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Hi there. Welcome to this thing.
1) We could allow dogcow to use (title <URI>) or something LISPy like that. 2) How about moin moin style [URI title] links? Will require more URI sniffing, but it's not bad. 3) I think I'd like @title on the <<< line, so like "<<< Possible Features to Add" would've started this post.
I was just thinking that it'd be nice if you could make a filename a link to a command that the STDOUT from is the file's content. Hmm. I wonder if there's a way to do that with shell scriptery? The problem is that you'd have to execute the file to get the content. I want the content any time you actually access the file. Which, of course, is extremely dangerous since you don't want all manner of scripts running when you merely access a file... But then it'd be powerful if you want to mirror a file but just change one small detail in it, etc., without having to make sure that the two are always kept up-to-date. So that's my usecase: I have a file xyz with "xyz a" in it, and another file blargh with "xyz b" in it, and I just want to create blargh from xyz using sed "s/a/b/", and then maintain xyz as the primary file to edit to.
This site is mainly powered from IRC, using a bot called blogbot. So here, now that we've got a nice new style, I thought I ought to try out some of the bot's features—e.g. automatic Unicode handling and seperate paragraphs.
If there's a gap above this line, then that worked. We should also be able to do random links quite easily.
HTML design these days is quite irritating. A mess of CSS vs. tables, HTML vs. XHTML, JPG/GIF vs. PNG and so forth. What does one do? If the ViewSourceClan are to be believed, one simply copies the source of a site that one likes.
But this style was formed by accident. The top left corner image is just a standard GIMP tool (sparks) working its magic, and didn't take much airbrushing or compression to get to its current state. The colour used is just a set of random nice warm colours; winter's coming up, and you want your sites to be homely. Even the fonts are just whatever looks good. But compared to my previous "hacked-up" style attempt, I'm quite pleased with this.
Still not sure about that by-line, though. Oh, yeah, and thanks to d8uv for the translucent PNG on the entries. That's probably the coolest bit! A "recent cool evolution", as he says.
The Freenode IRC server today was invaded by a bot from the University of Helsinki. Called irchiver, the bot was to gather data for an IRC search engine project. A research scientist connected with a project joined Freenode to try to explain what the project is about, given the sparse documentation and general irritation felt by the Freenode users.
In general, the project has no official documentation and does not appear well thought through. But the whole thing raises many IRC privacy issues. IRC privacy is perhaps even more complex a case than with HTTP. robots.txt is a norm that IRC has no equivalent of.
I quite like the idea of being able to Google for channels, though. I still use Google to search #swhack logs with some frequency. And there's an interesting point therein: is Googling for HTTP logs of IRC good enough? An opt-in IRC googlebot would be very cool.
Though this is subject to change, nœts is being served as XHTML content but without a doctype declaration at the top. Validation is very useful for authors, and should be a part of the authoring process. It can show you whether or not you have errors that may impede browser parsing and display, e.g. unquoted ampersands and so forth, so it's just as important as checking the content in browsers.
But why is validation useful on the client side? To most HTML UAs, the type of HTML is unimportant. Even for those with standards compliance modes, there's always a fallback. If you want to know whether content send as text/html is SGML or XML, you can check for the presence of an xmlns attribute on the html element. It must be there for all mandated XHTMLs, and mustn't be there for all mandated HTMLs.
Along these lines is Hixie's Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful, which he recently updated, and my SGML isn't widely supported reply. Dan Connolly has said a couple of times that "surely <html xmns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> is enough". I don't think there's been a good argument against so far.
Noets should be more or less forced to use application/xhtml+xml. You see, if we don't, Hixie will crush us with his superior crushing powers. You see, HTML UA's pay special attention to the doctype. What it does with the doctype, I'm not sure. But I'm sure it does something important. And besides, relying on <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> is dumb. I mean, who ever uses xmlns? It's not needed at all. Even Tim Bray said once "xmlns is dumb, and people who use it are dumbys."* And that's good enough for me.
*May or may not be Tim Bray.
The items here on nœts are styled with pastel translucent backgrounds, which is achieved using PNGs (courtesy of d8uv) with an opacity of roughly 60%. Whilst the effect looks cool, originally we were using a 1x1 pixel PNG which slowed the rendering time down—especially when scrolling—quite considerably. It took a little while to figure out that it was the PNG size and not some CSS or Mozilla-related weirdness, and once we did the situation was "fixed" to some degree by using a 256x256 pixel PNG instead.
The rendering lag is still pretty high, but at least it's managable now. If you have another solution, or comment, feel free to drop into #sbp on Freenode and let us know. Thanks.
Now what will Blogbot make of this...
Perhaps Blogbot syntax should be expanded to be more reminicent of "vi"?
Since "::" is treated like a comment, the colon is allready established as "magical. That immediately puts me in mind of vi's ":w" (to replace ">>>") and :q (for "@quit"). Using ":t <title>" for "@title" may be going over the top (and lacks precendence from vi), but might be worthwhile for consistency and completeness.
Ever noticed how the FHS simply gives up when it comes to talking about /home? Clearly, one would think that this is because the structuring in a user's home directory is up to them, and that even the location of /home on a system (and its existence) is optional. There are two reasons why this should change: firstly, everyone has organization nightmares; secondly, some of those nightmares are inspired by various programs eating up ~/.program_name
If you take the latter problem, this mirrors to some degree the philosophy of the FHS—though it's a bad part of the philosophy. The system gets /, and users are forced down into /home/theirname. Programs get /home/username/.programname, and as a result users get cluttered ~/ directories. Didn't the *nix developers hear about Feng Shui? Didn't anybody really think about how best to organize things? The FHS seems like a mishmash of silly conventions that *nix has accrued over the decades.
So the first thing to do is give the hierarchy back to the users. .program_name files could use the Java packaging philosophy: for example, emacs config files could be placed in ~/conf/org/gnu/emacs This still takes up ~/conf, so it's not perfect, but it's better. It also begs the question: why put important config files in a place where they're less accessible? Well, you can always make a soft link, e.g. $(cd ~/conf; ln ~/conf/org/gnu/emacs/.emacs .emacs), that you can use but that the programs must not.
Aside from giving the space back to the user, we also have to work out how best one should utilise that space. Everyone has different needs and opinions, so a tips-guide or cookbook would probably be better than a standard. There are still some technical extensions that could be made to filesystems to facilitate this, though. For example, why use hierarchies at all? Keyword based systems are favoured by some, so people should ahve the option of using them. Systems such as Longhorn's new FS, and GNOME storage are pioneering this, but hierarchy-free systems also have their limitations, so they shouldn't impose themselves on users that don't want them.
ah, good idea One other musing: why not seperate system data from user data entirely using a different prefix? I suppose that's what the ~/ syntax is for, but it could go further.
Further to xover's comments, he's come up with a few more suggestions. For a start, having an :s/from/to/ syntax would be extremely helpful, since I keep having to dip into the server to edit posts that I've screwed up on. Note that my accidentally uncommented "<sbp> ah, good idea" in the previous post made its way in (well, it'll probably be gone by the time you read this). I'm sure that could be resolved with a bit of practice... but people are bound to make mistakes, see that they've made mistakes, and want to fix them.
xover also suggests ":<something> <n>" to retrieve paragraph n for editing or replacement, as well as using NickServ as an authentication mechanism to enable people to edit or augment their old posts.
In fact, part of the background to blogbot is an idea of mine to use IRC as an editor. I was planning upon much richer editing features than I've got in blogbot, though I figured that it'd be primarily useful on a private channel, since you'd probably be recalling old test a lot. If you stuck to one line per sentence, perhaps with Nelson-esque automatic capitalization, however, you could probably even employ some sort of tumbler system to keep things in check. Then you could reference old lines by their static tumbler addresses.
Note that this'd also be a nice approach for editing in a command line session without curses. Though why anyone would want to do that, I don't really know. Perhaps conversational editing holds some advantages. It does make for some rather odd editing, however: since IRC is such a different medium to what one expects for editing, posts can tend to be a little jerky, losing the implied ,/. pause between lines. Perhaps we need a new punctuation mark for it!
I just wrote a utility script that I have the command $(nftp) for which does various FTP related functions for me. I write a lot of little scripts which glue my computer together, and, like Morbus, I'd like to release some of them so that others can use them. Most of them just do little tasks, but it's often not worth re-inventing the wheel if someone's already done it fairly competently (not that I do). Perhaps unlike Morbus, however, I have released a few. They're just not in any particular place. Some are scattered in www-archive, some are on infomesh.net, and some are even on miscoranda in blog entries. Yuck. In fact, I don't even have a good organizational scheme for the utilities on my hard drive. They're split across partitions, across directories. Some are on my $PATH, and some aren't. They're normally in Python, but some are in bash and so forth. It's a mess.
So, how to resolve it? I'm not sure. I tried with my u script to give some control over where the utilities are. In fact, that $(u) script has grown into a pretty large bash script now, which is yet another thing that I ought to put online somewhere. But I'm not using the u scheme as much as I used to, since I'm becoming quite used to just bunging stuff into ~/bin, which I have on $PATH.
