Mid Year SEO Checkup - Lessons Learned 2002

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Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned 04/26/2004 06:53 PM
To wrap up my week of upgrading my mother's iMac, I thought I'd mention a few things I'll keep in mind when I next set up a Macintosh for a less-than-computer-savvy user. By Christopher Breen, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Lessons to be Learned

Lessons to be Learned 09/10/2002 03:41 AM

Lessons Learned From Blaster

Lessons Learned From Blaster 06/20/2004 11:59 PM

MT Upgrade: lessons learned

MT Upgrade: lessons learned 09/04/2004 03:45 PM
FTP'ing many small files is sloooooow, so it's important you copy the right set (MT 3.11), instead of re-copying the existing version (MT 2.6) - oops ;-) To FTP files to your server, don't ever use WS_FTP again. The damn thing steals focus on every completed file, which made it almost impossible to do anything else during a large... (225 words)

The IPO market has learned useful
lessons.

The IPO market has learned useful
lessons. 12/19/2003 07:33 PM
On the other hand, December has seen more IPOs than any month since November 2000, and surefire blockbusters like Google and Salesforce.com are slated for next ...

Lessons learned from online journals

Lessons learned from online journals 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
There are lessons to be learned from the first round of online journals, hammered out over time in the private spheres of close friends and associates. Many from that time have moved on to other things, but their legacy remains at the core of blogging's foundations. Write for an audience of friends. When you have an audience of a million people, there's no way to anticipate what the best viewpoint to reach them all is; remember that your writing is an expression of your viewpoint, and express it as such. Express your viewpoint as if you were talking to a group of friends: clear, to the point, and perhaps a dash of humor. Aesthetics speak a thousand words. The appearance of a site frames the content contained within, setting the tone for the reader. If your color schemes makes it...

Lessons Learned from Eye Tracking
Studies

Lessons Learned from Eye Tracking
Studies 03/19/2005 02:41 AM

Investing Lessons Learned in College

Investing Lessons Learned in College 06/10/2004 02:30 PM
Here are four things you might have forgotten you'd learned.

Office 2003 Lessons Learned -- Part V

Office 2003 Lessons Learned -- Part V 03/08/2004 11:17 PM

Lessons Learned from RFID Field Test

Lessons Learned from RFID Field Test 11/11/2003 06:54 PM

Office 2003 Lessons Learned -- Part III

Office 2003 Lessons Learned -- Part III 03/06/2004 02:09 AM

Geek lessons learned from
suit-productivity book

Geek lessons learned from
suit-productivity book 12/30/2004 02:45 AM
Cory Doctorow: Merlin Mann's 43 Folders weblog is a site where he's been chronicling his efforts to adapt the lessons of the stupendous productivity book Getting Things Done (I've bought and given away 10 copies since reading it earlier this year) to a technological workflow: in other words, he's porting suit productivity to geek lifestyles.

He's just posted part one of a roundup of his lessons learned from a year of pursuing the lessons of Getting Things Done (more to come tomorrow). It's really good stuff, and it's helped me make sense of my last decade's work.

In a previous life as a producer and project manager for some good-sized web projects, I once approached my work with a completely baseless optimism and sense of possibility that I had absolutely no business feeling--let alone foisting off on others as way to guide big projects. Especially given how extravagantly long-range I now realize most of those projects' aspirations really were. Yikes. Simpler times.

The reality is that projects change, and projects break; that's what they do. It's their job. The smaller your project is, and the shorter the distance there is between "here" and "there," the less likely you are to have to chuck it and start over for reasons you couldn't possibly have foreseen when you were knitting up them fancy GANTT charts for Q3/2007.

You know how it works with The Big Plan. Projects kick off, a series of heavy documents with 4-color covers is produced and distributed, everyone gets pumped for a week or two, and then somewhere, somehow, along the way, changes start to rain down, and the pretty, pretty plans for the next 3/6/9/12 months go completely to hell, often taking team morale and productivity right along with them. Say what you will about the volatility of go-go dotcoms and the nature of venture IT projects, but two bald facts won't wipe away: things always change, and Big Project Plans make great door stops.

