Friday, August 29, 2003

A list of start-up files that you can check for.  I periodically select "run" from the start menu and type in "msconfig", this brings you the the system configuration controller.  Click the startup tab to check out what will automatically start up.  Deselect items you know you don't want.  Check out the files that don't seem to be linked to any known application.  Deselecting AIM, MSM, and Real Audio will only get you a reprieve until the next time they startup (when they reinsert themselves automatically into the list again). [John Robb's Weblog] 4:21:06 PM  comment []  Trackback []     A Passion for Jazz http://www.apassion4jazz.net/ Includes a little of everything -- jazz history, a timeline, festivals, a photo gallery, a teacher locator, a glossary, and more. [Neat New Stuff] 3:27:20 PM  comment []  Trackback []     RSSlets - Functional RSS Feeds.. From abursey's Eightlinks: My ultimate vision for RSSlet is a service that allows users to generate dynamic RSS feeds that actually do something functional from any web page. They now handle: pages generated dynamically from the contents of a form (or other source of parameters passed into a page via GET or POST) password protected data sources keyword based filtering Coming: online creation and editing of RSSlets simple user accounts so I can track who makes what RSSlet security so the only the creator of the RSSlet can edit it ability to mark a RSSlet as private or shared passwords support for a RSSlet Prototypes: FedEx*, Eightlinks Refers, Google News - Top Stories - Keyword Match*, Exploding Dog comics, Talking Points Memo, Ain't It Cool News. *Change an url parameter to customize results. Moreover has been doing this for years as a content provider. But RSSlets turns this idea around. It lets content consumers ask questions and get back RSS, RSS they can use. Can't you see these features built into your news reader?  Brought to my attention by Rajesh Jain's always exciting emergic.org. "akasig" [a klog apart] 3:22:50 PM  comment []  Trackback []     No PC here, but a real scream... What Next?. A Jeebus blog? I don't know who it is, but it's pretty funny.... [Transterrestrial Musings] 3:21:23 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Freedom's Dark Side. Virtual intelligentsia from across the continent and beyond congregate in Vienna to celebrate the specter haunting cybercapitalism: free information. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine. [Wired News] 3:18:43 PM  comment []  Trackback []     What would God blog?. Surfing in the wee hours, I saw a godblogger's post. He said God's favor was evident in some things happening to people. Three local examples were given, including someone finding a desparately needed job. God's favor. So, When your life sucks, that's because you're in God's doghouse? What happened to God the egalitarian? The everyone is equal before the Lord god? I find it easier to believe (not saying I do) that God is busy keeping the universe's plumbing running, souls burning bright, and rooting for us to make good choices. The kind of God who set up the pool table, racked 'em up, and shot, not touching the balls in motion.   Free will? An illusion rising from insufficient information. Compared to an omniscience, we're ignorant of the nuances of causation. What makes pool interesting, a game of skill, is what we don't know. We don't know the micro variances among ball masses and surface textures, the felt's lie, the exact force and vector applied with an imperfect cue on a table that isn't exactly level. With perfect knowledge, the results of each shot could be forecast, perfectly. But how boring is that?  Can any of you philosophy majors name who said this first and better? "akasig" [a klog apart] 3:16:55 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Eric Raymond unloads on SCO CEO Darl McBride Who bloody well deserves it. SCO is in a FUD fight it can't win. [Due Diligence] 3:14:53 PM  comment []  Trackback []     A Life Well Lived, and Loved. Losing one's mother or father is never easy. But Doc Searls, via his blog, has turned his loss into a... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 3:09:32 PM  comment []  Trackback []     A Good Corporate Citizen? This Scanner Can Tell. AS they sit there on the shelf, shrink-wrapped and safety-sealed, consumer products may not seem to tell much of a story. From the packaging, it is hard to tell whether sneakers were made by a company with a record of exploiting overseas laborers, or whether the pineapples in a can came from a farming conglomerate fined for polluting a watershed. By Will Wade. [New York Times: Technology] 2:59:46 PM  comment []  Trackback []     A Television Network With a PC at Its Heart. An improvised television network is reaching students over the Internet. By J. D. Biersdorfer. [New York Times: Technology] 2:58:29 PM  comment []  Trackback []     For once, a group of academics has hit the nail on the head... "Conservative rather than liberal political opinions are correlated with a sense of societal instability,. fear of death, intolerance of ambiguity, need for closure, lower cognitive complexity, and a sense of threat." - Conclusions of... [Blogcritics] Original article here: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml 2:50:49 PM  comment []  Trackback []

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