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Demographic Mapping

Demographic Mapping

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I Have a Dream
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Available on: Digital Download
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."


A Conversation with Jack Welch
by Jack Welch
Available on: Online Video
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)

When Jack Welch was a young manager, he blew the roof off one of General Electric?s factories in a chemical accident.

Bunch of Warren Buffet stuff on here too.

Pricelessware Cumulative List

Pricelessware Cumulative List

A whack of must-have utilities.

Fun With C & My HP

Feels like I'm back in high school.

This is supposed to display messages on your hp led status.

namespace hphack
{
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;

public class PrnHack
{
public static int Main(string[] args)
{
if(!ParseArgs(args))
{
return -1;
}

Console.WriteLine("\nHP Display Hack");
Console.WriteLine("Host: {0}", args[0]);
Console.WriteLine("Message: {0}\n", message);

IPEndPoint ipEndPoint;
ipEndPoint = new IPEndPoint( Dns.Resolve(args[0]).AddressList[0], PJL_PORT);

Console.WriteLine("Host is {0}", ipEndPoint.ToString());

Socket socket;
socket = new Socket(
AddressFamily.InterNetwork,
SocketType.Stream,
ProtocolType.Tcp
);

socket.Connect(ipEndPoint);

byte [] sendData;
string sendString;

sendString = String.Format(
"\x1B%-12345X@PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY = \"{0}\"\r\n\x1B%-12345X\r\n",
message
);

sendData = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(sendString);

int result;
result = socket.Send(sendData, sendData.Length, 0);

if(result == 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("Could not send on socket");
}

socket.Close();

Console.WriteLine("Finished\n\n");
return 0;
}



protected static bool ParseArgs(string[] args)
{
if(args.Length != 2)
{
Console.WriteLine(
"HP Display Hack: " +
"hphack printername \"message\" "
);
return false;
}

if(args[1].Length > 16)
{
Console.WriteLine("Message must be <= 16 characters");
return false;
}

if(args[1].CompareTo("random") == 0)
{
message = GetRandomMessage();
}
else
{
message = args[1];
}

return true;
}


public static string GetRandomMessage()
{
string [] Messages = {
"BUZZ OFF",
"TOUCH ME",
"STEP AWAY",
"SET TO STUN",
"SCORE = 3413",
"PAT EATS MICE",
"FEED ME",
"GO AWAY",
"NEED MORE SPACE",
"POUR ME A DRINK",
"IN DISTRESS",
"NICE SHIRT",
"GO AWAY",
"NO PRINT FOR YOU",
"RADIATION LEAK",
"HANDS UP",
"PRESS MY BUTTON",
"TAKE ME HOME",
"LOOKS LIKE RAIN",
"HELLO WORLD",
"NICE HAIR",
"NEED A MINT?",
"BE GENTLE",
"BE KIND",
"INSERT DISK",
"BUY ME LUNCH",
"DONT STOP",
"COME CLOSER",
"TAKE A BREAK",
"INSERT QUARTER",
"BLACK SABBATH"
};


Random r = new Random();
return Messages[r.Next() % Messages.Length];
}

protected const int PJL_PORT = 9100;
protected static string message = "NO MESSAGE";

}
}

The Aristocrats

The Aristocrats: "That's my goal. I want everyone who sees our movie, 'The Aristocrats' to enjoy it. I really do. So far we've done a really good job. We've had only a few people walk out, and most everyone else seemed to have a great time. Certainly a higher percentage of people who've seen our movie liked it than the percentage of people who liked 'Lord of the Rings.' One reason is that 'Lord of the Rings' sucks and our movie is good. But more importantly, everyone is supposed to like 'Lord of the Rings.' They made it for everyone, because everyone has all the money. We didn't make 'The Aristocrats' for everyone; we made it for our friends."

The Official Gilbert Gottfried Website

The Official Gilbert Gottfried Website: "Because I don't really have anything to tell you right now, and i just felt like a I owed you another BLOG, I will tell you a stupid joke that I heard a few years ago. It's not dirty and it's not on my DVD, but here it goes...
A man is walking home late one night. He decides to take a short cut through the cemetary, when all of a sudden he hears 'MARK!' He becomes very frightened and starts running. He hears again 'MARK!' His heart is pounding and he starts screaming. He hears again 'MARK, MARK, MARK!!!!' The man continues running and screaming. He continues to hear 'MARK, MARK, MARK!!!' A night watchman hears him and runs over to him.
The man starts screaming to him 'Thank god you're here. In the cemetary, a ghost keeps calling me. He keeps yelling 'Mark, Mark, Mark!' The night watchman says 'That's no ghost. That's just a dog with a hairlip.' "

Just finished watching The Aristocrats, one of the funniest, most repugnant, disgusting, and hilarious movies I have ever seen. Gilbert is one of my favourite comedians in there, though Jon Stewart & Bob Saget (!) are hilarious. Actually almost everyone is hilarious in this film. I guess that's why most of them get paid to crack jokes.

