Shaking the trees

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XML Tourist: Directory Trees to Document
Trees

XML Tourist: Directory Trees to Document
Trees 03/30/2005 09:19 PM
In this month's XML Tourist, John E. Simpsons discusses TreeSpace, a hard disk space analysis tool that uses XML to represent data portably.

UK e-gov 'needs shaking up'

UK e-gov 'needs shaking up' 05/04/2004 10:59 AM
The Register May 4 2004 3:02PM GMT

Shaking Off The Dot Com Hangover

Shaking Off The Dot Com Hangover 02/19/2004 12:45 PM
After the dot com bubble popped, many people seemed too distraught to bother looking at what actually happened and what lessons could be learned. It's only now, years later, that things are on the upswing again that some people are willing to turn back and look at what actually happened. An anonymous reader submits a story from the new Fast Company magazine talking about lessons learned from the dot com era, and it's not that bad. They basically admit that many of the things that people said during the boom weren't completely wrong - but were either taken too far or looked at in isolation, ignoring the unintended consequences of actions. Along with the article are a series of sidebars, some of which are interesting. In a whe re are they now piece, they have a great description of Marc Andreessen's current company ("delivers some sort of solution to some sort of enterprise") and in a short timeline of the bubble they willingly admit that, just as the bubble was imploding: "Fast Company urges being fast in all things. Fast to hire! Fast to partner! Fast to spend. We leave out "Fast to go bust!"" Of course, as other recent posts here have shown, sometimes it seems that people didn't learn anything at all. Sometimes, it's new people making the same old mistakes, but there are plenty of people who made these mistakes already and appear to be doing so again.

Polaroid: Enough Shaking, Already

Polaroid: Enough Shaking, Already 02/17/2004 01:13 PM

Rob and CNN let me know about this support entry at Polaroid's web site:

Ever since the song "Hey Ya" by Andre 3000 of Outkast came out, everyone is shaking their Polaroid pictures. I have always been told that you should not shake a Polaroid picture, but I'm having a hard time convincing those around me that this is true. What is the answer?

To sum up Polaroid, shaking the picture may reduce the image quality. So deduct 10 points from Andre 3000 for making people's lousy Polaroids even lousier. (That makes him Andre 2990. Zing!)

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Keep Moving and Shaking!

Keep Moving and Shaking! 03/17/2005 04:18 AM

This year’s Movers and Shakers issue from Library Journal is out, and how thrilled am I to see who’s on it?! Congratulations to everyone included, but special kudos to my buddies, Tom Peters, Veronda Pitchford, Aaron Schmidt, and Michael Stephens, as well as Karen Bersche! Michael and Aaron both point to each other’s inclusion on the list without noting himself – c’mon guys, take a bow!

The write-ups are great, although I would also note the following. I think of Tom as “Mr. Know-It-All,” but in a good way. Veronda is one of my new co-workers (via the merger of CMLS and SLS), and her enthusiasm truly is contagious. She’s a lot of fun to be around, and she always makes me laugh. As noted in Aaron’s write-up at the end, he’s an “extreme sports” kind of guy, which is the attitude he brings to librarianship. He’s fearless (as well as fun), and that’s a refreshing change. And Michael… well, the only thing I think his write-up didn’t quite capture is his zen-like nature. He is by far the calmest, most collected person I have ever met. I’ve never seen him angry, ruffled, impatient, or even agitated, all of which makes him the perfect trainer. I don’t know Karen as well, but I’ve certainly been impressed with her efforts at ALS.

Good call this year, LJ! Drinks are on me, Movers & Shakers!

'Democrats are shaking in their boots'

'Democrats are shaking in their boots' 07/15/2004 05:09 AM
talk with Mike Ditka about a possible run .. 'Democrats are shaking in their boots' .. Chicago Sun Times .. juvenile

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Shaking up the Web Conferencing Market

Shaking up the Web Conferencing Market 03/06/2004 02:09 AM

This week Convoq launched their flagship personal web conferencing service, As Soon As Present (ASAP).  The launch is a milestone for the web conferencing marketplace which has to date been characterized by enterprise-focused price points, despite software experiences that have not yet graduated into the modern age of rich client interfaces and experiences and presence-enabled communications.

