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Take That! Garza Distractors!
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Dude! That was awesome to watch! Soak it all in! Congrats Garza and Rays fans!
If it seemed great on the video or the MLB recaps, it was twice as intense in the stadium.
There are just moment you can feel history surrounding you. And that whole night long there were multiple signs that magic was happening in front of us.
Garza deserves the accolades, but his Rays defense kept that dream alive!
This could be the start of a nice run during this potentially dangerous homestand for the Rays with three hungry Playoff teams (Tigers, Twins & Yankees) coming to town in the next 10 days.
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Garza pitched a great game, but the Tigers are just pathetic right now it was bound to happen sooner or later. I'm glad Joyce was the one who broke up Scherzer's. He was a favorite with the Whitecaps.
'Minoring In Baseball'
Rays are definitely a great time to cheer for! Such a likeable team with likeable players. You do things the right way
Congratulations to Matt Garza. He was absolutely filthy tonight. First no-no in Rays history!
Outstanding Double R!! Bout time the Rays found themselves on the winning side of a no-hitter. I started watching the game as soon as I heard an update.
Your comment for Hall of Very Very Good is up for vote. Let the people speak. Pete Rose and ShoelessJoe may have that chance.
Mike, it is just beyond comprehension that both Garza and Joyce contributed to such an amazing degree last night. Garza simply just seemed to be on a pattern like a machine last night, with a few hiccups, but providing a lasting moment of clarity for Rays fans.
And Joyce is beginning to live up to the trade hype we all expecyed when he first arrived from Motown. Two Grand Slams in his three HRs….Wow! But the best part was that Joyce did it against his old team.
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How nice to see one of your guys throw a no-hitter!!! I still haven't seen one of those momentous games yet and am jealous that you have seen three of them.
I have seen one guy hit 3 homers in a game, a guy hit two grand slams and a guy hit for the cycle, but never a no-hitter. Closest was seeing Storm Davis do it for 7 and 2/3 at Memorial Stadium.
Thanks for sharing!
Funny that on the night the Rays spittin' Cobra get a no-hitter, the opposing Manager is accused of spitting on an umpire. In both instances, Sunflower seeds are the culprit.
But it was great night for Rays history with the full moon and the crazies definitely out at Tropicana Field.
My favorite was the sign that expanded with an extra "Z" every time Garza got a "K"on the the night.
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Rays just seem to find themselves in weird historical places this season. They are now the first teams since 1917 to be in 3- No-Hit situations in one season. Hope we do duplicate my second favorite team, the 1917 White Sox and make ti to the World Series…..but the gamblers and goons can stay home this time.
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Seen a great number of great things down here in the fun and sun in the last few years. But last night, with a full moon in the background…That was special.
Rays have had a lot of tremendous baseball over thelast few years. One day I might even be able to sit down and actually enjoy it all…Maybe.
They are re-televising the Matt Garza No-Hitter today at noon….Got pizza ordered, sodas in the fridge…and ready for some Spittin' Cobra Karma.
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Hey RR, congrats on your team finally throwing a no-no. I'd noticed that the post before this you said that you thought that Garza might be the one to do it. Strange huh?
Actually, the gamblers and such was in 1919, but I get your meaning. A book is now out saying that the 1918 series might not have been on the up and up, and could in part explain the bad luck of both the Cubs and the Bosox after the series, so you never know.
It was actually a bit of gossip that the 1917 game might have also been a bit crooked, but not on the White Sox that time. I think that people will alwasy thing the fix is in….I know I have a conspiracy theory mind sometimes myself.
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Sorry did not see the first posting comment.
I always thought Garza had the stuff to post a No-No, but sometimes he is his own worst enemy with his emotions.
But last night he seemed clicked in, zoned to a point of pinpoint precision, and got some nifty defensiveplays to secure a pitcher's dream.
Always an adventure being a Rays fan.
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Well, in the book on the 1918 series, the author says the fear of the series being fixed goes all the way back to 1903, and it is in part because of the way the owners treated the players, i.e. how much they'd paid them. Not sure if it is true or not, but it does give a reason why those guys risked their careers the way they did.
Since I don't follow Garza don't know how well he can check his emotions, but sometimes that does come into play, could I saw too much last year our former ace and now no. two starter, Cole Hamels have a melt down on the mound when things were not going his way. Just plain brutal to watch. As for adventure, watch Brad Lidge in the ninth. I get so tired of seeing his Mitch 'Wild Thing' Williams imitations like you wouldn't believe.
What a great moment… finally, the Rays are on the good end of one.
Wasn't Garza's name just being tossed around in trade rumors? It was a great pitching performance by a great Rays pitcher. Even as an opposing fan, it was a game that deserved a tip of the cap by all fans. Also, congrats on the follow-up win tonight.
Got to see the Rays on Sunday in Cleveland on Sunday when I visted progressive field. Needless to say I was very impressed with the team. Kind of mad that I missed out on a no-no by one day though. It must be incredible to see that in person.
Try picturing this scenario: Adam Dunn for Matt Garza. (And this was BEFORE the no-hitter.) Yeah, that's the story going round up here…that the Nats were seriously talking about this.
I mean, we NEED starting pitching now that Stephie Wonder is day-to-day (and J.D. Martin and Luis Atilano are on the DL). But I think you and I both know Garza ain't going anywhere NOW…
Maddening, ain't it?
Guess we can thankful for the formulation of the MLBPA and their Collective Bargaining Agreement for MLB salaries for even call-ups hitting near half a million dollars if they play an enitre season at the top level.
Cole Hamels, I still remember when he got in a fight at Razzles Bar in Clearwater right next to the original Hooters.
Sometimes a bit if maturity can change a guy, but then sometimes people regress….jusru is out on Garza, but so far it is looking like he might have turned the corner to ace-hood.
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After being no-hit twice in one season it's gotta feel amazing to finally have one go your way! Congrats to Garza, the team and all the Rays fans! It always gives me the chills when I see a team celebrate after they accomplish something so great! Congrats again!!!
I can not agree more. I have seen the Rays no-hit three times in my life (Derek Lowe, Mark Burhle,Dallas Braden), but now we have one of our own.
Was pretty sweet to sit there during the last two innings on pins and needles wondering if this was "the one".
Seen some amazing things last night like a Grand Slam breaking up a Detroit no-hitter (at the time).
Alan must not like me too much right now.
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Acutally, there have been a few Rays pitchers names thrown around. Garza, James Shields and Wade Davis are the MLB level guys.
But I know the Kansas Vity Royals liked Rays farm hand leftie Jake McGee as a possible fit for exchanging David DeJesus. But with DeJesus's injury, that trade is dead and buried.
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Yes, it does, but sometimes it does get a bit much with the salaries some of the players get, especially when they don't earn it.
Uhm, you sure you aren't talking about Brett Myers, Renegade? I do not recall ever hearing about 'Hollywood' getting into things like that. That was more Myers deal.
Yes, maturity does change a guy, especially when there is a vet who is willing to grab him by the collar and talk some sense into the guy's thick skull. At least Hamels isn't doing his melt down when he gets into trouble.
I know the episodes with Myers, and we are not talking about the Akinori Kobiyashi "Hot Dog Eater" pratical joke either. January 29, 2005, Cole Hamels and four other professional players were involved in a local fight with a guy at Razzel's bar in Clearwater. I am not trying to bring this up, but if you want to know more, either re-read the "Sports Illustrated" biased article, or the Google item online.
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I do not think the lineup favored a possible no-hitter whiole the Rays were in Cleveland. Heck, they had to fight for what they had by finally taking a series for the first time since 2005….Also shedding a 18-game losing streak inside Progressive/Jacobs Field.
But the past 4-game winning streak is showing there is still a huge amount of fire in the Rays bellies…and that is a great thing.
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I heard about Stephen's being pulled from his start, but was not aware of any problems. But that does open a new can of worm's as to if you try and sign Dunn to an extension, or let him go and hope he finds his way back to Washington in the off season.
As for Garza, I think he solidified his place for now not only for 2010, but maybe beyond with his performance. But you never know when you have an Arbitration hearing in the off season, and could command over $ 5 million in the Tampa Bay payroll expectations.
Rays could sell high on Graza with the popularity right now.
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I think collectively, the Rays fans have been hoping for this sign of pitching redemption sometime during this season. Garza was the guy I thought had the stuff, but needed a tweaking of his temperament. But his cool, calm demeanor on Monday night spoke volumes in how he has shown growth this year.
Garza is truly one of the guys who wants to get back into the Playoffs and show that 2008 was not a fluke.