The Aristocrats is like cracking a joke about what you find on the internet with the Google safe-search filter turned off.

Disney, this ain't.

Your Next Car May Jump

Bose Tries to Shake Up Auto Industry - Yahoo! News: "A childlike grin spreads across 76-year-old Amar Bose's face as the vehicle does something most can't: jump over the board, like a cat bounding over a fallen log."

Ask Engadget: Best flash-based MP3 player? - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Ask Engadget: Best flash-based MP3 player? - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Check out the comments for tons of hints for the holidays.

Buy the LG HD-Conversion DVD Player (LDA511) and other DVD Players at circuitcity.com

My Christmas Wish-list

LG HD-Conversion DVD Player (LDA511)
LG LDA511
Upconverts to 1080i
Multi-format playback
7-in-2 memory card slot ? Progressive scan
HDMI interface
DivX?/MPEG4 playback ">Buy the LG HD-Conversion DVD Player LDA511) and other DVD Players at circuitcity.com: "LG HD-Conversion DVD Player (LDA511)
LG LDA511
Upconverts to 1080i
Multi-format playback
7-in-2 memory card slot ? Progressive scan
HDMI interface
DivX?/MPEG4 playback "

The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla's Weblog :: Google Booze Map (or: "When API means 'Ale Procurement Interface'")

The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla's Weblog :: Google Booze Map (or: "When API means 'Ale Procurement Interface'"): "Google Booze Map (or: 'When API means 'Ale Procurement Interface'')
by Joey deVilla at 11:46AM (EST) on November 15, 2005 | Permanent Link | Cosmos
Let me take a moment to say that the readers of this blog are great people. One particular example: Janis, who's taken the Google Maps API (that's short for Application Programming Interface, a set of 'hooks' that lets one computer program be controlled by another) and used it to create a lovely and useful web application called The Beer Hunter:"

Winerytohome - Ontario Wines to Your Doorstep

Winerytohome - Ontario Wines to Your Doorstep: "The WINE of the MONTH CLUB is where great wines are discovered...and delivered!

Experience extra-ordinary wines including limited availability, non-LCBO and the best new releases - each recommended by the top wine reviewers in Canada - Tony Aspler and David Lawrason. And also now taste the best in artisan cheeses from Ontario ? matched with a good bottle of red wine. "

Worlds of Wine: The pleasures of the vine

The 2005 wine guide has 100 top-rated wines.

UNLOCKER 1.7.5 BY CEDRICK 'NITCH' COLLOMB

I really like this page. Everything is a scroll away. The home button stays put. The google ads kind of stick out but other than that... clean and to the point.

Previewseek - The worlds most advanced search engine

Previewseek

Excel - My Excel Pages

This is the largest collection of Excel stuff out there.

The #1 Tool Windows Needs

Ever tried to delete a file, and got that stupid error, "Cannot Delete Folder: It is being used by another person or program?" And you're wondering who else is using your computer, and you get paranoid & get out your tinfoil hat... gah.

Unlocker (http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/), a free (donationware) utility solves that problem. Most of the time it is really just Windows Explorer that likes to keep hold of certain files for no particular reason.

My question is - Why doesn't Microsoft just add this to Windows Explorer & buy this guy out? I think the tool is worth at least 10 million of the 20 million Microsoft seems to use to buy a business. Hey, they could buy 2.

Best of Internet: Microsoft's Evolution in Technology: Windows 1.01

Quackbuster?

The Warning Label Generator

GAGGED TRUTH: THE TRUE STORY

link: "Free Music, Video Downloads for Ipod and etc


It seems that everywhere you look someone is talking about music downloads being shut down, but at the same time, new sites keep popping up all over the place and new ways to download music come in play. The truth of the matter is that free music is a force that won't be stopped. Here is a neat little method of getting free music and movies from google. Put the text below inside google and try it for yourself. There is a google search box at the bottom of this page that you can use for your convenience."

TheOpenCD.org

TheOpenCD.org

The following applications are included on TheOpenCD 3.1.
Productivity

* AbiWord 2.4.1
* MoinMoin 1.3.4
* OpenOffice 2.0
* PDFCreator 0.8.1 RC9

Design

* Blender 2.37a
* GIMP 2.2.9
* NVU 1.0

Internet/Networking

* FireFox 1.5 RC2
* Thunderbird 1.5 RC1
* Gaim 1.5

Multimedia

* Audacity 1.2.3
* Celestia 1.3.2
* Really Slick Screensavers

Utilities

* 7-zip 4.23
* Notepad2 1.0.12

Games

* Sokoban 1.253
* Battle for Wesnoth 1.0.1

Web 3.0

Well, we just got rid of the activex requirement for Ajax.