I did wonder about creating a new Website that is basically a mirror of my hard drive. I'd set a plan that would say which fiels I consider public, and then it'd just mirror each of those files to the Web. In a kind of rsync/cvs style. To prevent annoyances from when I upgrade hard drives and so forth, I could give each partition and hard drive a name, and then work from there. The downside to all that is that a) it's a stupid plan b) it'd be a major bit of coding, and would involve buying a new domain, all just so that you can check out my utility scripts, .bashrc, init.el and so forth.
One can get quite used to crappy organization schemes, anyway. Sometimes, disorganization is the best form of organization...
The man page for tsort(1) really sucks, but when I read a better explanation it started making sense: it's about dependencies. In fact, there's a nice diagram of what tsort calls a partial order (a directed, acyclic graph) in the topological sorting algorithm page, with its linearization next to it, which clearly shows a dependency aspect. I found a nice implementation of tsort in Python, too.
This made me think about writing a function linearizer for Python, taking in a module and getting the code as strings for each of the functions declared within, and checking which functions are called... but then I realised that with any sort of conditionality, it all becomes too complicated for a medium-quick hack. So oh well; tsort's still quite nice.
Now blogbot can do substitutions. Yay! This all arose from the fact that people aren't perfect, especially when it comes to typing in prose to blogbot on IRC.
The substitution format is: ":s/from/to/[g]" where the optional g flag indicates to replace all of the occurances; only the first item will be replaced otherwise. This implements the change first suggested in Improving Blogbot, and Editing From IRC.
As previously reported, translucencies render very slowly in Mozilla when used as CSS-attached backgrounds. Terje Bless has, however, come up with a modified CSS style for noets based on some translucency experiments by Eric Meyer. The "trick" to it is that there are no translucent PNGs being used at all; instead, since the top left part of the background is the only region with any texture, that's been copied and then washed out to make it look as if it's been viewed through a translucent layer. Then, the washed out image is set as the background for the entries, fixed to a position of (0, 0), which is relative to the viewport and not the entries.
References: Eric Meyer's complexspiral technique.
And here I go into editing mode again. Wasn't it Alan Kay that said "don't mode me"? Whoever it was, they were right—having modes is irritating, as is having syntax that does not come naturally to the environment that you're working in.
And so it is with editing these noets entries on IRC. One thing that I'm noticing right now is that people are talking to me whilst I'm trying to come up with a post that encapsulates what we were discussing five minutes ago. So the conversation moves quicker than the publisher. But what we were talking about five minutes ago is that, as noted previously, my entries are jerky and don't come across well. What do you expect? I'm in a conversational-state interface here, not an editor. It's line mode.
Another point: I'm much slower writing these sorts of entries than I am when I'm just chatting. That's because I'm thinking about the sort of content that I want in the post, and how to word it. Since I'm publishing this to the general public, I want to keep the quality higher... and that means that I slow down, and often lose the thread of what I'm saying. It's harder to skip backwards when you're entering large lines, too—you have to remember what you said instead of being able to go back and read it.
Which leads me to the conclusion that perhaps it wasn't such a good idea to set up such an editor from IRC. It is, however, nicer than editing from a Web interface in that I've clearly made a lot more posts to noets than I have to miscoranda... so in a way it's been a win. Just not a clear enough win to make me sure that continuing with this format is a good idea. For example, I'm having to redo this post in #noets because I got disconnected during my original posting of it in #sbp, and came back on and forgot I was editing, destroying the post with IRC-talk. Oh well.
I do have three things to say about some content issues of this fine site. The first one is that almost all of the posts on noets (including this one) are about noets. I can handle metaness as much as the next guy, but this is getting insane. From feature announcements to changes in the CSS (BTW I added the Owen Hack so IE doesn't blow up the complexspiral translucency), this site is getting kinda unruly with self-referentialism.
If we don't write about ourselves, then what do we write about? Is it a collective weblog about the lives of its contributors, or should it be more focused on a topic? And if so, what topic? This should be addressed sooner or later, while still keeping in mind point #1.
My final point has to do with the awkwardness of writing weblog entries in IRC. I will admit it is awkward, but mainly because you're basically writing in a different type of medium. It's kind of like the difference between AM and FM radio. They both are transmitted using radio waves, and turned into sound using basically the same process. But the fact that most music channels are in the FM spectrum, and most talk channels are in AM, shows that there is an underlying difference between the two. That difference is the quality of the final broadcast. In weblog entries and IRC chattings, however, the difference is the length of the editing window. In HTML forms, you are given a large box in which to compose, and a submit button once you are done with the whole thing. In IRC, however, you are given a box that only accommodates one sentence at most, and a submit button once you are done with that sentence. But, overall, I don't think this will become a major issue. Although it's "jerky", it's not too bad. Besides, most newspapers are written a little "jerky" and "choppy".
Random find of the day: The Mail Archive. All you do is subscribe their service to your mailing list, and it automatically archives it for you. Although there are no guarantees about archive persistence, it does seem to have been running since 1998—why did I only just find out about this? And it was by pure chance: I middle clicked a highlighted URI in Mozilla Firebird to see how it would resolve, and it ended up searching mail-archive.com for me.
They even support RDF. Now if there were just a reliable service for providing mailing list administration, it'd be very easy to create a new list.
As noted previously, the majority of posts on noets so far have been about... noets. That's fine. Let's expand a little on what the intended scope of noets is: whatever. It's for whatever project is current, whatever news people pick up from elsewhere that they want to valuably comment on, and so on. The current project that I'm finding quite interesting in its technical challenges is this very site—once it's all stable and we've been using it for a while, I'm sure that the content will shift away from noets related issues; there can only be so much about this site that we can write about!
You can take the post on tsort as being most indicative of the future direction. I'd like this to be a cross between weblogs I've been involved with (miscoranda, #swhack, TNS), taking their best bits. Those weblogs are mainly oriented to the kinds of things that we talked about on #swhack, and talk about on #sbp, hence it made sense to run blogbot in #sbp and closely related channels.
I note that I'm referencing previous posts quite frequently—perhaps there's a need for threading here? And when I was looking up the references to the weblogs I've been involved with, I rather lost the thread of what I was saying...
I was also hoping that noets might become a place for communal participation, which extends over HTTP, IRC, and email. That's why the publishing process (blogbot, basically) is open to anyone, and it's also why I'm considering allowing vanilla comments on the site. As to email, I'm not sure how I can involve people there yet.
But again, as I'm hopefully already on the record as saying, noets is very useful in getting me to record various technical materials, and if you compare its output to the previous blogs that I've run, it compares quite favourably. Oh, hey, except with BIOH which was rather fun.
Are Google Crawling IRC? (via Google Weblog). These bots have been running for a couple of weeks now, always with eddieNN usernames (where NN is a two-digit number) and Google IPs. Given the recent irchiver situation as well, it seems that this may be the season for search engines running bots all over IRC!
It's difficult to speculate what the Google bots are doing, and the behaviour hasn't been widely reported yet—the only other site so far being cyberhq.nl. Since the bots aren't staying around for long, people have posited that they're getting user/topic/spambot URI information... but that wouldn't seem all that useful. In fact, sites such as xgoogle.org and ircsearch.com have already proven that there's not much information value in IRC administrivia.
Google claim, apparently, that the "behavior is only temporary". The other interesting detail is that the bots have been crawling small unimportant networks. As noted on the manero.org post: "Today eddie08 was observed on a really small non-announced network with only one channel, is it our google overlords trying to do some social network experiments?" We've had another independent report saying the same thing—small network, but Google bots. So perhaps Google are trying to provide better functionality for people searching for obscure IRC channels that could be mentioned in any one of a number of ways in Google's current datastock?
Curiously, the bot's realname is given as "walso". I doubt that the eddie/walso combination gives anything away as to the bot's purpose, but that's another interesting point—why not choose a name more fitting of a bot rather than a person?
I guess it should come as no surprise to anyone that lexicographers are often asked what their favourite words are, but perhaps it's more surprising when one of the most esteemed publishes a list of his own words of choice that are both common and rich in the delights to be yielded from their etymologies.
John Simpson, chief editor of the OED, presents ten words and phrases noting that really lexicographers don't have favourites. I don't believe him, though: in the OED newsletter that I got this from, the newsletter's editor polled their collegues and came up with another more standard list of "favourite" words: but, buttle, checkmate, chocolate, delphinestrian, gazebo, lucubrate, mumpsimus, persiflage, primrose, serendipity, sister, and twiffler.
I should add some of those to geirlyfr or something, but it's hard to present linguistic heritage discussions well. Lists of words that people can "ooh" over are okay, but perhaps there's a way to make it a bit more exciting...
you are a beautiful and unique snowflake
you are a beautiful and unique fractal
Sometimes, you're on a channel where you need to keep up with what's been said on it (e.g. the name of the channel stupidly historically bears your initials), but you get on in the morning and there's a crapload of scrollback, or maybe you've been away for days and you really just want the highlights... The answer, often proposed in situations like these, is that some poor fool should keep a summary of the most interesting events of the channel and then provide an anthologic summary every week or so. Great.
