Happy Trails
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Adios and happy trails
Adios and happy trails
07/02/2004 08:32 AM
Last night was the end-of-year dinner at Berkman. It was my
last event as part of the team. It was also the last Berkman event for
Chris Lydon, Jim Moore and Diane
Cabell.
At the dinner I sat across from John Palfrey and Mary Rundle and
next to Terry Fisher. It was hard to
hear, but we had some great talks anyway, no surprise there, because
Berkman is a place for discussion, a place for intellect, but not idle
thinking, thinking-with-doing. That's why I liked it there so much.
As I was listening to the toasts at the end, when it came time
to thank John Palfrey, I didn't want to interrupt, but now, here on
Scripting News, I can hold my virtual glass up to John, who is one of
the best people I've ever worked for, one of the only people
I've ever worked for, and someone who if you ever get the chance to,
you should work for. Let me tell you why.
They recruit incredible
talent at Berkman, the smartest, most passionate, most curious people.
Now in a lot of places, it would stop there, a bureaucracy would
develop among the permanents, and the temporaries, the fellows, would
have to learn the ropes and it would take time before they were
effective, and there might be limits on how effective one can be.
Especially at a university, especially at an old
university like Harvard. But John thinks like an entrepreneur,
and tries to cut down obstacles, he encourages your outrageous ideas,
when he finds out you want to do something, he pulls out all the stops
to help you get there. In the 1.5 years I was at Berkman, I never once
heard John say no. And believe me, I needed a lot of yes's to make two
conferences happen, one on very short notice, a day after another
Berkman conference run by Charlie Nesson. Yet John pulls off what must
be a very complicated job without involving you in his cares, and
that's important. The internal problems fade away, and things get
done. Everyone says it, everyone knows it, this place works because
Palfrey makes it work.
Anyway, I said goodbye to a lot of people last night, and
closed the book on one of the most rewarding experiences in my life. I
really appreciate the chance Berkman Center gave me, and thank
Charlie, Terry and Jonathan for believing that a commercial software
developer could make a contribution to an academic institution. Thanks
to Wendy and Catherine for support at the two BloggerCons, thanks to
Jesse and Hal for backing us up technically. Thanks to Diane for being
a friend. Thanks to the people who aren't at Berkman now, but who,
like me, are part of its incredible extended family. But I gotta say
it, thanks most to John Palfrey for making it all work. I hope to get
a chance to work with you all again some time in the future.
Happy Trails to Me, I'm Job-Free: Week
One
Happy Trails to Me, I'm Job-Free: Week
One
03/19/2003 10:27 PMI hadn't written much last week, between the job search and getting
myself hooked up with a new laptop...
Cattle Trails
Cattle Trails
01/18/2004 07:03 AMBlazing trails with RSS
Blazing trails with RSS
01/17/2004 10:44 PMFew would doubt that RSS has an important role in content syndication.
Some might even say, myself included, that we have yet to see the full
potential of RSS, especially given the opportunity of RSS extension by
namespaces and modularisation. It's probably a fact that at present
the most popular way of creating an RSS file is as a result of writing
for a weblog. I should mention at this stage that I'll use RSS file
and RSS feed interchangeably throughout this piece. Most weblogging
software automatically creates RSS feeds...
Canada trails U.S. in Internet usage
Canada trails U.S. in Internet usage
04/29/2004 01:59 AMCanadaIT.com Apr 29 2004 5:15AM GMT
Study Says U.S. Trails in Family Time
Off (AP)
Study Says U.S. Trails in Family Time
Off (AP)
06/16/2004 09:19 PMAP - U.S. workers have fewer legal rights to time off for family
matters than workers in most other countries, and rank near the bottom
in pregnancy and sick leave, a Harvard School of Public Health study
found. The report, released Wednesday in Washington, D.C., was based
on research on 168 countries.
Blue Ridge Music Trails
Blue Ridge Music Trails
01/22/2004 02:12 AM Blue Ridge Music Trails.
An invaluable resource for fans of old-time country, bluegrass, gospel
and folk
music
in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Includes places and events
like the Friday night Flatfoot Jamboree at the
Floyd Country Store and
the Saturday-night show at the
Carter Family Fold .
U.S. Stages Fight-Back at Ryder Cup But
Still Trails
U.S. Stages Fight-Back at Ryder Cup But
Still Trails
09/18/2004 04:51 PMReuters via Wired News Sep 18 2004 7:34PM GMT
Kerry Trails Slightly in Electoral Votes
(AP)
Kerry Trails Slightly in Electoral Votes
(AP)
07/24/2004 02:54 PMAP - John Kerry narrowly trails President Bush in the battle for the
270 electoral votes needed to win the White House, as he makes his
case at the Democratic National Convention this week to topple the
Republican incumbent.