Photo album - Bill Gates Gets an Xbox

Bill, I had a 15% off coupon you could have used.

Now I see why they're white. Other than copying the iPod, you can have the autograph of your favourite CEO signed on it.

Who else signed that thing...



Update: And whatever Bill Gates title is too. (he's no longer the CEO)

Since the following page seems to have disappeared, I thought I would grab it from Google's cache & repost. (not my post)

What's in a Name?
And why does gazillionaire Bill Gates want a silly title? ... by Joe Mullich

When I read the news report that Bill Gates was stepping down as chief executive officer of Microsoft, I thought, "This guy is an idiot."

It didn't bother me that Gates was quitting his nine-to-five job. I wouldn't punch a time clock either, if I were one of the world's richest men. Gates probably loses more money under his couch cushions than I make in a year. That is, if people like Bill Gates carry cash. It didn't bother me that Gates was giving up responsibilities for day-to-day operations so he can return, as he said, "to what I love most -- focusing on technology for the future."

What I thought was stupid was that Gates created a silly new job title for himself. He is now Microsoft's "Chief Software Architect."

I hate the title. I guess that is why I'm an idiot. But still. . .

"Chief software architect" sounds like someone who dreams up new video games. Why on earth does a person as rich and famous as Gates even need a job title? Everyone agrees that Gates won't be giving up any power and can pretty much do whatever he wants. If he really does want a title, shouldn't it be a title that means something?

So why did he feel the need to change titles? It has to do with fashion. Style. And ultimately, feeling that you are really cool.

Let me explain. These days, offbeat job titles are in vogue, especially in the high technology world. I think Gates just wanted to prove he was "with it." Want to know the state of things? A business magazine called Fast Company ran a column called "Job Titles of the Future," profiling oddly titled executives at technology companies. There were "ministers of progress" at Aspen Tree Software. Pixar Animation Studio has "animation skeptics." Gateway 2000 uses "imagination officers."

Nobody, it seems, has "managers" or "vice presidents" anymore. I think Gates felt "chief executive officer" was way too blah for someone of his imagination.

Personally, I'd be scared to death if I were summoned to see an "imagination officer." It sounds too Big Brother-ish to me.

A New "Prestige" Perk
Weird titles, some people believe, actually have a purpose. This wasn't always the case. Several years ago, I called the PR guy at Accountemps, which recruits executives and scours countless resumes. I asked what PR guy recruiters would think of resumes with such (real) titles as "vice president, people" or "deputy director of anything."

His answer: Recruiters would think those job-seekers should pray that unemployment benefits are extended for a long, long time.

Now, however, recruitment specialists say "creative titling" has become a way to lure hard-to-find techno-geeks.

A good geek is hard to find these days. Companies are going to all sorts of lengths to lure them. For instance, some Silicon Valley companies have a massage therapist for the troops. Evolving Systems Inc., a Denver software firm, gives all its workers free rabies shots. Don't ask! Arcnet, a wireless communications firm, is giving every employee who's been with the company at least a year a free leased BMW, plus fully paid insurance. "It is going to be better than a raise because very time employees turn the ignition key, they will think of me," said the company's president.

I just heard a story about a programmer in Minneapolis who didn't want to leave his town. So a software firm in Los Angeles started up a branch office for him. Meanwhile, a Minneapolis firm was having so much trouble finding nerds that it hired seven engineers who had been laid off in Los Angeles and let them set up a remote officer there. Being a lowly writer, every place I've ever worked has made me buy my own coffee. So you'll understand if I feel a small throb of homicidal envy. Techno-geeks are in such demand, though, that weird titles are the latest incentive. Motley Fool, an online financial publication, found it's easier to recruit workers by giving them business cards with titles such as -- and these are all real -- "chief techie geek," "LAN/Database God," and "FoolWare techie programmer."

As I said, in days past, recruitment people said having an unusual title was a hindrance when you went to look for a new job. After all, would you even read the resume of someone who spent the last year as a "senior completion specialist" if you needed a project manager?

In reality, both titles are for the same job. But "project manager" sounds so old-fashioned, you wouldn't have a chance to get a job at an Internet startup and cash in when it went public.

Too Sexy for My Title
Today, technology workers bristle at standard titles, believing them demeaning. The world changes so fast that if a job title is understandable, many think it must mean the person holding it is behind the times.

