Man Arrested After Leaving Small Tip (AP)
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Man Arrested for Leaving Small Tip (AP)
Man Arrested for Leaving Small Tip (AP)
09/13/2004 07:03 AMAP - Humberto A. Taveras put his money where his mouth is and ended up
arrested, accused of leaving an inadequate tip at a restaurant.
Microsoft Celebrates National Small
Business Week with Technology and
Service Offerings for Small Businesses
Microsoft Celebrates National Small
Business Week with Technology and
Service Offerings for Small Businesses
05/18/2004 01:31 PMIn recognition of National Small Business Week and the significant
role the nation's 7.5 million small businesses play in the U.S.
economy, Microsoft is teaming with other organizations that focus on
small companies, including the Small Business Administration, to
provide higher levels of support and services.
Microsoft Solutions for Small and Medium
Business: Small IT Solution
Microsoft Solutions for Small and Medium
Business: Small IT Solution
07/19/2004 11:14 AMLeaving...
Leaving...
02/10/2004 02:51 AMI was going to write "hitting the road now, see you on the other
side," but I realized that I'm going to be flying, not hitting the
road, and I'll probably see you a few times along the way. Leaving on
a trip is really not an important event anymore except that the
likelihood that something bad is going to happen to you increases for
a period of time.
Anyway, for those of you who are going to ETech, see you you
face to face soon.
Leaving so soon?
Leaving so soon?
04/12/2004 03:33 PMLeaving DVD Jon alone
Leaving DVD Jon alone
01/06/2004 05:45 AMUSA Today Jan 6 2004 5:14AM ET
Leaving the Earth
Leaving the Earth
03/06/2004 02:03 AMRannva dropped this URL on an older blog entry, so I figured I should
pop it up to a larger readership, since it's just too cool:
Orion's
Arm Worldbuilding Group.
A huge collection of Creative Commons -licensed
alternative world history (and future) that should make the soul of
every hardcore sci-fi fan tickle. I only took a quick glance through
it, but already I started getting ideas...
I think this is another good example on how uncoordinated efforts of
dedicated amateurs can produce things that rival commercial
alternatives. I don't think it replaces them, though, but it
can be a good choice among many. The Internet has really allowed a
whole new kind of collaboration efforts to take place, things that
were rather difficult to do before. Essentially the Internet is now
doing the job of the scientific journals, and it is not surprising
that many of the academic papers are being published on the Internet
first these days...
Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas
01/16/2004 10:57 AMSorry for the absence, folks... I've just limped back into New York
from a lost weekend of fear and loathing in Las Vegas, during which
just about the last thing on my mind was this blog. Before I post
anything real - and I have several rants percolating - I want to thank
you for having maintained what I consider a commendable civility while
I was off contributing to the decline of civilization, despite your
passionately conflicting political beliefs. There's been froth and
pitch and a lot of wit. Best of all, you've been sounding like
grown-ups. (A virtue I've come to appreciate a lot more of late.) I
think the "constructive combat" I wished for in my last post may
actually be arising here. This can be a venue where the vectors of
opinion that presently rend our beloved country can come to appreciate
each other a little better, if only for our sense of humor. I don't
think either side is likely to win many converts. We're all pretty
convinced. But if we maintain our currently reduced level of
name-calling, we might grow back some of the tolerance that has become
all too rare among our fellow citizens and upon which democracy itself
depends. I be back at it myself as soon as I've had a chance to clear
my head. In that service, I'm off to find myself a latte. Since my
place here is in Little Italy, that will be easy enough to do. Might
even pick up a New York Times while I'm at it......
Leaving Pompignan I
Leaving Pompignan I
06/29/2004 05:12 PM As it appears we’re about to move to a town with DSL
capabilities, it would be good to hear from anyone with strong opinion
on Wanadoo vs Freebox vs Tiscali vs Noos and so on,
haut-débit-wise.
I’d rather not give more money than absolutely necessary to
the bloated France Telecom, and the dinks at Tiscali haven’t
exactly curried a lot of favour, but if the big-pipes 2048k offers
they’re flinging about actually work, then so be it.
A bell is a cup, until it is struck.
The Relief of Leaving a Job
The Relief of Leaving a Job
03/14/2005 05:01 PMI've noticed a funny thing in the last year or so. The vast majority
of the time someone I know leaves a job (or is fired) two trends seem
to recur: A sense of relief: "I'm so glad I'm not at that place
anymore." A complete loss of "spare" time: "I'm busier now than when I
was working full-time!" Maybe everyone should change jobs once or
twice a decade? Maybe people should ask themselves a bit more often
one question:...
