Tracking Santa On Christmas Eve

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Tracking Santa on the Internet

Tracking Santa on the Internet 12/24/2004 01:06 PM
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Broadlook--#1 Applicant Tracking
Software Solution--Empowers your
Applicant Tracking Software and fills
your Applicant Tracking Software with
applicant tracking relationships.

Broadlook--#1 Applicant Tracking
Software Solution--Empowers your
Applicant Tracking Software and fills
your Applicant Tracking Software with
applicant tracking relationships. 07/16/2004 03:14 AM
Whichever applicant tracking software your company uses, you need to look at the Broadlook Suite of Software which should seamlessly integrate with whichever applicant tracking software you are using. BroadLook is an integrated set of applications designed to harness the Internet as a powerful real-time data source--the data from which can be exported into your applicant tracking software. [PRWEB Jul 16, 2004]

Clockware Releases Version 4.4 -
Significantly Enhances Timesheet Styles,
Expands Status Tracking, Employee and
Organizational Data Tracking Features

Clockware Releases Version 4.4 -
Significantly Enhances Timesheet Styles,
Expands Status Tracking, Employee and
Organizational Data Tracking Features 04/05/2005 04:50 AM
Clockware announces its seventh major release in eight years, adding enhancements to its enterprise timesheet software, time tracking, leave and exception time tracking and other key timesheet system features. [PRWEB Apr 5, 2005]

Tracking Blogs, Tracking Packages --
What's The Difference?

Tracking Blogs, Tracking Packages --
What's The Difference? 03/31/2005 09:04 AM
Extreme Tech Mar 31 2005 1:16PM 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 AM
offers to stay there .. Home News Tribune .. feel good story

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Santa santa santa santa santa presents
presents

Santa santa santa santa santa presents
presents 12/25/2004 05:00 PM

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"Santa santa santa santa santa PRESENTS
PRESENTS!"

"Santa santa santa santa santa PRESENTS
PRESENTS!" 12/25/2004 05:03 PM

Web Tracking of Billable Time Improves
Productivity and Bottom Line/New Kyebot
Time Tracking and Billing Software
Announces Availability

Web Tracking of Billable Time Improves
Productivity and Bottom Line/New Kyebot
Time Tracking and Billing Software
Announces Availability 09/13/2004 02:58 AM
New Web-based time and billing application simplifies administrative tasks associated with tracking billable hours and virtually eliminates problems with under-billing. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Tracking the newsroom bug-tracking idea

Tracking the newsroom bug-tracking idea 02/01/2005 09:42 PM
I want to return to the idea I floated a few days ago about bug-trackin g software for newsrooms. The comment s response ranged from "neat idea!" to "it'll never work," so let's look it over again.

What I imagined was something similar to the way open-source software development projects manage bug reports. When people file bugs against such a project, they go to a publicly available online resource and enter a form that says "Here's a problem I encountered," and provide details. Different projects follow different organizational structures, but generally speaking, other developers will review the bug and try to classify it: Sometimes they'll say it's a duplicate and point to previous entries in the database that dealt with it; sometimes they'll say it's a simple problem and go fix it right away and close it out; sometimes they'll say it's a big one and leave it open to be dealt with in the future; sometimes they'll say it's a "known bug" that for one reason or another is never going to be fixed; sometimes they'll say it's not a bug at all.

For a newsroom, the idea is to provide a structure and a channel for reader dissatisfaction. You wouldn't have to follow the software model detail for detail, but the general outline could be valuable: Provide a form for readers to enter complaints, one that requires them to present details. Post the complaint publicly as soon as it's entered, and record the publication's response in a reasonably prompt fashion -- anything from "Thanks, we fixed the spelling on that name" to "we chose the phrase 'private accounts' because it is an accurate description of the president's proposal, and the label was in wide use by supporters of the idea until very recently, so we do not plan to stop using the term." The explanation is on record, and if other readers keep filing the same complaint they can simply be pointed back to the original answer. Spam? Just delete it. Letters to the editor that don't have a specific complaint? Re-route them to the letters box.

The most common objection seems to be, forget it -- this will become another free-for-all for political partisans to work out their agendas, another wide-open Internet forum that will degenerate into circular debate. Such forums already exist, to be sure; the point of a bug tracker is to avoid that outcome by choosing a narrower environment for the feedback that allows you to quickly aggregate and dispose of duplicate complaints, and that provides a public record of responsiveness and accountability. If 500 people all holler that you shouldn't say "private accounts," you can answer them once and be done with it -- but you can point each individual complaint back to your explanation, so those people understand that you actually heard them and offered some sort of response. There's a big difference between the silence of no response and "no, we're not doing that, here's why." The latter won't satisfy everyone, but it at least acknowledges that there's been an exchange on the subject.

