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Screw You Sweden

Screw You Sweden 05/15/2004 05:15 PM
You destroyed our perfect 0 score. Why? Just because we are neighbours? Don’t bother next time, please…....

Those trojans know how to screw.......

Those trojans know how to screw....... 04/20/2004 02:00 PM
up a perfectly running computer and make me waste three hours getting rid of the damn thing! What? You thought...

Snow Screw?

Snow Screw? 06/05/2005 11:46 PM

Check this thing out:

I wonder if these things really work(ed)?

Glastonbury screw-up

Glastonbury screw-up 04/09/2004 04:08 PM

I went last year, I went the year before, I'm pretty sure I went the year before that, but this year I'm staying home. The muppets running the online ordering system apparently decided that a couple of Windows 2000 servers could handle 130,000 ticket sales in 24 hours. They got hit by 2,000,000 hits in the first five minutes. Admitedly, that's going to be tough for anything to handle (maybe it's a job for Google's super-platform) but after last year's 23 hour sell out anyone could have told them this year was going to be a whole lot tougher.

This BBC article has plenty of stories that match my own. I tried persistently over the space of 12 hours, filled out the form multiple times, was repeatedly told the tickets were all sold out when I knew that they weren't and finally received a screen telling me I'd made it. The confirmation email never turned up. Bloody marvelous.

I just hope they sort out a sane way of distributing the tickets for next year.

Screw my neighbour

Screw my neighbour 07/08/2004 04:09 AM

« Grotesques on the Pohjola buidling on Aleksanderinkatu. I call them Grimace and Chuckles though I'm sure they have proper names. People like to mess with them and you'll often see cigarette butts stuck in their mouths or, as in the photo, adorned with ice cream and gum. »

One of the most incredibly frustrating things about trying to learn Finnish, aside from the folks who refuse to understand my Finnish and then gleefully exclaim how they can now practise their English on me, are the "Kysy naapurilta!" excercises in the classes. Ask my neighbour?! Ask my neighbour precisely what, motherfucker?! My neighbour could be anything from a clueless Brit whose pronunciation pains even me or some Karelian dude who is just slumming for easy credit and grammar. "Mikä on Helsingin paras disco?" the handout in class instructs my neighbour to ask me. Well, fuck, how in the hell am I supposed to know that? I haven't been to a disco since 1979!

It's like the blind leading the blind when we ask each other the questions and then try to answer them in any reasonably close to correct fashion. The people who are advanced stick together in the front of the class and the slackers tend to hang in the back, hoping not to be noticed. Even among those who struggle there are castes since noone wants to get stuck with someone who knows less than you do and so when the "Kysy naapurilta!" directive comes, and it will each and every day, the classroom turns into a country square dance hall before beer has been served to help make everyone look attractive enough to dance with. I usually just want to hide in the corner at that point and hope that noone notices me. In fact, of the few times I skipped class over the past year, each and every time it was the horrific thought of having to converse with my neighbour that drove me away. I'd almost rather go to the dentist or maybe get my skull trepanned since, clearly, I need another hole in my head.

There is a Finnish conversation class that is supposed to be on the schedule for the Fall term, but if it's just going to be a bunch of students and only one teacher/native speaker, fuck that as I can practise bad Finnish for free with my expat friends. I have met Finns whose English sucks, really sucks, and I've managed to patiently let them try since they're so enthusiastic and I somehow always get to be the English target practise, but in spite of the fact that I love my native tongue, why is it so hard to find Finns who are willing to suffer our bumbling attempts to speak the language without fear that we're going to look like idiots and answer our questions of verity without a blank stare?

TypeKey FAQ

TypeKey FAQ 04/27/2004 09:32 PM

TypeKey: Here's a pretty extensive FAQ on TypeKey — the Microsoft Passport-ish blog comment authentication service from Six Apart. It's a central authentication service which allows you to log in to TypeKey and use that identitiy to post to multiple blogs. They provide a good example:

Alice visits Bob's weblog for the first time and wishes to leave a comment. Bob only allows comments by registered users on his weblog. So, to leave a comment, Alice signs up for TypeKey and posts a comment to Bob's weblog using that identity.

