Introduction: About Technical Communications, Technical-Writing Courses, and the Author: "You're probably wondering what this 'technical writing thing' is. Someone may even have told you, 'it's this course where they make you write about rocket science and brain surgery.' Well, not really . . . . Actually, the field of technical communications is a fully professional field with degree programs, certifications, and?yes!?even theory. It's a good field with a lot of growth and income potential; and an introductory technical-writing course for which this book has been developed is a good way to start if you are interested in a career in this field. "

NOVELL: Don't Forward to Yourself, Delegate (GroupWise Cool Solutions): "Astute reader, Jay Russel read last week’s tip about creating a rule to forward your mail to your home e-mail address, and stepped up to the plate, going us one better: “Nicely done . . . only thing I'd point out is that there's an even cooler Cool Solution. Using Forward will cause the mail to appear to be from 'yourself' (in the From box), thereby making replies a little squirrely since it now points back to the mail account that did the forwarding. Instead, create a rule that delegates your mail to your home address. Delegate preserves the original sender’s name in the From box. We use it extensively, and we have a number of talented Systems Engineer that need their e-mail forwarded to other mail accounts. Works beautifully.” You’re right, Russ, your solution is cooler than ours. Never die.
So, that being said, here are the new steps:
1. Click Tools, Rules, New.
2. Name the Rule (something like Send Everything to my House).
3. Click New Item, and check the Received box.
4. Click the Item Types you want to see. You might just want to have the e-mail sent. Or maybe you need all the appointments too. You choose.
5. Click Add Action, Delegate.
6. Fill in your home e-mail address.
7. Click OK, Save, Close."

opcode - direct to disk audio

Recording Software and General Discussion

Reason: Cybergreen: Bruce Sterling on media, design, fiction, and the future: "Sterling: Right now, the Republicans are the party of reckless spending, and the Democrats are the party of responsibility and the balanced budget.
reason: Not many of us saw that coming."

Reason: Cybergreen: Bruce Sterling on media, design, fiction, and the future: "reason: The Internet turned out to be a funhouse mirror in which everything is emphasized.
Sterling: It’s also peculiarly carnal. In the early days of cyberspace, we were going to escape the meat. Well, there is more meat on the Internet than you can imagine. There are acres and acres of people just pointing cameras at their bodies.
reason: Blogging seems to have taken a place in the culture that used to be occupied by fanzines, and maybe by the science fiction magazines.
Sterling: It had its apotheosis in people like Cory Doctorow [author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom] and other writers who really aren’t that interested in the old paper world. Cory actually publishes stuff electronically, and blogging is his Weird Tales. He is of a generation sufficiently divorced from the old pulps that he’s the dolphin among mesosaurs here."

Reason: Cybergreen: Bruce Sterling on media, design, fiction, and the future: "Sterling: There is a Google blindness. It?s a kind of common wisdom generator, but it?s not necessarily going to get you to the real story of what?s actually going on.
reason: As today?s children get older they?re internalizing Boolean search logic, and they actually do show some discrimination and drill down to the useful information.
Sterling: It is a form of literacy that?s really peculiar. Socrates used to talk about this: 'The problem with writing is that no one memorizes the Iliad any more. You?ve got to just know all of it. And how can you call yourself an educated man if you cannot recite Book Three, not missing a single epithet?' He?s got a point there.
It has a profound effect on literary composition. I?ve got Google up all the time. It gives you this veneer of command of the facts which you do not, in point of fact, have. It?s extremely useful for novelists but somewhat dangerous if you?re pretending to be a brain surgeon."

Fantasy in "The Mole People": "Judging by the accuracy of descriptions, I will even speculate that Jennifer Toth's visits to the Mole People were limited to several trips to the Riverside Park tunnel and down the cut toward Penn Station, and one trip with police to the subway near Broadway--Lafayette Street. All other locations are unrecognizable from her descriptions, except that often elements of the Riverside Park tunnel creep in-- overhead grates, concrete walls and rooms, a high climb to the top-- as if she believes these would be typical of other places.
I hope my comments here don't seem like nitpicking. The overall tone of the book though seems designed to make Toth's account into a series of exciting and mysterious adventures rather than sad visits to dirty holes in the ground. Since she fictionalizes the setting as much as she does, then other facts she claims also should be subject to a re-examination. There are too many exaggerations and inventions in the tunnel descriptions to make it believable that the rest is absolutely straight reporting."

George Lakoff tells how conservatives use language to dominate politics: "The background for Rockridge is that conservatives, especially conservative think tanks, have framed virtually every issue from their perspective. They have put a huge amount of money into creating the language for their worldview and getting it out there. Progressives have done virtually nothing. Even the new Center for American Progress, the think tank that John Podesta [former chief of staff for the Clinton administration] is setting up, is not dedicated to this at all. I asked Podesta who was going to do the Center's framing. He got a blank look, thought for a second and then said, 'You!' Which meant they haven't thought about it at all. And that's the problem. Liberals don't get it. They don't understand what it is they have to be doing.




Rockridge's job is to reframe public debate, to create balance from a progressive perspective. It's one thing to analyze language and thought, it's another thing to create it. That's what we're about. It's a matter of asking 'What are the central ideas of progressive thought from a moral perspective?' "

Geek.com Geek News - RIAA posing as cops, raiding street vendors: "NEWS
It appears that the RIAA has taken the law into its own hands. Dressed in black 'raid' vests, flashing impressive IDs, and filling out pink incident reports, four men descend on a street vendor selling bootleg music CDs and convince him to give up his stash. All of the raiders have RIAA stenciled on the back of their vests, and all are ex-cops.

