A Tale of the Uh-Oh's: Amelia Takes A Fall
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Barlow: Amelia takes a fall
Barlow: Amelia takes a fall
12/30/2004 02:45 AM
Xeni Jardin:
On his blog, John Perry Barlow writes about a serious accident that
his daughter Amelia just survived -- and the sense of hope that,
paradoxically, experiences like this can bring. Hope that transcends
the personal, encompassing the global. Our best wishes for Amelia's
safe and speedy recovery, Barlow.
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GED test-taking takes a fall after
steady rise (USATODAY.com)
GED test-taking takes a fall after
steady rise (USATODAY.com)
07/26/2004 07:24 AMUSATODAY.com - For most of the past 15 years, the number of people
taking the General Educational Development tests steadily rose, with
the number jumping sharply in 2001. But the figure plummeted 43.6% in
2002 - from nearly 1.1 million to 603,000, according to a new report
from the American Council on Education, which oversees the high school
equivalency exams.
Amelia Is Alright. Others Are Not.
Amelia Is Alright. Others Are Not.
02/01/2005 09:56 PM For the fourth time in less than a month, I'm airborne over the
Atlantic, returning from quaint old Europe (as the Torturer General
might put it). Contrary to my expectations when I flew east over this
spot on January 6, my darling daughter Amelia is not sitting next to
me. I've had to leave her behind in Vienna. I'm pretty sure she'll be
ok in time, despite the fact that her first doctor in Klagenfurt said
she sustained the worst skiing injury he'd seen that didn't kill its
victim outright. She has been out of the hospital since New Year's and
is mending nicely, all things considered, but her Viennese doctor -
the best trauma guy in a city famous for physicians - says she
shouldn't get into an airplane until the air bubble still embedded in
her left lung is gone. His concern is that it would expand at altitude
and blow out the side of her lung, following which each breath would
pump air into her chest cavity until the mounting pressure collapsed
her lungs. The doctor says that the possibility of this happening is
only about five percent, but I have a history of losing my angels in
airplanes, and, besides, the mere idea that Amelia could die in such a
hideous way is so unendurable that I'd keep her on the ground forever
before I'd seriously entertain it. In practical terms though, she
shouldn't have to stay out of the stratosphere more than another
month. By that time, the clotted blood capsule which encases this dire
bubble should be absorbed through the healing process and the air in
Amelia's lung will be released back into the atmosphere. But until it
has moved, she won't. There are worse places to be stranded. Vienna is
a very beautiful city. Say what you will about the Hapsburgs, they had
great taste in masonry. It's as though they built their city out of
whipped cream. And the Viennese are a trip, their collected minds a
rich ecosystem that has supported some of the most sublime and
dreadful creatures ever to live on human awareness. (Consider Mozart,
Freud, or Wittgenstein. But consider also that Hitler was not in fact
German...) Though the Viennese are, withal, a bit on the cerebral
side, and one does begin to yearn for any relief from their utter
whiteness, their level of discourse should put a higher sheen on
Amelia's already polished mind. She is already starting to understand
German and may be speaking it by the time she leaves. When she left
America in October, she headed for Spain, hoping to be immersed in
another culture long enough to learn its language. She's getting her
wish, though crazy fate has chosen for her a different one than she
had intended. It was hard to leave Amelia behind, but, really, she's
going to be fine. She is under doctor's orders to relax, kick back,
and go swimming three times a week. (I wish I could get a doctor to
impose such a prescription on me.) She's staying with her pal, Stefan,
in his rather grand apartment near the center of town and is enough up
on her crutches that I was able able to take her shopping for a couple
of hours a few days ago. (Though shopping with euros when one's income
consists mostly of American pesos can be a crippling experience all by
itself.) Amelia is a tough girl, if a little fine-boned and
accident-prone. She'd broken her arms five times before she turned 15.
She also has a dharma that seems designed to anneal a resolute spirit.
