"Auld lang syne" = "old long ago"

Grok Headline matches for "Auld lang syne" = "old long ago"

"Dazzling, full-color shots of people
long since dead, landscapes long since
paved, and an empire long since
overthrown."

"Dazzling, full-color shots of people
long since dead, landscapes long since
paved, and an empire long since
overthrown." 01/17/2004 11:07 PM

Finally .. after long long long time ..
Sonique 2 beta released

Finally .. after long long long time ..
Sonique 2 beta released 12/21/2003 03:42 PM

java.lang.NullPointerException

java.lang.NullPointerException 01/09/2003 09:38 PM
This cracks me up. I remember back in the mid-90s when Java first came out. I actually read the Java 1.0 language spec. The whole thing. It was cool. One of the folks who was telling me about it (just...

Vote to create comp.lang.php newsgroup

Vote to create comp.lang.php newsgroup 06/26/2002 01:01 PM
RATIONALE: comp.lang.php An alt.php newsgroup currently exists and is well used, and there is also an alt.comp.lang.php group in existence. Not all servers carry alt.* newsgroups, however, essentially splitting the PHP Usenet community. Almost all news servers carry the comp.lang.* groups, which would make the group more accessible to users, in addition to unifying the two "Usenet PHP factions." Furthermore, every respected programming language has a group under comp.lang.*. PHP has matured into a respected (and powerful) language widely in use. As such, a group in the comp.lang.* hierarchy seems appropriate at this time. Finally, posts in comp.lang.* groups are retained longer than posts in alt.* groups on many servers, another reason that a switch to a comp.lang.* group would benefit the PHP community. "zeldman.naft"

comp.lang.php newsgroup hierarchy
approved with 177 against 11 votes

comp.lang.php newsgroup hierarchy
approved with 177 against 11 votes 07/02/2002 04:55 AM
After a long and polemic voting period, the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.php hieararchy was finally approved with 177 against 11 votes.

comp.lang.php, Code Gallery, and Lone
Wolves

comp.lang.php, Code Gallery, and Lone
Wolves 07/10/2002 08:38 AM

Langmaker Langmaker, Make Me A Lang..
Uage

Langmaker Langmaker, Make Me A Lang..
Uage 08/18/2004 10:18 AM
You know, there are more made-up languages than just pig latin. Not only are there ones you have probably heard of, like the languages Tolkien invented, and more recent languages...

So Long, Long Distance (The Motley Fool)

So Long, Long Distance (The Motley Fool) 09/07/2004 02:07 PM
The Motley Fool - The Olympic Games are now history, but not AT&T's (NYSE: T - News) $25 million ad campaign to redefine its image. After years of getting clobbered by the regional Bell companies such as BellSouth (NYSE: BLS - News), Verizon (NYSE: VZ - News), Sprint (NYSE: FON - News), and MCI (Nasdaq: MCIP - News), the company has turned its business focus from traditional phone service to networking.

Long Live the Elephants, Long Dead

Long Live the Elephants, Long Dead 06/04/2004 01:01 AM
Elephants at the American Museum of Natural History are undergoing cutting-edge, high-definition digital radiography.

The long tail's long lead

The long tail's long lead 12/22/2004 01:45 AM
Chris Anderson has signed with Random House to do a book about The Long Tail, and has started a blog devoted to it. (The long tail is the social effect of the Web apart from the hit-heavy, glamorous side of it.)...

Long Tale of Long Tail

Long Tale of Long Tail 03/17/2005 03:58 AM

This recent post by Joe Krause about the i mportance of catching long tails in business is the best post I've read in recent weeks.

So Long, Long Distance

So Long, Long Distance 09/07/2004 02:04 PM
AT&T turns its business focus away from traditional phone service.

The Long, Long Arm of SGML

The Long, Long Arm of SGML 11/05/2003 08:20 PM
Commenting on Tim Bray's "UTF-8+names" proposal for creating memorable shortcuts for some Unicode code points, Kendall Clark sees the effort as part of XML's continuing struggle against the legacy of its SGML ancestry.

The long tail is fractal. Why I buy the
long tail, having been a skeptic

The long tail is fractal. Why I buy the
long tail, having been a skeptic 03/29/2005 03:01 PM
The long tail is jagged, fractal – perhaps as any market achieves maximum efficiency it starts to look like everything...

Well. That didn't take long.

