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It appears the best and easiest templates for weblogs are at
http://www.blog-city.com

See also
http://GuideToProblematicalLibraryUse.library-blog s.net
http://www.library-blogs.net

This is a great summary of a lot of the things that have been said against open sourcing Java. An entry from Charles Ditzel

I'm on a tacky dial-up connection so rather than trying to take on everyone's comments I'll just point you to a blog posting that calmly and thoroughly addresses ESRs points. S.

A Boston broadcasting history resource is being developed for the web...

Sound Archives. Boston Public Library.
http://www.bpl.org/soundarchives

If you would, a survey form is available for your impressions at
http://www.bpl.org/soundarchives/electronic.htm

Contact
jlatchford at bpl.org

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A flyer circulating around our Boston Public Library...

Is Big Brother Watching?

The union believes that the library is using
video surveillance to watch patrons and employees
in areas of the library.

The library will neither confirm nor deny
this.

The union is working with our legal department
to explore our options of recourse that you
and the patrons you serve may be illegally
videotaped.

Please Post

Boston Public Library Employees Local No. 1526
http://www.afscmecouncil93.org

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American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO
http://www.afscme.org

American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations
http://aflcio.org

8 Beacon Street Boston Massachusetts 02108
Telephone 617 536 5400 ext 2311 Fax 617 262 5554

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ALLIED PRINTING TRADES COUNCIL 73
UNION LABEL
BOSTON MASS
http://www.alliedlabel.org

See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Federation_o f_Labor-Congress_of_Industrial_Organizations

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Stallman for President

alphacoward

Check out Ken Kifer's bicycle touring experience with a solar powered laptop.

-biff

Hardening your Mac at boot time.

just enter OpenFirmware and setenv security-mode command. Then setenv security-password "passwd" (or use the "password" command).

Works on Suns too.

Nice fixie. I just finished my fix about 6 weeks ago.
Since the pics, I've flipped and chopped the handlebars for skidtastic fun.

Not quite 15lbs, but close at 18.

LOL... that's pretty good Johnny... but that ain't the way I heerd it. The way I heard it, the nominal launch time is 6 a.m on 15 Oct

I've been using OO for about 6 months and absolutely love it. I am a IT Manager and would like to convince my enterprise to switch and save on the enormous office licenses. Having the ability to export to PDFs is huge and I may be able to get a leg in this time. Any other arguments that could help me to convince the big wigs? centrifugalforce

It's amazing how many people would be willing to take the risk. I would also be happy to take the flight. Centrifugalforce

Our North American cities' public libraries have been censoring respective city archives from cities' public libraries users, personnel and cities' public libraries unions collective bargaining labor relations advocates. Even public archives of cities' libraries themselves such as departmental curators' reports, library consultants' studies and consultants' reports have been censored. Our Boston Public Library is a model of a bad example in this regard where BPL President Bernie Margolis and his delegated so called freedom of information officer R. Kowal have used tactics of denial, delay and punitive additional fees.

See also
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thank you for reacting before reading my entire post, or stopping to consider the 50,000 dead american soldiers in vietnam, or the the hundreds to thousands of soldiers that died every hour storming the beaches of Normandy, all day long.

Your lack of perspective is astounding, and you completely ignored my statements counter to the very tired mantra you repeat.. "More people have died since Bush declared this war "over" than died while it was going on.

I don't know where the lies and deception came in, as I hope it was evident that I was expressing my take on agreed upon numbers. Must I state the obvious that it's my opinion, preface it with something like IMHO before I say anything?

Would you deny the recent major terrorist bombings in Iraq, against the UN and a mosque? No? Do you disagree that we have a military presence in both Germany and Japan at the moment? As far as I can tell at this late hour, those are the only statements of fact I made.

Everything else is up to intrepretation. Just because you don't like my interpretation, doesn't mean I'm lying or being decietful. And covering your ears and saying 'lalalala I can't hear you" won't help.

Quick? Decisive? We owned that country in a matter of weeks with minimal resistance. The continued desperate, sporadic attacks coming from the Jihaadists I see as signs of desperation, and a great improvement that they're attacking defended targets now, our soldiers, who are quite good at defending themselves, as opposed to our airline stewardesses.

It's hardly a useless conflict when Osoma bin laden is only seen in recycled footage, islamic terrorists are biting the hand that feeds them in the middle east, and they're throwing themselves in large numbers into the blender that is our troops. Sure, they take a few of our troops once in a while. I wager you're crying crocodile tears for our fallen soldiers, and take every spoon-fed soldier death as a great sign that things are SOOOOO BAD IN IRAQ.

I ask for perspective from you, boy, and I get nothing but an expected reaction before you even read 10 lines into my post.A plaintive whine that my opinions qualify as 'lies and deceptions' because they don't line up with yours is hardly worth writing a response over.

I won't call you an ignorant son of a bitch, or a heartless coward. All I ask of you is that you consider for a second your Dogmatic reactions are running on less than the full story. I see headlines on CNN, ABC news, and MSNBC backing up your shrill take on things. All I ask is that you read the following:

We're winning

and A view from the sandbox.

If you read the blogs of some of the soldiers over there, you might get a little more insight. When you read about all the bad news in the mainstream news, always remember that bad news sells alot better than good news- "no news is good news."

When you actually bother to read my post, and what I've linked to, please respond, because I enjoy this.

Boston Public Library's President Bernard Margolis delegated BPL Director R. Kowal to censor public city archives
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In the beginning...Sun made AWT and it was very low level hardward/OS linked.

