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Gary Secondino's Weblog
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Thursday, October 31, 2002
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Are you cinematically literate? Salon's A&E editor picks the best and most influential movies of all time.
Salon.com
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You be the judge. I just like the way this sentence sounds. In my mind it makes a picture of Elmer Fudd in a Canadian Mountie uniform singing to his girl friend "I Love Owny Woo, woo, woo, woo.
Memepool
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The Wireless Fidelity Alliance is pushing a new security standard intended to help reassure business customers that the technology is safe.
CNET News.com
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Tuesday, October 29, 2002
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A draft constitution for an enlarged European Union was unveiled on Monday, pointing the way toward creating a greater European presence on the world stage. By Paul Meller.
New York Times: Business
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Monday, October 28, 2002
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| The sports lovers are talking quietly after yesterday's 24 to 16 Patriot loss to the Broncos. This puts the team at 3-4 and it's clear to everyone this ain't last years team. Last year the team was the blue collar underdogs with something to prove to the world. This year watching the Patriots I'm reminded of bored factory workers displaying false enthusasium during a company meeting. The New England fans root for the Patriots success, but I'm afraid they will soon also berate the players for failure. So it goes on the downside following a winning season. Sad... |
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Brad DeLong takes on the NY Times and Senator Charles Grassley for a letter to the editor from (supposedly) Grassley published by the Times which supports dubya's tax cut fantasy. The comments by Brad are priceless and I imagine accurate too.
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The Clariion CX200, a modestly priced network storage system for businesses, is the first product to emerge from the companies' partnership that is manufactured by Dell.
CNET News.com
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The company's printing division accounts for all HP's profits. But the well's not bottomless, and HP is looking to steal away users of the printing press--as well as tap other areas.
CNET News.com
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Sunday, October 27, 2002
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The latest trick of bulk e-mail marketers is to hit the referral logs of popular weblogs, and the bloggers are hopping mad. By Michelle Delio.
Wired News
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Thursday, October 24, 2002
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AOL Time Warner said that it had turned up several additional improper transactions at its AOL division, broadening the extent of its acknowledged accounting problems. By David D. Kirkpatrick.
New York Times: Business
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Standard & Poor's will release its calculations of "core earnings," as it defines them. That definition will make most companies look far worse than they have appeared. By Floyd Norris.
New York Times: Business
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A specialist in corporate ethics urged that companies involved in helping the nation's hospitals buy supplies adopt sweeping policy changes to avoid conflicts of interest. By Barry Meier.
New York Times: Business
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Two men wanted for questioning in the Sniper case were arrested in Maryland this morning.
Around 1 AM an unidentified motorist passing through a rest stop in Maryland spotted the vehicle which matched the description broadcast earlier by police. A state trooper verified the licence tag and determined two men were in the vehicle asleep. At 3:30 AM the two men were arrested by the combined task force. A search warrent for the vehicle is being sought at this time.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2002
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The U.S. struggled with a "sluggish" economy over the past two months, with weak retail sales and a lackluster job market, the Federal Reserve reported today. By The Associated Press.
New York Times: Business
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The number three online job site's multi-media ad campaign challenging Monster.com and HotJobs.com just expanded with the help of number one newspaper publisher Gannett.
internetnews.com: Top News
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Tuesday, October 22, 2002
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SGI stock plunges 37 percent after the high-end computer maker posts lower-than-expected revenue and a loss of $41 million for its first quarter.
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Monday, October 21, 2002
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Tom Sullivan writes about how Apple's new products are positioning the company for a larger share of the enterprise market. I ask, exactly how will this come to be? Better technology alone is not the answer as been proven over and again many times. The Apple switch ads seem to have hit a few nerves at MS. But MS has a lot of nerve$ so a full frontal attack won't work. It's an intriguing problem that I find fascinating.
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We are trying to make a PIM which is substantive enough and enticing enough to make people want to move to it from whatever they are currently using, which statistically is probably Microsoft Outlook. I'm not going to bash Outlook here. Suffice it to say that while feature-rich, it is very complex, which renders most of its functionality moot. Its information sharing features require use of Microsoft Exchange, a server-based product, which is both expensive and complex to administer. Exchange is overkill for small-to-medium organizations, which we think creates on opportunity we intend to pursue (as well of course as serving individual users)
Have I mentioned it's going to run on Macintosh, Linux, and Windows and will not require a server? This is an ambitious goal, but we are convinced is possible to achieve using a cross-platform tool kit. (We are working with wxWindows/wxPython).
