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Tropical Delights
Fine Rums are at Their Best When Served Neat in a Snifter or Just Over Ice
Mark Vaughan
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Fidel Castro, Summer 94
Picture yourself in a hammock strung between two tall palms. Before you, beyond the shade's edge, a wide, empty beach, brilliant in the afternoon sun, stretches down to the emerald waters of the sparkling Caribbean. In one hand you hold a long, dark maduro: the smoke from the slowly burning ash rises gently on the breeze, carried upward toward a perfectly clear sky. In your other hand is a coconut, still moist from the husk, and in the coconut, mixed with its own natural juices, is a good measure of rum, the nectar of the tropics. Now and then you sip languidly from astraw....Ah, life is sweet.
There is no other distilled spirit known to man that has enjoyed the fame--and infamy--of that ol' devil rum. A by-product of sugar production, rum has been made in some form since man first began to harvest cane nearly 3,000 years ago. The distiller's art followed the planting of sugar cane from its Asian origins to North Africa, across the Mediterranean to southern Europe and, with the Spanish explorers, to the New World. Rum fueled the slave trade, helped keep the British Navy afloat, inspired pirating on the high seas and was a major inspiration for the American Revolution. During Prohibition, rumrunners plied their illicit cargoes up and down the Eastern seaboard of the United States, turning the tropical elixir into liquid gold.
For many norteños, rum is a spirit to be mixed. Ernest Hemingway helped popularize the Daiquiri--still one of America's favorite rum cocktails. "Papa" liked his simple and frozen: a bit of lime, crushed ice and lots of rum. Already a legend by the mid-1930s, he would sit on the porch of his Key West home in Florida,smoking a cheroot and sipping double Daiquiris served up by his houseboy, while the tourists gawked at the front gate. Planter's Punch has long been a big hit with the resort set. Rum and cola (a Cuba libre) is a favorite combination as well as rum with nearly every other soft drink or juice, from the pedestrian orange to the exotic passion fruit.
To children of the Caribbean, though, such mixing is akin to sacrilege. For cocktails, be they Daiquiris, punches or what have you, high-proof, crystal-clear raw rum, bottled directly from the still, does just fine. True rum, which any son of Antigua or daughter of Jamaica will proudly attest, is an aged product, golden to dark amber in color, full of flavor and spice, more akin to Cognac and fine Scotch than to the white spirits, such as vodka and gin, to which it is often compared. In the Caribbean, aged rums are savored on the rocks with water or taken neat after a meal.
Though no secret in the islands, the notion that high-quality rums deserve the same respect as fine Scotch and Cognac is just catching on up north. The release of a number of upscale brands into the U.S. market in recent years has done much to turn the tide. These include such labels as Appleton Estate Extra from Jamaica, Bacardi Añejo and Reserve from Puerto Rico, Botran Añejo from Guatemala, Brugal from the Dominican Republic, Cockspur V.S.O.R. from Barbados, Flor de Caña Grand Reserve from Nicaragua, Gosling's Black Seal from Bermuda and Pampero Aniversario from Venezuela, to name just a few.
"What distinguishes these rums from those of lesser quality is the aging process," says Carlos Gonzales Jarava, general manager of the La Nacional de Licores distillery, in Guatemala City, makers of Ron Botran. "Like fine Scotch or Bourbon, rum must be aged in oak to bring out its flavors, add color and mellow the taste. Unaged rum, what we call aguardiente, is too hot, too alcoholic to be appreciated on its own."
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Actually, the quality of a rum is based on five factors: the grade of raw material used, type of fermentation, degree of distillation, length of aging and skill in blending. As with all spirits, rums are distilled from a fermented "beer." Since rum is based on sugar-cane by-products, it begins one step ahead of starch-based spirits, such as whiskey and vodka, where a grain or potato starch must first be transformed into sugar before fermentation can take place. The best rums are usually made from molasses, the thick residue that remains after the crystallized sugar has been removed from the cane. Cane juice, which is extracted by crushing the cane, and a syrup made from processed cane juice are also frequently used, though with a few notable exceptions they tend to produce lesser-quality rums.
What can be most confusing about rum is the fact that there are no set production standards. Unlike whiskey, for which fermentation and distillation methods are fairly uniform throughout the industry, rum production varies greatly from maker to maker, depending on the style and character each is striving to achieve. Fermentation, for example, can either be natural or controlled. With natural fermentation, the molasses or other cane derivative is mixed with water to form a "mash" and left to ferment for as long as 12 days or more. With controlled fermentation, a particular strain of yeast--usually a closely guarded secret--is added to the mash, and fermentation takes place in two days or less.
"The advantage of slow fermentation is that you get a lot more basic rum flavors in your final product," says Vice President of Marketing Richard McCarthy, who manages sales of Myers's Rum for importer Seagram. "It's traditional in Jamaica to ferment this way; Myers's has been doing it for over 100 years."
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There are a number of monuments within the Qutab complex to explore. One of Delhi's most curious antiques, the Iron Pillar in the courtyard of the mosque. The quality of the iron used for constructing the pillar is exceptionally pure and has not rusted even after 2000 years
The Qutub Minar is 72 meters high (237.8 ft) with 379 steps inside leading to the top. The diameter o...
The Qutub Minar (Urdu: قطب مینار) is a tower located in Delhi, India. It is the world's tallest brick...
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Asia is the biggest continent on Earth, a darling little gem floating around in space.
Hm, what is Asia? Who's in on it?
China and India are safe bets for Asian nations. Korea, Japan, Thailand, you're fine.
Europe? No. Europe would sort of be on the "Asian continent" if not for those pesky Ural mountains dividing things up in the middle, and then also the whole lineage of kings and wealth and nations and the EU and all that "give me my respect" stuff.
Russia would probably be happiest as its own continent, so for now we'll leave it in "Eurasia" and just hope the natural gas supplies keep flowing.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are dang close to Asia, but politically they show up in "Middle East" news stories an awful lot. Verdict: Eurasia.
I guess we'll actually have to consider everything from Turkey on eastward to be "Eurasian", although the moniker seems overlappitory of the territory.
The Asian economy is now officially raging like a wild furnace of lava that consumes everything in its path. Japan has had the largest individual economy in Asia for decades, but it is forecast that both India and China will outstrip Japan within twenty years.
China is the largest holder of United States debt and is positioned to become the world's next superpower, provided that Godzilla doesn't return and decide to stomp everybody back into the Shang Dynasty.
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Iran's Intelligence Ministry has compiled a list of 60 groups -- several based in the United States -- saying it considers them "soft war" agents against the country, Iranian media reported Monday.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi tells CNN Iran's crackdown on anti-government protesters will increase their will.
An Iranian-American man has been sentenced to 15 years in an Iranian prison for his role in protests after the disputed presidential election in June, a U.S. State Department spokesman said Tuesday.
Iran resumed Tuesday its mass trial of political reformists it has accused of trying to overthrow the government in the wake of the disputed presidential election in June, according to state-run media reports.
Iran's trial of more than 100 people who it has linked to post-election unrest is a "sign of weakness" and shows that the Islamic republic "is afraid of its own people," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CNN Thursday.
The U.S. government is looking into the cases of three American hikers believed to have been seized inside Iran, along the Iraqi border.
Columbia University president Lee Bollinger took Iran's president to task Monday, bluntly criticizing his record and saying he exhibits "all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator."
Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American social scientist who has been held in Iran since May, has been released from Tehran's Evin Prison, according to his employer.