Convoq ASAP breaks a lot of ground in the convergence of presence management, rich media instant messaging and multi-participant web conferencing, and do this with an economics for the mass-market.  For less than $100 per year, users of ASAP can conduct an ulimited number of meetings with up to 25 participants.  Comparative pricing from Microsoft LiveMeeting (Placeware) and WebEx is in the tens of thousands of dollars. 

This approach to the market reflects Convoq's philosophy that real-time, rich media multi-participant online collaboration is ready to be an everyday productivity application, not a stovepipe system that is limited in its use to those "premium" sales calls or online demos.  The focus on making real-time collaboration more common is reflected in Convoq's thoughtful embrace of productivity-enhacing presence and convocation management features, helping either large or distributed organizations gather the right people at the right time in online settings.

If you or your organization makes regular use of instant messaging and web conferencing in a professional (or personal!) context, I'd encourage you to evaluate Convoq ASAP.

As a board member of Convoq, it's very exciting to see this innovative communications service launch -- congrats to the entire Convoq team!  I can also say that while the 1.0 product accomplishes a lot, this team has an incredible vision and roadmap for where to take online communications and collaboration, so please stay tuned.

Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein

Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein 12/16/2003 05:22 PM
Donald Rumsfeld meeting with Saddam Hussein - Dec 1983 .. the U.S. government supported Saddam through the 1980s .. Rumsfeld and Saddam shaking hands

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PluggedIn: iPod Alternatives Shaking Up
Market

PluggedIn: iPod Alternatives Shaking Up
Market 06/26/2004 10:18 PM
Boston Globe Jun 27 2004 1:08AM GMT

IPod Alternatives Shaking Up Market
(Reuters)

IPod Alternatives Shaking Up Market
(Reuters) 06/22/2004 03:42 PM
Reuters - Fitness buff Dr. Mark Hawkins bought his first iPod a year ago when the clunky CD player he used in morning workouts started giving Robert Plant, the singer of Led Zeppelin's blues-y "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" a bad stutter.

Fla. Woman Charged in Baby-Shaking Death

Fla. Woman Charged in Baby-Shaking Death 01/04/2004 04:38 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 4 2004 3:36PM ET

Shaking up life sciences by crossing
disciplines

Shaking up life sciences by crossing
disciplines 06/09/2004 04:12 AM
Boston Globe Jun 9 2004 8:26AM GMT

Multifunction Trend Shaking Up The
Handheld Device Industry

Multifunction Trend Shaking Up The
Handheld Device Industry 01/02/2004 09:55 PM
Investors Business Daily Jan 2 2004 8:22PM ET

John Kerry faces hand-shaking ban
(Reuters)

John Kerry faces hand-shaking ban
(Reuters) 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Reuters - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, who will undergo minor shoulder surgery on Wednesday, faces a politician's worst nightmare while recovering -- no shaking hands.

PluggedIn: iPod Alternatives Shaking Up
Market (Reuters)

PluggedIn: iPod Alternatives Shaking Up
Market (Reuters) 06/26/2004 05:40 PM
Reuters - Fitness buff Dr. Mark Hawkins bought his first iPod a year ago when the clunky CD player he used in morning workouts started giving Robert Plant, the singer of Led Zeppelin's blues-y "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" a bad stutter.

ETECH Notes: Feral Robotics and Some
Other Quacking, Shaking, Bubbling Robots

ETECH Notes: Feral Robotics and Some
Other Quacking, Shaking, Bubbling Robots 03/17/2005 03:55 AM
Cory Doctorow: Here are my notes from Natalie Jeremijenko's So cial Robotics, Scmocial Robotics: Feral Robotics and Some Other Quacking, Shaking, Bubbling (what would the opposite of feral be?) Robots, at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

Natalie is a genuine cyberpunk heroine, whose hacks include hacking robot toy dogs into feral volatile organic compound sensors; setting up voicemail boxes you can call when you want to record your interactions with Homeland Security coppers, and surreptitiously filming jumpers off the Golden Gate bridge.

