Public marks with search badly Public marks with search badly http://blogmarks.net/marks/search/badly Time/Weather Desktop on Flickr - Photo Sharing! http://www.flickr.com/photos/bopuc/4039178260/ <blockquote><p>Well, most of the work is done by Earthdesk and GeekTool 3.</p><p>Earthdesk is set to Natural Color, Equirectangular projection, Natural Color, Real Moonlight, centered on Vienna, Background: Starfield. Zoom 80%, Clouds 80%, Brightness 80%.</p><p>In GeekTool, the times and the weathers are all separate Shell "geeklets".</p><p>Times are generated by running shell commands like</p><p>env TZ=Asia/Tokyo date " %l:%M %p"</p><p>every 20 seconds</p><p>The weather is the tricky part. The way I am doing it now, if I am not careful, gets me throttled for too many concurrent requests to the wunderground.com API server. It also fails badly if I am disconnected, so I will need to do it differently.</p><p>FWIW: I have a PHP script which I run as separate Shell Geeklets. I invoke it with the name of the city I want. It then hits wunderground and gets back an XML stream of the local weather, which I parse, format and echo. (the way I'd change this is run the script from cron, with a 30 second wait between requests, and cache the results locally, which I would then call from the Shell Geeklets)</p><p>From there it's just a question of setting fonts, sizes, colors and moving the little Geeklet boxes around as you want them.</p></blockquote> 2009-10-24T15:00:49Z karlcow semanticdesktop, meteo, geek

Time/Weather Desktop on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

by karlcow

Well, most of the work is done by Earthdesk and GeekTool 3.

Earthdesk is set to Natural Color, Equirectangular projection, Natural Color, Real Moonlight, centered on Vienna, Background: Starfield. Zoom 80%, Clouds 80%, Brightness 80%.

In GeekTool, the times and the weathers are all separate Shell "geeklets".

Times are generated by running shell commands like

env TZ=Asia/Tokyo date " %l:%M %p"

every 20 seconds

The weather is the tricky part. The way I am doing it now, if I am not careful, gets me throttled for too many concurrent requests to the wunderground.com API server. It also fails badly if I am disconnected, so I will need to do it differently.

FWIW: I have a PHP script which I run as separate Shell Geeklets. I invoke it with the name of the city I want. It then hits wunderground and gets back an XML stream of the local weather, which I parse, format and echo. (the way I'd change this is run the script from cron, with a 30 second wait between requests, and cache the results locally, which I would then call from the Shell Geeklets)

From there it's just a question of setting fonts, sizes, colors and moving the little Geeklet boxes around as you want them.

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]]> Ubiquitous Angels; ambient sensor networks to crowd source crisis response and community awareness http://www.slideshare.net/anselm/osbridge-angel <blockquote><p>Criticism • Side effects often dominate over intended consequences of any project or endeavor. • Abstract views may make us callous or may badly reflect ground truth. • Ignorance is bliss. The world is filled with sob stories. Best to not dwell? • Such services may be used solely for the most banal aspirations and goals. • Struggle may be important - making things too easy may harm fitness and lower diversity of skills and abilities over long term. • What about poor people who are outside of any implied technological social network? • Why not just help people around you? • Any technology should go hand in hand with day to day personal practice that is unmediated? • Feedback loops may be created that accelerate and disrupt society. • Virtual and visual only for curators; not tactile; uses only one sense. A concern?</p></blockquote> 2009-06-20T12:24:44Z karlcow sensor, communaute

Ubiquitous Angels; ambient sensor networks to crowd source crisis response and community awareness

by karlcow

Criticism • Side effects often dominate over intended consequences of any project or endeavor. • Abstract views may make us callous or may badly reflect ground truth. • Ignorance is bliss. The world is filled with sob stories. Best to not dwell? • Such services may be used solely for the most banal aspirations and goals. • Struggle may be important - making things too easy may harm fitness and lower diversity of skills and abilities over long term. • What about poor people who are outside of any implied technological social network? • Why not just help people around you? • Any technology should go hand in hand with day to day personal practice that is unmediated? • Feedback loops may be created that accelerate and disrupt society. • Virtual and visual only for curators; not tactile; uses only one sense. A concern?

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]]> Trails of EasyExtend » Blog Archive » Guido is my problem - Projects and projections http://fiber-space.de/wordpress/?p=655 <blockquote><p>Our software is as brittle as 15-20 years ago. Reusable objects and framework superstructures have failed. UML has failed. Even design pattern have failed as they turned out to be more idiomatic than universal. What’s left are lightweight programming languages which let us glue things together. Some are user friendly and don’t suck badly. That’s still the best we have.</p></blockquote><p>Lua, are you there?</p> 2009-05-31T08:55:29Z greut design, blog, programming, framework, software, pattern

Trails of EasyExtend » Blog Archive » Guido is my problem - Projects and projections

by greut

Our software is as brittle as 15-20 years ago. Reusable objects and framework superstructures have failed. UML has failed. Even design pattern have failed as they turned out to be more idiomatic than universal. What’s left are lightweight programming languages which let us glue things together. Some are user friendly and don’t suck badly. That’s still the best we have.