In addition to drawing me for a father, she spent a year living with
Spalding Gray after he'd lost his joy and recently completed six weeks
in a tour bus with my old pal Bobby Weir during one of his more
abstract passages. She has tall shock absorbers and they lengthen by
the day. Her sense of humor, while a little dark, already provides a
lot of the armor she will need against the slings and absurdities of
this weird world. Here is Amelia, while she was still in the hospital,
holding the 20 pound bouquet that my New York dancemob sent her. She
has also been the beneficiary of a great spiritual fountain of global
good will. In addition to Stefan's doting family - his wonderful Uncle
Walter and Aunt Elizabeth have become so attached to her that it may
be necessary for me to kidnap her when the time comes to bring her
home - I must have received a hundred and fifty e-mails from folks,
from both BarlowFriendz and strangers, who profess to be praying for
her. If there's anything at all to this prayer thing, she'll be
dancing like JLo before Valentine's Day. If you like to contact her
directly in the meantime, here are her particulars: Amelia Rose Barlow
c/o Stefan Zaffalon Lammgasse 5/7 1080 Vienna Austria Her mobile:+43
699 1187 1770 Stefan's mobile: +43 699 10 14 46 18 Amelia Rose Barlow
<ameliarosebarlow@gmail.com Stefan Zaffalon
<stefanzaffalon@gmx.at> Finally, I am very grateful for the
spiritual generosity you have focused on Amelia at a time when so many
were suffering so much. Our moment of terror seems trivial against the
numberless tragedies that rim the Indian Ocean. Luke Scully and Angie
Foust before the tsunami. Indeed, the fleeting Christmas terror that I
might lose Amelia was placed in stark perspective by the fact that
some of my dearest friends did lose a son and brother during that
terrible time. When the earth-tossed waters roiled onto the Thai
coast, it appears they took Luke Scully with them. Luke was the son of
former Grateful Dead road manager Rock Scully, the stepson of my
longtime pal and Egyptologist Nicki Scully, and the brother of my
sweet friends Sage Scully and Pearl Steinbrecher. I'd known him since
he was a kid, and he'd become a kind of shirt-tail nephew to me. I was
personally...
Zander takes reins as Motorola takes
rivals' challenge
Zander takes reins as Motorola takes
rivals' challenge
01/04/2004 02:21 PMCNET Jan 4 2004 1:07PM ET
A tale of two Cairos
A tale of two Cairos
12/02/2003 01:37 AM
Microsoft's 2003 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) reminded
some observers of the same event in 1993, when the hot topics were the
Win32 APIs, a rough draft of Windows 95 code-named Chicago, and a
preview of a futuristic object-file-system-based NT successor
code-named Cairo. The hot topics this year were the WinFX managed
APIs, a rough draft of a future version of NT code-named Longhorn, and
... Cairo. Now called WinFS, this vision of metadata-enriched storage
and query-driven retrieval was, and is, compelling. Making it real
wasn't then, and isn't now, simply a matter of engineering the right
data structures and APIs. [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
...A Tale of Two Patents
A Tale of Two Patents
05/19/2004 07:23 PMInternetNews.com-1 hour agoGoogle's Gmail could be a huge
moneymaker for the search leader. But someone else may have thought of
it first. Google got gobs ...
The Tale of Two Hazards...
The Tale of Two Hazards...
04/28/2004 11:45 AM
That boy ain't
right... Recently -- for some reason -- I have found
myself listening to the song
Hazard by Richard
Marx, and my interest in the murderous storyline has been
re-piqued. This place has the whole shebang.
Background
information,
conspiracy
theories and even a
kangaroo court!
A Tale in the Desert II 1.0
A Tale in the Desert II 1.0
09/17/2004 04:27 PMAn online game set in ancient Egypt where players work together to
build the perfect society.
A cautionary tale
A cautionary tale
04/27/2004 03:19 AM
At last night's dinner I sat across from an entrepreneur who
runs a company that makes content for cell phones. He told the story
of WAP and WML and how they had splintered and reformed so many times,
that now there are thousands of variations, and it's basically
impossible to make applications that work over enough of the market to
be economically viable.
This is a cautionary tale for the RSS community. When people
say more formats, or varying practices don't cost, they are either
naive or acting in their own interest, not ours. In all likelihood,
RSS is going down the same path. But it's not too late to do something
about it.
Yesterday Adam Curry, a friend of mine (a word I don't use
lightly), said when he sees me write about RSS, he quickly skips to
the next item, thinking "I'm glad Dave is taking care of that." Don't
be so sure, I said to Adam. The people who want to splinter the
formats just make my personality the issue, something they couldn't do
if you joined me in fighting the splintering. If two people say no, it
can't be about personalities, because we'd have to share the
personality flaws. When you make me the only voice, that's what
happens.
And by the way, having said that, you can't be sure I'm
watching out for your interests. I get tired of fighting this alone.
So if you like what you have with RSS, get up to speed on how it is
falling apart, and stop it from happening before it's too late.
So Adam asked what he
could do. I said you now own Joi Ito. Help him learn how he could
help. He invests in lots of companies that benefit from RSS. It's time
for him to do something good for RSS to balance the books. He's used
it too well, his companies, particularly SixApart, have repeatedly
undermined a coalescing of the format. Someone needs to talk wtih Joi
about this. I've tried, and failed. Maybe Adam and Joi can figure out
what Joi needs to get him on board. Then, after that works, we'll find
someone else for you to work with, and then someone for Joi to work
with. We'll start a world wide club of ninjas, fighting against the
unfair exploitation of RSS and its users.
