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- The fight to contain the monopolistic impulses of the corporate media has galvanized media activists. Their efforts have borne some fruit, mobilizing considerable opposition to a Federal Communications Commissions ruling that loosens limits on the number of stations a single company may own. On September 17 the Senate passed a full rollback of the FCC ruling. But this sharp, almost exclusive focus on corporate ownership has drowned out other crucial concerns in the struggle for... |
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- -- Maybe it was a slow day. Nevertheless, I was stunned and delighted by the efficiency of the District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles. I stopped in to get a DC driver's license, and, get this, my number was called BEFORE I COULD FINISH FILLING |
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- I'm a sucker for quirky bugs. Recently, I've been hacking around with PhlIp's excellent Mini Ruby Wiki (more on that later), and discovered one such bug. There's a block of code in MiniRubyWiki that renders a small calendar in HTML, not unlike your typical blog calendar widget. Here's a small subset (the actual code is more interesting that this) which is largely although not completely unchanged from the original miniWiki.rb source. |
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Gadgets (Oct 17 2003 21:23 GMT) - Nothing of import to say today, got some stepper motors doing stress testing in the other room while I play around with AVR-GCC and see if I can get my servo code ported to C for easier maintenance and some more interesting acceleration curves. So for lack of anything better: I ran into Christopher at _San Anselmo Coffee Roasters_ last Saturday, and I think we were both still pretty happy with our respective laptops. Although I think if my business involved a lot of video ...[truncated] |
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- A few "must read"s: What if it were Clinton and not Limbaugh addicted to painkillers (from Value Judgement) That pinko-commie left-wing publication, Stars and Stripes has reports on morale in Iraq. Via a Washington Post article, can't find the place I found that link. Ex Powell aid says Powell mislead the country (from RC3) |
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- For quite a while I've tried to keep Flutterby away from the "weblog meta" crowd, staying away from in jokes, staying away from the politics of RSS... err... RSS... I mean RSS. And I think a lot of the modern "weblogs will transform the world" stuff is hoohey. |
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Aaargh (Oct 17 2003 21:23 GMT) - Sigh. Okay, it's time to find a new job. Can't elaborate on all the frustrations, and some of 'em are my fault, but ... aargh. |
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- Dai fascicoli di pubblicità che stipano l'apposito contenitore condominiale scopro che fra un po' sarà Halloween. Devo sforzarmi per ricordare in che giorno cade ("c'entra qualcosa con Ognissanti, tipo la vigilia, direi di sì"): |
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- If it weren't so obviously just a cut-and-paste error. (Press deadline looming, probably two parallel editorials prepared, and someone stuck... |
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- One of the most under rated cars of all time |
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- The Original "Car-Based" SUV |
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- It's fun to drive, looks tough, is tough, and I am very attached to it |
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- A very dependable, fun car |
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- A sport-luxury bargain, new price=$45k, price now=$11k |
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- Terrible. You'll need a new engine |
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- Also enjoying: Tomorrow's page will be available tomorrow. |
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- The Non-Expert: Krazy Kittens |
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- I took away the blustery stuff because it was obnoxious. At least, I re-categorized it. |
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- Because now everyone in the office (regardless of PC or Mac) can listen to each others music libraries. Can you say 100 GB of music?! |
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- Because now everyone in the office (regardless of PC or Mac) can share their music libraries. Can you say 100 GB of music?! |
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Spin (Oct 17 2003 21:21 GMT) - Dave Fester at Microsoft (via Matt Deatherage): iTunes captured some early media interest with their store on the Mac, but I think the Windows platform will be a significant challenge for them. Unless Apple decides to make radical changes to their service model, a Windows-based version of iTunes will still remain a closed system, where iPod owners cannot access content from other services. Additionally, users of iTunes are limited to music from Apple’s Music Store. |
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- The thing I love about using Word as my e-mail editor is, if I do it just right (although how I do it just right is still a mystery), I can get Outlook and all my open Word documents to lock up at the same time. |
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- META{"parent"} always creates links. This is not always preferable. Putting nop before META{"parent"} does not work because the link is already there. In TWiki.pm ... |
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- Modification de ActionInclude --- par GarfieldFr le 2003 10 17 - 22:46 |
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- Modification de FAQ --- par proxy.tiscali.be le 2003 10 17 - 22:44 |
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- Modification de WikiNiSyndication --- par GarfieldFr le 2003 10 17 - 22:32 |
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- Modification de BacASable --- par dyn-213-36-128-190. ppp. tiscali. fr le 2003 10 17 - 22:29 |
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- Since it tends to be associated with the shaga- delic 1970s, it is hard to believe the lava lamp is celebrating its 40th birthday. |
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- Big Blue looks to boost its standing with small and medium size companies by offering an unlimited-user license fee option for DB2 Express, following a similar move by Oracle. |
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- Rumor has it Baxter has purchased a part of Alpha Therapeutic and as a result, as closed 60 donor centers and a processing lap in Memphis, TN. Around 1,000 employees affected. |
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- This class is meant to share session variables between different sites. All session variables of one site can be passed to another site using special URLs of links that contain encoded versions of the session variables of the origin site. |
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- smell like ben gay, or so co worker yoon has informed me. that is all.... |
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- Project description: Sushi is a suite of GNOME application that allow people to play a pen-and-paper game across the Internet. |
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- Project administrators: davide178 |
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- Most recent daily statistics (15 Oct 2003): Ranking: 0, Activity percentile: 0.00%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (15 Oct 2003): Download count: 0 |
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- Public mailing lists: sushi-devel |
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- Public discussion forums: Open Discussion, Help |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics (15 Oct 2003): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Apontamento diário ao título PSI-20, para os seus suportes e resistências. |
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