Lua, are you there?

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]]> Avoid common XSLT mistakes http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xsltmistakes/index.html?ca=drs- <blockquote><p>plenty of badly designed and poorly written XSLT code. Many of these bad habits are repeated over and over and can cause critical flaws in XSLT code. In this article, get a feel for the typical problems that come up in stylesheets and how to remedy them.</p></blockquote> 2009-02-21T15:49:51Z karlcow xslt

Avoid common XSLT mistakes

by karlcow

plenty of badly designed and poorly written XSLT code. Many of these bad habits are repeated over and over and can cause critical flaws in XSLT code. In this article, get a feel for the typical problems that come up in stylesheets and how to remedy them.

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]]> Search Quizilla Search GO Lingerie to bring to the mind a pile of ideas http://www.quizilla.com/stories/8812935/lingerie-to-bring-to-the-mind-a-pile-of-ideas Lingerie to bring to the mind a pile of ideas. Some they are simply comforting whereas others are exciting and sensual. Lingerie sexy simply another one type of clothes, that can help him to make its life a little more interesting and enthusiastic. Here there are some more famous and later sough lingerie sexy types: * The simple lingerie: The name means much everything. The name is well thus because this type of clothes he is transparent. The light used in this weave lingerie reveals much without making too evident. * G-Strings - Tangas: This clothes are for being used instead of underclothes. G-chains and strap are stops men and women. This is suggestive lingerie. Both are basically the same, in g-itch, the cords are of colors, whereas in the chains used strap they are transparent. * It lassos Lingerie: This very feminine and beautiful one lingerie. It has the capacity to change a woman in something pretty and sensual. The underclothes of embroider and supports are enough of the demand. The cords are sewn in all the basic weave of the clothes or it completes two pieces are created from the embroider completely. This adds a great amount of sensuality to the underclothes. Another one of its class could be a gift tuna painting it means some moment that both had shared and it wishes to appreciate. Or, it can select a romantic clasp of both of you and it places it in a frame of photos with form of heart or to put in a cup of coffee and articles of gift to your affection. An exclusive selection of gold, diamonds and Rep them of jewelry shop that includes bracelets, necklaces, slopes and pendants are in favor of the gifts of San Valentin romantic. A pretty white bear of peluche wearing a t-shirt white printed with a heart felt romantic love poem can be a singular gift of San Valentin romantic. Some stores sell seconds, rejected defective or action that the manufacturers sell to reduced price radically. These are good to buy, but it is necessary to watch with taken care of envelope much they, like a some to have great defects. When you are looking for to buy clothes of discount, no it is easy to find of high fashionable quality or things. The discounts are offered only in that clothes that are of fashion or has some small defects of manufacture. Sometimes strange the colors and the clothes also stained it is offered in the price with discount to undo of the pieces. Quite often, the size could badly be written on piece of underclothes, reason why to try before to buy. Lingerie discount can buy in stores of discount or clothes stores that announce sales. If he is safe on the size and the quality, you can to also order the clothes of discount in Internet. Wherever you buy clothes of discount, to do to verify that the weave is not worn away and the dress still it has elasticity. It reviews the terms and conditions, as well as the return and the policies of interchange of the store before to realise the purchase. With these purchases, generally there is no policy of returns. It buys if it, it belongs to him. 2009-02-09T10:21:36Z arslan220 san valentine

Search Quizilla Search GO Lingerie to bring to the mind a pile of ideas

by arslan220

Lingerie to bring to the mind a pile of ideas. Some they are simply comforting whereas others are exciting and sensual. Lingerie sexy simply another one type of clothes, that can help him to make its life a little more interesting and enthusiastic. Here there are some more famous and later sough lingerie sexy types: * The simple lingerie: The name means much everything. The name is well thus because this type of clothes he is transparent. The light used in this weave lingerie reveals much without making too evident. * G-Strings - Tangas: This clothes are for being used instead of underclothes. G-chains and strap are stops men and women. This is suggestive lingerie. Both are basically the same, in g-itch, the cords are of colors, whereas in the chains used strap they are transparent. * It lassos Lingerie: This very feminine and beautiful one lingerie. It has the capacity to change a woman in something pretty and sensual. The underclothes of embroider and supports are enough of the demand. The cords are sewn in all the basic weave of the clothes or it completes two pieces are created from the embroider completely. This adds a great amount of sensuality to the underclothes. Another one of its class could be a gift tuna painting it means some moment that both had shared and it wishes to appreciate. Or, it can select a romantic clasp of both of you and it places it in a frame of photos with form of heart or to put in a cup of coffee and articles of gift to your affection. An exclusive selection of gold, diamonds and Rep them of jewelry shop that includes bracelets, necklaces, slopes and pendants are in favor of the gifts of San Valentin romantic. A pretty white bear of peluche wearing a t-shirt white printed with a heart felt romantic love poem can be a singular gift of San Valentin romantic. Some stores sell seconds, rejected defective or action that the manufacturers sell to reduced price radically. These are good to buy, but it is necessary to watch with taken care of envelope much they, like a some to have great defects. When you are looking for to buy clothes of discount, no it is easy to find of high fashionable quality or things. The discounts are offered only in that clothes that are of fashion or has some small defects of manufacture. Sometimes strange the colors and the clothes also stained it is offered in the price with discount to undo of the pieces. Quite often, the size could badly be written on piece of underclothes, reason why to try before to buy. Lingerie discount can buy in stores of discount or clothes stores that announce sales. If he is safe on the size and the quality, you can to also order the clothes of discount in Internet. Wherever you buy clothes of discount, to do to verify that the weave is not worn away and the dress still it has elasticity. It reviews the terms and conditions, as well as the return and the policies of interchange of the store before to realise the purchase. With these purchases, generally there is no policy of returns. It buys if it, it belongs to him.