Feral Robotic Dogs: It's a website. Everything reduces to a website. A couple years old, dates back to the launch of the Sony Aibo. One in a series of interactive toys that express behaviors programmed in our labs -- they're fun and interesting and sci-fi-ey. But what do you learn from them? You learn construction from construction toys, monopolization from Monopoly. What do you learn from interactive toys? Interaction?

These toy dogs out of the box beg for bones or sing the national anthem.

I became interested in this when someone said to me that a robot dog would make a good pet for me -- what does that say about my capacity to care for living things? What might we learn from these things? What do we need to learn from these things.

Here's the website (xdesign.ucsd.edu/feralrobots) with instructions for upgrading the raison d'être of your robot dogs.

Warning label: OUT THERE IN HAPPY FAMILY HOMES IN THE OFFICE OF CORPORATE EXECS, IN TOY STORES THROUGHOUT THE GLOBE IS AN ARMY OF ROBOTIC DOGS. THESE REMI-AUTONOMOUS ROBOT CREATURES, THOUGH CURRENTLY PROGRAMMED TO PERFORM INANE OR ENTERTAINING TASKS, ARE ACTUALLY FULLY MOTILE AND AWAITING FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS.

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What the trees know

What the trees know 09/17/2004 02:32 PM

« A rowan tree, heavily laden with fruit foretelling a harsh winter. »

Talking about the weather and weather folklore has to be one of the few universal traits that transcends race and culture. Everybody has some goofy 'old wives tale' about a wolly worm with a full furry coat signals a harsh winter. This year, the rowan trees in Finland are practically bending to the ground they are so full of fruit which I am told is part of the Finnish weather folklore and warns people of a harsh winter approaching. I don't know that I believe it, but with th e geese migrating early and the generally crappy weather we've had all summer long, I'm starting to wonder what nature knows that we don't.

Back home, we've got lots of weather sayings and wives tales, and some of them are pretty funny. I haven't found anything with a collection of Finnish weather folklore, but I'm guessing that it isn't terribly different. You have to wonder where some of these stories came from and why people still either believe them or mention them aside from their entertainment value.

Weather Folklore

• Horses run fast before a violent storm or before windy conditions.
• Pigs gather leaves and straw before a storm.
• Flowers close up before a storm.
• If the bull leads the cows to pasture, expect rain; if the cows precede the bull, the weather will be uncertain.
• Expect rain and maybe severe weather when dogs eat grass.
• Wolves always howl more before a storm.
• When the rooster goes crowing to bed, he will rise with a watery head.
• Ants are busy, gnats bite, crickets sing louder then usual, spiders come down from their webs, and flies gather in houses just before rain and possible severe storms.
• Evening red and morning gray are sure signs of a fine day.
• Evening gray and morning red, put on your hat or you'll wet your head.
• When small clouds join and thicken, expect rain.
• Dandelion blossoms close before a storm.
• If autumn leaves are slow to fall, prepare for a cold winter..
• When the leaves of trees turn over, it foretells windy conditions and possible severe weather.
• Redbirds or Bluebirds chatter when it's going to rain.
• Birds on a telephone wire indicate the coming of rain.
• Before a storm, cows will lie down and refuse to go out to pasture.
• When spiders weave their webs by Noon, fine weather is coming soon.
• If wasps build their nests high, the winter will be long and harsh.
• When it is evening you say, "It will be fair, for the sky is red." In the morning, "It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening." Matthew 16:2
• It will be a cold, snowy winter if:
  -Squirrels accumulate huge stores of nuts.
  -Beavers build heavier lodges than usual.
  -Hair on bears and horses is thick early in season.
  -the breastbone of a fresh-Cooked turkey is dark purple.
• A severe summer denotes a windy autumn; a windy winter a rainy spring; a rainy spring a severe summer; a severe summer a windy autumn; a month that comes in good, goes out bad.
• The sky turns green in a storm when there is hail.
• A veering wind will clear the sky, a backing wind says storms are nigh.
• When you look out your window and see your Dogs jumping around and ducking Its a sign that its hailing.
• When dogs in your house start looking paranoid schizophrenic expect very heavy sleet for 5 hours.

Trees!