Since picking up GTD, I've gotten more comfortable with employing informal, "back of the envelope" planning to derive very short-term goals and actions. Clients in particular seem to really like this. It helps them keep a handle on the tab, plus they all enjoy seeing one piece of the work rolling out every month or so. All without the need for endless commitments, rosaries, or finger crossing.

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Lessons learned on good classroom
construction and design

Lessons learned on good classroom
construction and design 03/06/2004 01:55 AM

Stetson University 's Media Services division has published a set of principles for effective classroom design involving multimedia pedagogy, derived from experience.

(thanks to Clara Yu !)

Entrepreneurs teach other startups
lessons learned from online venture

Entrepreneurs teach other startups
lessons learned from online venture 12/31/2004 09:07 AM
Pittsburgh.bizjournals.com - Fri Dec 31, 10:46 am GMT

Virtual Assistant Celebrates Five Years
& Shares Lessons Learned

Virtual Assistant Celebrates Five Years
& Shares Lessons Learned 03/29/2005 03:56 AM
Texas VA has helped clients redeem the gift of time as she solves their administrative challenges. Janet Jordan is part of the rapidly emerging technology known as Virtual Assistance. [PRWEB Mar 29, 2005]

RADICAL
SIMPLICITY: A SECOND LOOK, AND LESSONS
LEARNED

RADICAL
SIMPLICITY: A SECOND LOOK, AND LESSONS
LEARNED 01/07/2004 01:32 PM

I've now finished Jim Merkel's book Radical Simplicity, which I described in an earlier post. Some of Merkel's ideas for living simpler were incorporated in my personal How to Save the World scorecard. I was mindful of the comments of several readers who complained that such books are only useful for salving the guilt of rich people who have lived extravagant lifestyles, and offer nothing to 'average' people who live a frugal existence struggling just to make ends meet. I'll leave it up to readers to consider what I've learned from this book, and decide whether these lessons have any applicability to them: Our ecological footprint (EF) is modestly higher than the North American average. This is due primarily to the fact we live in a larger-than-average house (the average North American home size is 1700 s.f., up from about 1300 s.f. a generation ago), and, as Canadians, we use a lot more BTUs for heating than the average North American. We actually buy less 'stuff' than the average North American, by a considerable margin. This is because we tend to save until we can afford better, more expensive, more durable products, so we 'turn over' what we own only half as often as the average North American, who disposes of clothing on average every 4 years, computers and small appliances every 3 years, major appliances every 8 years, and furniture every 10 years. This is a staggering amount of waste, and shows the false economy that our consumer culture and the Wal-Mart Dilemma push many people into. Thanks to our progressive community, that recycles paper, plastic, glass, cardboard, aluminum, and organics ('green box' program), we produce much less unrecycled garbage than the average North American (who adds 3/4 of a ton per year into landfills). I am aghast at the lack of progress in both municipal and business recycling in many parts of the continent. As Merkel's book progresses, it moves from very simple, logical, sensible steps that can lower your EF, to steps that only a die-hard and exceptionally devoted environmentalist would take. I'm not interested in growing most of my own food, living in a 100 s.f./person home and making my own clothes -- that's way beyond responsible living, even beyond austerity. Even I'm not that idealistic. After going through the workbook sections, I've concluded that our EF is less than I thought it would be, and a reasonable 'zero sacrifice' target for reducing our EF is more than I thought it would be. So while at first blush I'd pledged to reduce our EF by 80%, I'm lowering that pledge to 50%. That's still a worthwhile, and not terribly difficult, goal, which will reduce our EF to about 60% of the North American average. But it still leaves our EF at three times the current global sustainable per-capita level. In other words, if everyone in the world lived at our proposed lower EF level, it would take three Earths, and zero population growth starting immediately, to sustain us all, and that would leave no room for all the rest of the life species in the world. Merkel, like McKibben, urges us to pursue an average one-child family strategy to reduce and sustain human population at a billion people, which would allow us all to live at my target EF level (i.e. very comfortably) and still allow half the planet to be left in natural state for other life species. The methods I propose to use to halve our EF are not rocket science: Make our home much more energy efficient. Either build a new, exceptionally energy- and space-efficient home on a lot that would be left 90% in its natural state. Or alternatively, as some readers have suggested, do a radical energy retrofit and functional redesign of our existing home, and close off or lease out half of it. Our existing lot is only 50% in natural state, so much of our lawn would have to be returned to forest. Change jobs to substantially home-based businesses, and sell one of our two cars -- an end to wage slavery. Learn to cook (though probably not as well as my wife) so we can become more vegetarian, and eat less processed and packaged foods. Learn to be more self-sufficient and self-efficient (fixing things instead of tossing them out). Not only would these changes halve our EF, they would have a comparable impact on our utilities, maintenance, household, transportation, and other costs, allowing us to retire in seven years (if we want to) instead of the projected twenty. The book also talks a lot about overcoming fears -- of striking out on your own, of being viewed as 'weird', of wilderness, of doing without the possessions that sometimes come to own us, of not having 'enough'. This is important because Radical Simplicity is about culture change, and while I'm convinced our lower-EF end-state will be idyllic, it's the journey, the 'letting go' that's difficult, and ultimately, in some ways, a leap of faith. I still recommend the book, but you'll need to look past some of the more over-the-top rhetoric and the more extreme and impractical reductions in EF, and adapt the ideas to your own circumstances and standards. Postscript December 29 -- please read Kevin Cameron's comments in the thread to this post. He addresses, much better than either I or Merkel have, the issues that make many people skeptical about the concept and practicality of Radical Simplicity. Kevin also makes some important points that Merkel and I both missed.

