Friday, August 8, 2003
- Yahoo: Yahoo! Groups Service Changes.
To ensure that all Yahoo! Groups members enjoy the same high-quality service
, we will be deleting all of your attachments. Insert George Carlin servicing the customer
quote here. I once saw a sign at a bank on the outskirts of London: For your convenience, we are now closed on Thursdays.
- Python Cookbook: Short and sweet UUID function. Beware the blanket exception.
- Dave Shea: In Defense of Fahrner Image Replacement.
Semantics conjures up images of narrow-minded professorial types arguing the definition of words like ‘this.’
- Paul Ford: Web Pidgin.
XML was going to add semantics to data so you could make smart searches, you could say, show me all the poems about red wheelbarrows, and boom, there you’d go.
- Jorge Luis Borges: The Analytical Language of John Wilkins. Actually, this quotes page has a better translation of the part I want to quote:
These ambiguities, redundances, and deficiences recall those attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia entitled Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel’s hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.
- I am now the #1 Google result for “spanish curse words”, for a page that is indeed loaded with Spanish curse words. I get about 30 hits a day on this phrase, thus fulfilling my own prophecy and proving once again that the Internet is the greatest educational resource for our children since the peephole.
- Richard Threadgill: Why do they keep yelling at me?
Silence is bad. Management cannot differentiate between someone who’s gone off the deep end and is over their head, someone who is malingering, someone who’s trying to solve an intractable problem, and someone who is making progress on a hard design issue.
- David D. Clark: RFC 814: Name, Addresses, Ports, and Routes.
One of the first questions one can ask about a naming mechanism is
how many names one can expect to encounter. In order to answer this, it
is necessary to know something about the expected maximum size of the
internet. Currently, the internet is fairly small. It contains no more
than 25 active networks, and no more than a few hundred hosts. This
makes it possible to install tables which exhaustively list all of these
elements. However, any implementation undertaken now should be based on
an assumption of a much larger internet. The guidelines currently
recommended are an upper limit of about 1,000 networks. If we imagine
an average number of 25 hosts per net, this would suggest a maximum
number of 25,000 hosts. It is quite unclear whether this host estimate
is high or low, but even if it is off by several factors of two, the
resulting number is still large enough to suggest that current table
management strategies are unacceptable. Some fresh techniques will be
required to deal with the internet of the future.
- The History Buff: P.T. Barnum never said “There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute”.
- Leslie Harpold: Secrets for Success.
Everything stops somewhere.
- Michael Barrish: Song 1/2/3/4/5
- Michael McAllister:
It’s a little upsetting to stumble across a friend in a porn movie from the 80’s.
- stavrosthewonderchicken: Re: Caricatures and Shadows.
[I]n 10 or 20 years I hope I can go back and reread them with yet more beers, and remember, and feel like I had lived a life worth writing about.
- Christian Crumlish: The day the blogging died. Sing it and win $20. No prize for just getting the tune stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
- Jonathon Delacour: Did you miss me? Jonathon, the web has an empty space in it when you’re gone.
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