Haleh Esfandiari, the Iranian-American scholar who was held in Iran for eight months, has returned to her home in Potomac, Maryland, her husband, Shaul Bakhash, told CNN.
Iranian television Wednesday aired lengthy excerpts of what it called confessions by two jailed Iranian-Americans accused of plotting to undermine the Islamic republic, a development the U.S. State Department condemned.
The United States was using some of the four Iranian-Americans detained by Tehran to meddle in Iranian affairs and is trying to cover it up, Tehran's security chief charged Saturday.
President Bush on Friday called on Tehran to release four detained Iranian-Americans "immediately and unconditionally."
Iran has formally charged Iranian-American Haleh Esfandiari with trying to topple the government, a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary told CNN on Tuesday.
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By Corey J. Corbin
Allied News Sports Columnist
THEY SAY THE definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
With that being said, all of us high school sports fan in Northwestern Pennsylvania are insane.
Here's why.
Several times a year, we eagerly anticipate the release of brackets for a District 10 sponsored tournament that they don't give criteria on how to qualify other than be a league champion – which is something coaches complain about districtwide.
The coaches have a valid point, because each year, they're not exactly sure what to tell their players on how they'll qualify for the playoffs.
Then every year, the district releases the brackets and we all whine and moan about this team or that team being left out in favor of another team.
We want a play-in game to determine who should qualify, but when a play-in game is built into the playoff schedule, we complain about having to play in a play-in game.
Or we complain about this team or that team playing in their own backyard (ie. General McLane playing at Edinboro University all the time). Yet, don't complain when our school plays within a few minute drive of our school (like Valley schools playing at Hickory, Sharon or Farrell or Grove City heading down to SRU).
It's a vicious cycle. I'm sure there are people out there right now that're upset with the football pairings that were released last weekend just like some will get irate over the basketball and baseball brackets.
We can whine and moan 'til we're blue in the face about all the 'stupid' things the district does when making decisions about the postseason, but it'll never change.
While it's admirable to make a stand against a perceived injustice, I just don't understand what the Kennedy Catholic soccer coaches were trying to accomplish by resigning in the wake of the District 10 soccer committee altering their original boys soccer brackets, forcing the Golden Eagles into a play-in game with Fairview rather than have Kennedy play Mercyhurst Prep as originally announced.
Nothing will change by you three resigning over the screwed up decision the district made other than Kennedy will have a new coaching staff next fall.
It's not like you quitting your job will to cost the guilty D-10 administrators any sleep.
I bet those same D-10 committee members went about their day without a care in the world after learning of the resignation.
By now, we should know District 10 officials are not going to change how they do things.
There has been little to no change in the mind baffling decisions they made 10 years ago as the ones they'll make in February when we're awaiting the basketball pairings.
Expecting them to change after years upon years of making the same dumb decisions is the very definition of insanity.
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Drexel University Associate Professor Robert Brehm said there is no easy answer to the question of the day: Was the building properly secured by demolition crews?
"When you're demolishing an old building, it's not a science," said Brehm, who teaches in Drexel's department of civil, architectural and environmental engineering.
"We're not going in there and doing precision cutting," Brehm added. "And when you have old buildings, it's hard to predict exactly how they are going to respond."
Brehm, who has more than 40 years experience in construction, said if he was working on this demolition project, he would look to the close proximity of other buildings.
He said it appears the mason wall of the four-story building fell outward, toward the thrift store, as opposed to inward into the demolition, and that led to the collapse.
"It's coming down one way or the other," he said. "It's either going to fall to the left or fall to the right. I don't know know what caused it to fall outward as opposed to inward, but you're starting with a very unstable structure."
If he was investigating this project, he said the first question he would ask is, "What were the protocols and procedures?"
"I would have made sure I secured the site," he said. "And what does that mean? That means taking people out of harm's way."
He said what happened he's sure wasn't expected, "but it's predictable."
The collapsed building at 2136-38 Market Street was owned by Richard Basciano.
The demolition was done by Griffin Campbell Construction, owned by Griffin T. Campbell. A call made to the Griffin home was not returned. Non-union workers were used on the project, officials said.
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Are you considering a Hilton Head vacation soon? Let us help you plan the perfect getaway that fits your hobbies and interests. At Palmetto Dunes, we offer so many activities from fishing to biking and from tennis to golf that you'll be hard pressed not to find something you'll love. Here are 5 great ways to vacation at Palmetto Dunes:
1) Tennis Getaways – If you "love" tennis, we've got all sorts of fun packages and activities for you. With the Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center, which sees thousands of visitors every year, you can find clinics, round robins, equipment demonstrations, tennis tournaments and more. We offer tennis vacation packages that include instruction and tennis court time and are even tailored to large groups. If you really love tennis, consider our Extreme Tennis Vacation!
2) For the Outdoor Lover – There's so much to do outdoors at Palmetto Dunes and so much beauty to see. The Outdoor Adventure package rolls the best of our outdoor activities all into one with at least three nights of accommodations in one of our Hilton Head vacation rentals, kayak rentals, a dolphin cruise, Hilton Head bike rentals and tennis court time daily.
3) Romance in Bloom – Looking for a romantic getaway for just the two of you? We offer several romance packages like our Honeymooner's Escape, Mini Moon and Anniversary Celebration that include spa treatments, bike rentals, kayak rentals and more.
4) Golfers Delight – Get your best golf buddies together and play all three of our championship golf courses, each uniquely challenging. Our golf vacation packages include instruction time, accommodations and tee times, and be sure to take advantage of our free club fittings and free golf demo on Mondays at 4 p.m. at the Robert Trent Jones course.
5) Family Fun – Got kids? We love kids here at Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort. Our Ultimate Family package and Sun 'N Fun Island escape are uniquely designed to entertain all ages down to our smallest guests. Kids will find lots to do at the resort like family tees at our golf courses, junior tennis clinics and round robins, fishing, crabbing and summer Surf School just to name a few.
What kind of Hilton Head package sounds like the perfect fit for your vacation? If we can answer any questions or tailor any package to better fit your needs, please don't hesitate to give us a call at 866-650-4130.
Coming to the island for the popular RBC Heritage Golf Tournament? Make Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort your home base with access to 3 miles of beach, three outstanding golf courses, 25 tennis courts, an 11-mile inland lagoon, beachfront dining and more!
Our RBC Heritage Golf Tournament Package is designed specifically for those attending this annual tournament, which fills the island every April. By staying at Palmetto Dunes, you can enjoy the tournament by day and escape the chaos in the evenings for a relaxing retreat at our beautiful resort.
The package provides you with 4 days and 3 nights in a Hilton Head vacation villa located within the resort, three rounds of golf and your tournament tickets. The 2014 Heritage Family Fun Pack gets you 2 adult any day clubhouse tickets with children 15 and younger admitted free, as well as 4 lunch concession stand vouchers.
Plus, you don't just get to watch golf; you can experience it yourself at our three championship Hilton Head golf courses – the Robert Trent Jones course, the Arthur Hills course and the George Fazio course – each with their own unique challenges.
Guests who book accommodations through Palmetto Dunes also receive two hours of tennis court time daily at the Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center, as well as a special discount card that affords them the best rates on all resort activities and dining. Your family can choose from a variety of activities besides golf like riding bikes around the island, renting kayaks to paddle through our peaceful lagoon, nature cruises, fishing charters and more.
Dining at the resort includes the kid-friendly Big Jim's BBQ, Burgers & Pizza restaurant that overlooks the Robert Trent Jones golf course, as well as the beachfront Dunes House. Also within the resort are the Palmetto Dunes General Store (delicious cinnamon rolls and fried chicken!), our golf course grilles, Alexander's seafood, and HHO Prime and the XO Lounge both located at the at the Omni Hotel.