Chief executive officer? You're right, Bill -- sounds like your dad's job title.

Some firms go so far as to do away with titles altogether, to keep the natives from getting restless. One computer training firm instead placed a recruitment ad seeking "talented 'you-betchya's' with a positive, whole-hearted attitude who would love teaching computers." Imagine going to a party and telling people that you make your living as a "you-betchya." When I first entered the corporate world, everyone knew exactly whose boot they were expected to lick. The organizational chart came straight from a management textbook. From chairman to supervisor to runt, roles and status were clearly defined.

Now, I have no idea what most people do anymore. You certainly can't judge by job titles.

Bad 70s Fashion Trend
The first seeds of title turmoil began in the sensitive '70s. During the Alan Alda Era, you didn't want to make anyone feel bad about his or her job. So kids who slung hamburgers became "customer service representatives." Janitors changed into "custodians." Trash men turned into "sanitation engineers." Then janitors demanded to be known as "custodial engineers."

For a while, you knew that anyone who called himself an engineer but didn't use a slide rule had a job that required him to clean up after someone else. Editor's note -- I mean, note from the Chief Arbiter of Taste and Goddess of All She Surveys: A slide rule was a quaint computational device, a relative of the abacus and precursor to the pocket calculator. Geeks carried them in the olden days when it was not cool to be a geek.

Title turmoil began moving up the corporate ladder. At first, an employee who dealt with the media was called "a press relations officer." Of course, speaking to reporters is a distasteful job. So titles changed to disguise what PR people did. They became Public Relations Officers. But even that wasn't enough.

So they turned into "Information Officers."

And then "Media Outreach Coordinators."

And finally, "Deputy Directors for External Affairs."

I have a theory about title turmoil. If a person can't say his title before an answering machine beeps and stops recording the message, he has a job no one else wants. Cutbacks during the '90s spurred more title turmoil. As companies got smaller, titles became bigger. Perhaps this gave workers a sense of security. A corporation has countless vice presidents. One is as good as another. But what company can afford to be without its "director of creativity and motivation"?

That is an actual job title. It was discovered in a poll of executives by Accountemps, a California recruiting firm. The title may seem silly. But I bet the person who holds it feels darn secure. What company would fire her? That's like admitting you don't value creativity and motivation.

Putting a Spin on Things
Most weird titles are euphemisms. One title in the survey was "senior special executive assistant to CEO." (I'm guessing this is a secretary.) Many titles are just baffling. The survey discovered a "semi-senior auditor." Well, is or isn't he? This isn't a Memorex commercial. Another person was an "associate assistant to senior VP." (Is that above or below an "assistant associate to senior VP" in the corporate pecking order?)

One person was called -- and remember this is real -- the "deputy director of anything." There was no "deputy director of nothing." Maybe that's the job you hold right before you see "the vice president of retirement" -- another real job title.

A Magnificent Obsession
People become obsessed with titles. A few years ago, IBM Chairman Louis Gerstner stripped the word "IBM" from the titles of 25 executives. Before those people were called "IBM senior vice presidents." After Gernster's move, these people were mere "senior vice presidents."

Pay and duties didn't change. The executives didn't even lose their parking spots. Still, the executives became incensed. So if Bill Gates wants to call himself "chief software architect," I now say go ahead. He can afford to print up the business cards.

However, I wish he'd consulted his chief imagination and creativity officer and come up with something a little more exotic. His old rival, former Apple CEO John Scully, for instance, used to call himself "chief listener."

I wish Gates had declared he was Microsoft's "sultan of software." Now there's a job title for the 2000s!

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog: "Top 31 weblogs.asp.net blogs to subsrcibe to
In the early days of weblogs.asp.net (when it was still called 'DotNetWeblogs') the main page had a list of all the bloggers sorted by number of posts and last date. That made for a good way to find out which blogs are most active/have the most content/are worth subscribing to (true, some blogs are unique - small amount of posts with big value, like Chris Brumme's blog).
That's gone, I have no idea why, but if you wanted a list of top blogs to subscribe to independently of the main weblogs.asp.net feed, Jon Galloway posted the output of a little .NET code he wrote to calculate the blog worth of every feed on the weblogs.asp.net site.
He then sorted the list by order of 'worth'. What you get back is is good way to get the 'essential' list of bloggers which have content/links/track backs which may suggest they are worth subscribing to.

