You call that a Mousetrap?
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Mousetrap Mail
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05/13/2004 09:39 AMFeedback
Search Engines Build a Better Mousetrap
Search Engines Build a Better Mousetrap
03/14/2005 06:16 PMDespite Google's dominance, or perhaps because of it, other search
engines are offering an array of new features to attract users.
Apple Q3 conference call analyst call --
live updates
Apple Q3 conference call analyst call --
live updates
07/14/2004 04:52 PMVoice Browser Call Control: CCXML 1.0
Last Call Published
Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML 1.0
Last Call Published
04/30/2004 10:43 AM2004-04-30: The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Last Call
Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0
including major updates. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup
Language, provides telephony call control support for VoiceXML and
other dialog systems. Comments are welcome through 28 May. Visit the
Voice Browser home page. (News archive)
New Pay-Per-Phone Call Lead System
Empowers Partners to Ensure Clients
Charged Only for Successful Call Leads
New Pay-Per-Phone Call Lead System
Empowers Partners to Ensure Clients
Charged Only for Successful Call Leads
03/17/2005 03:01 AMDeveloper of ZiffTalk and Click4Advisor ‘click-for-talk’ platforms
launches ZiffLeads, first independent Pay-Per-Phone Call Lead
platform, to target partners who want to offer online advertisers,
local and national, a more Flexible and Reliable Phone Call Lead
generation and measurement product. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]
Retiring Mandela Says 'Don't Call Me,
I'll Call You'
Retiring Mandela Says 'Don't Call Me,
I'll Call You'
06/01/2004 10:44 AMReuters via Wired News Jun 1 2004 3:11PM GMT
Dell to Hold International Strategy
Conference Call With Analysts; Call to
be Webcast Live at www.dell.com
Dell to Hold International Strategy
Conference Call With Analysts; Call to
be Webcast Live at www.dell.com
04/05/2005 02:02 PMBusiness Wire Apr 5 2005 5:23PM GMT
Virtual Call Centre Provider Offers
Unique Chance to Win a Call Centre from
CallCentreVoice.com
Virtual Call Centre Provider Offers
Unique Chance to Win a Call Centre from
CallCentreVoice.com
03/17/2005 04:13 AMi-CALL (a Division of Call Centre Recording Ltd) is pleased to
announce “The launch of a fantastic new sponsorship agreement between
i-CALL.co.uk and CallCentreVoice.com” [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]
What Do You Call Yourself?
What Do You Call Yourself?
01/06/2003 09:37 PMHere we go yet again - SEO vs SEM vs SEP vs WebMaster vs Designer vs
etal.
A Call For Help
A Call For Help
01/22/2004 03:01 AMcall 911 right away
call 911 right away
04/02/2005 02:14 AMfake or not .. Snopes
snopes.com/crime/cops/burger.asp
track this
site | 3 links
I Want to Be Alone. Please Call Me.
I Want to Be Alone. Please Call Me.
06/26/2004 07:12 PMCell phones are turning settings previously devoted to eye-to-eye
contact and earnest talk into venues for shutting out others.
I Want to Be Alone. Please Call Me
I Want to Be Alone. Please Call Me
06/26/2004 08:44 PMNew York Times Jun 27 2004 0:15AM GMT
Why do they call it the loo?
Why do they call it the loo?
03/14/2005 04:25 PM(It's going to be hard to write this one without resorting to all
sorts of unclever puns, but I'm going to do my best.)
When I was in London a couple of weeks ago, a group of us was
sitting around in a pub on Saturday afternoon (what a cliché!)
and someone mentioned that the reason that the English "loo" is so
named because the toilet was commonly located in room 100 of buildings
and the two ("loo" and "100") look very much the same. (You can see
that I jotted that tidbit down on my analog Palm
Pilot (upper right quadrant) for later reference.) Turns out that
pub chat aside, the jury is somewhat out on the etymology of "loo"
(unless the OED, which I don't have access to, says
otherwise tons of people wrote in with the OED entry for loo,
summarized below).
One popular theory comes from this timeline
of toilets:
When people flung their potty waste out of the window,
they would shout "Gardez l'eau" [gar-day low]. That's French for
"watch out for the water". We probably get the word "loo" from this
expression, although some people think it comes from "Room 100" which
is what European people used to call the bathroom.
Wikipedia backs this
version as well (don't miss the list of euphemisms for toilet
there, including poop-house (wtf?), dunny, and necessary).
Michael Quinion offers a few more
theories. The word appears to originate no earlier than James
Joyce's usage in Ulysses in 1922 -- "O yes, mon loup. How much cost?
Waterloo. water closet." -- perhaps Joyce came up with it. Or it could
be "a British mispronunciation of the French le lieu, "the place", a
euphemism." Maybe loo is short for bordalou, "a portable commode
carried by eighteenth century ladies in their muffs" (!!). Quinion
also notes that "a rather more plausible [theory] has it that it comes
from the French lieux d'aisances, literally 'places of ease' (the
French term is usually plural), once also an English euphemism, which
could have been picked up by British servicemen in World War One" but
that there's no real conclusive evidence to support any of these
theories over the others.