Book your RBC Heritage package soon, because the island fills up fast during this busy week! Give us a call at 866-744-7558 and we'll get you all set up.
It may seem like Spring Break is far, far away, but the truth is that it will be here before you know it. There are some definite benefits for booking your spring break vacation right now to ensure when it does arrive, it's just what you dreamed.
Here are 5 great reasons why you should book your Hilton Head Spring Break sooner rather than later:
1) Get the right Hilton Head vacation home – Beat everyone to the punch and pick the perfect vacation home or villa for your family or group before someone else does! By making your reservations now, you can ensure you get the right villa with the right number of bedrooms, the perfect view and all the features you want. Browse them here.
2) Book your activities – Spring Break is a popular time to visit Hilton Head, so we often sell out of Hilton Head bike rentals, kayak rentals, cruises and more. Reserve yours early before they're all gone! There's also plenty of activity options to choose from, including our three championship Hilton Head golf courses, the No. 1 tennis center in the Carolinas, 50 miles of paved bike paths and Shelter Cove Harbour and Marina for shopping and dining.
3) Get a deal on your flight – If you'll be flying to see us, booking your flight early can help you save money. For example, JetBlue will begin flying into Hilton Head in time for Spring Break and they are offering some early bird deals for those who book in advance.
4) Save money! When you book your 2014 vacation with us now using promo code WARM, you can get 10% off select homes and villas and a 50% reduced deposit! You can save any time of year by booking Hilton Head golf tee times in advance as well.
5) Start dreaming – If you've already got your vacation planned and in the books, you can dream about it from now until the day arrives to hop in your car or hop a plane to Hilton Head. In the meantime, sneak a peek at our golf and beach webcams!
Are you planning a vacation to Hilton Head in 2014? When will you be visiting? To get started planning your trip, give us a call at 866-744-7558.
It's been a good year for this South Carolina beach resort! Palmetto Dunes not only received a number of high profile honors and accolades recognizing everything from our championship Hilton Head golf courses and tennis facilities to our family friendliness and outstanding staff, but we also started several new events that were a great success.
Here's a quick look back at our star-studded 2013:
The Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center was honored to host a number of high-profile state championships for the United States Tennis Association (USTA). In May, seniors from across South Carolina headed to Hilton Head to take home top honors in the USTA South Carolina 40 & Over Championships, formerly known as the Senior Championships. Then in October, we hosted the USTA South Carolina Combo Adult Championships. Our very own Jackie Reynecke, who helped coordinate these events, was also named the South Carolina League Volunteer of the Year for the USTA.
The Tennis Center was featured in the July issue of Tennis Magazine in a large spread about the resort and was recognized again by TennisResortsOnline.com as the No. 9 Top Tennis Resort in the world and No. 4 Top Junior Tennis programs in the world. Plus, the users of TripAdvisor named the Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center the No. 1 attraction in Hilton Head.
Our golf courses are always wonderful to play with their varied attributes and amazing layouts, but they were especially regarded this year. The Arthur Hills golf course got a shout-out from Golf Digest magazine as a top Hilton Head course, in an article that also designated the island as a Best Buddies Trip Destination. PGA.com selected the famous oceanfront No. 10 hole at the Robert Trent Jones golf course a "South Carolina dream hole" and we couldn't agree more!
We also launched a brand new golf app for the iPhone and Android, which now has thousands of users. Using your phone, you can check yardage information, book your tee time, set up leader boards and order food at our golf grilles so it's hot and ready when you finish your round. Download it by searching for Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort on your favorite app store.
New Events at Shelter Cove Harbour
Several events made their debut at Shelter Cove Harbour this year to great acclaim. Taste on the Harbour kicked off in March. Due to the event's success, we hosted the event again in October, offering featured menus, drink specials and tastings from Shelter Cove Harbour restaurants on select nights combined with live music from local island bands.
Additionally, Parrot Palooza joined our already very popular HarbourFest summertime event, which celebrated 25 years. Shannon Tanner and the Oyster Reefers, a Jimmy Buffet tribute band, entertained attendees on Friday evenings with island style music as they danced and sang the night away while the sun set over Broad Creek.
Capstone Award
The finish off the year with a bang, Travel + Leisure magazine named Palmetto Dunes to its Top 25 World's Best Family Getaways in its November issue. This made our resort the highest-ranking in South Carolina. The awards are based on a survey of the magazine's readers. "Whether it's reeling in a trophy redfish, learning how to properly swing a golf club or riding the waves on a surfboard, Palmetto Dunes has so much to offer families year round," said Brad Marra, assistant vice president of resort operations for Palmetto Dunes.
What's coming next year? More good things! Palmetto Dunes will be launching a brand new device-responsive website, using the latest online booking technology and designed for ease of use by our wonderful guests. For golfers, the Jones course will be adding new GPS-enabled touch screen systems for all golf carts, which offers course fly-overs, yardage, hole information and more. There's so much more in store… you'll just have to come visit us to see it all!
For more information about vacationing at Palmetto Dunes, visit us at www.palmettodunes.com or call us at 866-744-7558 to get started booking your spring or summer Hilton Head getaway.
We love kids here at Palmetto Dunes and we like to keep them busy with our many kid-friendly activities like surfing, tennis, kayaking, swimming and fishing. But golf is especially near and dear to our heart since we have three amazing and varied Hilton Head golf courses all inside our beautiful resort.
PGA America and the National Golf Course Owners' Association have declared July Family Golf Month in an effort to promote golf as a fun, family recreational activity that lets you spend uninterrupted quality time together.
"Getting the family together for a round of golf, whether it's nine or 18 holes, is a great outdoor activity that gives parents the opportunity to have uninterrupted conversations and quality time with their children," says PGA of America President Ted Bishop. "It's also a great way for the entire family to enjoy golf's health and wellness benefits while creating memories for a lifetime."
So how can your family enjoy golf at our South Carolina golf resort? Ah, let us count the ways!
Family Golf School
We offer three-day, two-hour private golf lessons designed specifically for your family at our Hilton Head Family Golf School. We'll meet everyone at exactly their skill level and help them improve their game. We love this video showing a mom and her daughters during their Family Golf School lesson!
Kids Play Free
To encourage our golfers to teach the game to their kids, we let kids play free at the Robert Trent Jones Hilton Head golf course and the Arthur Hills golf course after 4 p.m. with an adult paying regular rate. This is a great opportunity to expose your kids to the game and enjoy some one-on-one time with each other!
Junior Tees
We've also installed permanent junior tees on our Robert Trent Jones golf course, and the George Fazio course caters to juniors with markings of 150 yards or less. This makes it easier and more fun for junior golfers!
Junior Golf Lessons
We also have a variety of Hilton Head golf lessons for juniors, including our Little Swingers program designed for ages 3-7. Director of Instruction Doug Weaver teaches the game of golf while singing songs with the kids.
Our Junior Golf Clinics for ages 6-18 focus on golf fundamentals like golf shots, etiquette and rules. Weaver covers three different shots every day, and four-time attendees are rewarded with a Junior Golf School Manual.
Lastly, if you have a junior gofer who's top of the class, enroll him or her in the Advanced Juniors Classes for ages 8-18. These kids get to play with a pro and get instruction as they go!
Make your love of golf a family affair at Palmetto Dunes! To sign up for any of the above golf lessons, schools or clinics or for any questions, please call us at 866-744-7558.