Also, everything is going to be fully open sourced.
This entails making sure we dot our I's and cross out T's with respect to all the features a product must have to be best-of-class, without sacrificing ease of use. We need to worry about migration paths from existing products, synchronization with PDA's and a whole host of details beyond core functionality which are required to make a truly first-rate product. On top of that, we have to have perhaps half a dozen killer features elsewhere unavailable, which I will be writing about in future entries. (Don't mean to tease; there's just too much to say all at once). One area which I will mention is that we have a lot of faith that the general and powerful information-sharing technology (built on top of Jabber) we are embedding, will make it trivially simple
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"Telemarketers make use of a telescript - a guideline for a telephone conversation. This script creates an imbalance in the conversation between the marketer and the consumer. It is this imbalance, most of all, that makes telemarketing successful. The EGBG Counterscript attempts to redress that balance."
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Paul Krugman in NYTimes.
"Over the past 30 years most people have seen only modest salary increases: the average annual salary in America, expressed in 1998 dollars (that is, adjusted for inflation), rose from $32,522 in 1970 to $35,864 in 1999. That's about a 10 percent increase over 29 years -- progress, but not much. Over the same period, however, according to Fortune magazine, the average real annual compensation of the top 100 C.E.O.'s went from $1.3 million -- 39 times the pay of an average worker -- to $37.5 million, more than 1,000 times the pay of ordinary workers."
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It's a longtime dream: IT services piped into the workplace like electricity, so businesses can tap into them only when they need them--and pay for only what they use.
CNET News.com
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Saturday, October 19, 2002
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The Austin Torpedoes will be performing Saturday night October
19th at Cafe Amante, 347 Main St in Woburn MA. The music starts at
8PM. Hope to see you all there!
To get to the club:
Take Interstate 93 N or S to exit 36. Follow Montvale ave to the
intersection with Main st at Woburn Center. The Cafe will be on your
right at the corner.
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Friday, October 18, 2002
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Thursday, October 17, 2002
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Wednesday, October 16, 2002
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'Build-it-and-they-will-come' is out. Instead, reinvigorating the market requires a complex alchemy of supply, demand, competition and regulation, experts say.
internetnews.com: Top News
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Tuesday, October 15, 2002
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As digital content grows in popularity, consumer-electronics makers are tuning in to hard drives as inexpensive storage devices.
CNET News.com
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Monday, October 14, 2002
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Back in Massachusetts after a cranked performance at private party in Conway , New Hampshire. Picture this, interstate highway to state highway to town road to gravel road to tire track path to a meadow on the side of a mountain. Excellent! Jill and Mark's place is way cool. Skeeter's were all gone so being outside was pleasant and thanks to Lisa a great bonfire on the side of the mountain to keep the chill away. The only problem was my back. I had a muscle spasm in my lower back before performing. I managed the performance OK but totally stiffened into a sitting position on the return trip. Thank you for driving Don. Arthur, the MoonCats were rockin'. Thanks all.
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Friday, October 11, 2002
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On Saturday the band will travel to Conway, NH for a private party performance. We've done this before as Arthur (formerly of The Kool Whip Boyz and Strange Fruit) passes us an invite every year. This will be the first time with Seitu in the band. He's a good sport but I'm not sure how well he handles cold temps. I did advise him to bring extra warm clothing. Flannel shirts and fuzzy hats r'us.
Next week two gigs! Lisa and Randal's wedding and return to Cafe Amonte in Woburn , MA.
3:44:36 PM Google It! comment
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Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, reported third-quarter net income yesterday of $2.4 million, a drop of about 85 percent from the $16.7 million in the quarter a year ago. Revenue fell about 11 percent, to $352.4 million from $397.6 million a year earlier.
The chief executive, Peter R. Kann, called the business environment for The Journal "uncontrollable and awful."
"From a simplistic point of view, we've gone from a market nine months ago that was trying to look ahead and assume the best, to a market looking a foot ahead and assume the worst."
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The telecommunications equipment maker, which will also report a wider-than-expected loss in the fourth quarter, said the layoffs will reduce its total work force to 35,000.