Trees! 12/24/2004 01:07 PM
More trees here

wood for the trees

wood for the trees 02/07/2005 01:37 AM
Wood for the trees. The Forest Cafe in Edinburgh , a volunteer run , eco - friendly , creative space thats worth a look.

Trees, Temporarily

Trees, Temporarily 12/03/2003 07:19 PM
In his latest Transforming XML column Bob DuCharme explains XSLT 2.0's Temporary Trees, and then he demonstrates how to use them.

Toilet Trees

Toilet Trees 03/30/2005 01:12 AM
Where do you hide your nasty-ass toilet plunger so the house guests won't see it? Under an attention-getting, gawdy as hell fake plant - duh.

The Man Who Planted Trees

The Man Who Planted Trees 04/17/2005 01:52 AM
"The Man Who Planted Trees" (story) There's also a short note on the copyright, and the original French version.

Building XML Trees With PHP

Building XML Trees With PHP 02/20/2003 07:01 PM
Need to manipulate XML document trees, but don't have the DOM extension compiled into your PHP build? Take a look at XMLTree, a PEAR class that allows you to create and manipulate XML document trees without requiring the PHP DOM extension.

Flowering Trees

Flowering Trees 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
Here in Vancouver we have multitudes of flowering trees. At this time of year they delight the eye, but are a challenge to the photographer. A bit of progress on that front, with a note on infused vodka...

The forest and the trees

The forest and the trees 01/25/2004 12:51 PM

The genius of Jon Udell's work is not sheer technical innovation (not that TransQuery amounted to anything like that either) but rather the ability to make sense of how such technologies can be used in simple but powerful ways over compelling content. ...

Money That Grows On Trees

Money That Grows On Trees 04/18/2004 12:21 PM

Omnivorous Trees: Part 4

Omnivorous Trees: Part 4 12/05/2003 07:50 PM
Here's another hungry tree. This one has a taste for rusty farm machinery. Link(thanks, Paul!)

NECs swaps PCs for trees

NECs swaps PCs for trees 04/04/2005 08:22 AM
Green is big in Japan

Photos: amorous trees

Photos: amorous trees 12/09/2003 04:58 PM
BoingBoing reader George Perdicaris points us to the work of photographer Yuri Dojc. His "Amorous Nature" series reveals hidden eroticism in the world of plants. Link

Trees To Fight Hog Waste

Trees To Fight Hog Waste 12/15/2003 05:59 AM
CBS News Dec 15 2003 5:38AM ET

Designing Trees and Hierarchies in SQL

Designing Trees and Hierarchies in SQL 06/05/2002 07:50 AM
If you've followed Joe Celko's columns or bought his books, he recommends the nested set model for representing trees in SQL (he's posted it on SQL Team a few times). It's very well detailed in the following articles, Part I, II, III, IV, and also in his book, SQL For Smarties, and I recommend checking it out. It's very efficient and makes it extremely easy to pull out trees/subtrees from the table.

However (you knew this was coming!) one of the issues I have with nested sets is the complexity required to do relatively simple tasks, like adding, deleting, or moving nodes in the tree. Even finding an employee's immediate supervisor or subordinates requires 3 self-joins AND a subquery! - robvolk

"btn" Focusses on MS SQL Server, but the principles can be applied to most databases.

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Help with an article on the fate of
trees...

Help with an article on the fate of
trees... 12/30/2004 11:29 AM
I have agreed to write the February issue of Esther Dyson's Release 1.0, but I need your help. The topic is something like: What's up with taxonomic trees? We used to think that they represented the actual shape of knowledge. We generally now realize that they're "just" tools, but they seem to be less popular as ways of browsing. So, what's going on? Are they as important as ever? What new ways are they being used? (E.g., they're sometimes used to disambiguate full-text search queries.) What's being used in their place? I'm particularly interested in vendors who build trees for...

Dead trees = journalism

Dead trees = journalism 04/19/2004 01:46 PM

Congrats to Richard!  Until your words go onto dead trees - you are not a journalist.  But now you are!

I guess this makes me a journalist.

Today I got my first article in print. My interview with Marc Canter made it into Computerworld New Zealand (pg 16, April 19 edition - right over the page from Jon Udell). It was one of my goals at the start of this year to get my writing published in the print world, so I'm chuffed to have achieved it! I'll upload a scanned version of the article tomorrow, because it isn't on the Computerworld NZ website at this point in time.