Cecil Adams of Straight Dope offers many of
the same theories as well as this additional one:
It's short for "Lady Louisa," Louisa being the
unpopular wife of a 19th-century earl of Lichfield. In 1867 while the
couple was visiting friends, two young wiseacres took the namecard off
her bedroom door and stuck it on the door of the bathroom. The other
guests thereafter began jocularly speaking of "going to Lady Louisa."
In shortened form this eventually spread to the
masses.
But Adams has no definitive answer either and so the question of
the etymology of loo will continue to be debated on the Internet and
in pubs around the world.
Update: the OED notes Joyce's usage as the earliest, but is also at
a loss to explain things:
A. S. C. Ross's examination of possible sources in
Blackw. Mag. (1974) Oct. 309-16 is inconclusive: he favours
derivation, in some manner that cannot be demonstrated, from
Waterloo.
Take-Two and Don't Call Ever
Take-Two and Don't Call Ever
04/14/2004 02:34 PMThe video game company's latest move can't be reassuring to investors.
I will call you, I will call you out
I will call you, I will call you out
05/23/2004 04:51 PMI almost dropped dead this morning. My uncle [the one from London] was
talking about laptops and how he wants...
Don't call & we mean it
Don't call & we mean it
12/19/2003 09:57 PMUSA Today Dec 19 2003 9:40PM ET
Last Call: CSS 2.1
Last Call: CSS 2.1
06/17/2005 04:25 PM2005-06-14: The CSS Working Group has published a Last Call Working
Draft of Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1 (CSS 2.1). CSS 2.1
is derived from and is intended to replace CSS2. A snapshot of CSS
language usage, the specification adds a few highly requested
features, fixes errata and brings CSS2 in line with implementations.
Comments are welcome through 15 July. Visit the CSS home page. (News
archive)
No, Seriously: Do Not Call!
No, Seriously: Do Not Call!
09/16/2004 12:54 PMThe FCC uses fines to get its message across.
Taking a call on IT
Taking a call on IT
12/31/2004 06:35 AMExpress Computer India Dec 31 2004 10:53AM GMT
Don't call him chicken
Don't call him chicken
07/10/2004 02:43 PMSunjit Kumar of Suva, Fiji, was raised by chickens. As a young boy,
his grandfather locked him in a chicken coop where he lived for
several years. After Kumar escaped, he was taken to an old age home
where the baffled staff confined him for twenty years. Now though,
Elizabeth Clayton, president of a Rotary Club in Fiji's capital city,
has, er, taken Kumar under her wing.
"Sujit would mostly hop around like a chicken, peck at
his food, perch like a chicken and make noises like a chicken," she
said. "He would prefer to roost on the floor to go to sleep rather
than sleep in a bed."
Kumar currently resides in a former factory while undergoing therapy.
Video available
here. More of
the story
here.
Now just call it "AJAX"
Now just call it "AJAX"
03/14/2005 05:25 PMLast year we wrote about how some applications -- notably Google Mail
and Suggest -- were taking advantage of Javascript plus XML-over-HTTP
for richer interfaces. Now Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path has
written a nice summary and (perhaps more imporantly) come up with a
new name for the approach: "AJAX." Some CMS vendors are beginning to
use AJAX methodologies, although from what we have seen mostly in a
tentative way (if you're a vendor using AJAX, do tell where and how.
Asynchronous communication with the server has tremendous potential to
make heretofore very linear authoring and workflow procedures in a CMS
much more fluid and therefore more, well, lifelike......
A Call to Action
A Call to Action
01/28/2004 06:46 AMIn her new column, this noted author and Harvard B-School professor
says the 20th century model of capitalism is dead.
The Call to Voice
The Call to Voice
12/28/2004 07:17 PMLarge companies will have a tougher time at dominating the VOIP
market.
"Call in the second, err, first, err,
different
team"
"Call in the second, err, first, err,
different
team"
04/28/2004 03:02 AMAOL Booty Call
AOL Booty Call
09/01/2004 05:38 PM AOL just called me up to get me to come back to their service. They
knew I used a Mac, but not Mac OS...
php Call Center
php Call Center
01/05/2005 02:00 AMLooking for Developers
Please Don't Call Him 'Senator'
Please Don't Call Him 'Senator'
08/07/2004 08:46 AMSenators seem like attractive candidates. But does service in the
Senate turn successful politicians into bumbling presidential
candidates?