A tale of two mergers
A tale of two mergers
04/02/2005 01:53 PMInternetRetailer.com Apr 2 2005 4:43PM GMT
A tale of two tunes
A tale of two tunes
04/28/2004 08:12 PMCNET Apr 29 2004 0:45AM GMT
FC Now: A Tale of Two Teammates
FC Now: A Tale of Two Teammates
09/14/2004 05:38 AMWhile Michael Eisner and Fanklin Thomas were by no means
contemporaries at Disney, this weekend's news about recent
developments in the lives and careers of...
A Tale of Two Soldiers
A Tale of Two Soldiers
05/11/2004 03:11 PM
A tale of two West Virginia soldiers: one named Jessica, one
named Lynndie. Both are on
opposite sides of the propaganda war. One is a
hero, one is a
monster. No, wait - actually, one is a
fraud, one was
just following orders. No wait, one is
perky and blonde, the other is
kind of butch
and ugly. Now I'm all confused. Help me Metafilter, you're my only
hope.
FC Now: A Tale of Two Squares
FC Now: A Tale of Two Squares
09/01/2004 06:16 AMThis week, in New York City, there's a tale of two squares -- one is
Times Square, and the other -- seven blocks south --...
Do these lists tell a tale?
Do these lists tell a tale?
01/07/2004 02:02 PM In "How to Kill a Country" there's a list of steps:
(1) Destroy the engine of productivity
(2) Bury the truth
(3) Crush dissent
(4) Legislate the impossible
(5) Teach hate
(6) Scare off foreigners
(7) Invade a neighbor
(8) Ignore a deadly enemy
(9) Commit genocide
(10) Blame the imperialists
In
"Fog of
War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara" the
lessons list as:
(1) Empathize with your enemy.
(2) Rationality will not save us.
(3) There's something beyond one's self.
(4) Maximize efficiency.
(5) Proportionality should be a guideline in war.
(6) Get the data.
(7) Belief and seeing are both often wrong.
(8) Be prepared to re-examine your reasoning.
(9) In order to do good you may have to engage in evil.
(10) Never say never.
(11) You can't change human nature.
Two sides of the same coin?
A tale of two cultures
A tale of two cultures
01/01/2004 01:35 PM
It's clear that that the future of the Unix-style pipeline lies with
Web services. When the XML messages flowing through that pipeline are
also XML documents that users interact with directly, we'll really
start to cook with gas. But a GUI doesn't just present documents, it
also enables us to interact with them. From Mozilla's XUL (XML User
Interface Language) to Macromedia's Flex to Microsoft's XAML, we're
trending toward XML dialects that define those interactions. Where
this might lead is not so clear, but the recently published WSRP (Web
Services for Remote Portals) specification may provide a clue. WSRP,
like the Java portal systems it abstracts, delivers markup fragments
that are nominally HTML, but could potentially be XUL, Flex, or XAML.
It's scary to think about combinations of these, so I'm praying for
convergence. But I like the trend. XML messages in the pipeline, XML
documents carrying data to users, XML definitions of application
behavior. If we're going to blend the two cultures, this is the right
set of ingredients. [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
My recent stuff has provoked some diametrically opposed reactions.
Responding to this column, Dan Kegel wrote:
Jon, you've been drinking too much XML / web services kool-aid. Only
clueless analysts and those who wish they could program, but can't,
think there's anything novel about "web services". Anything you can do
with XML can be done more simply without it; the standards documents
associated with XML and "web services" are absolutely mind-numbing. In
the meantime, real programmers are getting real work done, and
ignoring the analysts.
...Tale of Two Stories
Tale of Two Stories
02/07/2003 07:39 AMWhat does coverage of Google's success tell us about what's really
going on with Linux? Google has achieved maximum Linux irony ...
A Tangled Tale
A Tangled Tale
09/24/2004 02:10 PM
Math
s puzzles and
more problems.
Found whilst searching for the fiendish
the Monty Hall
Problem. A
Tangled Tale, indeed.
SMS is a cautionary tale too
SMS is a cautionary tale too
04/27/2004 07:26 AM
Another cautionary tale from the dinner in Amsterdam, SMS is
going down the same path as WAP/WML, what used to be a firm standard
is being extended in incompatible ways. There will be eighteen brands
of SMS, and you'll only be able to message people who use the same
brand of phone. I don't use SMS, I don't think it exists in the US,
but I understand it's popular in Europe and Asia.
I used to say this to Bill G when he started giving money to
charities to help make the world a better place, presumably. I said
that he had so much more leverage in the computer business, if he
would just do a few things differently we could solve some of the
biggest problems in the world by working together. He either didn't
get it, or ignored it, or is insincere in his desire to make the world
a better place, or something else I don't understand.
Working together in the users' interest, is by far the most
important thing we can do, far more important than any one brand of
software.