When you vacation to Hilton Head as a family, there are lots of activities you can do together from swimming and riding bikes to hanging out at the beach and seeing the sights. But here at Palmetto Dunes, we like to see families get active together and we offer a variety of ways to do that, including our Hilton Head Family Golf School.
Perhaps Mom and Dad could use a few tips to improve their golf game while the kids may just be getting started on their golfing career. Whatever level your family, we'll tailor our golf school to your needs and skill level. Our own head of golf instruction, Doug Weaver, is great with kids and teaches them moves like "closing the car door" and "alligator arms" to help them learn golf in a fun and engaging way.
Watch Doug teach golf to kids in this fun video:
Our Family Golf School spans three days with two hours of private lessons daily. That gives you plenty of time to do lots of other fun Hilton Head activities in addition to learning golf.
The golf school includes a video analysis sent by email, on-course instruction, rules and etiquette lessons, use of the school's video lending library, take home materials, lunch daily, free range privileges plus 9 holes of golf daily on a space-available basis, and 25% discount on all rentals, such as bikes, kayaks and canoes, from Hilton Head Outfitters.
Our golf school is limited to five participants and immediate family members only.
We can't wait to see how your family looks on the course after Family Golf School! To sign up for our program, please give us a call at 866-744-7558.
Palmetto Dunes has come up with a new place for families to unwind inside the resort for breakfast, lunch or dinner or for golfers to enjoy a meal after a round or two of golf. Big Jim's BBQ, Burgers and Pizza overlooking the Robert Trent Jones Oceanfront Course is now open seven days a week for a casual breakfast, lunch or dinner.
In addition to barbecue, burgers and pizza, we also have plenty of Southern dishes, soups, salads, seafood and steak, as well as a kids' menu. Not only did we tap the culinary talents of Jim Self, one of the developers of Palmetto Dunes, and his Tennessee slaw and barbecue sauce, we took to heart suggestions from our guests for a spot where families can gather for a relaxing meal that won't bust the budget.
At Big Jim's, you'll find big-screen TVs for catching the latest golf tournament, happy hour specials and live entertainment from 6 to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays. It's also a perfect vantage point for Tuesday night fireworks launched all summer long as part of HarbourFest at Shelter Cove Harbour.
Big Jim's is in the heart of the resort close to the beach, Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center and Hilton Head Outfitters. It's a perfect spot to dine after a day of swimming, playing tennis, kayaking the lagoon or cruising around on bikes. It adds to the mix of restaurants our guests already enjoy: The Dunes House for lunch and dinner, pre- or post-round meals at Arthur's Grille and the Fazio Grille at our two other golf courses, or fine dining at Alexander's.
Join us this summer at Big Jim's for a relaxing meal on our outdoor deck. You can also call us at 843-785-1165 for take out or catering. See you around!
While most of the country is bundling up and sitting by their fireplaces, here at Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort we're out and about playing in 70-degree weather. From tennis and golf to fishing and kayaking, the activities don't slow down here in Hilton Head when winter rolls in. To keep our winter visitors, active we've got some great seasonal deals for the tennis, golf or outdoors fanatic.
Hilton Head Outfitters is offering unlimited biking, kayaking and canoeing throughout the winter. For $49 per person you can rent a bike for the whole month or you can buy a bike for 25% off! Guests can also buy a year membership for $300 per couple or $199 per person, and enjoy unlimited kayak and canoe rentals!
Winter is actually the best time to start fishing in our lagoon system, because red fish, speckled sea trout and sheephead are bountiful. Head on over to Shelter Cove Harbour to take one of the many fishing charters with Captain Trent Malphrus. You're sure to reel in a big one!
If tennis is more up your alley, you can purchase a monthly membership through February for only $200 per person that includes two hours of court time per day. Finally, if you'd like to play with us AND stay with us, we've got a 30-night resort accommodations package that includes golf, bikes, kayaks and tennis starting at only $1,200 per person. We think that's a deal!
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Our Robert Trent Jones Course was the first golf course built at Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort, and it's a favorite of many. In fact readers of Golfweek magazine voted it among their favorite courses in the Southeast. The course offers 18 holes, 11 of which wind alongside an 11-mile lagoon system. The Jones course is most famous for its par-five 10th oceanfront hole, one of only two on the Island.
Built in 1967 by Robert Trent Jones and significantly reconstructed in 2002 by longtime protégé Roger Rulewich, this course aims to please. After reshaping tees, elevating fairways and improving the drainage system, the course re-opened and was named the 2003 Golf Course of the Year by the South Carolina Golf Course Owners Association and is ranked four stars by Golf Digest. The Jones course plays 7,005 yards from the championship tees.
And that's not all! The course also claims the largest pro-shop at Palmetto Dunes, and one of the largest on the Island. From Nike and Adidas to Burberry and Travis Mathew, we have it all. After you purchase those new clubs make sure you hit our free custom club fitting every Monday, Wednesday and Friday! We hope to "tee" you soon.
The weather is starting to cool down which means it's a great time to get a group of friends or bring your loved one on a golf getaway here at Palmetto Dunes. There's no better time to play golf than in the fall here in South Carolina. We have tons of beautiful Hilton Head rental homes and villas that overlook one of our three award winning golf courses but 951 Inverness is a must-see villa!
Remodeled in 2009 and situated on the 12th hole of the George Fazio course, this three-bedroom, three- bath villa is perfect for a group or a family. After a morning on the fairways you can cool off in the community pool that's only a short walk from your villa or chill out by watching TV on the flat screen in the living room!
Make sure to take advantage of our other activities, such as the two hours of free tennis court time and discounted bike rentals, that you receive when you book your villa through Palmetto Dunes. Another great bonus of renting with Palmetto Dunes is that you can enjoy lunch, dinner or mid-afternoon cocktails at The Dunes House!
951 Inverness is ready to make your fall golf outing perfect, so check out its availability, gather up your gang of guys or group of gals and call us at 866.380.1778. Fore!
When you vacation at Palmetto Dunes, you'll be hard pressed to find yourself bored. But just in case there's a moment that finds you wondering what to do next, we have 5 great don't-miss activities that are part of the ultimate Palmetto Dunes experience. Stay tuned for future posts on more top activities at the resort!


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To state the bleeding obvious, Twitch's software and infrastructure isn't worth a billion dollars. The owner of YouTube could have made a strong expansion into game-centered live streaming for a tenth of that figure, most of the work focused around creating the right user experience for streamers and viewers, and making a few deals to broadcast key events and personalities.
And then we would have two strong players in the market competing with each other, forcing each other to improve. Twitch would have the established pool of streamers and viewers, the deals with console-makers, the first-mover advantage and the indie cred. YouTube would have the rock-solid infrastructure, deep pockets to expand their reach, and the billions of eyeballs that are already visiting their site to watch cats doing funny stuff.
Instead, with a billion dollars, Google buys itself a lock-hold on an exciting emerging market. Their presence will actively dissuade anyone new from making a serious bid to join in, because who has the resources to go against Google when they have bought themselves such a massive head-start?
It's a deal that makes perfect sense for both parties, but the consumers lose.]]>
Director: OK, I'm pumped! Finally out on location shooting after all that time stuck in pre-production! OK, Scene 26. Ben? This is a crucial scene for you, as your character Medivh is succumbing to the influence of the evil Titan Sargeras, who wants to destroy all the livin…
Ben Foster: Is this necessary? Just start shooting already.
Director: But I feel it's important we establish your motiv…
Dominic Cooper: This movie is going to take forever at this rate. Why are we only doing one scene at a time? We're all experienced actors, we could handle four or five scenes at once easy.