Leaving La La land.......
Leaving La La land.......
11/03/2003 12:19 PMTime flies when you're running jet set to every crazy cool event you
can squeeze into 3 days. I leave...
Leaving Pompignan II
Leaving Pompignan II
07/28/2004 12:51 PM So yeah, we moved.
Everyone says it’s stressful to move, up there with divorce and
sudden unemployment, but christ on a bike it takes a lot out of you.
Never mind the backache and barked knuckles: you’re left without
a soul.
We’re now about an hour and a half east of Pompignan, in the
Rhône Valley, hugged up next to the vaguely shitty
Bagnols-sur-Cèze. Actually strike that – it’s only
shitty if all you see of it is the shopping malls and supermarkets and
their parking lots while you rush around for food and drink between
time spent figuring where to put all the god damn stuff that was
schlepped over from the old place. The town has a heart, we found out
this morning: each Wednesday every street and sidestreet is filled
with market stalls, patrolled by women pushing baby strollers, cops in
funny pillbox hats, and Dutch tourists. Olives, baby: buckets of
them.
The new house is nice. There is interesting plaster moulding. All
doorways are higher than my forehead. The dogs have a yard to destroy.
Here are some
pictures.
On Leaving New York
On Leaving New York
07/20/2004 01:03 PMI've been putting off writing about it because it seems like too much
to cover, but then that's probably the...
Leaving Nokia
Leaving Nokia
12/17/2003 05:03 AMI've had it with my Nokia 3650. On paper it's a great phone with just
about all of the modern...
Are Spammers Leaving The Business?
Are Spammers Leaving The Business?
05/06/2004 02:53 AMIt appears that the combination of technology solutions and legal
crackdowns on spammers may be having some effect on a few of the
weaker willed spammers. USA Today is reporting that
some spammers are finding other lines of work. I'd
be more encouraged if there were a corresponding decrease in the
amount of spam - but most studies seem to show that it's increasing
(and my own personal stats support this). One interesting note is
that some spammers say they plan on becoming "reformed" spammers who
try to come up with better anti-spam solutions. Can you trust a
spammer to help stop spam? I'm not so sure.
My Party Is Leaving the Faithful Behind
My Party Is Leaving the Faithful Behind
04/11/2005 10:14 AMKevin Starr: My Party Is Leaving the Faithful Behind (Free LA Times
Regisitration) .. eloquent
lament
latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-values10apr10,0,400
505.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
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TiVo president leaving
TiVo president leaving
02/01/2005 09:06 PMDeparture comes weeks after the company launches search for new chief
executive officer.
Snook leaving Carphone
Snook leaving Carphone
04/14/2005 07:06 AMThe Register Apr 14 2005 11:51AM GMT
leaving 18 American casualties
leaving 18 American casualties
04/03/2005 06:15 PMmsnbc:
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One in 10 nurses 'is leaving NHS'
One in 10 nurses 'is leaving NHS'
08/20/2004 08:55 AMOne in 10 nurses and midwives is leaving the NHS, official figures
have shown.
Quantum Cryptography Leaving the Lab
Quantum Cryptography Leaving the Lab
04/12/2004 10:14 AMLeaving Las Vegas, and Glad of It
Leaving Las Vegas, and Glad of It
01/16/2004 01:00 PMLas Vegas municipal officials should realize that by tonight, tens of
thousands of people from all over the world have told family and
friends about the ridiculously inept airport operation at one of the
world's most popular tourism destinations. This is going to translate
into dollars, as in lost dollars.
Transmeta leaving CPU business?
Transmeta leaving CPU business?
01/05/2005 02:10 PMLow-power CPU maker Transmeta is mulling over a departure from the
business of making processors. Can they survive as a pure R&D company?
Dan Gillmor Leaving the Merc
Dan Gillmor Leaving the Merc
12/19/2004 03:05 PMWow. My hometown paper hero has moved on. Congratulations Dan.
Whatever the future holds, I'm sure you will not only get it, but
possibly now shape it....
Frasier Is Leaving the Building
Frasier Is Leaving the Building
05/13/2004 09:30 PMThe writers and cast of "Frasier" earned their huge
following by treating the audience with respect. They combined
sophisticated comedy with slapstick, joy with angst, and never lost
their warm view of humanity.