Here's the final results, with the full result set posted in Jon's post, along with links (I'm glad to be among it).
Blog Worth
ScottGu's Blog 239,929.50
Rob Howard's Blog 154,119.42
Christian Weyer: Smells like service spirit 102,746.28
ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog 88,068.24
Carl Franklin 73,954.74
Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET 73,390.20
Jan Tielens' Bloggings [MVP] 72,825.66
Paul Wilson's .NET Blog 62,663.94
Dino Esposito's WebLog 59,841.24
Wallace B. McClure 49,679.52
Frans Bouma's blog 47,985.90
JonGalloway.ToString() 46,856.82
Fear and Loathing (Bil Simser) 45,727.74
Jeff Key 45,727.74
eXtensible Mind Lounge (Daniel Cazzulino) 41,775.96
Datagrid Girl 40,646.88
help.net 40,082.34
Fabrice's weblog 38,953.26
Ajax.NET Professional 37,824.18
Erik Porter's Blog 35,001.48
Robert Hurlbut's .NET Blog 32,743.32
Christian Nagel's OneNotes 31,049.70
Serge van den Oever [Macaw] 29,356.08
Eli Robillard's World of Blog. 28,227.00
#region /* mads's thoughts */ 27,662.46
Ralf's Sudelb�cher 26,533.38
DonXML Blog 25,968.84
Test Driven .NET 23,146.14
Dev Notes 23,146.14
Nauman Leghari's Blog 22,017.06
eWorld.UI - Matt Hawley 20,887.98

Internet Public Library: Telephone and Address

Internet Public Library: Telephone and Address: "Directories on the Web listing telephone, fax numbers, street addresses and e-mail addresses for people and businesses."

Domains - Recommended: Domain Name Research Tools

Domains - Recommended: Domain Name Research Tools: "Recommended: Domain Name Research Tools

Posted by Bill Sweetman on November 09, 2005.
Related to Domains, Research

There are 0 comments on this entry. Add your own.

As someone with more than a fleeting interest in domain names, I thought I?d share a few of my favourite domain name research tools with you."

TipMonkies ? Blog Archive ? The Ultimate Guide to Google Services

The Ultimate Guide to Google Services
Submitted on November 17th, 2005 by Jay Koby
Filed under Services and Software and Tips, Tricks & Hacks and Audio and Resources and Graphics and Browsers and Video and Productivity and Email and Books and Shopping and Storage

The Search Engine Experiment | SEO Experiments | SEO Tools | WebmasterBrain

The Search Engine Experiment
Which engine really offers you the most relevance? Take the test and find ou

Contents of RSS feed for: Poppolar Show

My friend Erico started a podcast.
Check it out.

Lillian Taublib

So I'm getting a ton of search results coming to me for Lillian Taublib. Who is she and why is she so popular all of a sudden? Someone please let me know.

The only thing I can find is a few references to her new movie, Crime Delicado, which was shown at TIFF and the Sao Paulo Film Fest.

Here's the Variety Review.

Mutant Peas Take Over Australian Outback

Australian researchers scrap GM peas after mice fall ill - Yahoo! News

The peas, which were almost 100 percent resistant against pea weevil attacks, caused inflammation of lung tissue in mice and other adverse affects, researchers said.

What is a weevil and where can I get one? How come Australia gets all the cool animals and we are stuck with squirrels & Canada geese.

Self Publishing Services - Lulu.com

Self Publishing Services - Lulu.com

Yes I'm ripping off Scoble here.. but he's got some good links off the Microsoft-beaten path.

Steve Garfield's Video Blog: Vlog Soup: Episode 8

Google Earth Community: Microsoft Canada CEO's House

Google Earth Community: Canada's most prestigious home

For sale with the Invidiata Team Re/Max of Oakville Ontario. Ballymena Estate is officially the largest house in Canada. Owned by the CEO of Microsoft Canada. The historic house is on the market for 45 million CND. The Coachhouse Front gates, and fence are designated historical areas orignial from the early 1800s when the estate was built as a summer home by a wealthy Toronto family. The main house has been complety renovated. It includes 7 fire places, 8 BDRM, 9 Bath rooms, an indoor pool, A workout room, screening room, A huge kitchen with italian marble countertops. The Invidiata team is the leading re-sale real estate agency in the GTA. Invidiata team has also won many awards for there Estate lots in the Oakville area. Windermere Gates is there most expensive off the lakefront with homes listed from 5 -10 million CND.

Meet the IT Gigolo

"WILL FIX COMPUTERS FOR SEXUAL FAVORS"

Craigslist rocks. Is anything not funny on that site?

Somebody needs to do a TV show just on Craigslist classifieds & interviews. I read somewhere it was the most traffic'd site on the internet.

Biography: Oudi Antebi

Oudi's first posting is a great into to the world of BI at Microsoft, and how their BSM product has evolved over the last few years.

