Good Luck Florida!

Good luck getting a PSP

Good luck Danese!

It's sad to see Danese leave Sun. I talked to her at length before I joined Sun and she's given me lots of good advice along they way. She helped to convinced me that taking Roller to Apache is the best way to ensure the continued success and long-term viability of Roller as an independent open source project and helped me find my way to ApacheCon 2004 so that I could learn about the Apache way. I started at Sun about five months ago, I work remotely and I never really got to know Danese all that well, so it's very interesting to read the farewell messages and retrospectives on the important work she has done at Sun (e.g by Jim Grizanzio, Claire Giordano, and Danese herself). Thanks Danese and good luck at Intel and with your new blog.

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Good luck Phil

Saw Phil this weekend at Planetwork.  Got so hungup in giving Reid Hoffman a hard time that Phil didn't get time to spiel himself.

Good luck to Phil - sounds like a fun summer!

Phil's summer of F2F - Part 1. Dear Phil -
Why should we conference in person when the virtual has been so enriched?

• The virtual's not that rich.
• The virtual's mainly broadcast.
• And you miss the interactions that occur during breaks, meals, pub crawls, and the other cracks in an official programme.

So I leave my computer, my home, my city, my country.

Recently, AD:TECH ("Eyeballs for sale! Fresh steaming eyeballs!") and PlaNetwork (Kumbaya embraces digital identity), both in San Francisco.

Coming up:

I'm going to try for the Bio 2004 conference exhibit hall, this week. Especially interested in new bioinformatics and the publications systems that try to promote innovation without giving away secrets. Innovation World's Michael Boland and Mary Kate Stimmler are blogging from the conference.

This week and next are full of East Bay Kerry stuff. A Democratic Party Meetup where East Bay Kerry recruits volunteers. Committee meetings for Fundra ising, Chairs , Media Relations, Visibi lity and GOTV, and Writer s. We're having our first Speake r Training & Kerry Teach-In. And a big bunch of us are going to the Oaklan d A's vs. Pittsburgh Pirates game to show Kerry love to all those Pennsylvanians watching the game. Gary Hart is signing his latest book. And we're sending envoys to other political meetings, like the Lamori nda Democratic Club and the MGO Dem Club. All the time compression of a startup, none of the cash flow, and hard deadlines.

I've started going to Mark Finnern's Future Salons. Smart people, challenging topics. Next one June 18th at SAP Palo Alto. Saw him at Planetwork, first time in daylight. You owe yourself a venue to talk about 10, 20, and 50 years out. Great context and fodder for work and life planning.

In two weeks I'll attend the first day of Supernova, blogging a technical and policy discussion of today's convergence. Time to bone up on spectrum allocation, grid computing, WiMax, and more. I'm glad the wiki (thank you, SocialText) and rss feed (thank you, TypePad) are up.

I'm spending July 4th in Vienna, Austria, for BlogTalk 2.0, the conference by Thomas Burg and the Center for New Media at Danube University. Getting there a little early to spend time with the Actionable Sense Troupe ("How do you switch between Discussion and Action?") and BlogWalk 3.0 in beautiful Krems. 

Then to Bloomsbury Square for the first London Symposium on Social Tools For The Enterprise, 12 July. This scans like etiquette and finishing school. It's really about blogs, wikis, social networks, IM'ing, and the like. And turning them into workplace tools. Matt Mower of Evectors Software put it together. Stowe Boyd's there too. I'll have a week in London. Favourite pubs, bookstores, museums, clubs, bordellos? Blogger events?

Back in town for the BlogOn conference. Read Susan Mernit's post. They have a boot camp, similar to workshops I proposed for London. What do bloggers know that others don't? To understand social software, managers need the insights that make blogging and other social tools "click" for users, and to frame those "Aha! moments" into a useful context.

What should I do this fall? [a klog apart]

Good luck Fen and Drummond!

I'm not going this year - but I hope that what Fen and Drummond are working on - gets finished.  The PeoplesDNS will certainly support it.

Th e Planetwork Interactive.

