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...And that's it. The client doesn't FIN, and the server doesn't ACK. In other words, the connection is kept "half-open" on the server end. The reason for this? Why, to make subsequent connections from IE clients faster. If the connection isn't torn down all the way, all IE has to do is send an HTTP request, with no preamble-- and the server will immediately respond. Ingenious!



They probably called it "Microsoft Active Web AccelerationX™®" or something.

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Yahoo! Groups : thinkpads Messages : Message 1142 of 1155 Then you could plug it directly into the power connector on the back of the

laptop.

Yahoo! Groups : thinkpads Messages : Message 1143 of 1155 Radio Shack also has a supply of the Power Connectors available, for the easy

method, get the connector that already has a cord molded to it, just bring the

laptop to the store and test fit until you find the correct coaxial connector,

just make sure that when you wire the cable to your battery pack that you get

the Plus and Minus on correct on the connector or you will be rewarded with

smoke from the laptop. Note I show a fuse in the Positive lead, it is a very

good idea to FUSE your battery pack, size the

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6. Chairs were a huge problem. If you're putting new chairs in a large unionized shop, do what we did: Let the Union pick the chair. People are pretty picky about where they park their butts all day. We knew that whatever we chose would be hated by someone enough for them to file a grievance. By letting the Union do the choosing, management totally avoided the problem. "You don't like your chair? It hurts your back? Sure, you can file a grievance. Just figure out a way to file it against your own Union! Hahahahaha!!!"



7. As a Union member, I oversaw the chair selection. We narrowed the field to about 10 different chairs based on basic OSHA specs and the ability of vendors to meet those specs and get us samples. We then had every employee come into the sample display room in rotation, sit in every chair, and vote. The final selection was a high-backed fully adjustable chair with the name "SuperFurntiture" embossed on the back. I have no idea who actually made the thing, but just about everybody could live with them. They don't have too many adjustments and they don't have any detachable accessories, but everybody can get them into a configuration that's acceptable.

IHNATKO #24: "Live From Space #22" For bonus points, plug the whole mess into a Bescor 12V battery pack.

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Google Search: vitamix Blenders have their disadvantages, though. There are several different

problems:



The produce is processed at very high speed - and there is concern

that this destroys nutrients in the produce;



Fine bubbles are stirred into the juice - resulting in a larger

surface exposed to oxygen - and more rapid oxidation;



Less discrimination is applied - which can result in more pesticides -

and elements such as cyanide from apple pips - finding their way into

the produce;



Fibre in the product whisks nutrients through the system before they

can be absorbed, and reduces palatability;



Blenders are usually very noisy during operation;''

The Salt Lake Tribune -- Utah's Statewide Newspaper The Tiny Oriental Posse and the Original Laotian Gangsters have feuded for more than a decade. Police suspect their on-again, off-again battle has resulted in more than 25 shootings in recent months. So far no one has been killed, but a West Valley City gang member was struck in the stomach and leg early Sunday during a drive-by shooting near 3000 South and 5600 West.

O'Reilly Network: WebDAV on OS X [Nov. 10, 2000]

WebDAV support in Mac OS X (Public Beta 1) allows for simple remote management of Web content.

WebDAV, or "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning," is a set of extensions to HTTP/1.1 ("HyperText Transfer Protocol," the protocol spoken by Web browsers and servers) allowing you to edit documents on a remote Web server. DAV provides support for:

Google Search:

I ultimately got some 33 decibel MAX foam rubber earplugs made by

Howard Leight Industries. I put these in every time I go to bed. And

they work great.

I now sleep well regularly. And have enough confidence in my ability

to sleep well that I think nothing of making major variations in my

sleep pattern, because I have confidence I can recover my normal sleep

pattern easily.

Part 2

THE PLAN OF ATTACK

I first attacked this problem by taking melatonin. I started taking 3

mg at night when I went to bed. But I still woke up at 3:30. So then I

started to take 3 mg melatonin when I woke again. This helped some but then my wake up time stated to vary, being either earlier or later and this caused me to stay awake in anticipation. So I then began to set the alarm to wake me at about 3:30 and at that point I would take 3 mg melatonin.

This began to work, and I would sleep well the first half the night, wake myself take melatonin and get back to sleep.

But later I started waking about 4:30 am and not being able to go back to sleep. So I started getting up earlier. First at 6:00, and then 5:30, and finally at 5. This made it so I was only losing about half an hour a night. At the other end I of course started going to bed a half

hour to hour earlier.

I started getting fairly good sleep. Well over the inadequate 4 hours a night that I had been averaging for well over a year. My mind started working better, and I started thinking clearer.

Late in the year, I quit taking melatonin at bedtime, because I was getting naturally sleepy at that time. This worked and I would sleep through till my alarm at 3:30 am to take some melatonin. Ultimately I stopped waking myself up to take melatonin at 3:30,

DuPont Teflon(R) FAQ In cases where the non-stick coating is grossly overheated (any food would have long been burned to an inedible state at this point), fumes may produce temporary flu-like symptoms. There are no long-term health effects, and this situation can be avoided by proper ventilation and cooking practices.



With regard to non-stick coatings and birds, veterinary experts advise keeping pet birds away from cooking and cleaning fumes. These fumes can be hazardous to birds because birds are small and have very sensitive respiratory systems.

Teflon Poisoning

What you must remember about Teflon is that "Teflon" is a brand name just as

Levis are jeans. That means each manufacturer of the same product may vary

the ingredients to make his product more unique. In Teflon type products

this happens. Some of the nonstick products are deadlier than others and

seem to require a very low temperature to emit fumes. Also the age of the

product makes a difference. We know how easily the surface of the these

products can be removed through scratches, etc. A pot that is very old and

been exposed to a lot of air is not going to be as deadly as a brand new pot

freshly taken out of it plastic wrap....even though both products are made

by the same manufacturer. That does not mean the old pot is safe, only safer.

Jef Raskin - Manual v37

EPIGRAPH
It's extremely important to always bear in mind that we are all creatures of habit, down to the most minute detail, so we tend to confuse what is "natural" with what is "comfortable." Things that are comfortable are so almost entirely because we are used to them. When things become habitual through repeated application, they start to feel natural because we can't imagine them any other way; but we have to take a few steps back and objectively reassess what we do in order to find out whether our comfortable habits are actually natural and efficient

Mobile Devices

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Pre-loaded Red Hat 7. Custom install with both GNOME and KDE desktop environments. Linux distribution included.

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Most appliances and other electrical equipment have a nameplate that indicates the power requirements.



