What type of metrics did the writer of the article use to assert the correlation between blogging and unemployement.
I run blogs4God.com - a portal of almost 500 bloggers - as well as a blog itself. There are no more or less unemployed from that segment than there are in my neighborhood.
Your example is a bit disturbing... in that they don't declare a DOCTYPE at all!
That said, when I want ahead and chose 4.01 Transitional for them, it got back almot 4 dozen HTML errors. Similar results for other DocTypes as well. OOOFTA!
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Too bad you wouldn't work in Windows XP Home Edition. Talk about a watered-down wannabe!
I recently purchased a Gateway and potentially stepped-on the XP Eula by introducing "other" operating systems - but only after a nice low-level format.
And thanks for the humorous approach to an obvious set of issues... tough I may have added to the visiting luminaries thing "Larry Wall was noticebly tardy. This was attribute to allowing ActiveState's Visual Perl to drive the bus."
There are a couple of recent articles over at The Truth Laid Bear regarding various techno-approaches to spam and telemarketing. And this is good. However we see that regardless of the technology, spammers seem to wiggle around it.
Similarly, in the past few years, at least in the States, we've begun to see legislation on a state-by-state basis. Mostly to no avail.
So if technology isn't working, and legislation isn't working then does this imply that us resorting litigation indicates we are beaten? Is taking these scum-buckets to court a last desperate attempt by those of us frustrated by this flood-o-crap we call spam?
Someone marked this question redundant? Guess that shows you jerks are everywhere.
Hey, I understand completely what you're saying. I for one am glad I don't have to deal with such as latency and pre-emption. In fact, here is a link to a nifty article entitled "Real Time Issues in Linux" that essentially sums up what you asked with a resounding yes.
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Man, speaking of dummies, I need to work on that "Enter Key" thing. Here's what I meant by "yahoo" or "portal" like resources that'll help you decide wether or not you want to dive into your own little narcissism:
That said, here are a few more "yahoo" like resources you can use to navigate your way around the "blogosphere:"
eatonweb portal:: the original weblog directory
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Sometimes I walk into ReadMeDoc.Com and ask - did a tree really have to die for that subject? Not to disparage the writer, but I have to categorize this one under the "DUH" section along with "MacIntosh for Dummies."
Then there are a variety of free or next-to-nothing tools to get the job done. For the absolute newbie, there is Blogger.com. Once you've figured it out a bit, you can graduate to MovableType. And if you're really afraid of HTML, you can spend $49 and do it brain dead with Radio Userland. There are also a gazillion of choices inbetween.
The point is, blogging is simple. Its not more difficult than back in 1995 when we all posted our first kitty-kat pictures using notepad or VI. Writing good content for blogs is the hard part.
There is an interesting article over at HealYourChurchWebSite describing how a local newspaper in the D.C. area has turned from free content to subscription only access. In the blog, the author complains that the local paper suffers because the content is not compelling, but rather a rehash of AP and Washington Post stories.
Could this be the problem with the Perl Journal? Are they really only offering a rehash of articles you can find at PerlMonks, PerlCircus and other online news/user sources? Look at two titles from Fall 2002.
Parsing RSS Files with XML::RSS
Does SOAP Suck?
I mean, can't I get the same skinny the first topic from XML.com and the other from Scripting.com?
Or is it because Perl itself has reached a plateu? I mean, other than ActiveState, who's doing anything innovative and hot with regards to Perl development tools on a commercial basis? I mean aside from the obligatory Shareware editors?
Perhaps it because much of the "action" is occuring in the Open Source arena, such as the CPAN and SourceForge that leave the Perl Journal much less to write about than they did 10 years ago?
I mean I'm sorry to see it go, but I can't honestly say I'm going to be handicapped without it.
As a programmer who cut his teeth on good-old K&R C back in the 80's and has been fortunate/unfortunate enough to avoid shooting himself in the foot with Fortran and/or Cobol... I have 2 questions?
What are the compelling reasons to use Fortran in 2002?
Do they differ much from the use of Fortran in the past?
Is it the same language as the Fortran of prior decades?
Can someone summarize without the tech-eze the future of Fortran - especially in light of the aforementioned Fortran 2000 Committee Draft?
I was reading an intersting angle on Google's new toy over at HealYourChurchWebSite.com where the blogger suggests poking a stick in the eye of old-media by combining tools such as the Google API & SOAP::Lite with the Blogger API & some XML-RPC library.
