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"the fitful tracing of a portal..." (Oct 11 2003 07:26 GMT) - Happy third blogiversary to ::: wood s lot ::: . By his own past admission, Mark found FmH one of his original inspirations and I was flattered by his emulation (and, even if sometimes unacknowledged, his echoing of a number of links from here) early on in his weblogging career. From such humble beginnings, he has grown into a signature voice presence filling a unique niche and appearing on nearly everybody's blogroll, perhaps in no small measure because his own sidebar is probably the most voluminous on a page that does not explicitly call itself a 'portal'. |
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Little Miss Know-It-All (Oct 11 2003 07:26 GMT) - Have you ever gone through your whole life thinking something was right, only to learn you were wrong all along? All my life I"ve been saying chuff when I should have been saying chaff. I've been put in my place. I'm so embarrassed. Time to atone somehow. |
Annunci Accordo
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vendo amplificatore Fender Bandmaster (Oct 11 2003 07:26 GMT) - Black Face '66, 50W modifica H.Dumble Overdrive Special. Canale pulito strepitoso, overdrive regolabile a piacere fino ad un suono devastante. Pedale a 2 switch per comando a distanza. A buon intenditor poche parole! |
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There ain't no such thing as plain text (Oct 11 2003 07:25 GMT) - I wish Joel Spolsky had published his excellent introduction to Unicode and character encoding a week earlier, because then I wouldn't have wasted a couple of hours trying to write a snippet of PHP code to convert Japanese characters to Unicode character entities. In the fourth paragraph of The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) Joel Spolsky reveals what what finally provoked him into writing his essay: When I discovered that the popular web development tool PHP has almost complete ignorance of character encoding issues, blithely using 8 bits for characters, making it darn near impossible to develop good international web applications, I thought, enough is enough. |
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There ain't no such thing as plain text (Oct 11 2003 07:25 GMT) - I wish Joel Spolsky had published his excellent introduction to Unicode and character encoding a week earlier, because then I wouldn't have wasted a couple of hours trying to write a snippet of PHP code to convert Japanese characters to Unicode character entities. In the fourth paragraph of The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) Joel Spolsky reveals what what finally provoked him into writing his essay: When I discovered that the popular web development tool PHP has almost complete ignorance of character encoding issues, blithely using 8 bits for characters, making it darn near impossible to develop good international web applications, I thought, enough is enough. |
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Fashionable and Buffet Religion (Oct 11 2003 07:24 GMT) - The Dalai Lama has made some very interesting comments in this bit of news: He says not to turn Buddhism into a fashion. He also says that: "If by unifying you mean mixing [religions], that is impossible, useless." I think... |
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Measuring the blogosphere (Oct 11 2003 07:24 GMT) - There has been quite a degree of attention to Perseus' survey of weblogs (summarised here), which attempted to quantify, and classify by demographic factors, the number of weblogs. Kairos News summarises some of the reactions. Chief among them are observations of the skewed sample that was used - which counted 8 hosted blog/journal services, but ignored (non-blogspot) Blogger, and (non-TypePad) Movable Type weblogs. |
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One for the day (Oct 11 2003 07:24 GMT) - Speziell für die Hamburger Gang noch mehr aus der BamS von 1971, Rahmenhandlung das Fußball-Länderspiel gegen die Türkei: Sexgott Günter... (29 words, 0 comment(s).) |
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Neon's illuminating stories find a home (Oct 11 2003 07:23 GMT) - (US) Homeless people, drug users and drunks frequented the dank restaurant and bar, which also was a pay station for people late on phone and credit card bills. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $use_is_abuse(60%), $propaganda_theme4(60%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $alcohol(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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Around our communities (Oct 11 2003 07:23 GMT) - (US) Pot charges A Wexford County man said to have links to militia groups was arrested Friday on weapons and drug charges.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme3(60%), $use_is_abuse(100%), $propaganda_theme4(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $cannabis(100%), $alcohol(50%), $paraphernalia(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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Mexican deserters form drug gang (Oct 11 2003 07:23 GMT) - (US) Mexico - Members of an elite Mexican army unit have deserted and formed a drug gang.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $prohibition(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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Four athletes are suspended (Oct 11 2003 07:23 GMT) - (US) Two Speedway High School football players and two divers on the school's girls swimming and diving team were suspended from sports after they admitted using marijuana. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $use_is_abuse(100%), $propaganda_theme4(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $cannabis(100%)] |
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