much ...

ADM's Bean Counting

ADM's Bean Counting 06/22/2004 10:42 AM
ADM is positioned to benefit from China's growth as a consumer of imported soybean oil.

Counting the Hops (Forbes.com)

Counting the Hops (Forbes.com) 09/02/2004 05:58 PM
Forbes.com - Like Network Appliance, many top tech firms are snapping up Linux programmers, hoping to influence the way the operating system evolves. The trick is to hire programmers closest to Linux creator Linus Torvalds. Torvalds oversees Linux development, but he delegates pieces of the system to the 25 or so code maintainers,like Trond Myklebust at NetApp.Maintainers in turn break their projects into smaller pieces, overseen by submaintainers.

Counting the hours until death

Counting the hours until death 02/12/2003 09:25 AM
As far as I know, no human being has been killed in battle this way before. But a Google search on "cats + microwave" throws up some really nasty hints. ...

Counting users online with PHP

Counting users online with PHP 12/02/2002 01:17 PM
There is a little known, but extremely simple, way to count the number of users online at the same time. Find out how to do it in less than two dozen lines of code.

Chart starts counting downloads

Chart starts counting downloads 04/11/2005 06:23 AM
The official UK singles Top 40 begins to count legal downloads alongside singles bought from shops.

KPU launches new computer counting
system

KPU launches new computer counting
system 07/04/2004 05:22 PM
Jakarta Post Jul 4 2004 8:45PM GMT

Firefox Downloads: 14 million and
counting

Firefox Downloads: 14 million and
counting 12/30/2004 04:56 PM
Asa has posted a graph and write-up of the Firefox download numbers. Not bad for a little Open Source project, is it?...

KPU launches computerized vote counting

KPU launches computerized vote counting 09/19/2004 05:55 PM
Jakarta Post Sep 19 2004 8:49PM GMT

Counting begins in mayor vote

Counting begins in mayor vote 05/20/2004 05:42 PM
Counting is under way in the referendum to decide whether Ceredigion should have its first directly-elected mayor.

Eric Albert on counting threads

Eric Albert on counting threads 11/02/2003 02:07 PM
I had lunch with Eric Albert and Buzz Andersen at the OS X conference. Eric helped me debug a mach port leak in NetNewsWire. It was in a method which counted the current number of threads in use.

In case you’re curious about how to count threads, here’s Eric's post on how to do it without leaking mach ports.

Counting down at 'Cape Canaveral North'

Counting down at 'Cape Canaveral North' 08/02/2004 08:34 PM

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“While the Canadian Arrow lacks NASA’s millions, it is propelled by volunteers with big dreams In an abandoned basketball court at the centre of a former recreation centre, Geoff Sheerin is building his very own spaceship. “We’re going to unleash the human race into space and we’re going to make a buck at it,” says the 41-year-old team leader for the Canadian Arrow project, confidently patting an unidentifiably complicated piece of machinery. “Canada is going…

BottleSpy Counting Bottle Opener

BottleSpy Counting Bottle Opener 03/24/2005 11:22 AM

The Red Ferret Journal brings us the BottleSpy, a bottle opener that counts how many Michelob Ultras you've been conned into drinking. The LCD display keeps count and turns off after 15 seconds to save its battery. I'm thinking that if you can increment it by hand by toying with the sensor, that'd be great for those times when you switch back to your favorite canned beverage. Either way, it makes for a nice way of dropping you humbly at the front of the first step, even when you don't think you have a problem. $13 plus shipping, available now.

Catalog Page [BoysStuffUK via RedFerretJournal]

Notes and Tips: Counting iTunes

Notes and Tips: Counting iTunes 07/14/2004 10:04 AM
"Downloads" don't equal "sales" in Apple's "100 million" iTunes promotion.

Counting the Pages: DevArticles on
Counters

Counting the Pages: DevArticles on
Counters 09/19/2002 07:43 AM

Computerized vote-counting to stay

Computerized vote-counting to stay 09/16/2004 08:56 PM
Jakarta Post Sep 17 2004 0:06AM GMT

Notes and Tips: 100 Million Counting

Notes and Tips: 100 Million Counting 07/13/2004 10:03 AM
It looks like Apple includes free iTunes in its "100 Million" count (and what about the Pepsi promo?).

100m broadband lines and counting

100m broadband lines and counting 01/05/2004 07:22 AM
Explosive growth

MySQL 4.02 Released, and Counting Code

MySQL 4.02 Released, and Counting Code 07/12/2002 08:41 AM

Shark Tank: Ten seconds -- and counting

Shark Tank: Ten seconds -- and counting 10/29/2003 01:13 AM
This company consolidates all its servers at its new corporate headquarters -- which means 150 branch offices have thin-client terminals and no computing power in the event of a disaster at HQ.
Grok Description matches for 3 years quit and counting
GrokA matches for 3 years quit and counting

"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 PM

Finally .. after long long long time ..
Sonique 2 beta released

Finally .. after long long long time ..
Sonique 2 beta released 12/21/2003 03:42 PM

Record and Chart Your Blood Pressure
with My Blood Pressure

Record and Chart Your Blood Pressure
with My Blood Pressure 06/24/2005 04:13 PM
My Health Software has released version 2.0 of My Blood Pressure, award winning Windows software that makes it easy for users to track and chart their blood pressure readings. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2005]

So Long, Long Distance (The Motley Fool)

So Long, Long Distance (The Motley Fool) 09/07/2004 02:07 PM
The 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 AM
Elephants at the American Museum of Natural History are undergoing cutting-edge, high-definition digital radiography.