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Ah, I see. I was not following the Phils as closely in 2005 as I did before 2000 (after they had ended the 90s as a laughing stock, their usual position) and now, during the time when they were doing the Maxwell Smart missed it by that much getting into the playoff, getting me once again fully interested in the team, so it probably did not register on the old radar screen.
If that was the case, yeah, does show that he has grown up some.


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Our opening conversation at the GeekWire Summit featured Ray Ozzie, the online collaboration pioneer and former Microsoft chief software architect — his first detailed interview since he returned to the startup world. It was a deep dive and a broad look across the modern tech industry, from the mind of a guy who has been there since the early days of online communities.
Ozzie shared his thoughts on topics including the startup climate, his tenure at Microsoft, the new tools of software and hardware development, and the impact of connected, smart devices in a post-PC era.
And yes, he said, it's a post-PC era — a comment that sparked a round of news coverage. However, he added, that might not mean what you think it does.
Continue reading for an edited transcript.
Todd Bishop: You once said, "In our industry, if you can imagine something you can build it." What are you imagining these days, and what gets you excited when you think about where technology is headed?
Ozzie: I know it sounds strange, but there is hardly an area that isn't exciting at the current time. It's the most vibrant — I've been in this industry for a long, long, long time and at each phase you could look at the technology landscape, and you could look at the potential market customers, you could look at different segments — enterprise, small business, consumers — and at this moment in time, I just have never seen something so exciting in terms of the transformation across entertainment, productivity, communications.
We're on the cusp of having, within a few years, a billion smartphones out there. … We're in an explosion of new form factors such as pads, tablets, and so on, that we don't really understand all of the scenarios that they're going to be used in and how they're going to be used. They're making a transition from consumption scenarios to creation scenarios.
We're on the cusp of seeing computing revolutionize potentially TV. It's changed the way we read books. On the embedded front, in terms of what people can imagine now in terms of hardware, there's so many ways that we can mold hardware very dynamically into things that we might imagine. I don't know how many are familiar with Raspberry Pi, but it's yet another small component that enables people to imagine something, hardware-wise, and build it. From the hardware side, from the software side, from distribution.
And probably most significantly from the market. It used to be that the market for technology products was limited. I just got back from a several-week vacation in India, and in rural India, we've got guides in Ranthambore trying to swap Facebook contacts with me and with my kids so that we can swap photos afterward. It's just incredible.
TB: It's a great point because you were doing online communications back when the rest of us were using rotary phones. What do you think of Twitter and Facebook. If you were looking at this from your time back as a systems programmer on PLATO, would you be disappointed with where we are today, with Facebook and Twitter … or would you actually be impressed with where we are?
Ozzie: I never could have imagined it. When I was exposed to online community on PLATO, we were talking about a community of maybe 10,000 people, who were using about a thousand terminals in a swapping, time-sharing fashion. Even when I did Notes back in the early '80s, it was very difficult to imagine getting PCs to be ubiquitous, let alone networked PCs.
Even in the early Notes days, we were struggling to understand how networks would be able to be wiring buildings, because there were union problems in New York, where people just couldn't run the wires that they needed to run. The concept that we're all connected. Not just connected by some arbitrary email, not connected because of some wire, we are cognizant of the people in our families, online, we're cognizant of the people we work with, we're able to work together very effectively.
We have the level of connectivity …. that enables people to dream new software solutions whether horizontally or within verticals that I never could have imagined, early in my career, would happen during my lifetime. It's staggering.
John Cook: Speaking of dreaming up new things, you have a new startup now called Cocomo. Tell us a little bit about what you're doing with Cocomo?
Ozzie: We're not ready to make any announcements. Basically I spent the last year on the ground, really trying to validate a number of things that I had theorized and had some contact with when in my previous role, when I had the time, I could go out and meet entrepreneurs, understand the capital environment a lot more, at a detailed level. Understand the core of what are the success factors for startup clusters — for example in New York or Boston or the Bay Area.
My love, the thing that I've done most of my career is communications — what today we would call social productivity, what in the past we might have called groupware or computer-supported cooperative work, I like envisioning tools for new environments that let people do things in ways that are more fun, more productive and so on. I'm concentrating right now on mobility, because I think that market is incredibly explosive, and by mobility, it's a very general statement meaning cloud-based back-ends, phones, pads and so on, on the front end, and I just think it's great to explore new scenarios of how we can connect with one another with this new basis that we've got.
TB: Here's a litmus test for you, Ray, in your post-Microsoft career. Will your new app be hosted on Windows Azure?
Ozzie: I believe in Azure an awful lot. I'm very close to those folks, for good reason. We know the capabilities and we're using Azure, and we know the capabilities of Amazon and we're using Amazon, and we know the capabilities of OpenStack, and we're playing with that. So right now, the best thing for any entrepreneur is to understand the solution that they're trying to do, be very agile in terms of what languages, what hosting technology, and so on, and use what works and move forward.
The modern startup world
JC Another quote, you said, "Startups are just incredible, they're amazing, because you can put all your passion into one thing, and you make that one thing just so beautiful." You make it sound so wonderful, but we all know, startups are very, very hard, and it's difficult to make that leap. So what advice or tips would you give to people that are trying to go out and make that startup plunge these days.
Ozzie: You're right, it is difficult. But like the first day of having your first child, or having any child, they can be anything. That first day, they're not being sarcastic, they're not bringing back bad grades, there's nothing but promise. And you're just so elated. And the first days of a startup are that way. There's absolutely nothing like it.
JC: So we're turning 1 today, what happens now?
Ozzie: There's more opportunity for learning things that you don't understand yet.
But I spend roughly half my time when I'm in Seattle — my wife and I are bicoastal and I have an office here — talking to people who are wondering whether they should make the leap or not. These are people that I've worked with in different places. Their friends and so on, someone will ask me a favor. People like me and many other people who have been successful take the time to help others because people were very helpful to us early in career.
The biggest thing to understand is that today's startup environment is extremely lean. You must fit into the pattern of today's startup environment if you're going to succeed with a startup. And that means it's very difficult for people with the five-bedroom home and a vacation home to make that leap. But they can do it. There's ability and then willingness as two different dimensions that you have to analyze. But you really do need to, in today's startup environment, return to zero, assess the technologies that are out there today, assess the processes for development (which are much different than they have been classically in my career) assess what technology you have to build today.
Development is much more of an assembly process than it ever has been in the past, because there are so many components out there. On GitHub or wherever that you can assemble into a working solution very, very rapidly. You have to work in a very lean way from a comp perspective — founders you have to get out there in market before you actually start to raise any kind of serious money. And it's always been hard, and it's still hard, but the potential market is so great right now, and it supports much experimentation in many, many different ways.
PCs and Tablets
TB: You said in a 2010 memo, the PC and its ecosystem are going to keep growing, and growing for a long time to come. We just had the announcement of the new iPad today. Tim Cook, the new CEO of Apple, predicts that unit sales of tablets will eventually outsell PCs. Do you stand by what you said back and then in 2010?
Ozzie: Yes. Except that even in that one sentence or even in the past, no one really knows what a PC is. No one knows whether to include iPads or other tablets or computers into PCs, because in some scenarios, they substitute, and in some scenarios they're new growth scenarios. I will stand by one fact, just vigorously, which is the fact that the overall market for personal computing — people taking some kind of a computation device — and using it for creation activities, sharing activities and so on.
I don't think anyone knows at this point in time, even with absolutely flawless execution on Microsoft's part — and they're doing a great job — but even with flawless execution, no one really knows on the adoption front whether a large set of consumers are going to want to take the 30 years of learning that they've had and build on that with new pad scenarios, or whether they're looking for a clean break. It's really too soon to tell. We know a lot of different scenarios that are clean break scenarios. But you could actually argue it both ways. But regardless, it is all growth and whether it's Mountain Lion or Windows 8, the existing people who are in the technology business are trying their best to adapt at time when customers themselves are trying to figure out what to do.
TB: We have this scenario where the tightly controlled ecosystems that have emerged from the mobile market are now spreading up to the PC.
TB: Microsoft is actually adopting that, in some respects, in Windows 8 through the Windows Store. What do you think will be the prevailing model. Will it be that tightly controlled app store, that end-to-end environment, or is there still a place for an open bazaar of software and services that are available without any kind of gatekeeper.
Ozzie: Well, one man's gatekeeper is another man's distributor, distribution channel. One of the things that hurt the PC ecosystem over time is that early on in the PC ecosystem it was very straightforward for a developer to understand how to get their things in the hands of consumers. You built software, you shrink-wrapped it, you contracted with an intermediary distributor. They would distribute it to the world's computer stores, and you would use classic PR channels to get the word out, you'd get user groups to get feedback.
