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28 September 2002 |
DUBBERLEY.com -- Emily Dubberley wrote about The Cliterati several days ago. The idea behind it came from her rather ambitious aspiration to get the word Cliterati into the Oxford English Dictionary as a positive alternative to the word 'slut'. Now 'slut' can be used as a compliment. I love that you're such a filthy slut. But it's still tainted by negative connotations. Cliterati on the other hand, still has a chance to mean something positive.
Members of 'The Cliterati' are feisty women who love sex and aren't afraid to admit it. Whatever they do, whether alone or with a partner (or several), they throw themselves into. Cliterati girls don't worry about whether they look OK naked. They know that if they're there and naked, the person they're with is too busy thinking about the debauched activity going on to notice a bit of cellulite.
Forget faking it - Cliterati girls do the job themselves if their partner isn't pushing the right buttons - but they make sure their partner has a good view so that they can learn from the experience. They know what they like because they've been masturbating regularly for years.
Cliterati girls set their own boundaries; who cares what everyone else is doing? If they want to try something new, they'll do it because they've decided it's a good idea, not because some magazine tells them to. But they are always prepared to push their own boundaries, although they never force their ideas on anyone else, whether partner or friend. They accept that sexuality is a personal thing and just 'cos something might push their buttons, it doesn't mean that it will push anyone else's.
Cliterati girls aren't afraid of making the first move but know how to flirt, for when they feel like being seduced.
The Cliterati always practice safe sex, to protect themselves and their partners. They've got enough self esteem to refuse sex if it's unsafe.
Cliterati girls know that there's a difference between fucking and making love and know that both can have good points.
Cliterati girls might sleep with loads of people. They might be virgins. They might be married and monogamous. They can be straight, lesbian, bi or whatever. But they know who they are, they love their sexual side and they don't give a damn who knows.
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I Love New York!  NEW YORK -- I just love this city! In the lobby of my aunt's convent hangs an American flag composed of handprints. Outside, the Stars and Stripes flies proudly on buildings, on cars and on shoulders of dozens of people. Downstairs, Reverend Francis Buu invites parishioners in perfect English to "Let's Celebrate" and closes the Mass with "Have a Nice Day" but everything in between is a lesson in patient listening. Some regulars write it off to a speech impediment but it might also be the quality of the English course available to him when he was learning a second language in Vietnam.
Info about the colours of the lights on the Empire State Building.
See the Empire State Building tower cameras.
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NEW YORK -- I am buried more than 10 pages deep when looking for "Bernie" on Google. That has got to change. I'm not anywhere in Google News. By changing elements of this weblog, I think I can improve these standings.
Updates:
- Dec 02: The Bernie behind Topgold has percolated up to the top 40 on Google.
- Mar 03: Now at #14 on Google.
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BOSTON -- Web Design World 2002 opens in Boston on 9 Oct. It's a well-organised Thunderlizard Conference. Although I think the Macromedia DevCons are better, the Thunderlizard conferences are very well done.
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27 September 2002 |
 John Robb -- Like John Robb, I've been empowered by the PC. In Robb's view
the personal computer is all about personal leverage. If you want to keep the cycle alive, increase the leverage. What is the biggest opportunity available for increasing personal leverage? Suck the Web down to the PC. Reinvent it on the PC. John Robb and I want the best of the Web on our PCs. We want to easily publish complex sites through tools like Radio. We want to link into P2P neighbourhoods. We want to blend data in ways that make it more meaningful. I agree with John Robb: Reinvent the Web and it will drive PC sales for years.
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LANCASTER, Pennsylvania -- I've got a free home DSL line, so I'm using the time to pare away some of the blog rot that infected my Blog Neighbourhood. I think the resulting list will be tighter and its text tidbits tastier.
Brian Smith says I used "blog rot in the way we're thinking" which caused me to notice that Google has 26 references to blog rot.
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WIRELESS WEDNESDAY -- Karlin has attracted a good round of comments on the heels of a Wireless Wednesday session in Dublin about warchalking. We identify wireless networks open for connectivity by a chalked symbol. It turns out this marking mechanism (or is it acting on the markings?) may be illegal in Ireland, due to some element of a regulation passed by the then-Dept of Public Enterprise a year ago.
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26 September 2002 |
CNET.com -- There is new technology that allows handhelds to share files directly, without the need for a PC. Brother Dave, with his ear to the ground at HP, suggests there are interesting ways of using an offshoot of the Universal Serial Bus 2.0 specification for things like memory card readers connected to printers.
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Seán Mac Cann -- Ruminates about the state of Internet services in Ireland, saying, "Let them eat pizza through a straw." He believes the Irish legal system has been hijacked by the Net access wreckers so that the law is now de facto on the side of the closed-market status quo. For more, read the case for the prosecution and his defence of the telecoms regulator.
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BLOGISTAN -- Karlin Lillington approaches the first tier of reflective bloggers with her essay on intercast. I believe it doesn't matter how many read your stuff. What matters is the impact you make in the germination of policy.
