Going from 15K to 150K a Month
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Pipex pipes-up with 150k DSL
Pipex pipes-up with 150k DSL
04/20/2004 11:26 AMName that tune
PlusNet unveils 150k DSL service
PlusNet unveils 150k DSL service
12/12/2003 11:36 AMTiscali wins wholesale deal
Month by Month, a Tiny Baby's Hard-Won
Pounds
Month by Month, a Tiny Baby's Hard-Won
Pounds
08/31/2004 02:47 AMSomewhere between 6 and 9 months of age, she stopped gaining weight
and I started worrying.
One month already
One month already
12/02/2002 01:17 PMSad month
Sad month
06/25/2004 12:46 AMOn the 10th, one of my good friends, Mannojo Nomura of the 300-year
old Izumi school of kyogen passed away suddenly. He was 44. His father
and grandfather were both Japanese living national treasures and he
was scheduled to take his grandfather's Manzo Nomura title in January.
Our family house in Iwate used to have a no/kyogen theater and we had
hosted his family in the past many years before I was born. A few
years ago, Mannojo and I met up through Enjin 01, a cultural
non-profit organization that we are both on the board of. He was
always very cheerful and thoughtful and we talked a lot about
rebuilding our family relationship. We had planned to travel to Iwate
together soon. I'm really going to miss him...
Last week the grandmother in the house next door passed away and we
had the first funeral in our little village. The village is still
mourning the loss. Although I didn't know the woman, I can feel the
mourning in the air.
Then, the day before yesterday, Kazuo Sato, the CEO of Net One Systems passed
away. I met Mr. Sato through Osamu Sawada who used to be our COO at
Neoteny. Mr. Sawada will be taking the CEO role now at Net One
Systems. Mr. Sato and I met several times and I remember him being
extremely driven and generous. We had agreed to go to dinner sometime
and discussed working together more closely, but we had both been busy
and hadn't gotten around to it. Net One Systems is one of the largest
and fastest growing network solution providers and Mr. Sato is famous
for building the extremely successful company with his focus and
strength of character.
I'm sorry for clumping three obituaries together in one post, but
they're all fresh in my mind right now...
MS ISA SP2 out last month
MS ISA SP2 out last month
06/07/2004 01:53 PMPaul Appleby (Jun 07 2004)
$6 month for nothing?
$6 month for nothing?
02/10/2004 02:51 AMI’m intrigued by the
idea of
taxing people $6/month so that music downloading would be otherwise
free and unrestricted.
The big drawback is that I don’t want to download any non-free
music, and I’d resent paying the $6 for something I don’t
want. I’m not sure that fogeys like me really want to subsidize
the music habits of teenagers.
It sounds like a way for the music labels (which produce a nearly
uniformly boring product) to be ensured of making a profit and getting
my money. They have no interest in creating something I personally
would like—and they’d have even less reason to try, since
they’d be getting my money anyway.
But I must be missing some larger point about society or copyright law
or something. Feel free to enlighten me.
P.S. I like music—that’s not what this is about. In fact,
I just bought a new Stratocaster.
Rap Month!
Rap Month!
04/15/2005 09:30 AM
April is Rap Month on
Michaelpella. Watch and listen [avi files] as some internet guy
(and an occasional friend) butcher some rap classics by the likes of
Ice Cube and Public Enemy. I don't know much about rap, so I enjoy
perusing the
50+ song
archive chock full of chestnuts like "Runaway,"
"Rawhide," and "Love Shack." Send in your requests
now.
Blog of the Month, or what?
Blog of the Month, or what?
12/12/2003 09:13 AM I've been notified that Joho has received The Blog Site's first Blog
of the Month award. I assume that it's a joke, a scam or a typo, but
well, here's the plaque:...
Days Until the End of the Month
Days Until the End of the Month
08/02/2004 01:49 PMBest comic this month
Best comic this month
02/10/2004 02:53 AMJust thought I’d share my favorite strip from the past month
with you. ps. I do all my comic reading...
