Greg Palast, You're My Hero

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Palast piece on Chavez

Palast piece on Chavez 08/17/2004 01:33 PM
Dick Cheney, Hugo Chavez and Bill Clinton's Band by Greg Palast

Greg on the Mic

Greg on the Mic 02/01/2005 10:09 PM

Guess Who’s Back?

“So here I am, three months later, bored with writing and ready to try something new. With that in mind, I offer the all-new Open Stacks Podcast #1.” [Open Stacks]

Excellent – Greg Schwartz is podcasting! Grabbing the file now…. So Greg, having done an actual podcast, do you see applications for libraries?

In support of Greg Dyke and the BBC...

In support of Greg Dyke and the BBC... 02/10/2004 02:47 AM

In the Daily Telegraph today is an advert/petition paid for and signed by many thousands of BBC staff asserting the fierce independence of the BBC and talking about Greg Dyke's leadership as Director General (see Guardian article). I don't have a lot to say about it except to say that unfortunately my name and those of many other people I know couldn't fit onto the page, but that shouldn't in any way be read as a lack of support. It was signed and supported financially by many more people than could fit onto that page - myself included - and its impressive scale should be viewed as just a slice of the even larger genuine ground-swell of sentiment throughout the organisation.

Greg Maddux Denied 300th Win (AP)

Greg Maddux Denied 300th Win (AP) 08/02/2004 04:42 AM
AP - Greg Maddux has lasted long enough to earn 299 wins. He needed to last at least one more inning for No. 300. Nomar Garciaparra and the Cubs rallied to take the lead just an inning after Maddux came out Sunday, so he wound up with a no-decision in Chicago's 6-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.

Interview with AirWave's Greg Murphy

Interview with AirWave's Greg Murphy 07/12/2004 03:54 PM
A talk with AirWave's COO: In a bit of coincidental timing, AirWave's $7 million funding announcement today dovetails with a recent interview I had with Greg Murphy, the founder of AirWave's two incarnations and currently the chief operations officer. Those with reasonably long memories will recall that AirWave started as a hotspot company and was setting up restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2001. Faced with the dotcom downturn, the company sold its Wi-Fi locations to a startup operator -- in turn acquired by Ikano and operated now as Hotspotzz -- but turned its expertise in managing remote access points into its main business. AirWave is on the verge of releasing its third version of the AirWave Management Platform, which allows management through a central software server of dozens to thousands of heterogeneous access points (APs) from vendors like Cisco, 3Com, Avaya, Proxim, and others. AirWave's basic philosophy is that companies can be free to choose whatever access points they need, but also that most companies already have APs from multiple vendors that they aren't interested in replacing. With a central console, the network can be monitored for new APs, which can be automatically configured; traffic statistics can be collected in one location for an entire worldwide network; reconfiguring 10 or 1,000 routers involves the same amount of work; and rogue access points can be detected when they're plugged into a network. Similar hardware and software is avaiable from Cisco, Proxim, and others to manage just their own equipment with some support for outside integration with other APs. I spoke to Murphy last month just after AirWave had announced that their system was being used in 10 major universities around the U.S. Murphy noted his alma mater, Amherst, had put in Ethernet everywhere as part of an early wave of making Internet access available to all students. The current wave is, of course, Wi-Fi. "It's so much more affordable than punching a hole in every dorm," Murphy said. Every time a college opens a wall, they might find construction problems, code issues, or even asbestos. "If I don't open the wall, I don't have to know what's in there," Murphy said. The AirWave system works well in colleges because they're among the most likely candidates to have patchworks of equipment from many companies, including commodity consumer gear, and then overlay a more comprehensive management approach on top of...

greg.org: How I Would Protest At The
Republican Convention

greg.org: How I Would Protest At The
Republican Convention 07/14/2004 10:23 AM
How I Would Protest At The Republican Convention

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Robot Stories - Greg Pak Interview

Robot Stories - Greg Pak Interview 06/04/2004 08:34 PM
Robot Stories is a low budget movie billed as "science fiction from the heart". The collection of four Bradbury-style short stories is making the rounds of art house theaters around the country. Robot Stories has proven so popular in Dallas, Texas, where it's showing right now that the run has been extended another week. I got a chance to talk to Greg Pak, the writer and director, after a recent screening and he agreed to answer a few questions for the robot geeks here at robots.net. Read on for the full interview.

Greg Maddux Returns to Chicago Cubs (AP)

Greg Maddux Returns to Chicago Cubs (AP) 02/18/2004 01:03 AM
AP - Greg Maddux is going back where he started, deciding to sign with the Chicago Cubs, The Associated Press learned Tuesday night.