Well. That didn't take long. 08/06/2004 01:33 PM
The anti-Kerry book Unfit for Command is #1 on Amazon. Unfortunately, the book, not even released, has entered the downward spiral of diminished credibility of its authors. The "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" have been found to include a man who changed his story right after Kerry entered the race and another who flat-out retracts his accusations. Meanwhile, another SBVfT member has accused Kerry of not really deserving his Bronze Star because the events leading to it never occured... even though the Veteran recieved a Bronze Star for the same day's events he claims now never happened.

A little RAM goes a long way...

A little RAM goes a long way... 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
I'm not sure if any of you will notice, but I boosted wasted's RAM from 64MB to 128MB. Now she's...

We have come a long way

We have come a long way 07/10/2004 06:48 AM
Charles Krauthammer .. Blixful Amnesia

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The Long Way

The Long Way 01/05/2005 09:10 AM
Ellen Macarthur is trying to break the solo round-the-world sailing record. From her website you can see stills and videos while she’s enroute, and track her progress. Meanwhile, the Vendee Globe is underway, with 20 sailors racing a similar course – also nonstop, and with no outside assistance allowed. The first solo nonstop circumnavigation was only 35 years ago, and the record has gone from 313 days to 72. It’s the slow way around, to be sure, and that’s probably why only a few dozen people have done it.

That Didn't Take Long

That Didn't Take Long 02/16/2004 02:47 PM
February 12: Windows 2000 source code leaks to the Web. February 15: First exploit based on leaked code reported.

Sony's new PSP has a long way to go

Sony's new PSP has a long way to go 04/05/2005 04:32 AM

Through eyes long since gone

Through eyes long since gone 05/12/2004 07:06 AM

A photo taken by my paternal grandfather of the fire at the Purina headquarters in February 1962. It was so cold that the water was frozen by the time it hit the building and turned it into an ice palace. I put a few more of them into a small gallery of grandpa's photos.

My brother-in-law has started scanning in pictures given to him by my 95 year old grandmother which were taken over the course of my grandfather's life. It's so strange to see these images taken by a man who was always remote and stoic. He was a brilliant mechanical engineer and mathematician who introduced me to cryptography when I was 7 via the cryptoquip in the newspaper. He patiently explained letter frequency and how to make a crib. Every time I pick up a draw-string bag from a store, I think of him since he designed the machine to make them but, being an 'Organization Man' straight out of Whyte's book, he shared none of the profits that the company reaped from his design. Grandpa was also the guy who, on Christmas, would take a pocketknife and slowly, carefully unwrap the paper from each gift and fold it.

While I respected his intelligence, I never really liked him very much as he made it impossible to warm up to him. I have an exceedingly vivid memory of him talking to me on my 10th birthday about 'niggers' and my immediate reaction of thinking much less of him for it. My mother always remembers him taking back a box kite he had made for me only to give it to my cousin. I didn't think much of it at the time since Robin was only 1 week younger than me, but he had been born retarded due to a negligent doctor with a pair of foreceps and I thought maybe he needed the kite more than I did in the guileless näive way that children tend to see such things. Later in life I would come to understand that he and my grandmother had a long history of playing favourites - from my father's brother, to my oldest sister, to Robin.

I spent several summers over at their house and can't really recall that I learned anything about them as people aside from what was obvious and already known; they loved bridge with friends, he was a type II diabetic and they were active Masons. They used to take me to various Masonic functions and even then I was cynical enough to think of it as a creepy cult-like organisation. They were inscrutable in many ways. It's is particularly odd to see these photographs that he took not only because I didn't know that he liked photography, but that he took more than just the usual family snapshots and appears to have been reasonably good at it. My father bought an Olympus OM-10 at one point and I don't know that he took many photos with it since work was his life. I imagine that had he lived to enjoy some of his retirement that he would have taken a lot more pictures. I started getting interested in photography about 10 or 12 years ago and I wonder now if it might be hereditary. :)

George, my grandfather, died from a massive heart attack at the ripe age of 84 while roofing his house, which wasn't a bad way to go all things considered. I cursed him at the time since it was right before my Calculus 2 and Differential Equations exams and he was helping my understanding of them tremendously. Looking at the few pictures my brother-in-law sent to me, it makes me wonder if he might have had some redeeming qualities as a human being that I didn't or couldn't see when I was much younger.