How I Learned French in One Year

How I Learned French in One Year 12/30/2004 02:30 PM
Riding on the coat-tails of an earlier article about emigrating to other countries, I present to you a small summary of my experience rapidly learning French to pass a standardized test for Canadian immigration. Since I live in the middle of the US, far removed from anything resembling a Francophone environment, I had to resort to various online and offline resources to accomplish my goal, managing to learn enough to score as "advanced" in several categories in just 10 months. Even if you don't wish to emigrate, this article may be useful, as I go into full detail describing the techniques and methods I used. Or, at the very least, read and be amused.

TIME Person of the Year 2004: 10 Things
We Learned About Blogs

TIME Person of the Year 2004: 10 Things
We Learned About Blogs 12/22/2004 01:05 AM
Just blog, link and repeat. It worked for conservative bloggers like Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit .. Time Magazine: 10 Things We Learned About Blogs

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Chinese New Year - 2002 is Year of the
Horse

Chinese New Year - 2002 is Year of the
Horse 01/22/2004 10:20 AM
��� � � �� �������� ��� �� �� .. Chinese New Year - 2002 is the Year of the Horse .. Welcome to 4700 .. Monkey .. 4700

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Longmont Area Economic Council sponsors
"Company Success Stories" Forum
presented by the Colorado Software and
Internet Association; Executives from
Digital Globe, Time Warner Telecom and
Evolving Systems shared stories, advice,
lessons learned

Longmont Area Economic Council sponsors
"Company Success Stories" Forum
presented by the Colorado Software and
Internet Association; Executives from
Digital Globe, Time Warner Telecom and
Evolving Systems shared stories, advice,
lessons learned 08/30/2004 08:16 AM
The Longmont Area Economic Council (LAEC) sponsored a breakfast on August 26th hosted by the Colorado Software and Internet Association (CSIA) titled "Company Success Stories". The event was held at the Cable Center on the University of Denver campus. LAEC President and CEO John Cody moderated a panel discussion by representatives from Digital Globe, Time Warner Telecom and Evolving Systems. [PRWEB Aug 30, 2004]