Because Bob requires his approval of comments by all new registered visitors, the comment doesn't appear on Bob's site until he approves Alice as an allowed commenter. Once he's done that, Alice's comments automatically appear, and any future comments that she makes appear right away as well.

Now Alice goes to Carol's weblog. Carol also allows comments by registered users only. Alice signs in using her existing TypeKey account and posts a comment to Carol's weblog, which goes into Carol's moderation queue, because this is Alice's first comment on her weblog.

But Alice hates Carol, so she left a nasty comment! Carol receives the comment via email, and doesn't like the tone of it. So she logs into Movable Type and bans Alice from posting comments to her weblog.

Alice is now banned from posting comments to Carol's weblog, but she is still allowed to post comments to Bob's weblog.

It's worth reading if you're going to move to Movable Type 3.0. There's a lot of information in there,

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TypeKey

TypeKey 05/16/2004 02:18 AM
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How Apple is going to screw webl0ggers!

How Apple is going to screw webl0ggers! 01/06/2005 04:47 AM

Most of you should already know that Apple is suing several sites that are devoted Mac fans. They have decided that because someone either at Apple or a contractor is spreading juicy information to these sites, that they are going to sue them into telling who is giving them the information. If Think Secret decides to fight Apple I am going give them a donation to help them with their legal cost.

Why would I do that, well how long will it be before someone passes me a juicy tip and I write about it and piss some company off. As has been mentioned around the blogsphere if this had been the New York Times or PC World they would not have touched them with a 10 foot pole.

One thing I can do immediately is this, I will no longer purchase any iTunes music or purchase any sort of Apple product as a consumer I can also make a statment with my pocket-book.

APPLE CEASE AND DESIST YOUR LAWSUITS AGAINST WEBLOGS!

Screw you guys! I'm going to California!

Screw you guys! I'm going to California! 08/05/2004 05:02 AM

Right then! I'm off on holiday. If I get any free time, I'm going to try and polish off the rest of the New Musical Functionality series on the plane or in a café in San Francisco, but no promises, because frankly I need a bit of a break from all this web nonsense. Updates are likely to be sporadic in the meantime and when they occur are likely to be more chatty and journally than normal. Otherwise LA, San Francisco - California in general - here I come!

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Why Established Businesses Screw Up

Why Established Businesses Screw Up 11/03/2003 08:23 PM
I've been a longtime fan of Clayton Christensen's work and recommend it to plenty of people - though, it seems like many people misinterpret his writings. Still, he's now come out with a new book, The Innovator's Solution, which tries to follow the work of his original book describing why successful companies miss out on disruptive technologies. Fast Company is running an article summarizing Christensen's thoughts on why successful companies screw up, and how to prevent that from happening. He comes down especially hard on business school teachings (despite the fact that he teaches at a business school), saying that they're so focused on case studies of successful businesses, it creates managers who believe if they just mimic success stories, everything will turn out fine. While I agree with almost every one of his business points, I'm not sure I completely agree with this one. It seems that most business schools these days claim to be believers in Christensen's ideas - but they just do an awful job teaching them. People end up with the 30 second version of his ideas and miss the real meat. Still, the Fast Company piece does a pretty good job summarizing the overall thesis that basing plans on past data can be dangerous, since it ignores future innovations. Also, he points out that successful companies are drawn to higher end offerings where the margins increase, forgetting that they're opening up the bottom of the market for newer, more innovative and nimble suppliers to attack. In fact, Christensen has decided to put his money where his mouth is, and has started his own consulting firm that is designed to hit back against the McKinsey's and BCG's of the world by offering a much lower pricepoint for services.

Screw You, Outlook 2003

Screw You, Outlook 2003 12/02/2003 01:03 AM
I can't stand it anymore; it's time to roll back to Outlook 2000 and pray to GOD IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE that someone keeps future versions of the PIM from going straight into the crapper for anybody not connecting to an Exchange server. If you rely on POP3 or IMAP, you'll be just as disappointed with the lame UI bugs and inconsistencies that plague Microsoft's latest client. Since I’m going to keep the rest of Office 2003 alive, it’s going to be quite a trick to downgrade midstream. I’ll have to figure out a way to export my PST so that I can make the leap backwards without causing too much of a fuss. Where the hell are you when the world needs a better program, Chandler?!...

