M.I.A. is, well, MIA due to visa troubles while entering US

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Visa finally addresses service-quality
problems for Verified by Visa

Visa finally addresses service-quality
problems for Verified by Visa 04/02/2005 04:39 AM
InternetRetailer.com Apr 2 2005 7:38AM GMT

Someone might be entering soon

Someone might be entering soon 06/10/2004 09:04 PM
Yeah yeah, I realize it's been a while since I've written something intelligent. Lots of stuff going on, lots of...

Entering CasualSpace...

Entering CasualSpace... 01/07/2004 02:12 PM
I just had another transforming telecommunications experience. Again, Joi Ito was involved. Joi and I were typing at each other over the Net using Apple's iChat AV. I've never liked Internet chat. I don't like having to type that fast. So, at a certain point, I asked him whether he'd used the audio capacities that are built into iChat AV. I hadn't. A moment later we were conversing by voice through our computers. Despite the fact that Joi is presently in his country house outside of Tokyo and I'm at my condo in Salt Lake, it sounded like he was in the room with me. There was no discernible latency or loss of fidelity. For awhile, we talked as though we were on the phone, and I marveled at being able to conduct a zero-cost trans-Pacific call. (Of course, there's nothing particularly new about voice over IP. But it's never been so stupidly easy to set up, in my personal experience, as it is with iChat AV. Also, it never sounded this good before.) The really interesting shift occurred as we drifted back to what we'd been doing before we started chatting, leaving the audio channel open as we'd did so. We could hear each other typing. One of my daughters entered the room and spoke to me. Joi heard her and said hello. They had a brief conversation, their first since she was a little girl. Joi and I returned our e-mail. I wanted to set up an account on Technorati and broke in to ask him how to do it. He walked me through the process. There were other occasional interjections. I could hear the sounds of construction going on in his house. For a long time, it was as though we were working in the same room, each of us alone with his endeavors and yet... together. Though half a world away. This feels significant to me. Even over shorter distances, people rarely think of phone calls as being so casually cheap that one would simply leave the connection open for ambient telepresence and occasional conversation. To create shared spaces that span the planet, and to do so whenever you feel like it, and to leave them unpurposefully in place for hours, is not something people have done very often before. The next step is to make those shared spaces larger, so that multiple people can inhabit the same auditory zone, entering and leaving it as though it were a coffee house. This will change the way people live. Big deal, you think. You can do this with conference calls now. But you don't. Conference calls are expensive and unstable. The sound quality usually sucks if you're using a speaker phone. I think this is different. It certainly felt different to me. I had the same shiver of the New that I got years ago the first time I ever used telnet and realized that I could get a hard disks to spin in any number of computers thousands of miles away just by entering a few keystrokes. Eventually, Joi had to leave to attend to other business his distant part of Meatspace. We collapsed our huge virtual room into nothing. I went out on my balcony. In the snowy garden below, I watched a deer chase a huge raccoon into the bushes....

You're Entering a World of Lebowski

You're Entering a World of Lebowski 08/08/2004 05:41 PM
Nowadays, quoting from Joel and Ethan Coen's 1998 hyperintellectual stoner noir bowling comedy "The Big Lebowski" earns you coolness points in widely disparate circles.

Nintendo Entering Online World???

Nintendo Entering Online World??? 08/19/2004 06:05 AM
Indiantelevision.com - Thu Aug 19, 10:32 am GMT

Entering credit card numbers

Entering credit card numbers 02/10/2004 02:44 PM
Bruce Tognazzini writes in his Ask Tog column Top 10 Reasons to Not Shop On Line: "...Why can’t I input my credit card number the way it appears on the card? Why do I have to suck the extra spaces out, making it all but impossible to re-scan it for errors? We’re talking three spaces here, three bytes." (via Usability Views) I will quite often try to see if a credit card number field gives me enough room to enter it with spaces. If it does, I will then delete the spaces because I know so many places can't handle them. Any of you web programmers out there, tell me you couldn't write code to strip three spaces out of a credit card number? We're talking regular expressions 101 here. In a similar vein, I once asked a programmer I was working with to allow social security numbers to accept both no spaces or hyphens, and they told me the code to take hyphens out was easier than the code insisting the user enter it without hyphens....