For those of you who may have arrived at my personal website via Computerworld, you may be interested in reading the extended version of the Marc Canter interview. Or perhaps pay his company website Broadband Mechanics a visit (newly re-designed, with my interview linked on the homepage too. Excellent!). Or you could stick around, make yourself at home, put your feet up and browse through my archive of weblog writings - by date or by topic.

What the heck is Blogging?

Some of you may be wondering what all this "blogging" business is about. The best way I can explain it is invite you to participate in the personal publishing revolution. Firstly, to read and subscribe to weblogs - try out Bloglines as an easy-to-use "newsreader". You can start by subscribing to this weblog ;-) Click here to subscribe to Read/Write Web in Bloglines. Or, see that orange button with RSS on it - to your left? RSS means "Really Simple Syndication". Right-click that and copy it directly into Bloglines.

The second part of the blogging equation is the writing and publishing. There are a variety of tools out there, including Radio Userland, Movable Type and TypePad. I currently use Radio Userland to publish this weblog and Movable Type for my linklog (daily list of links).

So am I really a Journalist?

Not really, but my interview with Marc Canter was an example of journalism. The reason I bring this topic up is that there's been a lot of talk lately about whether blogging is journalism. Jay Rosen wrote an excellent essay on this a couple of days ago. His conclusion was that "Blogging is not automatically journalism." There's a lot more to the debate than just this statement, but it's all philosophical. Read Jay's post and all the great comments others made on his weblog, if you want the full picture.

For what it's worth, I think journalism is a craft that must be learnt and practised constantly - much like being a Web Designer or Producer is a craft. I can occasionally practise the craft of journalism, and perhaps I'm even good enough to "turn pro". But the reality is I'm an amateur Journo (sometimes) and a professional Web Craftsman (all the time).

Tom Coates wrote an essay last year called (Weblogs and) The Mass Amateurisation of (Nearly) Everything... that outlines how weblogs make it easy for "amateurs" to publish. Nowadays anyone can create original content and distribute it to the world. If it gets picked up by a professional publishing outfit, all the better for both writer and readers. It's a win-win two-way web world!

[Read/Write Web]

Embracing Dead Trees

Embracing Dead Trees 06/07/2004 05:36 PM

I've started noticing these totem pole-like sculptures around Helsinki and, I presume given the Finnish fondness for wood, that there are plenty of others around Finland. Perhaps Finland and Alaska could trade artists and Helsinki could get a Native American totem pole and the Inuits could proudly display a totem featuring Finnish ice hocky or giant makkara. :)

Updates may be light for the next few weeks as I get my brain flossed by the nuances of louna, loukse, louta, kanssa, mukana, mukaansa, itse, the plurals, et al. After 3 or 4 hours of homework every evening, I'm not much for anything save staring at the TV. Pääni on täysi.

Scoop! Trees are warm-blooded!

Scoop! Trees are warm-blooded! 02/05/2005 09:53 PM
The snow has melted around the tree in front of our house, leaving about a four inch gap all the way around the trunk. The snow has not melted around the wooden telephone pole a half block up from our house, on the same side of the street. What other scientifical conclusions can we draw from this shocking evidence except that trees are our warm-blooded brethren and sistren? Quick! Call the Texas educational system and demand that our children's textbooks be re-written!...

U.S. Rejected Davis on Aid to Clear
Trees

U.S. Rejected Davis on Aid to Clear
Trees 11/02/2003 04:17 AM

Rambus Sees Logic for the Trees

Rambus Sees Logic for the Trees 02/18/2003 08:22 PM
The memory chipmaker introduces a new parallel bus logic interface family (codenamed Redwood), which offers a per pin data rate between 400MHz and 6.4GHz.

Expansion Trees by leper on 2002/10/03

Expansion Trees by leper on 2002/10/03 10/03/2002 12:42 PM

Taller Trees? The Limit Is Plumbing

Taller Trees? The Limit Is Plumbing 04/26/2004 06:53 PM
To find an answer to the question, "How tall can a tree get?" a research team has performed an act of scientific derring-do.
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