To calculate the wattage for any appliance, use the formulas below:

For single phase equipment (any residential equipment):

Watts = volts x amps

For three phase equipment (found in some commercial and most industrial equipment):

Watts = volts x amps x 1.732 (1.732 is the square root of 3)

stevenberlinjohnson.com: Blogs and the short block Blogs and the short block

Jason Kottke posts about the virtues of short blocks, which he's noticing with fresh eyes now that he's relocated to the West Village. (Welcome, Jason!) Jane Jacobs talks about this in Death and Life: why the tighter, short-block grid is preferable to the looser grid with long stretches between intersections. It's one of the gems from that book that I didn't address in Emergence, but I've talked about it in a couple of speeches, including one at O'Reilly's Emerging Tech conference last May. Jason and I were emailing about the idea -- and how it potentially connected to the web, and the blogosphere -- and I realized that I'd never published anything about short blocks. (As far as I can remember.)

I think there is a useful connection to be made here. The power of short blocks is ultimately that they create a more even density in the city fabric: because short blocks offer more potential routes from x to y, they diversify the flow of pedestrian traffic through the city. In the long blocks model, pedestrians are funneled onto a few primary pathways, which quickly become over-crowded. With short blocks, they spread out through the entire street system. So you get some people on every street, unlike the long blocks model, which puts all the people on some streets, and no people on other streets. In the long blocks model, you get Times Square interspersed with desolate stretches; in the short blocks model you get the West Village: a bar or restaurant on every corner, a few interesting boutiques or bookstores in between, an interesting mix on the sidewalk, but never so much that you feel crowded out.

If you translate all this over to the Web, it seems to me that the blogosphere is the closest thing going to the short blocks neighborhood: the population density is not nearly as oppressive as what you find on the major sites (much less old media networks.) But it's not as atomized as the world of IM. Short blocks is 50 people on the sidewalk at any given time, instead of 5 or 500. The blogosphere is 50 people on the site at any given time, instead of 5 or 5 million. (Which reminds me of Dave Weinberger's line: "On the internet, everyone is famous to 15 people.") That's a very human scale, I think -- it opens you up to new perspectives, but doesn't overwhelm you at the same time.

stevenberlinjohnson.com: Blogs and the short block Blogs and the short block



Jason Kottke posts about the virtues of short blocks, which he's noticing with fresh eyes now that he's relocated to the West Village. (Welcome, Jason!) Jane Jacobs talks about this in Death and Life: why the tighter, short-block grid is preferable to the looser grid with long stretches between intersections. It's one of the gems from that book that I didn't address in Emergence, but I've talked about it in a couple of speeches, including one at O'Reilly's Emerging Tech conference last May. Jason and I were emailing about the idea -- and how it potentially connected to the web, and the blogosphere -- and I realized that I'd never published anything about short blocks. (As far as I can remember.)



I think there is a useful connection to be made here. The power of short blocks is ultimately that they create a more even density in the city fabric: because short blocks offer more potential routes from x to y, they diversify the flow of pedestrian traffic through the city. In the long blocks model, pedestrians are funneled onto a few primary pathways, which quickly become over-crowded. With short blocks, they spread out through the entire street system. So you get some people on every street, unlike the long blocks model, which puts all the people on some streets, and no people on other streets. In the long blocks model, you get Times Square interspersed with desolate stretches; in the short blocks model you get the West Village: a bar or restaurant on every corner, a few interesting boutiques or bookstores in between, an interesting mix on the sidewalk, but never so much that you feel crowded out.



If you translate all this over to the Web, it seems to me that the blogosphere is the closest thing going to the short blocks neighborhood: the population density is not nearly as oppressive as what you find on the major sites (much less old media networks.) But it's not as atomized as the world of IM. Short blocks is 50 people on the sidewalk at any given time, instead of 5 or 500. The blogosphere is 50 people on the site at any given time, instead of 5 or 5 million. (Which reminds me of Dave Weinberger's line: "On the internet, everyone is famous to 15 people.") That's a very human scale, I think -- it opens you up to new perspectives, but doesn't overwhelm you at the same time.

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welcome to peterme.com One of the panelists put it best when he said that in supporting collaboration, what matters most is a "governance architecture." In other words, a system for using the simple tools. With a little bit of training and management, companies could see a huge return on the use of simple collaboration tools, far more than trying to buy some type of monolithic solution that requires everyone to work in exactly the same way, and in a way that runs contrary to how they operate now.

welcome to peterme.com What I'm guessing that means is that all the knowledge management, web conferencing, content management, and lordknowswhatelse simply provides no real return on investment (and is likely a loss, since companies pay millions for these tools, and then ignore them and use email).

This made me consider which collaborative digital tools seem to work? What gets people to coordinate, to work together to a common goal? And my answer: dumb simple ones. Email. Instant messaging. Simple bulletin boards like bugzilla. Voice telephone calls. Weblogs. And, when stepping out of the world of business, SMS.

Here is a little procedure that may help you with your card.

anders|> First, if you have the ability, verify with another device,

anders|> laptop, CE or desktop machine that your CF card is okay. Assuming

anders|> the card is okay, try the following:

anders|> -Close all applications

anders|> -Remove the CF card

anders|> -Remove atadisk.dll from Windows directory and any other

anders|> .patches. you may have

anders|> -Stick a paper clip in the reset hole

anders|> -Wait for reset to finish

anders|> -Execute ibmd_Pcmcia.exe

anders|> -Run the test on the the PCMCIA and CF slots, both slots will

anders|> fail, that.s okay.

anders|> -Exit ibmd_Pcmcia.exe

anders|> -Cross your fingers and insert CF card.

anders|> -With you card inserted, copy, move and delete various sized

anders|> files for a few minutes to verify success.

Computer Monitor Height, Angle, and Distance - Ergonomics Guidelines Although most ergonomists agree that a low monitor is better for the visual system, the question has been "What happens to the neck and upper back?" Two recent studies have addressed that question. Turville and colleagues (1998) compared monitor locations with the center of the screen at 15? and 40? below horizontal. They compared the average (mean) muscle activity for 10 sets of neck and upper back muscles. The recommended limit for mean muscle activity is 10-14% maximum voluntary contraction (MVC) (Jonsson 1978). (MVC is the maximum muscle effort that can be voluntary exerted by the subject.) Although the 40? placement had higher readings than the 15? placement, all were much lower than the recommended limit. The highest was 6.8%. For the trapezius, the muscle most often associate with cumulative trauma disorders, the activity averaged an extremely low 2.2% MVC for the 15? and 2.0% MVC for the 40? conditions.

