Waiting for News in a Room of Death and Miracles
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WiFi waiting room at the doctor's
WiFi waiting room at the doctor's
05/07/2004 02:56 PMJason's doctor has open WiFi in his waiting room to make those long
waits less insufferable.
He has figured out that a lot of his patients (and their partners)
spend a heck of a lot of time waiting around in his lobby. While
pop-cult magazines and baby toys are still popular for minding the
time, he realized there's an unlimited resource of entertainment he
can make available with a simply $30 WiFI AP -- The Internet. Now I
can work/surf/play online all I want while I wait for Tara to finish
her appointment. There's even an abundance of power outlets near the
seating area.
Anyway, I know I'm being nerdy, but I still think its pretty cool. If
I decide at some point to consider switching doctors, I'll definitely
inquire about wireless access in the waiting room.
LinkThe Death of a Room-Mate... Tony
Meilandt (1957-2004)
The Death of a Room-Mate... Tony
Meilandt (1957-2004)
04/09/2004 04:01 PMI didn't intend this blog to become a death trip, and I'm determined
that it won't be in the long run, but right now I have another
obituary to write. I'm at the desk in my New York apartment. Right
here, sitting in the same chair I now occupy, surrounded by the same
mementos and miscellaneous layers of human deposition, my
angel-hearted room-mate Tony Meilandt dropped dead a week ago last
night. He was only 46 years old. I'm not sure what killed him. The New
York Coroner's Office has not rendered an official opinion and, based
on my previous experience with that great bureaucratic sphinx, is
unlikely to do so any time soon. As we have seen, mysterious death in
New York City often remains mysterious for many months. It might have
been the flu that got him. For maybe ten days, Tony had been very sick
with the same predatory virus that's been berserking around the planet
all winter. When I talked to him on the phone four days before he
died, I could hear an alarming whistle in his lungs. I told him to go
to a hospital. He told me he had, but that they had sent him home.
Figures. Last time I went to an emergency room in New York, the "John
Doe" in the cubicle next to me died unattended. He might have been cut
down by that strange scythe that sometimes slices through the
re-ascending. After a long season in hell, Tony's life had just been
paroled. He had been something of a legend once in the music business,
having taken a major production role in much of Herbie Hancock's best
recorded output and worked closely with Bill Laswell, Miles Davis,
Ornette Coleman, and many other jazz greats. But then he got lost in a
blizzard of the bad powders that often snow on success in the music
business. He wandered in that white-out for about a decade and
managed, by all accounts, to piss off just about everybody in the
industry during that time. But, by the time I met him, a little over a
year ago, he'd gone through rehab, had been clean for a good long
spell, and was rebuilding his career very rapidly. In short order, he
put together a record album for the Olympics, began managing Bill
Laswell's career again, and had entered into a partnership with East
End Management, which manages a number of artists, including Tom Petty
and Fleetwood Mac. He started sharing rent on my Chinatown pad last
summer. Though he was in residence as sporadically as I was, I was
always happy when we coincided. There was something pure in him, a
radiative sweetness that made his abundant appreciation capable of
penetrating even its most skeptically armored targets. Not everybody
liked Tony at first, but everybody liked him eventually. A lot of
people loved him. I certainly did....
Police charge 12-year-old with making
death threats in online chat room
Police charge 12-year-old with making
death threats in online chat room
12/10/2003 08:07 AMSan Francisco Chronicle Dec 10 2003 6:59AM ET
Inamed Waiting for Good News
Inamed Waiting for Good News
08/04/2004 01:24 PMThis multifaceted medical device company, which sells breast implants,
awaits an FDA decision.
Do you believe in miracles?
Do you believe in miracles?
07/25/2004 05:46 PM
Pokerinathens.org.
Passionately dedicated to bringing poker to the 2004 summer games.
Funny.