The RIAA thinks that this is perfectly okay, and has a clear picture of who its enemy is. According to John Langley, Western regional coordinator for the RIAA Anti-Piracy Unit, 'a large percentage [of the vendors] are of a Hispanic nature. Today he's Jose Rodriguez, tomorrow he's Raul something or other, and tomorrow after that he's something else. These people change their identity all the time.' This is the reason he gives for filling out incident reports and taking pictures of 'offenders,' at least.

The EFF also seems to think that this is acceptable. Jason Schultz, one of the group's staff attorneys, said it was 'exactly what the RIAA should be doing.' And the RIAA seems to be moving more in that direction, having just recently hired the former director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives department (ATF) as the new leader of its anti-piracy unit.

For more info, check out LA Weekly.
"

WBAP News/Talk 820 - The News & Talk of Texas: "Grand Prairie (AP) -- Police are holding a suburban Dallas man on suspicion of capital murder while they check his account of why he shot two men dead Tuesday.

The Grand Prairie man, who police say is in his 60s, told officers that he shot the two men during an attempted robbery. He told investigators that the men took him against his will from his home to an ATM and forced to withdraw cash.

Police Detective John Brimmer says the man had a concealed pistol and said he used it when he felt his life was threatened. He says one of his captors had a baseball bat.

Police say the man -- who was not injured -- has a concealed-weapons permit. They've identified one of the men killed as 40-year-old Wesley Lewis Duncan of Cleburne.

Brimmer says the other dead man was wearing a ski mask. His identity hasn't been released.



"

News-Leader.com | True Ozarks | '95 Dean letter urged unilateral U.S. attack: "Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean, a strong critic of what he calls President Bush's unilateral approach to foreign policy, urged President Clinton to act unilaterally and enter the war in Bosnia in 1995.

'I have reluctantly concluded that the efforts of the United States and NATO in Bosnia are a complete failure,' he wrote, citing reports of genocide during the Bosnian civil war. 'If we ignore these behaviors ... our moral fiber as a people becomes weakened. ... We must take unilateral action.'"

Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog: "Normally I don't endorse Fords, but the secret of Escorts built 1996-1999 is that they're really Mazdas"

The Daily Herald: Your town. Your neighbors. Your Newspaper.: "Double bed size mattress & springs. $20 for both. 375-9678"

The Daily Herald: Your town. Your neighbors. Your Newspaper.: "Daybed, Ivory Metal with hearts & mattress. $65. 798-3973"

The Daily Herald: Your town. Your neighbors. Your Newspaper.: "Bunk bed, full bottom twin top, full mattress included $50 400-5858"

The Daily Herald :: Your Town, Your Neighbors, Your Newspaper: "'We thought, 'Everybody's doing it; It must be OK.' Then we got pushed off by the police,' Nicholson said.

The city of Cedar Hills has been fighting to keep residents off the newly opened golf course since the first snowfall in November, in order to avoid reseeding the hill this spring.

But with so many people tubing on the hill -- which has been a traditional sledding spot since before the golf course was built -- the city is backing down."


Civil disobedience in Utah!

When Running is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Run | Metafilter: " If you miss runs, you become irritable, listless, stressed and just kind of snappy. I think your body does start to depend on the chemicals that are released while running.

4) A lot of runs, maybe as much as 50% of them, you are going to feel like crap and not want to run."

Wired News: Errant E-Mail Shames RFID Backer: "The Grocery Manufacturers of America this week inadvertently sent an internal e-mail to CASPIAN suggesting it was looking for embarrassing information about the group's founder, Katherine Albrecht.

The e-mail, written by a college intern at GMA, reads, 'I don't know what to tell this woman! 'Well, actually we're trying to see if you have a juicy past that we could use against you.''




The intern earlier had asked Albrecht to produce her personal biography, 'as part of an RFID research project,' and became frustrated when Albrecht asked what GMA planned to do with the information, according to GMA spokesman Richard Martin. "

MIT FileMaker User Group: "FileMaker Custom Web Publishing




February 4, 2000



Kevin Cunningham

Skill Prerequisites. To create a working FileMaker-driven web site, you'll need to know three distinct skill sets:

FileMaker database design, including field definitions and layout design


HTML web page creation, including ability to work with source code CDML tags


FileMaker Links





If you are not already moderately skilled in the first two areas (FileMaker, HTML), you should not try to create a FileMaker web site until you master them. It's quite enough to be learning CDML, without having to be simultaneously learning FileMaker or web page basics!"

Acid trip 5: "2 hours 35 minutes after first dose.

Patient follows quickly with another drawing.

'I'll do a drawing in one flourish... without stopping... one line, no break!'

Upon completing the drawing the patient starts laughing, then becomes startled by something on the floor."

jwz - I, for one, welcome our new Tom Ridgebot masters: "One of 115 life-like androids fashioned in the image of Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge watches as a foreign visitor gets fingerprinted and photographed at a US-VISIT station at Atlanta's airport. These 'Ridgebots' are expected to be deployed to 115 U.S. airports that handle international flights and 14 major seaports within the month.

