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Wish Us LuckWish Us LuckWish Us Luck 03/13/2003 10:23 AM Our three month old daughter Cameron is going to see a specialist
tomorrow afternoon to have a suspected heart murmur investigated. I'm
more than a little perturbed, as you might imagine. Similar Items Wish Us LuckGrok Headline matches for Wish Us LuckLuckLuck 03/08/2004 11:12 PM This week will change everything for me. This is the week, I've been dreading for about 3 weeks prior to.... No such luckNo such luck 02/16/2004 07:43 AM Finally back, after spending about 40 hours in the same set of clothes. Arriving on the airport, I grabbed my bag and walked on with the enthusiasm of a zombie on Prozac, anxiously waiting for a ride home, and a hot shower. However, customs picked me from the queue and made me account for all the stuff that I had with me (in a rather unfriendly manner, I might add, too). Unfortunately, on closer inspection, it turned out that I had made a slight currency conversion error and had gone a bit too overboard with my purchases, and had to pay 35€ of taxes and fines. Oh well, it was still cheaper than buying that stuff from Finland. On a separate note, here's a cool use of RSS: Pluck in your birthdate, and it will give you a feed, which consists of all the stars that are within your theoretical sphere of influence, i.e. your "light cone". Thanks to Matt for doing this. It really warms the heart of an old astronomy geek :-).
HR857 is 33.9 light years away and only 5 days from the outer surface
of your light cone - your ever-growing sphere of potential causality.
More Yum! LuckMore Yum! Luck 02/12/2004 09:53 AM The fast food giant serves up supersized expectations. Bad luckBad luck 06/29/2004 04:19 AM I seem to be plagued by bad luck now. I'm sitting on the Helsinki Airport (the flights to Oulu have been cancelled due to a combination of fog and broken landing system), waiting for the next available flight. I also got a traffic ticket (from the stolen car that was really moved -episode), which I intend to complain about. I've also slept a total of seven hours during the past two nights, which is making me feel like a drunken koala with a techno fetish, hunkering over a laptop. But it's funny how sometimes unexpected luck throws interesting and wonderful people your way. So it is difficult to say that something is really bad luck until you really know, and even then you don't quite know until you know, you know? :) Anyway, I'm off to have a free lunch, courtesy of SAS/Blue1. Meta-LuckMeta-Luck 06/08/2004 09:10 AM According to my dream last night, there truly are objects that bring good luck to their possessors. Unfortunately, the pool of objects changes rapidly, so that whether any particular object brings one luck is itself a matter of luck. (No, I don't believe in lucky charms or placating the local woodland gods, although tipping heavily does seem to work.)... Good luck getting a PSPGood luck getting a PSP 03/23/2005 04:52 AM ZDNet India Mar 23 2005 9:34AM GMT England rue bad luckEngland rue bad luck 06/25/2004 12:54 AM Frank Lampard says England's players are "gutted" after their dramatic Euro 2004 exit. Make Your Own LuckMake Your Own Luck 02/13/2004 02:41 PM some cynical part of me suspects that people who have to be taught how to network will never really be great at it Hard luckHard luck 07/28/2004 06:10 AM USA Today Jul 28 2004 9:51AM GMT Good Luck and Bubblewrap.comGood Luck and Bubblewrap.com 12/29/2004 06:19 PM Collard greens and black-eyed peas, a New Year’s tradition, on a chef’s site; Virtual-Bubblewrap.com lets you punch holes with your mouse; KnowItAllVideo.com, where amateur instructional videos are posted and rated. For Han Solo Luck Is No LadyFor Han Solo Luck Is No Lady 09/10/2004 04:50 PM Dark Horse releases Star Wars: Empire #24 this week, featuring a new adventure starring Han Solo and Chewbacca as they are sent on a supply-gathering mission for the Rebellion. But true to form, Han stops for a quick game of Sabacc and finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy between an old friend and a crimelord! "Idiot's Array" is brought to you by Ron Marz and Jeff Johnson. For an online preview of this issue, click here. Computer Viruses are Bad LuckComputer Viruses are Bad Luck 07/07/2004 04:18 PM WebDevInfo Jul 7 2004 8:32PM GMT Good luck Danese!Good luck Danese! 03/22/2005 05:09 PM It's sad to see Danese leave Sun. I talked to her at length before I joined Sun and she's given me lots of good advice along they way. She helped to convinced me that taking Roller to Apache is the best way to ensure the continued success and long-term viability of Roller as an independent open source project and helped me find my way to ApacheCon 2004 so that I could learn about the Apache way. I started at Sun about five months ago, I work remotely and I never really got to know Danese all that well, so it's very interesting to read the farewell messages and retrospectives on the important work she has done at Sun (e.g by Jim Grizanzio, Claire Giordano, and Danese herself). Thanks Danese and good luck at Intel and with your new blog. Good luck PhilGood luck Phil 06/08/2004 05:02 PM Saw Phil this weekend at Planetwork. Got so hungup in giving Reid Hoffman a hard time that Phil didn't get time to spiel himself. Good luck to Phil - sounds like a fun summer! Phil's summer of F2F - Part
1. Dear Phil -
