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-jordan-hubbard title: Wed. OSXCon Keynote -- Jordan Hubbard date: 2002-10-03 00:00 layout: post tags: "" tp_commentcount: "0" tp_favoritecount: "0" tp_urlid: 6a010534988cd3970b0120a55cde74970b

[via Jeremy Zawodny's blog] Jeremy blogs Jordan Hubbard keynoting today at the O'Reilly OS X conference. (link)

[via Jeremy Zawodny's blog] Jeremy blogs Jordan Hubbard keynoting today at the O'Reilly OS X conference. (link)

On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 10:07 AM, Donald W. Larson wrote:

> view this message on the web at: http://www.redmonk.net/1432 > -------------------------------> >> Larry wall was quoted as saying: >> >> I remember reading at some point that you are a Christian... Please >> tell us how in the world a scientific or at least technical mind can >> believe in God... > > One doesn't need to be a Christian to believe in God. That's my first > point.

I'll grant you that, Don. But at the same time, I don't think that was the point. Larry is a Christian (I'm assuming from reading his reply, and other things he's written), and the questioner was asking how, as a scientist, Larry can believe in God. I thought his reply was well said, and that's what I was pointing out.

-- Steve Ivy - http://www.redmonk.net - steve@redmonk.net "This is my world, and I am, the World Leader Pretend..." --

first-customer title: OmniOutlineRenderers - first customer! tags: "" tp_commentcount: "0" tp_favoritecount: "0" tp_urlid: 6a010534988cd3970b0120a55cdf3f970b

Clark Venable, a client of Macrobyte#39;s, checked out my outline renderers, and reports:

Steve, Got it working. I'm writing all my grants this way now. Thanks!

Clark, you're welcome!!

Note to Dave - Mark may have said he does not like outliners; however, he DOES understand the power of an outliner:

I like to edit Python code in an IDE (or in Emacs in python-mode), which autoindents for me and allows me to "fold" code blocks (collapse an outline node) that I'm not currently using. He's already got what you're offering him in Radio's outliner (the one Frontier programmers all love)- but without the ability to easily edit that same script in some other text editor.

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Well, we've been building a small DVD library, today we finally decided on a DVD player. Amazon is running a sale on DVD players, and we had a gift certificate (for Christmas last year) from Jodi's brother. So we got this Toshiba SD4700. It plays DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, CD, MP3, CD-R/RW and DVD-R, so I think it's going to grow as our system does.

My good buddy Nate got his LEGO motion-tracking robot working! The best quote: "the most important thing I've learned is that the physical world is still not perfect. Bummer."

Dave points to my coffee cup radioFeedIcon. It was really easy to do with Conversant's Resources. I just put \radioFeedIcon\ in my template or message.

Conversant offers a LOT of options when it comes to outputting your content. Any page can have it's MIME type set, and templates (cf 1, 2) can be anything, including HTML, XML, I even tried RTF once. (No go on that one. ;-))

In the case of my RSS feed, the feed is a WeblogViewPage. The WeblogViewPage lets me create any number of ways to deliver my weblog content, in the past I've seen RSS, Avantgo, and OPML versions of Conversant weblogs using this technique.

Oh, and Dave, it's Steve, please. ;-)

Since Jim is taking the awesome Cocoa class at Big Nerd Ranch SF, and I can't (Waaahhh), I want Aaron's book instead.

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I'm looking for solution to a particular problem. I have source audio material on cassette tape. Assuming I have a machine with audio inputs, what sort of software (preferably free, or cheap) should I be looking for to:

Ev has an R.E.M. moment. Exhuming McCarthy

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The Nimda virus uses IIS, Outlook, AND Internet Explorer. Um, HELO?? Ever wonder about the fact that ALL THREE of these products are made by one company?

"This means that if you go and browse a page and you don't have the correct security on your browser, it looks as though the Javascript attempts to forward the virus from your machine to everyone in your contacts book." Cluley said the suspicion is that only Internet Explorer is vulnerable to this exploit..."

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God. I haven't enough breath to say how many things are wrong with this proposed digital rights management bill. This is not digital rights mangement. It's digital rights removal. As content moves to digital formats, media companies are finding that software/hardware can make it possible for them to absolutely control how "their" content is used, viewed, etc. No more pesky "fair use" (in current copyright law). The software is creating law. The DMCA basically says, "any restriction we can put on you in the software is legal". This upcoming bill is worse. Say goodbye to taping your favorite tv-shows. Say goodbye to ripping you cds to mp3. Say goodbye to lending that book from the Library (themselves sure to be illegal soon) to a friend. The Communist states could only dream of having so much control over the information to which their subjects had access.

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courtesy of hans: the humanclock. Make sure you pick digital. It's worth it.

Great post on some mailing list: In Defense Of Flame Wars. The author makes some really good points about the nature of public debate and communication in a textual, non-real-time medium. There are some web boards I've frequented that could benefit from some of this.

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Excite: "Helios&#39'brain' is an Apple Computer Macintosh computer that would guide it back to Earth when necessary."

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Joel: "Make a ten year plan. Make sure you can survive for 10 years, because the software products that bring in a billion dollars a year all took that long. Don't get too hung up on your version 1 and don't think, for a minute, that you have any hope of reaching large markets with your first version. Good software, like wine, takes time." Excellent read if you are in the business of creating software, or want to be.

Jim has a little accident involving 'rm -fr'. Oouuch.

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New Enterprise Pictures from Entertainment Tonight.

I warn you: I and a bunch of friends were TOTAL Star Trek:TNG fans. There are going to be a lot of Star Trek:Enterprise links here in the near future.

Speaking of... here's a synopsis of an interview Rick Berman gave TV Guide.

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REM has a photo of the artwork for the new album REVEAL on their site.

This is great - it's classic REM style (art directed by Micheal Stipe) - UP-ish lettering, country landscape, and shadow of Michael-with-camera. (Can any serious REM fan tell me that's NOT what we're seeing? Think "Document".)