Teaching CSS: there's a long way to go

Teaching CSS: there's a long way to go 11/19/2003 01:41 AM

This email to the css-discuss mailing list does a great job of describing the confusion and frustration that still confronts traditional web developers who are only just starting out on the road to mastering CSS. When you've "got it", it's easy to forget how much of a paradigm shift it is away from old school table methods. Here's an extract:

Step Eight.

Just when you think you're settling down into a slow and steady learning curve, this is about when you start getting emails from everyone who uses your site describing all kinds of variations on your layout as it has been interpreted by their varying browsers and platforms. This stage is the most important of all, the one where you realize that CSS support is far, far more random than any HTML workarounds that you've been dealing with for the (insert personal experience here) years you've been making web pages.

(Excerpt from an email from a user of one of my sites: "the new color and stuff on the homepage looks good, except on my computor [sic] some of the pages are cut off at the bottom and have big gaps in them")

Maybe a good analogy to make here is one with Linux: both are great in principle, but if you aren't comfortable with what you are doing you can run in to a whole bunch of problems. I wouldn't recommend anyone who is still on the CSS learning curve to move a big commercial project to pure CSS, just as I wouldn't suggest a Linux newbie start hosting their own internet facing server.

At any rate, it's obvious that we as a community still have a long way to go in creating useful resources for people who want to make the switch to CSS.

Brian Eno on the Long Now

Brian Eno on the Long Now 11/04/2003 09:27 PM
Tim O'Reilly writes, "Musician/producer BRIAN ENO will be giving a rare free public lecture next week at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Friday, Nov. 14, in the Herbst Pavillion. Coffee bar opens at 7pm, lecture at 8pm. Directions to Herbst Pavillion are here. This is not a concert. Brian Eno will be speaking about 'The Long Now.'"

I must go.

Longhorn - a long way off

Longhorn - a long way off 08/13/2004 03:51 PM
Notable Windows journalist, Paul Thurrott, has been on the Microsoft Campus this week.

"...based on some unrelated bits of information I gleaned this week, I'm now convinced that Longhorn, the next major Windows release, will be delayed beyond even the dates that speculators have been throwing around. This news raises the specter, once again, of a possible Windows XP Second Edition release as a buffer between XP and Longhorn. Don't scoff. Contrary to official denials, Microsoft has indeed investigated an interim XP release and is now looking into it again."

Truth be told, what Paul is saying is not that unbelievable. Microsoft took a lot of techies off the Longhorn program, and put them onto Service Pack 2 for Windows XP development; they wanted a good SP to ship which was going to set them (and Windows XP) in good stead for the next few years. However, at the cost of building a bit more redunancy into the Windows life cycle, they pushed back further the Longhorn release - as little as 6 months, easily as long as a year.

A SE edition of XP isn't that hard to concieve. Microsoft have done it before (Windows ME - halfway house between 98 and 2000), and wouldn't be afraid to do it again. One could see Microsoft for example putting in various features that are completed - e.g. aim to implement WinFS - and ship this as interim build; they'd have to work hard however to turn it into more than just a pay-for service pack.

The company makes a fair amount of its revenue from the Windows product line - they need to keep selling copies to keep the business as profitable as it is. An intermediary release would be a solution to a distant next edition of Windows, and would also act as a indicator of just that- a Longhorn release as far away perhaps as 2010.

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The Long Emergency

The Long Emergency 04/07/2005 10:24 PM
The Long Emergency is coming, according to James Howard Kunstler. Welcome to the new agrarian future. Buy 40 acres, a mule, and maybe some stock in the railroads.

Listen to Joe Long!

Listen to Joe Long! 11/11/2003 06:52 PM
Joe Long, the Product Unit Manager for XML Enterprise Services at Microsoft, talks about the Indigo migration story in this recorded presentation on MSDN. If you weren't at Joe's PDC talk and think you don't have 37 minutes time for this, you can still not afford to miss listening to the prescriptive guidance section starting at slide 60, if you ever have or will cross an application domain boundary with a Remoting, Enterprise Services or Web service call on the current stacks.

A little Latitude goes a long way

A little Latitude goes a long way 12/25/2003 04:20 PM
As a former 'southlander', I used to think that I understood what the Winter solstice was all about and...

How long should I wait?

How long should I wait? 08/27/2004 01:29 PM
My British lover is waffling. Should I put the hammer down?

