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Well, Dell, I must say: wow. Wow. So I ordered this 2005FPW 20" TFT monitor from you over three weeks ago. I complained a bit about the fact that the website was essentially useless for tracking the status of my...

(I can't find the info or name of this conference... Michael what was the name again?) Earlier this week, I ran over to Concordia University to listen to some presentations grouped under the title (gaaaaahhh something about genocide and media/documenttion)....

So, Steven's probably sitting on the tarmac at Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport right now, beginning a 2 month trip to Cuba and, I suspect, to the core of himself. No, he's not going to go sit on the beach. He's...

So MovableType 3.2 has finally been let loose. Bravo to all involved, it is an awesome awesome release. SO, if anyone needs a hand upgrading, or you know someone who may need a hand, talk to me. :D...

Monitor update. So, they are out of stock and estimating another 5 days before they get them in. Then, if they do, it's a few more days to get it shipped to me. To make matters worse, this info is...

(just a quick note.) Existant data-object storage and retrieval systems: - Hard hierarchialization ("taxonomies", "categories with parent/child relationships") - Analytico-synthetic ("Faceted categorization", "Semantic Web") - Unstructured labelization ("Tags", "Labels") - Statistical extrapolation ("Keywords") - Unstructured data ("Full text search") [Disclaimer:...

I spent the most part of the last... dunno, lost track... 6 weeks? working on the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division's website, which we launched last thursday morning at 5am EST. (I went on a 4 day celebration...

Ethan Zuckerman wrote up a lengthy post part of which was an extension of a conversation-slash-debate we sort of have been having since I started working on Global Voices. The thing is, I agree with everything he says, more or...

I just got a "letter" from American Express offering me a $20,000 loan. Obviously, it's not because I'm special or anything; it's what they do. However that's not what they'd have you believe of course: As one of our most...

"World Wide Web Consortium Marks Completion of Quality Assurance Working Group with New Recommendation" The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) concludes its work this month with the completion of the Specification Guidelines W3C...

Countryman is Willie Nelson's first reggae album. I'm crying here. Along with baby jesus....

golden-red sheen. a flame cracks and licks the darkness one last time...

OMG... well.. videocasting is here and the predictable severely rapid decline of "culture" * may begin. ----------------------------------------------------- You should check out the Internet TV channel "some pig". If you don't have DTV, you can get it here: http://www.participatoryculture.org/download.php And then subscribe...

Awesome We envision a country where Cambodians can learn and use computers in their own language, a country that does not have to change to a new language in order to use computers! Bravo. They're translating and localizing stuff like...

(merci Francis!) Update: The so-called leader in e-commerce computer sales failed to send me the expected email confirmation, and upon logging back into the e-commerce site, it told me it had no record of my order. Calling the 1-800-WWW-DELL...

A few months ago I enabled a feature on Joi Ito's weblog which I called his "blog thumbprint". What it is, is a weighted list of the most frequently used words in the entirety of Joi's blog, with the text...

when the passing of time is only defined by noticing that you need to trim your nails and hair. And do the dishes and laundry. Ew. The tub could use a scrub too....

Having had 30 seconds to think about it, I've decided on a course of action for this here "weblog". Tabula rasa it is. This site no longer suits my needs. I've built up a mini Tower of Babel and it's...

Michal switched his News Project source from Google "In the News" to the Del.icio.us "Popular" feed and called it "Vox Delicii". Michal is also one of the guys behind Mappr, which mapped Flickr pics based on place-name tags. Aaron's done all...

Enoshima Jump, originally uploaded by mmdc. Jim's really hard on his photography skills. Needlessly. Wonderful shot. :)...

I'm somewhat late delivering a project. I'm workin workin workin to get it done. The plan was to wrap it up tonight and start migrating parts before morning. I've been pulling all nighters for the last 2 months so it's...