July 29, 2004
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- Goal - Process of Ongoing Improvement: You will learn the fundamentals of identifying and solving the problems created by constraints. From the moment you finish the book you will be able to start successfully addressing chronic productivity and quality problems.
( Books Business Management )
- Rengineering the Corporation: if managements want companies that are lean, nimble, flexible, responsive, competitive, innovative, efficient, customer-focused, and profitable, why are so many businesses bloated, clumsy, rigid, sluggish, noncompetitive, uncreative, inefficient, disdainf
( Books Business Management )
- Illusion Based Leadership (pdf): Remember that leadership does not come from a book or a movie. It comes from a deep personal constitution and absolute knowledge that leadership must result in tangible accomplishment for the group.
( Leadership Managment Op-Ed )
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July 28, 2004
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July 27, 2004
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July 26, 2004
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60% Visit
Three of the five Barrett's visited us last week. 60% isn't bad. We missed Jamie and Morgan, but certain concessions had to be made. At least we got to see the little ones, who are growing up pretty fast. Click on the thumbnail to view some pictures of the kids. Camryn played 'only child' for a day and hit Disneyland with Aunt Holly and Mom. She also took her first dance class at Focus.
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July 21, 2004
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July 20, 2004
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- epsmerge: program for merging EPS files into one bigger EPS file. It does this by reading the files and arranging them in rows (or columns), squeezing them together so that they all fit.
( PostScript Reference )
- Encapsulated PostScript - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: intended to make it easier for software to embed an EPS file within another PostScript document
( PostScript Reference )
- PostScript to ... filters
( PostScript Reference Software )
- PostScript: PostScript (PS) is a page description language used primarily in the electronic and desktop publishing areas
( PostScript Reference )
- EPS in ten easy stages
( PostScript Reference )
- CBS News | Kuwait Of Africa? | July 16, 2004�16:31:28: “Equatorial Guinea is one of these very rare countries - less than half a million people who could really benefit from vast oil wealth. But we're not seeing much evidence of it yet.”
( 60Minutes_tv Energy GQ )
- PostScript::Simple - Produce PostScript files from Perl: Imports an EPS file and scales/translates its bounding box to fill the area defined by lower left co-ordinates (x1,y1) and upper right co-ordinates (x2,y2).
( PERL PostScript Reference Software )
- O'Reilly defended old lies: O'Reilly defended his lies, though in one case he quietly substituted a more modest claim in place of his original assertion
( O'Reilly Politics )
- Tips for Manipulating Postscript
( PERL PostScript Reference Software )
- The Lies of Bill O'Reilly
( O'Reilly Politics )
- Common problems with EPS/PS files
( PostScript Reference )
- FTN - 7/18/04 | July 18, 2004�13:48:23: Ed Gillespie, Chairman, RNC, Terry McAuliffe, Chairman, DNC
( Campaign04 FaceTheNation_tv Politics )
- P.O.W. abuse, now against our own guys: Baker’s wounds didn’t come from enemy combatants, but at the hands of five American MPs who got carried away during a training exercise.
( Military )
- O'Reilly fabricates Paris Business publication: both domains were registered after Bill O'Reilly invented the publication. This wasn't an April fools joke that O'Reilly fell for, this is a source that O'Reilly made up out of whole cloth, a fabrication, to give his France boycott legitimacy
( O'Reilly Politics )
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July 19, 2004
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July 17, 2004
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July 16, 2004
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July 15, 2004
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July 14, 2004
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July 13, 2004
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July 12, 2004
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- Bush uses radio address to push for marriage amendment: Although Bush first publicly stated his support for a marriage amendment in February, he was criticized by some pro-family leaders for failing to continue championing the issue
( Bush CivilRights GayRights Politics )
- Rumsfeld Kicked Out of Amateur War Gamers Club: “He's a lamer,” said twelve year old Will Petersen. “Once, when he was supposed to be my ally, he called me 'cheese eating surrender-monkey,' just because I disagreed on strategy!
( Amusing Rumsfeld )
- Boosting For Billions: "Boosting" is organized shoplifting, and if you think it's a petty crime, think again.
( Crime )
- The Long Road Home From Iraq: Martinez, who's single, says he's looking for a girlfriend. And he believes that his physical condition will not be a problem. "Not at all. Now I can't, you know, depend on the looks.