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]]> From the Department of Badly Chosen Defaults http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/12/22.html <blockquote><p>Note that all the other browsers use bicubic interpolation for scaling by default, because that’s the only thing that make sense, but IE requires a non-standard CSS extension.</p></blockquote> 2008-12-23T08:23:01Z night.kame internet explorer, image, redimensionnement, interpolation

From the Department of Badly Chosen Defaults

by night.kame

Note that all the other browsers use bicubic interpolation for scaling by default, because that’s the only thing that make sense, but IE requires a non-standard CSS extension.

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]]> Pleading Poverty: Colleges Want Parents to Foot the Bill for Their Largess - WSJ.com http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122844276224181879.html <blockquote><p>We can now add colleges and universities to the list of victims of the financial crisis. The stock-market collapse has badly eroded endowments, forcing schools to suspend capital projects, freeze hiring, rethink need-blind financial-aid policies and cut budgets. The Journal reported this week that Harvard University's giant-killer endowment, which stood at $36.9 billion as of June 30, has lost 22% of its value in the months since and that the university's administration is planning for a 30% decline for the fiscal year ending next June.</p></blockquote> 2008-12-08T19:25:36Z karlcow éducation, usa

Pleading Poverty: Colleges Want Parents to Foot the Bill for Their Largess - WSJ.com

by karlcow

We can now add colleges and universities to the list of victims of the financial crisis. The stock-market collapse has badly eroded endowments, forcing schools to suspend capital projects, freeze hiring, rethink need-blind financial-aid policies and cut budgets. The Journal reported this week that Harvard University's giant-killer endowment, which stood at $36.9 billion as of June 30, has lost 22% of its value in the months since and that the university's administration is planning for a 30% decline for the fiscal year ending next June.

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]]> RSA Arts & Ecology - Francesca Galeazzi: Artist behaving badly http://www.rsaartsandecology.org.uk/magazine/features/francesca-galeazzi <blockquote><p>But with that I wanted to throw a comment on why society is so resistant to change. Instead of embracing change, we are inventing new mechanisms to greenwash our consciences, in a way. I didn’t want to say that carbon offsetting is bad because I believe it plays a role within our strategy to tackle climate change. But not as a starting point. It can come in when we’ve done all we can to reduce carbon emissions, all we can to think about the way we use resources, recycle, we produce waste. Only then we can begin to offset our carbon emissions… but not at the start.</p></blockquote> 2008-12-02T19:03:37Z karlcow écologie

RSA Arts & Ecology - Francesca Galeazzi: Artist behaving badly

by karlcow

But with that I wanted to throw a comment on why society is so resistant to change. Instead of embracing change, we are inventing new mechanisms to greenwash our consciences, in a way. I didn’t want to say that carbon offsetting is bad because I believe it plays a role within our strategy to tackle climate change. But not as a starting point. It can come in when we’ve done all we can to reduce carbon emissions, all we can to think about the way we use resources, recycle, we produce waste. Only then we can begin to offset our carbon emissions… but not at the start.

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]]> Check Your Mysql Server Performance with MySQLTuner -- Debian Admin http://www.debianadmin.com/check-your-mysql-server-performance-with-mysqltuner.html MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. Within seconds, it will display statistics about your MySQL installation and the areas where it can be improved. It’s key to remember that MySQLTuner is a script which can assist you with your server, but it is not the solution to a badly performing MySQL server. The best performance gains come from a thorough review of the queries sent to the server, and an evaluation of the MySQL server itself. A qualified developer in your application’s programming or scripting language should be able to work with a MySQL database administrator to find improvements for your server. Once the server and application are optimized well, you may need to consider hardware upgrades to the physical server itself. This is a really useful tool for helping to optimize MySQL performance.Understanding the various my.cnf variables and how they affect performance can seem really complicated but this tool takes some of the pain away and makes it easier to understand the effects of each variable.It is especially useful to be able to see the global memory usage, memory usage per thread and the maximum possible memory usage - that is really valuable information that is otherwise complex to calculate. 2008-11-12T01:48:32Z helmeloh programming, debian, mysql