2004: Year of the global malware
epidemic - Top ten lessons

2004: Year of the global malware
epidemic - Top ten lessons 01/06/2005 12:03 PM

2002 Year-End Google Zeitgeist

2002 Year-End Google Zeitgeist 12/14/2002 01:51 PM
Googles year end list of top query words for 2002.

Your Financial Checkup

Your Financial Checkup 01/06/2005 03:21 PM
Life has a way of outdating even the best financial plan. We'll help you give your finances a once-over.

WebMD may be due for a checkup

WebMD may be due for a checkup 04/26/2004 06:05 AM
The one-time dot-com darling is facing a host of complaints about lost and incomplete claims that have jeopardized critical payments to health care providers that rely on its software and services.

Give your battery a thorough checkup

Give your battery a thorough checkup 03/13/2003 10:23 AM
There has recently been discussion in some online forums (Slashdot and Apple) about the Mac OS 10.2.4 upgrade reducing the capacity of some laptop batteries. Some have thought it might not be a hardware problem, but instead ...

Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility

Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility 09/15/2004 01:55 AM
The Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility helps you determine if an MPEG-2 video decoder (also called a DVD decoder) is installed on your Windows XP computer and whether or not the decoder is compatible with Windows Media Player 10 and Windows XP Media Center Edition.

"Everything I Learned at MIT"

"Everything I Learned at MIT" 07/14/2004 03:22 PM

Being learned

Being learned 01/07/2004 02:01 PM
Old River Bill really knows inland workboats. Besides exercising his novel system of punctuation, Bill makes model tugboats and is a part of an avid community of workboat modelers. You can find out everything you ever wanted to know about how real work is done on rivers on how the hell we move 100's of thousands of tons of crap around the country every day.

Today I learned

Today I learned 03/06/2004 02:02 AM
Today I learned that IKEA bags are really handy for carrying car tires. Today I learned that car tires are...

Have We Learned from the New Economy?

Have We Learned from the New Economy? 02/19/2004 12:41 PM

This weekend, I learned... (09:27 PM)

This weekend, I learned... (09:27 PM) 02/26/2003 03:39 PM
After spending a weekend snowboarding in the Poconos, I've learned a few things: Snowboarding in the rain roX0rs: nobody else is on the hill. Pennsylvania doesn't spend

You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned

You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned 10/29/2003 10:14 AM
TheForce.Net has the first official online info about the newest Star Wars TCG expansion, The Empire Strikes Back. The expansion is due to hit the shelves in November, and will include some new game mechanics. Read all about it right here.

What We Learned from Google's IPO

What We Learned from Google's IPO 09/01/2004 09:54 AM
Search Engine Lowdown Sep 1 2004 2:26PM GMT

What We Learned In The New Economy

What We Learned In The New Economy 02/18/2004 08:10 PM
Add to that the much-anticipated IPO of Google (expected sometime this spring), our ever-growing dependence on the Internet, and the healthy sums of capital ...

How they learned to love the bomb

How they learned to love the bomb 03/29/2005 11:48 AM
Bush is talking tough about nukes in Iran and North Korea. But critics say by illegally testing and building nuclear weapons, the U.S. is fueling a new arms race.