Travis Fimmel: Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Just roll the cameras and we'll be fine.
Director: Er… Huh? OK… I guess we just go with this… Sound ready? Roll cameras. Dom? Walk to that mark and say your line.
Dominic Cooper: What's my line?
Director: Er… Someone remind Dom what his line is?
Cast: Silence…
Director: Does anyone know what their lines are?
Cast: More silence…
Director: For the love of… You were sent the script a month ago! The least you could have done is read it before you showed up!
Travis Fimmel: I never read the script. I find I understand the film better if I just follow what the other actors are doing for a while.
Director: This is totally unprofessional, all of you.
Paula Patton: Don't tell me I don't know what I'm doing! I have an Academy award!
Director: No you don't.
Paula Patton: …it's on my other account.
Dominic Cooper: Wait a minute… Paula is a girl? For real? Where are you from?
Director: Oh God… I give up.
Any resemblance to real people is purely coincidental.]]>
At its heart, commercial software development is soul-crushingly depressing.
As a developer, your working day revolves around everything that's wrong with all the hard work you've put in so far. When you come in to work, your primary interface with reality is the infinite list of shit that needs to be done. You have a list of bugs that need fixing. You have a list of feature requests, things your software is deficient for not doing, and every one of which somebody can't live without. Your job is to pick something off one of those lists and fix it, but when you come in tomorrow, the infinite list of shit will still be infinitely long.
One memory from the early days of my current job is a developer who got so mired in this mindset that the founders literally ordered him to fly from Sydney to San Francisco where he could talk to some real customers, the people who had bought his product and, while they might have the occasional gripe, mostly wanted to tell him how awesome it was, and how it was helping them.
One thing I've been trying to do in my daily life is to be less critical of other peoples software, especially in public places, and especially if I think someone who might have been responsible for that software might be listening. I sometimes let frustration get the better of me, but I'm trying.
There are plenty of official channels to report bugs and request features, but when you go outside them, there's a good chance all you're going to do is ruin someone's day for no real benefit.]]>
Charles: I'm spending the next two days at a terribly wanky-sounding seminar.
Charles: "Search Inside Yourself"
Vidya: Eek.
Charles: Someone else cancelled and gave me their ticket.
Vidya: You'd better not come out brainwashed and be like "It was great. I never expected it, but it's mind blowing ladidah…"
Vidya: You'd better return a cynic.
Charles: I searched inside myself, and found a cynical bastard.
To my great disappointment, a decent chunk of what went on in the day and a half I was holed up in the Sheraton learning to be mindful was not an irredeemable load of wank. Much of the theory around self-awareness and self-improvement was prima facie plausible, and seemed backed by a non-trivial amount of peer reviewed science.
As anyone will tell you, paying attention to one thing at a time is not my strongest skill. In a recent hack day, one of the company's CEOs went so far as to tell me I had "one of the biggest cases of attention deficit he's ever seen" as I obsessively command-tabbed between the many windows that keep me with one leg on each strand of my spider-web of constantly streaming global information.
So as much as I hate to admit it, the "mindfulness meditation" exercises around controlling the focus of your attention, recognising when your attention was wandering and drawing it back to whatever you were originally supposed to be doing without falling into a downward spiral of judgement and meta-analysis were something I could use to good effect in my day-to-day life.
I even found myself paying more attention to the speakers than I normally would. It almost seems like cheating, when you start the day teaching your audience how not to tune out of what you're saying for the rest of it.
The journalling exercises also reminded me of the power of putting one word after another. Whenever I write, I fight with the way what felt in my head like a linear narrative waiting to be transcribed verbatim turns out to be anything but. Turning ideas into written words forces you to fill in all sorts of gaps you didn't even know were there until you started writing, and often you learn a great deal of what you really think by making yourself express it.
Other techniques, like the practice of recognising emotion in the physical effects it has on your body, and then distancing yourself from them enough to make rational decisions seemed promising, although I utterly failed to summon any triggers from memory during meditation.
It's also worth mentioning the massive buffet lunch the hotel put on for us was nothing short of amazing.
The first thing I wrote down in my notes on day one: "Amazing how you can prime an audience to say what you want them to, by describing something then asking people to describe it as if you hadn't." If you have spent five minutes telling a room full of people what you think are important qualities for success, don't pretend to be all surprised when you ask them what they value in a leader and have those points regurgitated back to you.
Despite the presentations being quite grounded in rationality and scientific evidence, the atmosphere in the room often verged on the revival meeting, and even if there was no "woo" on stage, you could hear the crystals' faint clinking whenever the microphones roamed the audience. In the frequent feedback sessions, attendees competed to be the most earnest, to provide the most insightful reinforcement of the speakers, to gush at how the most recent five minutes of meditation had changed their lives.
By the second day I had started collecting examples of "common phrases that make me dismiss your statement", including any comment from the audience starting with "Can I acknowledge…" or ending with "I just wanted to share that."
A note from my end-of-first-day summary: "Boring people should not be given microphones."
I hope they didn't think I was taking the piss too much when I volunteered that I had attempted to mindfully drink a beer, but wasn't sure I had experienced anything different because "the first beer after work is already a spiritual experience."
The rare admission that some practice hadn't been useful, or some enlightenment hadn't been felt, was met by the presenters with a thoughtful "Well isn't that interesting", reminding me so much of the "That is such a great dream" that Quentin Watts, Triple J's resident morning show dream interpreter in the 90s, would preface every one of her blatant cold readings.
A note early from the second day, whispered to me from a neighbouring seat during one of the many times comment was being sought from the audience: "I challenge you to think of the most absurd thing you can say and still get [the presenter] to agree with you."
Even as the presenters pushed the science, they were careful to hedge their bets occasionally by pointing out that the field and much of the research was new and uncorroborated.
During the lunch break on day one, I asked an academic working in the field how you could possibly have a double-blind study when the subjects obviously knew which group they were in by dint of the fact that they either were, or were not taking a mindfulness course. His response: "It's even worse than that. In [the study he was involved with], the evaluating therapists all knew which group each subject was in within minutes of starting their evaluation, just from the words they used to describe their progress."
I suffer from a mild social anxiety. It manifests as an irrational but unescapable belief that aside from about half a dozen people—wife, immediate family, closest friend—everyone else in the world would be far happier if I wasn't around. Amongst other things it's why at University I was that guy who would always leave parties without saying goodbye, why I'm so bad at conferences and trade-shows, and why performance reviews turn me into an alcoholic.
Over the years I've developed effective ways of coping. Simple things like structuring social interaction around some activity like a game, or around alcohol, (preferably both) limiting my daily contact with strangers, or making sure I have scripts to deal with common social situations. (When I make a phone call, I'll map the expected conversation out in my head before I dial the number. Which is why voicemail always throws me for a loop.)
Which brings me to the last four lines in my notebook, written just before lunch on the second day:
"Just like me" practice.
Kindness training.
Staring at someone - awkward as fuck.
The exercise… I mean "practice" was to explore the concept of empathy by staring intently at a complete stranger for what felt like an eternity, while the convener quietly encouraged you to recognise this person as another human being just like you, with all the same kinds of thoughts and feelings, memories, triumphs and pain as you, to connect with them.
At times it was hard not to giggle, but we got through it. It certainly created the illusion that somehow just by staring at someone for a while I had made some connection to them.
After the practice was over, as we debriefed in preparation for lunch, I felt this growing feeling of dread.
"Aha!" I thought. "A chance to use that thing we learned yesterday!"
