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Happy Christmas SCO styleHappy Christmas SCO styleHappy Christmas SCO style 12/22/2003 12:38 PM vnunet.com Dec 22 2003 11:38AM ET This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Happy Christmas SCO styleGrok Headline matches for Happy Christmas SCO styleHappy Christmas, from OzzyHappy Christmas, from Ozzy 12/09/2003 07:28 PM Happy Christmas, from Ozzy Osbourne Merry Christmas and a Happy New YearMerry Christmas and a Happy New Year 12/23/2003 05:06 AM At this time of the year, there are better things to do than blogging. This is a time for serious fun. Love ya all! PS: PHP5 beta 3 has just been announced.
Merry Christmas and a happy new yearMerry Christmas and a happy new year 12/28/2003 08:58 AM The Fink team and I wish all of you a merry Christmas and happy Holidays. We are looking forward to yet another year where we can help the Macintosh community grow into the world of UNIX together with Mac OS X. We wish you all, that your hope is not too frail and that you will carry on following through with your wishes. May the world we live in gradually become a better place and may peace and understanding settle just for a few days. Enjoy your quiet time and in case we do not get around to saying it soon enough. A happy new year to all of you, stay with us we count on your support. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New YearA Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 12/22/2003 08:58 AM Computer Weekly Dec 22 2003 8:10AM ET Asian phone makers ring up happy UK
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A simple way to
simultaneously send new blog articles, as they are posted, to any
number of user-maintained, editable e-mail lists (from which people
could easily unsubscribe, of course). |
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An
automatically maintained Table of Contents with one-sentence abstracts
for each of your blog posts, editable by you and sortable by your
readers by title, date, and category/sub-category. |
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A
simple, meaningful measure of total readership, that weighs blog hits,
visits, average duration of stay, RSS subscriptions, inbound blogs,
e-mail subscriptions, and visits to copies of your posts on
aggregators. |
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An
ability to create standing-order 'profiles' for all blogs, as you now
can for newsfeeds, so that you can receive a single daily e-mail or
web
page that aggregates everything posted that day, anywhere in the
blogosphere, on a specific topic or containing specific keywords or
phrases. |
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A
gigabyte or two of free storage on the hosted blog server, so you can
keep a copy of your entire My Documents folder on the server, link to
anything in it from your blog without having to FTP a copy, and be
able
to access your entire 'e-filing cabinet' from any computer anywhere
anytime. |
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An
easy migration path from the asynchronous, polished
anonymity of the blog to the real-time, one-to-one, face-to-face or
voice-to-voice, halting interactive iterative intimacy of other media,
media
that
move you from talk to action. |
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Inclusion of our posts,
if we want them to be, in Google News. |
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More first-person accounts, first-hand news, live photos and reports, and investigative reporting in the blogosphere. |
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A blogging tool so simple even our parents can maintain one. |
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No more fear of your blog or your computer crashing and irretrievably losing everything you've written on your blog. |
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The end of the terms 'weblog', 'blog' and 'blogger', and to be simply called An Online Journalist. |
 ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse (though Anita’s convinced there are mouses around and in every room of our house they abound so Dave’s hammered up boards near the slightest of sound and he’s left to believe there are none to be found). The reruns of “Santa Clause”, “Frosty” and “Scrooge” Were blaring away on our TV screen huge, And Chelsea was barking away in her sleep With visions of chasing alpacas and sheep; Anita was laughing in midst of her dreams (She was Santa with eight naked sleigh-men, in teams). While Dave was still wrapping her presents at two With the leftover paper, in orange and blue (‘Cause the red, white and green wrap goes fastest, it’s true And the ribbon’s all gone, so what else can you do?) When all of a sudden there rose such a clatter He ran to the door to see what was the matter When what to his wondrous eyes should appear But a man, with a wolf, and coyotes and deer! Dave thought for a moment he’d tuned in “Due South” (But there wasn’t a Mountie, or sidekick with mouth) Just a strange little man with these creatures so wild In the dark of the night of the birth of the Child. The creatures all sparkled (the full moon aglow Reflected the white of the new-fallen snow) “Seeking room at the inn?” Dave cried out to them all “Not at all” said the man, “We have no time to stall: We are sending a message to those who can see That the secret of life is in sensing the glee In the moment, in nature, when everything’s still Just a moment like this, here and now, on this hill, And you just stand and look, smell, taste, touch, pause and hear; It’s the same for a man, and a wolf, and a deer. Though the end of the planet is possibly near When you’re one with the world there is nothing to fear: You are part of the dance of the ages above And all that it takes to partake is the love Of yourself and your wife and your kids and your dog And the moon and the stars, and the rain and the fog, And the land and the air and the sea and the sun, And the sense of the truth that combines them as One. So get out of yourself and of being apart You are part of the science and part of the art That connects all of us in the head and the heart. You have put so much work in your trial to survive You’ve forgotten the feeling of being alive, So let go of yourself, and your sorrow and grief And shower the ones that you love with belief That life is too short to regret and delay: You must live for the moment and live day to day Like my friends the coyotes, the wolves and the deer— They sense in their hearts that their death is too near But the joy of the moment transcends all the fear— They can see! They can feel! They can smell! They can hear! They’re alive in a way you’ve forgotten to be And they’re happy, connected, united, and free. So when you awake Christmas morn don’t be coy: Spread the word, spread the warmth, spread the love, spread the joy! Say: I love you and Thank you, you’re one of a kind, Say You’re wonderful, special and No, I don’t mind. And then in a glimmer of moonlight they’d gone And David returned to the house with a yawn And slept with the thoughts of the words that they’d spoke But would he remember those words, when he woke…? (no post tomorrow -- Merry Christmas everyone -- back Boxing Day) |