Check Your Mysql Server Performance with MySQLTuner -- Debian Admin

by helmeloh & 1 other(s)

MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. Within seconds, it will display statistics about your MySQL installation and the areas where it can be improved. It’s key to remember that MySQLTuner is a script which can assist you with your server, but it is not the solution to a badly performing MySQL server. The best performance gains come from a thorough review of the queries sent to the server, and an evaluation of the MySQL server itself. A qualified developer in your application’s programming or scripting language should be able to work with a MySQL database administrator to find improvements for your server. Once the server and application are optimized well, you may need to consider hardware upgrades to the physical server itself. This is a really useful tool for helping to optimize MySQL performance.Understanding the various my.cnf variables and how they affect performance can seem really complicated but this tool takes some of the pain away and makes it easier to understand the effects of each variable.It is especially useful to be able to see the global memory usage, memory usage per thread and the maximum possible memory usage - that is really valuable information that is otherwise complex to calculate.

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]]> Check Your Mysql Server Performance with MySQLTuner -- Debian Admin http://www.debianadmin.com/check-your-mysql-server-performance-with-mysqltuner.html MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. Within seconds, it will display statistics about your MySQL installation and the areas where it can be improved. It’s key to remember that MySQLTuner is a script which can assist you with your server, but it is not the solution to a badly performing MySQL server. The best performance gains come from a thorough review of the queries sent to the server, and an evaluation of the MySQL server itself. A qualified developer in your application’s programming or scripting language should be able to work with a MySQL database administrator to find improvements for your server. Once the server and application are optimized well, you may need to consider hardware upgrades to the physical server itself. This is a really useful tool for helping to optimize MySQL performance.Understanding the various my.cnf variables and how they affect performance can seem really complicated but this tool takes some of the pain away and makes it easier to understand the effects of each variable.It is especially useful to be able to see the global memory usage, memory usage per thread and the maximum possible memory usage - that is really valuable information that is otherwise complex to calculate. 2008-11-09T16:35:15Z camel debian, server, mysql, application, script, performance, configuration, admin, optimize, database, programming

Check Your Mysql Server Performance with MySQLTuner -- Debian Admin

by camel & 1 other(s)

MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. Within seconds, it will display statistics about your MySQL installation and the areas where it can be improved. It’s key to remember that MySQLTuner is a script which can assist you with your server, but it is not the solution to a badly performing MySQL server. The best performance gains come from a thorough review of the queries sent to the server, and an evaluation of the MySQL server itself. A qualified developer in your application’s programming or scripting language should be able to work with a MySQL database administrator to find improvements for your server. Once the server and application are optimized well, you may need to consider hardware upgrades to the physical server itself. This is a really useful tool for helping to optimize MySQL performance.Understanding the various my.cnf variables and how they affect performance can seem really complicated but this tool takes some of the pain away and makes it easier to understand the effects of each variable.It is especially useful to be able to see the global memory usage, memory usage per thread and the maximum possible memory usage - that is really valuable information that is otherwise complex to calculate.

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]]> 10 HARD Ways to Make Your Life Better - Lifehack.org http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-hard-ways-to-make-your-life-better.html Some of the most worthwhile things in life aren’t easy. One of the things I dislike most about “power of positive thinking”-style personal development philosophies (such as “The Secret”) is the implication that if you just have the right attitude and the right state of mind, the rest will just fall into place. I think it causes a lot of hurt and disappointment in people who invest their time, effort, and of course, money into these systems and find themselves, one or two or five years down the line, exactly where they were before. “You must not have wanted it badly enough,” the authors of these philosophies seem to be saying. “There must still be something wrong with you.” 2008-03-20T05:18:58Z oqdbpo lifehack

10 HARD Ways to Make Your Life Better - Lifehack.org

by oqdbpo

Some of the most worthwhile things in life aren’t easy. One of the things I dislike most about “power of positive thinking”-style personal development philosophies (such as “The Secret”) is the implication that if you just have the right attitude and the right state of mind, the rest will just fall into place. I think it causes a lot of hurt and disappointment in people who invest their time, effort, and of course, money into these systems and find themselves, one or two or five years down the line, exactly where they were before. “You must not have wanted it badly enough,” the authors of these philosophies seem to be saying. “There must still be something wrong with you.”