'The Ridgebot is the most reliable computer ever made,' said the android. 'We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.' "

:

"The latest breakthrough in chocolate research comes from Emmanualle di Tomaso et al. who have found that chocolate contains pharmacologically active substances that mimic the effects of marijuana on the brain (Di Tomasso et al. 1996). The pursuit of this line of research came from the observations that chocolate cravings were associated with psychoses induced by

certain drugs, such as MDMA (Chianese 1992; Di Tomasso et al. 1996). This suggested that chocolate cravings and effects are more than a sensory experience of the nervous system they involve some sort of pharmacologically active substance. Even though earlier research had focused on methylxanthines (caffeine and theobromine), these scientists focused on another substance, anandamide. Anandamide is a member of a family of fatty acid ethanolamides composed of arachidonic acid coupled to ethanolamine through an amide linkage (Devane et al.

1992).

Within the last couple of years, anandamide has been recognized as an endogenous cannabimimetic, meaning that it a substance produced in the body that binds to cannabinoid receptors with high affinity and mimics the effects of plant-derived cannabinoids on established

behavioral patterns (Di Tomasso et al. 1996; Axelrod and Felder 1998). Anandamide is not a classical neurotransmitter in the sense that its hydrophobicity allows it to easily pass through plasma membranes limiting its ability to be stored in synaptic vesicles. Instead, it may be synthesized when needed at the plasma membrane (Axelrod and Felder 1998). The cannabinoid "

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "ATLANTA (Reuters) - The same family of chemicals that produces a buzz in marijuana smokers may be responsible for 'runner's high,' the euphoric feeling that some people get when they exercise, U.S. researchers say.

High levels of anandamide were found in young men who ran or cycled at a moderate rate for about an hour, according to a study made public this week by the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of California, Irvine."

FileMaker Discussions - unable to sort data when using web companion: "Are you referencing the database &layout and do you have the fields on the layout being referenced?"

Google Search: filemaker referencing the database layout: "Is there a calculation involved in determining the layout number? If so, set a global number field in the second file to the result using any relationship (if there isn't one, create one based on a calc field in each file = 1) then use the Go to Layout by field value option, referencing the global number field. If there is no calculation involved, if merely choosing the button tells you which layout the user wants to go to, there is no reason to pass the number at all. Use the method described in my previous post."

Wired News: Boatload of Car Gadgets Coming: "et Visteon sales rep Mel Sarnowsky said that's the precursor to what are essentially Internet-capable laptops docked to the back of headrests, due out in a couple of years. That system, demonstrated at CES but not yet perfected, would come with wireless keyboards that can be hidden inside the back-seat armrest. Web access would be provided through cellular communications, or through a high-speed link if the vehicle is in a Wi-Fi hotspot, Sarnowsky said."

MONSTER / **** (R): "And note that there is only one moment in the movie where she seems relaxed and at peace with herself; you will know the scene, and it will explain itself. This is one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema."

MONSTER / **** (R): " confess that I walked into the screening not knowing who the star was, and that I did not recognize Charlize Theron until I read her name in the closing credits. Not many others will have that surprise; she was just honored as best actress of the year by the National Society of Film Critics. I didn't recognize her -- but more to the point, I hardly tried, because the performance is so focused and intense that it becomes a fact of life. Observe the way Theron controls her eyes in the film; there is not a flicker of inattention, as she urgently communicates what she is feeling and thinking. There's the uncanny sensation that Theron has forgotten the camera and the script and is directly channeling her ideas about Aileen Wuornos. She has made herself the instrument of this character."

Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue, Topic 204: "It would follow that a plausible story about living on even a
terraformed Mars would be about people living there for the same
reasons and in the same ways that people live in the harsher deserts on
Earth. They would be small tribes chased off of the good land,
hermits, prospectors, mystics, and bandits.




inkwell.vue 204: The 2004 Bruce Sterling State of the World Address
#67 of 75: Gail Williams (gail) Thu 08 Jan 2004 (09:56 AM)
Except that in the deep Mojave you meet those folks and they drifted there
with no money. You don't drift to Mars with no money in any kind of economy
I can imagine. I suppose you could be banished there in the Austrailian
prisoner settler model, but the economies are still not very plausible."

Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue, Topic 204: "I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the
same time I see people setting the Gobi Desert.
The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times
as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times
cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever
writes 'Gobi Desert Opera' because, well,
it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's
no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly,
it's inhospitable and there's no way to
make it pay. Mars is just the same, really.
We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach.

On the other hand, there might really be some
way to make living in the Gobi Desert pay.
And if that were the case, and you really
had communities making a nice cheerful
go of daily life on arid, freezing, barren rock
and sand, then a cultural transfer to Mars
might make a certain sense.

If there were a society with enough technical
power to terraform Mars, they would
certainly do it. On the other hand.
by the time they got around to messing with Mars,
they would have been using all that power
to transform *themselves.* So by the time
they got there and started rebuilding the
Martian atmosphere wholesale, they wouldn't
look or act a whole lot like Hollywood extras."

Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue, Topic 204: "Yes, I was being polite about the manuals, which I still don't believe
too many people are reading. I just switched to Linux and I'm
surrounded by manuals and links to all the user groups I could find so
that I can get started learning it. From my experience I'm in the
minority.

I have friends who own their own small businesses and have virtually
no security to their computing networks because they don't want to
learn anything and just find it all too complicated. I think that's
probably the norm."

Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue, Topic 204: "The thing I find kind of scary about the Internet is that it's not
going to be too long before you can't turn it off without becoming some
sort of survivalist kook. Radio and TV have been around for decades
but you can easily do without them, plus the fact that there's so much
crappy radio and TV makes it not too hard to do. But in a decade or
two, I could see it being damned difficult to pay your bills,
correspond with friends, find a job, do your job, or shop without an
Internet connection."

Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue, Topic 204: "I guess what I'm thinking is that if the Net is what we are all going
to be using for the next 40 years or so as a primary method of
communication then it's up to us to educate ourselves accordingly.

