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		<outline text="Jon Udell: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1816/byt20011128s0003/1203_udell.html&quot;&gt;The Event-Driven Internet&lt;/a&gt;." created="Fri, 07 Dec 2001 02:03:41 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.diaries.com/perrypack/2001/12/06&quot;&gt;PerryPack&lt;/a&gt; is working on XML-RPC for .NET." created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 23:15:00 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Bug reports should have three parts. 1. Here's what I did. 2. This is what I expected to happen. 3. This is what actually happened. For extra credit, if it's a public Web app, provide a URL. It also couldn't hurt to say what version of the software you're using, what OS, and other things that might make your installation different from others." created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 16:35:01 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001112/2001/12/06.html&quot;&gt;Dan Mitchell&lt;/a&gt; asks a question that came up on yesterday's radio show. Microsoft's software can cost more than the computers that it runs on. Customers don't know what to make of this." created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 15:52:55 GMT"/>
		<outline text="I'm glad that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulandrews.com/&quot;&gt;Paul Andrews&lt;/a&gt; is blogging again. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 18:28:43 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Joshua Allen: \&quot;Peter Blake, two time Americas Cup winner, was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blakexpeditions.com/daily.asp&quot;&gt;blogging&lt;/a&gt; in the Amazon when he was killed by pirates today.\&quot;" created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 20:00:59 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Being in &quot;shipping mode&quot; since October, I'm starting to think about taking a trip to let my team take full responsibility for Radio 7.1. My friend &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.davosnewbies.com&quot;&gt;Lance Knobel&lt;/a&gt; calls this &quot;Management by being away.&quot; It's getting to be time. Anyway of course I was thinking of hopping over the pond to visit Europe, my favorite tourist destination, but reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.curry.com/2001/12/06#euro&quot;&gt;Adam Curry's blog&lt;/a&gt; reminds me that the beginning of this year may not be the best time to go to Europe. Can you imagine what it will be like in Italy?"/>
		<outline text="Embracing Moore's Law" created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:12:53 GMT">
			<outline text="Every time there's a speed bump, it takes a while to factor it into your thinking. Recently I changed the way I use my personal Web server, and now instead of having 20 or so files in the www folder, I now have 594 files. No surprise, I guess, the upstreamer (a thread that moves new or changed files &quot;up&quot; to the community server for public access) started running much more slowly. So I started thinking of ways to get fewer files in the folder. " created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:13:24 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Just for the hell of it I wrote a bare-bones scanner to see how many cycles the scanner itself was taking. Here's the punchline. Sit down before reading this. To count the files took about 4/60ths of a second. Then, when I added a real burden to the scanner, checking the mod date of each file against a value in the object database (this emulates the real upstream scanner) it went up to 11/60ths of a second. That's is so much faster than I thought it would be. I was blown away." created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:13:41 GMT"/>
			<outline text="So the slowness is somewhere else. (That's good news.) But my memory of performance of older machines said that scanning a deeply nested folder structure is expensive. In 2001, on consumer hardware, emphatically, it is not." created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:14:07 GMT"/>
			<outline text="BTW, when I wrote this, initially, I mistakenly said I was embracing &lt;i&gt;Murphy's&lt;/i&gt; Law, not Moore's. A little programmer humor. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 19:55:01 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="Why I like the West Wing" created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:20:56 GMT">
			<outline text="Sylvia writes to ask why I like The West Wing. " created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:21:02 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Scene from last night's show. Everyone's in the White House movie theater. One of the aids says &quot;Something's not right, the man's not talking, he always talks during the movie.&quot; " created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:21:14 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Later, when everything's right, the president sits down next to his daughter and starts teasing her. &quot;Shhh,&quot; she says, &quot;there's a movie on.&quot; To which he says &quot;I don't think anyone's going to tell me to shut up.&quot;" created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:22:26 GMT"/>
			<outline text="I find this satisfying. As an alpha male, in a society that thinks we're the problem, it's nice to see another alpha male gain total acceptance in his alpha-ness." created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:23:09 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&quot;curly&quot;" created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:44:32 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="Pearl Harbor, Cuban Missle Crisis, or..?" created="Fri, 07 Dec 2001 02:08:17 GMT">
			<outline text="Listening to the report on Ashcroft's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2113-2001Dec6.html&quot;&gt;testimony&lt;/a&gt; earlier today, on NPR. &quot;It's wartime,&quot; they say over and over. No one mentions that there has been no declaration of war. What is going on with Congress. " created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 23:44:37 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Immediately after Sept 11, people compared it to Pearl Harbor. I've heard it compared, later, to the Cuban Missle Crisis. Now let's see how it measures up against the burning of the Reichstag." created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 23:46:14 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://worldatwar.net/event/reichstagsbrand/&quot;&gt;Soren Swigart&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Hitler was asked by a corespondent of the Daily Express whether the suspension of liberties was permanent. He answered in the negative saying that full rights would be restored as soon as the Communist danger was over.&quot;" created="Thu, 06 Dec 2001 23:49:46 GMT"/>
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