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November 21, 2003 |
Wow some Republicans are signing on. The odour must be starting to rise and they can see that this will not pass the stink test!
"The
Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003 has picked up
its first Republican co-sponsors. Reps. Tom Davis (R-Va.), Christopher
Shays (R-Conn.), and Charles Bass (R-N.H), have indicated that they
will sign on as co-sponsors of the bill introduced in the House in May
by Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.). "I am confident that more Republicans will
join me so that together we can pass this legislation and make sure
that every vote cast in every future election is counted accurately,"
Holt said in a statement. Holt's bill is designed to boost voter
confidence in the integrity of electronic voting systems by requiring a
paper trail of votes wherever e-voting technology is used. For example,
a touch-screen voting machine would have to produce a receipt that
verifies that the correct vote has been recorded. Receipts also would
be used as the paper trail in the event of a computer malfunction or
irregularity in an election. The bill also requires a voter
verification mechanism for disabled voters who use e-voting machines,
bans the use of wireless communication devices to transfer votes from
voting machines to election precincts, and forces vendors to open their
software code to pubic scrutiny upon request."
See also how the tech groups are lining up against these machines including
the ACM Seems Kucinich's web sites points at the incriminating memos to, see Dan Gillmores blog
test
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October 9, 2003 |
i had this bad experience
with trackback in the summer when i started blogging and it was new to Radio. So it is only today that i decided to try to reinstall it. Now i am wondering how and which of all these links get hooked up;)
At the moment the creativity of trackback is still rather intense. Waiting for all the servers to sync up makes debugging tedious and highly asynchronous. my goal is to use the Harvard server for the trackback links. At the moment i am testing on RadioU's servers ... but i cannot get RadioU to respond for most of my pages. In particular only the `Home Page' now shows the `trackback' links. And the test links i want to work with are in categories... Perhaps it is because categories use different themes? Or perhaps it is because the RadioU server is never completing its updates?
Ok looks like it is the Theme that is the problem. So i will stick to the main blog for testing. So there i see that my links are not being served as trackbacks... So i will stick the trackback link (which finally i could get by going to the main page's copy of the post i am linking to!;-) into the URL's to ping ... autodiscovery does not seem to be working ... have to find out about that later.
Still cannot increment that trackback counter for my August 6th entry. The references say i should be seeing a screen with the outgoing ping ... but that was for MoveableType not Radio... And why does the `URLs to Ping' field empty itself when i go back to redit the entry? Does the entry not keep track of where it pings or is there a glitch in my setup?
Well it is still not holding onto those `URLs to Ping' ... but pings are going through!! How is one supposed to remember whom one pinged?? i was getting adrErrorString in place of the edit form on my radio home page. Yet in another window i had the form. So i dismissed the bad one and next time i looked at my cited post it had a trackback on it! ... But again how does one know one has pinged another post? Do i need a `trackforward'? Right now RadioComments seems to be down so testing may be out of the question for a while... i get empty trackbackcounts and a time out when i click the trackback link.
Working again. Still no `trackforward' refs. The data seems to be there in weblogData.root so i guess one has to figure out how to hack the home page editing form so the `URLs to Ping:' comes preloaded with URLs already Pinged:) Would that mean multiple trackback hits? So far no. All my rev's of this item show up as a single trackback on item 25
OK, leave that aside. Next task is to get the Harvard trackback server to handle the tracking. Need to keep this enterprise somehow vendor independent. But the morass of absolute URL's is truly daunting. Is there anyway in Blogdom to create relative references? Or at least to use DNS names through out ... eg substitute www.myowndomain.com for radio.weblogs.com/0127271 everywhere, consistently? That would go a long ways to vendor independence. Could that be hacked?
Hmm i wonder have i poisoned all my trackback links with RadioU values? Would i need to do a `republish all' to clean up the muddle so i do not get some blokes tracking me with RadioU links while i only monitor throught Harvard? Guess i can check some trackback links in unchanged categories to test.
Such a simple seeming thing TrackBack, Englebart and Nelson said it should be ... but it is 2003 and it is still pretty fragile. Such is the Poesis of Trackback.
7:03:06 PM
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October 2, 2003 |
#date 03/06/27
Sein Blick ist vomVorübergehn der Stäbe
so müd geworden, daß er nichts mehr hält.
Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe
und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt.
Der weiche Gang geschmeidig starker Schritte,
der sich im allerkleinsten Kreise dreht,
ist wie ein Tanz von Kraft um eine Mitte,
in der betäubt ein großer Wille steht.
Nur manchmal schiebt der Vorhang der Pupille
sich lautlos auf—. Dann geht ein Bild hinein,
geht durch der Glieder angespannte Stille—
und hört im Herzen auf zu sein.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Panther
In the Jardin des Plantes, Paris
...