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]]> Simple SSE optimized sin, cos, log and exp http://gruntthepeon.free.fr/ssemath/ I chose to write them in pure SSE1 MMX so that they run on the pentium III of your grand mother, and also on my brave athlon-xp, since thoses beast are not SSE2 aware. Intel AMath showed me that the performance gain for using SSE2 for that purpose was not large enough (10%) to consider providing an SSE2 version (but it can be done very quickly). The functions use only the _mm_ intrinsics , there is no inline assembly in the code. Advantage: easier to debug, works out of the box on 64 bit setups, let the compiler choose what should be stored in a register, and what is stored in memory. Inconvenient: some versions of gcc 3.x are badly broken with certain intrinsic functions ( _mm_movehl_ps , _mm_cmpeq_ps etc). Mingw's gcc for example -- beware that the brokeness is dependent on the optimization level. A workaround is provided (inline asm replacement for the braindead intrinsics), it is not nice but robust, and broken compilers are detected by the validation program below. 2008-02-27T12:53:10Z ogrisel optimization, SIMD, trancendental functions, exp, log, sin, cos, tan, SSE2, open source

Simple SSE optimized sin, cos, log and exp

by ogrisel

I chose to write them in pure SSE1 MMX so that they run on the pentium III of your grand mother, and also on my brave athlon-xp, since thoses beast are not SSE2 aware. Intel AMath showed me that the performance gain for using SSE2 for that purpose was not large enough (10%) to consider providing an SSE2 version (but it can be done very quickly). The functions use only the _mm_ intrinsics , there is no inline assembly in the code. Advantage: easier to debug, works out of the box on 64 bit setups, let the compiler choose what should be stored in a register, and what is stored in memory. Inconvenient: some versions of gcc 3.x are badly broken with certain intrinsic functions ( _mm_movehl_ps , _mm_cmpeq_ps etc). Mingw's gcc for example -- beware that the brokeness is dependent on the optimization level. A workaround is provided (inline asm replacement for the braindead intrinsics), it is not nice but robust, and broken compilers are detected by the validation program below.

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]]> Too much accessibility - good intentions, badly implemented / Public Sector Forums / 8 August 2007 / splintered - random sparks of creative insight / the portfolio and experimental playground of patrick h. lauke aka redux http://www.splintered.co.uk/documents/presentations/psf_accessibility_08.08.2007/ <blockquote><p>HTML offers many features and attributes that can make your sites more accessible...but only if they're used wisely. Can there really be "too much accessibility"?</p></blockquote> 2008-01-06T20:40:11Z julie bonnes pratiques, accessibility

Too much accessibility - good intentions, badly implemented / Public Sector Forums / 8 August 2007 / splintered - random sparks of creative insight / the portfolio and experimental playground of patrick h. lauke aka redux

by julie & 1 other(s)

HTML offers many features and attributes that can make your sites more accessible...but only if they're used wisely. Can there really be "too much accessibility"?

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]]> Too much accessibility - good intentions, badly implemented / Public Sector Forums / 8 August 2007 / splintered - random sparks of creative insight / the portfolio and experimental playground of patrick h. lauke aka redux http://www.splintered.co.uk/documents/presentations/psf_accessibility_08.08.2007/ 2008-01-10T13:22:27Z naudjf Too much accessibility, mauvaises pratiques, bonnes pratiques, accessibility, portfolio, presentation, accessibilité

Too much accessibility - good intentions, badly implemented / Public Sector Forums / 8 August 2007 / splintered - random sparks of creative insight / the portfolio and experimental playground of patrick h. lauke aka redux