Getting one of these every day now

Please give Dr. Tata a call and ask for his mom, or shout some Nigerian curse words for me.

CITI TRUST BANK PLC NIGERIA
ADDRESS HEADQUARTERS ANNEX
IKEJA LAGOS NIGERIA.
NUMBER, 234-803-4946656
E-MAIL,danetata60@yahoo.co.uk

Dear ,

I AM, (Dr) DANETATA.of citi trust bank .Your contact was given to me by a very good, school mate of mine, that works with the Nigeria Chambers of Commerce here in Nigeria.

I am personel chief account manager of Mr.Patrick (Snr.) a nationale of your country, who used to work with shell development
company here in Nigeria. On the 21st April 2003,our customer, his wife And their three children were involved in a car accident along sagbama express road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives. Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of his extended tives this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last
name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I
contacted you.I have contacted you to assist in repartrating the money
and property left behind by our customer before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by our bank where he deposited sum off US$10 million dollars in our bank the CITI TRUST BANK the banking guidelines of CITI TRUST BANK stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed for over a period of time 2 years and few months, with the account nservicable the money will be onfisicated and this will happen after the next ten days if nobody comes for the money Since we have not seen any body for the money and his property for the last two years and our bank has been notifying the Rotary club for the past one year,now I seek your consent to present yourself as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$10 million dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Thanks
Please, kindly get in touch with me.with this E-mail,
danetata60@yahoo.co.uk
Dr, Dane Tata.

JeffBridges.com - Main Menu

JeffBridges.com - Main Menu

Really cool, pushing the limits of design here...

Globeinvestor.com: RIM runs into China security syndrome

Don't short your RIM stock just yet.. China has millions of potential crackberry customers.

Of course, as soon as they release it there will be knock-offs created, so maybe it's still worth shorting.

In an effort to help the Waterloo, Ont., company, Mr. McGuinty arranged to show off a BlackBerry to a Chinese cabinet minister yesterday. His Economic Development Minister, Joe Cordiano, pulled out the gadget during their meeting with Wang Xudong, China's Minister of Information Industry.

3.65 billion: Number of subscribers worldwide at the end of RIM's Q2

Ummm.. that doesn't sound right to me.

Celebrity maps

Cool mashup of Celeb addresses.

Time to get the mail merge applications out.

and more...
Link

Tikibar has got to be one of the funniest vidcasts out there...

Watching all six Star Wars movies simultaneously

This guy decodes the formula for a successful star-wars-style movie.

The answer? Change some scenery & characters, but keep the frames & timelines the same.

Virtual PC Guy's WebLog : Creating your own virtual machine client application for Virtual Server

Virtual PC Guy's WebLog : Creating your own virtual machine client application for Virtual Server: "Creating your own virtual machine client application for Virtual Server"

Did you know you can embed this into Powerpoint, so you don't have to 'tab out' during a demo?

You can just insert a new object, and select the Microsoft Virtual Server VMRC Control, then set the appropriate properties.

Foul Play - How a Slate scientist changed the NBA forever?or at least a week. By Daniel Engber

Disruption in basketball, with Mark Cuban & a crafty scientist's idea.

Trade up from one paperclip to a house

A paperclip buys a house


I will trade this generator with anyone who will offer me something bigger OR better in exchange. Do you want the power? drop me a line:

What is REST?

: "What is REST?
REST is a term coined by Roy Fielding in his Ph.D. dissertation [1] to describe an architecture style of networked systems. REST is an acronym standing for Representational State Transfer.
Why is it called Representational State Transfer?
The Web is comprised of resources. A resource is any item of interest. For example, the Boeing Aircraft Corp may define a 747 resource. Clients may access that resource with this URL:

http://www.boeing.com/aircraft/747

A representation of the resource is returned (e.g., Boeing747.html). The representation places the client application in a state. The result of the client traversing a hyperlink in Boeing747.html is another resource is accessed. The new representation places the client application into yet another state. Thus, the client application changes (transfers) state with each resource representation --> Representational State Transfer!

Here is Roy Fielding's explanation of the meaning of Representational State Transfer:

'Representational State Transfer is intended to evoke an image of how a well-designed Web application behaves: a network of web pages (a virtual state-machine), where the user progresses through an application by selecting links (state transitions), resulting in the next page (representing the next state of the application) being transferred to the user and rendered for their use.'
Motivation for REST
The motivation for REST"

Internet Software Services

Internet Software Services

Bill Gates' memo.

Ten years ago this December, I wrote a memo entitled The Internet Tidal Wave which described how the internet was going to forever change the landscape of computing. Our products could either prepare for the magnitude of what was to come or risk being swept away. We dedicated ourselves to innovating rapidly and lead the way much to the surprise of many industry pundits who questioned our ability to reinvent our approach of delivering software breakthroughs.