Another Big Month for Chico's
Another Big Month for Chico's
12/26/2003 01:49 PMTheStreet.com Dec 26 2003 12:35PM ET
One Month with SpamSieve
One Month with SpamSieve
03/06/2004 01:59 AMThis is a follow up on my experience with SpamSieve installed as
a part of MailSmith from
Bare Bones Software:
First off, let me say that Mailsmith is truly a wonderful email
client. It fits my needs perfectly, and fits my style or reading,
writing and archiving email.
SpamSieve is truly an outstanding addition to MailSmith. After a week of use, it had learned how to handle
spam for me quite well. After a month, I'm nothing short of stupified
at how well it does its job.
Statistics since 2/1 (the day I installed it):
Filtered Mail
3239 Good Messages
2943 Spam Messages (48%)
SpamSieve
Accuracy
42 False Positives
68 False Negatives (62%)
98.2% Correct
Showing Statistics Since
2/1/04 12:00 PM
Statistics since 2/14 (mid-point of the
past month):
Filtered Mail
1749 Good Messages
1615 Spam Messages (48%)
SpamSieve Accuracy
5 False
Positives
14 False Negatives (74%)
99.4%
Correct
Showing Statistics Since
2/14/04
12:00 PM
Statistics since 2/25 (the past
week):
Filtered Mail
595 Good Messages
568 Spam
Messages (49%)
SpamSieve Accuracy
0 False
Positives
2 False Negatives
99.8%
Correct
Showing Statistics Since
2/25/04
12:00 PM
Notice how it has gotten progressively better at detecting what I
consider spam? SpamSieve plus MailSmith is an amazing
combination!
BlackBoard one month after IPO
BlackBoard one month after IPO
07/30/2004 12:03 PM
Business
Week has an article about BlackBoard 's financial
stamina, following its June initial public offering ( IPO
). The perspective is financial, rather than pedagogical.
Blackboard's co-founders are young and are focused on building a
company that can react with rapidly to what customers want. Jim
Kabbani, former director of worldwide sales at Blackboard, says "There
is constant improvement of product." Kabbani says when he worked at
the company, which was created in a rowhouse in Washington, D.C., it
was part of the fast-moving dot-com culture. He notes that unlike
other startups at the time, it remained nimble enough to survive the
depths of the bust.
(via University
Business )
Cruelest Month? Here's Why
Cruelest Month? Here's Why
04/19/2004 05:41 PMRomanticized for its showers, April often sees a brief chill before
the full vernal warming actually kicks in.
A friend in need...for only $5 a month
A friend in need...for only $5 a month
09/06/2004 03:34 AMZDNet Australia Sep 6 2004 7:53AM GMT
Every second Tuesday: but not this month
Every second Tuesday: but not this month
03/14/2005 05:32 PMOne Month Later, ICQ 5 Announced
One Month Later, ICQ 5 Announced
03/22/2005 04:24 PMAOL subsidiary ICQ has formally announced ICQ 5 more than one month
after the software was made available for download. ICQ 5 fastens
advanced communications capabilities including a walkie talkie like
Voice over IP function called Push2Talk and improved video
conferencing to the client.
A month of silence
A month of silence
10/29/2003 01:15 AMI feel I owe you, my readers, some sort of explanation — after
all, it’s been over a month of...
HP is flavour of the month
HP is flavour of the month
02/16/2004 01:14 PMthe month of January...
1GB SD Cards to Hit Shelves this Month!
1GB SD Cards to Hit Shelves this Month!
01/08/2004 07:22 PMSD
Cards Hit a Higher Capacity
"SanDisk has begun production of SD memory cards with a 1GB
capacity and expects them to begin appearing on store shelves before
the end of this month.