Greg Beaver's Blog: Serious Progress on
PEAR Dev

Greg Beaver's Blog: Serious Progress on
PEAR Dev 02/05/2005 09:07 PM
Over on Greg Beaver's weblog today, there's a new posting concerning the serious progress on PEAR development that is currently going on.

Greg Breaver's Blog: Self-Installing
PEAR?

Greg Breaver's Blog: Self-Installing
PEAR? 04/07/2005 07:31 AM
Greg Beaver has a new note over on his blog today about a very interesting idea that I agree could help the PHP community with its adoption of PEAR - self-installing PEAR from a single file.

Composer Greg Hale Jones passes away

Composer Greg Hale Jones passes away 08/10/2004 08:59 AM
I've just learned that Los Angeles-based composer Greg Hale Jones has passed away. This is very sad news -- he was young, he was talented, and he was a kind soul.

I first met Greg in the course of a feature I was writing for Grammy Magazine (Link to gif scan), and had the good fortune of developing an aquaintance with his work and his warm, kind personality over time. He was a good man, which is something of a rarity here in Hollywood.

His body of work included a number of film soundtracks, and a series of wonderful pieces that remixed/rethought/reinterpreted old historic folk song recordings from the Library of Congress. Probably the most widely-exposed of these was a tune called "Boll Weevil."

One of the things that was so amazing about the work Greg did was the way he used these old recordings -- he wasn't just sampling them and slapping them on top of a techno beat, Moby-style. He was really turning them inside out, composing through them and around them and retooling both the original and the new elements in an incredibly sensitive way. It was great work, and a fine reminder of the fact that valuable new art often owes its creative DNA to prior work.

When I interviewed him, he told me about how the Library of Congress was relatively generous with granting permission to use those 60-year-old Alan Lomax field recordings of black southern folk singers -- but this permission came with an odd condition. Since the song would be used in a feature film, some portion of the movie's proceeds must go back to the heirs of the original singer. Greg agreed. This resulted in a surreal scenario: after a long, challenging search to locate the descendants, a suited-up Paramount Pictures executive drives a winding road out to an overgrown southern plantation in disrepair, hands a check to an elderly woman, asks "So, what are you going to do with the money?" She replies, "I'm gonna finally go out and buy me one of them telephones, that's what I'm gonna do."

Some audio clip are here. His partner Laurie says she plans to keep Greg's studio in operation, and has no intent of allowing his creative legacy to fade. He was a gentle, insightful soul. He was also an unbelievably gifted artist. I'm deeply saddened to learn of his departure.

Greg Maddux Joins 300-Victory Club (AP)

Greg Maddux Joins 300-Victory Club (AP) 08/07/2004 09:10 PM
AP - Greg Maddux has always been a man of little fanfare, so that's exactly how he handled his 300th win — with a quiet step into history. Maddux calmly overcame a shaky start to become the 22nd major league pitcher to reach 300 victories, leading the Chicago Cubs over the San Francisco Giants 8-4 on Saturday.

Greg Beaver's Blog: PHP_Archive Gains
Maturity

Greg Beaver's Blog: PHP_Archive Gains
Maturity 04/08/2005 10:23 AM
Following up his entry on the self-installing PEAR idea, Greg Beaver has a new post today with an update on his work with the PHP_Archive package.

Greg Beaver's Blog: Standalone PEAR with
No Deps

Greg Beaver's Blog: Standalone PEAR with
No Deps 04/13/2005 08:33 AM
Greg Beaver has a new posting on his blog today about a real milestone in the "standalone PEAR installation" project he's been working on - a standalone PEAR with no dependencies thanks to PHP_Archive.

Greg Beaver's Blog: More on PEAR.phar's
Development

Greg Beaver's Blog: More on PEAR.phar's
Development 04/18/2005 07:39 AM
With two quick updates on the "PEAR without PEAR" project that Greg Breaver has been working on, he has two new posts on his blog with the scoop.

Greg Beaver's Blog: PEAR.phar
Issues/Fixes

Greg Beaver's Blog: PEAR.phar
Issues/Fixes 04/15/2005 10:02 AM
In the continuing evolution of the PEAR.phar package Greg Breaver has been working up, there's a little bit of a setback noted in this new blog entry over on his site.