Services Disruption

Ray Ozzie's memo, outlining MS's vision of the future.

Things You Never Knew Existed : Gag gifts, novelties and toys : Welcome!

Things You Never Knew Existed : Gag gifts, novelties and toys : Welcome!

The 'Shop in Canadian Dollars' button is great!

Hong Gao 's Web Log - Shipped SQL 2005

Hong Gao 's Web Log :: "SQL 2005

We know it is almost 6 years cycle for Yukon. I sometimes wonder ?Does Microsoft still know how to build product after not shipping this baby for 5 years?? This doubt was just instantly removed when I saw the session about SQL 2005. Well, I always reserve a special spot in my heart for Yukon after myself worked on this for 3 years. Normally, each session?s slides are about 15-30 pages. Yukon slides are 123 pages. This gives an idea how many cool features we added for Yukon. A couple of them are my favorite.

* Partitioning solves resource contention issue. It made SQL database scalable. I anticipate this will be used by Office sharepoint if WSS wants to scale out.
* SQL CLR
* Database mirroring
* XML indexes
* Bunch of T-SQL improvements
o Row_number, RANK, PIVOT, CROSS APPLY, error handling(TRY/CATCH), Event notification, Parameterized TOP
* Index tuning advisor automatically suggests index creation for query perf optimization based on the workload
* Snapshot isolation



I have no doubt Yukon is not only my number one database product, but also will be the favorite for our customers."

Quan To's Visual Studio 2005 Setup blog

Seems to be quite a few IDE issues with new VS 2005. Here's a fix for one (or more) of them.

Can't move cursor in VS 2005 text editor

A customer ran into this issue where they can't move the cursor in the text editor and other things didn't work such as control-Z and import/export settings.

The workaround is:

* Shutdown Visual Studio
* Click Start -> Run
* Type in "devenv.exe /resetuserdata"
* Open Task Manager and wait for devenv.exe to finish running
* Restart VS

Thanks goes to James Lau for providing the workaround for this.

-Q
Quan To's Visual Studio 2005 Setup blog: "Can't move cursor in VS 2005 text editor

A customer ran into this issue where they can't move the cursor in the text editor and other things didn't work such as control-Z and import/export settings.

The workaround is:

* Shutdown Visual Studio
* Click Start -> Run
* Type in 'devenv.exe /resetuserdata'
* Open Task Manager and wait for devenv.exe to finish running
* Restart VS

Thanks goes to James Lau for providing the workaround for this.

-Q"

Wired News: History's Worst Software Bugs

Wired News: History's Worst Software Bugs
With that recall, the Pruis joined the ranks of the buggy computer -- a club that began in 1947 when engineers found a moth in Panel F, Relay #70 of the Harvard Mark 1 system. The computer was running a test of its multiplier and adder when the engineers noticed something was wrong. The moth was trapped, removed and taped into the computer's logbook with the words: "first actual case of a bug being found."

Tech-Recipes.com - Digg Effect: The Top 10 Things Webmasters Should Know

Conclusion:
I am a huge digg and slashdot fan--always have been and always will be. Receiving the honor of being placed on digg's front page suggests that a large group of people have decided that something on your site is very valuable. Isn't that why most of us have websites in the first place? However, for those webmasters that try to abuse the digg system, you are wasting your time trying to make a fast buck.

Price-Comparison Sites Strive to Save You Time and Money

New Technology Tips and Tricks: Put GeekSquad Out of Business

New Technology Tips and Tricks: Put GeekSquad Out of Business

Naughty Girls Need Love Too by Samantha Fox - Google Video

Naughty Girls Need Love Too by Samantha Fox - Google Video: "Naughty Girls Need Love Too by Samantha Fox
CamKaraoke.com
4 min 18 sec - Sep 29, 2005
www.CamKaraoke.com "

So when did Samantha Fox turn into an off-key black man?

My eyes! My eyes!

Nigerians....attack!

Number 51 phishing email...

Good day to you,

I have a proposal for you, This however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against your will. I am 50 of age with family, and a senior advocate running my own private law firm here in Nigeria.

There is an account which belongs to my late client Smith Maltese who was then the President and Chief Officer of Doyon Limited Regional Corporation. the account has been dormant for the past five years.and When the bank in London discovered that there had been no deposits nor withdrawals from this account for this long period, they contacted me as the personal lawyer to provide my late client next of kin so i decided to carry out a system investigation and discovered that non of the family member nor relations of the late person is aware of this account.