Industrial News Room
Industrial News Room
06/11/2004 05:19 AMIndustrial News Roomhttp://www.industrialnewsroo
m.com/Industrial News Room is a retail site with the
mission of delivering timely, new industrial product information
covering the whole range of products from adhesives through waste
handling equipment. With free services such as RSS feeds, Industrial
News Room makes this valuable information available to all who are
interested in the latest industrial products. A product of Thomas
Publishing Company, LLC, Product News Network® (PNN), is possibly the
only, but definitely the most comprehensive source of new and timely
product information in the industrial marketplace. PNN® supplies new
product information to the Web sites, e-marketplaces and print
publications that serve the industrial marketplace. This has been
added to Business Intelligence Subject Tracer™ Information Blog
and will be added to
Business Resources
2004 Internet MiniGuide.
Working Miracles With Xserve RAID
Working Miracles With Xserve RAID
04/27/2004 12:29 AMPrice/performance is an obvious consideration for most outfits. But
for the Children's Miracle Network, cost savings can literally be a
life saver. By Ben Freeman, ServerWatch (via MyAppleMenu)
SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State
-- Governor reverses stand on shelters,
reinstates waiting period
SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State
-- Governor reverses stand on shelters,
reinstates waiting period
06/26/2004 12:32 PMGovernor reverses stand on shelters .. reverses his position .. tells
the AP ..
changed
signonsandiego.com/news/state/20040625-1629-ca-animalshelter
s.html
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Other News: Living Room Opportunity
Other News: Living Room Opportunity
01/03/2005 12:45 PMCould Apple take over the living room with a media server, as the iPod
did the digital music market?
Waiting, Waiting and Waiting for IPv6
Waiting, Waiting and Waiting for IPv6
07/08/2002 10:43 AMFEATURE: The Internet's newest IP addressing scheme is ready for prime
time, but the U.S. and the IETF are willing to hold off on widespread
adoption of the revised naming system just a little bit longer.
WFTV.com - News - Man Arrested After
Motel Room Is Coated In Vaseline
WFTV.com - News - Man Arrested After
Motel Room Is Coated In Vaseline
05/18/2004 04:26 AMWFTV.com - News - Man Arrested After Motel Room Is Coated In Vaseline
.. charged with criminal
mischief
wftv.com/news/3314503/detail.html
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"mtv.com - News - Comedian Mitch Hedberg
Found Dead In New Jersey Hotel Room"
"mtv.com - News - Comedian Mitch Hedberg
Found Dead In New Jersey Hotel Room"
04/02/2005 04:20 AMOther News: Files After Death
Other News: Files After Death
06/04/2004 10:56 AMWhat becomes of your computer files when you die?
Wired News: Twisted Tale of Art, Death,
DNA
Wired News: Twisted Tale of Art, Death,
DNA
06/05/2004 01:33 PMWired News: Twisted Tale of Art, Death,
DNA
wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,63637,00.html
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Death of the Internet greatly
exaggerated | CNET News.com
Death of the Internet greatly
exaggerated | CNET News.com
08/27/2004 03:40 PMDeath of the Internet greatly exaggerated .. the Internet is still
functioning
news.com.com/Death+of+the+Internet+greatly+exaggerated/2
100-7349_3-5323900.html?tag=nefd.lede
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Why Google News signals the death of the
online exclusive
Why Google News signals the death of the
online exclusive
09/27/2004 08:57 AMIndependent Sep 27 2004 1:13PM GMT
Yahoo! News - Vatican: Pope John Paul II
Is Near Death
Yahoo! News - Vatican: Pope John Paul II
Is Near Death
04/03/2005 03:51 AMVatican: Pope Has Suffered Heart
Failure
news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20050401/ap_on_re_e
u/pope&sid=84439559
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BBC NEWS | World | Europe | High death
toll in Russia siege
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | High death
toll in Russia siege
09/05/2004 02:52 PMTelegraph | News | Woman who turns
pets into pillows faces death threats
Telegraph | News | Woman who turns
pets into pillows faces death threats
04/11/2005 08:07 PMWoman who turns pets into pillows faces death threats .. "Never pick
up road-kill on the first date" .. death threats from animal rights
activists
telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/10/wpet1
0.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/10/ixworld.html
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Game Room: Welcome to the Game Room
Webl0g!
