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Capital Magazine Announce Agreement

Human Capital Institute and Human
Capital Magazine Announce Agreement 06/22/2005 03:00 AM
The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a non-profit think tank, educator and professional association, and Human Capital, a leading talent management magazine, announced today an agreement to bring HCI's game-changing research and information to readers of Human Capital. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2005]

Seeking balance

Seeking balance 03/28/2005 01:42 AM
USA Today Mar 28 2005 4:51AM GMT

Seeking your patronage

Seeking your patronage 09/21/2004 06:36 AM
USA Today Sep 21 2004 10:16AM GMT

Desperately Seeking Wi-Fi

Desperately Seeking Wi-Fi 05/03/2004 06:07 PM
Review: A hardware version of NetStumbler, the WiFi Seeker is a keychain-sized device that makes it easy to sniff out Wi-Fi hubs.

Seeking new turf

Seeking new turf 05/17/2004 10:22 AM
USA Today May 17 2004 2:07PM GMT

Seeking Out Opposites

Seeking Out Opposites 10/28/2003 11:06 PM

For the past year or two, I've been trying an experiment in my personal research and learning. I've been seeking out tools and technologies which are as different as possible from those with which I already have experience. I want to break up some prejudices and habits I have, and expose myself to more ways of looking at things. Now that I write this, it sounds like a great approach to life in general, but for now I'm focusing on computer science. :)

My success with this has been entirely dependant on free time and brain cycles, of which I've had precious little. But, I have managed to wean myself away from Perl to learning Python, developing a few apps with it and incorporating it into my problem solving kit. I've also managed to get myself away from XEmacs for hours at a time in order to weave Vim into my work-a-day life. These two things haven't been easy for me, since I've been using both Perl and some variant of Emacs for almost 12 years now, and I've done my share of sneering at that which is not perl or emacs.

And, although I've yet to spring upon them, I've also been making wary, narrowing circles around Lisp, Smalltalk, Prolog, and .NET. There been occasional forays into Java, as well as my daily attachment to Flash and Actionscript lately. And then, there've been my hefting and swinging of XSLT and XPath, as well as RDF, countered by a few feints with plaintext shell tools and YAML. There's been more, but most investigations have been too tentative to mention.

If there's a "holy war" between two things, I want to explore them both. I tend to see two apparently intelligent parties in an extended debate over which of them has a hold on the One True Way. In my experience, though, there's a high likelyhood that such a phenomenon points toward a real truth which lies somewhere inbetween. (This, of course, ignoring such cases where one party is correct, and the other is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!) There tend to be very good reasons why smart people on either side of a fence have taken up with what they have, and I want to know both sides thoroughly. I know full well that both sides have at least some valid criticisms against the other, but I want a synthesis of the two.

In this field of computer science, there are as many ways of working with the dreamstuff as there are ways of structuring thoughts. And, rather than there ever being One True Way to do things, there will always be another smart person developing another powerfully expressive and insightful way of doing things. Someday, I'd like to be one of those smart people, so I need to have a sense for that truth in the middle that other One True Ways bracket and zero in on. And then, I want to know enough to jump out of the frame altogether, and in which ways I can invert and twist things to encircle some new spark.

Someday in the next few years, I'd like to get back into school so I can get to even higher levels of growing up to be a computer scientist. But for now, it's back to work for me. And, if you happen to think of any geeky holy wars, let me know. I'm collecting them for study.

Motorola seeking tie-ups

Motorola seeking tie-ups 12/08/2003 07:00 AM
This Is Money Dec 8 2003 5:50AM ET

Advice

Advice 02/17/2004 02:37 AM
Understanding Women & "The Rules" For Men, or Think of it Like Driving in England

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AMD seeking site for new 65nm fab

AMD seeking site for new 65nm fab 11/10/2003 10:46 PM

Seeking Diversity Abroad

Seeking Diversity Abroad 09/16/2004 03:28 PM
Before you chase foreign investments, consider a few things first.

Transforming XML: Seeking Equality

Transforming XML: Seeking Equality 06/17/2005 04:28 PM
Bob DuCharme looks at how XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 let you evaluate whether two elements are equal.

Seeking Riches From the Poor

Seeking Riches From the Poor 04/23/2004 05:30 AM
South African entrepreneurs have discovered a stunningly large and lucrative market: Africa's poor. By providing services that the developed world takes for granted, the entrepreneurs are making money -- and making lives easier. Part 3 of a three-part series. Megan Lindow reports from Cape Town.