CNET News.com
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Plus, yahoo for Yahoo!, and digital radio loud and clear.
The Motley Fool
iSay - GET OUT OF SECURITIES! What a misnomer, securities, should be insecurities. The market is filled with manipulators, liars, and thieves. You are gambling with your principle. Find something that has real value, that you understand and buy it.
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What distinguishes the leader from the misleader are his goals. Whether the compromise he makes with the constraints of reality -- which may involve political, economic, financial or people problems -- are compatible with his mission and goals or lead away from them determines whether he is an effective leader. And whether he holds fast to a few basic standards (exemplifying them in his own conduct) or whether "standards" for him are what he can get away with, determines whether the leader has followers or only hypocritical time-servers.
The second requirement is that the leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege. Effective leaders are rarely "permissive." But when things go wrong -- and they always do -- they do not blame others. If Winston Churchill is an example of leadership through clearly defining mission and goals, Gen. George Marshall, America's chief of staff in World War II, is an example of leadership through responsibility. Harry Truman's folksy "The buck stops here" is still as good a definition as any.
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Bush's arguments strain the limits of plausibility to justify war on Iraq, and this, says Simon Tisdall, means regime change is imperative - in Washington
iSay - I always find it useful reading non-US news and weblogs to get the international P.O.V. But why is the internet only partly enabled? We could and should be having conversations on these P.O.V.'s. But what technology to use?
Newsgroups = Flames, high noise.
IM = high noise, try to follow a conversation when all are 'talking'.
email = time shifted, private and not threaded, try to follow who said what in an email.
Message boards = When moderated, a good solution.
Weblogs = another good solution some implementations better, more akin to moderated message boards.
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e.thePeople (Democracy is a conversation) asks the question and receives replies from "just folks".
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Wednesday, October 9, 2002
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I have a dear friend who is deeply involved in this project. Congratulations on achieving a major milestone. Best of luck on the next effort.
Ciao
Hewlett-Packard officially launches its new Web site for corporate customers that combines the former Compaq Computer and HP business sites.
CNET News.com
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These days, Martha Stewart, who designs housewares, garden tools and other products for Kmart, seems to need the bankrupt retail chain at least as much as it needs her. By Constance L. Hays.
New York Times: Business
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Consumer protection regulators in Massachusetts are urging Amazon.com to respond to criticisms of its privacy policy.
CNET News.com
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Making the grandest entry into the Boston area real estate market in memory, Novartis has leased 764,000 square feet of costly lab space in Cambridge, Mass. By Susan Diesenhouse.
New York Times: Business
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How has Geoffrey P. Wharton, who has spent most of his professional life in commercial real estate, turned up as chief executive of one of the largest residential brokerage agencies in the city? By John Holusha.
New York Times: Business
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Hewlett-Packard said it has delivered qualification units of its second-generation StorageWorks Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium tape drive to six of its key system and library partners, who in turn will build the surrounding hardware.
The six partners include OEMs like Nearline Products, Overand Storage and Quantum Storage. "Being first to market with the second-generation Ultrium drives to our partners is a milestone in the execution of the open standard we are driving toward," said Nearline vice president of Products Frank Harbist. "With this announcement, HP is clearly positioned to deliver next-generation Ultrium tape drives that will permit StorageWorks customers to enjoy the significant advantages of this exceptionally reliable, high-performance tape technology before the end of the year."
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"We're always trying new experiments and this was a natural extension of that; we have human evaluators who test each index. Things have to score higher before we push a new index out."
via The Register
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Tuesday, October 8, 2002
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iSay - EMC is in a downward spiral of declining margins, profits and size. Two years ago they wouldn't have considered a consumer level product. They're trying to stay in business but ask yourself a question, why did IBM sell off its magnetic hard drive business last year? I think the storage business is preparing to introduce optical storage technology that will in a short time make today's 120GB drive seem like a floppy disk does today.
EMC, with a boost from Dell Computer, has released a new midrange storage system as part of its continuing push into lower-priced markets.
CNET News.com
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 Will somebody PLEASE teach Mr. Bush how to pronounce the word nu•cle•ar (new•klee•ar) NOT (new•que•ler).