Of course, my thought is considering the lengths Google goes to to thwart scrapes and scripts, I doubt such a tool is possible.
Back in the stone ages when I was a kid, the only way we were assigned video games was as a programming assignment for our Assembler class! And not just any old ASM, but it would hours of dealing with that segmented 80n86 crap just to eek out an MS-DOS version of pong!
And it was uphill both ways with holes in our shoes!
Obviously, a move to prison is going to be a very difficult and probably distrubing cultural change from what you're used to.
Have you taken any steps to help yourself assimilate? Meaning, anything physical (e.g. self defense), thing mental (prepared a reading list) and/or things spiritual (e.g. Chuck Colson's pfm.org) ?
Have you set any goals for what you want to accomplish while you're on the inside? How about goals for when you're released?
From the HIPAA Blog: "if the trade-off is that the SP3 will give you greater protection against hackers (who might target your site because they know the PHI will be useful to them) at the cost of less protection against Microsoft (who will have the same rights against most of the universe and will be much less likely to target you particularly), then wouldn't you meet the reasonableness standard?
When the security regs come out, we pretty much expect the reasonableness standard to apply to everything there as well."
In case you can't tell, I'm throwing a virtual tantrum. I've just finished stomping my feet on the floor and now I'm banging my head against my monitor...... now I'm holding my breath...... really loud now (so I'm holding my hands over my ears) NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooo. No, N0, NO!
I don't wanna for it to stop.
I want my SatireWire
(can you tell I'm the dad of a 2.5 year old)
No. Okay, Now I'm swatting at the monitor...
I'll continue to cycle through these steps until I get what I want, catharsis kicks in, or my wife gets home - whichever occurs first.
Yup. No lie, I walked into one interview where the guy wanted me to recite E.F.Codd's denormalization word-for-word - as he was unimpressed by a paraphrase and a real-life example. I still remember the smug look on his face.
I contrast this with a very cool person who asked me what a hash was. My answer wasn't text book, but was indeed accurate. He liked that - in fact was looking for that as it was an indication that I worked with the stuff, instead of just parroting it.
Then I had an interviewer who was bent on proving to me that my Master's in CSCI was worthless compared to his 'real-world' experiences. Appearently he didn't read the part of my resume that detailed several years getting it done.
I've had more than one interview where they've asked me to solve a problem. Funny thing is though, they'e not willing to pay me if I correctly solve it. I understand their need to determine my skill - but some of those tests were merely guises to glean free technical advice.
My best interviews - those instances where my resume and cover letter had already done the job and it was just a matter of making sure I wasn't a lunatic.
Ten years ago, I worked for a company in which John Sidgmore was brought on board. The company was soon for sale.
$100 million company isn't scratch - you don't suppose ActiveState may be thinking about making room for a puppet dictator, or perhaps selling the company outright to a certain Redmond-based software interest?
Guess I should have seen that coming when they jacked the prices on their Perl Development Kit (still worth it), divorced it from O'Reilly, and began taking a very MSDN approach to their Perl packaging.
Part of AOL's problem is that they inverted their priorities. Sure, they're primo priority is to make money. But you have a choice. Build the business to serve the customer, or serve the target income?
I think the U.S. Post Office model of increasing rates to compensate for loss revenue helps us answer that question. Instead of raising rates, make the lines shorter, make priority mail delivery dependable instead of "2 or 3 days or whenever, but there is no guarantee for you paying more," and other things. Instead, for years they have raised rates while continually cutting back services and then sit there and wonder what the problem is.
Here's another model comparison to think about. What if the computer system at your local motor vehicle administration was as efficient as the state's lotto system?
In my spare time, I do charity work. Much of it is non-technical, but some is the obligatory website and or a bit-o-help when thier office network goes kafloooie.
With the recent annoucements of user friendly distributions such as Lycoris and Mandrake (I've yet to give the new Debian a spin), I have been trying to get the office staff of the church I attend to make the switch.
Sure, they won't get ALL the power of MS Word, but then again, THEY DON'T ever really use all that power anyway.
Recently, I had been warning them about MSFT's draconian licensing practices... which generally fell on deaf ears.
I'd like, at this time, to thank Microsoft for making my case for me.
Yeah, Lycoris isn't going to make the hard-core, Debian-based, Linx-loving/.'s hit parade. And maybe Mandrake is too friendly for our technical tastes.