Google Search:



Apple System Updates (and some other Installers) seem to set the

permissions of / to 775 or 777.



I have gotten into the habit of



sudo chmod 755 /



after any System Update.



>Now it won't receive incoming mail. Arrrrgh.



Check /System/Library/StartupItems/Sendmail/Sendmail



It should contain the lines



/usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q1h &

/usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q 20m &

SourceForge.net: Project Info - WordPerfect to LaTeX convertor

WP2LaTeX is a program for conversion WordPerfect 4.x,5.x,6.x documents to LaTeX. Converted features are: Headers, Tables, Equations, Centered Right Left text, a lot of extended characters (greek, math,cyrilic) and of course a normal text.

Mike's Mac OS X Management Software and Tips: Enabling Sendmail chmod go-w / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue

chown root / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue





This seems to have re-enabled sendmail.

O'Reilly Network: mail error [December 24, 2002] sudo chmod go-w / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue /private

O'Reilly Network: Unix for the Rest of Us [Jun. 08, 2001] Location, location, location



Our first recipe is simple but very useful.



Open your Terminal app (it's in /Applications/Utilities/) and type



locate '/Fonts/'



If locate returns nothing, it's because the "locate DB" script hasn't been initialized yet. If this is the case -- you've recently installed OS X, and the regular cron scripts haven't yet run -- type the following and let the machine churn for a few minutes. The ampersand at the end of the line puts the process in the background.



sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb &

O'Reilly Network: Addendum [December 24, 2002]



changing sendmail permissions



cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': World writable directory

Academic Literacy in a Wired World

To build effective Web pages, students must develop the ability to think of texts in meaningful sections that may be linked in a variety of ways, instead of weaving the sections into a cohesive whole by using transitional devices. Hypertext is truly process-based, with the reader participating in the interactive process of constructing the text as a whole. Web hypertexts must incorporate graphic elements, possibly animation, sound, or video elements as well as verbal elements. Instead of developing a thesis, a linear thread through a document, student writers learn to distribute meaning across files and link meanings associatively and visually.

NETWORKING / Joystick World / Outgaming Osama

Defense intellectuals such as Linton Wells II, a deputy assistant secretary of defense responsible for command, control, communications and intelligence, believe that the Pentagon must realign itself for "network-centric" operations.
In their view, adversaries such as bin Laden's al Qaeda group are really networks -- highly dispersed units that have the same loose but robust structure as the nodes of a computer network.
The intellectual groundwork for this "netwar" analysis was laid out in a paper published on the Internet in October 2001 by two Rand analysts, David Ronfeldt and John Arquilla. "It takes networks to fight networks," they argued.
But it has been difficult to imagine what these anti-network networks might look like.
That's why the massive online games are so intriguing. The ability to connect hundreds of thousands of people simultaneously opens the possibility for sharing information, tasking both combatants and civilian rescue workers and "pulsing" adversaries with counterattacks.

O'Reilly Network: Update to Mac OS X Terminal, Part 3 [Jun. 07, 2002]

As those of you who've updated to Mac OS X 10.1.5 have discovered, sendmail no longer works as described in Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 3. The 10.1.5 version updates sendmail to 8.12.2 from 8.11, and in the process tightened up security considerably

OSXFAQ - Technical News and Support for Mac OS X

Google Search:

Bruce Klopfenstein (klopfenstein@earthlink.net) wrote:

: I'm looking for a shortcut conversion of each existing URL into a

: hotlink displaying the same URL.

: Anyone ever do this?



If you've got Perl, and all your URLs are http: URLs, try this:



perl -p -i.bak -e's#(http://.*?)(\s)#$1$2#gi'

Mac OS X Hints - Use psync to create incremental backups sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell

Joe Strummer dead | Metafilter

Steves Digicams - Fujifilm FinePix A200 - User Review The FinePix A200 builds on the success of Fuji's popular FinePix A201. It uses the new xD memory card and offers 2.0-megapixel (1600 x 1200) images and a fixed focus 36mm(equivalent) lens. It does not have optical zoom but does have a digital zoom of 2.5x (640x480) and 1.25x (1280x960). It's available now (Oct 2002) for just $179.95.

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Icy Hot Pain Reliever at Epinions.com While Icy Hot works very well, there are a few things that you need to remember when using this product. This is NOT your grandma's Ben Gay; Icy Hot is much stronger than Ben Gay. If you over-apply the cream, Icy Hot can burn you, making the sore area more painful than before. You can apply a generous amount to the sore muscles, but don't overdo it. Also, you should always remember to wash your hands after apply Icy Hot. You see, this stuff tends to linger. I know that I have put Icy Hot on my legs, and then scratched my arm afterwards - and then wondered why my arm was heating up! So, if after putting this stuff on you have to go to the bathroom...well, you get the idea. Don't forget to wash this off.

Being Charlie Kaufman - theage.com.au Kaufman's Adaptation script, which was completed in 1999, was indeed inspired, he said, by "months of depression". He simply could not complete a commission he had received from Sony Pictures to write a cinematic translation of The Orchid Thief, a 1998 book by Susan Orlean. "By the end," he says, "it was almost hysteria."

Fark.com Comments Thingee (386453) This is not news, people. - www.doom9.org - www.vcdhelp.com - you can copy ANY DVD, that is ANY disc, including PS2 and Xbox, to a single DVD-R. (Of course you need a modchip to play the copied games. copied DVDs require no modchip, just a DVD player built after 1998 or so) The movies that are too big, you just run ifoedit to strip out the spanish/french audio and documentary stuff, and if it's still too big, you just run rempeg to transcode it down and make the stream smaller... on all but the most expensive TV sets, the differerence is invisible, if you follow the instructions in the doom9 guides. DVD-R hobbyists have been doing this for over a year now. Blank media costs 80 cents in bulk packs, or $5 each if you insist upon the swanky media (apple blanks manufactured by pioneer, by the five-pack for $25). Everything that DVD X Copy does can be done by freeware programs just as well. Enjoy!!!

Fark.com Comments Thingee (386453) Bah, just rip with divx and use DD/DTS 5.1 sound



It's cheaper and uses CDs.

A couple of things made me inexplicably cheerful yesterday.

