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Gary Secondino's Weblog
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Thursday, January 31, 2002
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One good reason to NOT join a gym
For all you de-motivated health/exercise folks (like me) this morning I heard a news report on CH 56 about an employee at Bally's Total Fitness in Cambridge, MA who was arrested for stealing gym members personal information and then selling it to terrorists.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2002
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Sunday, January 27, 2002
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Go Patriots
 
Patriots vs Steelers today at 12:30 est. for AFC championship.
Patriots quietly focus on winning this game. The Steeler trash talk with reporters makes copy but someone always ends up eating their words.
11:39:54 AM comment
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Blast rocks central Jerusalem. At least two people are killed and dozens injured after a suicide
bombing in Jerusalem, which Israel blames on Yasser Arafat. [BBC News: world]
iSay - It's clear Arafat is no longer in control of the PLA. Maybe he never was.
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Electronic Warfare Associates releases 20-page PDF with sensible advice for securing wireless networks using existing technology: they don't claim this methodology is 100 percent secure; rather, they describe a series of sensible, generally inexpensive steps that ensure the best possible results with the least amount of ongoing maintenance and concerns. The paper is available in PDF form from their security white papers page. [80211b News]
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Saturday, January 26, 2002
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Scientists develop cloning alternative. US scientists claim to have found an way to use gene cloning to
develop new treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer's without using
human embryos. [BBC News: sci/tech]
iSay - Another step in a good direction. Cloning scares the hell out of me. Maybe I'm a product of scary sci/fi movies like The Blob, so what. This cloning, especially human cloning just smells bad. There are way to many negatives to the human race (new sicknesses, undesirable mutations, racial extinction, etc.) when this starts to be commercialized. We should stop all human cloning now.
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Trouble ahead for broadband providers. Providing high-speed internet access at a competitive price could lead
to financial headaches for many companies. [BBC News: sci/tech]
iSay - There needs to be a level playing field and more competition. The telcos bias everyting in their favor. I doubt very much if this administration will do anything consumer friendly to help this along.
12:29:28 PM comment
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Blair: Problems With Health System. Britain's National Health Service provides excellent care to the majority of its patients despite instances of poor treatment and unacceptably long waiting times for some patients, Prime Minister Tony Blair said. [AP World News]
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Gen. Franks Defends U.S. Tactics. The top commander of the war in Afghanistan defended U.S. tactics Saturday, saying that deploying large numbers of American ground forces would not have increased the chances of capturing Osama bin Laden or Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. [AP World News]
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When I open the Window menu this is what I see:
Also when Radio is the front app the Mac Apple Menu doubles in length because it repeats itself.
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Friday, January 25, 2002
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I thought I'd try one more thing before heading off to bed. Give Radio more memory space. No fix-ee, still no images. Whasuup wit dat?
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I've tried several different browsers with the same results. But what is confusing is the published public home page looks normal. It's only the internal weblog pages that have the problem.
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Hmmmm? Ever since I've upgrade to Radio 8.03b1 my supplied default theme has no images and when I switched to adult contemporary the background is white instead of gray and there still are no images.
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Dave W. writes about how he thinks of kids these days. I'm in my 50's and Dave is in his 40's, I think of him as a kid too, a really smart kid. Keep up the great work!
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The senseless killing of a man during a fist fight nets The Hockey Dad Killer 6 to 10 years. This out of control guy is in my area. I'll feel safer if he does the full 10.
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Dave W. writes about his dissapointment over the DOJ/MS settlement.