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25 September 2002 |
NEW YORK -- The Irish Echo appears on top of The New York Times in some news agents in Manhattan, reverberating some of the racist comments spewing forth from Ireland against the Nice Treaty. Americans who opt to work in Ireland see the country as a gateway to Europe. Irish who say NO to Europe will only damage the perception some companies have of Ireland's open-minded and open market access. The Irish Echo has reported on hearing some blatantly racist comments while "doorstepping" the voters. One of the race cards played is the fear of the flood of immigrants that will arrive with passage of the Nice Treaty. As a native English speaker who was "refused leave to land" in Ireland, I have personal experience about this issue. Irish Immigration views itself as the Protector of Irish Jobs. Multicultural job expertise does not figure in its remit.
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THE PENTAGON -- With a few clicks of a mouse, you can remove layers of security from the Pentagon’s war plans for Iraq. That’s because the American military leverages commercial satellites in its quest to execute one of the most explosive and shortest-lived conflicts next month. You can see many of these satellite images now.
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Rajesh -- Knowledge Managers should peek behind this digital dashboard because it shows how blogging architectures can enhance productivity.
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Joel on Software -- Read 12 reasons why a good programmer should not worry about employment. Visual programming tools might take less time to code projects, but lots of software must be written and every year we tend to come up with a new, uncharted territory waiting to be filled with new software.
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24 September 2002 |
Grassroots Connectivity
Nicholas Negroponte and Peter Cochrane think there will be a grassroots movement to supplant some of the services now offered
by traditional telecom companies. They point to the growth of Wi-Fi networks in the U.S.
and the movement in Europe by local municipalities and universities to build and operate their own telecom networks. These things will change the way telecom services operate forever, says Negroponte. "Telecom could invert itself and become a bottom-up phenomenon."
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The New York Times then Ireland's Sunday Tribune reported last week how Congress is struggling to find a definition of the term "hacking". Debate in Congress over legislation proposed by Howard Berman's bill would give the recording industry the right to use network software to inspect people's personal computer files to make sure they do not contain copyrighted music. USA Today carries thoughts from Berman's opponents who say it goes too far in invading the rights of individuals. Wayne State University professor and computer security expert Jessica Litman says of the proposed legislation: "What it seems to say is that if the copyright owner doesn't impair the integrity of files, it gets a complete free pass, and if it does impair the integrity of files, it gets a qualified cheap pass." Stan Lebowitz, a management professor at University of Texas-Dallas, comments: "Spoofing seems like a legitimate technique for them to use. Hacking, however, seems to go to far" -- and notes that what the bill allows "would still qualify as hacking, under most laws and in most people's minds."
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23 September 2002 |
Info Blocked from Enterprise Ireland Mailing List DUBLIN, Ireland -- Enterprise Ireland declines to publish this information about intranet architecture, so I point out here that you need to "ensure the technology can build an sustain an aggregated source of knowledge without becoming bloated. I've seen Sharepoint used as a Hoover for large documents that ccould not be easily shared among colaborators using dial-up nodes. I know you wouldn't encounter that limitation with Index www.aboutindex.com as it creates easily manageab le knowledge objects at its point of harvest. Plus, it generates exceptionally powerful meta data which makes cataloguing automatic and reduces the problems associated with cross-referencing and locating information."
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NEWS SCAN.com -- NewsScan Honorary Subscriber: Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
A chemist, philosopher, and economist, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) took an active part in the events leading to the French Revolution, and drew up plans and reports advocating many reforms, including the establishment of the metric system of weights and measures.
The son of a wealthy Parisian lawyer, Lavoisier completed a law degree in accordance with family wishes, but his real interest was in science, which he pursued with passion while leading a full public life. On the basis of his earliest scientific work, mostly in geology, he was elected in 1768 at the age of 25 to the Academy of Sciences, France's most elite scientific society. In the same year he bought into the Ferme Générale, the private corporation that collected taxes for the Crown on a profit-and-loss basis. A few years later he married the daughter of another tax farmer, Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, who was not quite fourteen at the time. Madame Lavoisier prepared herself to be her husband's scientific collaborator by learning English to translate the work of British chemists and by studying art and engraving to illustrate her husband's scientific experiments.
In 1775 Lavoisier was appointed a commissioner of the Royal Gunpowder and Saltpeter Administration and took up residence in the Paris Arsenal. There he equipped a fine laboratory, which attracted young chemists from all over Europe to join him in the "Chemical Revolution" then in progress.
So great a change ensued in experimental chemistry, and in theory and nomenclature, and such a mass of facts was coordinated and explained by Lavoisier that he has been justly called "the father of modern chemistry."
He was the first to provide a definitive explanation of the formation of acids and salts, to enunciate the principle of conservation as set forth by chemical equations, to develop quantitative analysis, gas analysis, and calorimetry, and to create a consistent system of chemical nomenclature.
He made deep researches in organic chemistry, and studied the metabolism of organic compounds. He often repeated the experiments of other chemists such as Priestley and Cavendish, sometimes elaborating on their results without crediting their original work. Despite his eminence and his services to science and France, Lavoisier came under attack as a former farmer-general of taxes and was guillotined in 1794. A noted mathematician, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, remarked of this event, "It took them only an instant to cut off that head, and a hundred years may not produce another like it."
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22 September 2002 |
Jeroen Bekkers -- Several people have mused about using blogs as a forum for collaboration. Jeroen calls it collaborative work. Kevin Werbach points out how Jeremy Allaire thinks the Flash Communication Server does many of the things that Ray Ozzie does with Groove. As Jeroen says, "there's a deeper trend here. Whether you come from visual creativity tools or document-centered collaboration, you quickly realize that the next big thing is collaborative work."
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