Polite work: Process rules. Heirarchy is observed and treasured. It is risk averse, and loss/failure is far more detrimental than incremental gain. This work rewards people who need a clear path to succeed.
Craft work: Craft work is result focused, and follows a mostly predetermined path. Others have blazed the trail, the craftsman refines, contemplates refinements, and moves forward. This work rewards people who need a direction and a history of people following that direction to succeed.
I recently had a client who wanted a shared corporate calendar (displayed on a corporate dashboard site done in Google Sites) to update whenever anyone added something to it.
Unfortunately, there's no way to push data from Google Calendar to external services, so I decided to poke around and find out how other people have resolved this. I learned that apparently most folks are ok with having the calendar refresh with a page refresh. This wouldn't do for my client.
Something that's been on my mind for a while. Yahoo news has been my morning home page for a while, simply because it used to be an easy way to compare coverage from AP, Reuters and Agence France Presse all in one spot.
Over the past few years I've noticed trend with AP (maybe it's always been there, I don't know). Their stories, if not simply short fact pieces, lean right 95% of the time, sometimes significantly and in a distorted manner.
Best one I've found so far
Totally cool, but longish, video on the history of the wah pedal. Definitely worth the time to watch.
Best line in the video: Charles Pitts talking about working with Issac Hayes on "Shaft" and only staying on the G for the entire song until the very last phrase: "To me it seemed repetitious, redundant, and ridiculous. It shows you what you know." (27:52 or so). Just goes to show you that you never know where something will take you.
I was looking for a lightweight, easy to use systems performance log for a Debian 5.5 server and came across Webminstats
Systats is a Webmin module that tracks cpu, memory, disk and io statistics over time.
It doesn't install without a few additions to the standard Debian install.
The definition of cold blooded: "According to court documents, (Jill) Lotter had visited her neighbor and mentioned while smoking a cigarette that she had hit her husband in the head with a hammer.
The neighbor went to Lotter’s home on Independence Drive and discovered the man, identified in documents as M.L., on the living room floor bleeding profusely from head and facial injuries.
Lotter told medical personnel, family members and investigators she hit her husband “with a hammer multiple times over a period of several hours during an altercation.”
The Federal statute:
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 113C > § 2340
§ 2340. Definitions
How Current is This?
As used in this chapter—
(1) “torture” means an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control;
(2) “severe mental pain or suffering” means the prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from—
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Fox News, GlennBeck.com, and Breitbart TV are the new voices of fascism. Anyone with an interest in political communication should read Eric Hoffer's short book entitled, "The True Believer" in the context of the current media environment. |