But nobody ever does it.
Maybe it'd be nice to change this. I'd've liked a nice #swhack journal thing—the Weekly Swhack?--in'th olden days, but perhaps #sbp has enough cool stuff on it to merit one. Dunno.
I know it's old news now, but the illegal prime thing is still funny. As one /.er commented: "it should be noted that 31337 is prime, but its not illegal, yet".
In other news, there's the oou language (ta deltab), and the rather wonderful finnish phrases page: "What do Santa Claus, saunas, suicides, IRC, ammonium chloride, vowels with lots of cute dots on them, reindeer, Nokia cell phones, and gold-medalist ski jumpers who have recently turned into porn stars all have in common?"
But I rather like this story from an old /. post: "Alien arrives on Earth. Alien asks to view all Earth encyclopedias. Alien encodes all the content as a single very massive integer. Alien treats number as a fraction between 0 and 1. Alien takes out a crystal rod, measures, and makes a single mark on it. Alien goes home with the rod to decode later."
Good ol' miscellany.
Swhackit: it's like the Swhack weblog, but it isn't.
Links smorgasbords are becoming very popular, as they always have been in the form of bookmarks, but the information content isn't all that high unless they're things that you're noting for your own future reference, or unless they're heavily annotated with comments. So let's comment Swhackit! when possible, okay?
Out of the three content publishing from IRC routes being discussed (blog, linkblog, review) I'm leaning towards a review as being the most useful.
One of the most annoying things about bookmarks is that generally you get asked what folder you want to put them into, and I don't like folders so I just put them into / and generally don't use them. Bookmarks for me are often just things that I need to be working with for a couple of days and then forget about. But given the linkblog format, I'm sure that actually I could make my personal bookmarks more useful.
I only have 17 bookmarks in Mozilla Firebird in linux at the moment.
Someone on #rdfig was musing about this a while ago, and decided they'd like a keywords based system. I think I'd like something like that: except I'd want the system to force me to type in a few keywords by which I could find it later... Perhaps epiphany has this feature, and perhaps it doesn't, but I'd also like to add quotes from the page and last modified time etc., so I'm thinking it might be a good idea to build a bookmarklet + Python server system for handling bookmarks.
The steps will be: you're on a page you like; select some text if you want to excerpt it... oh, this is annoying: people are giving me damn good information here on channel so I'm just going to ditch this entry for now and perhaps I'll write more when I've digested the #sbp info. Ta!
William Loughborough has his own weblog now at his own webeone.org site. William is... it's hard to say what William is and does and connotes. I think that only a stream of consciousness could come close: love, blindlessness, connectivity, integration, intelligence, eclecticity, musicality...
William introduced me to many notions, but also to an important organziation, the WAI, with whom he'd been working himself for some years. The WAI led me to many other things and people and ideas. He was also a co-founder of SWAG with Seth and Aaron and I.
I'm surprised that he hasn't written more publically available information, because he's such a stream of information that he's a delight to listen to and read no matter what he's working on.
One of the things on my projects list is a replacement for sed. I've outlined many ideas for what I'd like in such a replacement, and I've been told that it sounds more like awk, but I think it may be somewhere in between.
sed and awk are, of course, well-used programs, heavily debugged and tested and proven on a large scale. Why would I go about writing a replacement? Mass reinvention of the wheel?
What sed and awk don't provide are, for example, scanf style routines for common datatypes such as URIs and datetimes. They don't do grapheme handling—in fact, how is their UTF-8 support? They're also highly dependent on the idea of field seperators—new lines for sed, and new lines and then record seperators for awk. What if I want to decr or recr a file? But most of all, I need something that can do repetetive editing jobs for me.
Repetetive editing jobs are those where, for example, you have to strip timestamps from logs, or reformat a list of googlecount results into a googlecount list query. It's any job where you're performing the same routine on a set of lines, basically. I'm sure that emacs supports that, and that sed and awk can probably be used for these purposes with a little investigation, but I don't think they were built specifically around my needs, and so I'd like to build something which is.
In creating a more-optimal notes program, I'm currently thinking about the states of todo items. The creation of a todo item implies that there's a job to be done, perhaps by a certain date, so there should be an optional field for timespan. But the real world's more complex than that: many things don't have "do-by" dates, and those that do can often slide by varying amounts. Moreover, not all todo items get "done" to the degree of satisfaction that one would like. Structured procrastinators will also find that the mere existence of a todo list will prevent them from doing certain tasks. You'd also like to be able to say when you've done a todo item, and perhaps provide a link to the result. I could go on a lot further, but in summary, todo lists are a lot more complicated than they first appear.
Aaron suggests that having an AI program that asks you questions about your current state and then provides alternatives would help. It's a good idea, but the creation of such a program seems to be on his todo list...
I like noets. Its only drawback is that I tend to post in #sbp, so people actually read what I'm saying. (Update: actually, X-Chat went barmy so I'm reposting this on #noets, so it'll probably be even more ramblier than usual.) It'll be better once Google picks up on it, of course. I search for scraps of things that I've noted via Google quite often.
Today, I'm wondering about keyword input. In my "b" notes program, a significant drawback was that you could only have one keyword per entry. Keywords are quite analogous to classes—in fact, in order to enable me to enhance the quality of the notes that I'm entering in my current "append to a file" notes program, I try to think of each keyword as a class.
This allows one to get around the keywords-as-phrases problem. Often, when prompted for keywords it's tempting to enter phrases; but that generally breaks the system, since one of the axioms of keywords is that they should be order-independent.
Anyway, this is one of the most banal and poorly-thought out of the noets so far, but I'm just trying to make sure that Googlebot comes across a fresh new page every day so that I can actually search through these things using Google.
It'd be nice if robots.txt could exclude/include bot by purposes instead of names. What if I want to get rid of all permanent archivers, but let in search engine bots that cache on a temporary basis?
Then again, it's a wonder that robots.txt is adhered to at all.
Today's aphorism is provided courtesy of William Loughborough.
Here's part of my reply to him: "Part of the difficulty in capturing data is in capturing it as close to its original form as possible. Perhaps I've been reading too much Nelson, but I think that hierachies and lineralism are bad when they're *imposed* because they don't match working structures. So I've been investigating untyped links (Web), typed links (ENQUIRE, RDF), keywords (search engines), natural language queries (GNOME storage), and hyperintegration (Chandler, Edd's Desktop thing) as meta-structures. I've been investigating HTML, GUIs, SVG, JavaScript, ncurses, paper, IRC, and command lines as interfaces."
Right. Since the previous post just about takes the biscuit for pointless entries, I think that a new kind of format is required. Currently, as you'll note from the title, I'm thinking about having blogbot append entries to various pages of a wiki. But I think that I'm also starting to get generally frustrated with the whole situation. I mean, once again I'm writing this as an IRC entry. Perhaps I ought to just make the logs available to the public. #swhack? Review? Same questions as always, same non-answers as always. Perhaps I ought to just start doing things for a change, actually trying things out; though I note that that's what I did with noets and it's turned out to be awfully misdirected. I really need some more server space—I've totally run out on infomesh.net, and sbp.f2o.org is so slim that I have to keep it all down if I want to be able to use it for anything in the future. I'm starting to think I should give up most of what I've done already, preserve it as it is, and just start everything again on a new site. Though I think it's the Charlie-Brown's-new-life phenomenon—the strip where Chuck goes to Lucy the psychiatrist and says he wants to get away from it all, but Lucy says he'll just be the same old person as he always was, and to not even think about it, and furthermore that'll be five cents please. So on the other hand, it'd probably be best to avoid cluttering up a new site, especially since I'd have to pay for it. But a new site would enable me also to take myself off of Google. I'm not too impressed with putting everything I do in reach of Google without even thinking about it; I'd like to regulate what I do a little more, so that'll encourage me to work upon all of my non-technology related projects. Note that miscoranda (gah, this link format sucks—it's really hard to type) started off as something which was not generally technology inclined, but I noticed that I'd get more feedback when I did tech-related things. I suppose that people have come to expect RDF and Python hacks from me, and rants that can be used as Shirky fodder, but all that comes at the obvious cost of putting aside a lot of other interests. It's difficult to know upon which project one's time would best be spent, especially since most of the advantages and solutions that come from the projects that I work in are from the peripherally related benefits.
For example, on the Semantic Web, there's been very little of the core vision that's actualyl benefitted me directly. THe Simpsons data merging project that I did so long ago and the FOAFQ web form that I hacked up on top of what is basically libby's work have so far proven to be the only things that I recall have done anything for me. But at the same time, I've learned so much about recursive descent parsing, logic, data management, databases, knowledge representation, and so forth. And I've met many people, who've had many other exciting projects of their own. I've worked on the Semantic Web Agreement Group, for example, with William and Seth and Aaron—and that in itself was a project whose spin-offs were again more pragmatically inclined than the core goals. We didn't produce the fabled SWAG dictionary, really, but we got a lot of ideas out in the open, and learned a lot.