I took a deep breath or two, tuned out the microphone-grabbers describing how their minds had been opened to the beauty of the world and focused my attention on the sensations in my body. Tightness in my chest. Tense muscles. Heightened senses. "Fight or flight" reflex.
It was the very familiar sensation of "human being overload". Unlike all the previous one-on-one exercises which had been safely covered by my "talking at someone on a harmless predetermined topic" script, this unexpected, unscripted and unfamiliar interaction was something my brain was not prepared to process rationally.
I'd felt this often enough to realise the only reliable way to make it go away was to distance myself from anyone who might want to interact with me. So I gathered up my notepad and bag, avoided the Sheraton's delicious buffet, ate a large tub of frozen yogurt in blissful anonymity in a food court, then went home.
Everyone's mind is different. Some peoples minds don't work quite as you (or they) wish they did. Introducing people cold to exercises designed to have a psychological impact, in an unregulated, highly conformist environment with no safe avenue to opt out seems… risky.]]>
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Charles: We need this!
Donna: No.
Charles: Awwww…
Donna: It's fugly.
Charles: Yes, but… but…
Donna: You can put it in your study?
Charles: I don't have room. It would have to go in the living room.
Charles: IT WAS HIS FAULT FOR NOT PAYING ON TIME.]]>
Ultimately, online abuse isn't a technological problem; it's a social problem that just happens to be powered by technology. The best solutions are going to be those that not only defuse the Internet's power to amplify abuse but also encourage crucial shifts in social norms, placing bad behavior beyond the pale. When people speak up about online harassment, one of the most common responses is "Well, what did you expect from the Internet?" If we truly want to change our online spaces, the answer from all of us has got to be: more.
Once upon a time, there was this thing called the Model View Controller architecture. It was a product of the Smalltalk community, but then so were Design Patterns and Extreme Programming. At its heart, it was the simple idea that Model classes should be responsible for representing the state of your application, View classes should be responsible for drawing your user interfaces and presenting that state to your users, and Controller classes should be for translating actions performed by your user into changes to your model, that were then reflected in your view.
In a typical screen for an MVC GUI you might have any number of widgets, each drawn by their own independent view objects, backed by different models, connected to multiple controllers. Almost forty years after the MVC pattern was formulated for GUI development it is still out there, albeit in obscure rarely-used frameworks like Cocoa Touch.
Then, twenty years after MVC was introduced to the Smalltalk world, along came the Model 2 Web Application. In an attempt to make Java web development fit into the growing J2EE spec, the Java community seized on MVC and mapped it almost arbitrarily to the web. Every HTTP request would be served by a single controller (servlet), which would collaborate with zero-to-many models (EJBs), and map the resulting data into a DTO (Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!) that could be passed via RequestDispatcher to a single JSP view.
The sleight-of-hand was the assumption—baked into the servlet spec—that each HTTP request would map to a single controller which would delegate to a single view. A few frameworks like Tapestry tried to buck the trend, but a Java developer years later could literally replace servlets with actions, EJBs with dependency-injected beans and JSPs with the templating language du jour, and still deliver a not-unreasonable technology choice in most circles. This malaise even infected other undeserving languages like Ruby.
The problem is that even in a very simple web application, a single page contains elements that by rights should be the responsibility of different views, backed by different controllers and their own models. The single controller-per-request, or even the primary controller-per-request is a broken paradigm, and one that every developer has come up with some sub-optimal tower of contraptions to compensate for.
As a result, your average non-trivial Java web application ended up being a mess of controller implementation inheritence, servlet filters, interceptor stacks, view decorators and arbitrary objects placed in the template engine's context to allow the drawing of all the bits of the web page that don't belong to the increasingly impure controller.
Amusingly, the "Type 2" approach to web MVC isn't a bad fit for REST-based systems, (because a REST resource usually does have a single responsibility), but most pure REST systems figure it's overkill… because a REST resource just has a single responsibility.
A simple inversion fixes so much. Going back to the GUI paradigm and flipping the process around so the view comes first and then delegates to controllers and models as necessary is already the go-to strategy for single-page applications and frameworks like Backbone. This kind of "view first" is also a perfectly good strategy for server-side page generation, one that large distributed systems have been taking advantage of for years to delegate fragments of page generation to independent external services.
This blog post was brought to you by the Society for Sending Charles Back In Time Fourteen Years To Slap Himself.]]>
Help! Stuck in Turbolift!
Reporter: Williams, D. Lieutenant
Priority: Critical
Version: NCC-1701
The Turbolift is not moving, no matter how many times I state my destination to the computer.
Comment from Bandt, G. Ensign
I am reducing the priority of this issue from Critical to High. While we appreciate the urgency of your situation, Critical priority is reserved for issues that may impact the integrity or spaceworthiness of the vessel.
Old Enterprise versions do not have a reliable voice control in the Turbolift. Have you tried twisting the cylindrical handle clockwise or anticlockwise?
Comment from Williams, D. Lieutenant
I rotated the handle anticlockwise and I am now in Engineering. Please close the issue, I will find someone here to show me how to get to the Bridge.
From: Cordova, M. Lieutenant Commander
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Auxiliary Power
It has come to my attention that many support engineers are reducing their "time to first response" by, on receiving a new case, immediately bouncing it back to the customer with the comment: "Have you tried diverting auxiliary power to the affected system?"
While diverting auxiliary power is often a good short-term fix, suggesting it in every case will only reduce the confidence our customers have in our service, and increase the perception that we are just making guesses instead of taking the time to understand the issue and provide informed advice.
As Starfleet officers, we should take pride in the service we provide, and not resort to cheap shortcuts to artificially boost our metrics.
LtC. Michelle Cordova
Team Lead, Enterprise Support
Starship adrift! Please Escalate!
Reporter: Picard, J-L. Captain
Priority: Blocker
Version: NCC-1701-D
It has been seven days since I opened my previous ticket re: having completely lost control of my Starship. The Enterprise is currently adrift in space, main power is dead as are the warp and impulse engines. We are locked out of the computer and all diagnostics and overrides have so far been fruitless.
Despite this dire situation we have found ourselves being bounced back and forth by a junior engineer who does not seem to appreciate the gravity of the situation, or even be able to provide us with an idea of how much longer our situation will have gravity!
We have approximately four days of auxiliary power remaining (Thank you for that suggestion, it would SO OBVIOUSLY have not been the very first thing we tried ourselves!) and would appreciate the attention of a more senior engineer before then.
Comment from Garvin T. Snr Ensign
Hi, I was assigned to help you with your case. I have reviewed the previous tickets and will be working personally with you going forward until we have found a solution.
Have you checked Jeffries Tube 194a? The problem you are experiencing could be caused by a crystalline intelligence having taken refuge in your substructure, using that location as a beach-head to control the core engineering functions of your starship.
As a higher form of life you may not wish to kill it, but short bursts of gamma radiation triggered manually from the deflector dish can make it uncomfortable enough to leave on its own.
Comment from Picard, J-L. Captain
That was exactly right! How did you know? Please close the issue.
Comment from Garvin T. Snr Ensign
It happens more often than you think.
Comment from System
Thank you for contacting Enterprise Support. Now your case is closed, we would appreciate if you took a moment to fill out the following survey:
On a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is "never" and 10 is "always", how likely would you be to recommend Enterprise Support to a friend or colleague?
From: Cordova, M. Lieutenant Commander
To: email@example.com
Subject: First and last warning.
Everything in my previous email referring to diverting auxiliary power _also_ applies to reversing the polarity.