SD, or
Secure Digital, cards are widely used in devices such as digital
still cameras. The higher capacity will mean users with large data
storage requirements won't have to carry around as many cards. The 1GB
card should be able to accommodate around 2000 images taken at
1,600-pixel by 1,200-pixel resolution. It should also be able to store
about nine hours of MPEG4 video or 16 hours of MP3 audio.
The company expects the cards to cost around
$500, says Bob Goligoski, a spokesperson for SanDisk." [PCWorld.com]
They can't come down in price fast enough for me.
I'll probably have to give in and get a 256MB card in the interim,
because the 1GB version costs almost as much as the Treo 600
itself!
New Viruses Hit 30-Month High
New Viruses Hit 30-Month High
06/03/2004 06:40 PM“Sophos says there were 959 new viruses released on the Internet
last month, the most since December 2001.”
iTunes For Europe Next Month
iTunes For Europe Next Month
05/27/2004 06:28 PMReuters:
[Apple] may have the necessary licensing contracts to launch in Europe
by the middle of next month, according to sources.
MiTAC's Mio 8390 due out next month
MiTAC's Mio 8390 due out next month
01/01/2004 07:24 PMMiTAC has said that they plan to introduce ten new Microsoft
Smartphone-powered cellphones next year, and MSMobiles reports that
the first of them, the long-anticipated...
iTunes Europe Next Month?
iTunes Europe Next Month?
05/27/2004 07:49 AM
According to a Reuters report, Apple may be ready to launch their
iTunes Music Store for Europe as early as next month.
The article discusses Sony'...
Pick your birth month
Pick your birth month
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On-Target Reports 4.0 due next month
On-Target Reports 4.0 due next month
05/25/2004 06:59 AMOn-Target Report has announced that On-Target Reports 4.0
Professional, the latest version of the Mac OS X reporting tool for
popular databases, will ship next month at an estimated street price
of US$199...
WinXP SP2 Beta Available This Month
WinXP SP2 Beta Available This Month
12/17/2003 07:20 AMA month has passed with no news...
A month has passed with no news...
06/22/2005 02:25 AMAlmost exactly a month ago today I sent off a form to an organisation called
Traceline to ask them to help me find my father. Three days later
I wrote a little post about my uncertainty
about what would happen next. Two and a half weeks later, I briefly alluded to the fact that I'd not
heard anything yet. A week further on, and we're back to today,
and is there any news? Unfortunately, no.
Of course, I honestly don't know what to expect. This process could
take a month, it could take two months, it could take six. I think I
assumed I'd have heard something by now because the expedited process
(where you know their date of birth) is supposed to only take a week.
But time just keeps passing with very little to show for it. At the
moment I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that
they're not just torturing me, but give it another month or so and I
might rename them in slightly more colourful language.
So how have I been dealing with it? Difficult question. Thanks for
asking. I guess the most honest answer would probably that I'm kind of
confused about the whole thing. About two weeks ago, in the middle of
a particularly stressful time at work, I was in a meeting and my phone
rang. The caller's number was withheld. I couldn't answer the phone in
the room. I hung up on them. They rang again, so I turned my phone
off. They didn't leave a message. After the meeting I started asking
all the people I thought who might have called me, but none of them
had done. And gradually I started to wonder to myself - who could have
been at the other end of the line? Who had I hung up on? What did it
mean? What had I done? Had I just lost my chance forever? These
thoughts stayed with me for days.
In retrospect, what this situation means is simply that this whole
process clearly means an awful lot to me - much much more than I had
been expecting. This was probably not a pivotal moment - in fact it
was almost certainly a trivial moment - no more or less nerve-wracking
that the rest of the month has been. I just momentarily had something
in particular I could focus on. Or at least so I tell myself.
Patience, Tom. Be patient.
One development that has happened is that I decided to talk
to my mother about the whole thing. For some reason, I had decided
originally that I was going to do this completely on my own without
getting the rest of my family involved. I don't think I can explain
why particularly except to say that there are things in the world that
I find hard to look at directly and family don't tend to let you keep
things in your peripheral vision. There's probably some other stuff
going on too - I've wanted independence from my family and from
restrictive encompassing structures like families for years as well.