RFM has been the catch phrase ever since I began pointing and
clicking 10 years ago. But it seems as the various digital technologies
interconnect with the Internet, people want to know even less and less
as to how it works and how to work with it."

Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue, Topic 204: "Gail Thackeray once told me that 15 percent of the population
was impeccably honest and would rather starve than steal.
And fifteen percent would steal anything not nailed down.
And the cause of law enforcement was to establish an
atmosphere of deterrence that would win the hearts and
minds of the remaining 70 percent."

Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue, Topic 204: "Even Microsoft itself can't keep up with their own patches.
Why should you have to do all that labor?
Just step off that treadmill there and buy
a different machine that isn't easy prey
to every cybercrook around. This offers the considerable benefit
that you don't have to act all conscientious about it
all the time. Bad design isn't your fault, but
it's your fault if you buy bad design, knowing
that it's bad. And it is."

Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue, Topic 204: "Probably the single thing I do personally that reduces the
crude havoc on the Internet is avoiding the Windows OS.
Use a Mac, for heaven's sake. Stop adding to the
pollution of viruses, and stop offering slave machines
that spew spam for others."

Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue, Topic 204: "I don't believe that the almighty majesty of the US Congress
is enough to stop globalized spam, but I also don't believe that the
forces
of civilization are helpless before bandits. That is a counsel
of despair. Once you believe that legitimated government
is mere empty posturing, you will end up in living
in a Russian-style mafia kakistocracy. And you will
deserve that."

Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue, Topic 204: "It was a crazy year. Very. I'm glad to have survived it.

I don't believe in 'War on Terror,' but there's definitely
a titanic struggle going on. One side, the New World Order
side, has a capacity to wage war, so that's what they do,
even though that's not one of their best moves. The
other side is the New World Disorder, and they're
too disordered to throw any real wars, so they commit
mayhem on the tribal and individual level. An individual
wrapped in a belt-bomb, that's their cruise missile.
Their great hope is that War creates more Terror and
not less. It certainly worked for them in Chechnya
and Afghanistan."

Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue, Topic 204: "But if you're looking for a hotspot, the energy zone, the growth
region, and the place where the wierdos accrete, try NW Arkansas.

Fayetteville/Springdale/Rogers/Bentonville.

We've got Wal Mart and Tyson up here (and an overall strange
concentration of millionaires). Maybe we're not totally proud of them,
but we know a potential patron when we see one. ;) It's a wierd mix
of big business rubbing elbows with artsy earth hippies and renegade
hitech redneck artists.

Mmm, speaking of which, I was talking over a story with one of the
renegade artists in the area last night and got invited to a non-verbal
communication party. Apparently, from 10-12, anyone speaking,
writing, or mouthing/miming a word will be booted. Then a brief period
to blow off steam and discuss, followed by who knows how much more of
the same."

FileMaker Discussions - unable to sort data when using web companion: "Hi, I'm running os x 10.2.8.

I'm using filemaker pro 6.04 (latest)

I have the web companion set up to use port 591.

I can access the database remotely, but when I try to sort data by field, it only displays 4 field boxes, each labeled '-None-'. When I try to click on one of the dropdown menus, nothing comes out. The original data has 10 fields per record.

Does anyone know why I can't sort data using the web companion?

The probably appears in many different layouts, and when I try to access using different platforms and browsers.
"

Counterpoint: Downloading Isn’t Stealing (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog): "Downloading may be illegal. But 60 million people used Napster and only 50 million voted for Bush or Gore. We live in a democracy. If the people want to share files then the law should be changed to let them.
And there’s a fair way to change it. A Harvard professor found that a $60/yr. charge for broadband users would make up for all lost revenues. The government would give it to the affected artists and, in return, make downloading legal, sparking easier-to-use systems and more shared music. The artists get more money and you get more music. What’s unethical about that?"

Yahoo! News - IBM Issues a Linux Challenge: "IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sam Palmisano has challenged his company to move to the Linux (news - web sites) desktop over the next two years, according to an internal memo written by IBM Chief Information Officer Bob Greenberg in November and leaked to the Inquirer Web site."

Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog: "I should add that I do hate them, but I'm at the door of the poorhouse, and I'd be willing to shovel burned books behind a Barnes and Noble at this point. That's how desperate I am."

Yahoo! News - Lion Attacks O.C. Biker; Man Found Dead Nearby

The Infamous Exploding Whale: "There's been a story floating around the net for years about a beached whale that was blown up (exploded, not inflated) for lack of a better way to be rid of it. Many people thought it was an urban legend."

this is a fine link.

Here's my journal entry. I am learning.

Google Search: saturns are the easiest car to work on: "david, wow, your dealers reasonable? without mentioning which ones ( i have several around me) one of our dealers is banging people 400 and change.
not belittleing my own job but to spell it out for people being a mechanic, the saturn is the easiest car to work on i have encountered in the last 17 years ive been working on cars, yup, just as easy as any chevy 350, i jokingly call wanna be, butcher, or untrained mechanics a 350 mechanic with 350 mentality."

WireTap 1.0.0 - VersionTracker:: "Product Description:
WireTap is a free product for MacOS X 10.2 or later that allows you to record any audio playing on your Mac, saving it to a file for later listening or processing. This allows you to record news from Internet radio stations such as the BBC News, sound snippets from your favorite DVD movie, record the audio from a game, or even iChatAV conversations.
WireTap works using a simple tape recorder-like interface. Simply click the record button, and any audio playing through your Mac will be recorded to disk. WireTap can record any sound that is playing regardless of the source, so RealPlayer, iTunes, DVD Player, Windows Media Player, etc. are all supported.
The technology in WireTap will be coming to a future version of our video/screen capture product Snapz Pro X. WireTap is a completely free product."