Commercial bl0gs entering Finland

Commercial bl0gs entering Finland 04/08/2005 06:39 PM
My my, what an interesting week this has been: First, Blogilista goes commercial, and now Pirkka-magazine has launched a number of commercial blogs. The Finnish blogosphere reacts with violent distrust and confusion.

I see no problem. These are clearly blogs, simply because th e only meaningful definition for the world blog is based on form, not content. They're not lying about their affiliation. They publish polished content. In fact, I find it wonderful that a media publisher dares to go and try and embrace the new media. They even publish Atom feeds for all blogs! Way!

However, entering the blogosphere may be more difficult than just dumping Movabletype on your magazine web site: people will look at these blogs. They will discuss. They will find crap on them (if there's any). They will write about it. And it's difficult to ignore them, if you want to keep your credibility. Other bloggers will call your bullshit - and very likely, someone in that bunch is at least equal in writing skills and more knowledgeable on the subject than you. And they know it.

Now the question is how much integrity Pirkka wants to have: do they just want to publish news articles in a blog format - or do they really want to go full out and really try to embrace the dialogue that comes with the format?

You see, whatever else blogs may be, they work best as a personal media. You need to let people write with their own voice, not just copying material from others - even if you have all the rights to do so. It's the power and bane of the format; a personal touch creates reader loyalty, but it also means that you have to get involved in your writing - "laittaa itsensä likoon", as the Finns say. And that is not easy.

Welcome to the crowd! I'm happy you're here, anyway. People will grumble, but there's always room for one more in the jacuzzi.

(A quick hint to Pirkka writers: Read http://www.corporateblogging .info/, and Scoble's Corporat e Blogging Manifesto. Understand. Internalize. And stop posting articles from one person under the name of another... That simply takes away credibility from the author.)

(And a quick other hint to people who complain about these being on blogilista.fi: get a clue. Really. Would you stop using a phone book simply because it contains company phone numbers, or stop using Google because it's *gasp* a profit-making company? That's exactly what Blogilista.fi is - an index of blogs, nothing more. It ain't your personal blogospheric community where people live happily and go to the woods to get undressed and hug each other in a blogoslavic überbliss. If you don't like the direction they're taking, learn to use RSS and site feeds, and make your own personal bloglist.

Blogging in Finland is finally growing up. The hype around blogging will cease in a year or two, and hopefully we then can better understand what the media is and what one can do with it. And then we can get back to the really important thing: writing. Writing about your dog, or your political views, or celebrity divorces, or company products, or food, or your sex life, or whatever pleases you. Some bloggers will gain prestige; some bloggers will become influential; some bloggers will make many people laugh; some bloggers will make many people weep. Some will be completely ignored. Most will just for

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Study Says Bluetooth Entering the
Mainstream

Study Says Bluetooth Entering the
Mainstream 05/05/2004 05:12 PM
BrightHand May 5 2004 9:06PM GMT

Corporations Entering World of Blogs
(AP)

Corporations Entering World of Blogs
(AP) 06/05/2005 10:59 PM
AP - When General Motors Corp. wanted to stop speculation this spring that it might eliminate its Pontiac and Buick brands, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz took his case directly to dealers and customers who were up in arms about the possibility. He wrote about it on the company's blog.

