ESPN.com: NCF - Clarett says he inflated value of stolen items
Archive for July 28, 2003
Maurice keeps digging deeper
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Dan Bricklin on QOS
Why We Don’t Need QOS: Trains, Cars, and Internet Quality of Service — a pretty lucid statement. Basically it is far cheaper for us to just keep adding capacity to solve the root issues behind the requests for QOS.
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Most popular names
Michael Winser points to this great site — Social Security’s Office of the Chief Actuary — all kinds fo tables and data about baby names. I am sad to see that “John” seems to be in freefall over the past century — It was #1 in the first decade of the 1900s but is slowly trending downward over the last decade. I hope that I have not been a negative influence on new parents.
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Jupiter Research Analyst Blogs
Cool, everyone at Jupiter has a blog — Jupiter Research Analyst Weblogs
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Tags: Business
PCB Levels in Farmed Salmon
Potentially another strike against farmed salmon — The Seattle Times: Local News: What’s safe PCB level in salmon? Study renews debate — tho if you read down thru the article, there is contradictory evidence about PCB levels in wild salmon.
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Maurice again
ESPN.com: NCF - NCAA probes theft from car driven by Clarett — this guy is a magnet for trouble. At least our opening opponent, UW, is distracted as well.
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On the FOAF bandwagon.
After reading an interminable number of posts about FOAF at Marc’s blog, at Gary Turner’s blog, at Joi Ito’s Web: Technorati talks FOAF, I finally added my FOAF file and informed Technorati of it, using Joi’s helpful steps. Apparently I run in a dull crowd because none of my friends have foaf files, so I am not sure what the point is, but i was feeling shamed into creating it.
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Bioinformatics blogs
Cam is taking some interest in bionformatics. Of course there are some blogs covering the space — A bioinformatics weblog – nodalpoint.org; Bioinformatics-India; fernan aguero’s site. Then if you want news beyond blogs, you can try Bioinform or Bio-ITWorld.
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Tags: Venture
I keep Bumping into people using Vonage.
I have recently been hearing a lot of positive word-of-mouth on Vonage DigitalVoice .::. The BROADBAND Phone Company…. People seem very enthusiastic about. I personally don’t quite get it — within our extended family, everyone has a cell phone with a huge bucket of minutes, they’ve moved their long distance usage to the cell phone, and so their local phone bill has dropped to the basic $20-30/month level. Thus Vonage has little draw for them. Maybe the excited users are people with a lot of overseas calling?
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Good to Great
Just finished a fast read of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t. A solid, reasonable business book with good lessons for all size companies. I especially liked the first step that companies took — getting the right people on board. You don’t start by figuring out the strategy, you start by having a great team, and then build from there. Don Bradford recommended this book to me a couple years ago, thanks Don, worth the quick read.
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AOL desktop spam
B@$tards at AOL spammed my desktop with all kinds of ad links for AOL Broadband, during a minor version upgrade of AOL Instant Messenger. I got a link to AOL Broadband promo site stuffed into my start menu, slammed unto my links toolbar in IE, placed on my desktop, all pointing to some new exe on my machine — GtAOD.exe. I specifically said during intall of the AIM upgrade that I didn’t want any AIM icons spewed onto my system; does AOL really believe that, if I don’t want any AIM icons slammed onto my system (icons for a program that I am agreeing to install and that has real utility for me), that I am somehow OK with AOL Broadband icons slammed everywhere (which are just advertisements, for a service for which I have indicated no interest)? Dorks.
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Prion-destroying enzyme
The New Scientist reports on discovery of an enzyme that can destroy prions. Good news, let’s have a steak and celebrate!
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Tags: Science
WIFI Picture Frame
Wallflower has WIFI picture frames. If only they could get rid of the power cord…
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Pirates of the Carribean
Frank nails it — pseudorandom: “A Kind of Cockamamie Sincerity” — we couldn’t stop watching Johnny Depp. Some of us have seen the movie twice now. I want to see all the rest of Johnny’s work now. Pirates may not be the best movie of the summer, but Johnny’s performance is clearly among the best of the year.
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If I was building a WIFI business today…
…I’d focus on the academic market. I have two family members heading to college this fall, and they both need laptops with wifi for their campuses. If this is becoming the default at every major college campus, then we are seeding the market with a huge number of capable machines, a huge number of free hotspots, a user base that is very willing to try new services. What great services could we build to target these users and to help them?
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Naming and Branding blog
Some interesting thoughts on naming and branding — Snark Hunting
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Buckeyes Opener in 32 Days
This month’s buildup from The-Ozone:It won’t be too much longer before the OSU football team hits the practice field in preparation for the 2003 football campaign. The team reports for fall camp on August 5, and practices begin on August 6.
That schedule represents somewhat of a departure from past years. Freshmen used to report three days before the upper classmen, but this year, freshmen will not report early. There will be other changes in fall camp this season as well, many of them mandated by the NCAA.
As mandated by the NCAA, the team will practice in helmets and shorts the first two days (Aug. 6-7) and helmets, then in shoulder pads the next two days (Aug. 8-9). The first day of contact is Sunday, Aug. 10. On Monday, Aug. 11, the team will begin a 2-1, 2-1, 2-1 regimen, meaning two practices on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and single sessions on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The same schedule will be in effect the week of Aug. 18. The second practice on Monday, Wednesday and Friday will be open to the media and to the public.
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Nice looking tombstone pieces
Some nice looking addons for tombstones here — Eccentric Gryphons Products
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Build your own MythTV PVR
A good pointer to building your own MythTV-based PVR at PVRblog. I guess they get their listings from Zap2It which is where this system falls apart relative to my DirecTivo box in my view — the Zap2It guide doesn’t correctly list PPV shows as one example problem. PVR code seems to be readily available at the point, the discriminator between implementations is going to be things like quality of Program Guide.
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I wish I had time to try Blosxom again
I see that Blosxom 2.0 has shipped. Claims to have better IIS support than past versions. I wish I had time to try it again because the core design principle — leverage the file system hierarchy as your category hierarchy — is so appealing to me, no new storage system created. As a result, backup, copying, storage management, etc are so much easier. But I just don’t have the time to reimplement the blog again right now. I did play around with previous versions a lot but they were so hard to get working on IIS and NT.
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