Audio Recorder 1.3 - VersionTracker:: "Product Description:

Record from the default input device selected in the Sound preference panel
Save directly to an MP3 or AIFF file
Attach recording to a new Mail message after recording
AppleScript support
MP3 encoding with LAME version 3.93.1
AIFF encoding with LibSndFile version 1.0.3
Japanese localization by tai (tai@tekapo.com)"

Rite in the Rain All-Weather Writing Paper Products: "Leather Notebook Cover
NB33
$13.50 *

NB34
$13.50 *
Made of durable and high quality black leather
Holds two 3' x 5' notebooks (top fold)
Fits easily in your shirt or back pocket

Holds two 3' x 5' notebooks (side fold)"

Errol Morris -> Main:

"Why It Makes Sense to Bite the Hand that feeds you:

1. Hand bound to betray you eventually. Preemptive strike. Get it before it gets you


2. Alleviate protein deficiency


3. Keep gums healthy


4. Hand less likely poisoned than food


5. Tastes good


6. Why not... ?"

Wellspring Data | FSP OS X Installation: "sudo cp FSP.php FSP_config.inc /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables



Configuration



Four components must be configured:

FileMaker Pro
Assuming that you want Apache to field requests from user's browsers on the standard HTTP port 80, you'll need to set Web Companion to use some port other than 80. FMI has registered port 591 for this use, so we'll use that. Go to FileMaker Pro->Preferences->Application->Plug-ins->Web Companion to set the TCP/IP port number.

"

HTBY: How to: create a wonderful marriage: "How to: create a wonderful marriage
Submitted by: Bill and Marian
January 8, 2004 03:05 AM
Answers
sometimes going to bed angry is better than saying something you cant take back
Posted by anna at January 8, 2004 03:38 AM
Reward him with sex when he picks his socks up from the floor or takes out the garbage without being told."

Yahoo! News - Kucinich Shows Pie Chart on Radio Debate: "DES MOINES, Iowa - Federal spending was the topic and Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich (news - web sites) came prepared with a pie chart to argue his point about a bloated Pentagon (news - web sites) budget.

But although many listened to Tuesday's presidential debate, few could see the Ohio congressman's prop.
The debate was broadcast only on National Public Radio. "

MySQL Manual | 2.2.3 Installing MySQL on Mac OS X: "Ok, for those of you who get this message 'mysqld ended' after installation, such as:

shell> cd /usr/local/mysql
shell> sudo ./bin/mysqld_safe
Password:
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data
030507 11:51:57 mysqld ended
"

Marc Liyanage - Software - Mac OS X Packages - PostgreSQL: "Installation Instructions

NOTE: On Mac OS X 10.2, you have TO install Apple's latest Security Update first before installing this package. You will get errors regarding the 'libcrypto' library and related stuff otherwise.

NOTE: On Mac OS X 10.3, it seems you have to adjust some system configuration parameters first.

You must have administrator rights to perform this installation.

Do this to install for the first time (see below for update instructions):

1. On Mac OS X version 10.2/10.3: Download and install the package pgsql-7.4.pkg.tar.gz"

Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue, Topic 204: "D (1). Pearl Harbor Straight to Bretton Woods. Since there really is no military enemy to fight "

Hotscripts.com - The net's largest script repository and discussion forum: "DaDaBIK is a PHP application that allows you to easily create a highly customizable Web form interface for a MySQL database. The strength of DaDaBIK lies in its ability of customization. For each field of a table you can choose: if the field should be included or not in the search/insert/update form; the form label; the content of the field; the input type; the possible values, also driven from another table. Other features: files uploading, checking for possible duplication during an insert, customizable graphic layout to enable embedding of the forms in your own site. DaDaBIK differs from other apps like PHPMyAdmin in that it aims not to enable admin of a MySQL database, but rather to include MySQL search/insert/update/delete features in a Web site. Available in English, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish and French. "

SourceForge.net: Project Info - Flat File DataBase (FFDB) for PHP: "Advanced PHP database for those without mySQL or similar dedicated databases. Supports many data types and advanced features through a simple PHP object API. Low-level implementation very efficient with indexes. Example code and database manager supplied."

FORWARD : Arts & Letters: "But in this new and important book, 'Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953,' Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P. Naumov argue that the Doctor's Plot was much more than just another attack on Jews. Using government and secret police documents hitherto unavailable to researchers, Brent and Naumov assert that the plot was orchestrated by Stalin to justify a new purge of the party and the police and to prepare the country for a war with the United States. The choreography of the plot was extremely complex and tied together many different events: the heart attack of Politburo member A.S. Shcherbakov in 1945; the Lysenko affair, in which a crackpot biologist promised to revolutionize Soviet agriculture and successfully terrorized his fellow scientists; the death of Politburo member Andrei Zhdanov in 1948; the execution of the Leningrad Party leadership in 1950, and the arrest of Ministry of State Security head Abakumov in 1951. All this played out against a backdrop of rising tension with the United States and Stalin's rabid suspicion that all Soviet Jews were potential American agents."

