Tsunami mother's terrible choice

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Terrible news

Terrible news 07/08/2004 08:31 AM
Ted Knight, Chevy Chase and now Will Ferrell have all spoofed TV news. But it's their real-life counterparts who are really funny.

The Terrible Teens

The Terrible Teens 06/18/2004 01:01 PM
Got any in your household? It's time to have "The Talk" -- the money talk, that is.

Terrible hunger

Terrible hunger 03/30/2005 02:47 PM
In plain and poignant language, Judith Moore's new memoir, "Fat Girl," chronicles her youth as an obese child starved of love.

Terrible timing

Terrible timing 12/27/2004 04:34 AM
USA Today Dec 27 2004 7:02AM GMT

A war's terrible legacy

A war's terrible legacy 02/01/2005 10:02 PM
Sexual violence continues in the Congo -- according to Amnesty International, at least 40,000 women in the country have been raped in the past six years.

A terrible, buggy, monster.

A terrible, buggy, monster. 03/11/2003 09:43 AM

I found this very interesting read on the history of AWT, Swing, and SWT fom an undisclosed source via Roller user Jon Lipsky's blog. Here is a tasty excerpt:

Alan Williamson's mysterious "source close to IBM": At IBM we hated Swing from day one. Big, buggy, and looks [like] crap. Initially our tools such as VisualAge for Java were all written in Smalltalk ( which used native widgets ) so when we started to migrate these to a Java codebase we need a widget set. All of the IBM developers are the same crowd who used to work with Smalltalk, and we reluctantly under management orders built our WebSphere Studio tools using Swing. It was a terrible, buggy, monster. In our initial previews when it was demo'd against Microsoft Visual Studio products all our users hated it just because of how it looked, never mind what it let you do. Most shoppers don't like to get in car that looks and smells terrible, even if it does have a nice engine.

UPDATE: Jon Lipsky was contacted by somebody at Sun who claims there are many and major inaccuracies in the above story.

_vti...Very Terrible Idea?

_vti...Very Terrible Idea? 09/08/2004 12:58 PM

Vermeer Technologies Gives Birth To FrontPage: Joe's mention of "FrontPage crap" in his Cy gwin post got me remembering the joy of having "_vti" directories scattered across my hard drive when working with the unabashed sucking that was early versions of FrontPage. (I was issued FrontPage 1.1 on five floppies by Microsoft back when I was a beta-tester for MSN.)

Did you ever wonder where the "vti" prefix came from? Why those letters? Turns out they stood for "Vermeer Technologies Incorporated" which was the company that built FrontPage originally. They were the ones who came up with the idea of "WebBots" and "Server Extensions."

Microsoft bought Vermeer and its "Critically Acclaimed Visual Client-Server Web Publishing Tool" in January 1996 for $130-some-odd million. Here's the press release. As near as I can tell, Vermeer dropped off the face of the Earth after being acquired — they were simply absorbed into the Borg cube.

And here's a review of FrontPage from November 1995, just before they were acquired.

Vermeer's FrontPage Editor is an excellent WYSIWYG HTML editor with a built-in to-do list that keeps track of necessary changes to your Web pages. The only thing lacking is support for tables, which is planned for the next version [...]

No table support? We've come so far.

If this story interests you, the guy who founded Vermeer wrote a book about it: High Stakes, No Prisoners.

Charles Ferguson's hilarious, hard-boiled journey into the heart of high-tech darkness has become the signal book of the start-up generation. Ferguson took a good idea, started a company, and sold it to Microsoft for $133 million — all in less than two years. High Stakes, No Prisoners is both a blistering inside account of how he did it and a brilliant tour of the brutally competitive and utterly unique world of Silicon Valley.

You have to love the title of the first reader review: "If he's so smart, why isn't he richer?" I can't find any reference to what Ferguson is doing today.

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Insurers Eye Ivan the Terrible

Insurers Eye Ivan the Terrible 09/10/2004 10:54 AM
How will companies and investors fare if the storm spawns moderate damage?

FastCompany's terrible linking policy

FastCompany's terrible linking policy 06/26/2004 06:15 AM
FastCompany -- the tech magazine for the new economy -- has a spectacularily clueless policy on linking, in which they expect people who want to link to their site to fax a permission form to their legal department! Imagine if this were enforceable: the Web that Fast Company has built its business upon would crumble into a billion individuated and unlinked pages.