Even the occasional low points were better than most of the
"entertainment" that pollutes today's heartless, brainless TV
wasteland. The highs were sublime. It's been fun.
Stanford/SFP: Leaving on a Jet Plane
Stanford/SFP: Leaving on a Jet Plane
06/17/2005 03:28 PMJustin Frankel Really Leaving AOL
Justin Frankel Really Leaving AOL
01/26/2004 06:27 PMDespite
rumors<
/a> coming out right after the Waste-mess, Nullsoft founder Justin
Frankel stuck around at AOL for another six months or so before
finally announcing that, this time, he's
really leaving the company. AOL is probably thrilled. Still, it
should be interesting to see what he comes up with next, which won't
need to be taken offline by AOL within 24 hours of him releasing it.
I'm still a bit surprised he lasted this long.
Monster Founder Leaving
Monster Founder Leaving
06/17/2005 03:54 PMMonster Worldwide, which operates the most-used Web site for
employment advertising, said that its founder was leaving to start a
new venture.
Leaving ApacheCon 2003
Leaving ApacheCon 2003
12/05/2003 08:58 AMWe're back from ApacheCon and wading through
the blogs
Reflections on leaving Panama
Reflections on leaving Panama
02/10/2004 02:44 AMLooking out the windows of the Boeing 757 taking me away from
Panama it remains hard to believe that the railroad (1850-55) and then
the canal were built. They had no aircraft and therefore could
not perform aerial surveys of a roadless unknown country. They
had no insect repellant in a place swarming with mosquitoes, sand
flies, and other sources of nasty bites (so perhaps it was for the
best that, until the Americans came along, nobody believed that
mosquitoes caused malaria and yellow fever). The development of
this country is a remarkable tribute to the triumph of energy over
natural caution.
Most of that energy came from the American West. The
California gold rush of 1849 provided the impetus for the construction
of the railroad and most of its initial revenue. When the French
effort failed two citizens of Medora, North Dakota played key
roles. The best-known is
that of one-time rancher Theodore
Roosevelt. As president of the United States in 1903 it was
Roosevelt who encouraged Panamanians to secede from Columbia and
subsequently approved taking over the French concession in the
isthmus. Canal historian David McCullough in Br
ave Companions writes about another Medoran in his book Brave
Companions.
Antoine Amedee-Marie-Vincent Manca de Vallombrosa, the Marquis de
Mores, was a French aristocrat married to the daughter of a wealthy
Wall Street banker. Of North Dakota the Marquis wrote "I like
this country for there is room to move about without stepping on the
feet of others." He invested much of his wealth in the North
Dakota badlands, in a local slaughterhouse, and in refrigerated rail
cars to deliver beef to markets in the East, in competition with the
Chicago stockyards. Roosevelt was frequently a guest in the
Marquis's house in Medora until a cruel winter drove them and their
herds out. The Marquis blamed the failure of his enterprise on "the
Jewish beef trust" and, upon returning to France, satisfied the French
public's demand to know what had gone wrong with their sea level canal
with the explanation that the Jews were to blame. The Marquis
successfully stirred many thousands of his countrymen to anti-Jewish
riots regarding the canal and subsequently played an important role in
the Dreyfus Affair. He was less successful outside France.
According to McCullough, the Marquis was "murdered in June 1896 by a
band of Tuareg tribesmen in North Africa", where he had been engaged
in an effort to "united the Muslims under the French flag in an
all-out holy war against the Jews and the English."
McCaffrey leaving Google
McCaffrey leaving Google
12/22/2004 01:19 AMIdentity Brokerage leaving the station
Identity Brokerage leaving the station
12/17/2004 06:28 PM
Esther Dyson and Ray Anderson are early
investors in Simon Grice's Midentity - which announced a deal with BT today. I hope that smart folks
like Om Malik and Rafat Ali notice this.
I just hate it when deals take months to close, but Simon
has been working on this one - forever. It's the beginning of
the deployment of true identity based servcies - into the
mainstream.
Imagine Midentity as a Sxip Networks HomeSite - compatible with
FOAFnet, i-names, Liberty Alliance, Passport - the whole nine yards.
But who cares about any of that - unless the identity is put into a
context?
