Honour lost, indeed

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Fiction: LOST BOY LOST GIRL By Peter
Straub.

Fiction: LOST BOY LOST GIRL By Peter
Straub. 11/15/2003 07:49 PM
So in addition to the standard-issue frissons to be found here (and one of the most startling involves only a light bulb), this book also attempts a Google ...

Lost mail campaign gets lost in post
(Reuters)

Lost mail campaign gets lost in post
(Reuters) 06/27/2004 01:25 AM
Reuters - A postal campaign to highlight the quantity of letters that go missing each year has been given a stamp of authority after none of the letters arrived at their intended destination.

Lost Revenue? Nope ... Just Lost
Opportunities

Lost Revenue? Nope ... Just Lost
Opportunities 04/15/2005 06:43 PM
Whenever we hear about established industries whining about how much money they're losing from alternative forms of media consumption, we just shake our heads. If you do too, then brace your neck before reading on. A new study by Accenture says that TV networks will "lose" $27 billion in the coming five years because of ad skipping by DVR users. Not being able to read the full story on AdAge, we can only assume that Accenture thinks advertisers will pull back from the networks to the tune of $5-plus billion per year, simply because DVR watchers can skip ads. Not likely. The connection is highly dubious and the figures are entirely far-fetched. Yet even more troubling is the age-old "lost money" methodology. Each ad skip does not proportionally diminish the network's coffers -- no money is being subtracted from their bottom line. Rather, any "losses" from ad skipping would come from the network's inability to adapt to new trends and attract those dollars elsewise. The networks are losing money to ad-skipping no more than record companies are losing money to downloads. The quicker they see these as lost opportunities, instead of lost dollars, the better for them.

"to avenge honour"

"to avenge honour" 05/06/2004 07:08 PM
Pakistani council aproves rape to avenge honour. "A village council in Pakistan permitted a landlord to rape the sister and sister-in-law of a man he accused of an illicit relationship with his daughter, police said Thursday. (...) The council members, all of them landlords themselves, ruled that Ghaffar, who uses only one name, could avenge his honour by having sex with the farmer's daughter, who is 16, and daughter-in-law, who is 22." (BBC version here). "An estimated 80 percent of women prisoners in Pakistan are in jail because they failed to prove rape charges".

Holmes given Olympic honour

Holmes given Olympic honour 08/29/2004 03:50 AM
Double gold medallist Kelly Holmes is chosen to carry the Great Britain flag at the Olympics closing ceremony.

Top honour for robot heroes

Top honour for robot heroes 06/19/2004 09:09 PM
BBC Jun 20 2004 1:16AM GMT

New honour for the web's inventor

New honour for the web's inventor 04/15/2004 05:06 AM
The web's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, wins a prestigious prize which comes with an award of one million euros.

D-Day Britons win French honour

D-Day Britons win French honour 05/24/2004 07:30 AM
Seven Normandy veterans are to be awarded France's Legion d'Honneur at a service in London.

Darkness get songwriters' honour

Darkness get songwriters' honour 05/27/2004 10:51 AM
UK rock band The Darkness are named songwriters of the year at the Ivor Novello songwriting awards.

MTV honour for Return of the King

MTV honour for Return of the King 06/06/2004 06:51 AM
The Return of the King and Kill Bill 2 dominate the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles.

Black armbands to honour fan

Black armbands to honour fan 06/23/2004 10:35 AM
The England team plan to wear black armbands as a mark of respect to a murdered fan.

New honour for web's inventor

New honour for web's inventor 07/17/2004 01:19 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Fri Jul 16, 01:58 pm GMT

Stars honour legend Brando

Stars honour legend Brando 07/03/2004 03:35 AM
Critics and colleagues praise the "extraordinary" influence of actor Marlon Brando, who has died aged 80.

Oscars honour film 'supernerds'

Oscars honour film 'supernerds' 02/16/2004 05:09 AM
The Oscars give awards to inventors of film technology used in Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings.

Football: Writers honour Henry

Football: Writers honour Henry 05/10/2004 02:57 AM
Theirry Henry is voted Footballer of the Year for the second successive season.

Fury over 'abuse' chief's honour

Fury over 'abuse' chief's honour 06/17/2005 03:21 PM
Parents of child sex abuse victims attack a decision to honour a schools official criticised for 'abject failure' to protect them.

Israel to honour 'new Schindler'

Israel to honour 'new Schindler' 04/11/2005 06:22 AM
A German Army officer who saved hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust is to be honoured in Israel.

Call of honour for UK games maker

Call of honour for UK games maker 12/30/2004 09:48 PM
Visionary game make Peter Molyneux has been appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours list.

Thousands gather to honour Pope

Thousands gather to honour Pope 04/03/2005 05:26 AM
Tens of thousands of people attend a Mass in St Peter's Square in honour of Pope John Paul II, who has died at 84.

Peace honour for Margaret Hassan

Peace honour for Margaret Hassan 01/02/2005 04:26 AM
British national charity worker Margaret Hassan, murdered in Iraq, is honoured posthumously with a peace award.