Due to the large volume of requests we receive, we do not have a reciprocal linking program. However, if you like, you may link to us at no cost. This option requires the execution by you and Fastcompany.com of a one-page Web-linking agreement. Please download and sign the agreement and fax it to 617-738-5055, attn: G+J legal, Fastcompany.com. As soon as you receive back the agreement signed on behalf of Fastcompany.com, you may begin linking to our content.

Here's some of the spectacularily clueless "linking agreement" Fast Company thinks it can force linkers to sign off on:

For good and valuable consideration, effective upon the duly authorized signatures of Owner and G+J below (the "Effective Date"), G+J hereby grants to Owner a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to create a hyperlink from the Linking Site to Inc.com from the Effective Date, unless and until such permission is terminated by G+J upon notice to Owner, subject to the following terms and conditions.

Owner hereby represents and warrants that: (i) any content displayed on the Linking Site shall not infringe upon or misappropriate any third party intellectual property or other proprietary rights, shall not invade any third party rights of privacy or publicity, shall be free from any libelous or obscene material, shall be accurate, and shall not otherwise violate any applicable law, regulation or non-proprietary third party right; (ii) the Linking Site does not and will not contain any harmful software code or viruses; (iii) Owner has duly registered the domain name of the Linking Site with all applicable authorities and possesses all rights necessary to use such domain name; and (iv) Owner shall use its best efforts, including any and all then-available technology, to prevent Internet users from downloading any content from Inc.com.

There are a lot of stupid organizations that have policies like this, but very few of them have the close relationship to the Web that FC has. The disturbing thing here is that FC's credibity as an authority on the Web lends credence to this bizarre and damaging idea of needing permission to link. Link (Thanks, Jordon!)

Cable Operators Have Terrible Wi-Fi
Plans

Cable Operators Have Terrible Wi-Fi
Plans 04/01/2005 04:57 PM

This trade-magazine article tries to show how cable operators are tied into Wi-Fi, but demonstrates their wrong-headed approach: The article surveys efforts by Comcast, Charter, and Time-Warner to offer their cable television subscribers some kind of Wi-Fi adjunct. But it's a lot of spotty, weird plans that don't bring enough locations or value.

Comcast partners with T-Mobile to discount the T-Mobile service, but as a Comcast subscriber, I can tell you I received a couple of coupons and virtually no information since about the partnership, which is more of a slightly discount off retail. If they wanted to do it right, they could pursue an SBC DSL/Wi-Fi promotion and offer a $20/month unlimited service plan--the same rate that T-Mobile only makes available to its cell subscribers. However, that might undercut T-Mobile cell market, and Comcast and T-Mobile aren't connected except through a partnership.

Time-Warner is installing Wi-Fi in a small number of random venues--the article makes it sound like quite a few, but the scale of "quite a few" is thousands now, not hundreds. The writer says that Time-Warner installs the service and sells minutes wholesale to the venue which then resells them at retail. Time-Warner Roadrunner cable subscribers get a small amount of free service in some locations.

Finally, Charter is reselling RemotePipes Wi-Fi footprint. They're an aggregator, but it's extremely difficult to understand their footprint from their Web site.

Bottom line: if this is the best they can do in response to SBC's DSL and Wi-Fi bundle, then we can expect the DSL churn rate in SBC territory to remain quite low.

A Terrible Thing to Waste a Mind

A Terrible Thing to Waste a Mind 07/06/2004 04:55 AM
In Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, you control a special agent who uses telekinetic powers to kill soldiers with the power of his mind alone. Unfortunately, your own brain won't get nearly as much of a workout. By Chris Kohler.

Freescale: Motorola's Terrible Timing

Freescale: Motorola's Terrible Timing 07/15/2004 12:06 AM
Business Week Jul 15 2004 2:39AM GMT

Terrible affair that General Slocum
explosion...

Terrible affair that General Slocum
explosion... 06/15/2004 09:24 PM
One hundred years ago today, 1,358 members of the Kleindeutschland, the German neighborhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, boarded a chartered ferry named the General Slocum for a picnic excursion to Long Island. A fire broke out in the ship's hold while it cruised up the East River, the captain ran the vessel aground on the rocky shores of North Brother Island amid the swift currents of Hell Gate, and when it was all over 1,021 people (mainly women and children) had perished by drowning or from the fire, and it remained the worst single-day New York City disaster until 9/11.

Just in time for Mother's Day

Just in time for Mother's Day 04/07/2005 10:24 PM
Star Wars geeks lined up months in advance blocking the door to your favorite taqueria? Clear the sidewalks with your new Imperial Walker (.wmv) from Sakakib ara Machine Co. of Gunma, Japan.