Authen-TypeKey-0.02

Authen-TypeKey-0.02 07/30/2004 07:06 AM

More TypeKey Information

More TypeKey Information 04/09/2004 04:12 PM
Today, we've released more information about TypeKey, which should serve to answer some of the initial questions potential users may...

Somebody took a look at the TypeKey
protocol

Somebody took a look at the TypeKey
protocol 05/01/2004 12:43 AM
Somebody took a look at the TypeKey protocol; it looks similar to Passport (since I guess there are only so many ways to do this stuff).

Kwiki-TypeKey-0.02

Kwiki-TypeKey-0.02 03/29/2005 05:28 PM

More on the Typekey upgrade...

More on the Typekey upgrade... 05/16/2004 12:18 PM

So my installation of Movable Type has never been the simplest of things. I've had to use cgiwrap to avoid some of the more arcane problems with pair's process throttling and I've got MT installed in a completely different directory and domain to my site. For someone with as little overt server knowledge as myself, this means that every time something's supposed to be a simple installation or adaptation process, everything goes completely wrong. This is all by way of me saying that I've still got lots of problems around the place with integrating the Typekey registration system, including but not limited to it randomly not working, having lots of really nasty preview screens that remain totally untemplated and generally feeling more than a little rough around the edges. I'll endeavour to get it all sorted out this evening so that the Monday morning crowd don't start snarking out at me... Plus: Lots of actually interesting posts on real subjects to come soon!

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Authen-TypeKey-0.01

Authen-TypeKey-0.01 06/20/2004 11:55 PM

Kwiki-TypeKey-0.01

Kwiki-TypeKey-0.01 03/29/2005 05:29 PM

Kwiki-TypeKey-0.03

Kwiki-TypeKey-0.03 04/02/2005 05:13 AM

Kwiki-TypeKey-0.04

Kwiki-TypeKey-0.04 04/05/2005 01:16 AM

TypeKey still broken

TypeKey still broken 04/16/2005 09:44 PM

I can't tell you how bummed out I am that TypeKey doesn't seem to want to work for me. I've had several folks look at it - oh well.

So I'd like to reach out to Don Park - as the guy I just signed a deal with in Korea is named Park and then there's Troutgirl (who WON'T be my friend on Y 360) and so many other Parks, Kims and Lees. And I won't even get into the Moons.

I heard that the reason why there are so many of these common names - is that as Korea was leaving the fuedal era - these names were the cheapest ones to buy - for theserfs - as they sought out last names.

For many centuries lower caste people were not allowed last names.

So YES - I'll be returning to Korea - YES - I want to meet everyone's friends and hang - and I especially want to meet the OhMyNews folks.

I really dug Korea. The cyber culture is highly evolved in the masses - the whole place is a perculator petrie dish.

Kwiki-TypeKey-0.05

Kwiki-TypeKey-0.05 04/06/2005 04:48 AM

UK public wants ID cards, and thinks
we'll screw up the IT

UK public wants ID cards, and thinks
we'll screw up the IT 04/22/2004 10:30 AM
Non-contiguous brain compartments R US

my bellybutton was a phillips head screw

my bellybutton was a phillips head screw 01/27/2004 09:45 PM

Five points to the first person that can tell me what this quote comes from:

"I had this dream... that my bellybutton was a phillips head screw.  So I'm working on it, trying to unscrew it...  and when I finally do, my penis falls off.,,  so I pick up my penis and i'm running around with it, trying to find the guy that used to fix my Lincoln, when I used to drive Lincolns, so that he can fix my penis and put my penis back on...  and then this bird flies in out of now where, grabs my penis and flies off with it."

Cricket: Vaughan to turn screw

Cricket: Vaughan to turn screw 07/27/2004 02:36 AM
Michael Vaughan believes England have a "psychological edge" over West Indies after their win at Lord's.