It was a model. Then there was this long intermediate period where it was the promise of distribution. It's an Internet! It's accessed everywhere, people can just download what they want. But the distribution ecosystem collapsed. At this point in time, it's back. Distribution is back.
It's very straightforward for a developer to understand, if I create this, how am I going to get it in the hands of a user base. That's why it's an exciting time. And app store gatekeepers earn their money. They distribute it out there. There will always be room for ways of distributing around the app store, and when you get big enough, you can have other distribution channels. But I think the app store is a tremendous boon.
There are other things in other parts of the ecosystem that are as important as app stores. There's sites like Kickstarter which on one hand are funding vehicles but on the other hand enable one to generate excitement around something and bootstrap a distribution ecosystem.
Reflections on Microsoft, and its future
TB: You spent five years at Microsoft, and we don't want to turn this into an exit interview, but I think most of the people in the audience would want to know, what do you think when you reflect back on your time there. How do you feel about your legacy, and how do you feel about the job you did there?
It's a good question. My job there was primarily a change management job. I was asked by Bill and Steve to come in and look at the company, decide what was broken, and try your best to fix it. It was that general. When I came in, I saw a company that had a tremendous history, that had many, many, many great technology assets, and many great people assets, but who was having trouble at that point really trying to understand how to internalize what was happening on the outside with its PC past.
Both on the server side, meaning what was the future of servers going to be, and on the client side, how does the web relate to PC software and so on. I tried my best to help groups in various ways — at every company change management is done differently — to communicate with groups, for example with the Office group that their purpose in life was to sell productivity, as opposed to selling PC-based productivity. To the Xbox, what you're selling is entertainment, not necessarily the box or the plastic disc, and so on.
No one person is responsible for many things, but I feel very very good about a number of things that did change, and it took a lot of people. It took Steve, it took the senior leadership team, the presidents, it took lots and lots of other people, it took the individuals who were doing the coding to want to be receptive to change. The company is a lot different right now. The company has come a long way, and I'm happy about some things. I'm impatient about other things, but it's a tremendous company and I really love a lot of the people there.
JC: What do you think it's going to take for them to get their mojo back, and for them to really regain — if they can — that mantle of one of the top technology companies?
Ozzie: It's going to all be based on whether people buy the product. I mean, I hate to be that trivial about it, but you can strategize as much as you want. You can argue, could have done this, should have done this … but the reality is that if Windows 8 ships in a form that people really want to buy the product, even if it's for a specific key scenario, the company will have a great future.
In any industry, people look at their own needs, and look at the products and say, well, I understand why I had it then, and I want something different, they will not have as great a future. But it's too soon to tell, and there are a lot of people working hard to make sure that they do have a great future.
JC: And is that opportunity there considering, for example, the rise of Android and the iPad?
Ozzie: You can paint many scenarios that are either at the doom-and-gloom or at the extremely positive extreme. At the doom-and-gloom extreme, it's a world of phones and pads and devices of all kind, and our interest in general purpose computing — desktop computing, as it has been taught to us — begins to wane, and people start doing the same things and more in other scenarios. In the opposite extreme, Windows 8 bridges people from the world that was there, and there is growth, rapid growth in that market.
I think the high level question, really just to step away from Microsoft is, our industry is in constant flux. As long as I've been in this industry, you can draw lines of technology and adoption and predict where things are going to be in certain ways. We know right now, there's no denying that we're in a great transition. People argue about, are we in a post-PC world. Why are we arguing? Of course we're in a post-PC world, but that doesn't mean the PC dies. That just means that the scenarios that we use them in, we stop referring to them as PCs, we refer to these other things. But it's still general computation.
In other scenarios there are also other post-worlds. For example, in productivity, the PC era was defined by documents. Documents are the core of how we have thought about productivity. But if you count the words that everyone here types on a computer, increasingly in Facebook, in Twitter, in this blogging package and tis and that, by addressable market of words types, the classic document, is decreasing as a part of that, and what productivity is the meta level around documents, as much as the documents. So we're actually into a post-doc world, as much as we're heading into a post-PC world. But there's opportunity in everyone of those. There's opportunity for Microsoft, there's opportunities for startups to help customers go beyond what they've already used in the past.
Studying the technology industry
TB: For about a year, after you left Microsoft, we'd hear and see you pop up at these startup events, you were like a mystery man, we've got another Ray sighting. What were you doing, and what did you learn through that process?
Ozzie: Well, if you ask people at Microsoft how I did my job, it involved some level of work with senior people, and some level of work with people who actually do the work. I am a developer by trade. I built software, I wrote a lot of software — a lot of software — and I believe that in order for me to be effective, I have to have my finger on the pulse, I have to understand not just the capabilities of technology but processes, funding and so on. There was a certain amount of that I could do when I was at Microsoft but after I left I had the opportunity and time to find other ways to learn. Yes, I go to startup events, I go talk to people. I have visited a number of startups. I look at the processes they use to release — the roll of test, the role of waterfall vs. rapid deploy. Things are very different now, and the only way I can do that is to get out there. And I appreciate that there are people who host events where I'm able to do so.
TB: What did you learn about Seattle, specifically, and how would you say the Pacific Northwest stacks up as a tech hub against Boston and the Valley, and how could this region improve?
Ozzie: That's a really great question, and I think, first and foremost, I want to make sure that everyone understands that the most important thing is not to worry about the region. The most important thing is to worry about, are people building stuff. Average entrepreneur should not be worried about the Seattle ecosystem, they should be worried about, do I have a great idea, do I execute it. And they can do that independent of location. They can do it from Europe, from Asia, it's tough to do it in certain environments because of regulatory or finance things, but Boston, Seattle, everything is fine, it's great. If you look at the aggregate statistics, VC funding is having a hard time, the trends are not great in Seattle The capital markets are different than they were in the past.
But you see very caring individuals who really want the regions to thrive. In Boston, there is a center of innovation around IT in East Cambridge. There's another center of activity in this thing called the Boston Innovation District, which is in a certain area of Boston. Up here, you have startups doing exciting things whether it's in South Lake Union whether it's in some of the classic space in Pioneer Square. I've got an office closer to downtown here, but it isn't as coalesced as a startup area of the city, but it's happening. There are lots of factors that I could say would help, that might be catalysts, but speaking in generalities, it's very difficult.
Probably the single most important factor, if someone were to want to turn a knob, would be the presence of accelerators in the area. I don't mean incubators, I don't mean space where people can work, because entrepreneurs can find any of a number of places to work, and incubators are great, but accelerators are to be differentiated from that. Things like TechStars or Y-Combinator, which help mentor and help entrepreneurs to learn what they don't know, and teach them that they don't know what they don't know yet. Help bring them along, to enable them to to rapidly develop that idea.
What makes for a good developer today
JC: Bill Gates once called you one of the top five programmers on the planet.
That was a long time ago.
JC: But you've still got the claim, I would take it and run with it. So what makes a good developer or programmer in your mind today?
Ozzie: No. 1 you have to be a generalist in terms of the technology. There's so many different languages out there. There's so many different types of database. There are no simple answers to, should I use this relational database, or should I use this caching subsystem or management layer, there are so many options, and you really have to be agile about it. You have to connect yourself as a developer into the open world of development that's happening right now. That means contributing to projects on GitHub, that means paying attention to Hacker News, Y-Combinator Hacker News, on a daily basis, and taking an active personal interest in what's going on, who are the movers and shakers. What are the hot projects and what are the declining projects?
It means being willing to accept that there are different ways of doing things than one may have done in the past. That doesn't make the other ways wrong. It just means that that's not how people are doing things right now. The way that you dynamically deploy services is radically different. It's tempting for people who are experienced to be dismissive of modern techniques, because the way you ensure quality is so different. But there's so many examples now of successful companies using these techniques, that the best thing is to just be open.
TB: Have you been doing any coding?
I have not been doing coding. I remember the last code that I wrote in Lotus Notes Release 4. It brings a tear to my eye, but the people who work with me would be happier if I stayed at the architecture level.
The evolution of mobile devices
TB: We were talking earlier, and I hope you don't mind me revealing this, but you have a Samsung Galaxy Note in your pocket. Talk about the devices you're using and what you're seeing in terms of the actual form factors. What excites you, apart from the online services that they're connected to. What do you like, what do you think will be the predominant things that we're carrying around in our pockets?
Ozzie: Well, I kind of use everything. I think that's what you have to do. I was very fortunate at Microsoft in that I had a lot of infrastructure where people could expose me to a lot of things on a recurring basis that were happening in many different areas.
As an individual, in my home, in my mobile life, I try lots of different things. So, for example, I was a passionate Windows Mobile, then Windows Phone user for a long, long time. Then at one point I switched and did about nine months of Android, and for the last nine months or so my primary phone has been an iPhone, but I have a secondary phone, and with my secondary phone, I try lots of different things.