Latin Grammys honour singer Sanz

Latin Grammys honour singer Sanz 09/02/2004 06:29 AM
Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz wins four Latin Grammy awards, while Brazilian singer Maria Rita collects two.

Linux creator nets iEconomist/i honour

Linux creator nets iEconomist/i honour 09/16/2004 01:04 PM
ZDNet UK Sep 16 2004 4:57PM GMT

Star Trek Scotty receives honour

Star Trek Scotty receives honour 09/01/2004 10:08 AM
Star Trek actor James Doohan receives a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame as he bows out of public life.

Linux creator nets Economist honour

Linux creator nets Economist honour 09/16/2004 02:58 PM
ZDNet UK Sep 16 2004 6:49PM GMT

Cash to honour slain Chechen leader
(Reuters)

Cash to honour slain Chechen leader
(Reuters) 08/16/2004 06:13 AM
Reuters - Children born on the birthday of slain Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov will get $170 in a cash payout that will double for boys who are given his name, a spokesman for the Russian region says.

Industry awards honour past Optus chief

Industry awards honour past Optus chief 09/03/2004 12:59 AM
ZDNet Australia Sep 3 2004 5:03AM GMT

Pakistani council aproves rape to avenge
honour

Pakistani council aproves rape to avenge
honour 05/06/2004 09:48 PM

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Pakistani council aproves rape to avenge honour. "A village council in Pakistan permitted a landlord to rape the sister and sister-in-law of a man he accused of an illicit relationship with his daughter, police said Thursday. (...) The council members, all of them landlords themselves, ruled that Ghaffar, who uses only one name, could avenge his honour by having sex with the farmer's daughter, who is 16, and daughter-in-law, who is 22." (BBC version here). "An estimated 80 percent of women prisoners in Pakistan are in jail because they failed to prove rape charges".

This is totally disgusting. Is my blog becoming depressing lately, or is it just the state of the world?

Vessel of Honour: 120th Edition of the
Carnival of the Vanities!

Vessel of Honour: 120th Edition of the
Carnival of the Vanities! 01/05/2005 04:28 PM
Edition #120 of Carnival of the Vanities .. Vessel of Honor 2.0

vesselofhonour.com/archives/000830.php
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Cyber Oscar honour for Cambodian
data-entry charity

Cyber Oscar honour for Cambodian
data-entry charity 12/11/2003 09:44 AM
And the winner is... Digital Divide Data

Lost without Lost? You might be in the
Land Down Under

Lost without Lost? You might be in the
Land Down Under 04/05/2005 05:23 PM
Delays in getting new episode of US shows in Australia have led many to turn to BitTorrent. It may be time to rethink the broadcast model.

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Whitehall
| The ultimate honour - impressive list
of those who refused to bow to the
system

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Whitehall
| The ultimate honour - impressive list
of those who refused to bow to the
system 12/23/2003 09:20 PM
refusing to be knighted? .. Sunday Times of London .. recent leaking

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IT'S AN
HONOUR JUST TO BE NOMINATED...

IT'S AN
HONOUR JUST TO BE NOMINATED... 01/07/2004 01:06 PM

I'm flattered to have been nominated for a Koufax award for 'Best Blog'. The nominees, posted on Wampum's blog, are without exception well known, excellent, and best of all, politically left-of-centre. I gasped just to see my humble blog's name listed in such company. Wow.

All was not lost

All was not lost 09/27/2004 03:10 AM
USA Today Sep 27 2004 6:14AM GMT

Just how lost PFF is

Just how lost PFF is 09/09/2004 11:12 AM
I continue to be astonished at how far PFF has moved from its roots. The group has issued a press release demanding Supreme Court review of Grokster, buttressed with supporting blog entries by Bill Adkinson and a "grid" by Solveig Singleton with a six (yes, count them, six, with some including italics) factor test that courts are to apply to decide whether a technology is legal or not. I can well understand New Dealers racing to craft multifactored tests to regulate innovation. But I thought the whole point of the conservative (economic) movement was to teach us how harmful such regulation was to innovation and growth. Any test that cannot be applied on summary judgment guarantees that federal judges will be forced into a complex balancing to decide which innovation should be allowed. And thus, any industry threatened with competition can then use the courts to extort from these new competitors payment before they are permitted to compete. That is precisely what Valenti says the VCR case was about. He didn't want to stop the VCR, he tell us. He wanted only to force VCR manufacturers to pay for the right to sell consumers VCRs. Courts, and lawyers, have ruled Silicon Valley long enough. The great hope of the Grokster opinion was that it would return us to the time when entrepreneurs could invent without seeking a permission slip from a federal court (to borrow from the President) . It is simply bizarre to see PFF now call for a return to the days of industrial policy regulated by federal judges. Especially bizarre when you consider how taxing this policy will be to many of the "supporters" of PFF. Many (e.g., Apple, Microsoft, Intel), but alas not all (EMI, Vivendi, BMG). Thus the danger of putting principle up for bid.

lost at sea

lost at sea 12/19/2004 03:48 PM

I am having a really hard time sleeping. For almost three weeks, I try to go to sleep between ten and midnight. I fall asleep for about ten or fifteen minutes, and then I wake with a start. My legs feel antsy behind my knees, my brain won't shut up, and I end up tossing and turning for about twenty minutes, until I get so angry that I get out of bed and read until at least one in the morning. Last night, it was two-fucking-forty before I was able to fall asleep. When I wake up, I have a headache, my neck hurts, and I feel like I haven't slept at all. This is really getting old.