Artificial sweeteners screw up appetite

Artificial sweeteners screw up appetite 07/01/2004 03:34 AM
Artificial sweeteners disrupt your body's ability to accurately guage your caloric intake and regulate your appetite accordingly.

Professor Terry Davidson and associate professor Susan Swithers, both in the Department of Psychological Sciences, found that artificial sweeteners may disrupt the body's natural ability to "count" calories based on foods' sweetness. This finding may explain why increasing numbers of people in the United States lack the natural ability to regulate food intake and body weight. The researchers also found that thick liquids aren't as satisfying – calorie for calorie – as are more solid foods.

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Authen-TypeKey-Sign-0.02

Authen-TypeKey-Sign-0.02 12/22/2004 01:22 AM

Movable Type 3.0 and TypeKey

Movable Type 3.0 and TypeKey 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
We've started our third round of testing of Movable Type 3.0. With this round, we've posted more information about the...

TypeKey and Comment Registration FAQ

TypeKey and Comment Registration FAQ 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
We're compiling a list of answers to frequently asked questions we're reading about TypeKey and comment registration. We hope to...

ProNet: Using Ajax with TypeKey

ProNet: Using Ajax with TypeKey 04/12/2005 05:16 PM
Since anything worth doing on the web is worth doing with Ajax, Joe D'Andrea's written up his technique for using Ajax with TypeKey. It's a clean and simple implementation of the authentication service, and it's found a good home on...

New bizmodel: screw customers with phony
charges

New bizmodel: screw customers with phony
charges 12/04/2003 08:22 PM
David Pogue takes up arms against "miscellaneous" charges on phone and banking bills, and against "innocent" mistakes where customers are repeatedly, routinely overcharged.

Phase 1 of this program was the proliferation of miscellaneous fees - for "regulatory assessment," "handling," "restocking," and so on. According to Business Week, newly concocted fees will generate $100 million for hotels this year, $2 billion for banks, $11 billion for credit-card companies - and an average of 20 percent extra on every phone bill.

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Authen::TypeKey, a new CPAN module

Authen::TypeKey, a new CPAN module 06/21/2004 01:56 PM
because building login systems is boring

Conservatives are from Mars, Liberals...
aw screw it, just read the post

Conservatives are from Mars, Liberals...
aw screw it, just read the post 03/20/2003 08:30 AM
Conservatives and Liberals obviously think differently. Here's how. George Lakoff, a highly respected linguist and author of Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know and Liberals Don't is tipping. Why? Part of it is that while Lakoff is obviously a Liberal, he's one of the few around to have taken the time to understand that Conservatives, too, have a coherent worldview. He's then added to that, er, insight his neuroscientific understanding of the power of metaphor in human communication. He's getting mad buzz right now, I just heard him lecture, and folks, Conservative or Liberal, this guy's ideas are worth exploring.

ProNet: TypePad and TypeKey Status
Webl0g

ProNet: TypePad and TypeKey Status
Webl0g 04/10/2005 02:55 PM
A quick note if you've built applications or services that connect to TypePad or TypeKey: You'll want to bookmark the Six Apart Status Weblog, where we'll post updates about service status and scheduled downtime....

Loose screw halts nuclear power station
(Reuters)

Loose screw halts nuclear power station
(Reuters) 12/29/2003 11:38 PM
Reuters - A Spanish nuclear power station has been shut indefinitely because of a small missing screw weighing just four to five grammes that fell off a machine during refuelling, nuclear officials say.

Installing MPlayer

Installing MPlayer 07/02/2004 03:20 AM
MPlayer has set itself apart as a versatile movie player under Linux and other platforms. Whether you love or hate it, once you try it, you'll have to agree that it is very different, with its versatile keyboard control and alternative methods for handling video playback.

ADC: Installing the W3C Validator On Mac
OS X

ADC: Installing the W3C Validator On Mac
OS X 07/26/2004 02:13 PM

Installing Xitami and PHP - Rev 1

Installing Xitami and PHP - Rev 1 10/29/2003 12:11 AM
This tutorial will take you through the downloading and installing process with Xitami and PHP

MSI FAQ: Installing for All Users

MSI FAQ: Installing for All Users 07/14/2004 11:53 PM

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