LtC. Michelle Cordova
Team Lead, Enterprise Support
Ideas shamelessly stolen from Chris and Conor. Also, Atlassian is hiring an Enterprise Senior Support Engineer, but I can't guarantee you'd end up fixing warp core breaches if you applied.]]>
For those of you who haven't been following along at home, Twitch.tv, the company coming in fourth place, the one that edged out the name-brand service that streams TV shows from NBC, Fox and ABC for free, is a platform devoted to streaming video of people playing computer games.
Twitch produces almost no content themselves, instead acting as a portal through which anybody can use readily available (often free) software to broadcast their own gaming shows, live. These shows are monetized through advertising and subscriptions, with Twitch passing a proportion of that revenue back to the streamer.
By their own statistics, Twitch reached a global audience of 45 million unique viewers a month, each of whom averaged 106 minutes of viewing a day. Regardless of what you think of the kind of person who will sit down in front of their computer to watch someone else play League of Legends, it's hard to argue that the numbers are astounding.
And for every big eSports organisation getting a million concurrent viewers for their grand finals, there are a dozen popular streamers broadcasting gameplay or doing shows from their bedrooms for thousands of viewers, making a decent living from advertising and subscription revenue. And for each of those, there are several hundred amateurs streaming to their friends, or whoever happens to pass by, hoping maybe to make the big time.
So what is the least you need to take part in this new, booming opportunity? A reasonably fast PC, a webcam and a microphone, and an Internet connection capable of reliably uploading 1080p video. (The resolution at which most modern games stop looking blurry).
Which might be why Australia is famous for having exciting events and world-class players, that only the most die-hard fan wants to watch because of the awful video quality. There could be thousands of young, hungry Australians competing in this exciting new market, trying to make money entertaining viewers around the world, but there aren't, because our Internet is shit.
Advances in Internet connectivity are usually measured in download speed, but download speed is only a measure of how efficiently you can consume the Internet. Upload speed is the measure of how you can change from being a consumer to a producer. Upload speed is what allows an Internet user to engage with the network as a peer. And it's not just the video-maker wanting to send their content to Twitch or YouTube, it's every knowledge worker who wants to send the product of their labour to someone else without a prohibitively expensive dedicated connection.
One of the more frustrating things in the early days of Atlassian was how insanely long it took to upload a new version of our software from our office in Sydney to the download servers in the USA, because even a business-grade ADSL line is still an ADSL line.
And this is why I am dismayed by the continually dwindling promise of the Australian National Broadband Network, now down to 25Mb/s down/1Mb/s up even in areas with fibre. It's not the download speed. At least until 4k video becomes the norm, 25Mbit is more than enough bandwidth to stream a high definition movie.
It's the upload speed. Falling from the originally planned 40Mb/s to 1Mb/s is the difference between telling your co-worker in the branch office a few suburbs over to grab a cup of coffee while you send them that file, and telling them it's probably faster if they get in a car, drive over and with a USB stick and pick it up themselves.
The advances in productivity, the opportunities to build the digital economy in Australia that should be the goal of a national infrastructure project like the NBN don't come from giving Foxtel and Netflix a bigger pipe to shovel content into our homes. They come from giving us connectivity that can talk back, that can let knowledge workers be just as productive without having to slog into an office every day, that puts small networked businesses on the same footing as the established heavy-weights, that allows entrepreneurs to build amazing things from home and loose them on the Internet.]]>
goto statement.. On the way it could have been picked up by code review, or static analysis, or (my favourite) by making sure you put braces around one-line conditional branches.
Just as much has been made of the almost-too-coincidental fact that within a month of the bug shipping to the public, Apple was added to the NSA's PRISM hitlist of vendors subject to "data collection".
I'm not a conspiracy theorist. Here's how I am 95% sure they did it, because it's too obvious for them not to be doing it.
Somewhere, in a boring lab in a boring building, an overworked government employee has the job of running a mundane (hopefully automated) test suite against every new release of an OS or web browser. The test suite tries to fool the browser with a collection of malformed or mis-signed SSL certificates and invalid handshakes, and rings a triumphant bell when one is mistakenly accepted as valid.
Focusing on
goto or braces, misses the point. There are an uncountable number of ways a bug like this could end up in a codebase. It's not even the first, or even the worst example of an SSL certificate validation bug: back in 2002 an issue was discovered in Internet Explorer (and also, to be fair, KDE) that meant 90% of web users would accept a trivially forged certificate.
The Apple SSL bug existed, and remained undetected for a year and a half, because Apple wasn't testing their SSL implementation against dodgy handshakes. And it made us unsafe because the NSA, presumably alongside an unknown number of other individuals and organisations, government and otherwise, were.
It's a depressingly common blind spot for software developers. We've become much better over the years at verifying that our software works for positive assertions (All my valid certificates are accepted! Ship it!), but we're still depressingly bad at testing outside the "happy path".
What we call hacking is a form of outsourced QA. Hackers understand the potential failure modes of systems that can lead to a compromises of integrity, availability or confidentiality, and doggedly test for those failures. Sometimes they succeed because the systems are incredibly complex and the way to exploit the failure incredibly obscure, and there's just more people with more time to look at the problem from outside than from within.
Far more often, they succeed because nobody else was looking in the first place.]]>
I still go back to it on occasion to remind myself that when you're writing network software, even when on the surface that software is about sharing code, or tracking bug reports, or answering support queries, or publishing blogs, or producing documentation… you're writing software about people.
…because the thing that Usenet did, the important thing that Usenet did that put everything else to shame, was that it provided a way for all of the cool people in the world to actually meet each other.]]>
Sure, I've been involved in Usenet politics for years now, involved in newsgroup creation, and I enjoy that sort of thing. If I didn't, I wouldn't be doing it. But I've walked through the countryside of Maine in the snow and seen branches bent to the ground under the weight of it because of Usenet, I've been in a room with fifty people screaming the chorus of "March of Cambreadth" at a Heather Alexander concert in Seattle because of Usenet, I've written some of the best damn stuff I've ever written in my life because of Usenet, I started writing because of Usenet, I understand my life and my purpose and my center because of Usenet, and you know 80% of what Usenet has given me has fuck all to do with computers and everything to do with people. Because none of that was in a post. I didn't read any of that in a newsgroup. And yet it all came out of posts, and the people behind them, and the interaction with them, and the conversations that came later, and the plane trips across the country to meet people I otherwise never would have known existed.
That's what this is all about. That's why I do what I do.
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And you can talk to me about free speech and applications and the future of communication and the use to which people put such things until you're blue in the face, and when you ask me if there's really such a thing as good speech and bad speech, I'll still say yes. Because there are people talking to other people and there are machines talking to no one as loud as they can to try to make people listen, and damn it, there is a difference, and the first one does deserve to be here more than the second one. And I don't know how to tell the difference reliably either, but that has jack to do with the way I feel about it.And to all of the spammers and database dumpers and multiposters out there, I say this: You want to read that stuff, fine. You want to create a network for such things, fine. You want to explore the theoretical boundaries of free speech, fine. But when it starts impacting people trying to communicate, then that is where I draw the line. This is not a negotiation and this is not a threat; this is simply a fact. I've been through pain and joy with this network, I've seen communities form and wither and reform, I've met friends and lost friends here, I've learned things and discovered things and created things. I've seen people make a home here when they didn't have any other, not on a newsgroup, not with a bunch of electrons, but with people that they've met and communities that they've found and support that they've received from people who had just the words they needed to hear and would never have known they existed, and by God I KNOW what this network is for, and you can't have it.
