Scott Rosenberg: WMDs: Must be here somewhere! For anyone else who is still patiently waiting to see what might turn up in the WMD hunt, the news today was not good. Someone leaked to the New York Times information about a draft of the report (now dubbed an "interim" report) by David Kay, the former […]
At work, we use Analog and Report Magic to produce nightly stats reports for the sites we host. We’d grown use to the fact that the runs on our older production machine told almost half a day to finish. Their are a lot of sites to process, logfiles get pretty big and are gzipped, and
Congrats are in order for Jason L. who finally met his workout goal of running an 8 minute mile. which for the mathematically challenged is 7.5 MPH. But, as in most things, persistence pays off. Over the last seven months, I’ve been gradually increasing my distances and speeds, working my way inch by inch towards
Middle Earth Mapquest to make al Tolkien fans smile. The only thing its missing are the adverts that tell you were Orcs and Trolls might be similar to the ones that try to get you to stop at a nearby 7-11 or Holiday Inn.
Leo Laporte writes a great piece about how to change the music industry. Its the first piece I’ve come across that echo’s my own feelings about P2P Music trading. Sounds like if you want to get better music, it’ll be some work on your part to find and support artists you like instead of passively
This week’s sudden announcement that the women’s professional league in the US was folding prompted a lot of discussion in the soccer world. A good analysis of the situation is at the LA times. While this piece on dailycamera.com hopes to silenece the folks who think this is a sign that soccer in the US
Seems that my old high school is been in the news for lack of diversity and admission bias leading to underrepresentation by minorities. There are a couple of troubling quotes including: "We need a different method of identifying students for Thomas Jefferson," she said at a luncheon of the Enterprises for Hispanic Youth Foundation. "Helping
I’m thinking it’ll be time to upgrade to a newer Tivo soon. Luckily, they just announced $50 rebates on new Tivos through the holiday season. If you’re wondering why you need a Tivo, check out Heather Newman’s column.. Also read how tivo changed Ernie the Attorney’s life, and get a list of ten reasons to
In a telling sign that Major League Soccer has a little more business acumen than the WUSA is this article in USA Today. The USSF staff and MLS’ central office and teams are providing virtually all of the tournament’s organizational and business-side structure. The league’s investors also took considerable risks when they built soccer-specific stadiums