What McNamara Learned from Viet Nam

What McNamara Learned from Viet Nam 01/26/2004 03:00 PM
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot. -- Mark Twain As much as it might have served my rhetorical purposes, I have been reluctant to draw parallels between our involvements in Viet Nam and Iraq. Most such comparisons seem invidious and over-wrought. Still, in a compelling January 24 column in the Toronto Globe and Mail, Doug Saunders cites a list of lessons that Robert McNamara said (in his 1995 book Retrospect) he had gleaned from his soul-searching autopsy of the American defeat in Viet Nam. I repeat them here for the purposes of discussion. Based on the course of the Iraqi invasion thus far, some of them seem chillingly familiar. The question arises, if we are repeating some or all of the same errors, how can we proceed from this point to a more positive result than we obtained in Southeast Asia. McNamara's List: We misjudged then -- and we have since -- the geopolitical intentions of our adversaries . . . and we exaggerated the dangers to the United States of their actions. We viewed the people and leaders of South Vietnam in terms of our own experience. . . . We totally misjudged the political forces within the country. We underestimated the power of nationalism to motivate a people to fight and die for their beliefs and values. Our judgments of friend and foe alike reflected our profound ignorance of the history, culture, and politics of the people in the area, and the personalities and habits of their leaders. We failed then -- and have since -- to recognize the limitations of modern, high-technology military equipment, forces and doctrine. . . . We failed as well to adapt our military tactics to the task of winning the hearts and minds of people from a totally different culture. We failed to draw Congress and the American people into a full and frank discussion and debate of the pros and cons of a large-scale military involvement . . . before we initiated the action. After the action got under way and unanticipated events forced us off our planned course . . . we did not fully explain what was happening and why we were doing what we did. We did not recognize that neither our people nor our leaders are omniscient. Our judgment of what is in another people's or country's best interest should be put to the test of open discussion in international forums. We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose. We did not hold to the principle that U.S. military action . . . should be carried out only in conjunction with multinational forces supported fully (and not merely cosmetically) by the international community. We failed to recognize that in international affairs, as in other aspects of life, there may be problems for which there are no immediate solutions. . . . At times, we may have to live with an imperfect, untidy world. Underlying many of these errors lay our failure to organize the top echelons of the executive branch to deal effectively with the extraordinarily complex range of political and military issues. By the way, Saunders says that, in a phone conversation with McNamara, the latter rendered the following opinion of the Iraqi invasion, "We're misusing our influence. It's just wrong what we're doing. It's morally wrong, it's politically wrong, it's economically wrong." If that is so, what do we do now?...

Everything I Need To Know About Web
Design I Learned Watching Oz

Everything I Need To Know About Web
Design I Learned Watching Oz 02/10/2004 02:35 AM
Making it as a web designer is like staying alive in the slammer. So before you sharpen your Photoshop skills or crack open that new book on crafting more effective customer experiences, you'd be well advised to catch a few reruns of HBO's Oz. ALA system designer Brian Alvey points out the parallels between a successful career in web design and the popular prison drama.

A Hard Lesson Learned

A Hard Lesson Learned 03/14/2005 04:35 PM

Well the nightmare that all of us geeks feared the most, happened this morning. I walked into my office and found that it had been broken into. The computers were all taken and the printers, copier and some accessories were also stolen. I had backups of the important files, but a lot of small things are missing, settings, ftp accounts, and the most important thing of all, my privacy.

It will be a couple days before the insurance settles the claim and we can replace the hardware and software, but my worry is that I had passwords and account information available for any trained hacker to find. Sure I had the passwords and I did not save key rings in browsers, but the fact is, it can be found out. I learned a hard lesson. I will be encrypting my hard drive from this time forward. My data will be secure, I will have a call home program installed in case the thieves fire up the system and try to get online.

I would like to here from the geeks out there as to what measures I need to take to make sure that my information is as safe as I can keep it. Let's hear your feedback. I'll be back with more news as soon as I get my computers back at the office.