We've been trying to
show social networking in context with 1UP.com (for gamers) and Glowria.fr (for
Movie nuts.....) - and now it looks like Midentity is about to put
identity into context for Phone slackers and Gen-X,Y,Zers in the
U.K.
Imagine being able to locate friends on your cell phone, IM them,
interface to your DLA on your PC at home, download a song, meetup at a
coffee house, listen to teh music, upload a photo of the group of
friends to your blog, send that photo elsewhere and spontaneously form
a group - before dessert comes?
Then you get email from the office, you update your project Wiki,
forward a spec list to a comrade in Moscow and - in general - stay on
top of your digital lifestyle.
Simon is the one closest to delivering that - right
now. He's got 850,000 folks signed up in the U.K. so far.
Simon has also started a new blog called Personal Digital
Identity - I bet allot will be going on over there in 2005.
Speaking of which - Simon is having a party on the top of the BT Tower
in February. I'm definitely gonna be there for that! See yah in
London in February - Simon!
Oh yah - Dick Hardt is also an
investor in Midentity. And I hope to hell that WE'RE working for Simon - so
I can proudly say "we helepd build Midentity into what it is
today."
HP notebook executive leaving for Dell
HP notebook executive leaving for Dell
08/10/2004 05:48 PMThe departure comes as the two computer giants battle for market
share.
Google Is One for the Books, Leaving
Some With Regrets
Google Is One for the Books, Leaving
Some With Regrets
08/22/2004 09:19 PMTop Silicon Valley venture capitalists who missed out on the Google
deal are scratching their heads.
Are You Leaving Your Security in the
Hands of your Web Browser
Are You Leaving Your Security in the
Hands of your Web Browser
03/19/2005 02:38 AMOnline privacy company announces user-friendly tools to help you
protect your own online life. [PRWEB Mar 18, 2005]
Ex-mayor Morgan leaving SDLP
Ex-mayor Morgan leaving SDLP
09/16/2004 03:59 AMThe former SDLP Lord Mayor of Belfast announces that he will be
retiring from Northern Ireland politics.
Toshiba may be leaving the PDA market;
Is the PDA dead?
Toshiba may be leaving the PDA market;
Is the PDA dead?
07/10/2004 12:48 PMIn early June we learned that Sony was putting the hold on PDA
development in all markets outside of Asia. Now it looks like Toshiba
is going to back out, too.
On leaving and rejoining services
online...
On leaving and rejoining services
online...
06/22/2005 02:25 AMOk, so I'm holed up at Lance
Arthur's pad for a couple of hours and I'm taking the opportunity
to plough through some of the stuff that I can't get written in
London. First up, a post about FeedBurner and Blogger and specifically about a
post called Ciao
, Feedburner over on the official FeedBurner weblog.
For those of you who don't know, FeedBurner is a profoundly useful
service for webloggers that grabs your RSS/Atom feeds and enhances
them in various ways. The assumption of the service is that these
feeds are generally machine-produced and that the vast majority of
people are not super-alpha-geek users capable of hacking them around.
So instead of learning Atom's intricacies, you tell FeedBurner where
your current feed is, FeedBurner then chews it all up, splices in
stuff from del.icio.us or Flickr or whatever, makes the whole
thing compatible with more standards than you were aware existed, puts
a shiny style-sheeted face on the whole thing and then spits it out at
a new location. The Feedburner feed for plasticbag.org (for example)
is here: FeedBurner
feed for plasticbag.org.
Of course FeedBurner does many more things that I've just
mentioned. It also tracks your user stats more effectively than
anything else I've seen. It can replace embedded Amazon links with
ones that include your money-making Amazon Associates ID. And most
impressively of all, FeedBurner can turn absolutely normal posts in
them into fully working Podcasts. So, if you're currently overwhelmed
with the complexity of Podcasting, there's an easy way of getting
yourself started.
So generally, it's a pretty impressive service and one which you
might want to use. But when I came to it originally, I was quite
sceptical. Why? Because it seemed like a one-way path - once I'd got
people using my FeedBurner feed, how could I ever make them transition
to a new service? What happened if I changed my mind? If I had
previously changed the location of my feeds on my personal site, I
could use some weird .htaccess rewrite rule to send people to the new
place. It was geeky, but it was possible. But I can't do that on
someone else's service. The whole situation looked like a weird kind
of lock-in where if I was to swap to a new service I'd lose half of my
subscribers. And that kind of lock-in can only make you sceptical of
joining a service in the first place, and make you resent it in
time.