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Two very large monopolistic companies are fighting (AOL/TW and MS). GMSV has some good info and a way that *YOU* can reach the judge with your comments.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2002
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4 Islamic Militants Die in Israel Raid. Israeli commandos raided a Hamas hide-out and explosives lab in this Palestinian city Tuesday and killed four Islamic militants in a gun battle, the army and Palestinian officials said. Hamas said it would no longer abide by a truce with Israel. [AP World News]
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SF Chronicle: Surfing faster with fiber. Although more than 10 million U.S. households now have DSL or cable modem service, making Internet access as common as SUVs in upscale communities, a few neighborhoods around the country are now experimenting with even faster links... [Tomalak's Realm]
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Monday, January 21, 2002
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Happy Birthday Stacy
Love ya,
Dad
A few quotes in memory of Rev. King:
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
All messages today have been posted and published without linking them to a specific category. Dave is testing new RSS that uses categories but it's not yet ready. When it is my use of Manila macros will likely change. 1/21/02; 9:20:48 AM by GS
OK! It Worked. Now I'll add some Manila macros for RSS news feeds. One problem is the new message carries the same name as the previous day. 1/21/02; 9:10:42 AM by GS
Here comes a test to see if on a new day this post from Gary Secondino's Radio Weblog will flip the iSeeiSay home page and create a new home page that contains this message. 1/21/02; 8:40:21 AM by GS
War
{viewRssBox ("http://radio.weblogs.com/0001275/categories/war/rss.xml", boxTitle:"War", align:"", width:infinity, timeZone:"PST", maxItems:3)}
Politics
{viewRssBox ("http://radio.weblogs.com/0001275/categories/myProfession/rss.xml", boxTitle:"Politics", align:"", width:infinity, timeZone:"PST", maxItems:3)}
Legal
{viewRssBox ("http://radio.weblogs.com/0001275/categories/myHobbies/rss.xml", boxTitle:"Legal", align:"", width:infinity, timeZone:"PST", maxItems:3)}
Sci/Tec
{viewRssBox ("http://radio.weblogs.com/0001275/categories/myInterests/rss.xml", boxTitle:"SciTec", align:"", width:infinity, timeZone:"PST", maxItems:3)}
Biz
{viewRssBox ("http://radio.weblogs.com/0001275/categories/myOrganization/rss.xml", boxTitle:"Biz", align:"", width:infinity, timeZone:"PST", maxItems:3)}
Health
{viewRssBox ("http://radio.weblogs.com/0001275/categories/health/rss.xml", boxTitle:"Health", align:"", width:infinity, timeZone:"PST", maxItems:3)}
Culture
{viewRssBox ("http://radio.weblogs.com/0001275/categories/myFriends/rss.xml", boxTitle:"Culture", align:"", width:infinity, timeZone:"PST", maxItems:3)}
Sportz
{viewRssBox ("http://radio.weblogs.com/0001275/categories/sportz/rss.xml", boxTitle:"Sportz", align:"", width:infinity, timeZone:"PST", maxItems:3)}
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Sunday, January 20, 2002
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Patriots 16
Raiders 13
Adam Vinatieri kicks winning field goal in OT during snow storm. Full story
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Saturday, January 19, 2002
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It's clear to me that the Music business companies manipulate and have no respect for their artist and now too the same feeling and actions for their customers. The artists and consumers need to get together without the established Music business.
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Bomb Threat Detours Jet to Iceland. A passenger jet flying from Britain to Florida with 340 people on board was diverted to Iceland on Saturday after the crew found a bomb threat and anti-American messages scrawled on a bathroom mirror in soap. [AP World News]
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Friday, January 18, 2002
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LAW - Secure products. An influential body of researchers is calling on the US Government to draft laws that would punish software firms that do not do enough to make their products secure. [Lockergnome Bytes]
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Videophone Gets a Booster Shot. When CNBC's Jim Bruton transmitted a 256-kbps video signal last week from the jungles of the Philippines on an Inmarsat phone, it represented a 100 percent increase over the previous standard. By David Spark. [Wired News]
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In Passing
No more Olympus OM 35mm. The OM-10 was the first 35mm camera I owned, and today Olympus has announced that there will be no more OM cameras from them. "Olympus will discontinue the OM series of 35-mm cameras. The company will... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
I still own an OM-10. A very fine mechanical 35 mm camera with an outstanding set of lenses.
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Thursday, January 17, 2002
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5 Dead in Israel Wedding Hall Attack. A Palestinian tossed hand grenades into a wedding hall in northern Israel on Friday, and five people were killed and more than 30 wounded, Israeli police said. A Palestinian militant group claimed responsibility for the attack. [AP World News]
6:01:30 PM comment
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U.K. Charges Two With al-Qaida Ties. Two Algerian men allegedly involved in a plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Paris were charged with membership in Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network Thursday and police said eight others were arrested under Britain's Terrorism Act in raids north of London. [AP World News]
2:27:28 PM comment
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What band said, "People get ready, there's a change a comin'"?