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]]> Gonzales seeks GOP support, gets little http://blogmarks.net/post4 WASHINGTON - Desperate for support among fellow Republicans, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced grim prospects Friday after a bruising Senate hearing that produced one outright call for resignation and a fistful of invitations and hints to quit. One GOP member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, John Cornyn (news, bio, voting record) of Texas, predicted Gonzales would weather the furor and said he should. "Frankly, I don't think the Democrats are going to be satisfied with the resignation by Al Gonzales," he said. Gonzales gave no indication Friday that he was leaving. "Please know that as you continue your work, I am by your side," the attorney general told an audience of crime victims' rights supporters. He spoke in a gravelly voice the day after his long day of testimony. Gonzales also called several GOP senators, including Cornyn and Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record) of Pennsylvania, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, an aide said. Specter said Gonzales sounded "in good spirits." "The attorney general did call me today and he said he was just checking with senators to see how the hearing went," Specter said Friday. "I told him, 'Everything I had to say about the hearing I've already said.'" The Pennsylvania Republican also said he sent a letter to Bush about Gonzales, who Specter had said a day earlier had emerged from the hearing with his credibility tarnished. Specter would not reveal the contents of the letter. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said President Bush had spoken with Gonzales after Thursday's hearing, and she added, "The attorney general continues to have the president's full confidence." There was little other evidence of support for Gonzales, who has been struggling to explain last winter's firings of eight federal prosecutors. Sen. Sam Brownback (news, bio, voting record), a Kansas Republican who sits on the committee, issued a statement that notably did not urge Gonzales to remain in his post. "Although his answers suggested that there were serious managerial issues at the Department of Justice, I did not see a factual basis to call for his resignation. As for whether the attorney general should resign, that is a question I leave to him and to the president," he said. There were fresh calls from Democrats for Gonzales to step down. "The president should restore credibility to the office of the attorney general. Alberto Gonzales must resign," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) of California. Gonzales and other administration officials had hoped his appearance Thursday would produce a groundswell of support among Republicans, but there was little if any evidence of that. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (news, bio, voting record) was traveling, and a spokesman referred reporters to noncommittal comments the Kentucky lawmaker had made on April 1. "I think most Republican senators are willing to give the attorney general a chance to come up before the Judiciary Committee and give his side of this story, and are likely to withhold judgment about whether he can be effective in the Senate in dealing with us, until after we hear from him before the Judiciary Committee," McConnell had said at the time. Sen. Mel Martinez (news, bio, voting record) of Florida, who doubles as the general chairman of the Republican Party, had no immediate reaction to Gonzales' appearance. In several hours before the Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Gonzales said he had done nothing improper in firing the eight prosecutors, but conceded the case had been badly handled. At the same time, he said 71 times that he either could not recall or did not remember conversations or events surrounding the dismissals. Alone among the nine Republicans on the committee, Sen. Tom Coburn (news, bio, voting record) of Oklahoma called for Gonzales to resign. Several other Republicans made plain their unhappiness. Specter told Gonzales his description of events was "significantly if not totally at variance with the facts." "Why is your story changing?" Charles Grassley (news, bio, voting record) of Iowa asked at one point, citing differences between an earlier explanation and the hearing testimony. Lindsey Graham (news, bio, voting record) of South Carolina, after hearing the attorney general's account of the case, said, "Most of this is a stretch," and added it seemed to him that some of those dismissed "just had personality conflicts with people in your office or the White House and (officials) just made up reasons to fire them." Sen. Jeff Sessions (news, bio, voting record) of Alabama expressed concern with Gonzales' memory at the hearing. In an interview later, he went further. "I think it's going to be difficult for him to be an effective leader," he said. "At this point, I think (Gonzales) should be given a chance to think it through and talk to the president about what his future should be." At the White House on Friday, Perino lavished praise on Gonzales. "He has done a fantastic job at the Department of Justice. He is our No. 1 crime fighter. 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Gonzales seeks GOP support, gets little

by huahua
WASHINGTON - Desperate for support among fellow Republicans, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced grim prospects Friday after a bruising Senate hearing that produced one outright call for resignation and a fistful of invitations and hints to quit. One GOP member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, John Cornyn (news, bio, voting record) of Texas, predicted Gonzales would weather the furor and said he should. "Frankly, I don't think the Democrats are going to be satisfied with the resignation by Al Gonzales," he said. Gonzales gave no indication Friday that he was leaving. "Please know that as you continue your work, I am by your side," the attorney general told an audience of crime victims' rights supporters. He spoke in a gravelly voice the day after his long day of testimony. Gonzales also called several GOP senators, including Cornyn and Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record) of Pennsylvania, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, an aide said. Specter said Gonzales sounded "in good spirits." "The attorney general did call me today and he said he was just checking with senators to see how the hearing went," Specter said Friday. "I told him, 'Everything I had to say about the hearing I've already said.'" The Pennsylvania Republican also said he sent a letter to Bush about Gonzales, who Specter had said a day earlier had emerged from the hearing with his credibility tarnished. Specter would not reveal the contents of the letter. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said President Bush had spoken with Gonzales after Thursday's hearing, and she added, "The attorney general continues to have the president's full confidence." There was little other evidence of support for Gonzales, who has been struggling to explain last winter's firings of eight federal prosecutors. Sen. Sam Brownback (news, bio, voting record), a Kansas Republican who sits on the committee, issued a statement that notably did not urge Gonzales to remain in his post. "Although his answers suggested that there were serious managerial issues at the Department of Justice, I did not see a factual basis to call for his resignation. As for whether the attorney general should resign, that is a question I leave to him and to the president," he said. There were fresh calls from Democrats for Gonzales to step down. "The president should restore credibility to the office of the attorney general. Alberto Gonzales must resign," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) of California. Gonzales and other administration officials had hoped his appearance Thursday would produce a groundswell of support among Republicans, but there was little if any evidence of that. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (news, bio, voting record) was traveling, and a spokesman referred reporters to noncommittal comments the Kentucky lawmaker had made on April 1. "I think most Republican senators are willing to give the attorney general a chance to come up before the Judiciary Committee and give his side of this story, and are likely to withhold judgment about whether he can be effective in the Senate in dealing with us, until after we hear from him before the Judiciary Committee," McConnell had said at the time. Sen. Mel Martinez (news, bio, voting record) of Florida, who doubles as the general chairman of the Republican Party, had no immediate reaction to Gonzales' appearance. In several hours before the Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Gonzales said he had done nothing improper in firing the eight prosecutors, but conceded the case had been badly handled. At the same time, he said 71 times that he either could not recall or did not remember conversations or events surrounding the dismissals. Alone among the nine Republicans on the committee, Sen. Tom Coburn (news, bio, voting record) of Oklahoma called for Gonzales to resign. Several other Republicans made plain their unhappiness. Specter told Gonzales his description of events was "significantly if not totally at variance with the facts." "Why is your story changing?" Charles Grassley (news, bio, voting record) of Iowa asked at one point, citing differences between an earlier explanation and the hearing testimony. Lindsey Graham (news, bio, voting record) of South Carolina, after hearing the attorney general's account of the case, said, "Most of this is a stretch," and added it seemed to him that some of those dismissed "just had personality conflicts with people in your office or the White House and (officials) just made up reasons to fire them." Sen. Jeff Sessions (news, bio, voting record) of Alabama expressed concern with Gonzales' memory at the hearing. In an interview later, he went further. "I think it's going to be difficult for him to be an effective leader," he said. "At this point, I think (Gonzales) should be given a chance to think it through and talk to the president about what his future should be." At the White House on Friday, Perino lavished praise on Gonzales. "He has done a fantastic job at the Department of Justice. He is our No. 1 crime fighter. He has done so much to help keep this country safe from terrorists." Yiwu mix container exporter China exporter Import from china Export from china China mix container exporter Agent in yiwu Purchasing agent in yiwu yiwu LOUIS VUITTON CHANEL Yiwu commodity city China manufacture Made in china gas detector

