May 2002 – Page 5 – a crank's progress

innovative job titles

Director of First Impressions (Receptionist)

Be the Director of First Impressions at this innovative full service construction company

but what color should the bike shed be?

Parkinson shows how you can go in to the board of directors and get approval for building a multi-million or even billion dollar atomic power plant, but if you want to build a bike shed you will be tangled up in endless discussions.
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one man’s trash

Welcome to Use It Again, Seattle!

in some cases is still trash.
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home-brew user agents

For a really performance intensive application, you’ll probably need to get down and dirty with C or C++, but if you can throw enough iron at the problem to keep your hands out of that tarpit, python, perl, java, and friends become serious contenders.

inessential.com: User Agents All Time

obidos-bot (just looking for books.)
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blogscraping

Heavily commented stuff

amazing what you can learn from watching your webserver access log

haiku

unforeseen attacks
seem obvious in hindsight
does that ease the pain?

Sept 11: how much of a surprise?

CNN.com – Feds criticized as pre-9/11 clues revealed – May 16, 2002

“The president did not — not — receive information of the use of airplanes as missiles by suicide bombers. This was a new type of attack that had not been foreseen”
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