Exit Long Ago

Exit Long Ago 12/06/2003 07:57 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 6 2003 6:40PM ET

The Long Tail

The Long Tail 12/31/2004 07:10 PM

The Long Tail: Here's something entertaining in an odd way. This page will pull a blog entry out of the...void.

Click "Next Item" to get another one. They come from blogs all around the world, and are presented with no context or other information (there is a link if you want to actually visit the site the entry came from).

Only about half of the entries I looked at were in English. All of them were posted in the last two minutes.

I can't figure out why this was so addictive. It's like little snippets of communication from anywhere and everywhere.

PeopleSoft CEO Says So Long

PeopleSoft CEO Says So Long 12/28/2004 07:35 PM
TheStreet.com Dec 28 2004 10:51PM GMT

We've Come a Long Way, Ladies

We've Come a Long Way, Ladies 02/17/2004 01:15 PM
But women are still falling short financially, even when besting men.

"your long wait is over"

"your long wait is over" 02/07/2005 02:02 AM

Getargs-Long-1.0.1

Getargs-Long-1.0.1 09/16/2004 05:07 PM

Getargs-Long-1.0.0

Getargs-Long-1.0.0 09/15/2004 11:38 PM

A Long Dying Done...

A Long Dying Done... 04/24/2004 12:42 AM
Spalding Gray, as my friend Mountain Girl said, had a very long dying. Part of him died colliding with a mad cow veterinarian in Ireland during the summer of 2001. A lot of him died in cranial surgery on the Upper East Side in September of that year. He literally died in New York Harbor in January. For many, he conclusively died only when his mortal shell surfaced near Greenpoint last month. For myself, I laid him to rest, as much as I ever will, a week ago in the Vivian Beaumont Theater. I have surpassed the usual lifetime quota of memorial services by some long measure but I don't know that I have ever attended one that felt more appropriate to the essence of its focal missing person. Spalding Gray was as present as anyone so absent could possibly be. He was present in the monsoon deluge that soaked me on the way to Lincoln Center. It was a rain where you could drown by looking up, as turkeys are said to sometimes do, and it leaked in streams through the aging 60's roof of the Vivian Beaumont, pooling in several areas of the stage but missing the lonely oak table and its empty chair. He was present in elegant clarity of those who rose to remember him. He was present in their humor and their melancholy, their heartful candor, their diversity. And it was a motley crew it was, ranging from fellow monologuist Eric Bigosian to musician Laurie Anderson to actor Eric Stolz to poet Bob Holman to composer Philip Glass playing a musical sigh for piano and clarinet, to Judy Collins leading us all in "Amazing Grace." There were some perfect moments, like when essayist Roger Rosenblatt, perfectly manicured and patrician, recalled Spalding's prodigious farts. Or when his very close friend Robby Stein talked about Spalding, the weirdly great dad, and you could see his results so clearly in the shy, impish smile that his son Theo wore when he mounted the stage. He provided some of those moments himself, though various video clips from his monologues, his stage performances, and a wonderful out-take from a Barbara Kopple documentary which, though shot after his accident, made it clear that the old Spalding was still with us until his second surgery in September of 2001. In it, there were dogs howling in the background, and his visible appreciation of them reminded me of the time that he convinced me and another friend to bay like wolves with him in a fancy Tribeca restaurant. And a whole table full of Wall Street swells howled back. He will have another memorial service for family and close friends in Sag Harbor on May 15, and I expect that the virtual monument you are building here with your comments will continue to grow. But I'm am going to get back to blogging about other things now. I'm very glad that I was able to provide a place for this to happen, but I feel like it's time for me to move on. In closing this chapter, here are the brief remarks I read at the Vivian Beaumont, condensed in part from things I've said here. I've said my piece and I will let Spuddy rest in his....

The Long Line

The Long Line 12/09/2003 01:24 PM
Apple must be putting something in Tokyo's watersource.

10 years on and still a long way to go

10 years on and still a long way to go 12/08/2003 02:22 PM
newmediazero Dec 8 2003 1:36PM ET

You've Come A Long Way, Baby!

You've Come A Long Way, Baby! 04/25/2004 05:50 AM
By Gregory Han, Unofficial Apple Weblog (via MyAppleMenu)
Grok Description matches for "Auld lang syne" = "old long ago"
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