Mother's agony over hit-and-run

Mother's agony over hit-and-run 06/18/2004 08:12 AM
The mother of a hit-and-run victim is calling for a change in the law after a driver receives a four-year sentence

YOUR MOTHER'S GOT A PENIS!

YOUR MOTHER'S GOT A PENIS! 01/06/2005 02:45 PM
Goldie Lookin' Chain Not useful to Brits or American hipsters, but most of us might remain ignorant of this fantastic act. The GLC are a hiphop collective from Newport, Wales. Playing up their welsh ethnicity and offering selections like Your Mother's Got A Penis, they're definitely a novelty act. But they use great beats and hilarious themes, and most reviews have been positive. The Guardian, citing the anti-chav parody nature of the act, pans them partially for being classist.

But I find it hard to dislike a group that can release a single about a cyborg sent on a mission the corner store to buy ten cigarettes. Some of the material is NSFW. Some videos are available at the main link.

documenting a terrible local news story
on bl0gs

documenting a terrible local news story
on bl0gs 05/12/2004 05:35 PM
"The Latest Cyber Craze!"

Hamilton Beach Stay or Go makes terrible
coffee

Hamilton Beach Stay or Go makes terrible
coffee 07/30/2004 03:41 PM

I’ve been wanting a thermal carafe coffee maker for some time. The traditional drip coffee maker uses a hotplate to keep the coffee warm after brewing, but this causes the coffee to continuously brew in the pot. That results in bad coffee.

Recently when I was in Target, I noticed they had a number of thermal carafe coffee makers at prices ranging from $40-$60, so I picked one up. It turned out to be a huge mistake.

The albatross I bought is known as the Hamilton Beach Stay or Go Coffee Maker and every cup of coffee that comes out of it has a stale, oily taste. I can’t even bring myself to drink it.

Mother's joy as UK hostage freed

Mother's joy as UK hostage freed 04/11/2004 11:34 PM
The mother of a British man kidnapped in southern Iraq has spoken of her relief after his release.

INTERNET ROUNDUP: Mother's Day

INTERNET ROUNDUP: Mother's Day 08/08/2004 03:45 PM
The Nation - Thailand Aug 8 2004 6:47PM GMT

A mother's search for her children

A mother's search for her children 01/02/2005 08:55 AM
The island of Car Nicobar has been devastated by the tsunami, with around half its population unaccounted for, as the BBC's Jonathan Charles discovered.

More Online Rivals for Mother's Day

More Online Rivals for Mother's Day 05/02/2004 11:54 PM
Online competitors are crowding the flower vendors for a piece of the Mother's Day market.

ActiveState Awards ActiveState is
delighted to announce the second annual
Programmers' Choice and Activators'
Choice Awards. The awards honor the
unnamed heroes who actively contribute
to open languages and display excellence
in their programming efforts

ActiveState Awards ActiveState is
delighted to announce the second annual
Programmers' Choice and Activators'
Choice Awards. The awards honor the
unnamed heroes who actively contribute
to open languages and display excellence
in their programming efforts 06/06/2002 07:02 AM
A Beta version of PHP for NetWare is available on the Novell Developer Kit site. This version is based on the 4.0.8 (development) version of the PHP source code.

"The latest tsunami bulletin says "there
has been no major tsunami observed near
the epicenter""

"The latest tsunami bulletin says "there
has been no major tsunami observed near
the epicenter"" 03/31/2005 11:53 PM

The latest tsunami bulletin says "there
has been no major tsunami observed near
the epicenter"

The latest tsunami bulletin says "there
has been no major tsunami observed near
the epicenter" 03/29/2005 04:27 AM
updated .. Tsunami .. alert

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Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation

Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation 03/19/2005 03:09 AM
Here’s an idea: what if when I wrote weblog entries about General Motors, I included a special tag, a keyword tag, that let everyone who wanted to read blog entries about General Motors read my weblog article, without otherwise having to subscribe to my blog? Makes sense. Now, should it be “gm” or “GM” or “generalmotors” or “general motors” or “General Motors” or “GM Corporation” or … ? Therein lies the fundamental problem with Technorati…

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Mother's shock at jail term cut

Mother's shock at jail term cut 02/10/2004 05:19 AM
The mother of a boy killed in a hit-and-run says she is shocked at the driver's jail term being cut.