Just don't call them webl0gs
Just don't call them webl0gs
02/11/2004 12:07 AMLots of people who write weblogs seem to take great pleasure in
debating what a weblog is, and more importantly for some, what a
weblog isn't. While trying to understanding what the new tools enable,
and how they are changing the nature of the net, journalism, and
public discourse, seems like a worthwhile enterprise, I never saw the
point of spending a lot of energy debating what was a weblog and what
wasn't. One might as well debate how many Angels can dance on the head
of a pin. I saw a great example of this today. One of the more
interesting sessions at ETech today was a presentation by three people
from different units of Disney, describing how they are using three of
the tools customarily associated with webloggers: weblogs, RSS and
wikis. During the talk, Mike Pusateri described his secret for getting
people to adopt weblogs as a tool for communicating information at
Disney, "don't call them weblogs." He just told people working in
Disney's 24/7 operations center that he had a better tool for a task
they were already doing. They were already creating what they called
shift logs to keep track of information that the people coming in on
the next shift needed to know, using a proprietary application based
on FoxPro. He told the op center staff that with the new tool (Movable
Type) they would now be able to edit and revise and format their
information, and that the information would be viewable on the
intranet. They loved it, and, as he put it, they never knew that they
were blogging. Similarly, he got the staff to start using RSS by
having Movable Type generate the feeds, and having the staff all adopt
Newsgator, an RSS aggregator that plugs into Microsoft Outlook, the
standard email client at Disney. To the users of Newsgator, the
updated RSS feeds just looked like email, and they could deal with the
feeds they same way they were used to dealing with emails, filing them
or forwarding them with comments, using the same interface they were
used to dealing with for email. So the users didn't have to change any
existing habits, and they had little new UI to learn, but they got a
lot more functionality. All at a very low cost to Disney, compared
with their traditional methods of developing custom applications. We
technologists are often so...
Above and Beyond the Call of Duty
Above and Beyond the Call of Duty
02/06/2005 01:10 AM
Above and Beyond the Call of Duty The
St. Petersburg
Times reported this week that Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul R. Smith,
killed in action in Iraq on April 4, 2003, will be posthumously
awarded the
Congress
ional Medal of Honor. Sgt. Smith had always said he would give
"all that I am to make sure all my boys make it
home." The Medal of Honor is awarded
"for conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the
call of duty." Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham,
killed in Iraq in April 2004 after he
threw himself on top of a grenade to protect his fellow Marines,
has been nominated for the Medal of Honor.
Aspirin-a-day call for over 50s
Aspirin-a-day call for over 50s
04/13/2005 06:44 AMPeople aged 50 and over should consider taking aspirin to reduce their
risk of heart attacks and strokes, say experts.
Last Call: SMIL 2.1
Last Call: SMIL 2.1
02/01/2005 08:54 PM2005-02-01: The SYMM Working Group has released the First Public
Working Draft of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL
2.1) as a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome through 25
February. SMIL (pronounced "smile") puts animation on a time line,
allows composition of multiple animations, and describes animation
elements for any XML-based host language. Version 2.1 extends SMIL 2.0
and supports enhanced interactive multimedia presentations, reuse of
SMIL syntax and semantics, and new mobile profiles. Visit the
Synchronized Multimedia home page. (News archive)
A Call to Liberty
A Call to Liberty
04/12/2005 06:44 PMZDNet Apr 12 2005 11:25PM GMT
Call of Duty 1.0
Call of Duty 1.0
05/28/2004 03:40 PMYou get to fight alongside your brothers-in-arms as history comes
alive.
mail call!
mail call!
04/10/2005 05:28 PMI think it's time to open the WWdN mailbag . . .Subject:Wil how a
terrible news that ya are a...
They call this research?
They call this research?
08/12/2004 06:22 AM
Attractiveness of your name is linked to attractiveness of
your face. Even more interesting, the so called
"professional" researcher used the service "Hot or
Not" to conduct her research by uploading fake profiles.
Call it 'Shorthorn'
Call it 'Shorthorn'
08/28/2004 06:42 PMCnet: Microsoft revamps its plans
for Longhorn. As expected, the company on Friday announced a
new road map for Longhorn, its revision to Windows XP. The
changes--removing some features and altering others--are designed to
let the company have a test version of the software next year and a
final release for desktops and notebooks by 2006. A server release is
planned for 2007.
One of the features being removed
for the time being is only the most important feature that had been
planned for the new OS: the WinFS file system, which was being touted
as revolutionary and the kind of thing that would make the new system
indispensible.
The full upgrade, then, will be at least a year later than the alleged
delivery date of 2006 for the bowdlerized version. Surprised? You
shouldn't be. Microsoft has a long history of announcing things it
delivers extremely late, if at all.
Not that it matters much in the real world. Microsoft's monopoly will
keep cranking out the profits even without the new OS. The advantages
of market domination...
Call Of Duty
Call Of Duty
06/11/2004 09:07 PMCall of Duty is a must have for any first person shooter fan.
By Eric Ford, Inside Mac Games (via MyAppleMenu)
All-Call Friday
All-Call Friday
06/14/2004 09:33 PMG4 Tech TV Jun 15 2004 1:42AM GMT
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