Archive: May 13, 2005

Friday, May 13, 2005

1. Finger Traced to Woman Who Blamed Wendy's - Yahoo! News. It seems it's case closed. I've been following this for a while.

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2. Steve Dekorte: SkipDB:

   Mark was wondering how SkipDB compared to QDBM so I ran some tests:

   SkipDB tests here. Gotta learn about skip lists.

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3. Steve Dekorte: The Exokernel Paper (to read (PS)).

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4. TimMinear.net:

   We now have an official date and time. The Inside will premiere Wednesday, June 8th at 9:00 on FOX. (Check your local listings.)

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5. Radio Go Daddy has an interview with Kevin Mitnick playing in a couple of hours.

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6. Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics

   U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters [?] patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.
   
   More than a dozen agents, all of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said orders relayed by Border Patrol supervisors at the Naco, Ariz., station made it clear that arrests were "not to go up" along the 23-mile section of border that the volunteers monitored to protest illegal immigration.

   ... Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, yesterday said "credible sources" within the Border Patrol also had told him of the decision by Naco supervisors to keep new arrests to a minimum, saying he was angry but not surprised.

   Whoa.

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7. hello joseph / how i implemented tags: a de-normalized approach (to read), via Keith. I've had a tag-based bookmarking system running fine for a while. The only difficulty came in when I wanted to have parent/children tags ('perl is a child of 'proglang, for example, and you can do logic based on "siblings" and such). So, I haven't finished the whole thing yet.

   Update: Read this piece last night. This seems like almost the worst way possible to implement tags.

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8. Joel on Software - Making Wrong Code Look Wrong, via Simon. Printing now.

   Later: Lots of stuff on Systems vs. Apps Hungarian (which Joel has discussed before).

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9. Galloway accepted bribes under "Oil for Food". Of course, this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Tell me again about the "coalition of the bribed and coerced".

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10. Different River » Kosher Trademarks, the FDA, and Electrical Safety – Or, A libertarian approach to drug regulation. Sounds good to me. I've wanted a market system like this for some time, but I've never thought of it in terms of Kosher food before. (Via)

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