I'm really enjoying the Galaxy Note because it's different. It's just something that's somewhere between what I've used in a larger tablet and a phone. My eyes aren't what they used to be. And so I have no idea what will catch on for what scenario or not. All my TVs, in my house have been on different types of boxes. I try to use the devices in conjunction with those. At the embedded level, I've been involved in a couple of projects over the past year that have used Arduino-based systems. I've gotten a better exposure to the rapid assembly and prototyping at that level. So it's difficult to focus in on a specific thing.
TB: It's got a stylus, who wouldn't like that?
JC: Steve Jobs wouldn't.
Ozzie: But the stylus, there are scenarios. You can't be binary about this stuff. I do understand that there are critical mass devices and critical mass pieces of software that will take off, but I think it varies based on the form factors.
The way you use a phone as a guy, it's in your pocket. You can respond to notifications in a certain way. My wife cannot do that, she keeps it in her purse, so the usage scenario is slightly different. She likes the form factor of the Note better than the form factor of the other phone that she was using because, when she reaches in her purse, she can find it faster, which is something that we might not immediately embrace.
The stylus is great when you want to do a quick annotation of something. I haven't found the killer scenario yet, but I'm really enjoying experimenting with it. And looking at what Amazon is doing with the Kindle Fire, understanding how the Android ecosystem is going to pan out, moving forward, it's exciting times.
Striking a balance in online privacy
Audience Question via Twitter: Do you see real dangers to privacy in a modern, social, app-driven world?
Ozzie: Absolutely. Truth in advertising, I'm on the board of advisers of EPIC, so I have some privacy viewpoints. We are in a time when we don't know the social norms yet that should be present online. We have to be very careful in terms of being aware of what online service providers and app vendors are doing with our data. But I just think we need to be reflective and understand that even in a pre-PC world, we developed norms that were imperfect. Business cards that we all get, and we all collect. What rights do we convey to a person when we hand them that business card, in terms of republication rights.
There are commercial motivations that will naturally make certain providers do the wrong thing, or do the thing that's self-interested, to their commercial interest, but we also need as a society to develop a regulatory infrastructure and to just develop social norms that make the best of these things and make the right tradeoffs between us citizens, and what we want to happen, and online service providers.
I don't know how many people are aware of this, and I don't even know if it's still the case, but for many years I had to pay to have my entry removed from the white pages. In that case, we said the default is that commercial providers can publish your info, and they have
TB: Are we limiting ourselves as technology users by being too focused on privacy to the point that we're limiting the ability of the technology providers …
Ozzie: I'm not worried about that. I'm not worried about us being too careful. The nature of idea people in the product realm will be to push the limits and then through journalism, watchdogs, regulators, there will be pressure applied, and things will come back. And we have to find that in many different domains, whether it's health data, personal contact information, photos, documents, each one will have some kind of norm that develops.
Why databases are hot
JC: Another question from the audience. What excites you the most right now? What technology solution are you just super-hot on that you've seen, either a startup company or something that you're using? People want to know. Somebody mentioned that you've mentioned GitHub three times. They're going to start a drinking game if you mention GitHub again.
Ozzie: GitHub, GitHub, GitHub, GitHub, GitHub. … Well no, the reason I talk about that is that I'm working with a team of developers pretty closely at this point in time. There's some in Seattle, some in Boston, and I'm watching the tools and the libraries and things like that that they're using.
JC: So beyond GitHub, what else is out there that you think is really hot?
I know this is boring, but I'm going to take it out of the consumer device realm, because we're all enamored with consumer devices, but I am fascinated by the development of NoSQL databases, and some new new SQL databases. Mike Stonebreaker in Boston has a number of companies that he has started. There's a guy named Jim Starkey who has a thing, NuoDB, which is a relational DB. The database technology is really fascinating the way it's developing and maturing right now. That kind of has a lot of my focus. There are also a number of real-time technologies.
TB: A number of real-time technologies such as?
Ozzie: WebRTC and things in that realm. I think we're at an interesting juncture, in that the average bandwidth and the average connectivity is such that, where it used to be very very difficult to do real-time communitications — for example, Skype,the infrastructure was very hard to build — you're going to see more and more innovation in different apps and services that connect people in an audio way, in a video way, in different types of conferencing. Different innovative ways of interacting one another.
TB: Building on the existing infrastructure rather than inventing new infrastructure as a form of innovation.
Ozzie: Right. There are lots of components that are out there, and weaving them together is the magic. It's figuring out what impact you're trying to have with an individual in their daily lives, whether it's a business daily life, or a person who goes to a ballgame, or something like that, and figuring out, how can I meaningfully impact that and weave together a solution to do so.
And I just want to step back just so that we don't just think about frivolous solutions. One of the things that has been striking to me and is why I spent so much of my time last year in China, and I just got back from India, is that there are people who are now getting smartphones very inexpensively who have never had a PC.
They have just not had access to apps or the Internet. And this is going to change their lives. This is going to be transformational to them in ways that are impactful at the very, very local level. I'm extremely excited about that, and I'm not sure if the entrepreneurs who are going to tackle those solutions are local over there or if they're also worldwide, but there are so many opportunities to make a difference.
Social collaboration in the enterprise
JC: How do you see social networking technologies impacting business?
Ozzie: There is a guy by the name of Ethan Zuckerman who said something like this, and I'm going to translate it. He laid out a taxonomy of public, private, secret, self as scopes of voice, that is when you're speaking in public, you speak a certain way. When you're speaking to a semi-trusted group, you speak a little bit differently. When you know you can trust a group of people — five people, all your best friends, you'll really start talking trash — and then when you're alone, you'll just start thinking just the worst.
But when we talk about Facebook and Twitter we're really talking about the public sphere, that is, you're speaking in a voice externally. And one of the interesting things about Twitter is that you're speaking more in a private voice to the public, and it's transforming things a bit. I think when you get into enterprise and business scenarios, there are some organizations where speaking publicly in a public voice is very useful. Professional services firms promote an internal culture where speaking openly and being known as the professional who knows something about something works a lot better than certain manufacturing company, where the internal norms might be different in terms of secrecy and confidentiality.
There will be a spectrum of communication tools, ranging from secret specialized communication tools, to private specialized communication tools, to internal public — kind of like a Salesforce Chatter or those uses of SharePoint — to public. I know we get preoccupied with Facebook and Twitter public ones, but there's an opportunity for different types of things, and they will permeate enterprises. … Most enterprises have not yet embraced phones or tablets for anything other than email, calendar, contacts, some rudimentary viewers and things like that. They're not really part of the business environment. That will change over the next certain number of years.
JC: Seems like a startup opportunity.
Ozzie: Many startup opportunities.
JC: I was wondering if that's where Cocomo was going, for example.
Ozzie: I said something earlier, and I really do mean this. In order to succeed, I believe, as a startup in this world, you have to adapt yourself to the environment, not think that somehow you can be different than the environment. And today's environment means starting small, not letting your external message get ahead of yourself, build something, get out there with it, don't claim all these great things, learn from it, refine it, have very dynamic processes and so on. This company, Cocomo, is a handful of people, spread across two coasts. They're just getting their rhythm going in terms of engineering practices. And I'm really excited about what they're working on, but it's not time.
JC: There's a certain amount of pressure that comes with that if you're a startup founder like Ray Ozzie. People want to know, and there's that expectation. So how do you deal with that?
Ozzie: I just don't say anything.
TB: I'd like to frame the question more in terms of yourself … When you look at yourself and the rest of your career, what are you aspirations for yourself, because when you think back, you were there at the beginning, and you've seen these online collaboration technologies evolve, and become things that are astonishing to you, as you said earlier. What impact do you hope to make with the rest of your career?
Ozzie: I can't think at that meta-level. My aspiration is to keep building, to keep dreaming, to keep taking a risk. When things get too comfortable, to shake things up, to put myself out there continuously in a way where I'm risking something that's material to me. … I just want to keep building.

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Posted by Harold on December 05, 2003
In Reply to: 'mile high club' posted by Ward Fredericks on December 05, 2003
: : : : : : : : : This expression dates back to the days of the DC 3 and the beginning of private aviation. It refers to someone who has done the deed at altitude and used to be quite rare. Recently, I heard from an International Stewardess (sorry, flight attendant) that it not at all rare anymore -- happens all the time on night flights. Can this really be?????
: : : : : : : : I don't know. The only places I ever get to go are work and church. But I'm interested in seeing who will admit to firsthand knowledge.
: : : : : : : I've heard it used here in California, not this year but recently enough that I wouldn't say it's obsolete.