So I don't know. I've written a whole essay about this sort of thing already that I planned to publish to miscoranda but lost my nerve over. I was talking about the arts/science schism and how it shouldn't be affecting me but actually is, and my sites too. But it's all rather difficult to resolve since things tend to happen out of their own serendipity anyway, and the more you push the more resistance you get.
But this is another boring and banal post in something which has probably very little value even to myself in the future, so unless something very interesting happens in the noets area within the next week or so, I'll probably just take it offline.


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We are not a competition driven business for if we were who would we be competing against besides our own community.
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These benefits go beyond the individual and spread throughout the community.
That is our business model.
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Following the disovery of an error in the database of members supplied to the Electoral Reform Society, new ballot papers are being sent out; a new deadline is yet to be set.
Full members of the NUJ should receive their ballot papers for the election of a new Deputy General Secretary (DGS) shortly after they're posted on 30 August. The candidates are Barry Fitzpatrick, Helen Gavaghan and Chris Youett. Now's the time to tell the NUJ Membership Department about any change of address - via firstname.lastname@example.com - and once you get your ballot papers, they need to be filled in and posted in plenty of time to arrive by Thursday 13 October on time. See www.nuj.org.uk for details of any further DGS election hustings meetings.


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OOIDA leadership fired back Thursday, Sept. 10, against a proposal by major shippers, manufacturers and carriers to increase legal truck weights to 91,000 pounds on six axles. OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer said the proposal is an example of bad public policy.
A group of 200 shippers, manufacturers and carriers called the Coalition for Transportation Productivity is backing a proposal by U.S. Rep. Reid Ribble, R-Wis., that could end up as an amendment or provision in the next multiyear highway bill being put together by House lawmakers.
Ribble's proposal is dubbed the Safe, Flexible and Efficient Trucking Act, or Safe Trucking Act. The group behind the effort claims that putting more weight on trucks would lead to fewer trucks on the road and therefore make highways safer. The group also claims that the extra axle gives heavier trucks more braking power despite the added weight.
"This is a dumb idea on every level," OOIDA's Spencer said, "especially when you realize that at least some lawmakers are serious about trying to come up with a highway bill that actually addresses real, legitimate concerns for the country and specifically for truckers. And here we basically have a shipper group and all the spin that you'd expect in an election cycle claiming that jacking truck weights up would benefit society."
Spencer said heavier trucks come with their own set of problems and are "clearly a self-serving proposal" by the shippers. He adds that the 91,000 pounds would just be a step toward the shippers' goal of getting 97,000 pounds on six axles.
"If they could get the world hauled in the back of one trailer for next to nothing, they'd be all about that, and this is just another example of what would be bad public policy," he said.
"If people want to see efficiencies improved in trucking, which is a laudable goal that needs to be embraced, you have to address the truck drivers' time that is wasted loading and unloading," Spencer said.
"I think it's interesting that the proponent of this legislation doubles as the representative for one of the biggest truckload carriers in the country."


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Siacoin returns
POLONIEX:SCBTC Siacoin / Bitcoin
Dilihat 398 kali
Komen: HODL
Komen: You've bought SC at a great price. Even if it dips lower, it will come back. Now pat yourself on the back, kick back on the couch and don't watch the price anymore. Set your sell targets and sleep well at night.
It couldn't go any lower anyway !
mychartslie victor_tlm
good luck!
hello sir, based on what?
I mean yeah, I want this too. But what are you basing this on? RSI? Stoch? Ichimoku? Trendlines? I don't think it's enough to just set targets. There is soooooo much work to be done if Sia is to return upwards with any real authority.
mychartslie Brisben
@Brisben, I'm basing this off my cat.
Brisben mychartslie
@mychartslie, Little furry thing that meows?
mychartslie Brisben
@Brisben, Yes! But in all seriousness, it has mostly to do with market sentiment. Bitcoin has been mooning, and I think it's mostly new money coming in from fiat, which means first time Bitcoin buyers. Coinbase has been adding like 30,000 new customers PER DAY or something like that. So...these people are discovering Bitcoin, but they haven't learned about Alts yet. It takes time for them to figure out how to transfer their Bitcoin to other exchanges like Poloniex or Bittrex. Altcoins act as a relief valve for Bitcoin, like a hedge. And many alts have retraced by 80-100% now. It's just a matter of time before we see a massive pump.
Brisben mychartslie
@mychartslie, I agree. I've been adding to my bag in SC. I just think that we need more than 'sooner or later' you know? Like even just a downtrend line to show what we have to break to get back on track :)
HamadaMark mychartslie
@mychartslie, lol ^)^
seriously ! its about time !


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What are the pathways for linking outcomes of social relations analysis with the productivity and production outcomes of interest to policy?
- Margaret Mkroma – AGRA – 'This question spotlights the dilemma of social relations analysis; the need for "deeply qualitative data" from specific contexts if it is to point to policies that will address the structural constraints that determine how both women and men, now and in the future, participate in agriculture….'. Pathways could include linking programmes that address practical needs of women to programmes that build strategic capacities among male and female household members to leverage what they own (labour asset, income, etc.) to negotiate in ways that meet individual and household interests.'
- P Kantor – 'The emphasis on contextually specific data leads to a number of now familiar questions: How does one then deal with scale? Can we influence change processes through more than highly localized programmes? What might innovative approaches that address the complexities of social relations in practice, and also operate at scale, actually look like?'
- Christine Okali – 'These important scale questions raise the issue of the value of "deeply contextual" evidence. Is this not about learning more about the trade-offs made by individuals and households between different income-earning activities, and other valued outcomes? These data are not intended to be integrated 'as is' into policy just as we should not move directly from role data to arriving at conclusions about relations between women and men.''What might the policy implications be? Do they not draw attention to the need to accept a range of possible outcomes from say, a programme designed to increase incomes via improved crop production/ productivity for example?'
- 'If we accept that policy outcomes will be valued differently by different individuals and groups, where might the current interest in identifying 'success stories' (and winners and losers) fit into such a policy outcome? In our search for successes, have we ourselves defined what success looks like?' 'What about flexible policies or policies that leave more room for manoeuvre/ adaptation to specific (local?) circumstances?'
- Christine Okali – 'The questions for this debate point to problems of complexity, and even to the nuances in social relations, but possibly these are not the main challenges. Much of the gender literature points to the need to adopt a different starting point for our analysis, and always emphasizes an understanding of the interests of possible policy clients'.
Certainly there is an issue of commitment – on the part of researchers, their research organisations, and their professional networks – to collect different sets of data, or data that are more disaggregated, and to create a winning alternative narrative for policy makers.
- Coordinator of Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) – 'With regard to the latest LEGS handbook (Introduction), we include gender and social equity as one of the four cross-cutting issues, and as such we highlight some of the key basics (such as the need to understand gender roles with regard to livestock keeping and management, and the differential impact that emergencies can have on men and women). Each technical chapter also considers briefly each of the cross-cutting issues and particular aspects relating to that intervention.
However, I feel that there is much more we should include on gender in future editions of LEGS. In particular, it would be interesting to have more data and analysis of gender relations in emergencies. The data we have at present does not go beyond gender differences in access and control over resources, and in the impact of proposed interventions. I would hope that when we produce the next edition of LEGS (planned for the forthcoming phase over the next 2-3 years) we can get some deeper analysis of gender relations, and their implications for planning both for emergencies, and for long term development. It would be interesting for example to have more information on gender dynamics in emergency situations, and especially in relation to coping strategies. In pastoral households during emergencies there is often a split along gender and age lines between obtaining emergency relief support (by women and young children), and moving extra long distances in search of grazing (by men). If women are to retain any access to livestock and livestock products in these situations, they may have to take on more responsibility for livestock. We might also expect to see a different dynamic occurring in different pastoral groups.'


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Conservation campaigns
Living Coasts supports several conservation campaigns to raise awareness of the issues that are threatening wildlife.
We are working hard to protect wildlife and with your support we can make a difference. Please see the panels below to find out which conservation campaigns we are supporting and how you can help.
Throughout 2017-19, Living Coasts is participating in two campaigns developed by EAZA and BIAZA, joining forces with their other member zoos in the UK and Europe.
EAZA Silent Forest – Asian Songbird Crisis
Songbirds in Asia are threatened with extinction due to excessive and strongly cultural rooted consumption of wild songbirds for trade, songbird competitions, pets, export, traditional medicine and food. This campaign aims to save a growing number of songbirds by increasing knowledge, awareness and commitment to do action within and beyond the zoo community. We will be using the mangrove exhibit to focus on songbirds from that habitat.
BIAZA 'Grab that Gap'
The 'Grab that Gap' campaign encourages all member organisations to 'grab' areas of unused space within their zoo or aquarium sites, and plant wildflowers throughout March 2017, in order to create mini-meadows for the summer.
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So yesterday I spent the day with one of my best friends, Fi, and we had a marvellous day of relaxing, watching movies and tv and eating junk food. It was bliss!
And from this lovely day, I have been introduced to some really, really fun tv shows that I shall share with you!