This is the story in a nutshell. Now I want an account overseas where the bank will transfer this funds.Thereafter, I had planned to destroy all related documents for this account. It is a careful network and for the past eleven months I have worked out everything to ensure a itch-free operation.
The amount is not so much at the moment and plus all the accumulated interest the balance in this account stands at over $12.5 Million USD

Now my questions are:-

1. Can you handle this project?
2. Can I give you this trust?
3. What will be your commission? If you can sponsor this transfer Consider this and get back to me as possible.

Finally, it is our humble prayer that the information as contained herein be accorded the necessary attention, urgency as well as the secrecy it deserves.
I expect your urgent response if you can handle this project.send a mail for confirmation of your intrest, and respond to these mail can be sent to officeofb_pd@yahoo.com.

Thanks and God bless.

I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.

Best Regards,

Barrister Peter Dada


Sounds pretty itchy to me Mr. Data.

I think my response is.... Get bent.

kennis database | weblog: Gyricon launches a new generation of wireless eSignage

kennis database | weblog: Gyricon launches a new generation of wireless eSignage

Seriously considering this as a way to read ebooks.

FelipeCN » Download Google Videos

FelipeCN � Download Google Videos: "2) Open the page source code and search for start (of the “play from start” link) and, in the link code, copy a code (anything likte this:
/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fid%3D4934ffdcc8397bfd%26begin%3D0%26len%3D75099%26itag%3D5%26docid%3D6439445308081246931%26urlcreated%3D1129218017%26sigh%3Dx6LJ-XyTjD32xqxZV2YLNSZ3HR0&autoPlay=true )

3) In your browser, execute this code: Javascript:unescape(”VideoURL”) (change URL by the code copied in the step 2)
Take the result of the script (the real file URL) and download it (If you use MSIE or FireFox you can create a html file with a link to the file and “Save as…” it, if you use Opera use the Quick Download Feature)

4) To play it use a FLV player like the one on http://www.snapfiles.com/get/flvplayer.html"

Google Pos

Google Pos

GooglePos is a small python script that uses the google api to find out what position your website has for a certain keyword (or set of). You'll need python and a google api key.

Image-Changing Einstein Mug

Flight Patterns

Air traffic as seen by the FAA.

The following flight pattern visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya and the final piece was highlighted at SIGGRAPH 2005 in the NVIDIA Immersive Dome Experience.

Recent Keyword Activity (Wavesmash Blog)

I use Stat Counter to track visits to my blog. Tracking visits is one of those obsessive things that many people like to analyze and over-analyze. Since I don't have a privacy policy, anyone who comes to my site can expect to be thoroughly tracked and all their personal information will be downloaded from their hard drives. Just kidding! Nobody really cares about you or your personal info, except for those guys from Nigeria who keep sending me emails offering me money. I find it funny when people have web sites who are trying to sell something but don't divulge things like their first & last name to you. How can you expect to have a customer buy something if you don't trust them enough with your basic contact information? No matter what you do, if you have an address, a phone number, or an email, I can find out all the information I need from you, so why not just put up that satellite image of your house from Google and be done with it?

I really just like reading the keywords for how people got to my blogs.

herb cohen play dumb
Herb's book was great and he is an awesome speaker. For only $10-15K, why not? Too bad his claim to fame and key tactic for negotiations is to act dumb. Huh? Wha? Hey, whatever frees the hostages Herb.

lotto claims office2010 I'm the only one on the results! Cool! If you searched for this, yes, this is another Nigerian 419 scam, and no, you did not win the lottery. Invest in Nigerian scams for better returns. I get about 1-2 emails a day now. Apparently the biggest export of Nigeria is spam email scams. Maybe we could make them the biggest importer of DOS attacks, trojans and viruses.

ways to get my wife to shallow after head

Not sure what shallowing is... anyone care to describe?

Update: Forgot one... 2005 email contact of all farmers in ( 5) @yahoo.com or ,co.uk or ,.ca or .net ( 5) Hopefully that is for some farmers who use micro-lending to improve their life rather than Nigerians harvesting emails.

Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day

Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day

ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman - Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List

ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman - Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool Utilities List

Coding4Fun: DIY Tech with Tony Northrup

Coding4Fun: DIY Tech with Tony Northrup

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See how to hook your computer up to the real world! Tony builds an application that enables your computer to respond to a light switch by getting the latest headlines and reading them to you using text-to-speech.

Controlling Lights with .NET
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Using X10 Hardware
In his first installment of "DIY Tech with Tony Northrup", Tony shows you how you can install X10 devices to control your lights.

Inside Windows Live Messenger:

Why the butterfly died, and what's up with Windows Live Messenger (WLM)

WLM me instead of MSN me? Don't think that will go over well.