: : : : : : mile high club, the A fantasy club for which the only criterion of membership is that a person has been fortunate enough to have had sexual intercourse whilst flying as a passenger on a plane. First heard during the international flight boom of the early seventies and swiftly picked up by popular newspapers in the US and the UK. Still very popular (presumably people are 'joining' every day as air traffic steadily increases). Gays are also eligible, withh the captain's announcement 'we are now cruising at 30,000 feet' often causing amusement on US flights. One memorable British equivalent is the 'three foot six high club' whose members join by having sex during a British Rail journey (Nic Van Hear, 1980), although this club has as yet escaped the newspapers' attention.
: : : : : : From _The Slanguage of Sex_ by Brigid McConville & John Shearlaw
: : : : : : ----------
: : : : : : Mile-high club. A notional 'club' evolving in the 1970s of those who have coupled sexually while in an aeroplane. The first recorded incident have taken place in 1916, when Lawrence Sperry, an aircraft designer flying a biplane over New York, lost control and crashed, although he and his lover lived to tell the tale. A more recent equivalent is the 'mile-deep club', whose members have followed their example while travelling through the Channel Tunnel.
: : : : : : The Mile High Club had a bad press over the past couple of days. The arrest of married strangers Amanda Holt and David Machin, following their brief encounter in the business-class section of an American Airlines aircraft, was an unromantic ending to their sky-high liaison.
: : : : : : _The Times_ (6 October 1999)
: : : : : : From _Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable_ by Adrian Room
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: : : : : : Jokes about the Mile-High Club, about balling pilots in the cockpit or passengers in the toilet. (J. Wells, _Come Fly with Us_, 1972)
: : : : : : The "Mile-High Club," in which membership is limited to couples who have had sex on commercial airline flights. (_TV Guide_, August 5, 1989)
: : : : : Oh...coupling on private jets doesn't count? Dang.
: : : :
: : : : Ha ha, you guys are all just living in hope!!!
: : : : Oh, and do you know there's actually a TV series (English I think) called the Mile High Club. I saw a portion of an episode (it was all I could stand), and it makes Baywatch look intellectual.
: : : :::Why am I not surprised to see a response from the Goddess to this phrase? Every once in awhile you do get some expert opinion on this site.
: :
: : Expert huh? Should I be complimented or offended? I'll choose the former. Either way you'll pay for this - he he!!
: :::Goddess -- a compliment was intended. And it will be my pleasure to accept the consquences of my actions.
The 'mile high club' is wrongly named as at a mile up in the air the seat belt signs are still on and movement is restricted: better if it were named the 'Six mile high club'.


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PIM storage describes a means of storing data in an extensible and cross-referencable way.
Goals & Objectives
- Method to exchange data between all applications completely transparent
- Personal data security / encryption
- Great bidirectional sync of personal data
- Easy method for backup (ideally this should be automatic)
- Real-time incremental search
- Autocomplete of personal data information
Use Cases
- I would like to attach arbitrary data to a contact (AKA: custom fields)
- I would like some level of integration with automatic switching of profiles. For example, it would be cool to automatically backup my personal data to my desktop PC when I get home.
- I want to type the first few numbers of a phone number and be presented a list of matching contacts.
- I'd rather take a person, choose home/work, choose land-line/mobile and not bother with numbers anymore. Useful when I'm on my way to meet that person, or the person has his/her birthday, i.e. the person is already listed on my screen!
- I want to add a contact to multiple groups (AKA: categories)
- I want to be able to send my contact info to other Openmoko devices over bluetooth
- I want to be able to two-way sync all calendar, contacts (and tasks) with a GroupDAV server (e.g. Citadel) over-the-air
Implementation Recommendations
- This will be based on Embedded EDS, this way we will can directly use Evolution data, get OpenSync for free, and eventually be able to talk to a Microsoft Exchange Server using the Novell Connector.
- Alternatively: Go for a radically different approach: Use Topic Maps to store PIM data, use Topic Map's integrated merging features for syncing. --xbaldauf
- Topic Maps allow multi-way sync, storage of arbitrary data (including categories, and even a hierarchy of categories), integration of PIM data which is separated otherwise (calendar, addressbook, personal notes, representing networks who knows whom and who works for whom and on which project, ...), multiple entries for each field (e.g. multiple addresses, multiple names, multiple phone numbers, ...)
- Embedded EDS needs libglade2, D-Bus, and libdb.
Unresolved Issues
- Synchronizing w/ Outlook
- Synchronizing w/ MacOS X - most Macs have bluetooth builtin and OSX addressbook supports BT sync.
- Synchronizing w/ Google services
Possible solutions:
- mokod - An Openmoko daemon to run on host operating systems
- Syncevolution can sync with Scheduleworld which can sync with Google, and other programs.
- Hack the libsyncml stack to work in OpenMoko and sync with OpenSync. Solve the connectivity problem and move the supporting-the-other-peers to modular, plugin based OpenSync.
Questions and Answers
- Q: When will an Embedded EDS specification be available? i.e. How I can get applications to store and retrieve data from in it, in a compatible way?
- Q: Will it out of the box synchronize with the Kontact PIM suite (KDE)?


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- Page 1 Panasonic PT-AT5000 3D Projector Review
- Page 2 3D Tech Review
- Page 3 First Performance Impressions Review
Key Specifications
- Customisable aspect ratio
- Viera link
- Three HDMI inputs
- Automatic lamp brightness
Considering Panasonic was the driving force behind bringing full HD 3D
technology into our living rooms, and remains the most vocal proponent
of the alternate frame 3D approach, the amount of time it's taken the
brand to produce a 3D projector seems bizarre.
After all, nobody
doubts that 3D looks its best on really big screens of the sort you can
only get – for remotely sensible money, anyway – with a projector
system. And nobody should be in any doubt, either, that Panasonic knows
its projector onions; there are multiple generations of home cinema
models, culminating in the PT-AE4000, to prove that Panasonic is actually one of the best LCD projector makers around.
the fact remains that until the official Los Angeles launch of the
Panasonic PT-AT5000 at the end of last week, Panasonic hadn't given us a
single 3D projection solution – despite a growing public clamour for
What's taken the brand so long? According to the PT-AT5000's
senior product manager, Rena Yotsu, it's a simple matter of quality:
"We wanted to create a premium quality product in keeping with
Panasonic's uncompromising approach to 3D. We didn't want to go out at a
premature stage – we wanted to be safe."
These are bold words that obviously set the AT5000 up for a fall. But
based on what we saw at the launch of the projector at Panasonic's
Hollywood Labs (PHL) in Los Angeles, a 'fall' is not likely to be on the
The first thing that struck us as Panasonic whisked the
cover off the AT5000 for the first time in its suitably awesome PHL
cinema room was that thankfully it's a more attractive beast than the
frankly industrial PT-AE4000. It features less of the grilles that
dominate all sides of the AE4000, its finish is slightly flasher, it's
slightly less chunky, and most amazing of all, it's actually got – gasp -
a few curves.
It's still got a pretty expansive footprint for a
projector that's likely to retail for under £3k when it launches in the
UK, though, ensuring that it looks suitably serious rather than like
some casual 'shove it in a cupboard when you're not using it' affair.
been nearly 18 months since the AE4000 came out, so it's good to see
that the AT5000's specs offer some major improvements beyond the 'mere'
addition of 3D. Particularly eye-catching is the doubling of the claimed
contrast ratio to 300,000:1, thanks in part to a completely new dynamic
iris design. But also potentially significant given the AT5000's 3D
ambitions is a significantly higher brightness output of 2000 ANSI
Lumens. Brightness is particularly important with 3D projectors, because
they need to combat the inevitable dimming effect of active shutter
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High Capacity Screener Has 360-degree Overs Discharge
Kason Corp.'s new vibratory screener discharges oversize particles 360 degrees around the periphery of a circular screening deck increases capacity, improves efficiency, minimizes screen blinding and prolongs screen life.
The screener, a 60 in. (1524 mm) diameter Vibroscreen model with "External Kascade" deck, is intended for screening of wet or dry bulk materials containing a large percentage of oversize fractions, at higher rates than attainable with conventional screeners.
As material is fed onto the center of the screening deck, on-size particles pass through the screen and funnel through a lower discharge chute. Oversize particles flow outward in a spiral pattern, and cascade at any point over the periphery of the circular screen onto a spiral vibratory trough that directs the material into a high capacity discharge spout.
The special screening deck is offered on any of the company's Vibroscreen separators ranging from 40 to 72 in. (1016 to 1829 mm) in diameter, and is available as a retrofit kit for any make of circular vibratory screener.