Pan Am:
I have only seen one episode of this, but I love it already. The cast is beautiful and I love all the costumes and everything about it!!!!
New Girl:
Also another brilliant show, especially considering I love Zooey Deschanel. She is so sweet and so quirky that you cant help but love her.
Hart Of Dixie:
I recommend watching ALL of these shows!!!!!
So how has your week been so far??
XO Samantha


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Freddie Gibbs gets deep in a recent NPR interview.
In December Freddie Gibbs put out Shadow of a Doubt. It was a sonic departure from Piñata, his previous record with Madlib, but familiar to anyone who had followed Gangsta Gibbs from before that acclaimed 2014 album. In December 2015, he sat down with NPR's "Microphone Check" for a long, in-depth interview.
Gibbs has always been a thoughtful dude whose interests expand far beyond the horizon of his lyrics or his time in the streets of Gary, Indiana, and he speaks on a number of issues relevant to the music industry and America as a whole.
On record labels
"Everybody wants to be independent now. Rap is like indie rock or something like that now."
On doing-it-yourself
"I love where the game's at. It's a whole lot of small business owners in the rap game right now, and people are flourishing. People are making — guys are making a lot of money on they own."
On music streaming
"Cause we need the streaming right now, man. Cause record sales is — it is what it is…Should I buy the record? Maybe. But I mean, I'm spending $10 a month to get the stream, so it's like, might as well put it to use. So that's just the future of music."
On the rap game
"The way that the young guys are playing the game right now, you kind of got to play it — play that to your advantage. And if you can't play, you kind of gotta get out of the league."
On who he's listening to
"I've been listening to a lot of, like, R&B. I was listening to Jeremih's album. I was listening to Bryson Tiller's album. I just love the way they infuse the singing with the rapping."
On Gucci Mane
"Shout out to Gucci. Free Gucci, man. I'm such a huge Gucci Mane fan. It's like a — at first it was like a guilty pleasure, but then it just became a staple of music in my iTunes...He just sent me some more music to do matter of fact, so I'm excited about developing a good musical relationship with him."
On collaboration in the rap game
"I think that rap is so egotistical and chauvinistic that, you know, guys like — I don't know. It's like we damn near afraid to speak to each other. I don't see that in other genres."
On selling drugs to record music
"it's like your stomach or theirs. It's a sad state of affairs, man, because it's like a never-ending cycle, man. Addiction, you know, it haunts everybody: the dealer and the addict."
On lean
"I was on it heavy, for damn near two years straight. And I had to look in the mirror like, "Wow. What am I doing?" I'm pouring opiate into my stomach every day. I'm drinking — I'm basically, like, drinking heroin."
On the competition
"I don't think that I get put up there with the J. Coles and the Kendrick Lamars and guys of that nature when I definitely think that I'm rapping on they level and definitely higher."
On plans for 2016
"I'm definitely about to shoot more visuals from the record… I'm about to do a U.S. tour this year that's going to be big. I'm about to do Australia. I always do Europe, every year. Hopefully I'm in South America and all that stuff this year."
On Shadow of a Doubt
"The basis of this record, man, you know what movie that I watched to really get the general, bare aesthetic of this record? I watched — me and Lambo, we watched Ryan Gosling, Drive."
Listen to the whole interview below, it's well worth it.


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DP Customer Profile: Gerrit and His Inhabit Wall Flats Dining Room
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Gotta give Gerrit a big high five for his installation of the Inhabit Seesaw Wall Flats in his minimalist dining room. Can you imagine the room without the texture of the wall flats? I certainly can't. No doubt, minimalism is so much better with a little bit of character. Good show, Gerrit!
Name: Gerrit
Where do you live?: Visalia, CA
What do you do?: I'm a police officer
DP purchases: Inhabit Wall Flats
Favorite DP product: Inhabit Wall Flats
How would you describe your design style? Modern/minimalist
Any design pet peeves? Tan colored walls
Favorite design ideas? What was the best advice anyone ever gave you? Less is more, just because there's an open space (wall or floor) doesn't mean it HAS to be filled
What was the best advice anyone ever gave you? As iron sharpens iron, so shall one man sharpen another Proverbs 27: 17
Favorite indulgence? Pizza and ice cream
Movies you can watch over and over: Lord of the rings trilogy, Godfather, Zoolander, Wedding Crashers
What is a "dream day" like for you? Morning workout, lunch with my wife and daughter, afternoon park visit, family dinner on outside patio, movie.
Thanks, Gerrit!
I bet you are inspired. Yup, I totally called it. Here are all the Inhabit Wall Flat offerings.
I enjoy wood paneled station wagons, German food and senior citizens (I am 80 years old at heart). Nearly every weekend I am taking photos at other people's weddings and I have a blog of my own (but I don't update it often enough). I love to paint, sew and knit. Check out my DP Staff profile on Hatch.


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Posted on May 26, 2011.
It's 2011. Personal computers have been around and popular for well over a decade now, and yet we still have to deal with a huge amount of physical paper.
I've been wanting to go paper-free for a long time now. The advantages are obvious:
- Paper takes up physical space in our homes that digital files don't.
- Digital files, if properly encrypted, are far more secure than sheets of paper that could be stolen.
- Digital files can be searched in an instant, while papers have to be laboriously sorted through.
- Digital files can be backed up perfectly and easily.
After reading this article I was psyched to scan and shred all the boxes of paper sitting in my apartment, but the $420+ price tag was hard to swallow. I started looking around for other options.
Here are the requirements I have for any paper-free system:
- The scanned files need to be OCR'ed so I can search them easily. I'm too lazy to categorize and tag files manually.
- I need to be able to scan files anywhere. If I'm out at dinner I want to be able to snap a picture of my receipt and tear it up right there.
- No "cloud" services allowed for unencrypted important documents. I simply don't trust Google/Dropbox/etc enough to put my bank statements and such there.
- Files need to be backed up securely in case my apartment burns down.
- The entire process needs to be automated as much as possible, otherwise I'll get lazy and not scan things.
It's taken me a while, but I've finally got a system I'm happy with. This post will describe each part and how they fit together. The total cost is about $220, $160 of which is for a physical scanner.
Note: I use OS X and an iPhone, so this post will focus on that platform. However, the important pieces of software will run on Windows and I'm sure there are Windows/Android equivalents to the other pieces.
Scanning at Home
The first step to becoming paper-free is obviously scanning your documents. There are a lot of scanners out there, some more expensive than others. I eventually settled on a Doxie for $160.
I chose the Doxie because:
- It's compact.
- It runs with a single USB cable.
- It's cross-platform.
- Its software has a great, polished UI.
- It has a "multiple-function button" that lets you control it without the mouse/keyboard.
The first, second, and last points mean that (with a USB extension cable) I can scan documents while sitting on the couch and watching Netflix, which is critical for lazy people like me.
I set Doxie to save scans on my Desktop. The scanning process is pretty simple so I won't describe it here. Check out Doxie's documentation for more information.
Note: When I first received my Doxie and tried to calibrate it, it simply made a grinding noise and wouldn't feed the paper. I emailed their tech support and within half an hour I got a response back saying they were shipping me a replacement immediately.
When I got the replacement it worked like a charm. Their customer service was so great that I'd still recommend the Doxie even though my first one was a dud.
Scanning on the Go
As I mentioned before, I want to be able to scan things while out and about with my iPhone. There are a bunch of iPhone document-scanning apps out there. I settled on JotNot for $7 because it has a decent UI and supports multiple-page PDFs.
JotNot's UI is pretty easy to get the hang of so I won't go over it here.
Once I finish scanning something I send the PDF to a Dropbox folder called "JotNot".
I know I said in my requirements that "cloud" services weren't allowed, but I make an exception for non-critical things that I'd be scanning with my phone. I don't care if Dropbox knows how much I spent on dinner.
OCR'ing Scanned Documents
The next step is to run the scanned PDFs through an OCR program so they can be searched with Spotlight.
I looked at a lot of OCR software and finally settled on PDF OCR X for $30. It has a simple interface, does a pretty good job at OCR'ing, has a free version so I could try it out, and is cross-platform.
Using it is simple: you drag a PDF onto the app and select your desired settings (make sure to choose "searchable PDF" as the output format). The app will think for a while and then create a new PDF next to the old one with the searchable text embedded.
Once you've done this once you should go into the preferences and change it to non-interactive mode so that it won't prompt you for the settings every time you use it.
Gluing Everything Together
So far we've got two folders with scanned PDFs and a method for OCR'ing them. The next step is to automate the process.
I use an app called Hazel to do this. It's $21 for a license and well worth it. We'll set up four rules to make our lives easier.
Before we start we need to create two folders somewhere (you can name them whatever you like):
- Pending OCR: A folder to hold documents that are waiting to be OCR'ed.
- Dead Trees: A folder to hold the final, OCR'ed versions of our documents.
The first rule watches the Desktop for scans from Doxie. Any files placed on the Desktop whose name starts with "Doxie Doc" will be renamed to include the current date and time, and then moved to the "Pending OCR" folder.