1. the arrival of a diss book, "context and consciousness"
2. figuring out how to extract text from wordperfect attachments in Unix
3. putting an end on our new tv antenna coax
4. seeing Ezra perform at his school Christmas special
5. driving into town with the family

The caffeine I took (vivarin) was awesome.

foodgeeks.com: Cornbread Sausage Stuffing Cornbread Sausage Stuffing

Unix/Linux FAQs - Automating & Scheduling Tasks The following web page is a culmination of questions and answers that have been compiled while researching Unix/Linux Administration. As I get deeper into my studies, I will be adding to this page significantly. Hopefully this information will be of value to other Unix Programmers who would like to learn a little more about administration. My apologies for some of the incomplete text. I will be adding information about the Directory Structure and Managing User Accounts at a later time. Please enjoy "Automating & Scheduling Tasks" in the meantime. Thanks!

Procmail module library Procmail is not very suitable for saving MIME attachements and you should not think that this the right tool for you. If you receive anything more than 1 attachement, this recipe does nothing, because that's out of our league and you need some more heavy weight mime tools. Eg. Perl CPAN has MIME libraries.



Note

cat joshua.doc | strings > joshua.txt



The above command strips readable text out of wordperfect documents.

go with your gut (long as usual) The one thing academia has taught me is that there are more "friends' who would most likely stab me in the back for a job than there are not. It's a cold place, for many of us, and even when it feels warm, one should be cautious.

Antenna Help



Making your own cheap fm antenna.

iPac2.0 Sleep : the gentle tyrant / Wilse B. Webb. *

by Webb, Wilse B.

Bolton, Mass. : Anker Pub. Co., c1992.

Add to my list

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Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date

UVSC - Orem Campus Regular, 4th Level QP425 .W32 1992

iPac2.0 Losing sleep : how your sleeping habits affect your life / Lydia Dotto. *

by Dotto, Lydia

New York : Morrow, c1990.

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UVSC - Orem Campus Regular, 4th Level QP425 .D67 199

iPac2.0 The promise of sleep : a pioneer in sleep medicine explores the vital connection between health, happiness, and a good night's sleep / William C. Dement and Christopher Vaughan. *

by Dement, William C., 1928-

New York : Delacorte Press, 1999.

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UVSC - Orem Campus Regular, 4th Level RA786 .D43 1999

I sorta helped fix a blogger/mozilla bug. You never see this kind of responsiveness in the closed-source world. I don't think.





Bug 88049 - Support .selectionStart & friends for textareas ------- Additional Comment #125 From mark crane 2002-12-18 10:11 -------



Evan Williams of Blogger fame wrote the following:



"Hi, Mark. We're running into a bug that could be pretty major for us

(and make me take back that "preferred browser" statement). Do you know

what the status is on this?

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88049



Thanks,

Ev.

"



He wants to optimize the new version of blogger to work with Mozilla but

apparently this is holding him back.





------- Additional Comment #126 From pete collins 2002-12-18 13:05 -------



Thanks guys, let's not let this patch die on the vine here.



--pete





------- Additional Comment #127 From Susie Wyshak 2002-12-18 13:25 -------



added nsbeta1 and topembed as it's a blocker for Blogger.





------- Additional Comment #128 From Alex Vincent 2002-12-18 13:40 -------



Nominating for blockage of 1.3 beta (as in this bug should be one of those

blocking a "Make Mozilla 1.3 beta not suck" bug). Also removing 1.0.2 keyword,

as we can pretty much kiss that one goodbye.

wrote this yesterday:

I love my Vivarin. I realize that it may not be wise to take it every day, but as of this moment, I am not exhausted and actually feel like writing something. This is a grand and glorious thing. Tomorrow I go in for an MRI and hopefully there are no tumors in my head, at which point I can focus on exercise and better sleep. Yeah.

I can feel the call of the internet, but I have loaded up win2k on one partition without the modem installed, so if I am going to procrastinate, I will have to find another way. After I get four crappy pages done I will reward myself by buying a compact flash reader for work, perhaps.


My copy of _Talking About Machines_ just showed up. It'll be my key to incorporating the notion of teacher-technician, something my techgnostic adviser is sure to *hate*.

Uncle Bill's Helicopter All of us keep things working pretty good, every day. It's not always an anonymous spacecraft that we crash, and we rarely have a Y2k success story to tell.

But I know the mistakes that we make are still worth it. My uncle Bill killed several friends, while testing his helicopter. I don't think he ever really got over it... But he got up, somehow, pulled himself out of that crater, and tried again.

His Super Stallion keeps on flying, well, 12 got shot down in Vietnam. In 1990, one saved everyone in an entire embassy. In 1995, one pulled a pilot out of somalia. In 50 years, when that bird's retired, it's still gonna be flying in at least one place, my mind. There are thousands of these wonderful machines, doing that kind of stuff, every day. If you look carefully you'll find helicopters like that everywhere.

Last week I cratered one of my projects, and while driving home, I sat at a traffic light.

There's a 4 bit microprocessor in that, an intel 4004, one of the first embedded computers. This chip has been around for 30 years!

The light turned from red to green. And from green to red. And from red to green. And from green to red. I thought about how many lives that little traffic light had saved, of the engineer who made it work that good, and of the people that had worked so hard to keep it working... the light turned from red to green, and I said thanks, and drove on.

Does DNA Evidence Refute the Book of Mormon? Where is the Lamanite DNA??

Interestingly, I've encountered another example of a respected researcher encountering Finnish-like genes in Native Americans and ascribing that to presumably recent European admixture.

Does DNA Evidence Refute the Book of Mormon? Where is the Lamanite DNA??

The problem in applying DNA analysis to the Book of Mormon goes beyond the likelihood of discarding the most relevant evidence. There is also the possibility of attributing evidence of pre-Columbian migrations to recent admixture. Worse, there is the possibility of missing the date of entry of the most relevant genes, and thus eliminating them from the scope of the Book of Mormon, as we shall now discuss.

Does DNA Evidence Refute the Book of Mormon? Where is the Lamanite DNA??

The single-migration view is being eroded in the wake of additional recent studies pointing to multiple migrations. For example, Karafet et al. (1999) studied Y-chromosome markers from over 2000 DNA samples from around the world, including 62 Inuit Eskimos, 12 Mixe, 29 Mixtecs, 22 Kazakhs, 30 Evenks, 18 Melanesians, and 54 samples from several tribes in Panama. Fifteen indigenous North Asian groups were also included. Based on analysis of the 95 haplotypes they identified, the authors concluded that there were multiple founder haplotypes that entered the Americas, including the possibility of multiple migrations from a region in Siberia.