( Inspirational Iraq Soldiers )
- Cheney Faces Criminal Indictments; Other Illegal Actions Raise Warning Flags at White House: Those who have read the analysis say it presents a “devastating” case against the Vice President and concludes Cheney has violated both the “spirit and intent” of federal laws on conflict of interest.
( Cheney Halliburton Politics [QuestionableReport] )
- The Tradition of Freedom: The proposed Federal Marriage Amendment is a willful attempt to play politics with the U.S. Constitution. The amendment would invoke a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, thus inserting bigotry into history's most inclusive and democratic document.
( Bush CivilRights GayRights Politics )
- The Golden Ears Of Clive Davis: What do Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston, Carlos Santana and Alicia Keys have in common?
( Music )
- Dennis Hopper: The Ride Back: “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Giant” were two of only three films starring the legendary James Dean, 24, who died in a car crash two weeks before “Giant” was completed.
( Art Cinema Hopper )
- Rock, Paper, Saddam!: Saddam: TIGER HAND! RAWR!!!!! RAWRR! rar. Hahaaa, hi. Tiger Hand. Come on! You Know! ... You don't know Tiger Hand? Tiger Hand always beats paper.
( Amusing Saddam )
- Church's peyote use OK'd: "The bona fide religious use of peyote cannot serve as the basis for prosecuting members of the Native American Church under state law," Justice Jill Parrish wrote in Tuesday's opinion.
( CivilRights Drugs Legal )
- Buried In The Past: “My most vivid memory is sitting there with a priest in a very small room and him saying to the two of us, 'You’re gonna have to grow up.’
( People WWII )
- Bush and the Same-Sex Marriage Amendment: Cynical and Desperate: Kerry and Edwards oppose same-sex marriage, and believe, as Vice President Cheney has said in the past, that marriage should remain a state issue as it has been for more than 200 years
( Bush CivilRights Edwards GayRights Kerry Politics )
- The Important Questions: "I mean, does your wife make you nervous sometimes, Sen. Kerry?” -- "What about you, Sen. Edwards. You're married. Does Kerry's wife make you nervous?"
( Amusing Edwards Kerry Politics )
- "This Land": Kerry & Bush sing along
( Amusing Bush Flash Kerry Politics )
- Exclusive: Kerry/Edwards Interview: Republicans also say they're delighted with Kerry's selection, claiming that Edwards will be a ripe target in the next four months
( Edwards Kerry Politics )
- Former 9-year old cancer patient debuts cancer-fighting video game: "We spent a long time discussing what he wanted this game to look like," Johnston said at the game's unveiling at the UCSF Pediatric Treatment Center. "This is his game."
( Amusing Cancer Charity Games Inspirational )
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July 11, 2004
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- Introducing POE: Basically, POE is an application framework in which a single threaded perl process waits for events to occur so it can act accordingly. This event loop comprises the core of a POE process.
( PERL Programming )
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July 09, 2004
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July 08, 2004
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- Cultured Perl: Reading and writing Excel files with Perl: reading and writing Excel files in Windows and Linux, using Perl and a few simple modules
( PERL Programming Reference )
- Officials Cleared on Medicare Estimates: a three-month investigation found that administration officials had used aggressive tactics to keep from Congress much higher estimates of the legislation's cost -- $100 billion more than what the president and other officials were acknowledging, but did
( Bush dept_HHS Medicare )
- "Post" Tabs Wrong Horse: JULY 6 - -In an embarrassingly errant front-page "exclusive," The New York Post today reported that Kerry had selected Gephardt as his running mate.
( Amusing Journalism Kerry News )
- 'Please take my name off your list': FTC said it has received roughly 429,000 complaints against telemarketers over the past year from consumers who signed up for the national do not call registry
( dept_FTC News Spam )
- Official who withheld drug-bill costs didn't break law, report finds: Foster said, "My perception remains that Mr. Scully withheld that information for political purposes. And regardless of his legal right to withhold it, I continue to believe that it's wrong and unethical to withhold technical information from congress."