A range of accessories is available including clean-in-place spray heads, anti-blinding devices, articulated lids for rapid screen changes, and an automatic long-term lubrication system for gyratory motor bearings.


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The rapid advancement of technology is changing the world, disrupting every facet of commerce, industry and government. As a result, the question for every leader is no longer whether to adopt a disruptive approach in order to keep up, but where to begin. This was also clearly the question at the forefront of everyone's minds at the opening plenary session of the World Economic Forum on Africa, held in Durban earlier this month.
Global CEO of Boston Consulting Group, Rich Lesser, concisely summed up the challenges facing leadership and inclusive growth in Africa with the vowels of the English alphabet, "AEIOU". Each vowel represents a different challenge, namely the lack of agriculture, education, infrastructure, opportunities, and understanding. The rest of the panellists including Oxfam's Winnie Byanyima, United Bank for Africa's Tony Elumelu and Lindiwe Mazibuko agreed. However, the exchange between them that followed offered some insight into one further obstacle: grappling with how to prioritise these challenges within the disruptive African environment.
Byanyima gave the precedence to agriculture, which she feels should be driven by the public sector. Large scale agricultural projects may aid job creation to an extent, but she argues it won't touch the lives of small-scale and subsistence farmers, which make up a fairly large portion of the population and who are more vulnerable to the changing climates we've been seeing in recent years. Byanyima believes investment in this area of the agricultural sector can reduce poverty infinitely more than any other economic sector.
Elumelu, on the other hand, vied for poverty elevation through the provision of opportunities for entrepreneurs. He emphasised the importance of improving the enabling environment for SME's, as the backbone of economic growth. For instance, access to electricity on the continent is still very poor, with less than 2% accessibility. Hence, infrastructure which will aid entrepreneurs is also vitally important.
Lesser conceded there is a huge need to take on adaptation in African agriculture, but then shifted the spotlight over to education. In his opinion, disruption to the old systems of education needs to occur if our youth are to remain competitive in this global economy. At the basic level, our youth should have a primary and secondary education, but Lesser posits that this is no longer sufficient, as the rate of change is now faster than it has ever been in human history.
He went on to explain that while 50-100 years ago, people could succeed and thrive in their chosen profession with their initial skills gained through apprenticeship, this is no longer possible. In the 21st century, skills can become obsolete within a period of 5 years. Thus, the need for a continuous education that reinforces life-long learning and adaption is essential in this era.
Lesser also reiterated the need for infrastructure, opportunities, and empathy from leadership. In fact, one point every panellist seemed to touch on was a concern regarding the responsibility, accountability and understanding of the leadership implementing the policies to combat these challenges. So, to conclude the session, each panellist was asked what they think leaders can implement over the next 6 months in order to encourage responsible and reactive leadership that is value driven.
Elumelu led the response to this question with a focus on legacy leadership. Leaders focused on a legacy impact are more structured in their planning. The first 6 months become the preliminary steps required as part of a long-term strategy, thus enabling a sustainable solution and impact. Mazibuko extended on Elumelu's lead, adding mentorship to legacy leadership. People with leadership authority or responsibility should bring the next cohorts of leadership "with them", so to speak, and provide them with the necessary nurturing and support.
Lesser stood firmly on his stance on education. The clock is ticking when it comes to education, and each year that we fail to make an impact, millions of children are affected. He suggests starting with a greater effort to implement education best practices, as the most important thing to do over the next 6 months.
Increasing accountability of political leadership was Byanyima's focus. She also put the responsibility squarely on the public sector, stating that the government should adopt a practical approach based on an economic scorecard of KPIs. She suggested that government should begin to measure the impact of their projects by tracking, for instance, the number of jobs being created for young people each month, or year, thanks to certain initiatives. This accountability and transparency will go a long way in building public confidence and support.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Explore the frontiers of physics research with the scientists on the front lines in this 11-unit course in modern physics for high school physics teachers, undergraduate students, and science enthusiasts.
1. The Basic Building Blocks of Matter
In the past century, physicists have discovered new constituents of matter — quarks, gluons, neutrinos, and many others. These basic building blocks have been linked together into a well tested theoretical framework, the Standard Model of particle physics. But there are hints that the Standard Model is incomplete, and that a deeper theory lies behind it, waiting to be teased into the open. The work of scientists Bonnie Fleming and Mark Kruse, both at Fermilab in Batavia, IL is profiled. Go to this unit.
2. The Fundamental Interactions
The key to physicists' search for a new, underlying theory of the physical world is a better understanding of the fundamental interactions. One starting point is to investigate the microscopic description of forces: electromagnetism, gravity, and the two nuclear forces, strong and weak, with increasingly energetic collisions. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has achieved the highest energy yet in a particle accelerator, and also the highest luminosity — with events measured in millions of collisions per second. This presents a challenge for physicists Srini Rajagopalan to capture only the most interesting events and for Ayana Arce to find reliable ways to analyze these to reveal interactions that have never been seen before. Go to this unit.
3. Gravity
The study of gravity has played a central role in the history of science — from Galileo and Newton to Einstein's 20th century theory of general relativity. Yet in spite of five centuries of study, many aspects of gravity remain a mystery. How can gravity, which in many ways is the dominant force in the universe, be at the same time, by far, the weakest of the four known forces in nature? See how physicists are approaching this question through two topics of intense research in gravitational physics today: short-scale measurements of gravity's inverse-square law at the University of Washington, and the search for ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves at MIT's LIGO facility. Go to this unit.
4. String Theory and Extra Dimensions
In the 20th century twin breakthroughs, quantum mechanics and general relativity provided fresh insight into phenomena at the sub-atomic and cosmological scales, respectively. Yet physicists are still struggling to develop a consistent theory that bridges quantum mechanics and gravity. One approach to "quantum gravity" is string theory: a mathematical description of particles and forces at scales 1031 times smaller than a proton. String theory attempts to link particle physics, the forces of nature, and the earliest moments of the universe into a fresh theoretical framework. Hard evidence remains elusive, but theorists are applying string theory to important problems: explaining the exponential growth of the early universe (Henry Tye of Cornell) and the paradoxes introduced to physics by the existence of black holes (Juan Maldacena of Princeton). Go to this unit.
5. The Quantum World
We are in a new quantum age in which the abstract concepts of the quantum revolution have become concrete thanks to rapid advances in controlling and manipulating atoms, molecules, and light. Find out how laser cooling and trapping, as shown in the lab of MIT's Martin Zwierlein, enables new laboratory experiments as models for disparate systems, providing insights into phenomena at scales from the atomic nucleus to neutron stars. Cooling and trapping atoms is also key to super-precise clocks like the atomic clocks at NIST Boulder — new tools that are being used to search for subtle changes over time in the fundamental constants of nature. Go to this unit.
6. Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics
Quantum mechanics provides a useful description of nature at the atomic and subatomic scale, but it also manifests itself in phenomena at macroscopic scales, including lasers, clouds of ultra-cold atoms, superfluids, and superconductivity. Among these phenomena, the recent discovery of new kinds of high-temperature superconducting materials holds the promise of many practical applications. See how researchers are developing ideas for how these materials work from two different directions: a "top-down" approach, closely examining the materials themselves (Jenny Hoffman of Harvard), and a "bottom-up" approach, looking at model systems that mimic the quantum interactions of the superconducting electrons inside the materials (Debbie Jin of JILA/NIST). Go to this unit.
7. Manipulating Light
Tools of quantum mechanics are opening new possibilities for controlling and manipulating light. Paul Kwiat is creating photons "to order" by carefully manipulating their quantum properties. In 2001, Lene Vestergaard Hau stopped a pulse of light in a cloud of atoms and then released it, along with the information it contained. Explore how light interacts with matter at the quantum level, and learn about the concepts of entanglement and action at a distance. These experiments with storing information in matter are building the groundwork for a new technology: quantum computers. Go to this unit.
8. Emergent Behavior in Quantum Matter
Reductionism — breaking things into their component parts to study how they work — is an effective tool in physics. But many real-world challenges resist this approach. All too often, large scale behavior emerges in ways that are difficult to predict from the behavior of individual components. When the computational requirements are too massive or the theories that govern the component parts are inadequate, many complex systems have yielded to the physics of emergence, which seeks organizing principles at the system level. Find out how many different phenomena — superconductors, hydrodynamics, and even the formation of structure in the universe — are all fruitful areas where the physics of emergence is leading to new understanding. The work of Piers Coleman of Rutgers and Paul Chaikin of NYU is featured. Go to this unit.