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.

The long tail's long lead

The long tail's long lead 12/22/2004 01:45 AM
Chris 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.)...

Bud Stays at the Top

Bud Stays at the Top 07/29/2004 01:53 PM
The beer king lifts its dividend and posts its 23rd consecutive quarterly double-digit earnings increase.

UpShot Stays the Course

UpShot Stays the Course 03/14/2003 01:28 AM
The online CRM marketplace is getting crowded. UpShot was one the first vendors to offer a hosted CRM application, but since its founding in 1996, a number of other companies with similar business models have entered the market. CRM Buyer Magazine caught up with UpShot chairman and founder Keith Raffel to get his take on the company's direction.

Presto Stays Its Course

Presto Stays Its Course 05/12/2004 03:49 PM
National Presto stands alone in an industry defined by lousy economics and blowups.

Jack Stays in the Box

Jack Stays in the Box 09/15/2004 02:58 PM
It offers higher expectations for the new fiscal year and a plan for growth and continued brand reinvention.

Making Do With Less Stays With You

Making Do With Less Stays With You 04/27/2004 11:40 AM
One finding of the quarterly MoneyTree Survey on venture capital that shows that startup dollars are lasting longer. The average amount of time between venture capital rounds increased from 11.9 months to 15.7 months for late-stage companies, according to the...

Lucent stays the course

Lucent stays the course 07/21/2004 11:15 AM
Telecom equipment giant reports fourth straight quarter of profitability, raises expectations for its fiscal year.

Dell stays strong in Q4

Dell stays strong in Q4 02/12/2004 07:29 PM
We aim to serve

Henman stays calm

Henman stays calm 05/30/2004 11:34 PM
Tim Henman refuses to get carried away despite reaching the quarter-finals of the French Open for the first time.

SCO's McBride Stays the Course

SCO's McBride Stays the Course 08/16/2004 01:01 AM
Q&A: The company's CEO says he sees prospects in maintaining both SCO's customer base and its litigation.

McDonald's Stays Warm

McDonald's Stays Warm 06/07/2004 12:09 PM
The fast-food giant's same-store sales don't disappoint in May.

Argosy Stays Afloat

Argosy Stays Afloat 07/29/2004 04:49 PM
Riverboat casino operator sees mixed results again.

Krispy Kreme Stays Hot

Krispy Kreme Stays Hot 02/17/2004 01:15 PM
If you thought these doughnuts were going out of style, think again.

Toyota Stays Practical

Toyota Stays Practical 08/02/2004 02:08 PM
Toyota is racking up huge earnings, but its decision to drop its roadster convertible could be a mistake.

Duke's Dividend Stays Put

Duke's Dividend Stays Put 01/07/2004 05:18 PM
Management reins in holdings and puts forth modest growth strategy.

Gerrard stays at Liverpool

Gerrard stays at Liverpool 06/28/2004 09:40 AM
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard pledges his future to the Anfield club.

The Fax Machine Stays Alive

The Fax Machine Stays Alive 03/28/2005 03:37 AM
It's been nearly a year and a half since we last checked in on the world of fax machines and found that, despite this whole digital internet paperless revolution thing, the fax machine refused to die. It turns out, a year and a half later, not much has changed. The fax machine is still a necessary piece of equipment for many businesses, and shows no signs of going away any time soon. In fact, some are saying that fax machine sales are actually going up these days. Of course, some of us still can't figure out what it's good for, other than documents where a signature is needed -- though, it's also being used in places where people don't want to give out their email addresses, but prefer the less personable fax machine as a way to ward off constant contact.

EU stays Microsoft ruling

EU stays Microsoft ruling 06/27/2004 07:25 PM
Australian IT Jun 27 2004 11:02PM GMT

MCI stays with Verizon; some investors
displeased

MCI stays with Verizon; some investors
displeased 04/07/2005 02:34 PM
Boston Globe Apr 7 2005 6:47PM GMT

Cricket: Vaughan stays positive

Cricket: Vaughan stays positive 01/06/2005 10:33 PM
Michael Vaughan says England will go up a gear before the last two Tests against South Africa.

Kilborn Stays Up 'Late' for Last Time
(AP)

Kilborn Stays Up 'Late' for Last Time
(AP) 08/28/2004 08:21 AM
AP - Craig Kilborn bid farewell to viewers of CBS' "Late Late Show" on Friday, concluding five seasons as its host despite the program's expanding audience.

Sonus Says Nasdaq Stays Delisting

Sonus Says Nasdaq Stays Delisting 07/29/2004 06:40 PM
TheStreet.com Jul 29 2004 10:39PM GMT

Buffalo Wild Wings Stays Hot

Buffalo Wild Wings Stays Hot 07/23/2004 09:24 AM
The sports bar and drummie dealer has performed consistently since its November IPO.

EU stays Microsoft sanctions temporarily

EU stays Microsoft sanctions temporarily 06/27/2004 06:03 PM
Investors Business Daily Jun 27 2004 9:18PM GMT

3 years quit and counting

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