Having just announced the naming of TWWP’s first Man Of The Year Award for 2006 to Professor Brad Wheeler of Indiana University, I now announce the award of The Man Of The Year for 2007 to SSgt. Kyu Hyuk Chay, a Fallen Soldier.
Looking back, to a time before I had even thought of this award, [...]
Daily Archives: October 9th, 2007
The Wayward Word Press Man Of The Year for 2007: SSgt. Kyu Hyuk Chay, A Fallen Soldier
October 9, 2007 – 23:35
Happy Birthday Slashdot!
October 9, 2007 – 19:53
Slashdot is celebrating its tenth anniversary by organizing a series of parties.
I have made mention before in this blog of Slashdot and my affection for it. For example, I just searched to see how many of my posts contain the word “slashdot” and learned that this will be the tenth such post, itself an interesting [...]
Having a bash bashing Microsoft, continued.
October 9, 2007 – 17:19
I wrote a post last October, Having a bash bashing Microsoft: Shell game? or Shell game!, in which I shared my view that it was a needless waste of time, and a diversion of resources, for the FLOSS and open-source folks to bash Microsoft, and I write this post to share some further thoughts on [...]
Linux At Your Service: The Linux Service Agreement
October 9, 2007 – 12:30
Courtesy of sogrady I have just read some great news from Amazon, in the form of Amazon S3 At Your Service.
This blog post is from a member of Amazon’s S3 team. Though I haven’t yet made use of that service — I believe WordPress can be used to meet all my web publishing needs –I [...]
On Notes and Quotes: Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn
October 9, 2007 – 03:25
Many of my posts contain notes, some contain quotes, and some contain both.
I write this post to share why that it is so.
By a quote I mean text which is taken, in part or in whole, from another article or blog post, and thus from someone else’s writing.
The usual way to show such quotes is [...]
links for 2007-10-09
October 9, 2007 – 01:22
Groklaw – Microsoft’s Ballmer Reportedly Threatens Red Hat
I’ll Hilf and I’ll Hilf and I will blow you house down, says Ballmer. I hope he smashes his fingers trying to open the hood, says Dave.
(tags: open-source microsoft steve-balmer)
Open Letter to American Airlines And Its CEO
October 9, 2007 – 01:02
In an recent post, Linux Journal Lost South Of Calais, I made mention of some problems I encountered the day of the post trying to fly on American Airlines (AA) from my home in Chappaqua, New York, to Indianapolis, Indiana.
My policy in such situations is to write directly to the company’s CEO, as I [...]
Linux Journal Lost South Of Calais
October 9, 2007 – 00:04
I recently wrote a post about the words of the sea and included therein some of the words and phrases defined in the wonderful book A Sea Of Words .
I didn’t find one phrase in that dictionary, though I am sure it has been uttered countless times since the earliest days of the [...]
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