Ross Karchner proposed a somewhat different model based on wiki practices: "1) A publically viewable changelog, where you can see, in detail, the changes made to an article. 2) A place where the author(s) and editor(s) can discuss the changes needed and made. This is also in public view..." I'm not sure whether Ross means the changelog and the writer/editor dialogue to commence from the first time the writer composed a draft, or only upon publication. The former is, I think, too wide open -- even a blogger has the right to compose a posting and revise it in private before choosing to push the "publish" button. The latter is fine -- but since most reputable publications rarely change articles once they're published, and note the changes as corrections if they do, then it's just codifying an existing practice in slightly different ways.

As for the idea of trying all this out at Salon: Who knows, I might well advocate it, though my current on-leave status doesn't put me in a good spot to work on it. But Salon has been dealing with the back-and-forth of online criticism of our work for 9 years plus. Whatever problems we may suffer from, a failure of responsiveness to online feedback is not, I think, one of them, and we have a pretty sturdy process for reviewing complaints fast and correcting them where needed.

I think this approach would pay off best for a newsroom that is having difficulty convincing readers that the publication is actually listening to them. If you showed the public that you were recording and responding to the issues they raised -- whether you end up publishing a correction or simply saying, "We don't think that needs correcting, and here's why" -- I think you'd start to bank some confidence and trust pretty quickly.

I'm not suggesting that this idea is the single, one-fix-solves-all-problems answer to the ills of journalism today. It's a pragmatic, you-could-do-it-real-soon suggestion for beginning to deal with professional journalism's biggest problem: the public's loss of trust, which begins with the sense that media companies are big institutions that pay no attention to their own mistakes.

Thank you Santa

Thank you Santa 12/27/2004 05:17 AM

Thank you Santa for bringing Mimi the pink dress she asked for. And her teddy has a matching outfit.

Santa!

Santa! 12/24/2004 12:12 PM
He's here to the joy of a six year old - and the great lie continues ;)

Can you FLY Santa??

Can you FLY Santa?? 12/14/2003 02:24 AM
Santa and the X-Games. Help two poor elves sling Santa Claus all the way to Mordor.

"Secret Santa"

"Secret Santa" 11/12/2003 10:23 PM

Santa Shortage

Santa Shortage 12/22/2004 01:53 AM

« A fine specimen of an authentic Joulupukki, possibly exported from Finland, in the Burlington Mall, Burlington, Massachusettes in 1998. »

I found this picture a while back when digging through some old photos and I remembered watching the old guy for a while since the beard and every detail about his costume was perfect. Had I been a child, I would have wanted to believe this person was really Santa. The Sanomat today had an article about how difficult it is to find suitable Santas and, in England, kids can't even sit on Santa's lap anymore due to a paranoid frenzy over Santas getting handsy. I briefly entertained applying for a Joulupukki job on one of the cruise ships for grins, but figured I'd just make kids cry by telling them they were all going to get coal and switches under the tree. Ho Ho Ho.

"Santa Heads"

"Santa Heads" 12/27/2004 04:56 AM

Letter to Santa

Letter to Santa 01/09/2004 09:44 PM
This morning, from my dad, I received a scanned copy of one of my old letters to Santa -- this one being from 1981 -- from when I was four years old. With the exception of the ironing board...

Scared of Santa

Scared of Santa 12/22/2004 01:30 AM
Xeni Jardin: A photo gallery of terrified children. Link (Thanks, Yi)

If Santa were on the Menu

If Santa were on the Menu 12/17/2003 08:23 PM
If Santa were merely a holiday dish I think a brioche [recipe: 50k .pdf] would suit the jolly old...

Sober Santa

Sober Santa 12/12/2003 06:42 PM
Sober Santa. Too much politics today, not enough Christmas fun. Here's a drunk Santa game from b3ta. Pretty tough once you get going.

Secret Santa

Secret Santa 12/03/2002 11:46 AM

I am a Secret Santa.

Skinny Santa

Skinny Santa 12/25/2004 05:17 PM
Whew.  My eight year old still believes in Santa.  During the last two weeks she has been asking, why does Santa's voice sound like Daddy?  She laid plans to stay up and catch him. Its pretty amazing we have been...

Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara 12/17/2004 06:29 PM

In this order:

• Venus
• Moon
• dawn
• Santa Monica Mountains
• Pacific Ocean
• night

Kinda puts things in perspective.

Bonus links to earlier sunrises: First things second, Sunrises & Sunsets (all shot at former houses, the latter series with the excellent, discontinued and therefore cheap Sony DCR-PC110 or DCR-PC120BT camcorder, at just 1.5megapixels; which goes to show one point I was trying to make here, where the subject was what it will also be on today's Gillmor Gang).

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More Secret Santa poetry...

More Secret Santa poetry... 11/13/2003 05:24 AM

Weblogger south, Weblogger north!
Come hear my tale of Christmas glee...
Which this year shall be much in rhyme
(I'm sorry and please bear with me...)