Note:: you'll need to click the
date created bubble and then "Edit Date" to get
the time as well as the date into the filename.
The second rule watches the "JotNot" folder for scans from the iPhone app. Any PDFs that appear in here (i.e. that are synced down from Dropbox) will be moved to the "Pending OCR" folder. We don't need to rename them like we did with the Doxie scans because JotNot already includes the date and time of scans in the filenames by default.
Now that we've got all of our scans going into the same folder (with unique names) we can set up a rule to OCR them. The third rule watches the "Pending OCR" folder for PDFs. When a PDF lands in the folder it will be moved to its final destination folder ("Dead Trees" in my case) and then opened in PDF OCR X. Because I've put PDF OCR X in non-interactive mode the files will automatically be OCR'ed without any intervention from me.
The fourth and final rule watches for the OCR'ed copies of our scans and runs a script to move the originals to the trash once the searchable versions are ready. It doesn't delete the files completely because I want a safety net in case something goes wrong.
Note: make sure you change the Shell to
/usr/bin/python. Here's the text of
the script so you can copy and paste it:
import sys, os
RM_CMD = r"""osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to move the POSIX file "%s" to trash'"""
old_file = sys.argv[1].rsplit('.', 2)[0]
if os.path.exists(old_file):
os.system(RM_CMD % os.path.abspath(old_file))
Once these four rules are in place we can simply scan a document with Doxie or JotNot and it will automatically be OCR'ed and placed in our "Dead Trees" folder, with no intervention from us!
Backing Up
A while ago I was using Mozy for full backups. Recently they changed their pricing so it was no longer unlimited. When that happened I switched to Backblaze and couldn't be happier.
Backblaze's UI is leaps and bounds above Mozy's, and they offer an option to generate a secure encryption key for encrypting your backups. I highly recommend this, but be sure to have a few copies of your key because you'll need it to restore your backups.
Backblaze is also only $5 per month (less if you pay for a year in advance) for unlimited backups which is definitely a bargain. As a bonus, they just released a "find my computer" feature that's kind of like a lightweight version of Undercover, so it's an even better deal.
Destroying the Originals
Once the documents are scanned and backed up it's time to destroy the physical paper. If you live in a rural area you could burn them for free.
Those of us that can't start random fires need a paper shredder. I use a shredder I picked up a long time ago — any crosscut shredder will do the job.
After all of this I've now got a mostly-automated system that lets me go paper-free. The costs are:
- Doxie Scanner: $160
- JotNot: $7
- Hazel: $21
- Backblaze: $5 per month
For me the $218 initial cost is worth it. Now I can search all of my paper in a instant and my apartment is much less cluttered. If you have the money to spare I'd definitely consider trying it.


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Now Hiring Geography Lab Techs
Position: Geography Lab Tech
Pay: $11/hr
Schedule: Flexible; 4-10 hours per week
Some of the responsibilities may include:
- Maintaining public outreach tools including this website and our Live Digital Map Display
- Assisting with maintenance of campus weather stations, wind tunnel, and weather data server.
- Keeping inventory of Geography Department supplies
- Daily reporting for our CoCoRaHs rain gauge
- Must currently be a BSU student
- No prior experience is required, but applicants should be very comfortable with computers.
- Science majors are preferred, but all are welcome to apply
- Experience with HTML, WordPress, Windows OS, or scripting is a plus
- Must have a good work ethic and be self motivated to innovate and learn new skills
- An interest in geography and weather is a plus!
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It has been a challenge to find a doctor who understands SI joint pain. Why don't more doctors know about it?
As with many things in medicine, it is hard to introduce new concepts to physicians who have been trained in older ways. Traditionally, physicians have been trained to ignore the SI joint or to treat with physical therapy. As a result, not all physicians today know about the new treatments. Old surgical treatments were very invasive with long recoveries and poor outcomes.


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What causes overwhelm is past-future tripping.
What creates fatigue is judging, comparing, evaluating.
What makes us crazy is trying to analyze, figure it out and decide.
What is right and wrong, better or worse, true or false, good or bad?
God goes with us wherever we go.
Love is within us now.
Peace is just a breath away.
The gift is in the present moment.
I can think my way into heck or hell.
Or I can forgive my way into peace and heaven.
I can choose for myself, making up that I know.
Or I can let go, listen and trust, there is Good in me that knows.
What would life be like, if we learned to listen within?
What if we can be as a child and let Love lead the way?
How fun, safe and easy would life be, if we trusted there is a Voice in us that knows!
How can we remember God and Good and Love are with us wherever we go.
The Gift is in remembering the Good is right here.
The Miracle is perceived when we realize Love is Present.
The Joy within inspires us to do and say what is healing.
The Light we radiate lights our way and inspires others.
Meditation, breathing, walking, cooking, singing, living is returning to the joy of right Now.
In the present moment, miracles of healing, peace,joy, creativity and laughter await you.
Staying present without judging anything is the freedom and trust of pure Love.
Give yourself a moment today of fun, safe and easy…life in bliss.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
You are created by Goodness, therefore You are Good.
You are created by Love, therefore, You are Love.
You are created by the Unlimited, therefore You are Unlimited.
To think less of yourself is to believe your Creator is wrong!
Pretty silly!!


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Translational Research Program
Principal Investigator: Paul Lampe, PhD
Background: This project utilizes high-density antibody microarrays to perform both broad proteomic and glycomic screens and specifically targeted analyses to discovercolon cancer biomarkers. We are analyzing both biomarkers of early detection and diagnosis in a 3-stage process: discovery, pre-validation and validation. Our high throughput, 2-stage discovery methodology will rapidly assess the utility of these markers alone, together and in combination with existing markers.
Specific Aims:
1. To evaluate the expression/activation of proteins important in proliferation, angiogenesis, and inflammation in plasma collected 0-24 months prior to diagnosis of colon cancer.
2. To evaluate changes in the glycosylation status of proteins during colon cancer progression in plasma collected 0-24 months prior to diagnosis.
3. To develop CRC-specific diagnostic biomarkers using pretreatment cancer tissue and plasma from colorectal cancer patients.
4. To validate colon cancer early detection and diagnostic biomarkers on independent sample sets.


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Dudes, this is short and sweet and hopefully to the point...
Do not wear Wrangler jeans and ropers (cowboy boots).
Do not wear a white silk "outfit" consisting of Japanese inspired capri pants, with a dainty matching short sleeve top with a nehru collar, bottomed out with patent leather white shoes and cute little white socks. If a woman had been wearing this, I would have been weak in the knees. With a guy wearing it, I was just scared. (Truth be told, this "outfit" was in a class, not a milonga, which is even worse.) Guys do not wear "outfits". Never ever. And capri pants? WTF?
Do not wear gigantic enormous billowy high water Maoist pant-type things with side snaps where your legs show through. The visual of hairy male leg skin is too shocking to the other males and it negates, offsets, and dilutes the calm inducing preponderance/predominance of the large amounts of female leg skin.
I would love to wear a kilt to stay cool in a milonga. I would probably dance more by staying cooler. But I won't. I promise.
A side note on female leg skin. During a class this weekend, I minorly dinged my partner's shin doing a leader back sacada. (I know, I know...) Being an attentive and respectful and caring kinda guy, I apologized and immediately bent over to check it and rub it a little. I was not expecting the level of smoothness, softness, suppleness that I encountered with the tip of my right index finger. It was almost mind blowing. My reaction was to stand bolt upright and resume the embrace whilst muttering something like "holy shit". She got it. We laughed. I love to laugh (when in context) in classes (more often) and milongas (much less often). It seems too many people are taking tango way too seriously.
That is all.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Leaders' Tango Fashion Faux Pas
6 comments:
You forgot to add, do not wear a bandanna on you head, other dudes might think you are gay!
- July 24, 2008 at 1:43 AM
You forgot to add, do not wear a bandanna on your head, other dudes might think you are gay!
- July 24, 2008 at 1:45 AM
- Alex said...
Anon, from Denver,
Strong post to follow.
- July 24, 2008 at 5:34 AM
At least make sure it's the right color!! And, um, the right pocket.
- July 24, 2008 at 11:00 AM
- miss tango said...
Seriously?! I just don't think I would be able to dance with them, I would be laughing way too hard!
- July 24, 2008 at 11:38 PM
- miss tango said...
Jayzus! That was hysterical. Tried to read aloud to the Pelado and almost peed my pants laughing so hard, couldn't get through the Mao billow pants...
- July 24, 2008 at 11:43 PM
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The investigative hearing on the alleged N10 billion air charter services scam involving the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke met a brick wall yesterday, Tuesday as the hearing was postponed to June 26 by the Committee on Public Accounts.
It will be recalled that the House of Representatives had announced three weeks ago that the public hearing on the alleged controversial expenditure would kick off yesterday June 17 but the Committee on Public Accounts abruptly shifted it to June 26.
This decision, Street Journal learnt, was taken because the House was still observing its end of session break.
"The House is on break and full activities will not resume till June 24.
"Most members are not available now and it is wise to give them at least two days after resumption to prepare fully for the proceedings.