( dept_HHS Medicare )
- Moore is a liar, so there!: Top 10 Bush supporter objections to Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11
( Amusing Bush Moore Politics )
- FCC to Require Broadcasters to Keep Tapes of Shows: Slashdot - broadcasters aren't required to keep a tape of their broadcasts so, rarely, an indecency complaint gets dismissed for lack of evidence. But that is going to change. The FCC has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that will require broadcaste
( Broadcasters dept_FCC )
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July 07, 2004
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- Crossing the Digital Divide, One Person at a Time: goals are to provide work experience for Street Tech course graduates and generate a profit that will help reduce Street Tech's need for grants
( Charity CIO_mag Innovative )
- KBush administration ordered Medicare plan cost estimates withheld: there remains a strong likelihood that I will have to resign in protest of the withholding of important technical information from key policy makers for political reasons
( Bush dept_HHS Medicare )
- RFID Laws on Deck: this year provides the last chance for privacy advocates to set limits for how RFID can be used before it hits the mainstream, when regulating it will become more difficult
( CIO_mag Legal Privacy RFID )
- IBM Offshoring Sparks Protests: "Offshore CEO Sam Palmisano," alerted shareholders attending the company's annual meeting April 27 that offshore outsourcing would be on the table
( CIO_mag Management Outsourcing )
- Turnover Is Expensive - By the Numbers - CIO Magazine Jun 15,2004: According to a Forrester estimate, the average cost to hire ranges from 25 percent to 100 percent of a worker's annual salary (this estimate does not include vacancy costs)
( CIO_mag Jobs Management )
- Moodle: A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning
( eLearning LMS Software )
- Bush/Zombie Reagan 2004: Difficult times call for great leaders — men of vision, strength and courage. Men like George W. Bush and the shambling, reanimated corpse of Ronald Reagan.
( Amusing Bush Politics Reagan )
- USAA IT Chief Exits: CIO featured Yates and his USAA team in its May 1 special issue on "How to Run I.T. Like a Business." -- Yet, less than two weeks later, Yates was gone from USAA. It was not immediately clear why
( CIO_mag ITM )
- Legoland Tags Kids for Safety: the park launched a new child-tracking system that combines RFID tags and Wi-Fi
( CIO_mag Kids RFID WiFi )
- Cycling Power - Metrics: "Pro cyclists used to train according to how they felt," says David Cathcart, "Now it's all about metrics."
( CIO_mag Metrics )
- My Lunch with the Elephant: somehow, someone always brings up offshore outsourcing, and away the conversation goes
( CIO_mag Management Outsourcing )
- This Goes on Your Permanent Record: DATA WAREHOUSING - technology has the power to lead (educational) reform. "The real magic will happen when a kind of holistic management of a school system's data -- from basic inputs all the way to evaluation -- occurs,"
( CIO_mag DataMining ITM Strategy )
- Valuable art collection found in schools: A conservative estimate of their value easily would reach $20 million to $30 million, once the art is appraised and authenticated,
( Art News Schools )
- Selling Girl Scouts on Science: "Girls aren't given a lot of information on how to use the Internet," says Balestrino. "Most of it is how not to use it."
( CIO_mag Kids )
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July 06, 2004
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- tcptraceroute: The problem is that with the widespread use of firewalls on the modern Internet, many of the packets that traceroute(8) sends out end up being filtered, making it impossible to completely trace the path to the destination
( NetOps Software )
- THE LOOTING OF SOCIAL SECURITY TO BALANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET: We owe Social Security 736 billion right this minute. If we saved 117 billion, we could pay that debt down, and have the wonderful effect on the capital markets and savings rate
( Economics Govt Greenspan SocSec )
- Face the Nation: 04 Campaign News: Bush campaign manager discusses using Ca. Gov (gay rights advocate?) to sway moderates -- hoping that their base "knows" Bush's own policy on this (which is anti gay rights). *sigh*
( Bush Cheney CivilRights FaceTheNation_tv Kerry Politics )
- How to get your econobox into the 14's-A must read.: Before suggesting modifications, it's critical we know where Mr. To Race is starting.
( Amusing Autos )
- SharePoint Resources
( AppServers Reference Software )
- gladwell dot com / Article Archive: Archive of Gladwell's New Yorker articles
( Cognative )
- OzmoSys: Knowledge Base: Knowledge Base is a tool designed to alleviate some of the burden on your brain, allowing you to concentrate on more important things
( KM Software )
- Gmail Agent API - Mail Notifier - Address Book Importer: open source Gmail API written for the .NET framework, and a proof of concept Windows application built on top of that API that provides basic remote Gmail functions
( Inventive Software )
- Notational Velocity: Notational Velocity is an application that stores and retrieves notes
( KM MacOSX Software )
- Windows Ultimate Boot CD: The WinUBCD is a collection of great freeware Windows utilities. The CD includes many different types of utilities so you will be prepared when disaster strikes.