A mount so high it touches space;
Within: a massive darkened cave,
Wherein a sharp and pointy race
Of tiny elves has been enslaved...

And in the centre, Mrs Claus -
A tower of computer might
(And built for no apparent cause)
Stands passive in the candlelight.

Beside her there's a silhouette
A disconnected robot form
Who waits each year for holidays
The chance to serve and be reborn.

But then, what's this? The Yule alarm!?
A klaxxon sounds throughout the lair
And with a twitch, the robot's arm
Thrusts holly fistfuls in the air!

He stands, a monster, next the flames
That every year before hath burned.
And lo! His robot voice proclaims
That SECRET SANTA HAS RETURNED!

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Santa drives a UPS truck

Santa drives a UPS truck 12/24/2004 01:01 PM

(Picture47, originally uploaded by davidfg)

We made a rule in the house this year that packages mailed to us and still unopened count as wrapping, whether or not the things inside are wrapped as well (we have no way of knowing). You can't see what's inside the boxes so it does the same thing as wrapping. It also cuts out a stupid step where you have to open a present for someone, wrap it, then have them open it on xmas day.

But not this year, brown boxes count just as much as holiday paper wrapping.

Yes, Metafilter, there IS a Santa Claus

Yes, Metafilter, there IS a Santa Claus 12/25/2004 05:19 PM
T.E.R.D. Tangible Evidence. Real Discoveries. Dr. Lloyd Darrow may have proof that something - or someone - really exists.

End Santa stamps says church

End Santa stamps says church 07/12/2004 03:39 PM
The Church of England wants an end to Christmas stamps showing non-religious images.

Secret Santa disappoints

Secret Santa disappoints 12/25/2004 05:12 PM
Sigh... last month, I wrote: Yes, it's late November again, so it's once again time for Secret Santa. I have habitually been the person in the gift exchange whose name never got put into the hat, or the person who...

Santa Crashes from the Sky (Reuters)

Santa Crashes from the Sky (Reuters) 12/30/2003 09:46 AM
Reuters - A helicopter carrying a man dressed as Santa Claus to street celebrations in a Serbian town crashed on Tuesday, injuring several people.

Microsoft Plays Santa

Microsoft Plays Santa 07/20/2004 10:59 PM
Business Week Jul 21 2004 3:33AM GMT

Santa drops off radar

Santa drops off radar 12/02/2003 11:32 PM
globetechnology.com Dec 2 2003 10:49PM ET

Voda plays Santa with 3G bonanza

Voda plays Santa with 3G bonanza 09/22/2004 07:52 AM
The Register Sep 22 2004 11:52AM GMT

"It's Cynthia Basinet's "Santa Baby""

"It's Cynthia Basinet's "Santa Baby"" 12/19/2004 03:14 PM
Cynthia Basinet has had the dubious distinction of being mistaken for Marilyn Monroe. The breathy screen legend never recorded "Santa Baby" and in fact, the highly popular version and mislabeled was recorded by the sexy redheaded actress and recording artist, Cynthia Basinet (aka "c. basinet"). [PRWEB Dec 11, 2004]

Don't tell your first-grade students
that there's no such thing as Santa

Don't tell your first-grade students
that there's no such thing as Santa 12/04/2003 08:26 AM
making a special trip down from the North Pole .. 'Santa' To Visit Class To Prove He Is Real .. arrange for a visit by Santa

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Santa Skips Circuit City

Santa Skips Circuit City 01/05/2005 01:36 PM
Circuit City gets a lump of coal in its stocking.

Santa Clara ready for wireless

Santa Clara ready for wireless 04/19/2004 08:32 PM

Scared of Santa photo gallery

Scared of Santa photo gallery 12/22/2004 01:06 AM
Cute gallery of kids scared of Santa .. photographed with Santa .. Ho Ho Waaaahhhh!!

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Encinitas and Rancho Santa Fe Wi-Fi
Hotspots

Encinitas and Rancho Santa Fe Wi-Fi
Hotspots 03/06/2004 02:02 AM
I am thirteen years old and recently became interested in Warchalking/Wardriving after seeing the article in Wired magazine. I've looked through many wi-fi locator websites and found little or no wireless networks near my house, which I can understand. So, I decided to create my own map.

Newspaper Sorry for Naughty Santa Jokes
(AP)

Newspaper Sorry for Naughty Santa Jokes
(AP) 12/19/2004 03:22 PM
AP - A weekly newspaper in eastern Kentucky has apologized for mistakenly printing sexually explicit Christmas jokes that left some blushing readers as red as Santa's suit.

Man Who Played Santa Sentenced for
Murder

Man Who Played Santa Sentenced for
Murder 12/10/2003 01:13 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 10 2003 0:35AM ET
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