Urgently seeking 419 haiku

Urgently seeking 419 haiku 02/17/2004 06:03 AM
The Register Feb 17 2004 10:22AM GMT

Aid agencies seeking help for Asia

Aid agencies seeking help for Asia 12/28/2004 12:50 PM
ZDNet Dec 28 2004 4:04PM GMT

MCI board seeking a higher bid?

MCI board seeking a higher bid? 04/12/2005 08:45 AM
CNN Money Apr 12 2005 1:07PM GMT

Desperately Seeking ... Algorithms !

Desperately Seeking ... Algorithms ! 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Desperately Seeking ... Algorithms ! I know, I know. Single guy on a Sunday morning shouldn't be searching for algorithms. Such is the nature of a dedicated geek though. Here's the request, appropriately enough written as a personals ad: You: Small, petite, memory shy algorithm able to take a few hundred bytes of text and return to me the correct natural langauge codes i.e. give me "jp" or "il" or anything more correct than what's normally in the element. Me: Aspiring RSS search engine looking to broaden my horizons, experience new urls and (gasp) boldly recognize languages correctly. Other: Special points given for being written in PHP. Extra points given to red heads (oops -- wrong context; scratch that). Goal: Long term embedded relationship but will date before marriage. I know this exists. I can even remember sitting in an office in Albany, NY one day talking with John Munson (whose email address I no longer have) and discussing it. I cannot, for the life of me, remember how it worked or its name. And I'm googling poorly this fine morning. Thoughts? Anyone out there got any code to toss my way? Example of Why I need It: Here's a blog and here's its rss feed. Now here's its language element: en-us. And there's the problem -- this isn't english by a long shot. But I don't think the problem is to require everyone out there to set this properly. As they say "sh*" happens and computers are supposed to be smart enough to recognize this. Note to hlb -- I'm not singling you out here guy, you're just one of the hundreds if not thousands of blogs with a mis-set language field and you're just the example I happened to grab at random. This posting also ensures I can find my test case when I need it again so at least by posting this, you know that I'm going to try and get at least your case fixed.

Desperately Seeking Juror #3

Desperately Seeking Juror #3 12/23/2003 08:03 PM
Steve Davis, this was your life. The most interesting spam I've gotten in a while. This fellow apparently served on a jury with the woman of his dreams. Having not gotten her number, or apparently her name, he decided that spamming was the way to find her. In this world, at this time, one would think he would know better. I smell a new meme arising! (Text of the email inside.)

Minnows seeking FA Cup glory

Minnows seeking FA Cup glory 01/24/2004 03:37 AM
The FA Cup fourth round sees several lower League teams eyeing an upset.

Seeking Logic in QLogic

Seeking Logic in QLogic 07/15/2004 01:34 PM
Can investors learn from one highflier's misfortune?

mozdev Seeking Mirrors

mozdev Seeking Mirrors 01/22/2004 02:38 AM

Is Venture Capital Over?

Is Venture Capital Over? 04/14/2005 04:52 AM
A well known venture capitalist is apparently claiming that the age of the VC is over, and is getting out of the business. The specifics of his claim are that VCs won't be able to earn the same sorts of returns they did in the 90s, which he chalks up to "systemic change." If anything, it sounds like he's channeling Nicho las Carr, who believes the tech industry is becoming commoditized and boring (misunderstanding that things first get interesting when stuff gets commoditized). Of course, the silly thing is that he seems to be comparing today's VC returns to what you could get in the 90s. He claims that "the eye-popping returns that make venture capital famous are history." Of course, the easy response to that is that perhaps most of the "eye-popping returns" were the aberration in the first place, built on the bubble of hype-cycles past. That means there's still plenty of opportunity in real innovation -- and even without that, you can bet that there will be more hype cycles and bubbles. History< /a> practically guarantees it. While bubbles aren't good for everyone, good VCs generally are able to make out quite well (since they bail out early enough) -- and we've already explained why bubbl es eventually are good for most people. While it's bad for those who get sucked up in the hype, it does accelerate innovation by allowing a lot of companies to quickly test (and discard!) many different ideas.

Venture Capital 101

Venture Capital 101 01/06/2005 06:55 AM

In all the speculation about the deal I haven't seen what surely is the motivator. Six Apart plans to go public. The market will value SA based on it's ability to generate profits, and it will likely do so in proportion to the number of users, the theory being that they can sell things to the users, so the more users, the more they can sell. They might value each user at $100. Anyway, the more users the more value. LJ has a lot of users. So the founders of LJ get SA stock, and the shareholders in SA get more users, and value of the combined companies goes up and the day of the IPO gets closer.