Unhappy Trails in Norco (Los Angeles
Times)
Unhappy Trails in Norco (Los Angeles
Times)
06/06/2004 05:03 AMLos Angeles Times - Former mayor and saloon owner Robbin Kozile brags
that there are more horses than people in Norco, more miles of riding
trails than paved roads.
Bogus Bear Tracks Found on Alaska Trails
(AP)
Bogus Bear Tracks Found on Alaska Trails
(AP)
01/05/2005 10:09 PMAP - Someone is putting the scare into people walking trails at
Creamer's Field in Fairbanks by laying down bogus bear tracks.
Kerry Trails Bush by 8 Points in New
Poll and Faces Obstacles
Kerry Trails Bush by 8 Points in New
Poll and Faces Obstacles
09/17/2004 07:46 PMJohn Kerry faces obstacles in his bid to unseat President Bush, with
voters saying he has not laid out a case for why he wants to be
president.
UK e-Government ranks 12th & trails
other countries says Accenture report
UK e-Government ranks 12th & trails
other countries says Accenture report
04/08/2005 04:43 AMPublicTechnology.net Apr 8 2005 9:09AM GMT
Demand Grows to Require Paper Trails for
Electronic Votes
Demand Grows to Require Paper Trails for
Electronic Votes
05/22/2004 02:14 PMA coalition of computer scientists, voter groups and state officials
is trying to force the makers of electronic voting machines to equip
those machines with voter-verifiable paper trails.
Happy PFD!...?
Happy PFD!...?
01/16/2004 11:02 AM Anyone in the mood for a celebration!?
Today is
Personal
Firewall Day! Who's bringing drinks?
One happy, one sad
One happy, one sad
01/30/2004 02:04 AMTwo things before breakfast, one happy, one sad. Happy: Downloadable
MP3s from The Paris Review - including a great story by George
Plimpton, read by himself. Sad: Weblog DDoS attacks, happening in the
wild. not only there but here, and...
.HAPPY
.HAPPY
02/10/2004 03:00 AMThe issue was a misnamed Form variable. :)~ Saw it in the first 5
mintues this morning. A fresh head always helps.
.NET's code behind feature is great. I getting used to using it
properly. One pet peeve. I learned VB purely from the Microsoft
Documentation and a couple of books. The code samples are too complex
in .Net's documentation. They need to provide smaller pieces of
functionality. For example, to describe creating a web component, they
try and take you through an entire application. Not very XPish of
them. too much clutter. All I need for an example, is an example of
the component and the component being embedded in the page. All the
rest confuses the issue.
If You're Happy and You Know It...
If You're Happy and You Know It...
08/11/2004 01:58 PMCisco's warning casts a pall over the entire technology industry. What
took 'em so long?
Happy Pi Day!
Happy Pi Day!
03/14/2003 01:09 PM Happy Pi
Day! At 1:59 PST, the San Francisco Exploratorium kicks off its Pi
Day festivities. If you can't make it, here are
more activities
or you can just sing a
song to ?.
Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
02/01/2005 10:10 PMLorcan Dempsey posted some astounding numbers to his blog yesterday. Emphasis
below is mine. Prepare to be amazed.
WorldCat in Your
Pocket
“WorldCat is our union catalogue of about 56 million
bibliographic records, which represent approximately a billion
holdings. It is about 50 gigabytes in MARC Communications (100+
gigabytes in XML) format and about 23 gigabytes compressed.
OCLC Research recently
acquired a 24-node (48-cpu) Beowulf cluster with 96 Gigabytes of
memory. According to my colleague Thom Hickey,
whose team has been working on the machine, the cluster speeds up most
bibliographic processing by about a factor of 30. This means that what
might have taken a minute now takes two seconds, what might have taken
an hour takes two minutes, what might have taken a month takes a day.
For jobs that will fit entirely in memory (e.g. a `grep' of WorldCat)
avoiding disk i/o gives another factor of about 20, reducing 1-hour
jobs down to 6 seconds. We can 'frbrize<
/a>' WorldCat on the cluster in about an hour.
WorldCat
is also now more mobile. Thom has a 40 gig iPod which can accommodate
WorldCat on its disk with room left for 5,000 song tracks.
Now, you can't do much with the data on the iPod, but you can
certainly carry it around. Again, it takes about an hour to get it on
and off the iPod.” [Lorcan
Dempsey’s Weblog, via It&rs
quo;s All Good]
They’re all amazing
numbers, but think about that iPod statement for a moment. What
does it mean when a patron can carry around the whole, freaking
WorldCat database? We’re not that far off from the introduction
of the personal, mobile server in your pocket.
