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SAP comes out fighting
SAP comes out fighting
03/06/2004 02:06 AMNetWeaver 2004 will go head-to-head WebSphere and BizTalk, according
to a CNET News.com story, SAP plan could spawn ...
Fighting pop-ups
Fighting pop-ups
01/18/2004 08:17 PMStandard pop-ups: Many tools, some of which are free, block the
pop-ups that are displayed by Web sites. One of the most popular is
offered by Google. ...
What We're Fighting For
What We're Fighting For
05/22/2004 03:39 PMA newly formed women's group mounts undercover missions near American
military bases to improve troop morale: "If you are out there partying
and engage in casual sex you might as well 'Take One for the
Country.'"
Fighting back
Fighting back
01/06/2005 04:59 PMUSA Today Jan 6 2005 8:02PM GMT
The ignorance you're fighting against
The ignorance you're fighting against
08/13/2004 03:47 AMFolks, it appears that you haven't been doing your job, or perhaps
you're just being ignored. I'm speaking to both vendors and IT
personnel here. The security execs and "senior IT" people don't seem
to get it when we talk about identity management.
Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting
Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting
12/15/2003 04:29 PMMore misguide copyright protection fun: Miramax demands Kung Fu site
remove link to a site that USED to sell a current Miramax property
Eriksson comes out fighting
Eriksson comes out fighting
08/14/2004 02:48 AMEngland manager Sven-Goran Eriksson slams the media after the recent
FA controversy.
Fighting Content Rot
Fighting Content Rot
07/11/2004 12:35 AMIf you manage a Web site for more than a few months, you run into
problems of content rot. You'll be cruising through some old pages,
and you'll find stuff that's...off, for one reason for another.
For instance, when this blog first started, I was anal-retentive
about enclosing BLOCKQUOTEd text in quotes. It was a quote, after
all. I would go through all the text I quoted, find double quotes,
convert them to singles, then surround the entire thing in
double-quotes before BLOCKQUOTEing the entire thing.
Now, this was very admirable of me, but when I started
inviting others to blog with me, that whole concept broke down.
Not everyone was doing it, and since it wasn't consistent, I didn't
want to do it at all. However, there are still a thousand or so
entries sitting out there with quotes around them.
Just recently, we started to standardize code fragments we post
with by using the CODE tag and the Sim
pleCode script. There remain, however, a hundred or so posts with
code hacked up in BLOCKQUOTEs or DIVs or God knows what.
These aren't an isolated cases — there are styles that we've
since abandoned, double-dashes that haven't been replaced with the
— entity, etc. I try to nail these things as entries hit
the site, but I miss some. On top of all this, throw in link rot
— links that just 404 over time — and comments. Ugh,
comments...
I try to stay on top of comment spam, but I'm sure some get
through. Additionally, there are stupid comments that slip by (why do
people insist on testing my comment form with 'fgfgfgfgfgf' all the
time?), and comments that aren't relevant any longer — people
complaining about bad links that I've fixed or mis-spellings that I've
corrected.
Categorization is another thing. I added the Temple of
Mac category at about entry #1,600. However, I didn't bother to
go back through all the old entries and move all the Mac-related
entries to the new category.
Mix all this together, and you have a site that doesn't really age
well. I'm sure if I tooled through 100 old entries, I'd have
something that needed to be fixed or corrected in at least 40 of them.
How do you handle this? Gadgetopia is hurtling toward entry number
3,000, and that's a lot of volume.
I've often thought that I should create a script that just
generated 10 random entries a day for me to review. Each morning, I'd
get an email with 10 entries in it that I need to look over and touch
up. But how do you make sure you get them all before you start
getting duplicates? I suppose you could log them all in a table and
then join the entries table against it to filter out entries that had
already been covered. Like this:
SELECT e.entry_id FROM mt_entries e LEFT JOIN
already_reviewed e ON e.entry_id = r.id WHERE r.id IS NULL ORDER BY
RAND LIMIT 10
(I haven't tested this SQL, mind you.) Wrap some PHP around this,
schedule it for the middle of the night, and you'd have 10 entries
every morning that you can tune up. Perhaps I'd send 10 to myself,
and three or so to each of the rest of the authors.