Capital for Mac development

Capital for Mac development 11/14/2003 11:59 PM
A few days ago I said that there is no capital for Mac development, that if you want to be a Mac developer you have to fund the effort yourself.

Then on Thursday Robb Beal linked to a press release about You Software. You Software is founded by Craig Barnes, who also founded Extensis and Now Software.

You Software, according to the press release, “has secured a first round of financing from SmartForest Ventures of Portland, Oregon.”

More: “‘Our investment in You Software reflects our excitement about Craig and his team coming back to the Macintosh market,’ said Debi Coleman, SmartForest Ventures Partner and former CIO, CFO, and VP, Worldwide Operations for Apple Computer.”

Okay—so here’s a counter-example, here’s a Mac developer with funding.

This is a sign of growing health, I think. Health in the Mac market and general economic health. (“Growing” health, yes, but neither are really healthy, yet.)

However, my advice to any developer who wants to do Mac software is to act as if you’ve never heard this. My advice is to plan to build a business the old-fashioned way, by creating something of value that people like and will buy. Being an honest, small, independent developer is tons of fun; chasing after capital is tons of pain. (And when you’re chasing you’re not working on your software.)

P.S. Since writing my advice to Mac developers the other day, I was pointed several times to Rogue Amoeba’s Good Ideas. Good stuff, worth reading.

Capital Irrelevance

Capital Irrelevance 03/14/2005 06:10 PM
Internet Capital Group continues to issue press releases, despite never being profitable.

Venture capital goes up

Venture capital goes up 12/30/2004 12:21 AM
USA Today Dec 30 2004 3:34AM GMT

Venture capital up

Venture capital up 12/30/2004 06:51 AM
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Marathon's capital day

Marathon's capital day 04/18/2004 01:46 AM
London is all set for another memorable marathon on Sunday.

Visiting the old capital

Visiting the old capital 06/17/2005 05:09 PM
Ever since I blogged about the anti-Japanese protests in China, I have been having a dialog with a number of people about Japanese history. One of my Chinese friends recommended "Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan" (Herbert P. Bix) for a more objective and critical view of the Emperor's role in the War. I am reading the book now. I believe this book does a great job of uncovering a fairly systematic coverup by the US occupation and the Japanese media of the role of the Emperor in World War II. However, I do think that Bix tends to makes some conclusions based on the facts he uncovers that I would not necessarily agree with. It is, in any case, a very good book for anyone interested in Japan to read.

With this fresh in my mind, I visited Kyoto, my home town, and was amazed at just how much Japanese tradition is organized around the Emperor. The Emperor went though various levels of influence in the governing of the nation, but has remained in place for 125 generations. Regardless of his level of influence, the Emperor has been the center of most of Japanese culture. Kyoto, for instance, is divided into the "Right Kyoto" and the "Left Kyoto". This has nothing to do with East or West, but is the right or left side of the city when viewed from the Emperor. The bullet train "climbs" from Kyoto to Tokyo (the new capital) toward the Emperor and any road that points away from the Emperor is pointed "down". All kinds of symbols and names allow you to understand exactly what each Temple's relationship to the royal family is. Maybe it was just our guide, or maybe it was that I was sensitized, but I think he talked about the Emperor in almost every explanation he made.

I question whether we should still have an Emperor in Japan and I believe that the facts about the Emperor's involvement in the war should be more publicly known. However, I wonder how the cultural foundation of Japan will change if the Emperor and the royal family were removed.

I　have Flickr'ed the trip.

UPDATE: Movie of geisha dance uploaded to archive.org and part 2. (And an older one from a previous trip...)

UPDATE: Rela ted Article - Sanji-Chion-Ji

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That's "Vacation" with a Capital "V"

That's "Vacation" with a Capital "V" 04/09/2004 04:13 PM

So, my site is on the new LISHost server, just in time to sit idle for a while. I'm heading off to a much anticipated vacation, sans laptop, so things will be even quieter around here than they have been lately (at least until the 19th, maybe later). Please also note that I won't be reading any news during that time, and I'm already so far behind in my email it's no longer a joke, so responses will be delayed even longer than usual. Sorry, but it's vacation, don't you know.

One last pointer that I've been quite remiss in posting until now. Library Journal's 2004 Movers & Shakers list is out, and I'm beyond pleased to see Steven M. Cohen and Lori Bell on it! Congratulations to both of them, as well as to all of the folks included on this year's list! I'm looking forward to reading through all of the write-ups and learning lots of great new things!