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 If
you're a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that I'm
opposed to unregulated 'free' trade, very worried about the
extraterritoriality of the WTO, NAFTA, Davos and other corporatist
captives, strongly opposed to domestic corporations 'offshoring' jobs,
using influence with the Bush regime and other right-wing governments
to circumvent social and environmental laws and responsibilities, and
a
great believer in taking the pledge to buy local, and in community
self-sufficiency.At the same time, I'm a strong supporter of the UN and other multi-lateral NGOs, and I believe that we each have a responsibility for the well-being of all the people and creatures of this world. Some readers have said this view is inconsistent, and I wasn't quite sure how to respond to such charges. Fortunately, Peter Singer, in his recent book on global ethics, I'll have more to say next week about Bush's fraudulent and despicable Earth Day media blitz, and the major media's shameless lack of critical evaluation of the utter nonsense that his propaganda machine has been churning out this week on the environment -- newspeak of Orwellian proportions. The first part of Singer's book deals with environmental responsibility, and his prescription for increasing it -- immediate ratification of Kyoto by the US and other holdout countries, and introduction of an emissions trading mechanism to make the realization of Kyoto feasible (subject to the need for some oversight on the disposition of the proceeds of such trading when it involves autocratic governments). The second part of the book deals with the global economy, and Singer adroitly tears apart the Economist's (and other neocons') naive assertion that economic globalization somehow benefits both rich and poor countries. He then goes on to prescribe a substantial reform of the WTO and the GATT, which could actually lead to more equitable distribution of wealth and more efficient production of economic goods, while safeguarding human rights, labour and the environment. Unfortunately, the multi-national corporations and corporatists who hold sway in the WTO would never tolerate Singer's prescription, since it would entirely divert the benefits of economic globalization from their pockets to those of the world's poor. The third part of the book deals with international law, and Singer lashes out at Bush for his unconscionable refusal to ratify the International Court of Justice, and for the UN's continued hesitancy to accept a duty (not a right) to intervene in situations of genocide and other humanitarian crises, even within a single nation. Singer is sanguine about the limitations and dangers of 'global government', but supports strengthening the UN to enable it to act as a 'protector of last resort', and including in its mandate the responsibility to supervise elections in all member nations. The fourth and final part goes back to ethical principles and proposes that countries must, in this world where national boundaries no longer have any logistic meaning, set aside national interest and embrace, once and for all, global interest, impartially. That does not mean cultural homogenization, but imposes a responsibility for the reduction of inequality, both of economic resources and personal rights and freedoms. Always the pragmatist, Singer concludes by worrying out loud about how the responsibility for a global ethic could be managed: It
is widely believed that a world government would be, at best, an
unchecked bureaucratic behemoth that would make the bureaucracy of the
EU look lean and efficient. At worst, it would become a global
tyranny,
unchecked and unchallengeable. These thoughts have to be taken
seriously. How to prevent global bodies becoming either dangerous
tyrannies or self-aggrandizing bureaucracies, and instead make them
effective and responsive to the people whose lives they affect? It is
a
challenge that should not be beyond the best minds in the fields of
political science and public administration.
I'd like to believe that this was possible, because if it isn't, we're in serious trouble. We cannot expect national governments to set aside parochial interests, especially when this entails accepting a responsibility that would, for the richer nations, inevitably lead to a drastic redistribution of wealth to poorer nations and hence a sudden and sharp reduction in, at least, economic living standards (if not necessarily well-being). But as John Ralston Saul has so eloquently argued, larger organizations and institutions, whether public or private, are almost always, and inherently, less efficient, less agile, more resistant to change, more hierarchic, and less transparent than smaller organizations. So the challenge is to achieve the best of both worlds, having organizations of global scope and authority and responsibility, but broken up into sufficiently small, autonomous and dynamic units that they are sensitive, resilient, responsible and responsive to the people and communities they serve. We can only hope that "the best minds in the fields of political science and public administration", wherever they are, are up to the task. |
Lorcan Dempsey posted some astounding numbers to his blog yesterday. Emphasis below is mine. Prepare to be amazed.
“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.
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The 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.
"tri" Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Postings will continue next year!
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I didn't find out about Gary Turner's b-day through Ryze, some classmates knock-off or even an email. I found out about it through RSS, which (I assume) he posted initially at Flickr and which then ricocheted into his blog.
So first of all - congrats to Gary (hopefully I'll get to meet him Sept. 13th), and congrats to Stewart and the team at Ludicorp for evolving Flickr into what it is today.
At first glance I thought of Flickr a predominanly an IM your photo kind of RIA. But it's much more than that.
The Calendaring, the PhotoRSS, the Fotonotes, a more coming - I'm sure.
I'm proud to be an American - Stop the War!
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