From unremitting experience his gaze
on the flickering of a thousand bars
seeing only barriers comes to glaze
even in the imagining only more mars
The easy power of his lissom stride
paces around ever smaller orbits
bespeaking magical dances deep inside
of a great will in numbed eclipse
When a crack unshutters that timeless haze
a flash of the real dashes freely through
that taut body poised like a temples maze
straight to the heart, and vanishes from view
- tr, greg heil
9:14:21 AM
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September 29, 2003 |
 The Hanuman poster started life as part of the daily sadhana practice of Harish Johari. Throughout the time i knew him he would draw a depiction of Hanuman during his morning sadhana, which he would always complete before allowing himself to eat. In 1992 he gave me one of these and i digitized and vectorized it. i changed the sanskrit lettering to quotes from my teacher Baba Hari Dass which i have transcribed elsewhere.
i attribute to Sri Johari much of the enthusiasm and skill i have in working with graphical imagery. A normal day spent in his presence would be largely spent on drawing and painting, in transparent watercolor, highly technical drawings called Yantras. More of my work in this area will be forthcomming in this series. In the meantime please see what many other talented students of his have accomplished at the Sanatan Society website.
As the poster says, we are restarting our Seattle Satsangs October 5th and on subsequent first sundays from 2-4pm at Santosha Yoga at 2812 E Madison Ave.
We enjoy chanting praises to Hanuman who represents the perfect servant of God (the idealized human body) in the Hindu pantheon as well as bhajans and kirtans (literally nectar tones) chanting to many other manifestations of the one God in many languages. As well as performing ceremonies, reading scriptures and meditation on all this richness with which we are blessed.
If you would like to join us please drop in, there is no charge just bring some soul instruments and be ready to celebrate the devine manifested in all of us gathered in Satsang (literally sharing the truth in community). Questions may be directed to me at d@krsnadas.org or call Rajani 323-8450.
Notices about this and many other kirtans and satsangs in the Seattle area are regularly contributed to the SeaKir list by its members. Please join and contribute!
Printable PDF version
4:33:58 PM
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September 11, 2003 |
http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.php
Gender Genie
Well i submitted about two dozen of my poems to a text analysis that was supposed to determine my gender. Only 3 of the poems came up as male authored and one ambiguous! So then i just sent the entire file (17000 words) as one unit, and still it came down firmly on the side of female authorship. So there you have it. God made a mistake;)
Actually the sites own statistics indicate they are wrong (by customer reports) 60.61% of the time! So one would do much better by taking them at the opposite of their word!
The algorithm designers (who claim 80% success rate) are working with the web site now to see if they can improve the accuracy a little according to the NYT. They also note it is meant for longer prose samples...
7:54:18 PM
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September 7, 2003 |
Steve Hooker - 3/9/7 wrote:
> There's no problem with modifying the scripts so that there's no need for a secret subject. You could then simply have a security feature that checks the from address i.e. only those that are allowed can post to the hidden category.
Indeed the possibilities are wild.
Put a front end header filter
a DB attachment separator
and a backend body reformatter
forwarded to sundry URL's, wild.
> A list object in frontier may have just one item in the {"list"}
A little ambiguous ... this RU list can indeed have multiple items, but a singleton needs to be demarked with {}'s as well as ""'s.
Indeed, strange such a thing would trip up a scheming APL'er. i mean is this a scalar or a unit vector and how is/are it/they denoted? Isn't reverse engineering where it's at;) Are there BNF's, reference manuals, or the like, for this wondrous pile?
Steve later added his code which gives one "An ability to roll your own email to blog. Posting subjects to categories, and adding date, sender, etc?" See his post for setting it up....
12:21:05 PM
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September 5, 2003 |
The mailedit tool can be downloaded into RadioUserlands Tools folder and then configured in RU's Tools menu.
As the documentation (see ref from this items title and also see Lisas notes, as well as the RU discussion thread where i first came across it) says mailedit adds a lot of functionality to the basic mail-to-weblog capability of RU! Eg you can edit posts, after they have gone up via mail, you can choose which categories it goes to, you can set a title and you can upload images!
An additional functionality i would like to see is the ability to suck every (unclaimed, by any particular macro) post sent to the secret email address into a default, but "hidden", category. This way the blog could be BCC'd posts sent elsewhere, as an archival site. Then they could be edited and pulled into a visible category. As it stands such posts need to be sent twice - which may not be such a bad idea as the normal markup would not be acceptable. But it would be quicker to do at a time when one is unlikely to have time to do the required fastidious markup anyway - ie on the road.
Anyway this is just a test post to try mailedit out;-)
comment added in Radio: This is test 4 because the categories "directive" is plural and requires {} to surround the category names ... even if there is only one! So nothing showed up in the Radio cloud!
5:18:12 PM
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The Hanuman poster
