UK Daily Mirror interviewed a nurse of his who claims he’s chronically abused and beaten by his wife.
Archive for January, 2004
Hawking in hospital again
Thursday, January 22nd, 2004Timing
Wednesday, January 21st, 2004Kerry’s delight
Wednesday, January 21st, 2004Nothing warms the heart like a last-minute pull-through. Kerry’s victory yesterday is just what he needed to rally his troops… what I’m more interested in, however, are Edwards’ buoyancy and Clark’s quiet coalition-building. Edwards manages to lift my spirits… can’t quite put my finger on why, but I’m thinking about it.
Noun/Verbless Language Analysed
Friday, January 9th, 2004Hot damn.
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David Gil is my hero and thorn of the year so far. Now if only the other 41 professors would start publishing on the rest of those describable ideas… I’ll get back to the indescribable ones.
Modern market illusions shattered, #613
Friday, January 9th, 2004Right on, Mr. Thompson! I particularly like his articulate dissection of the lossy and arbitrary separation of music into official genres, in which artists, industry, and critics all share a part. And his note of how much he can tell about someone by their walk and state of mind, in contrast to the more standard modern stereotypes.
Orders of Magnitude, Revisited
Friday, January 9th, 2004Some businesses take advantages of new OofM’s, like the first mass-production factories, early users of huge warehouses, early applications of specialization.
Hundreds of years later, historians are quick to say “here was an amazing breakthrough in technology,” but at the time it was often spun as a personal success of one businessman, one product line, one marketing technique — whoever was quickest on the uptake, with a nod from those few who actually knew what was going on, could pick up the acclaim for the surge forward. It is sometimes to one’s advantage not to let others know wherein success truly lies.
However, in each age looking forward, there are few people discerning new OofM’s from ‘brilliant new product niches’, ‘revolutionary advertising strategy’, etc. Laying 10x as much fiber optic cable as your competitors does not an OofM make. How far up
the financial food chain does this carelessness extend?
Purification. Cross-indexing. Sampling. Empathizing. Tracking.
You know what I’m talking about. Yes, you. I see you reading every
now and then. No need to hide. [for the rest of you, consider which of the above are in the future, and which are in the past…]
Until next time, keep your nose clean and your eyes open, and trust your senses.
national information systems
Wednesday, January 7th, 2004Collection/archiving: the national library system, the LOC,
Redundant storage: non-library archives, DARPANet and its spawn and widespread use,
Transmission/accessibility: DARPANet and its spawn, explicit accessibility programs to overcome certain obstacles, etc, etc.
Identific/Categoriz/Contextualiz ation: Official systems [DDS, LOC, etc], librarians, publishers [self-help].
Review/Analysis/Comparison: Critics | Professors, assistants in relevant topical Fields | Historians | Professors, assistants in field devoted to relevant medium (literature, music, video, etc). Often w/ stark delineation (mutual oblivion?) among the analyses of these four (more?) groups.
There’s not much up there that makes use of, or even allows for, contributions by the vast bulk of people affected by these works; their audiences, readers without time or inclination to polish their reactions to a high sheen and 10 column inches, etc. Only the second applies, really, and then only the last part of it — the part that was wholly accidental.
Is this foolishness? Failure of government to adapt to the multiplying ways in which it can be useful?