Kaliya Hamlin tipped me to The PlaNetwork InterActive that will be taking place at the San Francisco Presidio on June 5-6, 2004:

Planetwork’s next large scale annual event will bring Ben Cohen from True Majority, Joan Blades from MoveOn, and other leaders of online activism together with a multidisciplinary community of social change agents and technologists who are using the Internet to organize for positive change in this election year. Themes will include:
• Internet Activism: Online Organizing Strategies
 Opportunities and Lessons for 2004
• Electronic Voting: Vote Early, Vote Often
 New Technological Challenges for Democracy
• Social Networking for Social Good: Linking Social
 Network Software as a New Global Commons

To read more about this 2004 conference, please visit the PlaNetwork website which cautions that space is limited, and advises us to regist er now...

Good Luck Finding that Needle

"Peter Van Dijck predicts the future of cost of data storage: $10 a month for 15 petabytes (15,000,000 Gigs) of storage.

Storage space is getting cheaper. For investing US$10 a month, you'll have accumulated 15 petabytes of storage space by 2020.

Assuming you invest $10 a month in storage and start buying this year, buying additional space every year, you'll accumulate 120 Gigs of storage space this year (2004). Enough for about 10 hours of quality video uncompressed from my camera. Not much, really.

By 2010, you'll have accumulated 15 terabytes (15,000 Gigs) of storage space. Enough for 1250 hours (52 days) of video.

By 2020, you'll have reached 15 petabytes of storage space - 15,000,000 Gigs. Enough for 142 years of 24 hour video. (via JOHO The Blog)" [J-Walk Blog]

On the other hand, my boss would tell you that I could easily fill 15 terabytes on our LAN all on my own....

We're So Outta Here! Good Luck, Dudes

Good luck finding an N-Gage QD in
Canada, too

Good Luck To The Northern Gulf Coast!

Strengthen The Good: Strengthen The Good
In Florida

strengthenthegood.com/archives/2004/08/strengthen_the.html
track this site | 3 links

Florida Nursing Students Association and
AfterCollege HealthcarePartner to Create
Online Destination for Largest Audience
of Student Nurses in Florida

No such luck

On a separate note, here's a cool use of RSS: Pluck in your birthdate, and it will give you a feed, which consists of all the stars that are within your theoretical sphere of influence, i.e. your "light cone". Thanks to Matt for doing this. It really warms the heart of an old astronomy geek :-).

Wish Us Luck

Bad luck

Bad luck 06/29/2004 04:19 AM
I seem to be plagued by bad luck now. I'm sitting on the Helsinki Airport (the flights to Oulu have been cancelled due to a combination of fog and broken landing system), waiting for the next available flight. I also got a traffic ticket (from the stolen car that was really moved -episode), which I intend to complain about. I've also slept a total of seven hours during the past two nights, which is making me feel like a drunken koala with a techno fetish, hunkering over a laptop.

But it's funny how sometimes unexpected luck throws interesting and wonderful people your way. So it is difficult to say that something is really bad luck until you really know, and even then you don't quite know until you know, you know? :)

Anyway, I'm off to have a free lunch, courtesy of SAS/Blue1.

More Yum! Luck

More Yum! Luck 02/12/2004 09:53 AM
The fast food giant serves up supersized expectations.

Luck

Luck 03/08/2004 11:12 PM
This week will change everything for me. This is the week, I've been dreading for about 3 weeks prior to....

""I'd just like to get together with a
guy from time to time just to -- just to
play. I'd like him to be, uh, in very
good shape, flat stomach, good chest,
good arms, well-hung, cut, uh, just get
naked, play, see what happens, nothing
real heavy ..."

""I'd just like to get together with a
guy from time to time just to -- just to
play. I'd like him to be, uh, in very
good shape, flat stomach, good chest,
good arms, well-hung, cut, uh, just get
naked, play, see what happens, nothing
real heavy ..." 08/31/2004 08:45 PM

Hard luck

Hard luck 07/28/2004 06:10 AM
USA Today Jul 28 2004 9:51AM GMT

England rue bad luck

England rue bad luck 06/25/2004 12:54 AM
Frank Lampard says England's players are "gutted" after their dramatic Euro 2004 exit.