Capital punishment was never so much
fun!

Capital punishment was never so much
fun! 01/16/2004 10:58 AM
Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates are very pleased to announce the release of a new Macintosh word game called Hangman Pro.

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In capital letters...

In capital letters... 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Ok, I've decided to switch to using proper caps again. Got tired of all lower case. Hope you don't mind....

Capital Games

Capital Games 12/16/2003 04:05 PM
had something interesting .. does not justify the war .. Link to Opinion .. SADDAM GONE .. David Corn

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Advice on anything except sport

Advice on anything except sport 12/08/2003 03:29 AM
Need advice? Ask Pud. Having apparently created a good income for himself, Pud will tell you how to do it too. And let you know what his kit's like. And brief you on the future of your career in the IT industry. And give you a tip on street food in NY. And tell you the quickest way to learn French. And he gets to the point about chickens and eggs pretty quick too.

FC Now: Valuable Advice

FC Now: Valuable Advice 04/13/2005 06:43 AM
Quick, what are your company's values? Don't bother reaching for the corporate handbook - suffice to say most of us realize our companies have them, we're just not sure what they are. They come to us in a boring little...

Top Tip: Need advice on buying RAM!

Top Tip: Need advice on buying RAM! 04/23/2004 12:21 PM
I am building a new home computer for myself and I need to decide on some RAM for it. It will be built around a AMD XP+ 2500, 2800 or 3000 and I will get a new motherboard as well.

Bad writerly advice

Bad writerly advice 05/18/2004 06:20 PM
Teresa Nielsen Hayden -- a swell writer and respected editor -- may not have invented the genre in which clueless advice to new writers is mercilessly dissected, but she certainly perfected it. Today. Teresa shreds a really stunningly gormless "cover-letter advice" page:

Tip Eight: Call. That's right, Call. Introduce yourself. Be confident. Let them know your work is coming. It's the surest way to get out of that slush pile and on to a desk. Too afraid to call? Write out what you want to say, call AFTER HOURS, leave a voice message. It's not as good talking to a real person, but hey, it's better than nothing.

The surest way? Say what? Calling in advance is an irritating waste of the editorial department's time, and will do nothing to get you out of a trade publishing slushpile. Leaving a message after hours is even more clueless. I can't imagine where he got this idea, unless he's been taking advice from someone who's secretly out to get him.

There is one significant effect this might have. Because you've phoned to say something about a submission, someone may write down your name and the title of your book, and pass the note on to the slush readers. They'll be puzzled--why did you say you were phoning again?--and will stick the note up on their bulletin board. When your manuscript crosses their desk, they may remember that there was something-or-other they were supposed to remember or do about it, and will set your manuscript on the "inscrutable problems" stack for later diagnosis. Some slow afternoon--of which there aren't many--they'll have a go at the "inscrutable problems" stack, and will look at your manuscript again. They won't be able to tell what the problem was. They'll set the manuscript aside for later. After several cycles, they'll either figure that any manuscript that's been around this long should be returned to its author on general principles, or they'll move on to another job and the new slush reader will run your manuscript through several more "inscrutable problems" cycles before returning it to you on general principles.

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Advice to newlyweds

Advice to newlyweds 05/17/2004 01:34 AM
John Scalzi, a very talented humour writer and novelist (I like to think of him as the "edgy Dave Barry"), has written a bunch of notes for the newly married gays and lesbians of Massachusetts:

It's your best man's (or the equivalent's) job to remind people that at a wedding reception, as at the Academy Awards, speeches are best very short. You didn't spend an obscene amount on the catering just to have it grow cold as Uncle Jim blathers on.

Remind the DJ or band that they work for you, and they'll damn well play anything you want. For some reason I think this may be less of a problem at gay weddings. Thank God.

There will be drama of some sort at the reception. If the wedding party lets any of it reach the newlyweds, they haven't done their job.

Don't fill up on bread. You'll have to dance later.

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Advice for the Dems

Advice for the Dems 12/19/2004 03:55 PM
The DNC sent me an email today touting their 2004 accomplishments and asking for feedback. OK, they did some good things. But there's also a whistling-past-the-graveyard quality to the note. Here was my feedback: • Spend more time on developing...

Sensible Security Advice

Sensible Security Advice 06/03/2004 04:46 PM
The Security Mentor provides sensible, well-written advice for keeping your data's nose clean: His advice often includes wireless networking tips, such as this post. The mentor writes in a way that reminds me of Brian Livingston's long-running and now-deceased Windows Manager column in InfoWorld....
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