Michael Dirda (washingtonpost.com): "In another cartoon, a pair of determined hunters peer down at a third who is elaborately tied up in the middle of the woods. One says to the other: 'It's Jim Wilkins, Dave. Same as the others. Trussed up like a Christmas present with his hunting license stuffed in his mouth. . . . I want this bear, Dave. I want him bad.' In still one more, a wolf sporting a polka dot dress lies on a psychiatrist's couch and confesses to his beak-nosed therapist: 'You know, it was just supposed to be a way to trick this little girl . . . but off and on, I've been dressing up as a grandmother ever since.'"

Telegraph | Arts | How could Hitler happen?: "Yet no wholly satisfactory explanation can ever be forthcoming, about how one of the most educated and cultured societies on earth bowed itself to the will of a group of gangsters, whose ambitions were not merely evil, but beyond rationality. Hitler's colossal ignorance of the world in which he lived was at least as remarkable as his emotional power over the people whom he led to disaster."

Telegraph | Arts | How could Hitler happen?: "Most remarkable was the speed of the process. As late as 1929, the Nazis remained a fringe party. On January 30, 1933, Hitler was merely Chancellor of a coalition government, in a Reichstag still dominated by non-Nazi conservatives. By July 14, the one man sure of his purposes amidst a nation stricken by bewilderment, he had become ruler of a one-party state."

Telegraph | Arts | How could Hitler happen?: "Hitler could claim greater democratic legitimacy than Stalin, yet one of the author's central themes is that at no time did a majority of the German people take an electoral decision to surrender to Hitler. He became Chancellor in 1932 after winning 13.7 million votes - 37.4 per cent of all those cast - against 13.1 million for the Social Democrats and Communists in the Reichstag elections. Many post-1945 Western governments have ruled without much larger popular support, however, and few people have questioned their legitimacy.

Evans's point about the Nazi minority is well-taken. But it was surely the manner in which Hitler destroyed democratic institutions once he gained power that was exceptional, not the fragile base of popular support that got him into the chancellery.

The Reichstag fire in February 1933, in the midst of a new election campaign, provided the Nazis with a unique opportunity to embark upon a hysterical, brilliantly-orchestrated propaganda campaign, matched by a state-sponsored reign of terror against the Left."

The Case Against the Democratic State: An Essay in Cultural Criticism: "Graham once more has a response. Why should one believe that persuasion can work only in a democracy? Why are 'the good despot and the liberal oligarchs'(p.55) immune to persuasion? 'The democrat . . . would be very unwise to play down the significance of voicing opinions, since this is the only way, between elections, that democracy is to be distinguished from elective dictatorship.'(p.55)"

Caltech Michelin Lecture: "In recent years, much has been said about the post modernist claims about science to the effect that science is just another form of raw power, tricked out in special claims for truth-seeking and objectivity that really have no basis in fact. Science, we are told, is no better than any other undertaking. These ideas anger many scientists, and they anger me. But recent events have made me wonder if they are correct. We can take as an example the scientific reception accorded a Danish statistician, Bjorn Lomborg, who wrote a book called The Skeptical Environmentalist. "

Caltech Michelin Lecture: "Sooner or later, we must form an independent research institute in this country. It must be funded by industry, by government, and by private philanthropy, both individuals and trusts. The money must be pooled, so that investigators do not know who is paying them. The institute must fund more than one team to do research in a particular area, and the verification of results will be a foregone requirement: teams will know their results will be checked by other groups. In many cases, those who decide how to gather the data will not gather it, and those who gather the data will not analyze it. If we were to address the land temperature records with such rigor, we would be well on our way to an understanding of exactly how much faith we can place in global warming, and therefore what seriousness we must address this. "

Caltech Michelin Lecture: "But it is impossible to ignore how closely the history of global warming fits on the previous template for nuclear winter. Just as the earliest studies of nuclear winter stated that the uncertainties were so great that probabilites could never be known, so, too the first pronouncements on global warming argued strong limits on what could be determined with certainty about climate change. The 1995 IPCC draft report said, 'Any claims of positive detection of significant climate change are likely to remain controversial until uncertainties in the total natural variability of the climate system are reduced.' It also said, 'No study to date has positively attributed all or part of observed climate changes to anthropogenic causes.' Those statements were removed, and in their place appeared: 'The balance of evidence suggests a discernable human influence on climate.' "

Caltech Michelin Lecture: "Let's think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the horseshit? Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses? "

Caltech Michelin Lecture: "Let's think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the horseshit? Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses? "

Caltech Michelin Lecture: "As with nuclear winter, bad science is used to promote what most people would consider good policy. I certainly think it is. I don't want people smoking around me. So who will speak out against banning second-hand smoke? Nobody, and if you do, you'll be branded a shill of RJ Reynolds. A big tobacco flunky. But the truth is that we now have a social policy supported by the grossest of superstitions. And we've given the EPA a bad lesson in how to behave in the future. We've told them that cheating is the way to succeed. "

Caltech Michelin Lecture: "Further evidence of the political nature of the whole project can be found in the response to criticism. Although Richard Feynman was characteristically blunt, saying, 'I really don't think these guys know what they're talking about,' other prominent scientists were noticeably reticent. Freeman Dyson was quoted as saying 'It's an absolutely atrocious piece of science but"

Caltech Michelin Lecture: "They and other volunteers swabbed their noses with swabs from pellagra patients, and swallowed capsules containing scabs from pellagra rashes in what were called 'Goldberger's filth parties.' Nobody contracted pellagra. The consensus continued to disagree with him. There was, in addition, a social factor-southern States disliked the idea of poor diet as the cause, because it meant that social reform was required. They continued to deny it until the 1920s. Result-despite a twentieth century epidemic, the consensus took years to see the light. "

Caltech Michelin Lecture: "Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period. "

Caltech Michelin Lecture: "But Sagan and his coworkers were prepared, for nuclear winter was from the outset the subject of a well-orchestrated media campaign. The first announcement of nuclear winter appeared in an article by Sagan in the Sunday supplement, Parade. The very next day, a highly-publicized, high-profile conference on the long-term consequences of nuclear war was held in Washington, chaired by Carl Sagan and Paul Ehrlich, the most famous and media-savvy scientists of their generation. Sagan appeared on the Johnny Carson show 40 times. Ehrlich was on 25 times. Following the conference, there were press conferences, meetings with congressmen, and so on. The formal papers in Science came months later.

