File this under “ours go to eleven.”
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Category: observations
much as I dislike tools that try to do too much, this one deserves a look
Applelust.com: Reviews – Watson
This program rocks! [ . . . ] It’s like a Swiss Army Knife for your Mac. At first, Watson didn’t grab my attention because I thought it was just another Internet search utility. Oh how wrong I was. Watson takes the best of web-based services and packages them into a single user interface without ever touching your web browser.
I wish they wouldn’t do this
Googlebot hits each page twice, presumably to work around dynamic content: I understand the reasoning, but it would be useful if that “feature” were disabled when the ‘bot realizes the content-length is identical on the repeated requests.
Surely, we expect robots.txt to be static?
216.239.46.226 – – [25/May/2002:21:20:45 -0700] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0” 200 0 “-” “Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)”
216.239.46.226 – – [25/May/2002:21:20:45 -0700] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0” 200 0 “-” “Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)”
216.239.46.226 – – [25/May/2002:21:20:45 -0700] “GET /movabletype/archives/000057.html HTTP/1.0” 200 6115 “-” “Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)”
216.239.46.226 – – [25/May/2002:21:20:45 -0700] “GET /movabletype/archives/000057.html HTTP/1.0” 200 6115 “-” “Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)”
216.239.46.220 – – [25/May/2002:21:23:41 -0700] “GET /movabletype/archives/000004.html HTTP/1.0” 200 5388 “-” “Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)”
216.239.46.220 – – [25/May/2002:21:23:41 -0700] “GET /movabletype/archives/000004.html HTTP/1.0” 200 5388 “-” “Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)”
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Top Ten FAQs for Web Services
O’Reilly Network: Top Ten FAQs for Web Services
By standardizing on XML, different applications can more easily talk to one another, and this makes software a whole lot more interesting.
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rejection
So far, my three resumes on Monster.com have been rejected 99 times.
cast a broad enough net, catch a sucker every time
You’d think no-one would fall for the scam – known as a 419, after the relevant section of Nigeria’s criminal code. But you’d be wrong: a few years ago, the Nigerian government placed ads in the FT, warning people not to be greedy and not to be suckers. If you got trapped, it was your own fault, so don’t go running to the Nigerian government for your money back.
If you have never gotten one of these little gems, you’re lucky. You’d think people would realize it’s a scam. The most recent one I read claimed the money — tens of millions — was the result of overbilled contracts: in other words, fraud. Any sensible person would immediately press “delete.” Not if your greed impairs your judgment, apparently.
now what brings them here?
Welcome to Plagiarism.org, the online resource for educators concerned with the growing problem of Internet plagiarism.
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the war escalates
‘Copy-proof’ CDs cracked with marker pen
“I wonder what type of copy protection will come next?” one posting on alt.music.prince read. “Maybe they’ll ban markers.”
How much energy is this effort taking that might be better spent on actually delivering music?
false economy
I looked at stack of 100 CDR blanks when I was at RE PC a week or two back, and passed on them (they were $27), since I was sure I could do better on ebay.
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on learning computer programming
But graphics don’t need to be used in a low-level computer science class. We’re supposed to be learning programming fundamentals, not how to use a particular graphics widget library. The equivalent class at Berkeley is taught in Lisp, and from what I can tell focuses way more on building understanding of programming principles and less on “how to program in language X”. I don’t really want to take a java programming class, or a C programming class, or an Ada programming class. Individual languages are just syntax, and I can pick that up as I go along. But understanding of how to think about programming is language-independent. Or it should be, anyway.
The assignments which require that you make a simple animation or reproduce an image given to you by the instructor seem to be exercising your ability to use the graphics toolkit more than anything else. That bugs me. I’m not particularly looking forward to this class. Bah.
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