'04 Graduates Learned Lesson in
Practicality

'04 Graduates Learned Lesson in
Practicality 05/29/2004 03:08 PM
Experts say graduates' strategic, pragmatic approach to entering the work force speaks of a coming wave of adults bent on entering the mainstream and staying there.
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PMA: iPIX Interactive Studio panoramic
software debuts

PMA: iPIX Interactive Studio panoramic
software debuts 02/12/2004 03:20 PM
Photographers and multimedia content creators who need to generate 360-degree panoramic images have a new tool to choose from, courtesy of iPIX InfoMedia: iPIX Interactive Studio. The software works in Mac OS X and Windows.

iPix Interactive Studio adds Shockwave
w3d output

iPix Interactive Studio adds Shockwave
w3d output 04/21/2004 02:11 PM
IPIX InfoMedia announced on Wednesday that iPix Interactive Studio 1.1 is now available. The new version of their application for creating 360-degree panoramic images offers the ability to export in Macromedia Shockwave w3d file format, works better with Adobe Photoshop and adds performance enhancements.

iPIX Interactive Studio arrives in North
America

iPIX Interactive Studio arrives in North
America 02/12/2004 12:44 PM
iPIX InfoMedia has announced the North American availability of iPIX Interactive Studio, a full 360-degree panoramic imaging platform for digital photography and design...

New: Aspect Ratio 1.0

New: Aspect Ratio 1.0 02/19/2004 11:22 AM
Aspect Ratio is an iMovie plug-in that changes a movie clip's aspect ratio, making it possible to set the correct aspect ratio after rotating a non-square pixel clip or after importing footage from a different video format.

Quite limited: Device-aspect-ratio

Quite limited: Device-aspect-ratio 12/19/2004 03:14 PM
In the CSS3 media queries specification, there is a property named device-aspect-ratio, which, in it’s current state is only of...

Canon intros XL2 camcorder with 16:9
aspect ratio, more

Canon intros XL2 camcorder with 16:9
aspect ratio, more 07/14/2004 06:48 AM
On Tuesday, Canon took the wraps off the highly-anticipated successor its XL1 and XL1S digital camcorders. The Mini-DV XL2, which will be available in August for US$4,999, features the ability to record at 60i, 24p or 30p frame rates, a choice of 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) or 16:9 (962 x 480) aspect ratios, a 680,000 pixel progressive scan CCD, an open architecture that accommodates interchangeable lenses and adapters and more. In addition, the company introduced a new Professional L-series 20X optical zoom lens that offers a 72mm filter thread, a 6-blade iris diaphragm, two independent ND filters, a f/1.6 to f/3.5 aperture and more. It's included with the camera.

Mini-stream Ripper v0.80

Mini-stream Ripper v0.80 06/20/2004 08:04 AM
Mini-stream Ripper is a CD Ripper and music converter for the platform of Windows which is convenient for you to rip CD to RM, MP3, WMA, or WAV audio files directly. Mini-stream Ripper makes it easy for you to convert the music in RM, RMVB, RA, RMJ, RAM, MP3, WMA, WMV, ASF, ASX and WAV audio files into other format audio files at the same time. And you will find the interface quite familiar and friendly. [Shareware $24.95 30 Days 5.12 MB]

2ndNature, an Interactive studio,
Launches Several New Interactive
Projects for Corporate Clients in the
Northeast U.S.

2ndNature, an Interactive studio,
Launches Several New Interactive
Projects for Corporate Clients in the
Northeast U.S. 02/05/2005 09:49 PM
2ndNature, a Central New York-based website design and development studio has recently completed several interactive projects for clients that include VIYYA Technologies of New Jersey, ChaseDesign of Skaneateles, NY, Adirondack & St. Lawrence Railway of Utica NY, QPK Design of Syracuse, NY, Terakeet Corp., of Syracuse, NY, PPC/John Mezzalingua Associates of Syracuse, NY, Welch Allyn of Skaneateles, NY. [PRWEB Feb 4, 2005]

Force QuickTime streams to play in
QuickTime

Force QuickTime streams to play in
QuickTime 08/06/2004 09:57 AM
Yesterday over on the Macworld forums, a reader was having trouble getting QuickTime streams from enya.com to play properly. When clicked, the streams (from the Video section of the site) would open the user's RealOne Player,...