I know it's not diet, but it could be lack of exercise. I was pretty damn sick the last two weeks, and running when I have a cold is the opposite of enjoyable. Darin says that I should exercise more, and I agree. I miss running, and I discovered, to my horror, that I've put on nearly ten pounds since August — a product of my Body By Guinness and Linux fitness fatness program.

But it's more than just that. If I'm honest with myself, I actually think my brain is kicking me out of bed every night because there's stuff I have to deal with that I've been avoiding: things I need to write, people I need to talk to, and issues I need to resolve. Anne recently did what she calls "Emotional Housekeeping," and I think I'm going to do it myself.

So today, I will catch up on e-mail (I got it down to 200-ish, but it's swelled back up to > 500), and finish several interviews (including Slashdot's Ask Wil Wheaton Anything). I will also take some ideas that have been brewing in my brains and move them into my The Writer's Notebook, to make room for new ones. A symptom of my insomnia (and maybe it's wrapped up in the cause) is a lack of inspiration. I haven't sat down to do any real creative writing in far too long, and I'm starting to feel performance anxiety, you know? It's like standing at the edge of a pool that you know is filled with cold water: the longer you stand at the edge, the harder it becomes to get up the courage to dive in.

I hope that getting all these unresolved e-mails and related issues taken care of will encourage my brain to actually quiet down when I want to go to sleep.

Weird . . . when I started writing this, I truly didn't know why I've been so agitated, but I think I just got it — or at least I've got it narrowed down. Who says blogging isn't therapeutic?

"Lost"

"Lost" 09/24/2004 03:00 AM

for want of a pen a kid was lost?

for want of a pen a kid was lost? 05/12/2004 09:59 PM
The pen is mightier than...? Remember Afghanistan? Terry, former Nitpicker, is now a public affairs specialist in Kandahar. He's learned that the children of Afghanistan want nothing more than they want a pen. Maybe we can help them out by sending some?

The Lost Art of the CD-ROM

The Lost Art of the CD-ROM 04/08/2005 12:27 AM

I was reading today about how Wikipedia is going to release a CD or DVD of all its content. Very cool idea.

This got me reminicising about "The Golden Age of CD-ROMs." Remember when CD-ROMs were the big thing? From, say, 1996 to 1999 or 2000. Remember when Encarta and Cinemania amazed you with the depth of their content?

I remember Encarta 95. Man, that was amazing. Pictures, video, a little trivia game — I had a double-speed CD-ROM drive, and could get lost in Encarta for hours. I remember too that it had an update feature, where you could dial-up to the Internet and it would download new versions of articles that needed to change. The first one to update was the article on Yitzhak Rabin after he got assassinated. I was blown away.

And Cinemania — that was a really great product too. Thousands of reviews from Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin, video clips, star biographies — I could blow an afternoon just exploring. Cinemania was what got me hooked on Roger Ebert. (I still read him religiously, and he's emailed me twice. Once in response to this post over on my personal blog.)

And "The Ultimate James Bond" CD-ROM was heroin for me at the time. I reviewed it nine years ago for Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. It was the first writing I did for that site. The review (and the CD-ROM screenshots — first time I had ever screencapped anything) still hold up today. That was a great, great product. Did anyone else have this?

When I worked at Best Buy for eight months in 1998, DVD-ROM drives were just coming out. I remember thinking that I had to have one, because then I could browse Encarta without having to switch CDs. I wanted a DVD-ROM drive for four or five years because of this, but could never justify it. When I finally bought a machine that had one...it was kind of anti-climactic, because I was already hooked on Wikipedia.

But whatever happened to the CD-ROM? The Internet killed them. You just don't see them anymore. Now we have the Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia, so there's no need for Cinemania or Encarta.

If you get the urge to publish a CD-ROM, you may as well just put it in a password protected Web site — you get continuing membership fees, better tracking, and you can keep it updated.

The CD-ROM is truly a lost art. It's too bad because I firmly believe that you get more involved with reading offline than online. See this post — when you're online, more content is just a click away. When you're offline — like when you were browsing a CD-ROM — you have a tendency to get into the reading more and with greater comprehension.

I miss CD-ROMs.

Lost your Job to Outsourcing?

Lost your Job to Outsourcing? 02/13/2004 07:47 PM
I just received this message (below) from a news group... If you have recently lost your I.T. job due to outsourcing, you might be interested. -Kevin ------- I am IEEE-USA's Legislative Representative for Grassroots Activities. My job is to help individual engineers contact and influence elected officials. IEEE-USA was just contact by a senior Democratic Senator. He was looking for a few engineers from the DC area who have recently lost their jobs due to outsourcing....
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