Game Room: Welcome to the Game Room
Webl0g!
03/31/2005 02:40 PMWelcome to the Game Room Weblog, the place to read the latest game
reviews, tips and analysis.
I don't think we are waiting until 8pm
I don't think we are waiting until 8pm
03/19/2003 10:46 PMrippling with a sordid anticipation .. get your war on .. US air
strikes .. CNN.com: .. Fuck
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Waiting...
Waiting...
06/19/2004 03:10 PM
Sorry for having been so quiet, but I've been too busy. And now I am
too relaxed.
Together, we wait.
Waiting for the Big One
Waiting for the Big One
04/13/2004 12:38 PMSome investors believe a spy game is Acclaim's ticket to glory. We
disagree.
It's All Over Now but the Waiting
It's All Over Now but the Waiting
06/22/2005 02:19 AMI’ve finally been able to post a few things because for the
first time in about three weeks, I’m not spending my nights
working on grants. In Illinois, 2006 LSTA grant submissions were due
Friday, June 17, so it’s all over but the waiting now. Which is
a killer, because I’m very excited about both of the grants MLS
is involved in.
- MLS
submitted a grant to create an online, statewide book discussion group
for audio ebooks called “One State, One Listen” by adding
simultaneous use titles from netLibrary/Recorded Books and OverDrive to ListenIllinois. Of course, I
think it would be totally cool, but we’ll see what the grant
reviewers think.
- MLS is also mentioned as a supporting
agency in the big gaming grant I mentioned last month. Aaron submitted the grant
under the Thomas Ford Memorial
Library, and we ended up with 23 participating libraries out of 35
applicants. Response was incredible, and I’m truly sorry we
couldn’t take every one of them. Everyone that read the grant
loved it, and we have some mighty big plans if we get it. This will
truly be something never before seen in the library
world.
So now we wait until September to hear back. I
don’t want to say much more until then, so light a candle for
us!
Our competition
Oh, and
thanks to Su Bochenski for driving all the way to Springfield to make
sure they were there on Friday before the deadline!
Waiting for GPS
Waiting for GPS
01/09/2004 09:53 PM My GPS navigation system should arrive today. I forewent all birthday
and Chanukah gifts from my family in order to build up a fund for the
device, a Garmin 2610. It's a perky little number that sits on your
dash and tells you, in a silky voice that forgives all your
directional transgressions, how to get from A to B. I'm not a
particularly good driver to begin with, but I spend most of almost
every trip trying to envision how the road I'm on links up with the
road I'm trying to get to. The rest of the...
Waiting for the sunset ... at 9:30 pm
Waiting for the sunset ... at 9:30 pm
12/27/2004 08:06 PMI've arrived at the Hotel Fundador in Santiago, Chile (free
wireless in the lobby). It is difficult to fault Chileans in the
department of hospitality. One of this Weblog's readers, Jorge
Tambley, picked me up at the airport on Sunday morning and dropped me
off at the hotel. Then he came back a couple of hours later to
invite me to lunch with his wife and kids. Then he took me to
the small airport to hunt for flight schools and onward to the various
neighborhoods of Santiago. Jorge provided some insight into the
world of the Chilean computer programmer. Things seem to be done
on a somewhat smaller scale than in the U.S. The programmer
needs to be more in contact with the client, with the users, and more
aware of business problems and how to solve them. Consulting
rates and real estate prices are in a more favorable ratio than in the
U.S. A top programmer might earn $70/hour and a newly
constructed small condo in Santiago sells for $25,000. A
reasonably nice house is $100,000 and a Las Vegas-style McMansion is
$225,000.
With some very kind assistance from Cristian Levy of Amity Tours
(http://www.amitytours.cl/)
I've begun to sketch out a trip to Valparaiso (Dec 30) and La Serena
plus environs (Jan 2-8).
It is 8:30 pm now. Only about one more hour of
daylight...
Tired Of Waiting...
Tired Of Waiting...