Happy
Happy
02/01/2005 09:44 PMIt’s like this: you get a slightly-scary physical symptom and you go
and tell your doctor and she frowns and says “well, we better run
some tests and make a date with a specialist”, and you go to the
specialist and he works you over and looks at the tests and says
“yeah, that’s a weird one, it happens sometimes, we don’t know
why, it might happen again, it won’t hurt you, don’t worry about
it.”
Very Very Happy
Very Very Happy
05/26/2004 04:36 AMThe Only Conservative Blogposts You Ever Have to Read .. Blogging: The
State of the Art .. head over here .. He
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Are you happy now?
Are you happy now?
03/13/2003 03:27 PM A 100-ton mech
is the ultimate fishing machine. With upcoming titles like
Steelhead Battalion and
Cthulhu
Karts, it's possible that
Schadenfreude Interactive might
be the next game industry juggernaut. Or they may be an April Fool's
prank spotted in the pages of the April issue of
Computer
Games.
happy new year!
happy new year!
01/01/2004 11:07 AMI got to Madrid okay yesterday, but, in the end, I couldn't get the
modem connection to work properly... and in truth I didn't spend that
much time with it (I fixed that a few minutes ago problems with a DHCP
connection that required some fixed TCP/IP settings)...
... but now we're about to leave, so I'll be brief: Happy 2004
everyone!
PS: Digital life resumes tomorrow afternoon, after I get back to
Dublin. :)
Happy 2004!
Happy 2004!
12/31/2003 09:37 PMChances are, it's already 2004 where you live, or it will be in a few
short hours. Here's to a happy New Year, full of geekery, a bit of
gamin', and most importantly, family and friends.
Happy New Year indeed
Happy New Year indeed
01/22/2004 08:46 PMgoogle.com/search?q=chinese+new+year+2004
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Happy New Year to all
Happy New Year to all
12/31/2003 07:20 PMInternetRetailer.com Dec 31 2003 6:12PM ET
"Happy New Year indeed."
"Happy New Year indeed."
01/23/2004 06:31 PMHappy Father's Day, Dad!
Happy Father's Day, Dad!
06/22/2005 02:37 AMI'd like to take a moment on this beautiful Sunday morning to wish my
dad a Happy Father's Day. I...
Happy Hands
Happy Hands
09/09/2004 01:57 AMAbcnews.go.com - Tue Sep 7, 10:42 am GMT
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
12/31/2003 04:59 PMHAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
01/01/2004 05:09 PM
Some Fun:
Information Security Predictions for 2004!
Happy New Year !
Happy New Year !
01/01/2004 03:18 AMWell we all made it through another year here at ActiveNetwork and our
entire staff would like to thank all our viewers for your continued
support since our conception back in 1997. With all the additions over
the years we think we have certainly come a long way since then.
Happy Reading.
Happy Reading.
12/28/2004 01:51 AM
eSchol
arship Editions. Like ebooks? Want something free,
nonfiction,"scholarly", publicly accessible, and more recent
than
Gutenberg ? (Lately I'm
on an Ancient History kick.) My problem with this
"eScholarship" site is they try to make it hard to download
a whole ebook to read offline. For one of those, for people who are
interested in 20th-century political history-cum-theory that's never
had much to do with any U.S. election, today I'm recommending
the Platform. Happy New Year's Eve!
Happy New Year's Eve!
12/31/2004 10:14 AMNo new hints today. Enjoy a safe and fun New Year's Eve, and we'll see
you all back here on Monday morning!
-rob.
Happy House
Happy House
01/12/2004 03:02 AMgood geek girlfriends give good geeky presents.
Happy New Year Everybody
Happy New Year Everybody
01/07/2004 04:39 PM
With just 15 minutes of 2003 remaining, I would like to thank
everyone on blogosphere.
May the year 2004, Year of the Monkey, bring you much love, joy,
happyness, wealth,
and health.
FC Now: Happy Holidays!
FC Now: Happy Holidays!
12/24/2004 12:26 PMI cannot speak for my fellow FC Now contributors and teammates, but I
do know that I'll be out of the office -- and offline -- Dec. 23 to
Jan. 3 for the holidays. We've lined up a good holiday...
Happy Sylvester
Happy Sylvester
01/05/2004 11:03 AM Hanan Cohen explains why Israeli's refer to New Years Eve as
"Sylvester": It's just because Israel is a Jewish state. The [Jewish]
new year holiday is celebrated on the eve of Tishrei 1st. People who
immigrated to Israel from western countries still wanted to celebrate
the "old" new year, like at home, but could not say that they were
celebrating the new year so they used instead the Catholic name of the
day, Sylvester. That's why the Jews in Israel celebrate the event
using a name of a Catholic saint. Hanan also points to an article
about the 25%...
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