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Memory Lane (Oct 23 2003 21:59 GMT) - I was flipping through the album I brought with me when I came here, that's what I do when I start missing my friends and... |
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- I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THE RETURN OF NATIONAL SECURITY as an election issue would permanantly put me in the Republican camp. This New Republic article, reminding us of how Congressional Republicans opposed Clinton's intervention in Kosovo.In early May 1999, Washington Post reporter Guy Gugliotta asked conservative think-tanker Robert Kagan why the supposedly hawkish congressional GOP was so hostile to Bill Clinton's war in Kosovo. "The Republicans have two choices today," replied Kagan. "They can say they are peaceniks and isolationists, or they can say they don't trust Clinton to conduct this war. |
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Uh-oh (Oct 23 2003 21:59 GMT) - I’ve been thinking about the take-home exam in my intro course, for which we already have the topics, and I just realized that I don’t really want to answer the question—I want to pick apart its assumptions, one by one. Methinks this is not good.... |
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Uh-oh (Oct 23 2003 21:59 GMT) - I’ve been thinking about the take-home exam in my intro course, for which we already have the topics, and I just realized that I don’t really want to answer the question—I want to pick apart its assumptions, one by one. Methinks this is not good.... |
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- TV News: World Brief Maureen Barron has reupped as chairman of the Australian Film Commission for a third term. |
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- TV News: World Brief Australia's Southern Star has confirmed plans to launch a production outpost in Asia, based in Singapore, and has unveiled its maiden venture: animated series "The Adventures of Battle Top Bill." |
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- TV News: Award to honor passion, leadership in TV field In honor of one of television's most brilliant pioneers, NATPE unveiled Wednesday the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards to recognize excellence in the creation of programming. |
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- Due to a frickin sweet show in Jacksonville (1, 2, 3) I missed Kate's birthday. Ah, how I suck. HAPPY... |
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- article: engineers suckers for mutts |
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- Cooper Stevenson writes "Shares of Microsoft are down today on the heels of Microsoft's prospectus/earnings report filed after the bell yesterday. Here are some highlights from the top of the list: "As a result of challenges to our business model, sales of our products may decline, we may have to reduce the prices we charge for our products, and our revenues and operating margins may consequently decline. Since our inception, our business model has been based upon customers agreeing to pay a fee to license software developed and distributed by us." Also... |
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- From Wired's upcoming December issue: more about Amazon's "Search Inside the Book" feature.I put some quotes I found interesing below. I'm guessing it will cost more than $10 million to make all published works available and searchable electronically. Most important, it's still shockingly difficult to find information buried in books. |
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- Steffers writes "Andrew Donoghue writes in ZDnet that while XML has the potential to revoutionize information exchange, many users may be put off by the ever-increasing number of standards and specs." |
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- I'm trying to find a song for my wedding. The chorus goes something like this: "K-k-k-katie From K-k-kansas City, you're the only girl for me..." I don't need a copy of the song, but rather the real title and artist, and maybe an album name? All I know is it's an old song, maybe from the 30's or 40's? |
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- Charles Davis writes "from ananova.com A Turkish judge has sentenced a man to spend 90 minutes each day reading in a library for a month. Alparslan Yigit, from Yenifakili, should originally have been sentenced to 15 days in prison for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. But the judge opted for an alternative sentence to avoid putting extra pressure on overcrowded Turkish prisons. He ruled Yigit, 28, had to spend an hour and a half reading at a library every day for a month. |
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- Our military has found a hidden cache of buried surface-to-air missiles and mines about 45 miles outside Baghdad.... |
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- Thanks to Amazon.com's amazing new "full keyword search of books" service, I stumbled across a reference to disease called Rukavina type familial amyloid p. Also called Indiana type, presumably becuase so many of our kin settled there, the disease is described as follows: Indiana type familial amyloid polyneuropathy, a slowly progressive form of familial amyloid polyneuropathy with upper limb neuropathy in the distribution of the median nerves, leading to carpal tunnel syndrome and eventually trophic ulcers; ocular symptoms such as vitreous deposits may occur. |
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- Oct. 23 - The Mayor of East Orange has announced a deal for police and firemen, ending five years of dispute. Pat Battle reports. |
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- Oct. 23 - Agents raided Wal-Mart's headquarters and 60 of its stores across the country Thursday, arresting more than 300 illegal workers in an immigration crackdown. |
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- Oct. 23 - A multi-vehicle accident near Chrystie and Canal Streets closed the inbound upper level of the Manhattan Bridge Thursday. |
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- Rajesh JainI just did a search on "Joi Ito" and got this as the first link. In fact, all the links on the page had a redirection component in the result links. Normally, Google gives the link to the website directly. Looks like they may now be starting to track clickthroughs. I repeated the search on a few other keywords, and I didn't find it again, so I guess it is one of those Google experiments. |
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- If you are interested in my talk, you can see the agenda and the slides that I will be using. Normally, I'm still editing my slides just before my talk (yes, it's terrible). But because the talks are being webcast, we were supposed to provide our slides beforehand, I complied and wrote them up. |
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- NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MARK GIBBS ON WEB APPLICATIONS Today's focus: A Virtuoso of a server By Mark Gibbs One of the bigger drags of Web applications development is that building a system of even modest complexity is a lot like herding cats - you need a database, an applications server, an XML engine, etc., etc. |
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- MagicProject 0.02 released ! |
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- theWHIR Oct 23 2003 3:47PM ET... |
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- Posted by acribos 10/23/2003 |
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- Last post by Zagreb on 22:53 23/Oct/03 - I've just been to see him do comedy in a big tent in George Square in the fine city of Glasgow. He was ace. |
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NOTBBC Info (Oct 23 2003 21:57 GMT) - Last post by Munki on 21:25 23/Oct/03 - Dear rob I need to know how much bandwith you use, for your own good |
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- There's some neat musical work going on at the Creative Commons website. [cough cough wheeze] But go listen to some of them. They're neat.... |
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- Very Addictive Side Scroller. Kill as many enemy Helicopters as possible. Lots of weapons. Slow time down. The END button changes the weapons. |
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- Little Hamster writes "Post-gazette.com has an interesting article on the DARPA funded 200-mile autonomous vehicle race across the California-Nevada desert. ... |
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