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Monthly Archives: April 2007

unrigging the game

The original article has links to the legislation that’s mentioned.
== Unrigging the game ==
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/grist/gristmill/~3/112214530/8830
(from Gristmill)
Unrigging the game
11:29 AM
In today’s Victual Reality I discussed how a few companies dominate U.S. food production, and how their market girth weighs heavily on efforts to rebuild local-oriented, environmentally and socially responsible food networks.
Now I’d like […]

five mistakes not to make in dns

Worth reading.
== Five Basic Mistakes Not to Make in DNS ==
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/04/26/5-basic-mistakes-not-to-make-in-dns.html
(from O’Reilly Network Articles)
DNS has managed to keep the Internet afloat for decades, but it spend a lot of its time handling junk requests that should never have escaped from a local WAN. Ron Aitchison has a list of five basic […]

wxPython

Just saw this fly by. Thought you might be interested…
== Graphical Toolkits for OS X: wxPython ==
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/04/24/graphical-toolkits-for-apples-os-x-wxpython.html
(from O’Reilly Network Articles)
In this new MacDC series, Jeremiah Foster presents an overview of graphical toolkits for Apple’s OS X. This first article looks at wxPython, including installation instructions and breaking down some sample […]

adobe rose

If you’re ever in Sellwood on a Saturday afternoon - lunch at the Adobe Rose is really good. We had a salmon taco special and flautas. They also have margaritas that come in pint glasses, on the rocks. That was the main reason *we* went there, but I imagine the food would taste just as […]

customer service

“That’s What We’re Here For”
Sunday, 9:50 AM
by Mark Graban
My main point here I think is “Tech Support should NOT be part of the normal process.”
I needed to register for an internal company tech support website (for teleconference support) and was trying to log in to the website. I have a card here with the following […]

talk idea

What does it take to get a technical user group started and then sustained? We started with bribery (free books!) and a great talk from a local expert, followed with many pitchers of good beer. And lots of home-baked cookies. Now we have a group that meets every month and always has interesting things […]

the whiteboard meme

http://www.pressroom.ups.com/multimedia/av/advertising
apropos of miranda july.
and the commentary:
http://www.slate.com/id/2164266

Technorati Tags: graphicdesign, mirandajuly, whiteboards, ups

vader

http://www.darthvaderballoon.be/en/index.html

Emissions slowly begin to drop ?

I guess I should have read the whole article first. There are plenty of fun wording issues to ridicule…
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/news_third.cfm?NewsID=34902
U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Slowly Begin to Drop
Source: GreenBiz.com
WASHINGTON, April 17, 2007 — In the EPA’s annual national greenhouse gas inventory, the agency has found that overall emissions during 2005 increased by less than one percent from the […]

guerilla project facilitation

From a thread that came up today on ‘post-mortems’:
I’ve been searching around for a replacement term for a long time:
Retrospectives
After Action Reviews
Neither really roll off the tongue, but they feel a little better than post-mortem.
But really - the questions to ask are the most important:
What did we learn?
What are we going to do better next […]