"This explains the decision of the committee to consider June 26 as the ideal date to resume the investigation," a source said .
Findings have however shown that the alleged "tremendous pressure" being mounted on the committee to soft pedal on the investigation and lack of funding for the hearing remained the major setbacks.


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Esterhazy Castle is located in the western part of Austria, in Eisenstadt, almost on the border with Hungary. Today the castle is still owned by an ancient dynasty Esterhazy. He is considered the main attraction of the city Eisenstadt.
On the site of the present castle is a 13th century fortress was built of the same name. Since the 15th century it was the property of the Habsburgs, who in 1662 gave the ancient fortress, a rich family Esterhazy. This kind of great influence in the country and features a fanatical devotion to Austria.
In the late 17th century architect Carlo Martino Carion had reconstruction of the castle in Baroque style. In the 18th century it was renovated the interior of the castle, and in 19 the architect Charles Moore rebuilt the palace in neoclassical style. In this form he is presented to visitors to this day.
The castle was built around a courtyard and is square in plan. The facade of the castle, built in Baroque style and painted in pastel, light yellow color, decorate the busts of the 18th century that depict the genus Esterhazy and the Hungarian kings.
Huge baronial hall on the first floor of the 18th century, has been transformed into a luxurious concert hall, called the Hall of Haydn. It was here that the famous composer conducted specially chosen for him orchestra. The ceiling and walls are richly decorated with stucco, and the floor, creating the perfect acoustics, made of plain wood.
Also in the castle is interesting to see some magnificent state rooms, the Chinese stores - big and small, a stunning mirrored hall - located in large receptions, a small chapel and other facilities. Near the castle is a magnificent park, constructed in accordance with the English tradition of landscape art. There are many avenues, fountains, greenhouses, grottoes and statues. Also in the castle operates one of the largest museums of wine in Austria.
Today the castle Esterhazy is not only an important historical site, but still the center of the cultural life of the region, where hosts numerous concerts of classical music, secular parties, balls, and other intense activities. The luxurious, spacious halls of the castle you can even wedding or other event, and for the holidays (especially at Christmas) are carried out here entertaining programs for children.


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No matter where I am in the world, the number one question I get asked always boils down to how to attract men; healthy, soul-mate-status relationships and friendships.
My "I'll never be good enough" pain, disease to please and lack of love for myself used to be so bad, I felt completely hopeless and alone. I was never understood or appreciated, always embarrassed and eternally tried so.cringe-worthy.hard, to get any kind of a SCRAP of attention, validation and love. You know, those things that came so easily to everyone else around me, the people that never tried. My whole life, I just wanted to fit in and be seen by somebody, anybody.
And the truth is, no knight in shining armor ever came to my emotional door.
Fast forward through a lot of bs and I'm finally at a place in my life that I thought was only possible for the people I stalked (& pathetically tried to copy) on Instagram.
Today, and for years now, I've been living the relationship and friendship dream.
I have nothing to prove anymore. There's no need to announce or make it known how happy I am, how in love I am or how solid my relationships are. I have other priorities and desires today. Instead of always gearing up for some delusional combat against a doubter, a hater or rehearsing ways to garner attention and approval, I just LIVE. Happily.
"When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great, they'll tell you" – Walter Payton
Looking over this big, bright city that's known for the seemingly unattainable; unfairly beautiful angels and stars that inhabit it, I can't even take a sip of tea before overhearing women – INTELLIGENT, BADASS, INTERESTING & BEAUTIFUL women and girlfriends of mine – complaining about how they can't attract a good man (aka a physically and emotionally available man), to save their lives. This "wtf-is-wrong-with-me-I-don't-even know-what-to-do-anymore-what's-the-use-I-give-the-f*ck-up," feeling that not knowing how to attract men breeds, is obviously not just limited to the City of Angels.
It's a world wide, shoot-me-now epidemic.
The reason that I mention Los Angeles is because living in this city has provided me with the key in cracking the "how to attract men," code.
How do you attract men, GOOD men; HEALTHY friendships & once-in-a-lifetime relationships that enrich your life instead of subtracting from your spirit, sanity and soul?
The answer is so simple, I couldn't even make it into a list. It does take some explaining though because it's always harder to believe that a simple answer really is THE answer.
Here's how to attract men, how to confidently call your own shots and put an end to the obsessing, the second guessing, the mind f* king madness and the social anxiety once and for all…
The first thing you need to understand is that no matter how many successes you have in life, you'll always feel like a failure living a depressing, lackluster existence if there's no connection and meaning in any of those successes.
It doesn't matter how amazing your successes may be. If you can't connect, you'll always be the self imposed fool that didn't LET YOURSELF IN on your own practical joke.
Connection and meaning are the only things that will ever give that radiant light and life to anything that you do.
One of my favorite people, Tony Robbins, always talks about how success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure. And as I've said before – you could have sex, workout, pray, go to therapy, do yoga, get a blowout, go to church, buy that pair of Louboutins, volunteer, call your family, go on vacation, lose weight, party with your friends, get some cosmetic TLC, go to work, etc.
… SUCCESS, right? Well, yeah, but if there's no meaning, reasoning or connection, wtf are you doing? What do you really have??
What you have is someone that I used to be: a professional auditioner.
Auditioning reduced me to an emotional stepford wife; totally reliant on the superficial.
Some people, generally those of the emotionally unavailable, narcissistic or sociopathic species, "make it big" in their lives and become professional actors – not like the ones on the big screen here in Los Angeles, but emotional vampires that are so f*cking convincing, they'll have you believing the sun rises in the evening as they're undoing your bra.
And because they're such good actors, they'll ACT like they're all that, but ultimately aim to make you feel the way that they feel about themselves: never good enough.
So what does this have to do with learning how to attract men?
What's the secret in mastering how to attract men, healthy relationships & friendships?
STOP auditioning. Stop working so hard to reach that "professional actor status." I promise you, the result will be so unfulfilling. You want to know how to attract men, healthy relationships, genuine friendships and call your own shots? Make the DECISION to start CONNECTING.
I'll explain….
If you do a simple Google search of "how to attract men," here are some of the things that come up:
- Be mysterious
- Play hard to get
- DISPLAY intelligence and depth
- Dress for him, not other women.
- Flirt with body movements and body language
- Wear perfume
- Don't ACT desperate or slutty/easy
- Put your best assets on display
And the contradictory list goes on.
Here's the thing – yes, it's important to make sure that you look and feel good, but beyond being insulting and setting you up for epic failure (so you can continue on a low self esteem, answer-seeking binge with hopefully your credit card in hand), all that the above points do is teach you how to AUDITION. Think about it. All of those "tips" are absolutely no different than what an actor auditioning for a role would employ.
Are auditions effective? Definitely. Some auditions turn into one-night stands, some turn into relationsh*ts, friendsh*ts and some even turn into sh*tty, disconnected and failed marriages.
Because the people involved lack a desire and capacity to genuinely connect, the relationship can never be meaningful. And because it isn't meaningful, what you're left with is a "successful" union: 2 people that despite being together, always feel like there's something missing because the foundation of their emotional home is composed of bs AUDITIONING.
I auditioned my entire life. I auditioned for MY PARENTS (omg did I do this), friends, family, teachers, classmates, bosses, coworkers & men.
Looking back, whenever I felt like I "got the part," it was just that – a role; a part to PLAY. And as much as I hoped and dreamed for that once-in-a-lifetime connection with my Prince Charming, what I didn't realize was that I was single-handedly robbing myself of the one thing I craved above all. In fact, the lack of connection in my life was the sole source of my unhappiness.
I thought that if I could "be good enough" and give the perfect audition, it would be a precursor to automatic and soul-mate-level connectivity between me and the other person.
Engaging in this pattern busied me up to such an extent, I became obsessed with perfecting my audition. This gave me a license to delusionally avoid connecting with myself (so that I didn't have to genuinely connect with others), and continue to stay invested in the superficial.
Why Do We Engage In Auditioning?
We audition because it's the cheapest and most accessible armor available to those who lack self esteem. As long as we focus on and obsess over on how we're being perceived, it blocks us from having to ever be vulnerable. It also prevents us from potentially being rejected for the one thing that we're the most scared of being: OURSELVES.
We subconsciously know that when we audition, there's a higher probability of rejection. Also, we need validation like we need oxygen and auditions are ONLY about validation. If we get rejected, we take it personally and fill the self-fulfilling prophecy of "I'm not good/pretty/sexy/perfect enough," which makes us even more laser focused on "getting it right" the next time.
Because we're obsessed with the superficial, we only attract other superficially-based people (and then wonder why we don't feel connected to our partner).
Bottom Line: How to Attract Men (& good people in general)
When you're talking to a man, a friend, coworker, family member or even if it's the person handing you your morning coffee or bagging your groceries, make an effort to stop auditioning. Look them in the eye, smile and ask them how they're doing. When you stop being obsessed with how you're coming across and being perceived, you're more able to focus on what really matters: figuring out if there's even a connection there (and brightening someone's day).