Anne's home page

so i'm thinking about writing a self help novel called: "microsoft excel: a self help program." no, seriously, i'm not kidding. microsoft excel changed my life. details will be included on my new website

Hunkabutta: Tokyo photos, a stranger's life in pictures

dooce - motherfucking festive

Sorry, everytime I hear the words " I only listen to NPR" I remember a quote I read on f-train. "All NPR feels to my brain, like licking custard off of asphalt would feel to my tongue."

Talk Radio on Oklahoma City: Don't Look at Us

It wasn't just Limbaugh that rallied to the defense of violence-preaching talkshow hosts--less than a month after the bombing, the national board of NARTSH voted to give its "Freedom of Speech" award to Liddy. The award, which is supposed to go to "the individual who best embodies and boldly defends those freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment," has previously gone to Salman Rushdie, CNN's Peter Arnett and columnist Jack Anderson.

Ironically, Liddy has admitted that, as an aide to President Richard Nixon, he started to plan an assassination of Jack Anderson, who had written columns critical of Nixon. "The rationale was to come up with a method of silencing you through killing you," Liddy told Anderson on the CNBC program The Real Story (6/13/91). Liddy's efforts were aborted by higher-ups at the White House.

[Mailman-Users] Help with sendmail & mailman config

Are you sure your tcp stack is loaded and running properly. I believe

that "61 Connection refused" is a problem communicating with your IP

stack (and not the MTA). Could your server be under load, or the IP

stack be flooded with requests?



If all that is fine then be sure that you have su'ed as user mailman

before doing any testing (like telnet 172.0.0.1 25).



This should check your local firewall to make sure that you allow

connections on port 25 from all interfaces including 127.0.0.1, and it

should check that your MTA is listening on the localhost interface.



Check your /etc/mail/access file and make sure that localhost and

127.0.0.1 are setup to allow relaying. Your machine probably has a name,

add that name to the access file and set it to allow relaying.



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Eric D. Snider - Theater Review - I Came to Your Wedding Am I biased against Ruth Hale plays? Yes, in the same sense that you'd be biased against rattlesnakes if you got bitten every time you saw one. It's not a blind, unreasonable prejudice -- like I just woke up one day and said, "I'm not going to like Ruth Hale plays anymore." It's based on sad, sad experience.

Bid to Oust Lott From Leadership Considered (washingtonpost.com) Senate sources said allies of Lott have tried to stave off such a challenge by sending the message to colleagues that he would leave the Senate if he lost. McConnell warned in a conference call Friday night that Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove (D) would appoint Lott's successor, presumably a Democrat. That would put the Senate in an even split, 50 seats for each party.

p.s. I awoke at 6:16 this morning.

Today:

1. tidy cube/office thingy
2. grades
3. eight pages of writing of some sort
-put interviews into Nvivo.

I'm sort of despairing today. I hope caffeine and chocolate will help with that. I've decided that even if I lose my job I will try not to lose my family, or kill myself, and can possibly still finish the dissertation in this lifetime and find work. It's a possiblity I don't like to think about, for obvious reasons.

If I can just get the lit review and methods turned in, my volume should increase markedly. I'm as informed as anyone else from my program who wrote a diss. I'm good enough, I'm smart enought, and doggone it, I can do this.

There are a lot of people at work. They are talking on the phone, making noise, etc. I am going to finish grades and get home to work. That will make everyone happier.

Other goals, or attempts at behavioral change:

1. stretch back every 45 minutes.
2. read jeje ko in the morning.
3. workout.

Mozilla chokes on long blogger posts. Parts of the menu disappear.

I just wrote 191 words in just a few minutes. At this rate I can finish my diss in about an hour and a half.

I misplaced two library books:

-talking about machines
-Technological Literacy in the 21st century

I sure hope they were in that box I mailed back to Louisville. I ordered copies from half. com, and only some have arrived. Logistical problems suck up so much time.

I wonder if I could use my experiences this semester with 2020, as an example of a hybrid class. Perhaps only in footnotes for now.

I wrote 370 words this morning, and realized that I know more than some of my (admittedly older) sources.

Attention Deficit Disorders and the ABD Student

Went downtown with my wife today for about four hours. Wrote in the morning, and tried to write when I got back but was tired, had to eat dinner, then rented a video and watched that Vincent Donofrio version of law and order.

Felt some despair while working with a source. Wish I knew more about lit reviews, but right now I just need the pages. Hard to slow down in a sense. Hard to take the time to read. Feel guilty for enjoying the job and the home, because it all seems unreal. Must finish.

Tomorrow: I'll probably wake up with a sore back around 5:30. I'm downing some chocolate chips, exercising on the machine for 15 minutes, then writing until about 9am.

I like working at home in the basement. Much less distracting than the cubicles at work.

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Export and import almost everything from one identity of Entourage X to any other, to and from Entourage 2001, and transfer Contacts. Calendar, Tasks and Notes to and from other PIM programs on the Mac and Windows, with special converters for Microsoft Outlook, Excel and other programs. Shareware. v1.2.1 is an update for importing from "Other Programs" (e.g. Now-Up-to-Date, Palm Desktop) and Excel. It fixes many bugs in all the Other to EvX converters, especially Calendar, and in Excel Import Adapter. It also imports "Outlook-type" CSV files from Windows and internet apps designed to be imported by Outlook. (OSAX: Satimage (included)) (Script ID: 333)

There's a big difference between writing lists, something I do too much of, and writing pages of stuff.

I am going to write 500 words, then reward myself with some light reading.

One of the problems with telling yourself, "The diss is just four long papers stuck together" is that your original enthusiasm for writing something that will freak out the staid, bourgeois discipline you belong to will fade over time. Just a thought.

Cyberspace as American Culture CULTURE DIGESTS THE NET

Like many inventions before it, the Internet is disruptive. Individuals must learn how to use the Internet, of course, but in a deeper sense the culture as a whole must learn about it as well. Culture happens in the routine patterns of action and interaction by which people coordinate their activities and negotiate their lives together. As various social groups appropriate the technology and contest the various sorts of access it affords (Dutton, 1999; Kling 1996), the Internet participates in a thousand dynamics that unsettle these patterns and set the culture in search of new equilibria.

SXSW /interactive/tech_report/recent_interviews/l_lessig Aside from getting involved with Creative Commons and writing your Congressperson, is there anything else you would recommend to people in the creative community how to voice their opinion on these issues?