In 2000, Ballmer inherited a software juggernaut so powerful that it was known to many as the "Evil Empire". How could he possibly have mismanaged it to the point that, despite its continuing record of raking in cash, it is now almost the industry's comedic afterthought?
We like our classic tragedies, where one man's hubris brings down everyone around him. We like stories where there's someone we can point at and blame, especially when that villain is easy to dislike. And by all accounts Ballmer wasn't a good leader for Microsoft; neither great himself, nor the kind of person to inspire those under him to greatness.
Blaming Ballmer for the woes of Microsoft, though, misses the fact that every problem the company is experiencing today was written into its DNA in the 1980s.]]> In 1980, IBM were looking for an operating system for the IBM PC, their entry into the nascent personal computing market. When attempts to license CP/M from Digital Research stalled, IBM went to Microsoft. Microsoft didn't have an operating system so they licensed a CP/M work-alike originally called QDOS (literally "Quick and Dirty Operating System"), filed down some of the more jagged corners and licensed it on to IBM.
Not long after, seeing the success of the IBM PC, a company called Compaq realised that there was a market for "PC Compatible" computers. The only two parts of the PC that weren't off-the-shelf hardware were IBM's proprietary BIOS (which Compaq engineers reverse-engineered), and the PC-DOS operating system, which Microsoft was happy to start selling to third parties as MS-DOS.
DOS wasn't the best PC operating system. It wasn't even a particularly good one. All that mattered is that it was the operating system on the IBM PC, and then on the "PC Compatible" clones.
Microsoft did not make its mark as a builder of great things, but as a very successful bundler of good-enough things.
Microsoft built its empire making products that complemented DOS, and that would eventually become symbiotic with DOS so that each would ensure the others dominance. Microsoft then used its monopoly position to exert absolute control over the channel that delivered those products to customers. I've heard a first-hand accounts of Microsoft's ruthless dealings with OEMs in the DOS era, and they're even worse than you think.
Eventually by the mid-90s an argument could be made that Microsoft was making the best PC software in its class. Not because it had suddenly found the ability to develop cool, innovative products, but because everyone else was dead. This was the 'golden era' that most modern-day pundits seem to be hearkening back to: the two great serpents of Windows and Office, each with its jaws eternally locked on the other's tail; Microsoft the victorious monopolist.
Still, outside that monopoly, there is a clear distinction between Microsoft products that can trace their market dominance back to DOS, and those that can't. The former make money, the latter lose it. Lacklustre success online and in mobile shows just how quickly the brand loses its attractiveness once compatibility and integration with Microsoft on the desktop stops being a point of distinction.
Microsoft's losses in the tablet market must be particularly galling. They spent the decade before the iPad trying to make a compelling tablet product, only to have the whole thing taken away from them overnight. It's also no coincidence that the first thing Microsoft fell back on to try to fight the iPad was promises of delivering the "full Windows experience", complete with Office.
The Xbox is an interesting, possibly the only interesting exception. Originally one of the big selling points of the console was that the first generation was just a PC inside, and game developers could use familiar DirectX APIs to program to it. Realistically though, this didn't have nearly as much influence on the success of the console as Microsoft's purchase of a small gaming studio called Bungie, redirecting their game Halo from a planned simultaneous Macintosh/PC release to an Xbox exclusive.
Even Microsoft's attempt to use their PC dominance to muscle in on the Internet failed; ironically not thanks to the US Department of Justice and its legally successful but practically ineffectual antitrust suit, but thanks to that unlikeliest of heroes, America Online. For more than five years AOL kept Netscape alive almost entirely as an escape hatch in case licensing Internet Explorer became too expensive, long enough for the Mozilla project to survive the Netscape 6 disaster, bring out Firefox and re-ignite the browser wars.
Then the 2000s happened. The Internet led us into the post-PC era, breaking DOS's twenty-year grip. New generations of PC hardware no longer provided the noticeable real-world improvements in things people actually wanted to do (besides play games, which is why the 2000s also saw the final victory of the consoles). And with Windows XP, Microsoft had finally produced an operating system that was stable and functional enough that it could compete meaningfully with its own successor.
The market for new PCs and for new versions of Windows both went into steep decline, and Microsoft went along with it.
Software isn't an industry where the monster company selling the last generation's product gets to stay being the monster for the next generation. It's the industry where a thousand hungry small companies are waiting for a shift in the market that will allow them to slay the monster, carve it up and eat it for breakfast.
Apple is the obvious outlier here. Or maybe it isn't: that's a topic for an entirely different thousand words. Either way, if your plan to save your business is "First, hire Steve Jobs", I've got some bad news for you.
This goes doubly when the monster in question is a company with no record to speak of for building products that succeeded in their own right, just in bundling together stuff that was "good enough" to keep customers locked in to the orbit of a cold, dead, thirty-year old command line operating system.
Maybe Ballmer being CEO didn't help, but I find it hard to think what would have saved Microsoft. Microsoft was the ship that DOS built, and a belated mutiny isn't going to stop it from sinking.]]>
What should I do for lunch?
That's why I'm the architect.I come up with the general solution, it's up to you to decide how to implement it.


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Faculty Highlights - Brian Robinson
Ice age socializing
Native American populations may have been small 12,000 years ago during the Pleistocene, but that may have given added incentive for mobile hunter-gatherers to get together when opportunities arose. Now a team of anthropologists from the United States and Canada has confirmed that the largest-known Paleoindian aggregation site is in Ipswich, Mass., shedding new light on early human social organization.
Amateur archaeologists who salvaged the Bull Brook site more than half a century ago interpreted it as a single-occupation area, but professionals rejected the hypothesis. New research led by University of Maine anthropologist Brian Robinson and three UMaine graduate students, working in cooperation with colleagues at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., and the University of Montreal, has reconstructed the site plan and completed a full analysis of artifact distributions.
The researchers conclude that the 36 house-sized activity areas arranged in a ring-shaped pattern covering nearly 4.5 acres is evidence of an organized event dated to 10,400 radiocarbon years (or over 12,000 years ago when calibrated to calendar years). The circular settlement pattern has concentric rings of activity, providing a window on social contexts at a large, well-organized gathering. More than 8,000 tools found at the site reflect intensive activities related to communal hunting and processing.
In their findings, published as the cover story in the Society for American Archaeology journal American Antiquity, the researchers suggest that the settlement may have subsisted on resources from the woods and wetlands, including caribou, which may have used a now-submerged maritime island east of Bull Brook as a summer forage refuge.
Archaeologically, an important distinction is made between traditional aggregation locations reoccupied seasonally and a large single event, because the organization of each becomes blurred when a site is reused many times. Bull Brook is two to four times the size of other proposed Paleoindian gathering sites and also more highly organized, reflecting observations that larger groups are even more particular about how they relate to each other, like different sides of the family at a modern wedding. Bull Brook provides a rare opportunity to see comparable kinds of social relationships in a moment of time during the ice ages.
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A crop of American cockroaches brings in serious cash.
Shopping on
Thanksgiving Day is an idea whose time should never have come.
Thanksgiving has
always been synonymous with a national day off to be with family. It should remain so. Shopping can wait.
Thanksgiving was
a day the pilgrims invented to thank God for the privilege of living in a
country such as this. Then President
Lincoln formally set it aside as a national time of gratitude for the fact that
America continues to be America. That is
an idea and tradition we should respect and preserve.
Tossing away this
uniquely treasured symbol of America is simply the wrong message at the wrong
time. I hope next year America just
stays home. Last I looked, the stores
aren't going anywhere.
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