Archive for November, 2004
Couples ditch love, marriage
Monday, November 29th, 2004From The Australian:By Kate LeggeNovember 24, 2004THE rise of do-it-yourself designer families has encouraged couples to defer committing to partnerships and babies, a new study by sociologist David Ve Vaus has found. Launching his statistical road map of modern Australian families, Professor De Vaus said the pathways to parenting have become so fraught with choice [...]
Don’t Think of an Elephant
Thursday, November 11th, 2004Ok, so despite all the media support, both John Howard and George Bush won, with a nett percentage increase in their popular vote. One reason may be explained in a new book by a bloke called George Lakoff – “Don’t think of an Elephant”From, of all places, www.oreilly.net.com, here’s a Salon article on Lakoff and [...]
innovation in support ?
Thursday, November 11th, 2004The idea of innovation in everyday IT makes no sense In IT, every new bleeding-edge product becomes a commodity, some faster than others. The speed at which this occurs is becoming faster and faster. Some (like Nicholas Carr of “IT Doesn’t Matter” Harvard Business Review article fame) claim that this means the arms race of [...]
Cammy’s birthday
Thursday, November 11th, 2004happy Birthday !! Apart from Cameron’s birthday, its been a huge week – fixed up a major Portal faux-pas, where nobody could authenticate because the configuration settings had been changed (and whoever did that has not owned up yet…) Bloxsom issue; When I refine my info structure, moving entries from a high level category to [...]
Jay Leno’s new car
Tuesday, November 9th, 2004a 190-in. wheelbase and an engine from an M-47 Patton tank This story is about a hot rod powered by a Patton tank engine, an AV-1790-5B and it’s 1792 cu. in. It has overhead cams and Hemi heads. Since it was designed to move a tank, it puts out 810 hp and makes 1560 ft.-lb. [...]
More on frameworks
Monday, November 8th, 2004Structure creates flexibility From neale stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, talking about borders and frameworks. The presence of a structure in your life makes you more (not less) adaptable, because if all else fails, you can compare the ‘unknown’ to a set of values (just as a UNIX admin can compare the status of a system to his [...]
Fromat C: v RM -r *
Thursday, November 4th, 2004what DOES happen when you try to kill your filesystem ? GASP !!! Could all those BOFH jokes about format c: be wrong ? linkage here Bookmark It Hide Sites