MD5 crack

MD5 crack 07/07/2004 04:43 AM
MD5 cracking in seconds .. this site is for you

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Just say no to Crack

Just say no to Crack 04/23/2004 02:51 PM
Staking out the high moral ground, a bill would punish those wearing low-riding jeans. It seems that Represe ntative Derrick D. T. Shepherd of Louisiana, a Democrat no less, wants to outlaw low slung pants. Plumbers beware, and stock up on Butt-Crack Caulk! Really, don't they have anything better to legislate besides fashion or holidays?

TV on crack

TV on crack 03/22/2005 04:44 PM
Is A&E's "Intervention" the most exploitative reality show ever, or a necessarily brutal snapshot of the perils of addiction?

New Bluetooth Crack

New Bluetooth Crack 06/05/2005 11:47 PM

Happy Friday:

Cryptographers have discovered a way to hack Bluetooth-enabled devices even when security features are switched on. The discovery may make it even easier for hackers to eavesdrop on conversations and charge their own calls to someone else's cellphone.

"Our attack makes it possible to crack every communication between two Bluetooth devices, and not only if it is the first communication between those devices," says Shaked.

Check out the time required to pull this off:

They show that once an attacker has forced two devices to pair, they can work out the link key in just 0.06 seconds on a Pentium IV-enabled computer, and 0.3 seconds on a Pentium-III. "This is not just a theoretical break, it's practical," says Schneier.

Via New Scientist.

First Crack in the Wall?

First Crack in the Wall? 03/22/2005 03:15 PM
This is the first announced change in the status quo since IBM announced the sale of their entire line of laptops to the Chinese firm Lenovo. As with some other people, I’m still awainting experience to tell us if it’s a good or bad thing. Lenovo will slightly modify the “IBM ThinkPad” brand in the relatively near future, said Lenovo CEO-designate Stephen Ward on Monday at PC Forum, which is taking place here this week….

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Alcohol is the new crack!

Alcohol is the new crack! 01/02/2005 11:10 PM
“N ot only is it illegal, but it's becoming increasingly dangerous,” Leggio said of underage drinking. How dangerous? Well apparently dangerous enough that one affluent Kansas City community has decided that it is best to have police spy on teens during high school basketball games. Oh it gets better, apparently a carload of teens is enough for a Lenexa cop to follow you! So the parents should be up in arms right? Nope, they encourage the police, even calling them ("she told dispatchers that when she called home to check on her son, it sounded like a party was going on"). Yet surprisingly, despite this almost police-state like mentality against drinking, atti tudes are slow to change.

FeedDemon Crack

FeedDemon Crack 06/18/2004 09:27 AM

Dave Winer and Evan Williams commented that the people who shout the loudest are often the ones who have no basis for their anger. I'm reminded of this fact by an email I received this morning. Here's a quote:

"Fix your piece of s--- program! I upgraded to FeedDemon 1.10 and it crashes with 'Win32 device error.' Did you even test this s---?"

I've actually received a number of emails (and one forum post) about this bug, but I have no plans to fix it. Why? Because the error message only appears if you upgrade a cracked version of FeedDemon 1.0. This is a deliberate error message that FeedDemon 1.10 displays when it detects that you upgraded from a specific cracked version of FeedDemon 1.0.

That's right, people who use a pirated version of FeedDemon are emailing me for support. It never ceases to amaze me when people not only steal from me, but also expect me to spend my time answering their questions. And more often than not, the email I've received about this problem reads like something a drunk teenager would write.

I've written about piracy befor e and I'm not planning to start another lengthy rant. But I do have a request for those who have justified their use of cracked versions of my work: don't ask for support. I support my family with sales of my software, and my life is affected - dramatically - by the existence of cracks. Please, if you're using a pirated version of my software, don't expect me to help you.