Make Your Own Luck

Make Your Own Luck 02/13/2004 02:41 PM
some cynical part of me suspects that people who have to be taught how to network will never really be great at it

Meta-Luck

Meta-Luck 06/08/2004 09:10 AM
According to my dream last night, there truly are objects that bring good luck to their possessors. Unfortunately, the pool of objects changes rapidly, so that whether any particular object brings one luck is itself a matter of luck. (No, I don't believe in lucky charms or placating the local woodland gods, although tipping heavily does seem to work.)...

Working Around Bad Luck on the Resume?

Working Around Bad Luck on the Resume? 02/18/2004 10:53 PM

Friday the 13th: Bad Luck

Friday the 13th: Bad Luck 02/14/2004 02:26 AM

Today was definitely Friday the 13th.

I don't post about the office on this weblog very often, but today was just one of those days. I'm a sales manager at work, and today, my "star performer" told me she had been offered a job at another company.

That means she's leaving.

Ugh... can't tell you how hard that hit me.

You see, I've been trying to build a new business around online advertising sales for my company for the past year and a half, and I've spent a lot of time teaching, training, and learning. I've really put a lot into getting my "star performer" to the level that she's at right now. When I started at the office, this person was pretty green. I had to mold her into the sales person I needed her to be, and she took it well. Very well, and she's become successful.

This year, my company gave her an award for improving so much. That made me feel very good about what I was doing and where we were heading.

Then, today, she tells me she's leaving.

As her friend, I can't help but be happy for her, and excited about her opportunities... but as her boss, I can't help but feel overwhelmed and stressed about the pressure this will put on top of all of the rest of the pressure I've put myself under trying to build this new part of our business.

We'll get buy without this "star performer" but this sets up back a few steps.

I'll post a note on Monday about the opening I need to fill, but, if you know someone in Austin that wants to sell online advertising at a local media company, please send me their resume.

For Han Solo Luck Is No Lady

For Han Solo Luck Is No Lady 09/10/2004 04:50 PM
Dark Horse releases Star Wars: Empire #24 this week, featuring a new adventure starring Han Solo and Chewbacca as they are sent on a supply-gathering mission for the Rebellion. But true to form, Han stops for a quick game of Sabacc and finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy between an old friend and a crimelord! "Idiot's Array" is brought to you by Ron Marz and Jeff Johnson. For an online preview of this issue, click here.

Computer Viruses are Bad Luck

Computer Viruses are Bad Luck 07/07/2004 04:18 PM
WebDevInfo Jul 7 2004 8:32PM GMT

Press Your Luck Winner

Press Your Luck Winner 03/14/2003 05:07 PM
No Whammies! In 1984, Michael Larson turned an ample memory and an abundance of free time into $100,000. How? By appearing on "Press Your Luck." And while the producers refused to rerun his episode, you can watch parts of it here in anticipation of the coming documentary and possible Bill Murray movie.

Buy a bit of Google and search for luck

Buy a bit of Google and search for luck 04/26/2004 03:26 AM
Toronto Star Online Apr 26 2004 7:45AM GMT

ESA Says No Luck on Third Try to Find
Mars Probe

ESA Says No Luck on Third Try to Find
Mars Probe 12/26/2003 07:49 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 26 2003 6:40PM ET

Pickup Lines for Lady Luck

Pickup Lines for Lady Luck 12/31/2003 06:08 PM
Want to get lucky? Just start thinking like you already are.

Football: Souness blames luck

Football: Souness blames luck 04/15/2005 04:44 AM
Newcastle's Graeme Souness laments injuries and poor finishing for his team's Uefa Cup elimination.

Unlicensed pharmacies out of luck with
Google

Unlicensed pharmacies out of luck with
Google 12/02/2003 09:56 AM
CTV.ca Dec 2 2003 9:36AM ET

Caffeine, Nicotine, and Benzedrine (and
wish me luck)

Caffeine, Nicotine, and Benzedrine (and
wish me luck) 08/12/2004 08:33 PM
Head Back to Mono in 32k at the rineke.net records archive, where a rather consistent curator has digitized a goody chunk of his record collection. It's posted in more-or-less every iteration imaginable. Observe the linked scans (1 mb page, careful!) of the covers (also in multiple resolutions up to full-size). Note the records themselves, in sleeve or out, depending. Most especially, savor the clean, low-res mono mp3s that cry out to be played through the dashboard speakers of a 1967 Dodge Dart.