( NetOps Software )
- Mybase freeform knowledge base: unique freeform database that can create, store and organize information in the form of rich text, web pages, image files, and even binary files
( KM Software )
- Professor gives Cisco manual away for free: Downloading the book from the Web site is completely free, and the document can be printed for $25 per copy--a bargain for students
( Books Innovative )
- Draft Ehrenreich!: Ehrenreich has long been one of the most eloquent voices on the left, which, as distinct from liberalism, has not had much access to the mainstream press for many years
( Journalism Op-Ed Politics )
- 0lll PHOTOGRAPHS OF ARCHITECTURE: Photographs of contemporary architecture from Europe and also bits from other places around the world
( Architecture Design Photography )
- The Social Life of Paper: In fretting over paper, we have been tripped up by a historical accident of innovation, confused by the assumption that the most important invention is always the most recent. Had the computer come first -- and paper second -- no one would raise an eyebro
( Cognative Innovative Paper )
- Their George and Ours: The New York Times > Opinion > George III is accused, for example, of "depriving us in many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury." Our own George II has imprisoned two U.S. citizens since 2002, without benefit of trials, legal counsel or any opportunity
( Amusing Bush Op-Ed Politics )
- Targeted In Tulia, Texas?: Coleman arrested 46 people, nearly all of them black, on charges of being cocaine dealers
( 60Minutes_tv CivilRights Justice )
- Treepad: Personal Information Manager: Organizer, PIM / Database, Personal Information Manager and Word Processor. Portability and compactness
( KM Software )
- SnipSnap: The easy Weblog and Wiki Software
( Blogs Software Wiki )
- PICASSO PROJECT - Dr. Enrique Mallen: Picasso's timeline of works, by year.
( Art History Picasso )
- Wicked Small Games: This site is dedicated to small browser based games. The focus is games that can be played in your browser
( Flash Games )
- Fedora vs Mandrake vs Suse: Linux Distros Compared: Flexbeta - This article covers the three most popular intermediate Linux distributions available today, Fedora Linux, Mandrake Linux and Suse Linux
( Linux NetOps Reviews Software )
- Modern rebel - Pablo Picasso: Picasso's sense of being an outsider was double edged. After the great collaborative breakthroughs before the First World War, Picasso's art never again made that kind of progress. He was always prolific but at times his painting lacked passion and became
( Art History Picasso )
- A Biography of Pablo Picasso: He lived with Max Jacobs and they were able to share the one bed due to Picasso's nocturnal tendencies. They were poor and bundles of Picasso's drawings were burnt for warmth.
( Art History Picasso )
- The 25 most difficult questions you'll be asked on a job interview: The job interview is considered to be the most critical aspect of every expedition that brings you face-to- face with the future boss.
( Jobs )
- Open Wiki: Open Wiki runs in IIS using ASP. It was first launched in September 2001. It gives much more power over the Wiki interface through XML stylesheets
( Software Wiki )
- Thomas Kinkade: A Success: When a canvas has felt the touch of Kinkade's brush, it may be worth $50,000. But since he can't do it all, he has dozens of hired hands to help. Their touch of the brush is less expensive, but regardless, product must be moved. And at QVC, The Home Shop
( 60Minutes_tv Amusing Art Kinkade )
- Interweb Wrangler: One of the more onerous duties of being a web architect is answering the ubiquitous small talk lead-in, “So, what do you do?”
( Amusing Jobs )
- Eminent Domain: Being Abused?: The Saleets may live in a cute little neighborhood, but without those new condos, the area won’t produce enough property taxes to satisfy the mayor and city council
( 60Minutes_tv Govt Justice )
- TheBrain: PersonalBrain helps you organize all your Web pages, contacts, documents, e-mails and files just like you think of them.
( KM Software )
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July 05, 2004
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Operation Backyard: Day 3
Spent an hour or so this evening ripping out the rest of the funky puffy grass. It almost got me in the end, but I persisted. I thought I might have been a goner, but I was able to reach my trusty handsaw (Thanks Hol!) and finish the job. 
