{"id":549,"date":"2003-01-01T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-01T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/?p=320"},"modified":"2003-01-01T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-01T16:50:00","slug":"320-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/549","title":{"rendered":"Imported from MozDawg without title"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><small>*<i>Aspirin, anyone?<\/i>?*<\/small><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/chebucto.ca\/Current\/AEF\/raps\/blog\/fizzilla.gif\" width=\"64\" height=\"67\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>New Year&#8217;s Day shouts (<i>not <b>too<\/b> loud, please<\/i>) out to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isen.com\/\"> David I<\/a>., who knows SMART from dumb, and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.isen.com\/stupid.html\">rise<\/a> from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.isen.com\/papers\/Dawnstupid.html\">dawn<\/a>&#8220;. *grin*<\/li>\n<blockquote><p><i>When all you&#8217;ve got is a railgun, everything looks like a train.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li>(with aulde lang syne) to David Sable, who workshopped me into tech_doc think<\/li>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system. &#8230; A system must be managed. &#8230; The secret is cooperation between components toward the aim of the organization.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;W. Edwards Deming, The New Economics<br \/>\nquoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpm3.com\">Howard Smith and Peter Fingar<\/a><br \/>\nin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairdene.com\/cube.html\">Business Process Management: The Third Wave<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwz.org\/gruntle\/\">jwz<\/a>, who knows navel gazing when he suffers its consequences<\/li>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<i>That&#8217;s what makes you special, Jamie.<\/i>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li>to <a href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/\">Ward<\/a> and all the <a href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/quickChanges?days=1\">change junkies<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki\">Portland Pattern Wiki<\/a> (or, if you&#8217;d rather: <i><a href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?PortlandPatternRepository\">PortlandPatternRepository<\/a><\/i>)<\/li>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Stacking a thousand doghouses one atop the other to build a skyscraper is a great proposition for doghouse vendors, but not for future occupants. Skyscrapers need an architecture of their own- their own paradigm&#8221; <br \/>\n&#8212;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpm3.com\">Howard Smith and Peter Fingar<\/a><br \/> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairdene.com\/cube.html\"> Business Process Management: The Third Wave<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garshol.priv.no\/\">Lars Marius Garshol<\/a>, all the other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontopia.net\">ontopians<\/a> out there, and all the netizens, CMC types, and IT nerds who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oasis-open.org\/committees\/geolang\/index.shtml\">beetling away<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2002\/ws\/Activity\">W3C<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oasis-open.org\/about\/\">OASIS<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ietf.org\/html.charters\/wg-dir.html\">IETF<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/member.fsf.org\/contact.html\">FSF<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imatix.com\/html\/pieter.htm\">Pieter Hintjens<\/a> (who knows that a beer cap is a pressure release valve when you&#8217;re a white boy broken down on the side of a desert road) and the kidz at <a href=\"http:\/\/imatix.com\/\">Imatix<\/a>  (a beautiful site redesign; but where&#8217;d our <b>motto<\/b> go to?!), for having brought us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xitami.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/imatix.com\/image\/tixita2.gif\" width=\"320\" height=\"25\"><\/a> &#8230; for my money (Open Source <b><i>rulez<\/i><\/b>!), <a href=\"http:\/\/lwn.net\/1999\/0204\/a\/tzolkin.html\">the slickest server yet<\/a>!<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Pieter! How about doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.vu.nl\/~eliens\/documents\/libero\/doc\/news9705.txt\">Libero<\/a> blog?! *grin*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedmedia.com\/comics\/dilbert\/archive\/index.html\">Douglas Adams<\/a>, who teaches me gentle compassion for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedmedia.com\/comics\/dilbert\/dnrc\/\">in-duh-viduals<\/a><\/li>\n<p>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedmedia.com\/comics\/dilbert\/dnrc\/html\/read_the_newsletter.html\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.unitedmedia.com\/comics\/dilbert\/dnrc\/images\/icon_dogbert_bat.gif\" WIDTH=\"69\" HEIGHT=\"62\"><\/a><br \/>\n<small><i>Well, as gentle as possible<\/i>.<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fenello.com\/\">Jay Fenello<\/a> and other folk who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aligningwithpurpose.com\/\">pulling together<\/a> to keep the net and the world free, as in <b>free<\/b>\n<li>the many good spirits and souls at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newciv.org\">NewCivNet<\/a>;  thanks so much, <a href=\"http:\/\/ming.tv\/\">Flemming<\/a>.\n<li> and lastly, for all the good lads and lasses past and present connected with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\">Mozilla<\/a>, a golden oldie:<\/li>\n<p><center><small><i>just reload to get the loop started again<\/i><\/small><\/center><br \/>\n<center><img SRC=\"http:\/\/chebucto.ca\/Current\/AEF\/raps\/blog\/mozilla-kicking-ass.gif\" WIDTH=\"144\" HEIGHT=\"144\"><\/center><\/p>\n<hr width=\"45%\">\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;&#8230;that as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by an invention of ours, and this we should do  freely and generously&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; Benjamin Franklin<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;To be radical, empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced,  nor exclude from them any element that is.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;  William James<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And, dedicated to the Redmond^Borg:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>?Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly ? right now.?<br \/>\n&#8212; Buckminster Fuller<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; more to come.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"65%\">\n<blockquote><p><b>Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are  extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.<\/b><br \/>\n&#8212; Harry Emerson Fosdick<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; Paul Krugman <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8216;nite, kidz.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"65%\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Aspirin, anyone??* New Year&#8217;s Day shouts (not too loud, please) out to: David I., who knows SMART from dumb, and<a href=\"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/549\" class=\"searchmore\">Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}