-W.F.B.
Yeats
"Things to Come"
"Things to Come"
03/19/2003 10:44 PM
The top 1,000 things to know
The top 1,000 things to know
12/19/2004 03:06 PM
Seth blogs about the top 1,000 things for a 13 year old to
learn. I agree with him. The most important thing I learned in
school was how to touch type.
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Getting Things Done with Your Mac
Getting Things Done with Your Mac
03/14/2005 05:33 PM
MacDevCenter.com: “Being a smug Mac user is one thing,
but even the smuggest of us (including me) have problems staying
organized.”
39 things I should do
39 things I should do
06/05/2005 11:56 PM
If you're into food, and wondering, "what the heck should I do
next?" check out the [UK] Observer's list, The top 50
things every foodie should do.
To celebrate OFM's fiftieth edition, we asked some of
our favourite bon viveurs what they considered most essential to do
before they died.
Amazingly, I've already done ten of the items they've listed! Is
that because I'm a "bon viveur"? Maybe a little, but also I've liked
cooking and food for a very long time. Of what they've recommended,
I've already completed the following:
3) Dismember a chicken
I learned this last summer when I was working at a restaurant. Our
chef said everyone needed to know how to break down a chicken. Now I
do. I haven't done it since.
6) Dine at the French Laundry
May 2002. I can't imagine you're reading my site and haven't read my
review, but if that's the case get thee to It's All About Finesse immediately! Now start saving your
dollar a day!
18) Shuck an oyster
I first learned this in 1994 on Cape Cod, where indeed just as they
recommend, I enjoyed 'wild native oysters, from a forgotten oyster
bed'. I last shucked two dozen for my family at Christmas.
20) Wolf down a hotdog on Coney Island
July 4, 2003. I ate one. Japanese super-eating legend Takeru Kobayashi
ate 44 1/2 in twelve minutes. A photo of Kobayashi in action!
24) Be cooked for by a legend
(See #6)
32) Shop till you drop [at La Boqueria in
Barcelona]
When I visited Barcelona in October, 2003 I spent many hours exploring
this amazing market, though I never bought anything because I was
staying in a hotel and had nowhere to cook.
33) Catch your own dinner
They recommend deep-sea fishing for tuna in Barbados. I went fishing
for bluefish off Nantucket in August, 2003 and cooked up the riches
for dinner with my family. Bluefish is my favorite, and I think one of
the best meals you can eat (but only if you're in the northeast of the
United States in July or August) is bluefish baked with breadcrumbs,
butter, and lemon; steamed sweet corn, with butter and salt; and
boiled red potatoes. If you don't have strawberry shortcake for
dessert, with real whipped cream and homemade shortcake, you haven't
gone all out.
39) Visit Pierre Gagnaire in Paris
I did this in June 2003. For some reason, I never wrote about it.
Drat, I wish I had.
40) Bake a loaf of bread
I can't even remember the first time I baked a loaf of bread, but it
must have been around 1986. I started my culinary adventures in the
baking arena (cakes and sweets) before moving into the savory world of
cooking. Of course, the Guardian says, "If your loaf is a true San
Francisco-style sourdough then all the better." And I say, "No!" Yuck.
I don't like sourdough. I had enough "San Francisco-style sourdough"
when I lived in San Francisco to last my whole life.
47) Kill a pig
The last on the list, I did this over the 4th of July weekend, 1994.
Some folks I knew in college had a little tradition of doing this. At
a farm in New Hampshire, we (by which I mean a friend named Danny)
killed the pig and bled it. Then we all took part in gutting and
skinning it (writing now, it sounds more "Lord of the Flies" than it
was). We roasted it in a pit for a very long time, and the result was
the best thing I'd ever tasted. I had never liked pork before that,
and I didn't for a very long time after. But everything we ate that
day was incredible.
They also recommend that you:
9) Pick your own [mushrooms]
But I've never done this. I had a class in college called Plants and Humanity and we
learned from our biology professor never to pick mushrooms in the
wild. He said it was too dangerous, even with books and training,
because the possibility of making a mistake was too great. I learned a
lot from Prof. Ellmore, and to this day I
still recall much of what he taught, so I'm going to trust my gut and
skip the picking of wild mushrooms. The 39 remaining items could
easily take the rest of my life as it is, I don't want to end it
prematurely by eating a Death Cap!
Five Things I Know About Me
Five Things I Know About Me
07/13/2004 02:12 PM
Collect them all!
40 things
40 things
12/22/2004 01:09 AM
1. What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done
before?