9. Biophysics
The broad, rapidly developing field of biophysics brings together many disciplines. The physics of biological systems provides new insights into how flowers explode into bloom and how bacteria travel. Computational biophysics works to develop designer drugs and a new understanding of neural networks in the brain. Molecular biophysics (Vinothan Manoharan of Harvard) opens the possibility of manipulating DNA and proteins, perhaps leading in the future to nanofabrication of biologically active molecules. And medical physics, as shown by Harald Paganetti at Mass General Hospital, is already providing novel ways of imaging living tissues, as well as curing disease through new uses for old accelerators with radiation therapy. Go to this unit.
10. Dark Matter
Since Swiss astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky first inferred its existence in 1933, dark matter has remained one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in cosmology. Invisible to telescopes, dark matter was detected through its effects on visible matter. Astronomical measurements have shown that dark matter is 3/4ths of all matter, but at present no one has yet directly observed a dark matter particle. See how astrophysicists are seeking evidence for dark matter at the center of the Milky Way galaxy (Doug Finkbeiner of Harvard) and how the LUX (Large Underground Xenon) detector almost a mile underground will look for dark matter particles (Rick Gaitskell of Brown). Go to this unit.
11. Dark Energy
Cosmologists have known that the universe is expanding in all directions since early in the 1920s. Later, they used new instruments to examine the question again. They assumed that — due to gravity — the rate of expansion of the universe today have slowed. Instead, measurements showed that the cosmic expansion has been speeding up. The expansion is attributed to "dark energy," a kind of springiness of empty space itself. Today's astronomical measurements show that dark energy makes up about 70% of the total mass-energy in the universe. See how Robert Kirshner's observations that measure the history of cosmic expansion more precisely, along with a more detailed look at the cosmic microwave background (by Princeton's David Spergel), are providing new clues about the nature of dark energy. Go to this unit.
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A Tangled Web We Weave
An alternative to modifying the JRE is to modify a Java applications bytecode. If we could effectively modify the bytecode, we wouldnt need to recompile the original source code. Because we are modifying selected portions of bytecode in an application, the changes would be localized and contained -- unlike the previous JRE modification approach. There are several useful and powerful tools available to modify Java bytecode such as Javassist. We chose to leverage AspectJ, the popular aspect-oriented programming framework for Java, for our bytecode modifications. AspectJ is less powerful than a tool like Javassist that lets you directly manipulate bytecode, but it was sufficient for our needs and easy to integrate with our workflow.
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) evolved from OOP as a means to separate common code fragments that cross-cut a number of classes. Proponents of AOP maintain that encapsulating this common functionality in a single aspect enhances the maintainability of the code. For our purposes, we were less concerned with the pros and cons of aspects and more interested in leveraging tools that weave these aspects across the objects. AspectJ supports the weaving of aspects at load-time, so we dont need to rebuild the application. AspectJ relies upon text pattern matching to identify join points in the application where advice from the aspect can be inserted.
Using AspectJ, we can take an approach that is less like an evil twin and more like a parasite that can be attached when needed. To selectively replace Sockets with our own customized Socket (e.g., CustomSocket), we can use AspectJ to create an aspect that wraps around calls to the Socket constructor. This aspect takes the Socket that is being created in that constructor call and passes it to the CustomSocket constructor. The CustomSocket will delegate to the Socket that has been passed in, injecting behavior to mimic certain properties. For example, to mimic low bandwidth, the CustomSocket will return a modified CustomInputStream that wraps the original InputStream. This CustomInputStream will sleep for a set period of time on each "read" operation, resulting in net data transfer at the desired bandwidth.
A simple AspectJ aspect is shown in Example 2. Its job is to find calls to two kinds of Socket constructors, one with no arguments and one with two arguments, a String and an int. Notice that we are matching against calls to the Socket constructor and not the execution of the Socket constructor. This distinction means that our pointcut will insert bytecode into any class that instantiates a Socket with one of these constructors, rather than inside the Socket class itself. The advantage of not modifying the Socket is that the original vanilla Socket is still available for those classes that need it. This is a useful benefit of our aspect weaving approach, but the dirty little secret is that this was done by necessity rather than by choice.
public aspect SocketSwap { pointcut onCreateSocketNoArgs(): call (Socket.new()) && !within(SocketSwap); pointcut onCreateSocketTwoArgs(String host, int port): args(host, port) && call(Socket.new(..)) && !within(SocketSwap); Socket around(): onCreateSocketNoArgs() { return new CustomSocket(new Socket()); } Socket around(String host, int port) throws UnknownHostException, IOException: onCreateSocketTwoArgs(host, port) { return new CustomSocket(new Socket(host, port)); } }
The downside of this bytecode manipulation approach is that we are modifying the application codes direct access to Sockets only, and indirect invocations will not be modified. Because AspectJ uses a custom classloader to insert aspects, classes loaded via other classloaders (e.g., the bootstrap classloader) cannot be woven. Although some other bytecode manipulation tools are more flexible, similar constraints apply. This is why we could not modify Socket bytecode directly. Leaving Socket unmodified is fine for our purposes, but there is a more ominous implication. The inability to weave into classes on the bootstrap classloader means that we cant modify JRE classes that may internally invoke Socket constructors, such as several classes within the java.rmi package. You could potentially implement customized RMI classes and apply these aspects in the same way that we applied our CustomSocket, but not only would you need to understand and duplicate the non-Socket related internals of the RMI classes, but you would also need to carefully review the implementation of the JRE to capture all Socket invocations. Similar to the modified JRE approach, this would be highly version-specific and similarly brittle.
We have demonstrated two approaches to modifying the behavior of third-party Java applications without rebuilding or otherwise directly modifying the original source code. They both have their pros and cons, but under the right circumstances can provide an interesting means to modify behavior. While not all applications can be successfully modified by these two approaches, there will be many Java applications that can benefit from this post-build modification of behavior.


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New Zealand 3-day bike trip
Ever think 'This is a really bad idea. We shouldn't do this. There is still time to back out.'? Usually, I would do so. A voice in the back of my head this time (which was slightly mumbled and maybe British) said, 'Come on, it's an adventure. What's the worse that could happen?'. It was boxing day, a strange Kiwi holiday the day after chirstmas, and Matt Pro and I were suppose to leave the next day for a 3-day, 300-mile bike tour from Christchurch to Nelson (a beach town on the northside of the south island). The problem was, we had one road bike, one fixed gear (49x16, mind you) and a broken single-speed mountain bike. No racks. No panniers. Bonnie, one of Matt's friends I had met, was planning the trip, but we did not know the other two guys. Neither had bike toured, one didn't really ride bikes. Yeah. We managed to scrape together four panniers and a rack and Matt bought another rack. We decided to take the fixed instead of my broken bike.
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JULIE!!!!! *insert cartwheels* Thank you so much you AWESOME critty pal, you!! It's such an honor for me to brag here on your rockin' blog today! I'm so excited to be your guest because I've learned so much from you. Musings was the first blog I clicked on when I decided to start writing. You helped me get published! And here I am…on your blog talking about my first release, Happenstance. Isn't life grand? It took a couple years and lots of sniveling and whining but I can finally call myself an author thanks to all your help! (Also, now might be a great time to apologize for all the newbie craptastic I had you critique. Eeesh and shiver.)
Let me interject *blog owner pulls rank on guest poster* You are crazy pants. You are brilliant and I am supremely blessed to be your crit girl. Also, I'm glad my posts about how to fail at writing helped you avoid those pitfalls. TO recap: I'm a dorkfish. You are *jazz hands*. Please, continue.
Happenstance, my debut novella, will be available from Turquoise Morning Press on December 13, 2012! I wrote this story using a corporate setting based on some of the relationship conflict I witness at my day job as an administrative assistant. I take note of the Peyton Place happenings and file them away in my scheming brain for future novels but today, we're talking Happenstance!
Taryn Ballard is happily married and a newly appointed analyst for a prestigious shipping company. Her career upsurges in record time but she's about to discover the real price of corporate life.
While on yet another business trip, Taryn suffers a brutal attack by a carjacker. Her husband isn't there, but her co-worker Devin is. The accidental bond Taryn and Devin share pitches them into dangerous and confusing territory. Taryn struggles to discern both her feelings for her sexy protector and Wade's reaction to it all. Unfamiliar emotions blur the rules of the game and Wade's ready to quit.
Taryn must rise above disaster to save her marriage. But is she ready to let go of the man who saved her life? In a single moment, Happenstance changes everything.
One of the invaluable things I learned from you was to put my MC through the wringer and that's just what I did with Taryn. She was so much fun to write because I could really play havoc on both Devin and Wade while running her through the mill! Yes, I'm awful. J My favorite two genres are suspense and romance so I couldn't resist merging them into my story. Here's a snippet to give you the feel of the book.
