A reality check for the Christmas holidays...
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Fact Check Reality Check
Fact Check Reality Check
01/03/2005 02:18 PMOoh I like this, about time fact checking got a reality check. Jason
Kottke satirizes anal retentive blogger fact checking...
I'm Dreaming of a Wireless Christmas
(and Other Holidays)
I'm Dreaming of a Wireless Christmas
(and Other Holidays)
01/26/2004 01:15 AMFree hotel Internet access hits fever pitch with 2,200 Holiday Inns
about to offer it: InterContinental Hotels Group will announce
tomorrow that most of its 2,500 hotels, including 2,200 Holiday Inn
and Holiday Inn Express properties, will offer free Internet access by
the end of the year, the Wall Street Journal reported. The article
doesn't note if any of it is Wi-Fi or not, but points out that 70
percent of Holiday Inn's guests are business travelers. This latest
edition means that by the end of 2004, the majority of moderate
business-class hotels will have free wireless and wired in-room and
common room access. Some scattered independent properties and high-end
hotels (Westin, Hyatt, Marriott, Renaissance, and so forth) are
largely continuing to charge, although most are offering a $10 to $15
per night phone and Internet rollup with unlimited usage. [via Alan
Reiter]...
Online sales surge for holidays, rising
31% heading into Christmas week
Online sales surge for holidays, rising
31% heading into Christmas week
12/29/2003 04:07 PMInternetRetailer.com Dec 29 2003 3:07PM ET
IPO Reality Check
IPO Reality Check
01/16/2004 10:58 AM"you have a 0.029 percent chance of beating an index fund this year in
a Google IPO."
A Reality Check
A Reality Check
08/18/2004 01:05 PMDo we really need a plethora of reality-TV networks?
Reality check
Reality check
05/06/2004 08:35 AMThe media are finally showing the war in its full horror. What took
them so long?
.NET reality check
.NET reality check
01/27/2004 02:51 PM
There's been some pushback recently, in the .NET blogging community,
about Microsoft's habit of living in the future. For example:
It is abundantly frustrating to be keeping up with you guys right now.
We out here in the real world do not use Longhorn, do not have access
to Longhorn (not in a way we can trust for production), and we cannot
even begin to test out these great new technologies until version 1.0
(or 2.0 for those that wish to stay sane). I know there's probably
not a whole lot you can do, but this is a plea to you from someone "in
the field". My job is to work on the architecture team as well as
implement solutions for a large-scale commercial website using .NET.
I use this stuff all day every day, but I use the 1.1 release bits.
Here's my point, enough with the "this Whidbey, Longhorn, XAML is so
cool you should stop whatever it is you are doing and use it". Small
problem, we can't. Please help us by remembering that we're still
using the release bits, not the latest technology. [Michael Earls]
In the spirit of Michael's plea, I'm working on an upcoming article in
which I'll compare what was promised for the .NET platform (er,
framework), two and three years ago, with the current reality as it
exists today. Examples of the kinds of issues I want to consider:
...Google This: Reality Check
Google This: Reality Check
04/30/2004 02:00 AMBusiness Week Apr 30 2004 6:16AM GMT
Reality check: what is Marco up to?
Reality check: what is Marco up to?
06/05/2005 11:20 PM Every now and then, I like to sit down and write a list of all the
things I’m doing, marking down deadlines and making sure that
all the development lines intersect nicely where they should.
Of course, I also keep a daily to-do list–as I mentioned in an
earlier post, I tend to use old-fashioned paper [...]
Start-up salaries get reality check
Start-up salaries get reality check
08/06/2004 06:41 PMHonchos at new tech firms have to do more than show up to get the big
bucks now, a new study says.
Have a reality check, you Itanium lover
Have a reality check, you Itanium lover
01/27/2004 12:41 PMLetter Benchmark journey
Time for a Cosmic Reality Check
Time for a Cosmic Reality Check
10/30/2003 05:58 AMSurprise! Thanks to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, we now
know our little corner of the universe is even smaller than we
thought. A commentary by Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine.
HP e3000 users prompt reality check
HP e3000 users prompt reality check
10/31/2003 04:05 PMHas the grief gone too far
Bosses in Staffer Shoes Get a Reality
Check (Reuters)
Bosses in Staffer Shoes Get a Reality
Check (Reuters)
03/06/2004 02:00 AMReuters - Never having cleaned a bathroom in his
life, Jonathan Tisch was down on his knees, scrubbing with
great effort but little interest, under the watchful eye of his
supervisor.