- Suck up to clients and not say what I believed in - 'cause I
needed the money.
2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you
make more for next year?
N/A - I don't do resolutions - but I tried to lose weight and
failed.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
- Yes my wife. Her name is Lucy - she was born the day before my
biorthday on Jan. 12th.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
- Yes my father - Davis S. Canter - union leader, politician (the
good kind), my inspiration.
5. What countries did you visit?
- Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, England, Ireland, Canada - and I
live in a very strange, foriegn place - but at least we're in a blue
state (though CA voted 46% for evil.)
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in
2004?
- Digital Lifestyle Aggregation -the PeopleAggregator, a finished
WebOutliner and lots of happy employees.
7. What dates from 2004 will remain etched upon your
memory?
- Jan. 12th - Lucy's birth, Aug. 30th my father's death, July 31st
my eldest son's and wife's birthday and Nov. 3rd my twin son's Bar
Mitzvah.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Finally figuring out what business Broadband Mechanics is in.
We're buulding 'digital lifestyle aggregators'.
9. What was your biggest failure?
1UP.com - it could have been great - but we fucked up.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
- Baruch Ha'Shem - no. But my friend BigDave had his kidney
transplant!
11. What was the best thing you bought?
- BigDave's mom's used car. Great deal, great friend.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
- Twin son's Bar Mitzvah
- Mimi's learning how to sing and dance - on her own
- Lots of happy cleints, growing business
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and
depressed?
- Lack of imagination when it comes to new kinds of micro-content
and micro-contnet publishing in general. Sad and pathetic. And
podcasting. Even sadder.
14. Where did most of your money go?
- Babylon
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
- Open Source Infrastructure - and how ever effort I put into it -
not only helps me and our company, but also the world. Talk about
killing trhee birds with one stone!
16. What song/album will always remind you of 2004?
- "Ambush in the night" - Bob Marley (all guns pointed at me
now....)
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
happier or sadder? happier
thinner or fatter? always going up
richer or poorer? richer in money. richer in happiness
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
- Hung with my sons more.....
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
- Blog
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
- eating Chinese food and watching a movie. What all good Jews do
on X-Mas day.
21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
- my wife - Lisa.
22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
- yes - over and over again with Lisa.
23. How many one night stands in this last year?
- yah, right
24. What was your favourite TV program?
- Alias
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time
last year?
- more than anyone else - I hate the entire concept of fascist,
imperialist, Amerika - and all it stands for. Fuck you - red
states.
26. What was the best book(s) you read?
- N/A - my 250+ feedskeep me busy.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
- Blind Guys from Alabama
28. What did you want and get?
- progress in DLAs, healthy children, bank account.
29. What did you want and not get?
- PeopleAggregator, WebOutliner
30. What were your favourite films of this year?
- um, gee, what films came out this year. I can't remember any.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 47 and I went to the hospital with my eldest daughter to
see her new baby sister who was born the day before. You don't have
birthdays like that very often! BTW my eldest son was at Lucy's
birth.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably
more satisfying?
- Having money to build what I wanna build.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in
2004?
N/A
34. What kept you sane?
- family, blogosphere and knowing that I'm consistently about 10
years ahead.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the
most?
- Heather Graham
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
- Legalized Marijuana
37. Who did you miss?
- my friend Dave Winer
38. Who was the best new person you met?
- oh god, too many to mention. Simon Grice, Lucas Gonze, Carl
Wescott, Monette, Rich Seidner, the Marqui folk, Leonard Brody, Dick
Hardt, the Bryght dudes (Boris and Roland), the Tucows dudes (who I
haven't even met yet!), Alf Eaton, Kjetil Larsen, JD Lasica, the
Laszlo folks, Dave Toole, Seb Paquet, the list goes on and on - it's
been a hell of a year!
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004.
- slow down, it'll all come to you, just stockpile those ideas,
they'll be usful - later.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?
"Rasta Man virbration - yah, positive!"
"Got to have a good vibe"
Things that shouldn't need to be said
Things that shouldn't need to be said
02/10/2004 02:49 AM
But sometimes arguments cross a line beyond which everybody gets hurt,
including the Net. I see that happening here. Even though I'm no
technologist, it's clear to me that the Net has been improved,
radically and fundamentally, by RSS and other standards like it (even
if they come, as Mark claims RSS does, in 9 incompatible versions).
[Doc Searls]
Must we still, at this late date, reiterate and underscore
Doc's point? Apparently, we must. Sigh.
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Things to do...
Things to do...