Man admits young mother's murder

Man admits young mother's murder 07/12/2004 07:21 AM
A man pleads guilty to murdering a 25-year-old mother in front of her baby son in Chorley, Lancashire.

Kerry Takes Communion on Mother's Day
(AP)

Kerry Takes Communion on Mother's Day
(AP) 05/09/2004 01:02 PM
AP - Democrat John Kerry attended Mother's Day Mass on Sunday and took communion although some Roman Catholic leaders say he should not receive it because his abortion-rights stance violates church teachings.

Mother's winning chatroom device

Mother's winning chatroom device 06/01/2004 09:17 AM
A device to enhance chatroom safety has helped a British mother earn the title of the world's top female inventor.

Judges quash mother's conviction

Judges quash mother's conviction 06/08/2004 06:03 AM
A Cumbria mother jailed for life for trying to kill her seven-year-old son, is cleared by the Court of Appeal.

'Help catch my mother's killer'

'Help catch my mother's killer' 05/21/2004 08:22 AM
The daughter of an elderly woman murdered in Stirling appeals for help to catch her killer.

Mother's Day card text contest

Mother's Day card text contest 04/13/2005 11:03 AM
To help celebrate Mother's Day, the latest Spymac contest asks members to come up with text for the inside of a Mother's Day card. Examples: My mother is special. My mother is kind. Without guidance from her, I'd go out of my mind. She taught me wisdom and courage. She gave me strength to go on. She's brought the best out of me. She is my mother. The entries don't have to rhyme and there is no specific theme to follow. There is no limit to the length either - it can be one line or one hundred lines. There are only a few guidelines to follow, but they are important: 1. The entry must be uploaded to the Spymac Gallery as a JPEG. The easiest way to do this is to either take a screenshot of your text and then export as JPEG in Preview (if using a Mac), or else choose "Print" from your text application and then "Save As PDF" and then convert the PDF to JPEG in Preview or any other application of your choice. 2. There should be no formatting, though the font should be Verdana Regular 11.0 pt. Line breaks are permitted but the text should all be aligned to the left and no changes in colour or size of the text. 3. Have fun! Maximum one entry per member (any multiple entries by members will be deleted leaving only the first entry). Contest closes April 27th when voting will be opened to the community. Any questions regarding the contest can be directed to contest@spymac.com. The lucky winner will receive a one year Wheel account. Entries can be uploaded to the Mother's Day card text section of the Spymac Gallery.

"Printer Ink... geeky mother's milk?"

"Printer Ink... geeky mother's milk?" 06/18/2004 11:21 AM

Harry 'to carry on mother's work'

Harry 'to carry on mother's work' 09/16/2004 09:21 PM
Prince Harry says he wants to continue Diana's legacy in a revealing interview for an Aids documentary.

Chechnya - What drives the separatists
to commit such terrible outrages? By
Masha Gessen

Chechnya - What drives the separatists
to commit such terrible outrages? By
Masha Gessen 09/05/2004 03:04 PM
Chechnya - What drives the separatists to commit such terrible outrages? By Masha Gessen .. a history of Chechen

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'When I was Garbage' - One Teen Mother's
Story

'When I was Garbage' - One Teen Mother's
Story 06/22/2005 02:58 AM
When I was Garbage by Allison Crews at age 17, teen mother advocate and activist. "I had become garbage, worthy only to sit in my isolated desk and cry to myself and throw up in a dirty bathroom stall. I was a pregnant teenage girl."
Allison died recently aged 22. She was active in girl-mom.co m, an online and in life support and education network for young mothers.
"To radically accept and defend a woman's right to choose, we must acknowledge the multiple ways that women come to make reproductive choices. By marginalizing teenage mothers, even within the feminist community, we are failing to recognize the realities of countless women and their children."
There's a report of her funeral and a website has been set up to collect memories for Allison's 7 year old son. {Allison's LJ} All of this comes via BitchPhD - her entry is also worth reading. (previous semi-related MeFi)

Woman Finds Mouse in Soup on Mother's
Day (AP)

Woman Finds Mouse in Soup on Mother's
Day (AP) 05/10/2004 04:23 PM
AP - A woman out for an early Mother's Day lunch at the Cracker Barrel restaurant found a mouse in her vegetable soup. The woman had already eaten some of the soup on Saturday when she scooped up the mouse.

Mother's poor diet may harm baby

Mother's poor diet may harm baby 01/29/2004 03:49 AM
Mothers with a poor diet both before and after giving birth could be directly shortening their child's life.
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