Nanotube Non-Volatile Memory Entering
Production

Nanotube Non-Volatile Memory Entering
Production 06/08/2004 02:10 PM

Microsoft may be illegally entering
search market, says US

Microsoft may be illegally entering
search market, says US 04/15/2004 03:56 AM
Silicon.com Apr 15 2004 7:53AM GMT

Romanian Team Entering X-Prize
competition

Romanian Team Entering X-Prize
competition 09/12/2004 03:47 AM

New Sales Strategies for UK Companies
Entering US Market

New Sales Strategies for UK Companies
Entering US Market 04/04/2005 04:15 AM
“How to Quickly and Cost-effectively Enter the U.S. Market” – Georgia, USA alliance to conduct U.K. Workshops on Selling in the United States in April. [PRWEB Apr 4, 2005]

"The University of Georgia is entering a
new phase of its WAGZone experiment"

"The University of Georgia is entering a
new phase of its WAGZone experiment" 01/03/2004 07:07 PM

Department of Homeland Security Prevents
Terrorist from Entering the U.S.

Department of Homeland Security Prevents
Terrorist from Entering the U.S. 09/25/2004 11:32 AM
As we all know, since September 11, 2001 the U.S. has been much more vigilant in defending itself against terrorist attacks.  In addition to bombing the shit out of the Middle East, we have also established the Department of Homeland Security whose responsibility it is to defend us from terrorists. They have so far done a stellar job, as the U.S. has yet to be hit by another terrorist attack.  But the ever-vigilant Department of Homeland Security is not resting on its laurels. Recently, they prevented the terrorist supporter Yusef Islam from entering the United States.

George Carlin Entering Drug Rehab Clinic
(AP)

George Carlin Entering Drug Rehab Clinic
(AP) 12/27/2004 03:50 PM
AP - Comedian George Carlin is entering a drug rehabilitation facility to shake his dependence on wine and a painkiller.

Hacker pleads guilty to entering N.Y.
Times computers

Hacker pleads guilty to entering N.Y.
Times computers 01/08/2004 08:35 PM
SiliconValley.com Jan 8 2004 8:12PM ET

Computer system picks out new words,
phrases entering English language

Computer system picks out new words,
phrases entering English language 12/20/2003 03:55 AM
National Post Dec 20 2003 3:39AM ET

Troubles from within...

Troubles from within... 12/30/2003 01:23 AM
Among the largest problems and threats to any given network, users seem to be more and more the most difficult threat to find solutions for. Lets look at the recent Blaster and Nachi worm issues. Many of the security professionals...

More Troubles in Toy Land

More Troubles in Toy Land 05/25/2004 10:04 AM
It's a stuffed-dog-eat-stuffed-dog kind of a world.

Troubles in Telecom

Troubles in Telecom 07/12/2004 02:30 PM
Recent developments underline that troubles aren't over for these companies.

Server troubles

Server troubles 05/18/2004 07:23 PM
Hi all! The server hosting Advogato (beta.gimp.org, hosted at Berkeley's XCF) has been having I/O errors and crashing over the past few days. One way or another, we'll sort it all out - if the machine really is toast, I have a few other options, thanks in large part to generous offers by fans.

Spinning Microsoft's EU Troubles?

Spinning Microsoft's EU Troubles? 12/30/2004 04:55 PM
Internet News Dec 30 2004 8:01PM GMT

Oracle Bid for PeopleSoft Troubles Cos.
(AP)

Oracle Bid for PeopleSoft Troubles Cos.
(AP) 06/24/2004 06:13 PM
AP - It's becoming increasingly clear that PeopleSoft Inc. isn't the only high-tech heavyweight worried about Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover bid for the business software maker.

Teething Troubles with Bluetooth?

Teething Troubles with Bluetooth? 09/10/2004 05:47 AM
SCL.org Sep 10 2004 9:34AM GMT

More Troubles For Microsoft in Asia

More Troubles For Microsoft in Asia 06/10/2004 11:41 AM
This past spring, the Japanese Fair Trade Commission (FTC) was investigating whether Microsoft attempted to illegally pressure Asian PC makers to surrender their legal rights in exchange for licensing Windows XP. Now, the Korean FTC is investigating Microsoft Korea for allegedly breaking fair trade rules by bundling its instant messaging technology with Windows XP.