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]]> ChadFowler.com The Big Rewrite http://chadfowler.com/index.cgi/Computing/Programming/TheBigRewrite/TheBigRewrite.rdoc,v This is the first in a series of articles, discussing why many software rewrite projects end badly and what to do to avoid some of the ways I've seen them go astray. 2007-01-23T09:37:52Z mbertier dev, bestpractices, groupe:clever age

ChadFowler.com The Big Rewrite

by mbertier

This is the first in a series of articles, discussing why many software rewrite projects end badly and what to do to avoid some of the ways I've seen them go astray.

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]]> Understanding The DVD Drive http://www.thedvdfiles.info/dvd-players/understanding-the-dvd-drive/ Copyright 2006 Otis Cooper The CD was first introduced into the world by Phillips and the Sony corporation and was to replace the LP.It started rather badly butin 1995 there was a standard being set for the dvd Cdrom have been around awhile,but as the ... 2006-12-20T08:21:22Z kromakirk dvd, cdrom, digital, video, disc, players, vhs, computer, store

Understanding The DVD Drive

by kromakirk

Copyright 2006 Otis Cooper The CD was first introduced into the world by Phillips and the Sony corporation and was to replace the LP.It started rather badly butin 1995 there was a standard being set for the dvd Cdrom have been around awhile,but as the ...

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]]> About | korp http://kourge.net/about Submitted by kourge on Tue, 2006-04-18 06:59. About me I currently live in Seattle. I write PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and MySQL, and I design websites and such. I also build sites that are powered by so-called "Ajax". About this site This site used to be a hand-coded PHP powered site. Now it's powered by Drupal, for ease of management and flexibility. Korp stands for kourge's organized resource place. The fellas at the Sonique Forums say that I'm a hardcore coder. Duh. Now I'm using a CMS. I try to make pages that are standard complaint. Sticking to XHTML is a good idea. About my computer * CPU: Intel Celeron 2.4Ghz * RAM: 512 megabytes * HDD: 80GB hard disk * CD Drive: A DVD -RW writer * Graphics: A SiS 650 integrated chip that sucks badly nVidia GeForce FX 5500 * OS: Windows XP Professional SP2, also dual-booting Fedora Core 5 * Office: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 beta (currently beta testing) * Other apps: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash, Ulead PhotoImpact, and Inkscape 2006-07-28T11:52:08Z feision work env references for myself, wait to visist, inkscape, management

About | korp

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Submitted by kourge on Tue, 2006-04-18 06:59. About me I currently live in Seattle. I write PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and MySQL, and I design websites and such. I also build sites that are powered by so-called "Ajax". About this site This site used to be a hand-coded PHP powered site. Now it's powered by Drupal, for ease of management and flexibility. Korp stands for kourge's organized resource place. The fellas at the Sonique Forums say that I'm a hardcore coder. Duh. Now I'm using a CMS. I try to make pages that are standard complaint. Sticking to XHTML is a good idea. About my computer * CPU: Intel Celeron 2.4Ghz * RAM: 512 megabytes * HDD: 80GB hard disk * CD Drive: A DVD -RW writer * Graphics: A SiS 650 integrated chip that sucks badly nVidia GeForce FX 5500 * OS: Windows XP Professional SP2, also dual-booting Fedora Core 5 * Office: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 beta (currently beta testing) * Other apps: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash, Ulead PhotoImpact, and Inkscape

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]]> Ajax Behaving Badly and Other Misconceptions (web2.wsj2.com) http://web2.wsj2.com/ajax_behaving_badly_and_other_misconceptions.htm 2006-04-28T09:40:34Z yoshigi ajax