I think, however, I'm going to try something different. I'm on the
verge of putting another sidebar on the front page called "One Year
Ago Today" that lists the things were we talking about a year ago (see
the OnThisDay plugin). I'll schedule an automatic rebuild of the front page every
morning at 1:00 a.m., then check the year-old entries while I'm eating
my Crunchy Corn Bran in the morning.
Maybe this will work, maybe it won't. If someone wants to take a
stab at the mailer script (or if you already have), please post a
link. If anyone else has any thoughts about content rot, let's hear
them.
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"Fighting together for one America"
"Fighting together for one America"
07/06/2004 09:52 AMBut I'm fighting Hitler..!
But I'm fighting Hitler..!
11/10/2003 10:48 PM Daredevil and
Captain America Hang Out... at the Quickstop.
(Warning: Flash --and geekfare!-- follow.) Down but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps
Fighting
Down but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps
Fighting
05/17/2004 12:02 PMDennis J. Kucinich would like to remind American voters of something:
He's still here.
"Fighting Failure"
"Fighting Failure"
09/27/2004 11:18 AMDown but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps On
Fighting
Down but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps On
Fighting
05/16/2004 10:44 PMBefore Americans get too engrossed in a showdown between President
Bush and Senator John Kerry, Dennis J. Kucinich would like to remind
them of something: He's still out here.
Fighting ID theft
Fighting ID theft
06/08/2004 07:28 AMUSA Today Jun 8 2004 11:57AM GMT
Nine killed in Sri Lanka fighting
Nine killed in Sri Lanka fighting
04/09/2004 04:03 PMFighting VOIP Hype
Fighting VOIP Hype
05/17/2004 08:44 AMJeff
Pulver: "Looking at some of the recent local and regional news
coverage in the
US regarding 'VoIP', it is clear to me that the term 'VoIP' is now
being used to describe a new wave of competition to incumbent
telephone
service and not much more. For me, this is a disturbing trend."
Fighting Back Against Spyware
Fighting Back Against Spyware
04/27/2004 10:11 AMTwo die in South Ossetia fighting
Two die in South Ossetia fighting
08/18/2004 06:39 AMClashes with separatists in the breakaway region of South Ossetia kill
two Georgian soldiers.
Fighting intensifies in S Ossetia
Fighting intensifies in S Ossetia
08/19/2004 05:54 AMHeavy shelling again rocks Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region,
delivering a fresh blow to peace efforts.
Fighting Conventional Wisdom
Fighting Conventional Wisdom
08/17/2004 11:05 AM
Why 2004 won't be like
1984. A phenomenal read detailing why Apple's reluctance to open up
iPod is not the harbinger of doom that so many pundits claim it
is. The horror! Apple may have learned from its mistakes with
Macintosh 20 years ago and guess what? Macintosh's failure had little
to do with licensing. That is, if you agree with the analysis over at
daringfireball.net. This article points out why the media pundits are
wrong about Apple's reluctance to open up iPod and shows why their
position today is entirely different, and stronger, than 20 years ago.
Let the flame wars begin!
"Fighting spreads in Iraq"
"Fighting spreads in Iraq"
08/09/2004 08:37 PMFighting trust 'erosion'
Fighting trust 'erosion'
08/06/2004 12:53 AMUsatoday.com - Wed Aug 4, 08:38 am GMT
HD-DVD comes out fighting, launch in
2005
HD-DVD comes out fighting, launch in
2005
07/26/2004 09:09 AMThe HD-DVD (High Definition/High Density-DVD) next-generation optical
disc format got a boost Monday with the announcement by Toshiba Corp.
and NEC Corp. that they plan to launch compatible products next year
and with word that a major Japanese content producer is backing the
format. Toshiba and NEC announced their plans to launch HD-DVD
hardware during the 2005 calendar year as a three-day event aimed at
promoting the standard to Japan's entertainment industry got under way
in Tokyo. Toshiba plans a home player and possibly a recorder while
NEC said it plans a drive for use with computers.
