Monthly Archives: January 2003

Working from home.

I use to get in my truck and drive to my office. The traffic was horrible and I’d arrive at work grumpy in the morning and arrive home grumpy in the afternoon. Well, that office got closed and I was … Continue reading

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France plays the bad guy!?!

The Ivory Coast has been having its problems lately and the French, in their sense of responsibility to a former colony, have stepped in to help broker a peace accord between the rebels and the civilian government there. Not everyone … Continue reading

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Where have I gone?

I apologize for the lack of updates. I’ve been busy trying to get a business off the ground. I’ve had time to write but my mind has been elsewhere. It seems like by the time I get my thoughts together … Continue reading

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So derivative.

There has been much discussion over copyright around the web here lately. What with the Eldred v. Ashcroft decision and Aaron Swartz’s Tips for Book Authors where he equates holding onto a copyright for longer than it takes to recoup … Continue reading

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Woman Receives Mistaken Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Linda McDougal was told she had breast cancer. Linda McDougal was told that her best chance at survival was to have a double masectomey, followed by radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Linda McDougal had the surgery. Oops! I woke up to … Continue reading

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This is becoming amusing.

Mark Pilgram: It appears that I am trapped like a velvet, paisley-covered Chesterfield in a hallway: unable to go either forwards or backwards.from Eddies in the Spacetime Continuum.

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Just a misunderstanding

Shelley points to a post on the W3C forum that tells us that Marks little tirade over the cite element being dropped from XHTML 2.0 working draft of 11 December 2002 was a little premature. Yeah, that appears to have … Continue reading

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Apple Lashes Out at Microsoft Settlement

I’m not a bit surprised that Apple doesn’t think Microsoft is doing enough to settle it’s anti-trust problems. What I can’t understand is why it would matter what Apple thinks in this case. The only way Apple would be satisfied … Continue reading

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All this referencing is making my head hurt.

Let me see, first we had Movable Type’s Trackback, then Pingback came on the scene. Mark Pilgrim instituted a Further Readings system on his web log and now Sam Ruby is doing something like that using the link element referring … Continue reading

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Standards are bullshit. XHTML is a crock. The W3C is irrelevant.

Mark Pilgram is on a tear over discovering that the acronym, cite and q tags have been removed by the W3C from the XHTMLtm 2.0 working draft of 11 December 2002. Specifically he says: More specifically, the acronym, cite, and … Continue reading

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N. Korea claims it never admitted to developing nuclear weapons.

Well, now the thing I want to know is, did they or didn’t they? Yesterday North Korea insisted that it never admitted having a secret nuclear programme. The claim that we admitted developing nuclear weapons is an invention fabricated by … Continue reading

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Phone Prank Pulled on Hugo Chavez

As if things for him weren’t already bad enough a couple of DeeJays on a Miami spanish-speaking radio show managed to get through the Venezuelan presidential palace switchboard to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez by pretending to be Cuba’s President Fidel … Continue reading

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Governor Assails System’s Errors as He Empties Illinois Death Row

Illinois Govenor George Ryan commuted the sentance of all death row inmates yesterday to life in prison and, for a few, less. This comes after Illinois found itself in the position of conducting 12 executions while exonerated 13 death row … Continue reading

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Using Trackback to power directories.

Scott Andrew has some ideas about using Trackback and Movable Type Categories for building directories. I’m intrigued by the possibilities here and want to make sure I’ve got a link back to his entry to think about this more when … Continue reading

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AutomationDirect

I had a meeting today with the nice folks at AutomationDirect . Joan and Paul showed me what their company had been up to lately and I was thoroughly impressed with their line. I’m especially impressed with their eagerness to … Continue reading

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