Virus delivers sobering reality check to
victim's contacts
Virus delivers sobering reality check to
victim's contacts
12/22/2003 11:17 PMCNET Asia Dec 22 2003 10:36PM ET
Kerry’s Partisan Partners in Smearing
Bush -- 02/17/2004 - Media Research
Center - Media Reality Check
Kerry’s Partisan Partners in Smearing
Bush -- 02/17/2004 - Media Research
Center - Media Reality Check
02/18/2004 05:11 AMKerry’s Partisan Partners In Smearing Bush -- ABC, CBS and NBC Give
Bush “AWOL” Charge Double The 1992 Coverage Of Clinton’s Draft Dodging
.. reports
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Virtual reality calms the chemo reality
Virtual reality calms the chemo reality
08/01/2004 08:03 AMChicago Tribune Aug 1 2004 12:13PM GMT
passing up an opportunity to go home for
Christmas, so that his colleague could
spend Christmas with his wife and child
passing up an opportunity to go home for
Christmas, so that his colleague could
spend Christmas with his wife and child
12/21/2003 08:35 AMoffers to stay there .. Home News Tribune .. feel good
story
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Bankers Exchange Helps Customers
Understand Check 21 Legislation - Public
Service Campaign Explains What Must Be
Done Now Regarding The Check 21 Act
Bankers Exchange Helps Customers
Understand Check 21 Legislation - Public
Service Campaign Explains What Must Be
Done Now Regarding The Check 21 Act
09/13/2004 03:01 AMThe Banker’s Exchange, one of the nation’s leaders in
providing new and used bank equipment, today announced the launch of a
public service campaign aimed at helping customers understand Check 21
Legislation. Banker’s Exchange unveiled the first in a series
of public service announcements to be posted online explaining what
must be done now and what can wait regarding the Check 21 Act. [PRWEB
Sep 13, 2004]
Adesso's Cameras: Mini? Check. Assy?
Check.
Adesso's Cameras: Mini? Check. Assy?
Check.
07/22/2004 08:19 PM
Kyocera isn't
the only camera company taking hot fashion tips from Apple's iPod
mini. Adesso has a new line of new cameras that seem to match, at
least superficially, the green, pink, and blue colors of the mini.
However, in an interesting break from Kyocera's form, the Adesso
cameras seem to be exceptionally, well, crappy, with the high
end model rolling in with a 1.3-megapixel sensor. I guess hoping
for an LCD on the back of these is asking too much, huh? I think this
is one time when following the 'smaller is better' ethic is probably a
misstep.
Even worse? They're not even out. (Thanks,
Justin!)
Read -
Product Page [Adesso]
Related
Kyocera Releases iPod mini-Matching Cameras
[Gizmodo]
gum, check. household cleaning product,
check.
gum, check. household cleaning product,
check.
04/12/2004 04:46 PM
MacGyverisms
Check 21 becomes law, allows electronic
check settlements
Check 21 becomes law, allows electronic
check settlements
11/03/2003 06:00 PMPresident Bush signed into law the Check 21 bill, which allows banks
to substitute images for paper checks, allowing them to save billions
of dollars and speed up check processing.
Fun? Check. Interesting? Check.
Something other than Mario o
Fun? Check. Interesting? Check.
Something other than Mario o
08/28/2004 10:00 PMTechTree Aug 29 2004 2:39AM GMT
Reality Porn - Hot Reality Porn Reviews
Reality Porn - Hot Reality Porn Reviews
04/26/2004 06:49 PMwww.reality-porn.ws
reality-porn.ws
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Woes of Big Holidays
Woes of Big Holidays
12/27/2004 08:25 AM
Egad. One down, one more to go. I hate big holidays
because the big ones
are actually three in one: Blah Eve, Blah itself, and After-Blah
Sales Day.
On Blah Eve, my wife expects me to pay attention to her. That
means lots of
kisses and lip service. I wonder if the word Eve being the
name of the first
gal had something to do with this.
On the Blah Day, my wife expects me to pay attention to the
family. In modern
terms, this means doing far more TV watching than my usual 30
minutes a day.
The worst part is that TV programming really sucks on such
days. Radio is even
worse.
On the After-Blah Sales Day, my wife expects me to be
invisible. Actually she
is the one that does the disappearing act from dawn til dusk.
If I happen to
get up too early, I get the deathray look. This morning, I
got up just as she
was putting on her shoes to go out shopping. Oops.
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01/04/2005 06:51 AMHappy Holidays.............
Happy Holidays.............
12/24/2003 02:29 PM Happy Holidays from me to you! (yes that's me many many christmas's
ago) funky huh? :)...
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01/04/2005 06:51 AMThe Blogosphere and the Holidays
The Blogosphere and the Holidays
12/20/2003 06:16 AM
First, if this time of year makes you cheerful, have a happy.
I'm pretty ambivalent. There are some things I like and some things I
don't. I see the pressure to buy for what it is. Pressure, which I
don't like, and commercialism, which I also don't like. I love buying
nice things, but almost no one knows how to do that for me like I do.
I suspect that's true of everyone.
One of the things I like about this time of year is that so
many people seem to have a time to do interesting and fun things. It's
like everyone gets a mini-sabbatical. It's time to go to a game, to
the movies, a museum, out to a long lunch or visit with a few bloggers
you haven't stayed in touch with. Next week I'm going to be in NYC.
Maybe there will be an opportunity to do some or all of that.
Randy Charles Morin sent a question about this. Does the
blogosphere pick up or go on holiday during the holidays? Here's what
I said.
1. I don't have any data, but I do have subjectives.
2. The actual flow goes down, around the 25th way down.
3. But the volume of real work goes up, because people have
time for projects that require attention or thinking, which they have
more of in the coming two-three weeks.
I've done some of my best work in this period in years past. My
first two XML projects, siteChanges.xml and scriptingNews format
(which became half of RSS 0.91) were hatched in December. Last year in
this time period I helped my parents get through a tough time. I was
telling my brother yesterday that I have fond memories of this, it
gave me a strong sense of purpose, and a sense that I made a
difference. That also happened during the holidays last year.
So mostly the holidays are good. I especially like it when
stress isn't a big part of it.
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04/18/2004 05:32 PMHappy Holidays!
Happy Holidays!
12/25/2002 01:38 PMFC 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...
Celebrating Holidays
Celebrating Holidays
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