Writing Congress is an extremely important step. I'd also say blog. We've got to develop a rich and serious alternative mode of addressing these issues that's sometimes outside of the control of existing media. Blogging is one of the most important opportunities we have for finding alternative channels to discuss these things. That's what I'd encourage most.

SXSW /interactive/tech_report/recent_interviews/l_lessig There's this amazing culture of Doujinshi, which are amateur cartoons. The comics market is huge here, with comics making up something like 40 percent of published work. Doujinshi are copies of comics. People copy comics, change a character, develop a story line. And that's a huge market over here. There are annual conventions where 400,000 people show up to trade. It's a form of expression that would be illegal in the United States. It's clearly a derivative work; it's a violation of copyright. But it's not treated as illegal in Japan and so it has produced an extraordinary amount of creativity around creative work that would be a good investment for people in the US to watch. It shows how less control can actually mean more creativity.

Scientific American: Top SciTech Gifts 2002

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on ProForm Ellipticals 700S Cardiocross PFEL3901 at Epinions.com

I have made significant progress from my first workouts when I could barely go five minutes. I don't get out of breath going up stairs anymore, but, unfortunately, that is the only improvement I've noticed. I don't feel healthier or more energetic. I still dread working out, which I thought would get easier over time. It seems like I'm always hungry. And, worst of all, my figure has not improved one iota and my clothes are as tight as ever!



Given the lack of visible progress, it's hard to stay motivated. My husband always says it's a lot easier to put fat on than to take it off. Boy, is that an understatement. He also says it could be six more months before I start to see the results I want. No matter what, I still paid $400 for this machine and I'm determined to get my money's worth.

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One night my husband noticed that my workout posture was poor. In my exhaustion I had not noticed I was slouching over. We realized part of the problem was that maybe for my stature the pedals were too far back and I was having to reach too far for the poles. I moved the pedals forward a notch and that helped, but I also became more aware of my posture to stop myself from slouching as I became tired.

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My primary concern with the Aeron chairs is the mesh seat. Traditional cushion-based seating has a distinct advantage in the sound and odor control departments.



When I was in a dot-com office a while back, and we all got Aerons, there was a short period of adjustment while, one at a time, my co-workers and I discovered that yes, now everyone could hear everyone's farts.



Mesh seats, the great equalizer.

Syllabus Article: The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What's it All About? The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What's it All About?

Trent Batson

Varenne: TF5016 -- Ethnography of the Classroom -- VI What are we to mean by "culture" in ethnographic description. What are the issues to consider when deciding to look at a particular instance as relevant to an institutionalized historical a pattern, i.e. a "culture" as an object of some sort.

1.
2. case is instance of a type, typical? This is only partially a sampling issue (though Tobin, like most, treat it as such)
3. case is instance of sub-(sub-sub-)type, must the significant (structural) units are those of the main time locally transformed for any number of reasons, including an explicit refusal by the local group to bend to the explicit requirements of the type.
4. the explicit ideologies and values (as expressed in such documents as the first paragraphy of St. Timothy's mission (Tobin p. 137)
5. evidence that all (many? in all settings or ways of asking?) agree with each other on major idiological matters.
6. evidence that much that is constructed is constructed with the signifying units made available by "the culture" (e.g. participants' explanation of some behavior in term of "the development of individuals")
7. evidence that controversies are framed in terms of the signifying units ("this is(not) the way to develop individual talents")
evidence that matters people complain about (and the suggested solutions) are effects of one of the signifying units.

I discuss these matters extensively elsewhere

David Bleich - The Materiality of Language and the Pedagogy of Exchange - Pedagogy 1:1 Materiality and Genre

The many recent discussions of genre suggest that this path of inquiry has several sources that overlap with the sources of the modern versions of the materiality of language. These common sources include Ludwig Wittgenstein's understanding of speech ceremonies, schemata, and conventions as "language games" and "forms of life"; M. M. Bakhtin's idea of speech genres; J. L. Austin's speech act theory; and Tzvetan Todorov's idea of discourse genres. 3 This overlap looks like the development of a Kuhnian paradigm shift regarding what language is, a shift that urges materiality and genre as constitutive aspects of language. Nevertheless, it is also the case that discussions of genre in the pedagogy of rhetoric and literacy after Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, and Todorov do not recognize a fundamental role for the materiality of language. This omission reduces the use-value of the genre idea. The materiality of language is part of a concept of genre and renders the genre idea more versatile in teaching, an issue to which I return later in this essay.

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Mark Bernstein: Dec0201 First, inconvenience and evil are not indistinguishable. Poor usability is chiefly a matter of inconvenience: making things take a little longer, making users take unnecessary steps. It's not nice, but there are worse things. Let's keep some perspective.

More substantially, conforming to 'expected behavior' is not the mark of a varied, rich, and sophisticated intellectual life. The urge to insist that expressive media conform to the imperatives of expectation and efficiency has had a sorry history in the past century or so. Usability is nice, but conformity is conformity.

Finally, to regard users as Muggles is, I think, fundamentally wrong. In fact, Rowling's "ethical" wizards are, if you take them seriously, mere cowards. Why do they hide magic from the Muggles? Yes, some Muggles are small-minded, mean, ignorant, and superstitious: does this relieve the ethical wizard from an obligation to treat muggles with decent respect? Where were the ethical Wizards in 1938-45? What are they doing about AIDS, global warming, hunger?

Putting the Architecture Back into Information Architecture

B. discusses our rapid dismissal of "decorative" elements in websites. Also refers to the Bauhaus movement, an attempted synthesis of craft and art. All very relevent to web page design.