12/28/2004 05:27 AMI'm tired of waiting. The iPhoto book printing service never did
arrived in Singapore, and I doubt the iTunes Music Store will ever
materialise here either. So, I'm throwing this out, instead, to the Scobleizer: when will
Microsoft bring its Media Center PC to Singapore?
:-)
P.S:
Sheal Israel: Scoble is an evangelist for Microsoft and is
totally enthused about its technology. What is news is that Scoble, at
times, is among Microsoft's toughest critics... He's the most honest
company evangelist youwill find, anywhere.
Waiting for the G5 Xserve
Waiting for the G5 Xserve
11/14/2003 10:17 AMAn eWeek article explores the status and future of Apple's Xserve.
Despite a worldwide unit market share of approximately one percent,
and second quarter 2003 sales of only 5,600 Xserves, Apple considers
the Xserve a success in its traditionally strong education, creative
and video editing markets. The company recognizes the challenges
associated with trying to break into a market dominated by x86-based
servers running Linux or Windows, but Apple's strategy, says product
line manager for...
MGM Waiting for Final Cut
MGM Waiting for Final Cut
07/02/2004 11:24 AMMGM has yet to be sold to some deep-pocketed conglomerate.
Shareholders won't mind a tug of war for its library.
Waiting for Bill
Waiting for Bill
06/23/2004 07:37 AMBouncers, actors, bankers, immigrants and preteens all agree: The
former president rocks!
Waiting for SyndiCon I
Waiting for SyndiCon I
03/06/2004 01:48 AMSo BloggerCon
II is scheduled to take place on April 17 this year, again in
Boston at Harvard.
Happy: there will be a
session on weblogs and libraries!
Sad: I have no budget to
attend (although I'm really pushing Steven to go).
I'm glad there's a follow-up and that these folks will continue
exploring the impact and potential of blogging, but I'm also ready for
SyndiCon (or AggregatorCon or
whatever you want to call it). As evidenced by Will Richardson's
vision among other things, it's time to take syndication to the
next level - make it more user-friendly, integrate it into other
tools, figure out what users want, and in general
take RSS to the next level. Same types of sessions - education,
politics, business, libraries, journalism, etc.
The RSS
Winterfest was a good start, but it's difficult to
over-emphasize the value of this type of conversation taking
place in-person, face-to-face. In addition, how great would
it be to include an "RSS Hackfest" (led by Andrew Grumet) to get us BitTorre
nt + RSS, authentication, better customization, metadata, and more?!
Waiting For Cisco
Waiting For Cisco
05/10/2004 07:11 PMInternet Stock Report May 10 2004 10:54PM GMT
Waiting, hoping...
Waiting, hoping...
08/30/2004 07:03 PMJosh Marshall, whose blogging over the past couple of days has been
extra special good, has been saying for a while that we're going to be
getting some interesting news about the Niger matter. Today he says it
again, saying that news will be coming out in "weeks." I wonder what
it is that he knows......
Waiting To Be Fired.
Waiting To Be Fired.
06/17/2005 04:32 PMI'm one of those vaguely self-destructive personality types you make
acquaintence with throughout your life. Admittedly, if I didn't want
to be fired, I could have kept my mouth shut. Or more accurately, my
fingers under leash.
Waiting for HUTCH One... ;-)
Waiting for HUTCH One... ;-)
09/12/2004 12:19 PMTechTree Sep 12 2004 2:39PM GMT
3G: Waiting in the wings
3G: Waiting in the wings
04/04/2005 04:10 AMZDNet India Apr 4 2005 8:10AM GMT
Waiting on Wet Seal
Waiting on Wet Seal
05/21/2004 02:29 PMThe women's apparel retailer widens losses.
E-government: Why are we waiting?
E-government: Why are we waiting?
10/30/2003 11:48 PMSunday Times South Africa Oct 30 2003 11:09PM ET
Waiting for the (Mad) Cows
Waiting for the (Mad) Cows
06/30/2004 12:56 PMWired News Jun 30 2004 5:39PM GMT
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