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Wednesday, May 08, 2002
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Salon.com: The pop-up ad campaign from hell. It's the latest in Web marketing innovation: Hijacked Web surfers, exploited Web browser vulnerabilities and malicious spyware all wrapped up together.
7:06:07 PM 
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My Neighbors
Considering I have a photography degree, this is a remarkably bad picture. But it was fun to snap. These are my neighbors. Wish I could tell you what kind of bird they are, all I know is that they are getting much too big for their parents (these are babies). Consequently the parents are trying to teach them to fly. In a way they remind me of some of those kids who come home after college and don't get a job. They rather hang out around the house because its a big scary world out there. This little life drama unfolds literally in front of my door in a small tree in our front yard.
5:16:41 PM
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Plone CMS 0.9.9.closer. Plone CMS is a content management system that is simple to set up, maintain and modify. It is designed to be a proper content management system that can replace Interwoven Teamsite or Opentext's Livelink. [freshmeat.net] [Pythoz.com] ( I like the comment "a proper CMS". Have no idea about the qualifty of this tool. If you do - send me an email! )
4:53:24 PM
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Hilarious: Check out Zack Urlocker's banner ad's. Very funny. Here are some more! Ok - I'm on the floor laughing. Here is another batch.
I think Zack's deciphering of the Wall Street Analysts coding system is right on the money. "Buy Sell or Hang Up"
This only makes sense if you have been reading Dave Winers Scripting News. If you have never read Winer's singular achievements, click on the link in the left nav menu , read a couple of days of Dave and then come back to the parody of his site. It is so true, because Dave will go on and on about and nobody knows what the heck he is talking about. All you can tell is that he single-handedly saved the universe, helped multiple presidents and has just a terribly interesting life, while developing Open Standards on the side.
11:30:26 AM
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Statistics: ZD-Net reguritates the numbers by Evans Data on acceptance of C#. Remember, as I mentioned a few days ago, the original sample size was only about 800 developers. That is hardly enough to qualify for statistical mention. Personally I thought of Mark Twain when I saw these numbers . Twain said " There are liars, damned liars and then there are statistics" If the sample size had been a few thousand programmers it might be more accurate. One interesting note, the article states that Java programmers are not using C# to any extend. One possible reason why, in my opinion, is that Java programmers are doing just fine where they are. In a recent salary study by Fawcette, it was shown that Java guys make quite a bit more money than Microsoft based programmers. It will take a good deal of trial and error before the market for C# programmers adjusts. And who knows, with all the script kiddies getting into the act it may never really catch up with the salaries of Java coders. Buried in the Fawcette survey is an interesting point, West Coast Java programmers make an avg of $101K versus an avg of $61K for Visual Basic coders. But to add injury to insult, the average Java person had onlyabout 2-3 years of experience with that language. Their overall experience was 7-10 years but all things considered, that's a noteworthy point. There are tons of MS based guys out there who have 7-10 years experience and don't get paid on par with the Java folks.
9:38:03 AM
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the dot.communist: "..I just finished doing an immersion in the ebXML specifications for an article I've been working on, and I've got just one thing to ask: what the hell were they smoking?..."
9:15:49 AM
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NY Times: "How Enron got California to buy power that it didn't need." There is a secondary story to this. The offensive strategies used to bilk CA out of millions of dollars were created by lawyers!
7:49:01 AM
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