Kernel crack

Kernel crack 11/07/2003 05:31 AM
CNET Asia Nov 7 2003 4:44AM ET

How to crack passwords, and why you
should

How to crack passwords, and why you
should 06/05/2005 11:28 PM

"Conservative Crack-Up"

"Conservative Crack-Up" 11/19/2003 03:31 PM

where i can give a crack for sims2?

where i can give a crack for sims2? 09/20/2004 03:02 PM
TechTree Sep 20 2004 6:36PM GMT

Hackers crack Sony PSP

Hackers crack Sony PSP 06/17/2005 04:44 PM

3D holograms to crack forgeries

3D holograms to crack forgeries 08/11/2004 08:18 AM
A 3D hologram technique could transform how experts spot forged signatures and other handwritten documents.

UK, US and Canada crack down on Net
scams

UK, US and Canada crack down on Net
scams 04/30/2004 10:50 AM
Closer co-operation

Madredeus On Crack: A Naifa

Madredeus On Crack: A Naifa 09/14/2004 01:54 AM
As God Is My Cleaning Lady: Crypto-Fado For Bohemian Pagan Popsters. They can't play their classical Fado guitars very well; they have a punky drummer and the Fado singer not only smiles pouts and shakes her hips, but actually seems to enjoy herself! What's become of this country? Are they mad? Reckless, certainly. They call themselves A Naifa and what they've done is taken a massive, ice-crunching Waring Pro blender to all the sacred potions, fruits and flavours of Portuguese traditional music and poured out a vulgar, shameless, disrespectful and utterly delicious shambles of a Pop cocktail. Heresy in old Lisbon? I nearly choked on my 30-year-old aguardente velha, but then realized I was dancing merrily and had already spilt most of it anyway. [Probably not fun for those unfamiliar with the Fado. QuickTime required.]

Feds Crack Down On Web Pirates

Feds Crack Down On Web Pirates 04/23/2004 02:48 PM
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Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ?

Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ? 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ? Now I know that the Slashdot audience isn't all that reliable at best. Yes we all read it but we rarely trust it. Still I'd expect a little better than this: The Object Prevalence concept, developed by the Prevayler team, and implemented in Java, C#, Smalltalk, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby and Delphi, can be a great a solution to this mess. The concept is pretty simple: keep all the objects in RAM and serialize the commands that change those objects, optionally saving the whole system to disk every now and then (late at night, for example). [_Go_] Now that's a cool concept. So I did the natural thing and went and looked for the code. Since I'm a php-head, I figured that I'd look there to start. Nope! According to SourceForge, "This project has not released any files". Well I can get by in Perl so I thought "Ok, not my preference but ok". Nope. Well I think Python is neat and people I respect a lot like it. Additionally Guido has just plain guts to make the decision he did regarding mandatory indentation. Break conventions is hard so I figured I'd look at the Python version. Nope! Well once upon a midnight dreary, ... (bag the mock Poe), I did a lot of Pascal. Nope! It turns out that only the C# and Ruby versions exist. I couldn't get the Smalltalk page to come up so I don't have a clue there. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying anything about the concept but just pointing out that this posting is essentially wrong on many of the major details. And, sadly, it doesn't really surprise me at all.

100 years of solitude -- on crack

100 years of solitude -- on crack 01/22/2004 04:56 AM
Latin America's McOndo literary movement drags the butterflies of magical realism into Burger King. With Jorge Franco's narco-saga "Rosario Tijeras," it may have found its first masterpiece.

Dvorak: I'm smoking crack

Dvorak: I'm smoking crack 03/21/2003 01:36 PM
Apple to switch to Intel processors, at least according to John Dvorak in a brief article over at PC Magazine. No mention in the article of the massive amount of effort required to re-write every piece of mac-compatible software for x86 architecture, or the unlikeliness of developers to be willing to do so having just optimized for OSX, but then, this piece seems to be mostly just bold, unsupported predictions.

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