02/10/2004 02:46 AM
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The Two Things
The Two Things
06/12/2004 04:45 AM
The Two Things: People love to play the Two Things game, but they
rarely agree about what the Two Things are .. Glen Whitman's Two
Things .. has put up a
webpagecsun.edu/~dgw61315/thetwothings.html
track this
site | 6 links
things you can't say
things you can't say
01/05/2004 04:58 AM
ruminationspaulgraham.com/say.html
track this
site | 4 links
All things come to an end.........
All things come to an end.........
11/13/2003 05:20 PM
The journey of my jacket is quickly coming to an end. Can you guess
who the last person in the...
Grok Description matches for 10 things advanced users need in Longhorn
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Windows Longhorn Glass/Aero Findings
Windows Longhorn Glass/Aero Findings
07/28/2004 04:26 PM
Aero 1.6
Aero 1.6
01/18/2004 07:04 AM
An inverse Aqua theme.
Aero 1.5
Aero 1.5
11/19/2003 03:29 PM
An inverse Aqua theme.
Aero 1.4
Aero 1.4
10/30/2003 01:39 PM
An inverse Aqua theme.
Aero-NG 1.0
Aero-NG 1.0
12/10/2003 05:27 PM
An alternative window decoration for the Aero theme.
Aero-NG 1.1
Aero-NG 1.1
12/21/2003 03:37 PM
An alternative window decoration for the Aero theme.
Aero: The Desktop To Come
Aero: The Desktop To Come
10/29/2003 12:10 AM
Falling for Cupid's Aero
Falling for Cupid's Aero
04/07/2005 09:52 AM
Aeropostale is stacking good comps on top of spectacular comps and
that's an encouraging sign.
Aero-Conferencing on Lufthansa
Aero-Conferencing on Lufthansa
06/24/2004 06:11 PM
Computer company eats its own dog food in live video chat from
Lufthansa flight: Two Apple product managers try out Lufthansa's
version of Connexion by Boeing: Wi-Fi inside a plane relayed to ground
by satellite. The quality was good enough, apparently, to conduct a
live two-way iChat AV videoconference. This is just a taste of things
to come, of course, as airlines consider in-plane cellular antennas.
Voice over IP should also be a snap with a high-speed connection like
Connexion's and next year's service tweak for Tenzing. The voices, the
voices: can we ever escape them? Unlikely....
Re-Assignment of Pre-Registered
Aero-Domains
Re-Assignment of Pre-Registered
Aero-Domains
06/06/2004 03:35 AM
ICANN accredited Registrar Secura announces today, that Secura as
registrar supports all steps, which SITA has made, in order to
pre-register industrial codes of the aviation community as
aero-domains. Eligible companies (airlines and airports) can now
register the pre-registered domains at
https://www.domainregistry.de/aero.html (English) or
https://www.domainregistry.de/aero-domains.html (German). [PRWEB Jun
6, 2004]
More Insight On Longhorn's Avalon And
Aero Design
More Insight On Longhorn's Avalon And
Aero Design
05/23/2004 04:25 PM
Improve Your Ranking at Google by
Aero-Domains
Improve Your Ranking at Google by
Aero-Domains
06/15/2004 02:12 AM
ICANN accredited Registrar Secura announces today, that the company
will support registrants of aero-domains at getting better rankings in
search engines by aero-domains. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2004]
Sneak peak at Longhorn's Aero "Jade"
interface
Sneak peak at Longhorn's Aero "Jade"
interface
05/08/2004 06:59 PM
To date, Longhorn builds available on MSDN and other semi-public
outlets have been built to hide the Aero interface. Crafty users of
the most recent build of Longhorn (4074) have found a way to enable
the Aero interface.
CHC Helicopter expands repair business,
buys Aero Turbine Support of B.C
CHC Helicopter expands repair business,
buys Aero Turbine Support of B.C
09/25/2004 01:07 PM
Canadian Press Sep 25 2004 4:11PM GMT
European Handset Manufacturer Implements
Silicon Laboratories' Aero II
Transceiver Across GSM/GPRS Handset Pla
European Handset Manufacturer Implements
Silicon Laboratories' Aero II
Transceiver Across GSM/GPRS Handset Pla
03/23/2005 01:06 PM
dBusinessNews.com Mar 23 2005 2:51PM GMT
ActiveWin.com: Longhorn 4074 available
on MSDN
ActiveWin.com: Longhorn 4074 available
on MSDN
05/05/2004 05:00 PM
MSDN subscribers can now get their hands on the version of Longhorn
that WinHEC attendees got yesterday. Microsoft has posted build 4074
of Longhorn on the MSDN Subscriber Downloads site. Interestingly, the
iso of build 4074 registers at 733.75 MBs, meaning it must be burned
onto a DVD. The iso for 4074 is nearly 100 MBs larger than the iso
distributed at last year's PDC. Anyway, click the headline to get
started! Microsoft has said they are making this available only for
download, and will not ship Longhorn build 4074 with the June updates.