The Bauhaus Manifesto: The Merging of Art and Craft

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Bauhaus manifesto 1919
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The complete building is the final aim of the visual arts. Their noblest function was
once the decoration of buildings.
Today they exist in isolation, from which they all can be rescued only through the
conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must
recognize anew the composite character of a building as an entity. Only then will their work
be imbued with the architectonic spirit that it lost when it became a "salon art." The old art
schools were unable to achieve this unity and, after all, how could they, since art cannot be
taught? They must be absorbed once more by the workshop.
This world of designers and decorators, who only draw and paint, must finally
become one of builders again. If the young person who feels within him the urge to create
again, as in former times, begins his career by learning a handicraft, the unproductive artist
will, in the future, no longer remain condemned to the creation of mediocre art, because his
skill will redound the benefit of the handicrafts, in which he will be able to produce things of
excellence.
Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all turn to the crafts! Art is not a profession.
There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman.
The artist is an exalted craftsman. In rare moments of inspiration, moments beyond
the control of his will, the grace of heaven may cause his work to blossom into art. But
proficiency in his craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies a source of creative
imagination.
Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions that raise an
arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist. Together let us conceive and create the new
building of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one
unity and which will rise one day toward heaven from the hands of a million workers, like
the crystal symbol of a new faith.
WALTER GROPIUS
The National Bauhaus at Weimar grew out of the merger of the former Grandducal
Saxonian School of Graphic Arts and the Grandducal Saxonian School of Arts and Crafts,
with the addition of a new department for architecture.
Objectives of the Bauhaus.
The Bauhaus strives to reunite arts and crafts ­ sculpture, painting, applied art, and
handicrafts ­ as the permanent elements of a new architecture.
The ultimate, though distant aim of the Bauhaus is the Einheitskunstwerk (Uniform
Work of Art) ­ the great construction that recognizes no boundaries between monumental
and decorative art.
The Bauhaus wants to educate architects, painters and sculptors of all sorts to
become qualified craftsmen or independent creative artists. It also aspires to establish a
study group of leading artists who will be able to design buildings in their entirety ­ from
rough brickwork to completion, including embellishments and furnishings that reflect a
similar spirit and unity.
Principles of the Bauhaus.
Art in itself is beyond all methods; it cannot be taught. However, one can teach a
trade. Architects, painters, sculptors are artisans in the true sense of the word, therefore
the thorough mechanical training of all such students in workshops is an indispensable
foundation for all creative activities. (Their own workshops should be completed gradually,
and apprenticeships should be entered into with outside workshops.) The school is the
servant of the workshop.
One day the two will merge into one. Therefore there are no teachers and pupils at
the Bauhaus, but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
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Teaching methods at the Bauhaus.
The manner of teaching arises from the nature of the workshop: organic form
developed from mechanical knowledge; elimination of all rigidity; emphasis on creativity;
freedom of individuality, but strict scholarship.
Masters and journeymen are examined according to the regulations of the guilds by
masters of the Bauhaus or outside masters from the trade guilds. Students participate in
the projects of the masters.
There is common planning of extensive building projects ­ popular and cultural
buildings ­ with utopian aims. Allmasters and students collaborate on these projects, aiming
for eventual harmony of all elements and parts pertaining to the construction. There is
continuous contact with the country's leading experts on trade and industry, as well as with
the public, through exhibitions and other events.
New experiments arecarried on to solve the problem of exhibiting two- and three-
dimensional art in an architectonic frame. Finally, friendly relations are fostered between
masters and students outside of the work by means of theater parties, lectures, poetry
readings, concerts, and fancy dress balls.
Scope of instructions at the Bauhaus.
Teaching at the Bauhaus embraces all practical and scientific fields of creative
production: architecture, painting, sculpture, and related handicrafts.
Students are taught a trade as well as drawing and painting, and also scientific
theory.
1. Workshops ­ be it Bauhaus workshops or others, where students are obligated by
contracts ­ comprise:
A. Sculptors, stonemasons, stucco workers, wood sculptors, potters, plasterers;
B. Blacksmiths, locksmiths, founders;
C. Carpenters;
D. Scene painters, glass painters, mosaic workers, enamel workers;
E. Etchers, wood engravers, lithographers, printers of fine art, engravers;
F. Weavers. The foundation of the Bauhaus teaching is instruction in a trade. Each
student has to learn a trade.
2. Instructions in drawing and painting include:
A. Free sketching from memory and imagination;
B. Drawing and painting of heads, life models, and animals;
C. Drawing and painting of landscapes, figures, plants, and stilI life;
D. Compositions;
E. Execution of mural paintings, plaques, and decorated chests;
G. Lettering;
H. Construction and projection drawing; Design of exteriors, gardens and interior
architecture;
J. Design of furniture and commodities.
3. Instructions in the scientific and theoretical arts include:
A. Art history ­ emphasizing not a history of styles but the understanding of historical
working methods and techniques;
B. Science of materials;
C. Anatomy ­ with live models;
D. Physical and chemical theory of colors;
E. Scientific methods of painting;
F. Fundamentals of bookkeeping, drawing-up of contracts, contracts for the building of
houses;
G. Single lectures on subjects of general interest in the fields of art and science. Work-
distribution Plan
The teaching is divided into three sections:
(1) instruction for apprentices;
(2) instruction for journeymen; and
(3) instruction for junior masters.
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The details of education within the framework of the general program and the work-
distribution plan, which has to be newly set up for each semester, are left to the judgement
of the individual masters.
In order to provide the students with the most multifaceted, extensive technical and
artistic education, the work-distribution plan is so arranged that each prospective architect,
painter, or sculptor may also participate in some of the other courses.
Enrollment and Tuition. Space permitting, any person whose basic training is considered
sufficient by the master counsel is admitted regardless of age or sex. The annual tuition fee
is 180 marks (with the increased earnings of the Bauhaus, this should be gradually
eliminated). In addition a single admission fee of twenty marks has to be paid.
Foreigners pay double. Inquiries are to be made to the Secretariat of the National
Bauhaus at Weimar.
April 1919. The Administration of the National Bauhaus at Weimar.

Felt totally depressed and unmotivated this morning. Woke up with a backache, knee pain, about 5:45 and read email until 6:30 when Joey came downstairs to ask for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Drove to Sandy to check out an elliptical running machine we might get cheap, then stopped and Walgreens and picked up some Ben-Gay for my knee, some Vivarin, and Excedrin. Also some Alleve to take at night. This back pain is getting to be a drag. I suppose I should stay off the stairs with the knee, but it's hard.

Anyway, it's 11:30, and I actually feel pretty good, mentally, despite being bloodshot and sorta tired. All I can do is write the dissertation. If they want to reject it, that is their problem. All I have to do is write it. And to write it, I just have to write a paragraph at a time. And it's time to go into a full-court press, working 6-10 in the mornings and 9-11 at night. And I *must* work on weekends because I can't toss four days a month.

I was reading about the Old Testament prophet Ezra last night, and the message was pretty clear: reading scriptures is foundational to everything else you are doing. And I haven't been reading much lately.

Fear of losing my job is surpassed only fear of losing my family, but the two are intertwined.

Friday tasks:

1. write 380
2. kemp
3. Handa
4. Etienne Wenger
5. Freewrite in journal
6. Read for an hour first in the morning
7. liquid excedrin and naproxen (alleve)

Cube and cubicle etiquette

Making connections—a short memo

The material, and the shifting contexts. The seeming link between the dynamic and the network. Identity and borders within shifting contexts.