Then came Swing, which was more abstract, higher level, and less hardware specific, with more functionality in some areas and less in others.

Then came SWT, which came about to increase speed by moving closer to the lower level APIs, to avoid lots of bloat, to be closer to host OS look and feel, and once again more hardware/OS specific and this was good..

There are always differences, and more differences

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Sun doesn't plan on abandoning its development all together (see Project Rave) I beleive it is suppose to be a new IDE implementation, but still based on Netbean foundation.

New Java Specification Request also include a common java ide plugin standardization, so this may be another reason they are doing some of this.

I've been using OpenOffice on my home machine now for about 4 months and I love it. I am starting the push (since I'm an IT Manager) for our company to look at it as an alternative to upgrading Office. It will be difficult to convince those in management away from their precious Excel. centrifugalforce

Why would I be interested in trying to change your mind? I can't change your mind. You think blaming Bush for anything or everything or these things or those things but not THOSE things or nothing at all, whatever, knock yourself out. All the information I have is readily available online to anyone who bothers to so much as glance. Need prompting? Fine, start with Seymour Hersh's articles in the New Yorker from the past two years, and work your way out from there. Or, I'm not personally a fan, but Ed Strong's blog may have links to some solid, relevant articles. Knock yourself out.

Yes, I do have good reasons why I think Bush is the worst president in at least 100 years. They're sketched out in my original post. If you want sources that you feel you can trust for all of those things, then go for it. You're smart enough to find them. It's not like I'm going to win a prize for digging around to satisfy your personal criteria for proof. I've been down this road enough to know what a waste of time that is... in the end, it doesn't matter what the evidence is, people will believe what they want to believe.

Before the war even started, I'd write massive posts with substantive evidence and links about how the administration was lying about the justification for war. Even before the war started, it was all in reputable print how the evidence of WMDs was not just incorrect but sometimes blatant, bald-faced lies, and how there was no good evidence whatsoever of ties with Al Qaeda. I could lay everything out in print or conversation with perfect eloquence and impeccable sources, and people who believed wouldn't budge an inch. They still simply believed that Saddam Hussein would give his WMDs to Al Qaeda and was an imminent threat. So, and I mean this not personally but rather in general, fuck you. That's the extent of my debate these days - either you are capable of finding information yourself and reading and comprehending it and making reasonable judgments as to its relativity to reality, or you're not. If you're not, then you're either ignorant or stupid and not going to listen anyway, and either way, why do I care about you enough to try to convince you of anything?

It's one thing to politely ask, hey, where'd you read that? I'm curious and want to figure out for myself if you're full of shit or not, because if you're not, then wow. Then I might be interested in tracking something down. But find some other wanker to "debate" about how bad Bush is or isn't.

And Bush is not the focus of all my ire. I have a lot to go around. But you may notice that the Bush administration currently exerts some influence here and there in this country. Oh, and in other countries. Or you may not notice it. I dunno. While they are certainly accomplices, it seems hard to hold Democrats equally at blame for policies set in the executive and legislative branches while Republicans are in the driver's seat, but I don't have any sources to back that up.

The tax cut measure is correct. Score one for the Shrub. In my opinion, however, cutting taxes while raising spending into massive deficits isn't so much cutting taxes as deferring them for political gain. It's a sleight-of-hand that hardly qualifies as the fundamental tinkering that a true tax cut would require, and worse, it seems to me cynical, manipulative and fiscally retarded. But on a surface level, that's correct, you can take that tax cut to the bank. Woo-hoo! There's one measure, strictly defined, where he's not the flat-out worst. Nice work.

But what's with the random comparisons to other countries? I hate that meaningless bullshit, and you always hear it... you can say that here, but if you even have a beer in Uzbekistan, they'll pull out your eyes with a hot grapefruit spoon... what? Who cares? How does their suck make our suck suck less? Just because you may be a fat sloppy Haystacks Calhoun isn't going to help me get laid, see what I'm saying? America may be the best country on earth, but that's like being the prettiest Denny's waitress. Maybe we can have a little more ambition than that?

or maybe the Chinese will start a new human/rabbit army. They will be able to breed faster than we can kill them. We are doomed.
Set out the traps now!
centrifugalforce

Things will get smaller in our pre-quantum computer world and processing speeds will increase. The price of the computer will continue to become more affordable partly because Linux will dominate both the Server and desktop market.
It's a far cry from the days on my old Tandy Color computer when we had to put the code in before we ran the program - I remember buying books of Basic code, rushing home and typing in the code for a program only to find out I had a Syntax error (I mistyped something). OH those were the days.
centrifugalforce

There're many competent librarians and well run libraries. There're other librarians for whom the internet is the alternative. At our Boston Public Library improvements have happened because of the technology. BPL organizational culture is relatively more open. There's a long way to go yet for our BPL. BPL has been a good example of a bad example of North American cities' public libraries resistance to citizen participation in long range public libraries planning.

See also
http://GuideToProblematicalLibraryUse.blog-city.co m

I have found quite a bit of useful information on Blogs. Some of the most useful sites I know , I found out about through reading Blogs. It inspired me enough to do my own blog. Breaking them out will give users who need a clean search better results while at the same time providing Bloggers with their own index.

Centrifugalforce

Here's a little bit of a developing collaborative weblog for sorting out difficulties with respect to usability of our public library and some other related matters of interest.

Collaborative weblog
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that's why personally i prefer to go straight to the blog of someone realiable like Ajit Sagar: he goes far beyond trivial "news" and offers instead cogent thoughts on the acquisition, from a developer standpoint. Excellent.