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- The very model of a modern internet service provider. The ISP Nanny State. I've become interested in the wireless ISP business, partly because I'm tired of the "half-fast" Internet served up by the telcos and cablecos, and partly because the cost/quality ratio of radios has improved to the point that it's plausible to consider establishing a wireless ISP business in some of the growing, but under connected, areas where I live. So I started prowling several industry web sites and mail lists to get a feel for the landscape.One of the first things I came across did not make me feel good. |
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- Reps. Markey, Pitts Introduce Wireless 411 Privacy Bill to Protect Consumers: Press Release, November 20, 2003 Statement of Introduction, November... |
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- Three cheers for Michael Lewis. Lots of people at U Chicago reckon that mutual fund managers aren't worth the money, and have run lots of numbers looking for places where they earn their keep. They don't find any. More worryingly, this seems to also be true in the private equity business, except some people there actually do seem to outperform but then take all that performance back through hefty fees, bonuses, and salaries. Good for them, not so good for the investor. |
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- Entrance-Fuzzion :DJs: TREVOR PIXIE ( Moonflower rec. U.K. |
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- Unixpunx.org syndicated news |
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- Unixpunx.org syndicated news |
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- They've cancelled the translation of Robert Spencer's new book on Islam and refused to investigate death threats against the translator.... |
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- Project description: SushiWiki is a WikiWikiWeb like Web application running on .NET platforms. It is written in C#, uses ASP.NET features and stores data in SQL databases or flat XML files. |
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- Project administrators: egroise |
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- Most recent daily statistics (19 Nov 2003): Ranking: 2865, Activity percentile: 79.93%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (19 Nov 2003): Download count: 0 |
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- Public mailing lists: sushiwiki-devel |
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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 (19 Nov 2003): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Businesspundit reader Ben sends in the following email.I work tech support for a decent sized company here in the US. We use primarily Dell PC's... |
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- This is what I call sexy. I'll take one - hold the mayo... Here's Leonard's rap.......... |
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- La ville de Québec donne son accord à la transformation du Centre Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens, une ancienne école située dans le quartier Montcalm, en un complexe ré |
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- From the Guardian story Andrew Sullivan linked to for today's "quote of the day," a better choice: Mohammed Akhtar, from Middlesbrough, was in the village as a member of his town's Islamic Society. He said: "All the problems we are facing all over the world have all been created by Mr Bush."... |
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- A group of Washington lawmakers calls for file-swapping companies to help stop distribution of copyrighted materials and pornography on their networks. |
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- Nation-Building in Iraq: Lessons From the Past. A former envoy to Afghanistan says the Iraqi reconstruction planning is a lesson in how not to go about nation building. By Michael R. Gordon. |
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- I stumbled upon Design Observer: writings about design & culture -- not sure from where, must've been Xplane's xBlog ... At any rate, while I haven't read very much of this blog yet, the authors... |
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- for those of you who weren't aware liveplanet [ben affleck's production company] is downstairs from the santa monica googleplex. earlier today a friend of mine sent me pictures of ben affleck's rolls royce phantom [yes, the rolls royce phantom apparently given to him by jennifer lopez] parked in one of google's spaces in the shared lot. this violates lot policy however it seems that nobody is feeling saucy enough to call and get the car towed. because of this i am currently working on trying to convince him that he should yell "affleck, you the bomb in 'phantoms' yo." when he comes out. |
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VPC 2004 (Nov 21 2003 23:50 GMT) - Earlier this week I upgraded to Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 from VPC 5.2. Looks pretty nice, and seems to be... |
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VPC 2004 (Nov 21 2003 23:50 GMT) - Earlier this week I upgraded to Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 from VPC 5.2. Looks pretty nice, and seems to be... |
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- City firefighters often drink at the firehouse during "cocktail hours" tolerated by their bosses, says one firefighter whose claims have spawned investigations by the department and the city. |
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- [InfoWorld: Top News] - Microsoft has appointed a senior executive to a new position in Europe to improve relationships with governments across the continent, a move apparently designed to counter interest in open source software there. |
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- [InfoWorld: Top News] - Microsoft is investigating a potential security issue with Exchange Server 2003, which would be the first since the e-mail server was launched last month. |
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- PostgreSQL 7.4 Release Thoughts. I know it's been mentioned all over the place already, but after reading about the PostgreSQL 7.4 release, including the more detailed changes that Bruce published, I'm very impressed. On my TODO list for next year (that's 2004, in case you're not sure) it to play with PostgreSQL a lot more than I have in the past.... |
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- When critics go to all the work of writing poetry to tell you how bad a film is, we're talking seriously bad. Quote from a review in the Dallas Morning News: There once was a book called The Cat in the Hat. You've probably read it, and loved it at that. But now it's a film And boy, is it rank, Made just to put cash In the studio's bank. |
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- The holiday season is coming and the police will be out spot checking to make sure we're not driving while intoxicated. Their campaign would be more effective if they just promoted this website. A personal story and not easy to look at so I'm giving you fair warning before you click here. via Feces Flinging Monkey |
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- Leonard Cohen's famous song "Suzanne" was written about a real person, Suzanne Verdal. Nice little interview with her here. via MetaFilter |
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- Friday morning and the clock ticks down to the end of the day and the beginning of the weekend. For some strange reason, it appears that the weather won't be too bad so it's off to the golf course tomorrow morning. Every additional game is an added bonus and I intend to take advantage of the opportunity. Monday night I'm off to see the Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL hockey for those who don't know) in a private box at the Air Canada Center. Very posh. |
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- The right-wing blogosphere is pissed at Salam Pax (who was their hero, pre-war) for not genuflecting enough towards his new American masters.... |
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Friday (Nov 21 2003 23:49 GMT) |
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strange (Nov 21 2003 23:48 GMT) - A fighter jet just flew over my building. Fast and loud. I can't think of any patriotic events that might be going on in Los Angeles, so its a bit off-putting to have low-flying fighters over downtown L.A. Any ideas... |
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blögjam? (Nov 21 2003 23:48 GMT) - Blogjam in Swedish - the International franchise starts here. |
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- Interesting statement by Les Orchard - though I can't get his post to load to read mat he said. Here's Seb's original poiinter to Les' post..... Structured blogging and the filling-out-of-forms issue. |
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- But to dissapear completely, that is a rare gift. Little to say from time to time, but pleased currently with... |
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- Despite the protests to the contrary by the neo-con chicken-hawks, the similarities between Iraq and Vietnam are rather frightening. After a seven month campaign the Second Gulf War casualty count has surpassed the casualty count of the first three years |
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- Police Attacking Peaceful Jail Solidarity Demonstratin in Miami!! |
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- Van tijd tot tijd brengt deze mens fantastische lounge mixen uit. Ik heb een kleine 5 uur aan mixen van hem hier staan. Wanneer ik aan het werk ben ik wil eens het betere werk horen, dan zijn dit de... |
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CommentRSS (Nov 21 2003 23:47 GMT) - I was reading a set of comments by Rob Howard, Scott, and Pascal (on Pascal's blog). One items (among many others) that came up is it is sometimes hard to keep up with secondary discussions (ie, comments) via blogs. Agreed. One thing .Text and a couple other blog tools now support is CommentRSS. |
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