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Cool. I just showed up in yaywastaken.com's referers links. Now what I think may be really sick is that I should be able to click on my own link on that page and I'll get a refer from there. Even though I'm doing the following!
Yup. I just followed the link and sure enough I now have yaywastaken.com as one of my referers. This referers stuff just cracks me up.
11:20:55 PM #
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The perfect thing for the referers-page-obsessed like me: Referers Thingy
11:15:18 PM #
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"Of course, an email is more sure and AOL IM is faster -- but there's something deliciously warped about Google Instant Messaging that appeals. It's a weblogging thing. "[Burningbird]: This sounds pretty cool.
11:11:40 PM #
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"Yes, folks, today CNET honors Mike Dell because he "did not join the rush to make handheld devices," and he did not "open stores" (actually, he did, for a while, didn't he?). Moreover, his pathetic attempt at a "stylishly designed PC" failed miserably and was axed after six months on the market, which was evidently a masterstroke of strategy in CNET's opinion. In other words, he's a visionary because he really just doesn't do anything but buy cheap components in absurdly high volumes, slap them together, and starve the competition by driving margins through the floor. Forget about excellent (or, indeed, any) industrial design, shaping the functional destiny of the personal computer, or any of that crap-- it's all about sledgehammer-tactic price wars. Now that's vision, baby! (But heck, even we admit that it works.)"[As the Apple Turns]: As the Apple Turns is a great site. And the best thing is that even with its cool layout you can still select and copy the text of the stories. Well done!
10:17:02 PM #
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AT&T Broadband says no to NAT[MacCentral]: This is kinda scary. And it doesn't make sense to me. With all the viruses out there it doesn't make sense to directly connect a computer to the internet for any length of time. NAT serves as a kind of firewall and I think the broadband guys should be glad people use it. But that's just me.
9:50:44 PM #
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Cell Phone Blackberry[msnbc.com]: This might be pretty cool. I need to see a picture. I don't think we've quite come up with the perfect portable telecommunication device yet and this still probably isn't it.
9:40:39 PM #
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Analyst: caution for Apple retail strategy [MacNN]: I may just be making this up, but I really think that Apple doesn't have to sell a think from their Apple stores to have them be successful. They just have to sell more Macs. The stores are like advertisement. In fact, they probably charge them to their ad budget. They just need to get people in the stores looking at the stuff and as long as those people go home and order a Mac online, Apple has succeeded. And every time I go to the Apple store it's packed.
9:31:21 PM #
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I'm not going to be able to post much tonight as I've got work to do. Pity.
9:22:17 PM #
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Japan jobless rate hits new high. [BBC News: world]: I wonder if Japan is ever going to get back on its feet. I remember when I was living there in the 80's and things were going so well. It was like the US in the dot-com era.
10:00:21 AM #
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The whole "patch penguin" thread is a very interesting read and shows, I think, that there is a kind of government in charge of the open-source Linux effort. But it is quite a different kind of government than I am used to. I work as a programmer for a big corporation. But I work in a group that is isolated from the rest of the corporation and for the most part we do what we want.
9:29:28 AM #
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I had this idea to build a bug database for humans. That way people could post bug reports and maybe they could be fixed for Human 2.0. For example: "Bug: men and women do not climax at the same time, which isn't good for either of them; reproducible: always; workaround: none."
9:10:19 AM #
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I woke up all woozy today. I hate it when that happens.
8:58:13 AM #
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"According to the Register, Microsoft has a relational database on the front burner for a future version of Windows." [Scripting News]: Actually, I think this is a cool idea. It sounds a lot like the object database upon which the BeOS filesystem sat. The idea is that the file is a poor way to organize information. Instead, there should be a database into which any kind of information can be poored. That makes live queries possible as well as all kinds of other things. An app can be as simple as a view of some of the data. A mail app, for example, should be really easy to write.
8:43:12 AM #
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2002
Will Leshner.
Last update:
1/29/02; 11:22:31 PM.
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