I'm diving into the WWW RU8 folder today.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2002
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Al-Qaida Informant Talks to US Forces. In a possible break for U.S. military intelligence, a man claiming to have information about the operations of the al-Qaida terrorist network has offered himself for questioning at the U.S. military base in Kandahar, a Marines spokesman said Wednesday. [AP World News]
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Tuesday, January 15, 2002
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U.S. Pinpoints More Hidden Complexes. U.S. troops will soon search several Afghan locations where intelligence sources say al-Qaida terrorists have hidden complexes, after finding one hiding place Tuesday right outside the airport used by Marines for more than a month. [AP World News]
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U.S. Stops Bombing Afghan Mountain. After days of intensive airstrikes, the U.S. military stopped bombing a mountain honeycombed with suspected terrorist hideouts Tuesday, enabling civilians living nearby who had fled the onslaught to return to their homes, many smashed into rubble. [AP World News]
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A film directed by Ken Burns
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Canada Act Riles Tobacco Companies. Canada's biggest tobacco companies Monday challenged government regulations that force them to display health warnings on cigarettes and other products, including graphic photos of diseased mouths, lungs and other organs. [AP World News]
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Monday, January 14, 2002
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A Case of Optimism vs. Earnings. The early winter rally in technology stocks faces a test this week, when companies begin reporting earnings for the last quarter of 2001. Investors aren't expecting great results, but will be looking for hints of recovery later this year. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
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Antimatter could fuel rockets, heal patients
"The production process is difficult and expensive. The world's largest maker of antimatter, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, makes only one billionth of a gram a year at a cost of $80 million."
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Sunday, January 13, 2002
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Saturday, January 12, 2002
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Tech
Macworld Expo
New iMac
iPhoto
CES
Mira
Moxie Digital
XM Satellite Radio
Security
AOL Bugs
.Net/W32.Donut virus
Napster
Chips
Sprint 3G plans
More...
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How about that!
What? I made the top 100 blog list. For a minute at least. Just long enough to take a picture. Heh heh heh
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Culture
The world's oldest example of abstract art, dating back more than 70,000 years, has been found in a cave in South Africa.
The author describes how some researchers think this find is nothing because they have no others like it. I ask since when is that a criterion for art? Art is in the eye of the beholder, right?
I wrote about prehistoric art and creativity some time ago on iSee iSay where I conjured a scenario about why creativity exists so again let's try to put this find into the context of it's original time. The author does a good job describing the place. My perspective is the people were living together in small family tribes of hunter gatherers. As such they used tools to assist their day to day existence and human territorial nature being what it is certain tools, things, or spaces were marked uniquely so as to identify their belonging to an individual or tribe. Need it be any more complicated than that? I don't think so. Is home decorating art? Is landscaping art? Does this answer the question, is it art? That's up to you.
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The ghost of terror past. As the Bush administration tries to push through controversial State Department nominee Otto Reich, critics suggest the White House has a troubling double standard when it comes to fighting evil. [Salon.com]
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Friday, January 11, 2002
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Highlights...
* Commercial photographers are the largest creative market for both color management software and equipment
* Planned investment in color management software is highest among publishers who are PDF users (25%), especially magazine publishers (30%) and catalog publishers (23%)
1:05:31 PM Google It! comment
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Radio upgrade analysis
The first thing I did after downloading the new software was to read and even print the upgrade instructions page *before* I started the upgrade. I followed along until step #6 when Radio did not open to a setup page in my browser.
So when I tried step #7 I was unable to locate a prefs page for files/folders. All I could see in Radio were the files/folders item in the menubar.
This seems to be where I started down the wrong path in my upgrade Radio 7.0.
Analysis: The Radio 7 upgrade path needs thorough documentation including screen shots and trouble shooting options.
Until the upgrade path is smoothed out an upgrade candidate could backup Radio 7.0 and create a new 8.0 installation for their education.