Bonus Big Beat Bonanza: The site's author is also behind the similarly detailed archive of shows by ex-WFMU dj The Hound, from 1987 through 1995, heavy on the rare regional sides beloved of certain of my pals down New Orleans way.

Last, but not least, rineke.net hosts the adventures of a platoon of Tux clones, sealing my geek admiration for the overseer of the site. There's more, of course. My propeller beanie's off to you, sir, and long may you wave, or particle, as is your choice and preference.

(Permission was sought and granted to post this, as I feard for the site's bandwidth. Have at it, Mefites!

luck has left me standing so tall

luck has left me standing so tall 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
This will probably be my last weblog entry this week, because I'm in the final few miles of the Just A Geek rewrite marathon.

MS wish British Athletes best of luck in
the Olympics

MS wish British Athletes best of luck in
the Olympics 08/17/2004 03:15 PM
Birmingham, England, home town to many Neowinians, is also a site of support for the British Olypmic hopes. For the next few days, Microsoft will be offering passers by to write messages of congratulations, commiseration and support to British Athletes competing in at the 2004 Olympics, in Greece.

Microsoft, an Olympic sponsor, is in the centre of Birmingham with the British Olympic Association drawing attention to lesser supported sports, such as fencing. These sports have traditionally received less coverage in comparison to the likes of swimming; the same applies in terms of funding. The event is designed to increase funding and interest in these sports, and ultimately raise British medal hopes.

Microsoft are also using the event to show off their Tablet PC, and it's new technologies. Combined with its integrated hand writing software, people can literally use these devices as portable notepads. Fun, undoubtedly, but questionably useful; this issue is perhaps on of the reasons for their low uptake in the main stream market.

Asides from sponsoring British athletes, Microsoft are also managing the British Olympic Associations IT needs (more info via the link below). If you wish to send a message to the British team in Athens, you can do so here.

View: MS GB Sponsorship Page + 2 Athlete's Diaries

Read full story...

Luck or skill? A niche for Web gaming
firms

Luck or skill? A niche for Web gaming
firms 05/24/2004 06:40 PM
International Herald Tribune,France-16 minutes ago ... Under pressure from the US Justice Department, Yahoo, Google and MSN last month stopped accepting advertisements from online casino operators because such ads ...

"Wikipedia, the free online
encyclopedia, has been having some bad
luck lately"

"Wikipedia, the free online
encyclopedia, has been having some bad
luck lately" 12/29/2003 03:39 AM

Press Your Luck player gamed the system

Press Your Luck player gamed the system 03/20/2003 11:55 AM
Michael Larsen, an unemployed ice-cream salesman, obsessively taped and watched the game-show Press Your Luck in the 80s until he'd figured out how the game-board's patterns worked. Once he had the system nailed, he appeared on the show and swept the board, netting over $100,000 (which he promptly lost on bad real-estate investments). The account and video of his win is pretty amazing. Link Discuss (via Ben Hammersley)

Town called "Luck" lands lottery win
(Reuters)

Town called "Luck" lands lottery win
(Reuters) 12/24/2004 01:13 PM
Reuters - A town called "Luck" has lived up to its name by turning up the winning ticket in Spain's Christmas lottery, one of the world's biggest prizes known as El Gordo (The Fat One).

We chased lady luck, 'til we finally
struck Bonanza.

We chased lady luck, 'til we finally
struck Bonanza. 08/05/2004 03:44 PM
In 1967 the television program Bonanza enjoyed a three-year run as the most-watched television show in the United States. Bonanza had not started well; its first two seasons returning disapointing ratings but kept alive by the bequest of (then) NBC-parent RCA. RCA had a vested interest in keeping the color series alive in order to push sales of their color technology.

That same year Bill and Joyce Anderson created The Ponderosa Ranch tourist attraction near Incline Village, Nevada on the site allegedly shown by the burn ing map in the opening credits. The property annually attracts nearly 350,000 tourists to Lake Tahoe's north shore to enjoy the surroun dings of a period recreation including mock gunfights, cowboy rope tricks and an honest 1860's-style saloon. (more inside)
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