"Devin, it's Taryn. You were right. The execs want me to meet them for dinner and I feel really foolish because I have a GPS and a connect-the-dot map from the concierge and I'm still lost."
Devin laughed. "Not a problem. Where are you?"
Taryn took a second to locate the green street sign. "At the corner of First and Third at a tiny, ancient-looking convenience store."
"Oh, I know the one. You're right next to us. I could probably see you from the tower window. Okay, which restaurant are you looking for?"
Taryn grabbed the hand-drawn map. "Caminas."
"I know where it is. Actually, it might be faster by freeway."
"Of course it would. I just came from—"
An unexpected rush of damp, hot air hit her and Taryn turned, confused to see her door open wide. She sucked in a quick breath and saw too late the arm reaching for her. Terror gripped her as she zeroed in on the gun in her face.
I had so much fun writing this story. I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I do! You can purchase Happenstance here on December 23rd!
Tweet with me @Valeriebrbr, follow me on Facebook or find out the latest on my Author Page about my upcoming short story Magnolia Brides in a TMP wedding anthology out in June! Thanks again, Julie!
About Valerie:
Valerie Haight is a short story writer and contemporary suspense and romance novelist. She is a member of Ozarks Writer's League through College of the Ozarks in Branson, MO. She is a published author with Turquoise Morning Press.
You can find her scheming on the corner of Happy Trouble and Literary Mayhem, also known as Twitter @Valeriebrbr or raising the eyebrows of her husband and two boys in their cozy Arkansas home. She also gives way more than her two cents at www.thewriteoneval.blogspot.com.


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Time magazine has a load of information on the resurgence of moonshine this week. Some of the writing is good, some bewilderingly bad. I'll have more to say on this in the coming days, but for now, I want to tackle just one aspect of a flawed article.
It's testament to the underground nature of illicit liquor that factually incorrect reporting passed muster at Time. One can only assume that Time's editors — like journalists in general — are so unfamiliar with the lore of moonshine that they just didn't smell bullshit when it was dumped on their desks.
Dan Fletcher (whom I don't know) wrote a solid piece called Moonshine: Not Just a Hillbilly Drink. Nothing groundbreaking, but it's engaging and accurate. In it, he interviews Max Watman, author of Chasing the White Dog. Max is a friend and, I can testify, knows his stuff. The piece is mostly Max talking, but Fletcher asks good questions and leads us to a sense of moonshine as substance both dangerous and full of potential.
Then there's Josh Ozersky's White Dog Rising: Moonshine's Moment. Reading it, I was angry — actually angry — at Ozersky's sloppy, willful misinformation. It was writing such as this that inspired me to write Moonshine! in the first place. I worked for years to overturn decades of bad information about illicit liquor, to provide a guide and reference source that, while it didn't contain everything, did refute an accretion of hearsay, fakelore, and flat-out benighted misunderstanding.
I'm not just picking fly shit out of pepper. As writers, it's incumbent upon us to get stories right or we lose credibility, individually and as a class. The truth about moonshine is out there…and it's not hard to find. Yet Josh "Mr. Cutlets" Ozersky fumbles badly in the pages of a respected national magazine and others will take his confused writing as reality. Take, for instance, this:
Moonshine, both then and now, is whiskey as it comes out of the still: no oak barrels, no caramel color, no aging. It's just straight liquor from fermented corn or wheat mash.The writing is not just scratching the surface, it's wrong. Let's start with moonshine "then." Francis Grose's 1785 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue — the go-to definition for first baby steps research into moonshine history — describes moonshine as "white brandy smuggled on the coasts of Kent and Sussex, and the gin in the north of Yorkshire" at night to avoid detection. Brandy, gin. No mention of whiskey. Also, in 1785, such smuggled spirits would have arrived in wooden barrels, thus unavoidably imparting taste and possibly color to the spirits. Not "barrel aged" as we use the term today, but it was certainly in barrels.
Ok, so maybe 18th century England isn't what Ozersky had in mind. Fair enough. There was a time between the late 18th and early 20th centuries when Scots-Irish settlers did, in fact, make genuine whiskey from actual grain here in North America. But not merely corn and wheat, as Mr. Cutlets proclaims; rye whiskey is older than the United States itself. It was largely the spirit at the heart of the 1790's Whiskey Rebellion, the skirmish that helped set the tenor for hundreds of years of moonshiner/government relations — and which he actually mentions in the article. His definition also ignores other American spirits such as peach brandy and applejack, sorgum skimmin's, rum, and other untaxed local spirits.
Or perhaps the 20th century is where we should cast our eyes for this "straight liquor from fermented corn or wheat mash." In the mythological mountain South, that pure old mountain dew was corn whiskey. But even in 1974, actual journalist Joe Dabney realized that style of moonshine was on the wane, replaced by modern sugar washes that distillers took up in widespread corner-cutting in the 1920's. In Mountain Spirits, he wrote "The truth is that compared to equivalent figures from five, ten, and twenty years ago, the 'corn likker' craft is dying fast." No, what was around for most of the last 90 years was not corn whiskey at all, but spirits made from table sugar, made fast to be sold fast. The old corn whiskey of our parents' and grandparents' eras was rarely corn and rarely whiskey. But it sure was moonshine.
In the American idiom, moonshine refers to illicitly distilled spirits – illicit because the distilleries are unregistered and the liquor untaxed. After twenty years of researching moonshine and those who make it, I've come to this conclusion: The single, universal, and defining characteristic of moonshine is that it is made outside the law.
There. That's it. Spirits are moonshine when their manufacturers illegally avoid paying taxes. That's your litmus test. If you can you buy it in liquor stores, it's not moonshine. What it's made from, what color it is, and how old it is are irrelevant. I've had moonshine made from apples, dates, rye, corn (and corn flakes for that matter), sugar, agave nectar, and countless other starches and sugars. I've had stunning hausgemacht absinthes and mediocre garage grappa. I've had it right off the still and aged for upwards of 20 years. I've had it aged in new and charred barrels and aged in stainless so that it mellows and becomes more polished without oak notes.
Don't let anyone ever tell you "Moonshine, both then and now, is whiskey as it comes out of the still: no oak barrels, no caramel color, no aging. It's just straight liquor from fermented corn or wheat mash."
That's fine for 6th grade book reports, but when you're writing your articles, blogs, and books, take the time to find out what the real story is instead of repeating the same old tired romanticized myths of American history.
Obscure information that only those steeped in two decades of moonshine study would know? Could be. Could very well be. Or you could go to the library and read my book.
You want to write about moonshine? Talk to me. Talk to Max Watman. Talk to people for whom it's important to get the story right. Try Paul Clarke at The Cocktail Chronicles, Jim Myers at the Nashville Tennessean, or distiller Jonathan Forester who helps run the discussion forums for the American Distilling Institute (but be sure to quote him correctly). Even go online and talk to Harry and Wal on yahoo's distilling groups (link on the righthand panel here). Though we may not agree on every point, these are observers who understand what one means by "moonshine" and I'd stand by most of what they have to say about it.
In fact, if you're writing articles, speeches, scripts, books, even research papers, email me or post comments here with questions about moonshine — what it is, what it isn't, where it came from, where it's going. I'm traveling this weekend, but if I know the answers, I'll tell you when I get back to the office. If I don't, I'll try to find out the facts. One thing I won't do, I promise, is regurgitate tall tales for the gullible.


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Lego Avengers!
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Cooler than cars?
Dropping the kids off at the gates in this fun little run around would be good for their cred I think.
A sketchup model done for fun.
A sketchup model done for fun.
I can also draw like this!
Yes, I know you wouldn't have thought this was me would you. It's not my comic style. It's one of the other styles I use during my day job.
I like the crazy clown one in the middle of the group of 9 best I think.
I like the crazy clown one in the middle of the group of 9 best I think.
Monday, 20 February 2012
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If you haven't checked it out yet fear not. Click on the picture below to be whisked over to the app store.
It's great because I wrote the strips. Same sense of humour.
If you have a kid you need this app, because sooner or later you're gonna be in a car, train, waiting room, que, what ever and he/she will kick off and shout "I'm bored!" Then you shove you phone/pod/thing into their hands and say "read this."
Oh, and it's free. So why wouldn't you?
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With the Roadblock I guessed or assumed that T/J get to the Yield first pulling ticket #1 with R/K & BQ's right behind them w/the BQ's yielding the Bama's ..pretty sure thats how were seeing it right?
I think that the shot of the Bama's with the rocky background is shot during their Yield time--fits with what they are saying about the BQ"S (heee...not too pissed off, huh?!)
Yep--that's what I think too! Although not quite sure why T/J didn't use the Yield...
one more time..we can see if the backgrounds are the same?
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