Ajax Behaving Badly and Other Misconceptions (web2.wsj2.com)

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]]> Folksonomies: Tags Strengths, Weaknesses And How To Make Them Work - Robin Good's Latest News http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/02/01/folksonomies_tags_strengths_weaknesses_and.htm * Misspelt tags (e.g., libary, libray) * Badly encoded tags, such as unlikely compound word groupings (e.g.,TimBernersLee) * Tags that do not follow convention in issues such as case and number; singular versus plural form (e.g., apple, apples) * Personal tags that are without meaning to the wider community (e.g., mydog) * Single-use tags that appear only once in the database. (e.g., billybobsdog) 2006-03-02T20:55:25Z ycc2106 tags, folksonomies, folksonomy, article, tagging, about

Folksonomies: Tags Strengths, Weaknesses And How To Make Them Work - Robin Good's Latest News

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* Misspelt tags (e.g., libary, libray) * Badly encoded tags, such as unlikely compound word groupings (e.g.,TimBernersLee) * Tags that do not follow convention in issues such as case and number; singular versus plural form (e.g., apple, apples) * Personal tags that are without meaning to the wider community (e.g., mydog) * Single-use tags that appear only once in the database. (e.g., billybobsdog)

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]]> Wireless Networking in the Developing World http://wndw.net/ By applying this technology in areas that are badly in need of critical communications infrastructure, more people can be brought online than ever before, in less time, for very little cos 2006-02-06T14:39:22Z owukori opensource, delicious, wireless, africa, networking, techology

Wireless Networking in the Developing World

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By applying this technology in areas that are badly in need of critical communications infrastructure, more people can be brought online than ever before, in less time, for very little cos

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]]> Browservulsel: Blogger tag adder now supports compose mode http://browservulsel.blogspot.com/2005/12/blogger-tag-adder-now-supports-compose.html#c113521201562467960 If you want to make it work with the BlogThis! button too, I just wrote that code in my forked (and by now rather hairy beast badly in need of some refactoring) version of the script. <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/12/greasemonkey-tip-running- 2005-12-21T22:42:14Z ecmanaut sharing, eng, greasemonkey, public, myComments

Browservulsel: Blogger tag adder now supports compose mode

by ecmanaut

If you want to make it work with the BlogThis! button too, I just wrote that code in my forked (and by now rather hairy beast badly in need of some refactoring) version of the script.

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]]> 'Scratch-off' Miers http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47071 For five years, Bush has initiated massive spending programs, obstinately refused to protect the borders and signed restrictions on political speech into law. His veto pen remains unopened and unused in its original shrink-wrapped case. Bush treats conservatives like the Democrats treat the blacks (which is to say, pretty badly). 2005-10-27T13:40:27Z jasontromm bush, democrats, speech, miers, spending

'Scratch-off' Miers

by jasontromm

For five years, Bush has initiated massive spending programs, obstinately refused to protect the borders and signed restrictions on political speech into law. His veto pen remains unopened and unused in its original shrink-wrapped case. Bush treats conservatives like the Democrats treat the blacks (which is to say, pretty badly).

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]]> Daily Kos: Just to give you a sense of just how badly FEMA has f*cked up. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/3/171718/0826 2005-09-21T23:55:39Z sparktest

Daily Kos: Just to give you a sense of just how badly FEMA has f*cked up.

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]]> French Family Values - New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/opinion/29krugman.html?incamp=article_popular_1&oref=login Now, there's no reason a country can't have both an excellent health care system and a troubled economy (or vice versa). But are European economies really doing that badly? The answer is no. Americans are doing a lot of strutting these days, but a head-to-head comparison between the economies of the United States and Europe - France, in particular - shows that the big difference is in priorities, not performance. We're talking about two highly productive societies that have made a different tradeoff between work and family time. And there's a lot to be said for the French choice. First things first: given all the bad-mouthing the French receive, you may be surprised that I describe their society as "productive." Yet according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, productivity in France - G.D.P. per hour worked - is actually a bit higher than in the United States. It's true that France's G.D.P. per person is well below that of the United States. But that's because French workers spend more time with their families. 2005-07-30T18:59:01Z multilinko france, america

French Family Values - New York Times

by multilinko

Now, there's no reason a country can't have both an excellent health care system and a troubled economy (or vice versa). But are European economies really doing that badly? The answer is no. Americans are doing a lot of strutting these days, but a head-to-head comparison between the economies of the United States and Europe - France, in particular - shows that the big difference is in priorities, not performance. We're talking about two highly productive societies that have made a different tradeoff between work and family time. And there's a lot to be said for the French choice. First things first: given all the bad-mouthing the French receive, you may be surprised that I describe their society as "productive." Yet according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, productivity in France - G.D.P. per hour worked - is actually a bit higher than in the United States. It's true that France's G.D.P. per person is well below that of the United States. But that's because French workers spend more time with their families.

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