But I work with alot of charities, and I am more than pleased to get them up and running on nice little operating systems.
In light of this article... donated PCs may be yet another way of getting Linux in one door... while shoving MSFT out the other...
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What type of metrics did the writer of the article use to assert the correlation between blogging and unemployement.
I run blogs4God.com - a portal of almost 500 bloggers - as well as a blog itself. There are no more or less unemployed from that segment than there are in my neighborhood.
Sounds a bit contrived - but whatta I know?
Your example is a bit disturbing ... in that they don't declare a DOCTYPE at all!
That said, when I want ahead and chose 4.01 Transitional for them, it got back almot 4 dozen HTML errors. Similar results for other DocTypes as well. OOOFTA!
This is nothing new. Consider this 1997 article entitled "BMI automates copyright vigilance"
Too bad you wouldn't work in Windows XP Home Edition. Talk about a watered-down wannabe!
... tough I may have added to the visiting luminaries thing "Larry Wall was noticebly tardy. This was attribute to allowing ActiveState's Visual Perl to drive the bus."
I recently purchased a Gateway and potentially stepped-on the XP Eula by introducing "other" operating systems - but only after a nice low-level format.
And thanks for the humorous approach to an obvious set of issues
There are a couple of recent articles over at The Truth Laid Bear regarding various techno-approaches to spam and telemarketing. And this is good. However we see that regardless of the technology, spammers seem to wiggle around it.
Similarly, in the past few years, at least in the States, we've begun to see legislation on a state-by-state basis. Mostly to no avail.
So if technology isn't working, and legislation isn't working then does this imply that us resorting litigation indicates we are beaten? Is taking these scum-buckets to court a last desperate attempt by those of us frustrated by this flood-o-crap we call spam?
Someone marked this question redundant? Guess that shows you jerks are everywhere.
Hey, I understand completely what you're saying. I for one am glad I don't have to deal with such as latency and pre-emption. In fact, here is a link to a nifty article entitled "Real Time Issues in Linux" that essentially sums up what you asked with a resounding yes.
Apologies if I left anyone out.
That said, here are a few more "yahoo" like resources you can use to navigate your way around the "blogosphere:"
Sometimes I walk into ReadMeDoc.Com and ask - did a tree really have to die for that subject? Not to disparage the writer, but I have to categorize this one under the "DUH" section along with "MacIntosh for Dummies."
Blogging can be learned two ways. Visiting blogs. Its easy, there are tech blogs, there are pundit blogs, there are blogs for dogs and blogs4God. There are even nichy topical blogs, such as how to fix your church's web page.
Then there are a variety of free or next-to-nothing tools to get the job done. For the absolute newbie, there is Blogger.com. Once you've figured it out a bit, you can graduate to MovableType. And if you're really afraid of HTML, you can spend $49 and do it brain dead with Radio Userland. There are also a gazillion of choices inbetween.
The point is, blogging is simple. Its not more difficult than back in 1995 when we all posted our first kitty-kat pictures using notepad or VI. Writing good content for blogs is the hard part.
Could this be the problem with the Perl Journal? Are they really only offering a rehash of articles you can find at PerlMonks, PerlCircus and other online news/user sources? Look at two titles from Fall 2002.
I mean, can't I get the same skinny the first topic from XML.com and the other from Scripting.com?
Or is it because Perl itself has reached a plateu? I mean, other than ActiveState, who's doing anything innovative and hot with regards to Perl development tools on a commercial basis? I mean aside from the obligatory Shareware editors?
Perhaps it because much of the "action" is occuring in the Open Source arena, such as the CPAN and SourceForge that leave the Perl Journal much less to write about than they did 10 years ago?
I mean I'm sorry to see it go, but I can't honestly say I'm going to be handicapped without it.
I started out with 2 ... then added 2 more ... forgot to change the original line ... arg!
Just curious I guess.
I was reading an intersting angle on Google's new toy over at HealYourChurchWebSite.com where the blogger suggests poking a stick in the eye of old-media by combining tools such as the Google API & SOAP::Lite with the Blogger API & some XML-RPC library.
Of course, my thought is considering the lengths Google goes to to thwart scrapes and scripts, I doubt such a tool is possible.
Bah! Kids these days have it so easy!
Back in the stone ages when I was a kid, the only way we were assigned video games was as a programming assignment for our Assembler class! And not just any old ASM, but it would hours of dealing with that segmented 80n86 crap just to eek out an MS-DOS version of pong!