DWM enabled in Longhorn leaked build
4074
DWM enabled in Longhorn leaked build
4074
05/08/2004 05:28 PM
Exclusive: DWM enabled in Longhorn
leaked build 4074
Exclusive: DWM enabled in Longhorn
leaked build 4074
05/05/2004 02:14 PM
Hillel Cooperman and Tjeerd Hoek Talk
Longhorn (Part Two)
Hillel Cooperman and Tjeerd Hoek Talk
Longhorn (Part Two)
02/10/2004 12:00 PM
Hillel Cooperman and Tjeerd Hoek Talk
Longhorn (Part One)
Hillel Cooperman and Tjeerd Hoek Talk
Longhorn (Part One)
01/23/2004 02:24 PM
Hillel Cooperman and Tjeerd ("cheered") Hoek are two of the key
figures in the Windows User Experience team at Microsoft, and they've
worked on some the company's more advanced user interface projects
over the past several years, including MSN "Mars," Internet
Explorer/shell, Windows "Neptune," Windows XP, and now Longhorn. While
my first (somewhat humorous) run-in with the Windows User Experience
folks came during a Windows XP Beta 2 event in Seattle three years
ago, the team has been working tireless toward Longhorn since the
early days of Windows 95, when it moved Windows to the Explorer shell.
Windows Messenger 6.0.4074.0
Windows Messenger 6.0.4074.0
05/10/2004 11:49 AM
Windows Codename 'Longhorn' Build 4074
Now on MSDN
Windows Codename 'Longhorn' Build 4074
Now on MSDN
05/06/2004 05:50 AM
Exclusive: WinHEC 2004 kicks off at
Neowin - LH Build 4074
Exclusive: WinHEC 2004 kicks off at
Neowin - LH Build 4074
04/29/2004 01:28 PM
Windows Longhorn Glass Look
Windows Longhorn Glass Look
01/07/2004 04:57 PM
The new glass look of Windows Longhorn is very pretty. This is of
course a challenge to imitate in HTML. It's Internet Explorer for
Windows only. CSS does most of the work, and there's a little bit of
Javascript. It's slow and useless, but it's pretty!
Now if I only had Mozilla's curved borders, Safari's text-shadow,
Opera's speed and SVG's Gaussian blur to finish it off. ?
Windows Longhorn Glass Look Updated
Windows Longhorn Glass Look Updated
05/07/2004 12:15 PM
It's funny to see the increase in hit to my Windows Longhorn Glass
Look page everytime there's news about Longhorn. Today ZDnet Belgium
even put a link to it in the "relevant links" section of an article
about Aero.
WinSuperSite published new screenshots and I liked the new menus, so I
added a menu to the page. ?
Zend/Win Enabler - Running PHP on
Windows
Zend/Win Enabler - Running PHP on
Windows
12/09/2003 01:32 AM
I've been advocating
FastCGI as the most stable way to run PHP on Windows for a long
time. Now I see Zend has decided to commercialize such a FastCGI
solution.
Open source is an extremely incestous activity. Everyone works
together and competes together (I just hope they don't sleep
together). The FastCGI work was done by an Shane Caraveo, who works
for ActiveState, a company that sells products that directly competes
with Zend. And in the fine tradition of open source, there is always a
free solution when you don't want to pay anything - you can use the free FastCGI+PHP installer for
Windows I wrote a while back.
PHPEverywhere: Zend/Win Enabler Beta
PHPEverywhere: Zend/Win Enabler Beta
12/10/2003 09:17 AM
Over on PHPEverywhere this
morning, there's a new posting about a tool that Zend has released a beta of this
morning - the Zend/Win
Enabler.
XC Cube AV: The new computing and
entertainment enabler
XC Cube AV: The new computing and
entertainment enabler
06/01/2004 11:20 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jun 2 2004 3:10AM GMT
IT as an enabler: Exel Case Study
IT as an enabler: Exel Case Study
06/28/2004 04:50 AM
CNET Asia Jun 28 2004 9:09AM GMT
Technology is enabler of the knowledge
driven economy says Intellect
Technology is enabler of the knowledge
driven economy says Intellect
12/09/2003 03:47 AM
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