Island's troubles on mend

Island's troubles on mend 01/11/2004 07:12 PM
HONIARA - Type "Bougainville" into Google if you want the most startling proof that the seven-year Australian-funded peace process on Papua New Guinea's tear ...

Network troubles at ETCon...

Network troubles at ETCon... 02/10/2004 01:21 PM

Day Two of ETCon and the network horror starts. Rendezvous isn't working for me, so I can't see or connect to any other SubEthaEdit documents. I can't IM anyone, I'm trying to download IRC but the network is collapsing. All very frustrating. It's like being mindblind.

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Panther FileVault Troubles?

Panther FileVault Troubles? 11/03/2003 10:33 PM
In the wake of PowerBook Display issues and Panther Firewire issues, some customers are also being affected by the adoption of FileVault - Apple's on-...

March troubles for software

March troubles for software 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
Rohan also estimates that Yahoo paid Google $7 million in search technology license revenues in 2002. He believes that Yahoo will ...

Spinning Microsoft's EU Troubles

Spinning Microsoft's EU Troubles 12/30/2004 04:55 PM
Internet News Dec 30 2004 8:14PM GMT

Microsoft's Got Money Troubles

Microsoft's Got Money Troubles 09/27/2004 08:39 AM
Looks like customer unhappiness over Money 2005 is mounting.

Group wants H-1B visa exemptions

Group wants H-1B visa exemptions 05/05/2004 07:57 PM
Compete America argues that foreigners who have earned masters and doctorate degrees from U.S. universities should be exempt from the program's cap.

H-1B visa cap could be reached within a
week

H-1B visa cap could be reached within a
week 02/11/2004 05:52 PM
Immigration experts and sources familiar with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services visa process believe federal officials are only a week away from cutting off new applications for H-1B visas for this fiscal year.

U.S. to probe Comair, US Airways
troubles

U.S. to probe Comair, US Airways
troubles 12/27/2004 09:55 PM
CNET News.com Dec 28 2004 1:50AM GMT

The troubles with the Mickey Mouse brand

The troubles with the Mickey Mouse brand 04/18/2004 03:21 AM
Can Disney Build a Better Mickey Mouse

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Cricket: Cairns troubles England

Cricket: Cairns troubles England 06/11/2004 12:55 PM
Chris Cairns reduces England to 225-5 in reply to New Zealand's 384 at Trent Bridge.

AIG Delays Report on Accounting Troubles
(AP)

AIG Delays Report on Accounting Troubles
(AP) 03/30/2005 09:08 PM
AP - Amid widening government probes into its financial practices, insurance giant American International Group Inc. acknowledged Wednesday it had improperly booked transactions with a unit of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. that artificially boosted its reserves.

User Deletion Bug/ Dselect Troubles

User Deletion Bug/ Dselect Troubles 11/04/2003 09:22 PM
Quick Summary: DO NOT USE DSELECT, and if you've used it, check your /sw/etc/apt/sources.list file carefully. Users who have bootstrapped or installed Fink 0.5.3 or Fink 0.6.0 on Mac OS X 10.3 could exhibit a problem where all users get deleted from the netinfo database, and you become unable to log in. We believe that this problem can only occur if you've used dselect. If you are using Mac OS X 10.3, please be sure you're using the latest Fink version to avoid the issue. To make sure you don't have upgrade problems, check your /sw/etc/apt/sources.list file. You will need to modify it if it contains deb lines that point to "release" or "current" without a version number. In other words, if your sources.list file contains these lines: deb http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download release main deb http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download current main ...you should change them to this: deb http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download 10.3/release main deb http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download 10.3/current main We are working on updating the repository to make sure that even if you update you don't get the broken code, and to repair dselect, but in the meantime, make sure your sources.list file has the correct entries. Other users have experienced problems with dselect itself, particularly complaints about a missing "darwin" package. If you are running dselect under 10.3 and you don't get this warning, then your sources.list file is likely to be corrupted and you should repair it as above.
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