The fresh install is smooth and simple. A testament to Userland's people and technology. It takes a lot of work to make things simple.
Side note: I've chosen a narrative style to describe my upgrade experience to provide a look at how a moderately savvy computer user proceeds through the upgrade process.
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Thursday, January 10, 2002
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This recalls my first experience with Radio 7.1
Date January 10, 2001
12:55:00 PM
Just started report part 1
Greetings all,
Just joining the list with my experience of installing the Radio 7.1b45 to upgrade Radio 7.0.
My system is Mac OS 9.1 on Mac G3 firewire laptop, with 576MB RAM and 10GB drive. I'm connected to the net via Verizon DSL. My browser of choice is IE 5.1.
Before the install I went online and had started IE running. The installer finished in less than 2 min. and I started Radio. New items were installed from Userland and I checked the menus.
My first action was "view in browser". Then "do scan now" and again "view in browser". I posted a news item, then edited it, then published it. It showed up as I expected in my local webpage.
When I clicked on the globe that shows the HTML rendering of the blog I discovered that it has not updated with the new published items. In fact it seem to have stopped updating with the last story on June 12, 2001.
I next wanted to see any new themes. After selecting a different theme and clicking submit, I reviewed my local webpage, refreshed the browser and no change. When I checked the templates they had no changes either. I poked at this several times with no sucess.
When I had to leave for a meeting I found that Radio would not quit. Neither keyboard or menu worked. It looks like a force quit is my last choice. I will leave it running until I return from my meeting in 1 hr.
Regards
Gary
15:15:50 PM
Just started report part 2
After returning from my meeting Radio was force quit (ctrl-opt-cmd-esc). The conformation window asked if I really wanted to quit "Verizon DSL"? I did so and Verizon DSL quit leaving Radio still running. Radio still would not respond to a quit request so I did another force quit. This time Radio did respond and force quit. After a restart, getting back online, I launched Radio and did a "view in browser" then tried to click File-Quit and keyboard cmd-Q, neither worked. Nor does File-New or File-Open. That's a show stopper for me. I'm willing to send Userland my Verizon SW for examination if needed.
Back to Themes; after closer examination the templates DO change when I submit a new Theme, but the local web site continues to show the old Theme.
Regards,
Gary
17:55:33 PM
Just started report part 3
It's not clear that Verizon DSL is the cause of my problems. To simplify things I restarted with the Base Mac OS 9.1 extension set. As this set does not enable the DSL I did not go online. I started Radio and waited for it to finish trying to connect. The File menu continues to be unresponsive. So again a force quit and a reboot. On the next restart I went online and downloaded the new 8.0 Radio app. Decompressed and installed it. Again the same unresponsive File menu.
My thinking turned toward major component elimination, operating systems and hardware platforms. So I grabbed a Mac 7600 that is not connected to the net running a well worn copy of Mac OS 9.1 and did a fresh install of Radio 7.1b45. A smooth install and the File menu works fine. I created a new opml document, saved it, opened it, and closed it. When I chose quit Radio quit as expected. About 5 minutes later I 2x clicked on Radio to launch it and the computer locked up. The only way out was a force restart. This behavior was unrepeatable.
Here's something interesting after the Radio root file on the G3 laptop was moved to the 7600 the File menu on the 7600 behaved exactly as the G3 laptop.
More digging to do.
Ciao,
Gary
Just started report part 4
19:33:54 PM
This is my last report because I decided to do a fresh install of Radio 7.1b45. The upgrade path did not work for me. I have everything backed up securely so that's covered. Time for a fresh start.
Five minutes on the dot from when I ran the installer to when I could post to my new Radio 7.1 web site. Spent the next hour testing features and exploring. I'm thoroughly impressed! Weblogs have just turned a technology corner. This ain't no smoke and mirrors, if you write for the web you're gonna love it.
BTW I am very pleased to report the file menu now works as expected.
Ciao,
Gary
PS I'm agreeable to trying the upgrade to 7.1 over again.
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OK! 5 minutes on the dot to get to my first blog entry.
The upgrade from Radio 7.0 to 7.1 did not go smooth. I think there is a problem with my original root database. So this is a fresh start.
Ciao
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