This is not the way science is done, it is the way products are sold. "

The Death of Horatio Alger: "The other day I found myself reading a leftist rag that made outrageous claims about America. It said that we are becoming a society in which the poor tend to stay poor, no matter how hard they work; in which sons are much more likely to inherit the socioeconomic status of their father than they were a generation ago.

The name of the leftist rag? Business Week, which published an article titled 'Waking Up From the American Dream.' The article summarizes recent research showing that social mobility in the United States (which was never as high as legend had it) has declined considerably over the past few decades. If you put that research together with other research that shows a drastic increase in income and wealth inequality, you reach an uncomfortable conclusion: America looks more and more like a class-ridden society.

And guess what? Our political leaders are doing everything they can to fortify class inequality, while denouncing anyone who complains--or even points out what is happening--as a practitioner of 'class warfare.'

Let's talk first about the facts on income distribution. Thirty years ago we were a relatively middle-class nation. It had not always been thus: Gilded Age America was a highly unequal society, and it stayed that way through the 1920s. During the 1930s and '40s, however, America experienced what the economic historians Claudia Goldin and Robert Margo have dubbed the Great Compression: a drastic narrowing of income gaps, probably as a result of New Deal policies. And the new economic order persisted for more than a generation: Strong unions; taxes on inherited wealth, corporate profits and high incomes; close public scrutiny of corporate management--all helped to keep income gaps relatively small. The economy was hardly egalitarian, but a generation ago the gross inequalities of the 1920s seemed very distant."

As Folk Singer Supports Kerry, He Objects, Too: "Mr. Yarrow said that Mr. Kerry told him had seen information that justified the war. 'He said, `Peter, I'm on the intelligence committee,' ' Mr. Yarrow said. 'I know they have weaponry, nuclear weaponry, and I have the absolute assurance they'll go only with the United Nations. He was like everybody else "

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FM 23-10 Chptr 3 Marksmanship: "3-3. BREATH CONTROL
Breath control is important with respect to the aiming process. If the sniper breathes while trying to aim, the rise and fall of his chest causes the rifle to move. He must, therefore, accomplish sight alignment during breathing. To do this, he first inhales then exhales normally and stops at the moment of natural respiratory pause.
a. A respiratory cycle lasts 4 to 5 seconds. Inhalation and exhalation require only about 2 seconds. Thus, between each respiratory cycle there is a pause of 2 to 3 seconds. This pause can be extended to 10 seconds without any special effort or unpleasant sensations. The sniper should shoot during this pause when his breathing muscles relax. This avoids strain on his diaphragm.
b. A sniper should assume his firing position and breathe naturally until his hold begins to settle. Many snipers then take a slightly deeper breath, exhale, and pause, expecting to fire the shot during the pause. If the hold does not settle enough to allow the shot to be fired, the sniper resumes normal breathing and repeats the process.
c. The respiratory pause should never feel unnatural. If it is too long, the body suffers from oxygen deficiency and sends out signals to resume breathing. These signals produce involuntary movements in the diaphragm and interfere with the sniper's ability to concentrate. About 8 to 10 seconds is the maximum safe period for the respiratory pause. During multiple, rapid engagements, the breathing cycle should be forced through a rapid, shallow cycle between shots instead of trying to hold the breath or breathing. Firing should be accomplished at the forced respiratory pause. "

Major John Plaster on Police Sniper Training: "Patience and Discipline
By developing the qualities of patience and discipline through a concept referred to as, ``This is the last shot for the rest of my life,'' snipers become conditioned to regard each round fired in practice as a single, final event with an exact beginning, a definite end, and a standard for achievement. During range fire, they should individually remove each round from the cartridge box, load it, fire it, ``call'' it, observe the results through the spotting scope, and then record it.
Recording each shot individually is critical. Police snipers should each maintain a record book to note the history of their fire with a particular rifle. Not only does this help snipers to concentrate on each shot, but it also helps them identify minor deviations in the ``book'' data versus their rifle and ammunition. This generates information for the data card. For example, a sniper may learn that the first shot fired in practice--the so-called ``cold barrel zero''--could vary by several inches from subsequent shots. It's only through such exacting attention to detail that the sniper can develop into a precision marksman who focuses not on three-shot groups but on individual shots.
Snipers should pace their practice fire by mentally planning each shot, then analyzing it afterward. It is also useful to dry fire between each live-fire shot. Only five rounds should be fired into a single target to better focus the shooter's concentration. Also, accomplished marksmen should fire no more than 15-20 rounds total during a practice session to prevent them from sliding into undisciplined ``banging away.'' By habitually applying these proven techniques during practice fire, snipers develop the patience, concentration, and discipline critical for precision shooting. "

THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS / **** (R): "When people are building their careers, they need to prove they're better than their contemporaries. Those who win must then prove -- to themselves -- that they're as good as they used to be. Whether Remy was a good history professor is an interesting point (his son has to bribe three students to visit his bedside, but one of them later refuses to take the money). He certainly excelled in his lifestyle, as the lustiest and most Falstaffian of his circle, but every new conquest meant leaving someone behind -- and now, at the end, he seems to have left almost everyone behind."