This could have been another attempt to assert that. But that's a
whole other industrial-sized can of worms that I think I should
probably avoid opening right now.
Anyway, I don't think my mother realises how strange and difficult
this whole absent father thing is for me, or how much bluster and
brashness I've had to cultivate to be even vaguely able to approach it
head on. So when I said that I had something that I wanted to tell her
(and when I obviously had trouble getting it out), my liberal mother
(with so much faith in me, evidently) immediately assumed that
I had contracted some fatal gay disease. When I explained instead that
I'd decided to look for my father, she seemed totally cool about the
whole thing, almost a little surprised that I found the whole thing so
emotionally charged. Typically she was also terribly - aggravatingly -
efficient about it too. She kept trying to tell me what I should be
doing next, even though I repeatedly pointed out that it had taken me
twenty odd years to get to this stage and that maybe I wasn't quite
ready to treat the whole thing like a crusade quite yet.
I think I finally got through to her when I talked about my biggest
concern - that I would find my father only for him to be repulsed by
me because I'm gay. I'm not ashamed of being gay - in fact I'm proud
of myself for having the nerve to be publically gay and not hiding it.
And normally, I'm not terribly interested whether other people have
issues with me being gay or not. But with your own father... I don't
know... I think I'm looking for him in part to help me understand
where I came from and why I am the way I am. He seems to be the
closest in the family to sharing my passions and interests. I kind of
want him to be proud of what i've accomplished - i don't want to be a
let-down or an embarrassment. I certainly don't want to be ahborent to
him. I don't want him to find me disgusting. And I have to face
the possibility that he might. He's in his sixties. There's no
guarantee that he's of a liberal mindset, no way of knowing what his
reaction might be at all. It's a concern. It's a big concern.
So what now? I'm in the States. I'm going to conferences. I'm
keeping myself busy and thinking about wider and more disparate
material. When I get home in a week's time, if there's still no word
from Traceline, then I guess I have to ring them up. I need to know
what's been happening. I need to know what progress has been made. And
in the meantime, I have to hope that if we ever do meet that he's
prepared to be non-judgemental and engage with me in some way. What
more can I hope for? What more can I do?
Nortel Shares Hit Nine-Month Low
Nortel Shares Hit Nine-Month Low
05/18/2004 02:53 PMBoston Globe May 18 2004 6:25PM GMT
Bad bank to kick off later this month
Bad bank to kick off later this month
05/11/2004 04:23 PMMaekyung Internet May 11 2004 7:59PM GMT
80,012 Text Messages In One Month
80,012 Text Messages In One Month
06/06/2004 04:47 AMSlashdot Jun 6 2004 9:19AM GMT
Date-Simple-Month-0.01
Date-Simple-Month-0.01
07/22/2004 11:28 PMIntegrity for Mac OS X shipping next
month
Integrity for Mac OS X shipping next
month
07/13/2004 08:49 AMAvail Solutions today announced that its Integrity backup and recovery
software solution for Mac OS X will be available in August 2004...
Iraq wants Saddam by end of the month
Iraq wants Saddam by end of the month
06/15/2004 09:56 AMThe Mythical Man-Month Revisited
The Mythical Man-Month Revisited
06/18/2004 11:06 AMYahoo The First Month Stats
Yahoo The First Month Stats
04/09/2004 04:06 PMA survey of resident webmasters, SEM, and, SEO's reveals that Google
appears to have weathered the initial Yahoo launch blitz.
Saunalahti 3G Launch This Month
Saunalahti 3G Launch This Month
01/05/2005 07:02 AM3G Jan 5 2005 9:49AM GMT
Virgin will float next month
Virgin will float next month
06/30/2004 11:09 AMLet's hope it floats better than one of Branson's boats or balloons...
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