Baxa CEO Greg Baldwin Joins
Healthprolink Board of Directors

Baxa CEO Greg Baldwin Joins
Healthprolink Board of Directors 03/30/2005 04:27 AM
Greg Baldwin, Chairman and CEO of Baxa Corporation of Englewood, Colorado, has joined the Board of Directors for Healthprolink of Bellevue, Washington. Baxa Corporation, a privately held company, is a leader in serving hospital pharmacy systems for handling, packaging and administering liquid medications from oral to multi-ingredient IV. Baxa is a registered medical device manufacturer with the FDA and has sales in over 35 countries. [PRWEB Mar 30, 2005]

Audio Interview with Greg Hoglund and
Gary McGraw, Authors of "Exploiting
Software: How to Break Code"

Audio Interview with Greg Hoglund and
Gary McGraw, Authors of "Exploiting
Software: How to Break Code" 04/15/2004 10:17 AM

Baxa CEO Greg Baldwin Is Now Profiled at
the Expert Information for Journalists
Website and Available to Address
Selected Business Topics

Baxa CEO Greg Baldwin Is Now Profiled at
the Expert Information for Journalists
Website and Available to Address
Selected Business Topics 04/02/2005 04:22 AM
Greg Baldwin, Chairman and CEO of Baxa Corporation of Englewood, Colorado, is now profiled on the Expert Information For Journalists website – Expert411.com. Baxa Corp., a privately held company is a leader in serving hospital pharmacy systems for handling, packaging and administering liquid medications from oral to multi-ingredient IV. Baxa is a registered medical device manufacturer with the FDA and has sales in over 35 countries. [PRWEB Apr 2, 2005]

My new hero

My new hero 12/31/2004 12:54 PM
DOJ coup d'etat. Ashcroft is gone. Now, six days before the confirmation hearings of Alberto Gonzales, the acting Attorney General, Daniel Levin, issues a new official memo (pdf)on torture, reversing and specifically repudiating the definitions of torture from the August 2002 memo addressed to Gonzales. The new memo states, among other things,

'we disagree with statements in the August 2002 Memorandum limiting "severe" pain under the statute to "excruciating and agonizing" pain [...] or to pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death'

"Hero"

"Hero" 08/27/2004 01:29 PM
It took the slow boat from China, but Zhang Yimou's dazzling martial-arts epic has finally come to American movie theaters. It was well worth the wait.

My Hero

My Hero 04/26/2004 07:05 PM
Davi d Bowie invites fans to remix his songs.

David Bowie has today asked fans to bootleg songs of his latest album “Reality” to create a new song (mash-up).

The British music star has given fans the right to create a new song by using computer music software to blend or “mash up” two existing tracks.

The winning song will be released as an MP3 and its creator will win a car.

”I’m very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself,” Bowie told The Times newspaper.

[The Digital Music Weblog]

From zero to hero

From zero to hero 01/16/2004 11:33 AM

This is like a commercial for the atkins diet and golds gym. (quicktime mov)

Everybody Wants to be a Hero

Everybody Wants to be a Hero 01/23/2004 02:21 PM
Both Microsoft and open-source backers are claiming to be leading the charge to break down the digital divide in Third-World countries.

An XML Hero Reconsiders?

An XML Hero Reconsiders? 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
Kendall Grant Clark assesses reaction to an essay by Tim Bray that claimed XML was too difficult to work with. Was Bray right, or is he out of touch?

SBC is Hotspot Hero?

SBC is Hotspot Hero? 07/26/2004 12:37 PM
They're late to the game, but they're ready to party: It's a funny thing. When SBC Communications first announced their FreedomLink plans last year with plans build 6,000 hotspots over a couple of years, it seemed like yet another announcement of large numbers with no track record. Cometa was still on its 20,000 hotspots prediction and had only a handful. McDonald's hadn't decided its partner and was in limited trials. Wayport seemed stuck on hotels. And T-Mobile stayed focused--as it still does--on a few ubiquitous chains. In the space of a few months, SBC has moved from last man in, to practically first mover. Let's review: The UPS Store. They will install Wi-Fi in thousands of UPS Store outlets, which are places that business people already congregate. This will probably also necessitate a change of thinking for that mailing and business operation so that they can make it easier for people to work for periods of time in their stores. Wayport managed services. They hired Wayport to build out their FreedomLink locations instead of creating a new division with no experience in house. Wayport's Wi-Fi World and McDonald's. They're the first telco to sign up to resell Wayport's McDonald's network, which will ultimately be several thousand stores over the next couple of years. Wayport/McDonald's supplier. They're also providing DSL and other connectivity to many of the McDonald's that Wayport is disconnected, which is part revenue, part branding for them as part of the Wi-Fi World co-marketing model Wayport is pursuing. Airports, airports, airports. They have roaming agreements now for their FreedomLink users onto Concourse, Wise, Wayport, and (reportedly) Sprint PCS's airport locations. There are only a handful of major airports not represented by those networks: SFO and Boston Logan are the two that come to mind. Pushing Wi-Fi into homes. SBC is selling 3,000 Wi-Fi routers a day to their home DSL users. This will drive adoption by their users of Wi-Fi. People without Wi-Fi will buy adapters or new systems because of the ease of sharing. Pushing hotspots subscriptions to their DSL subscribers. It's a coming, and it's going to be good--SBC keeps saying in its press releases that they will offer FreedomLink at a substantial discount to their DSL subscribers. $10 per month for unlimited use? $8? $15? Who knows. But it's an audience they've already got and they can offer them nationwide service with several thousand locations...