A set of students and an instructor. The uses and abuses of workshop time. Troubling, troubling, access questions (quiz my students).

TV is running . Kind of a drag.

Get Selfe project.

Map out current connections and read about lit reviews.

Currently there are few people who can stomach the injustices of the time that blah blah.

[taken from my offline dissertation journal]

12/6/02

I know I've written more in this journal. In the last six months I have done the following:

1.gotten a job
2.moved to Utah
3.Taught 4 sections of writing classes, including technical writing
4.Spent a lot of time working on the house

It makes me miserable to look at this dissertation journal and see how my fears and concerns haven't changed much over three years. I feel like a slave to my fear and my ADD. If I don't get significant work done in the next three weeks I may kill myself or look for another job. I can't handle the stress of not having the dissertation done and it is dissolving my marriage. I have a clamp on my head, constantly.

The Chronicle: Career Network: 12/02/2002

Only now do I see it clearly. It's a version of that deep need that crops up among academics, the need to prove that what one does is relevant in the world. It's a fear that what one spends all one's time doing does not, in the end, matter.



In that sense, the rhetoric of the "public intellectual" and the "intellectual entrepreneur" is one way that academics try to professionalize this fear. They do not acknowledge the fear, and they do not conquer it. They merely paper it over.

Ouch! Ouch! Killing me softly! The pain!

The Chronicle: Career Network: 12/03/2002

I was nearly to campus when I turned my car around and began driving nervously back toward my apartment. I live about 20 minutes from the State University of New York at Albany, and this was not the first time I had wasted nearly 40 minutes of my day by retracing my steps in this fashion. I go through this routine for one reason: to make sure the coffeepot is turned off, because if it is not, my apartment and its contents (the four out of five completed chapters of my dissertation, my clothes, about 700 books, and my cat) will burn to the ground while I'm away.

I can relate. My health sucks right now too:
1. constant minor back pain
2. 50 lbs. overweight
3. taking anti-depressants
4. tendonitis, sore knee
5. depression (see above)

Wheeeee!

I will probably write more "dissertation journal" sorts of things in here, now that I have hidden this from the prying eyes of Charlie Lowe and others. I'm basically kind of depressed right now--I just found out I have to get an MRI because my hormon levels are all screwed up. I hope it's not a pituitary tumor, because 1) that can kill you, or at least 2) damage your pituitary gland, and I'm already a freak of nature. Hopefully all of my minor ailments are just killing stress.

An ex-girlfriend, (10 years ago) casually let it drop that I had offended her a long time ago and it took her a while to get over it. She broke it off with me, I thought that would have been therapeutic enough. Anyway, I don't know what it was and we never talked about it so I am claiming statute of limitations exemptions on this one.

Tonight: inserting two article summaries into my lit review. Browsing my methods chapter. Figuring out a good way to sync files.

test.

K A I R O S: 7.x
George Pullman writes about putting the JAC online, and some of the issues it raises:

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Although I began the archive using FrontPage 2000, I quickly abandoned it for Macromedia’s DreamWeaver because it makes much cleaner code, can clean up Word to HTML debris, and doesn’t populate the server with crucial but inscrutable files and directories. DreamWeaver also communicated with Linux and Apache more smoothly and more securely than FrontPage could.

The archive, from the first issue in 1980 up until 1997 (the editor has decided that in order to keep the archive from competing with journal sales, a three year gap in publication is necessary) was available online within a few months, but the copies were of varying quality. It has taken 2 years and the labor of 6 different people to clean the archive to its current state, which is perhaps one final proofreading from being a virtual re-presentation of the journal itself.

...

But the enterprise has completely revolutionized the training I try to provide rhetoric students with now. The electronic practices I have learned doing JAC Online have filtered into many of the writing classes I teach, and I have created a new graduate class in digital rhetoric (http://rhetcomp.gsu.edu/DIS). The question all these changes raises, is how much technical knowledge of electronic communications practices is relevant to current and future scholarship in the humanities. One can, as most have, simply farm the electronic archive of a journal out to an organization like Project Muse (http://muse.jhu.edu/). But then one loses control of the archive and its destiny rests in the hands of larger interests. Also, whatever additional benefits in terms of the increased circulation or prestige that might accrue to the paper journal as a result of it’s own website are acceded to another organization.
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Amazon.com: Books: Activity: The Theory, Methodology, and Problems Leontiev's psychology is closely related to that of Lev S. Vygotsky (1896-1934), father of the "cultural historical" or "sociocultural" or "sociocognitive" approach. There is no longer a need, however, to try to stress the importance of Vygotsky's works. He is described as "the Mozart of psychology" and his influence is dramatically growing (he is cited more than 5.600 times in the Social Sciences Citation Index, his "Collected Works" is published in six impressive volumes by Plenum Publ. Corporation; Routledge has published an impressive series of "L.S. Vygotsky: Critical assessments" (price 700$)and any course in developmental psychology these days introduces his thoughts, and they are also beginning to change the self-understanding of cognitive science in a fundamental way. So, Wygotsky is becoming main stream.

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As the title suggests, this book length PDF compares
vocational education in the two countries. Perhaps the most
telling difference is that the system in Australi is tied
more closely to desired outcomes, while China's is based on
a system of linkages.There is also more corporate
participation in the Australian system, though their
Chinese counterparts are expected to play an increasing
role. If you don't have time to read a book, the table of
comparisons on page 131 is a nice summary. By Josie Misko,
et.al., National Centre for Vocational Education Research,
November, 2002
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But digital video is no magic solution. It did not
automatically improve the quality of work or standards of
attainment. Teaching remains the key factor in raising
achievement, but teachers need to be clear about their role
in the process and what counts as creativity in digital
video. By Mark Reid, Andrew Burn and David Parker, (British
Educational Communications and Technology Agency, October,
2002
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NetBSD/hpcmips

NetBSD/hpcmips brings the NetBSD operating system to MIPS based Windows CE PDA machines. Currently, the VR4102, VR4111, VR4121, VR4122, VR4131, TX3912, and TX3922 processors are supported.

The port name "hpcmips" comes from the name for some of the hardware that NetBSD/hpcmips runs on: MIPS based systems in Microsoft's H/PC (Handheld PC) form factor. A H/PC machine contains a keyboard and a touch screen and generally has 8MB or more of RAM. The port supports the HPC form factor, as well as the H/PC Pro and PsPC (Palmsized PC) form factors. (Many PsPC machines are used by the developers for active development.)

blogging ecosystem

the Blogging Ecosystem