Fighting Wildfire with Gasoline?
Fighting Wildfire with Gasoline?
05/26/2004 09:26 PM
According to a recent
report from International Institute of Strategic Studies,
thinktank,
Iraq has become the new magnet of
Al-Qaeda's war against
the United States ... The US-led war in Iraq has increased the risk
to Western interests
in Arab countries.
I didn't enjoy reading the editorial, but
I found myself
nodding my head. Urgh.
"Rumsfeld Fighting Technique"
"Rumsfeld Fighting Technique"
06/06/2004 03:13 AMSaudi: U.S. fighting "colonial war"
Saudi: U.S. fighting "colonial war"
05/24/2004 02:05 PMUK troops in increased fighting
UK troops in increased fighting
05/15/2004 11:18 AMAttacks on British troops continue in UK-controlled southern Iraq
after fierce fighting left at least 20 Iraqis dead and two soldiers
hurt.
Fighting spam: Opting out is in
Fighting spam: Opting out is in
06/23/2004 01:13 AMStraits Times Jun 23 2004 5:26AM GMT
Enforcement is key to fighting
cybercrime
Enforcement is key to fighting
cybercrime
07/02/2004 11:26 AMAnalysis Leave law alone and feel more collars, MPs'
report concludes
Fighting Resumes In Najaf
Fighting Resumes In Najaf
05/28/2004 10:51 AMFree Internet Press May 28 2004 3:08PM GMT
Fighting spam on Linux
Fighting spam on Linux
07/15/2004 03:08 AMProtestWarrior.com - fighting the
left... doing it right
ProtestWarrior.com - fighting the
left... doing it right
07/19/2004 11:34 PM"Fighting the Left - Doing it Right" .. This is absolutely brilliant
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Fighting Click Fraud
Fighting Click Fraud
07/20/2004 05:44 PMExposing click
fraud: This is why I think that, ultimately, pay-per-click
business models are flawed for the advertisers.
[...] some marketing executives estimate that up to 20 percent of
fees in certain advertising categories continue to be based on
nonexistent consumers in today's search industry.
[...] Human operations can be more difficult to detect because a
wide network of people can click on ads from different computers
across many regions, without a steady pattern. According to a report
in the India Times, residents are being hired to click paid links from
home, with the hopes of making between $100 to $200 per month.
I think the future is pay-for-performance (the advertiser only gets
paid if someone actually puchases something).
This is an evolution, but so was the original pay-per-impression
model that's slowly vanishing these days. I remember when
pay-per-impression began to lose favor, site owners protested by
saying, "But hat's how it works on TV and radio..."
However, with those mediums, you can't easily measure performance.
With the Web, you can. That fact led to the demise of
per-per-impression, and I think it will eventually lead to the demise
of pay-per-click too. Pay-for-performance is pretty foolproof —
the merchant doesn't pay until they have cash in hand, and that's hard
to spoof.
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New fighting erupts in Fallujah
New fighting erupts in Fallujah
04/28/2004 02:44 PMFighting spam with insults?
Fighting spam with insults?
06/01/2004 03:50 AMOne of my many domains have been used by spammers for a while.
Unfortunately its not much I can do about it, without spending a...
Cybercrime-fighting MP to step down
Cybercrime-fighting MP to step down
04/11/2005 01:58 PMZDNet UK Apr 11 2005 4:51PM GMT
Sun's fighting chance
Sun's fighting chance
09/20/2004 02:55 PMForrester CEO George Colony argues that if Sun goes down, it's going
to go down taking very big swings.
Spamholes Fighting Spammers
Spamholes Fighting Spammers
12/09/2003 08:28 AMmike9010 writes "A person named I)ruid has come up with an ingenious
way to combat those spammers. His program, spamhole, creates a false
'open relay' that the ...
The Big Prize - Fighting Danzas
The Big Prize - Fighting Danzas
03/20/2003 06:38 PMThis is actually, in some aspects, a happy story. I entered my
girlfriend in a contest on www.itavisen.no. And she...
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