Hero Helper X 1.5

Hero Helper X 1.5 12/03/2003 05:00 PM
An aid to the popular HeroGames role playing system. It helps GM’s and players during gaming sessions.

Hero Builders.com

Hero Builders.com 12/17/2003 07:15 AM
Amusing and somewhat disturbing all at the same time .. Okay, I find this really hilarous .. Action heroes for modern times .. truly tasteless dot com .. bearded Saddam dolls .. these action figures .. als Puppen erwerben .. make an honest buck .. rest

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The Hero of WWDC

The Hero of WWDC 06/17/2005 04:30 PM
(Update 12 June 2005: this post has been edited so that no one person at Apple is singled out—teams are teams, and the entire Intel team deserves a huge round of applause.)

At WWDC a member of the Intel team helped me get NetNewsWire and MarsEdit building as universal binaries. It took a little under two hours. It took as long as that only because these two apps are made up of over a dozen projects, and we had to change the settings (the famous checkbox, plus some other things) and rebuild each project individually.

Code changes? Nope, just time spent mainly in various inspector windows in Xcode getting things set up correctly.

And that’s why I think this transition will be a success—because it was so easy to create universal binaries, thanks to the great work of these folks and the hands-on help they gave developers at WWDC.



I’m aware that for some developers the transition won’t be so smooth. But it will be smooth for a huge number of developers, and that’s an incredible achievement.

A True Hero

A True Hero 03/19/2005 02:56 AM
Private Johnson Beharry awarded the Victoria Cross. The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest award for bravery in combat. It's awared is incredibly rare. The last awards were made posthumously after the Falklands War in 1982. The last living recipients were two Australians in the Vietnam War in 1969. It is said that in order to qualify for a VC, conditions must be so dangerous that only 10% of recipients survive. The actions of Private Johnson Beharry are therefore worthy of a mention.

Auntie Hero

Auntie Hero 09/16/2004 09:33 AM
20th-century American artist, Alice Neele , "The Auntie Hero": "While Uptowners were making their way downtown to have their portraits painted by Warhol, Downtowners were going up to 107th Street to sit for this bohemian, auntie-like artist." Check out seven decades of raw, sometimes amazing, but always deeply humane portraits of the often larger-than-life figures who peopled the New York art/lit scene and Neel's personal landscape, including such iconic irrepressibles as Joe Gould, Andy Warhol, Annie Sprinkle, and Bella Abzug. (NSFW)

Hero Helper X 2.0

Hero Helper X 2.0 09/11/2004 12:04 AM
Aid for the popular Hero Games role playing system.

"Hero in Fallujah"

"Hero in Fallujah" 12/19/2004 03:21 PM

Hero PC 'to get George Cross'

Hero PC 'to get George Cross' 04/16/2005 03:01 PM
Daily Mail Apr 16 2005 6:50PM GMT

An American Military Hero

An American Military Hero 08/17/2004 01:59 AM
The Conscience of Joe Darby
"Because the irony of all this is that the people in Somerset County who turned their backs on Joe, well, those people would probably feel very different if they knew the rest of the story. That it really wasn't about softening prisoners, gathering intelligence, or trying to win the war. That it wasn't even about losing control in the heat of the moment. It was about getting up in the middle of the night and going somewhere you weren't supposed to go, then beating and raping people there. It was premeditated violent crime."

Canada's True Hero.

Canada's True Hero. 09/17/2004 05:45 PM
Canada's True Hero The author Douglas Coupland has a book coming out in 2005 about fellow Canadian Terry Fox. Until then, read this interesting, but heart-warming article.

the difference between a winner and a
hero

the difference between a winner and a
hero 08/28/2004 01:24 PM
showing how Paul Hamm represents the worst of contemporary america

Home Game Hero 1.0.2

Home Game Hero 1.0.2 04/13/2005 12:06 PM
Poker timer. Choose between 15, 10 and 20 minute poker blinds timer intervals.

Another HERO for STERNO, sighhhhhhhhhhhh

Another HERO for STERNO, sighhhhhhhhhhhh 08/15/2004 01:25 PM
Blog Interrupted (washingtonpost.com) .. Washingtonienne .. feature story

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