Month: August 2006
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Truth
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.Mark Twain
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Salesmanship
A young man from Minnesota moves to Florida and goes to a big “everything under one roof” department store looking for a job.The Manager says, “Do you have any sales experience?”The kid says “Yeah. I was a salesman back in Minnesota.”Well, the boss liked the kid and gave him the job. “You start tomorrow. I’ll…
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RUM August
Last night I went to my second Ruby Users of Minnesota meeting at the Loring Park Dunn Brothers. Seems like a nice bunch. Here’s what I learned about:There was a discussion about using Simply RESTful in rails applications. This technique uses all the transaction methods of the HTTP protocol instead of passing every CRUD action…
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Unintended consequences
We had no idea that this [the Internet] would turn into a global and public infrastructure.Vinton Cerf
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Donating those old PCs
You can call it any number of things: “equipment lifecycle”, “asset turnover” or even just “Hey, get rid of the crappy old thing already.” But the upshot is the same, clearing desk and rack space of old equipment to make room for sparkling new hardware … Fortunately, there are more places to put that old…
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Metaphor
Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible.Johan Huizinga
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Happy Anniversary to the Big Easy
There are four stages of denial:It won’t happen.If it does happen, it won’t happen to me.If it does happen to me, it won’t be that bad.If it happens to me and it’s bad, there’s nothing I can do to stop it anyway.Erick Holdeman, director of emergency managmement for Seattle’s King County, in Time, Katrina: One…