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I stand by my often repeated statement that politicians are double-dealers. You can only trust what you catch them doing. It generally involves increasing personal power and personal wealth by every legal and illegal means possible. Paul Krugman is my hero for reporting what the politicians are doing. He listens, watches and investigates, after which he makes up his own mind and writes about it. I'll continue to point to his good work.
Paul Krugman writes in the NY Times:
What The Journal doesn't point out is the obvious: The accounting industry may have a lot of clout, but this wouldn't matter if the White House made it clear that the S.E.C. must choose an independent board. There's only one possible conclusion: The administration doesn't really want corporate reform.
What's amazing is that the enemies of reform felt free to take off their masks even before the election. One can only hope that the media report what's happening, and that voters, as they look at their shrunken 401(k)'s, remember the false promises of summer. Fool me once . . .
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Monday, October 7, 2002
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The Dolphins chewed up the Patriots in the blistering heat of Miami. Bill's boys were out played, out adjusted, and beaten ugly. This makes two losses in a row. Can our Patriots take out The Packers next week?
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Sunday, October 6, 2002
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It's a very big game, each team is 3-1, the winner will have rights to first place in the AFC East.
Go Patriots!
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I missed this one when it came out. I run Radio on a Mac G3 Powerbook with Mac OS 9.1. I've been somewhat annoyed that I'm not able to preview my final post before publishing. But now according to this document "How to edit your website when offline (MacOS Classic)" on the Radio Userland site I can create a TCP/IP configuration that connects to the local Radio server, without having to be connected to the Internet. If it works as expected I will be able to create, review and edit on my local machine and then when I'm ready to publish to the world, connect to the internet and Radio will upstream the new content. I'll report back on my experience implementing this.
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Saturday, October 5, 2002
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iSay - Before the presidential election I tried to talk about the candidates to my daughter and her husband but they had their minds made up and the political discussion was not welcome. I outlined pretty much what has come to pass (except 9/11). They happily took the $250 dollars from dubyas tax cut. I said that paying down the US debt is far more important and I thought the Republican run Congress would find other ways to take back the $250 and more. OK boys and girls this is what you get for listening to a lying politican and not your dad.
Please open your minds, develop some critical thinking habits, and be open to discussion about politics, religion, and life in general. Those who truly love you will continue to love you.
Stand by, America. Families that earn $75,000 to $500,000 -- those income taxpayers who shoulder half the burden of total income tax payments -- are about to get a surprise kick in the wallet. If you've closely followed the details of the president's 2001 phased-in tax cut, you are vaguely aware this nightmare is coming. But now a study by the respected Tax Policy Center has spelled out the gory details.
The aggravating marriage penalty in our tax law is about to get worse. The well-established and justified favoritism that our tax law shows for families with children is about to be radically rolled back for middle-class and upper-middle-class Americans. As for the supposed benefits of this across-the-board tax rate reduction? Well, the middle classes will end up with pennies on each dollar promised before it's over, and less each year. And if you think filling out your tax form is complicated now, it's going to be doubly difficult in the years to come.
The overall result will be a significant shift in tax burden from the wealthy to those in the middle classes. Consider two groups of taxpayers: Those earning $100,000 to $200,000 now account for 22 percent of total federal income taxes owed to the government. That's the same percentage shouldered by those earning more than $1 million. By 2010, however, the share paid by million-dollar-earners will drop to 18 percent, while the lower-earning group's share will rise to 27 percent.
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Friday, October 4, 2002
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At the OS X Conference, we all started seeing connection refused errors, but it seemed to vary by domain, time, and network. Turns out that Mac OS X 10.2(.1) running a firewall and software in promiscuous mode (in which all network addresses can be sniffed) can pollute a network.
80211b News
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Well, I thought something was up. I though a few sites have been a little slow, and email to some people was taking especially long. Well, I now know why, that is the fact that the WorldCon err WorldCom owned UUNet is having some problems, but there is no clear...
Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes
iSay - Outages here too for the past several days. Yesterday DNS took me down for 18 hours. Sucks, don't it. (New England colloquial)
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Another digital copyright bill debuts in Congress, this time seeking to expand consumer freedom to copy digital works for their own and others' not-for-profit use. Michael Grebb reports from Washington, D.C.
Wired News
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An exhibition at the University of Texas at Dallas turns art-making on its ear: Artists in this show produce one-of-a-kind works on inkjet and laser printers. By James Magary.
Wired News
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Tuesday, October 1, 2002
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