But not any more! As of a few days ago FeedBurner added a new
service that completely fixed this problem. If you decide to leave
them now, you can tell the service the address of your new feed and it
will reorganise itself accordingly:
Day 1-10: Any requests for the FeedBurner feed are sent an
HTTP 301 "Permanent Redirect" response back to your source feed. This
will cause most feed readers to forget the FeedBurner URL and use the
new URL from that point on. Your subscribers don't feel a
thing.
Day 11-20: If your FeedBurner feed is still getting
requests at this point, it probably means that your feed reader is
treating that "Permanent Redirect" as a "Temporary Redirect". That's
actually pretty common, so now we enter "Phase 2". Now, any requests
for your FeedBurner feed will receive a "redirect document". What is a
redirect document? Dave Winer displayed foresight by anticipating this
need back in 2002 and provided this specification so that a publisher
could keep control of their feed location. We strongly encourage more
feed readers to support this specification, and we are going to be
widely campaigning for this capability.
Day 21-30: You're still here? Well, at this point we
return a valid feed that contains a single item that says "This feed
has moved to (feed URL here)". So even though all of the transparent
mechanisms to redirect the subscription have failed, there's still a
trail for your subscribers to follow.
The consequence? I now feel much less likely to leave! This simple
exit path has made me feel enormously more comfortable with their
service and much more comfortable recommending it to friends. As an
organisation they're stating publically that they respect their users
and their opinions. Moreover, they're stating that they're not
interested exploiting people's inertia or in trapping them. These are
all powerful and positive messages - messages that make the
organisation enormously more trustworthy.
The guys behind Flickr have a similar philosophy, which I have
always loved. They want people to feel that they can trust Ludicorp
with incredibly personal pictures of their loved ones and their life.
As such they've made it relatively easy for people to pull their
photos out of Flickr at whatever point they want. There's no attempt
to hold the users to ransom. These are good things. They're good
enough to almost constitute a rule: Give people clear and easy ways
to transition out from your service with no loss of data. They will
like you for it, and will be less likely to leave you.
But sometimes, it's not enough just to give people an easy exit
from your service. Sometimes you can still hold people to ransom by
not giving them an easy enough way to come back. I often think
of Blogger when I think around
this stuff - I was with Blogger for years as a user. I loved their
service enormously. And when Movable Type came along I
considered moving but decided against it. It was a long time later
that I started to consider that it might be a better fit for my needs.
And so I looked into how you could transition across between the
services concerned and discovered that it was relatively easy. You
simply provided Blogger with a different kind of template that MT
could read as data and then clicked an 'import' button. Nice and
simple - well done Blogger for giving me an escape route.
But where MT had a facility to import entries, Blogger did not. If
I decided to try a different platform, then there would be no easy
going back. If I left Blogger I would be leaving forever. After much
trepidation, I made the leap to MT and for a while I ran the two sites
in parallel. MT had its problems running on Pair servers, but I stuck with it and
in the end I left Blogger behind. But it was a wrench and a leap of
faith, and in the process I'd come to resent Blogger for putting me in
such an awkward position - for acting like the parent who says, 'if
you get in that car, don't bother coming back'. Because of course I
never could go back...
What I learned from the situation with Blogger - and which I'm
delighted to see that FeedBurner knew as well - is that it's as
important to give people the ability to rejoin your service as it is
to help them leave. But really, there's a higher level lesson here
as well: it pays to be honourable when you're building software and
services. It pays - as Google says - to do no evil. It pays a
financial reward, it pays a reward of user respect and loyalty, and -
I think most importantly - it pays a personal creative reward of
knowing that you've made a service that people actively want to stay
with.
It seems obvious, but users seem to want to try things without
risk, without a hard sell, and then settle on the platform or
service that makes most sense to them. You should want that too. You
should want your users to be happy, to be content, to not be
railing against your control, to not resent your service. To restrict
that freedom (to leave and to come back) seems to me to be a
profound statement that you have no faith in what you've created, that
you're not sure that it can stand on its own merits, and that you're
prepared to screw over your customers to meet your immediate needs. No
company can sustain such a relationship forever. All it can do is
alienate. So well done Flickr and FeedBurner and - to an extent -
Blogger. And may (many) other companies learn from your
examples...
Non-Saudi workers leaving after attack
Non-Saudi workers leaving after attack
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