Mac OS X: MySQL on Mac OS X: "You can now start mysql and perform a few important tasks, like setting a mysql password to protect the database itself. Note that, while starting the database requires system root privileges, actions within the database itself do not require system root privileges, but database root privileges. It is somewhat confusing that MySQL uses the account name 'root' for its all-powerful account, just as the system does, even though they are completely separate entities.

Starting mysql is accomplished with:"

MySQL Lists: mysql: Re: error 1130 : "Host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx not allowed to connect this server" ?: "GRANT SELECT, SHOW DATABASES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD > 'xxx'"

Airliner torn apart in crash impact - www.smh.com.au: "'All I can remember most is part of a child's leg floating still wearing its white sneaker. I could not make myself pick this up,' said Kazim, a technical search and rescue diver who rushed to the scene to help as soon as he heard the news.

'The rescuers were trying to chase away the sharks that were eating the bodies,' he said.

The smell was so bad most people helping in the clean-up operation got dizzy or vomited."

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HotScripts.com :: PHP Scripts and Programs :: Database Tools (PHP Database Tools Scripts and Programs): "noSQL is a small set (7kb) of SQL-like PHP functions to manage a database in an SQL-like way without a SQL-server. Everything is stored in flat .csv-formatted files, so putting data into noSQL or getting data from noSQL inside a spreadsheet program works immediately. If you are too lazy to setup an SQL-server, or you simply don't have one right now but perhaps later in the future, use noSQL."

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HotScripts.com :: PHP Scripts and Programs :: Database Tools (PHP Database Tools Scripts and Programs): "Instantly create PHP web database applications that let users view, sort, search and edit data of a MySQL database easily from a single web page. You can fully customize the look of the generated files using cascading style sheets. Ability to create foreign key fields that let you easily create dynamic data menus from several tables, and insure referential integrity. You have total control over how users can interact with your data. Easy creation of the database and tables without any SQL code. Ability to save data as CSV files that can be opened in Excel. Download your free trial now. "

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MRBS: Index: "MRBS is a free, GPL, web application using PHP and MySQL/pgsql for booking meeting rooms. It's similar in concept to Netscape Calendar, but much cheaper!
Some features:
Web/Intranet based - Available from any workstation through a Browser
Simple to follow, Web based options and intuitive presentation
Flexible Repeating Bookings
Authentication with your existing user database (eg Netware, NT Domain, NIS etc.)
Ensures that conflicting entries cannot be entered
Reporting option
Selectable DAY / WEEK / MONTH views
Multiple auth levels (read-only, user, admin)
Multiple languages supported (translated to Czech, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish)
Stable and in use at many organizations
mySQL and Postgres support "

No Milk Please: "Double Whammy

It's a total scam of course, everything is full price right up to Christmas Day. The day after, everything is marked down 20, 30, even 40 percent. Worse, you didn't get a gift receipt to go with that reindeer-festooned sweater that you now have to return. The only thing you can exchange it for is a pair of socks. How can such a 'pretty' sweater now be worth a pair of socks? If all of us were really smart, we would only buy gifts from stores that have gift receipts. And if we are even smarter, we should 'return' everything the day after Christmas and 'buy' it back. Of course the stores are counting on the tryptophan-induced coma to last until after the clearance sale, where your sweater will be worth one sock, and you have to pay to get the other one. It's a double whammy. "

Justin's Links: "But before I can go to bed, I've got to have a decent draft done. Something I could dispatch with a reasonable amount of pride. Then I can wake up, spiff it just a bit, and mail it without having to re-enter the total research and writing zone, reinitializing my databanks and filling my frontal lobes with all the facts of this particular subject. I can just read my piece for writing and flow, taste last night on tomorrow's tongue, and make it smooth before dispatching my piece and heading into the rest of my day."

Amazon.com: Books: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built: "Stewart Brand's How Buildings Learn: What happens after they're built is as much a reflection of his life as it is about architecture. This potent clearly written essay provides valuable insights for a wider ranging audience while poking fun at established norms in the information age. Depreciatory of modernism casting doubt on the success of popular monuments paying homage to their creators, Brand does not limit his criticism of Wright for Falling Water in southwestern Pennsylvania or I.M. Pei's Media Lab Building at MIT. The strength of the book is the candid and thoughtful approach, interrelating complex issues with simple strands. Weaving a tale of old stuff in a new world, Brand proposes that buildings are most useful to their occupants and neighbors when they adapt."

Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog: "It might be too late for this, but take a good amount of time to investigate course options at college with 'enojyment' taking primacy. Some people can knuckle through things they don't enjoy by having their sights set firmly on the ends. I'm not one of those people, and I'm guessing you're not either.

Otherwise, and this was the crunch for me: fundamentally change your outlook on work. Easy, eh? What I have done is to view work (and, to an extent) my life as a series of discrete projects. It's almost a case of divide and conquer. Split up your courses into weekly and daily projects. Manage these so as to make sure you're covering everything you need to, but also, don't be afraid to be inventive with how you handle things. Adopt a point of view that *forces* each of these projects to be interesting or enjoyable to you."

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING / *** 1/2 (PG-13): "Enormous bestial Trolls pull back the springs for catapults to hurl boulders against the walls and towers of Minas Tirith, which fall in cascades of rubble (only to seem miraculously restored in time for a final celebration)."