A Tale of Two Concepts
A Tale of Two Concepts
06/02/2004 08:23 AMSome eateries thrive while others suffer through the low-carb craze.
A Tale of Two Printers
A Tale of Two Printers
07/23/2004 02:35 AMTechnology Review Jul 23 2004 5:54AM GMT
A tale of two Tigers
A tale of two Tigers
06/28/2004 09:48 PMAlso: Google bolsters star power...iPod plans turn car owners green.
A tale told by an idiot
A tale told by an idiot
03/31/2005 11:49 PMWildly overplaying the Schiavo protesters, ignoring facts and giving
Bush a free ride, the press was full of sound and fury, signifying
nothing.
Tell Tale Weekly's audiobooks
Tell Tale Weekly's audiobooks
04/09/2004 06:31 PMA New York Times article recently pointed to Tell Tale Weekly, an audio book
site selling MP3s as cheap as $0.25 each. They've also committed to
licensing the books under a Creative Commons license after 5 years or
100k downloads, whichever comes first.
It's not easy to find good, cheap, DRM-free audiobooks and Tell
Tale Weekly looks like a pretty cool new provider of such work.
A fractured fairy tale
A fractured fairy tale
02/12/2004 09:54 AMDisney, now embroiled in a board-room squabble and takeover fight, was
once considered a technology leader but it has been a straggler in the
digital era.
A Tale Of Two American Women
A Tale Of Two American Women
05/17/2004 06:03 AMFree Internet Press May 17 2004 10:23AM GMT
Novell OES: A tale of two kernels
Novell OES: A tale of two kernels
02/01/2005 08:19 PMI got to sit down last week with Charlie Ungashick, Novell's director
of product management and marketing, Linux servers and desktops.
(Charlie hands out two business cards: one for his title, one for
everything else!) We talked about - what else - Novell's upcoming Open
Enterprise Server.
Enjoying Japanese Tale
Enjoying Japanese Tale
12/19/2004 03:24 PM
Japanese fairy tales. In English, illustrated.
Twisted Tale of Art, Death, DNA
Twisted Tale of Art, Death, DNA
06/04/2004 05:50 AMSteve Kurtz is an artist who works with DNA. His wife's recent
unexplained death has suddenly made him a very interesting man to the
FBI. By Mark Baard.
A Tale of Timber and Love
A Tale of Timber and Love
05/05/2004 07:00 AMMom might not find timber so exciting -- until she rakes in some hefty
dividends.
Bloodlines: A Jedi's Tale
Bloodlines: A Jedi's Tale
04/28/2004 05:21 PMDark Horse releases
Star Wars:
Republic #64 today. "Bloodlines" is by John Ostrander and
Brandon Badeaux, with a cover by Tomás Giorello. Take a look at an odd
pairing between Jedi Ronhar Kim and Senator Palpatine, and get a
closer look at politics, war and death in this
Clone Wars
tale. You can check out an online preview
here<
/a>.
Another Cautionary Tale for Car Renters
Another Cautionary Tale for Car Renters
01/16/2004 01:00 PMHiawatha Bray points me to
this New York Times horror story about a
man who was charged more than $3,000 for a car rental because he took
the car out of state without realizing that would violate his
contract.
Historic Tale Construction Kit
Historic Tale Construction Kit
12/09/2003 07:28 PM Historic
Tale Construction Kit.
[flash]
[more] The tale of the bounced check
The tale of the bounced check
04/16/2004 08:55 AMA tale of modern day slavery
A tale of modern day slavery
08/11/2004 08:22 AM
Slavery is not just the shameful stuff of history books - not in
Florida. Last year, 7 journalists spent 9 months in a
behind-the-scenes exploration of the state's immigrant workers. In
more than 30 articles and photo essays, they revealed a system where
workers are threatened, beaten, locked up, injured, forced into
prostitution, and trapped in a spiral of debt and abuse. Powerful
forces are arrayed against them in a state where agricultural laws are
shaped by politician-farmers who have a vested interest in the status
quo.
- more - Fable Feels Like Unfinished Tale
Fable Feels Like Unfinished Tale
09/27/2004 05:33 AMFable succeeds as a plain-ol' fantasy action game where you kill
things to buy stuff to kill bigger things. But given the expectations
that preceeded it, the game is ultimately disappointing. Lore Sjöberg
reviews Fable.
Caviar Shortage No Fish Tale
Caviar Shortage No Fish Tale
04/21/2004 02:02 AMCBS News Apr 21 2004 5:22AM GMT
FAQ | Cautionary tale: When buying PC,
do research
FAQ | Cautionary tale: When buying PC,
do research
12/26/2004 05:00 AMPhiladelphia Inquirer Dec 26 2004 8:29AM GMT
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