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2003 Times Librarian Award Announced (Dec 16 2003 16:59 GMT) - "It was an usually hectic day when she called," Quinn-Carey said. "After that, the rest of it just went away." No wonder. The woman from the Times told Quinn-Carey she was one of the best librarians in the country - selected from 27 other librarians nationwide for the 2003 Times Librarian Award... PictorialGazette. |
Joe Grossberg
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Null-Safe Equal Sign in MySQL (Dec 16 2003 16:59 GMT) - I minor convenience worth knowing about (saves you the trouble of dealing with WHERE clauses like foo != 0 AND foo IS NOT NULL): MySQL has a null-safe equal sign, <=> Examples: |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Inflammable Means Flammable? (Dec 16 2003 16:59 GMT) - One of the recurring bits of shtick I perform here at Daring Fireball goes like this: Some jackass writes something really dumb about Apple or the Mac. They get a lot of attention. I politely retort. The problem isn' |
Matthew Yglesias
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Death (Dec 16 2003 16:57 GMT) - Now, unlike some, I don't think it's of vital importance to see Saddam Hussein executed. That said, the death penalty would be more cost-effective than life in prison, and I won't exactly be shedding a tear for his dear departed... |
Kaleva.plus
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Sauber satsaa aerodynamiikkaan (Dec 16 2003 16:57 GMT) - Formula ykkösten sveitsiläistalli Sauber avasi tiistaina 43 miljoonaa euroa maksaneen tuulitunnelin, jonka avulla talli aikoo todistaa pitkän tähtä |
A Small Victory
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programming note (Dec 16 2003 16:57 GMT) - While I am on this psuedo-hiatus, I've decided to make use of my other domain and do a daily "best of" from my writing here, at Raising Hell and at Blogcritics. Today's is from February, 2002.... |
Good Blimey!
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Off To Dallas, Texas (Dec 16 2003 16:56 GMT) - I'm preparing to leave for Dallas, Texas on Thursday. I got all the bookings, and flight schedules. I'll be staying at the Hyatt Regency, where the CPL event will be taking place. I'll be coming back home Sunday, so don't... |
Little Green Footballs
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Dean Fundraising Hatefest (Dec 16 2003 16:56 GMT) - Bush Derangement Syndrome was raging at a Howard Dean fundraising event in New York last week; and Dean's advisers apparently knew what was going to happen, because they barred TV ... |
go fish
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Dickens scruff (Dec 16 2003 16:55 GMT) - Most of you know the extent to which I will go to make a buck. While I've had other jobs I consider to be bottom of the barrel, being a Christmas elf was definitely not one of my better jobs. I tend to block out the memory of those long six weeks at Strawbridge & Clothier at the Gallery Mall in Philadelphia. Perhaps it was the uniform -- not so much an elf, as a Mrs. Claus-type. |
BillSaysThis Weblog
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Blogs will conquer all (Dec 16 2003 16:54 GMT) - Or at least blogs and blog-derived technology. Two new examples: Sony Studios has produced Blogger and LiveJournal templates based on the SpiderMan 2 graphics (seen in action, at least temporarily at Jason Shellen's site) and Nokia, the Finnish phone phenom, is providing RSS feeds of their developer documentation, toolkits, and videos. |
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