And it was uphill both ways with holes in our shoes!
Obviously, a move to prison is going to be a very difficult and probably distrubing cultural change from what you're used to.
Have you taken any steps to help yourself assimilate? Meaning, anything physical (e.g. self defense), thing mental (prepared a reading list) and/or things spiritual (e.g. Chuck Colson's pfm.org) ?
Have you set any goals for what you want to accomplish while you're on the inside? How about goals for when you're released?
When the security regs come out, we pretty much expect the reasonableness standard to apply to everything there as well."
Yeah, What he said.
In case you can't tell, I'm throwing a virtual tantrum. I've just finished stomping my feet on the floor and now I'm banging my head against my monitor ... ... now I'm holding my breath ... ... really loud now (so I'm holding my hands over my ears) NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooo. No, N0, NO!
...
I don't wanna for it to stop.
I want my SatireWire
(can you tell I'm the dad of a 2.5 year old)
No. Okay, Now I'm swatting at the monitor
I'll continue to cycle through these steps until I get what I want, catharsis kicks in, or my wife gets home - whichever occurs first.
Yup. No lie, I walked into one interview where the guy wanted me to recite E.F.Codd's denormalization word-for-word - as he was unimpressed by a paraphrase and a real-life example. I still remember the smug look on his face.
I contrast this with a very cool person who asked me what a hash was. My answer wasn't text book, but was indeed accurate. He liked that - in fact was looking for that as it was an indication that I worked with the stuff, instead of just parroting it.
Then I had an interviewer who was bent on proving to me that my Master's in CSCI was worthless compared to his 'real-world' experiences. Appearently he didn't read the part of my resume that detailed several years getting it done.
I've had more than one interview where they've asked me to solve a problem. Funny thing is though, they'e not willing to pay me if I correctly solve it. I understand their need to determine my skill - but some of those tests were merely guises to glean free technical advice.
My best interviews - those instances where my resume and cover letter had already done the job and it was just a matter of making sure I wasn't a lunatic.
Ten years ago, I worked for a company in which John Sidgmore was brought on board. The company was soon for sale.
$100 million company isn't scratch - you don't suppose ActiveState may be thinking about making room for a puppet dictator, or perhaps selling the company outright to a certain Redmond-based software interest?
Guess I should have seen that coming when they jacked the prices on their Perl Development Kit (still worth it), divorced it from O'Reilly, and began taking a very MSDN approach to their Perl packaging.
Part of AOL's problem is that they inverted their priorities. Sure, they're primo priority is to make money. But you have a choice. Build the business to serve the customer, or serve the target income?
I think the U.S. Post Office model of increasing rates to compensate for loss revenue helps us answer that question. Instead of raising rates, make the lines shorter, make priority mail delivery dependable instead of "2 or 3 days or whenever, but there is no guarantee for you paying more," and other things. Instead, for years they have raised rates while continually cutting back services and then sit there and wonder what the problem is.
Here's another model comparison to think about. What if the computer system at your local motor vehicle administration was as efficient as the state's lotto system?
For those not familiar with homeschooling, there is a hyper-conservative segment of that population that just says NO to television.
Perhaps this legislation is a back-handed means of erradicating liberalisms most useful weapon by denying us the ability to record?
You forgot reliable. I've had sites on others (e.g. Aletia & CIHost) ... PHPWebhosting has basicslly been "set it" and "forget it" ...
In my spare time, I do charity work. Much of it is non-technical, but some is the obligatory website and or a bit-o-help when thier office network goes kafloooie.
... which generally fell on deaf ears.
With the recent annoucements of user friendly distributions such as Lycoris and Mandrake (I've yet to give the new Debian a spin), I have been trying to get the office staff of the church I attend to make the switch.
Sure, they won't get ALL the power of MS Word, but then again, THEY DON'T ever really use all that power anyway.
Recently, I had been warning them about MSFT's draconian licensing practices
I'd like, at this time, to thank Microsoft for making my case for me.
Yeah, Lycoris isn't going to make the hard-core, Debian-based, Linx-loving /.'s hit parade. And maybe Mandrake is too friendly for our technical tastes.
... donated PCs may be yet another way of getting Linux in one door ... while shoving MSFT out the other ...
But I work with alot of charities, and I am more than pleased to get them up and running on nice little operating systems.
In light of this article