So I leave my computer, my home, my city, my country. Recently, AD:TECH ("Eyeballs for sale! Fresh steaming eyeballs!") and PlaNetwork (Kumbaya embraces digital identity), both in San Francisco. Coming up: I'm going to try for the Bio 2004 conference exhibit hall, this week. Especially interested in new bioinformatics and the publications systems that try to promote innovation without giving away secrets. Innovation World's Michael Boland and Mary Kate Stimmler are blogging from the conference. This week and next are full of East Bay Kerry stuff. A Democratic Party Meetup where East Bay Kerry recruits volunteers. Committee meetings for Fundra ising, Chairs , Media Relations, Visibi lity and GOTV, and Writer s. We're having our first Speake r Training & Kerry Teach-In. And a big bunch of us are going to the Oaklan d A's vs. Pittsburgh Pirates game to show Kerry love to all those Pennsylvanians watching the game. Gary Hart is signing his latest book. And we're sending envoys to other political meetings, like the Lamori nda Democratic Club and the MGO Dem Club. All the time compression of a startup, none of the cash flow, and hard deadlines. I've started going to Mark Finnern's Future Salons. Smart people, challenging topics. Next one June 18th at SAP Palo Alto. Saw him at Planetwork, first time in daylight. You owe yourself a venue to talk about 10, 20, and 50 years out. Great context and fodder for work and life planning. In two weeks I'll attend the first day of Supernova, blogging a technical and policy discussion of today's convergence. Time to bone up on spectrum allocation, grid computing, WiMax, and more. I'm glad the wiki (thank you, SocialText) and rss feed (thank you, TypePad) are up. I'm spending July 4th in Vienna, Austria, for BlogTalk 2.0, the conference by Thomas Burg and the Center for New Media at Danube University. Getting there a little early to spend time with the Actionable Sense Troupe ("How do you switch between Discussion and Action?") and BlogWalk 3.0 in beautiful Krems. Then Back in town for the BlogOn conference. Read Susan Mernit's post. They have a boot camp, similar to workshops I proposed for London. What do bloggers know that others don't? To understand social software, managers need the insights that make blogging and other social tools "click" for users, and to frame those "Aha! moments" into a useful context. What should I do this fall? [a klog apart] Good Luck Florida!Good Luck Florida! 09/03/2004 12:07 PM As Hurricane Frances locks in on Florida, we'll all have our thoughts with you. We all wish you the very best of luck and hope it ends up just a big rain shower for most. Buy a bit of Google and search for luckBuy a bit of Google and search for luck 04/26/2004 03:26 AM Toronto Star Online Apr 26 2004 7:45AM GMT Working Around Bad Luck on the Resume?Working Around Bad Luck on the Resume? 02/18/2004 10:53 PM Press Your Luck WinnerPress Your Luck Winner 03/14/2003 05:07 PM No Whammies! In 1984, Michael Larson turned an ample memory and an abundance of free time into $100,000. How? By appearing on "Press Your Luck." And while the producers refused to rerun his episode, you can watch parts of it here in anticipation of the coming documentary and possible Bill Murray movie. Friday the 13th: Bad LuckFriday the 13th: Bad Luck 02/14/2004 02:26 AM Today was definitely Friday the 13th. I don't post about the office on this weblog very often, but today was just one of those days. I'm a sales manager at work, and today, my "star performer" told me she had been offered a job at another company. That means she's leaving. Ugh... can't tell you how hard that hit me. You see, I've been trying to build a new business around online advertising sales for my company for the past year and a half, and I've spent a lot of time teaching, training, and learning. I've really put a lot into getting my "star performer" to the level that she's at right now. When I started at the office, this person was pretty green. I had to mold her into the sales person I needed her to be, and she took it well. Very well, and she's become successful. This year, my company gave her an award for improving so much. That made me feel very good about what I was doing and where we were heading. Then, today, she tells me she's leaving. As her friend, I can't help but be happy for her, and excited about her opportunities... but as her boss, I can't help but feel overwhelmed and stressed about the pressure this will put on top of all of the rest of the pressure I've put myself under trying to build this new part of our business. We'll get buy without this "star performer" but this sets up back a few steps. I'll post a note on Monday about the opening I need to fill, but, if you know someone in Austin that wants to sell online advertising at a local media company, please send me their resume. Good luck Fen and Drummond!Good luck Fen and Drummond! 05/21/2004 04:04 AM I'm not going this year - but I hope that what Fen and Drummond are working on - gets finished. The PeoplesDNS will certainly support it. Kaliya Hamlin tipped me to The PlaNetwork InterActive that will be taking place at the San Francisco Presidio on June 5-6, 2004:
To read more about this 2004 conference, please visit the PlaNetwork website which cautions that space is limited, and advises us to regist er now... [The Social Software Weblog]Football: Souness blames luckFootball: Souness blames luck 04/15/2005 04:44 AM Newcastle's Graeme Souness laments injuries and poor finishing for his team's Uefa Cup elimination. MS wish British Athletes best of luck in
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