Buh-bye weird decorative grass stuff.
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July 04, 2004
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Burley's BBQ
Thanks to Josh and Clare for having a 4th of July BBQ -- we know Clare can't be 100% behind this holiday, but she still celebrated with the rest of us! 
Nice to see everyone at the Burley's freshly remodeled pad. Check out the pic of Josh and Toshi preparing the big fireworks finale.
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July 03, 2004
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Solving the worldwide VIN shortage
Apparently the worldwide auto industry is running out of VINs. Sounds like the same problem we ran into with IP addresses and I suggest the following solution: Assign every car an IPv6 address. Why not? It's a standard. The math is already done. There's a ton of address space (340 trillion trillion trillion, or so...). Cars will eventually be 'on' the Internet. It makes perfect sense! Now, I know many of you are shaking your collective heads... Assign a single IP Address to each car!? Pure insanity. And you're all asking the same question now: What about all the other devices in my car that will require IP connectivity? Will I have to assign each device it's own IPv6 address? Won't that be messy? Yes, that *could* be a problem. Really though, basic network router technology is cheap and abundant. Shouldn't each car have a small router/firewall (as standard equipment) to handle IP traffic for internal devices? Shouldn't future IP enabled auto devices use DHCP and be designed to use an in-car NAT?
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July 02, 2004
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- The Art Of Borrowing: Unfortunately, you can't come right out and tell someone you'd like an all-access pass to his or her garage. Being a mooch requires delicate probing.
( 60Minutes_tv Amusing Op-Ed )
- Dying On Life Support: Is It Fair?: "I'm not helping that person. That, I think, is abusing that individual. And, in many ways, I think it's a question of a new form or a critical form of elder abuse."
( 60Minutes_tv MedCare )
- You're in the Army Now (and Forever) - How long do you have to be all you can be?: Unlike members of the Selected Reserve, who drill consistently with an organized unit, soldiers in the IRR aren't required to attend training, nor are they attached to a specific unit.
( Iraq Military Reference )
- GoldMinner: Grapple for gold and diamonds to reach goal.
( Flash Games )
- Camp Delta: Guantanamo Bay: "It's not humane to incarcerate somebody indefinitely, without a hearing, and to keep them there with no chance of proving his innocence"
( 60Minutes_tv Military Terrorism )
- Maxim's 'Dennis The Menace': "Never return to the bridges you burned," adds Dennis. "No, I don't ever return to the bridges I burned. Don't spend a lot of time looking back myself."
( 60Minutes_tv Amusing )
- U.N. says opium production is rising: Afghanistan was responsible for three-quarters of the world's illegal opium supply, and for a 5 percent increase in the world supply between 2002 and 2003
( AF Drugs UN )
- Bill Cosby has more harsh words for black community: "Bill is saying let's fight the right fight, let's level the playing field," Jesse Jackson said. "Drunk people can't do that. Illiterate people can't do that."
( Blacks Cosby Inspirational )
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David Sitting
Hol finally got some David-time this evening. After months of promises, the stars aligned. Cyn and Drew were able to give up their little beast for a few hours so we could have some time with him. They went for dinner and a movie. The little guy was full of energy and played the entire time he was here, taking breaks only to eat (or smear the food on me) and drink. 
"Cousins" Sparc and Perl were slightly annoyed by the little "intruder", but as far as we are concerned, he's welcome any time. Enjoy the pics Cyn and Drew, I know you were probably thinking I'd have these up while you were still at the movies... maybe next time.
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July 01, 2004
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Operation Backyard: Day 2
Day 2 in the jungle. We bagged yesterday's stack of shrubs and started on the funky puffy grass. Apparently the flagstone to grass ratio used to heavily favor the flagstones, now it's all the grass. We ended up (thanks to Hol's quick thinking) using a hand saw to cut back the grass. 
She's obviously her father's daughter -- this is a Dan solution if I've ever seen one. We'll probably get some more work done over the weekend.
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Dad is back in the work force
After 4 years of retirement, my Dad is back on the job. He's been tapped as the interim Fire Chief, to keep the fire department on track, for a period of 1 year. Mike Davis, the chief for the last 14 years, retired today and Dad took the reigns. We couldn't be prouder of him. I'm quite certain that he'll find his new position rewarding and constructive. Good luck Dad!
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