Take yourself off the emotional hook. No matter who you're talking to, ask yourself this question: "how can I connect here?" This puts an end to crippling social anxiety (because you're no longer wondering if you have a hair out of place, sound stupid, or have something in your teeth). And if after talking with them you realize that there's not a connection, you no longer take it personally.
It's like if I went to some remote location and started crying because I had no cell connection. "But I'm a great customer! I pay my bill on time every month!" It's not about me not being a good customer, it's just a bad connection due to being in a sh*t area.
What turns men on the most is women who put their desire for CONNECTION on the forefront. NOT validation. The ability to invest in connecting translates to the right men as confident, independent and "be-my-baby-mama," sexy.
Good guys (yes, they're out there), don't continue to take advantage of women that audition. They're just turned off by it.
Conventional beauty will fade after a few minutes if you're an uninteresting person (yawn) that's obsessed with being perfect (double yawn).
Think about it – here in Los Angeles, hundreds of thousands of actors audition every day. Auditioning is so nerve wracking because you can't connect with the one person that's hopefully going to hire, employ, validate and recognize your talent (the casting director). The only thing you can connect with is the CHARACTER that you're TRYING TO PORTRAY.
Make the decision to stop auditioning and WATCH your life and relationship luck transform. Approach every interaction with: "How can I connect? How can I be of service? How can I give what I wish would be given to me and how can I give it without any intention of emotional payback?" The universe will boomerang it right back to you every time.
The key to getting out of the bad luck with men, out of the pain and out of the anxiety is by GETTING OUT of your own "must be perfect" head. It's great to have high standards, but perfectionism is truly the most destructive standard you can hold yourself to.
When I look back and think about it, the majority of the time I wasted nervously obsessing about a mediocre date, a fleeting conversation, job interview, etc., I failed to acknowledge that I didn't even CARE about the guy, convo, job, etc.
Because I was so obsessed with "getting the part," and coming across a certain way, it sent a signal to my ego that I screwed up and that I must have missed out on my once-in-a-lifetime "dream role." This is why most couples on the Bachelor struggle – the contestants have so little time with the Bachelor, they HAVE to be extra image conscious in the beginning (audition x infinity), which robs BOTH people of the chance to investigate whether there's a genuine connection until much later down the line when hearts, egos and drama is involved.
Guess what? You're ALREADY LIVING that dream role – you are the only main character in your life story and you can choose to take back the pen and rewrite it any time you want.
No auditions necessary 🙂
Love you all x Natasha
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How to Pick the Right Cruise Cabin By a Goldilocks-like process of elimination—this one's too small, this one's too loud—you can find a stateroom that's just right.
On paper, choosing a cruise cabin seems pretty simple. There are four basic styles: insides (no window), outsides (with window), balcony, and suite. But booking a stateroom is not a snap. Even though there are just four room styles, cruise lines divvy them into as many as 20 price categories. A cabin's location, size, and amenities determine the price, which generally increases the higher, bigger, and more deluxe you go. The trick is figuring out what's worth paying extra for, and that depends on your priorities. If you don't plan to spend much time in your cabin, feel free to book the cheapest price you can find. But if you think of your stateroom as a retreat, proceed carefully and avoid these not-so-ideal scenarios.
A CABIN THAT'S TOO SMALL Cruise cabins are designed for maximum efficiency, so they're generally more than adequate as long as you're neat and you haven't over-packed. Some cabins, however, are just plain minuscule. Rooms on older vessels can be as little as 100 square feet, particularly for inside cabins. If this is your home for a week, you might feel like an inmate in a cell. When looking at cabin measurements, note that cruise lines often include the veranda in the overall square footage. A balcony cabin on Celebrity Summit, for example, may look about average size at 208 square feet, but that factors in 38 square feet of veranda. The cabin itself measures just 170 square feet. So the advice is: Think hard before booking a cabin that's extraordinarily small—say, one that's less than 150 square feet, not including the veranda. What to ask a travel agent: What's the square footage of the cabin? Does that figure include a veranda?
A CABIN THAT'S TOO LOUD A ship's deck plans, available at each cruise line's website, are easily readable, like this one for the Carnival Ecstasy. It's important to check what's below, above, and around the corner from the cabin you're considering. Avoid anything right under the lido buffet, as meals are served nearly around-the-clock. Unless you plan to close the ship's late-night disco, don't book a stateroom nearby. If your cabin is just below the pool deck, your morning wake up call could be the scraping sound of chaise lounges being dragged into position. Cabins on lower decks are cheaper largely because guests have to put up with the hum of propellers. The best bet is to choose a cabin that has staterooms above and below it—and then cross your fingers that the neighbors in every direction aren't rowdy night owls.
What to ask a travel agent: How noisy will the cabin be? Are there restaurants, discos, pools, or public areas nearby that'll keep me up at night? Every outside cabin pretty much looks out on a similar sea-and-sky vista, but there are some notable differences. Most are located either port or starboard, so you're always looking sideways. A front-facing stateroom lets you see where you're heading, but also takes the brunt of wind and rough seas—the big reason why these cabins rarely come with balconies. Backward-facing cabins boast the best views. There's something incredibly Zen-like about gazing at the wake and the panorama behind the ship. Backward-facing cabins are hard to come by because most cruise lines devote that part of the ship to public spaces. Holland America Line, Royal Caribbean, and Celebrity Cruises are among the lines that regularly have backward-facing cabins.What to ask a travel agent: What's the view like? Can I get a better view for the same money? A CABIN THAT FEELS LIKE GRAND CENTRAL STATION Many passengers prefer centrally-located cabins because they're close to stairways, elevators, pools, and buffets. Still, there's such a thing as too central a location. Stateroom doors are absurdly flimsy, so you'll hear pretty much everything going on outside. There is no truly quiet corner of a cruise ship. But it's smart to avoid lower deck cabins that are close to the ship's atriums—the extravagantly designed openings, often several stories high, attract a lot of foot traffic. In a cabin around the corner from an atrium, you'll hear the hordes milling or power walking past your door from dawn to dusk. What to ask a travel agent: How close is the cabin to the ship's atriums? Is the cabin on the main walking path for people disembarking or re-boarding the ship?
A CABIN THAT'LL MAKE YOU SICK Newer ships have all sorts of nifty stabilizers that try to tame the sea and give passengers a smoother ride. Most people feel fine, even during mildly rough seas. But if you are unusually sensitive to movement, you may want to forego the higher decks. The higher you go, the more likely you'll get not only back and forth (or side to side) rocking, but will also feel an unsettling swaying effect. Stick to the center, the most stable part of the ship, and by all means avoid any stateroom within a dozen cabins of the front.
What to ask a travel agent: I'm worried about getting sick if the seas get rocky. Can you book me in a cabin in the most stable location?
Note: This story was accurate when it was published. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.
Advance Planning Booking early is always the best way to get a great price and your choice of available staterooms. We recommend that you book your cruise even a year in advance, if possible; the earlier you book, the better the price and the availability. All Guests — including children — booked on a cruise that begins on or after January 1, 2008 will need a passport to travel to the Caribbean and Mexico. Start planning ahead now. Visit the U.S Department Of State Passport Page for the information you need to apply for a passport, including how much it will cost.
When Is The Best Time To Cruise Summer and holidays, including spring break, are the most popular periods for cruising and tend to cost a bit more than other times. If your schedule is flexible, sailing during non-peak periods — such as the fall — offers a great value. As always, the farther in advance you book, the better the price and the availability.
Cruise Itinerary Select an itinerary that fits your needs. Three- and four-night cruises offer a wonderful way to sail for a very reasonable budget — they're great weekend getaways and ideal for first time cruisers who want to get a feel for cruising. Longer seven-night Caribbean and special cruise itineraries take you to more ports, along with days at sea to enjoy all the activities and entertainment aboard a Cruise ship. The Southern Seven Night Cruise out of San Juan, Puerto is a great itinerary. If possible you should arrive in San Juan a day before the cruise ship departure,spend the night in Old Juan,and the next day you boardyour ship by mid after noon and set sail around 8:30,spend the night getting use to the ship,eating and drinking,and what have you.If you should fall asleep, you will wake up facing the morning sun in another country. The golden rays of dawn early light just may be the morning warming sun of ST. Thomas or ST. Croix of the U.S. Virgin Islands, or Tortola of the British Virgin Islands. Spend the day on one of these islands shopping,eating, snorkeling,scuba diving, swimming or just sun bathing on the beach. The process continues until Barbados or Grenada, then it is a full day of cruising back to San Juan.
Now, as a footnote, after the right cabin has been selected, as well as the ideal cruise itinerary all there is left to do is pack and hit the high seas. Now, there is one thing that must be included in your traveling bag, that is common sense. Like you would not leave home without your Master Card,Visa, American Express, Dinner Club,and Discover Card, don't leave home without common sense. Be aware of your surroundings at all times, no matter how safe and secure the area may appear to be. Now, get out there and enjoy yourself, make some waves….
Part of this article was excerpted from "Smooth Sailing", By Carolyn Spencer Brown,editor in chief of CruiseCritic.com
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." – Robert Louis Stevenson
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