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News in brief: Christmas, Scottish Budget, finance
Nearly half of SME owners have to work Christmas Day
Nearly half (49%) of SME decision makers have worked on Christmas Day, according to Zurich's latest SME Risk Index. Despite being a national holiday, nearly one in five (18%) SME decision makers have had to go into work on Christmas Day, and nearly a third (32%) have sacrificed the festivities to check and send work emails.
Not only have SME decision makers had to work over the Christmas period, they're also losing out on annual leave. Data from Zurich's SME Risk Index reveals one in ten (14%) decision makers have not taken any annual leave this year and in addition, almost one in five (18%) have not had more than 10 days off this year.
Zurich head of SME Jason Eastock says: "It will come as no surprise to SMEs that despite commonly held views about the lifestyle benefits of working for yourself, the reality can be very different. Missing big events such as your child's nativity play is a high price to pay and shows the pressure many SMEs are under.
"As we look forward to taking some rest over the Christmas season, it seems current economic and political concerns are driving many of our small business owners to carry on working. We hope that everyone gets a chance to enjoy the holidays and as ever we offer our support to make their businesses run as smoothly as possible during the festive season."
#CaryGrant working his Christmas magic pic.twitter.com/vcsRiTcwa7
— Aurora (@CitizenScreen) December 17, 2015
Investing in skills will strengthen the economy
A 10% increase in professional and technical skills over the next ten years could increase UK GDP by £163 billion by 2025, according to a new report commissioned by the City and Guilds Group. The report highlights that increasing the number of 16-18 year olds enrolled in skills education could lead to a 1.5% reduction in youth unemployment in the UK.
The findings complement the UK Government's ongoing investment into apprenticeships. Previous research by Cebr and the Skills Funding Agency showed returns of between £16 and £21 for every £1 invested. Between 2010 and 2011, the UK government invested £1.2 billion into apprenticeships and in 2010 saw a total economic impact of £25.3 billion.
City and Guilds Group chief executive Chris Jones said: "This report shows that given the high returns, investing in professional and technical education is a safe bet for individuals, employers and economies. It helps to fill skills gaps, boost productivity, enhance industries and increase employment.
"However, while professional and technical education offers so much potential, there are still challenges that are getting in the way– from too little data on the benefits of skills education, to overly complex skills systems and minimal employer involvement. Governments across the world need to understand these challenges and work with employers and education providers to tackle them head-on."
In our industry,why we must invest In real learning of market cycles, investor behaviour, sales process, soft skills pic.twitter.com/1BMzOO179p
— Kalpen Parekh (@KalpenParekh) December 16, 2015
CBI Scotland responds to Scottish Budget
The Confederation of British Industry has responded to the announcement of the Scottish Budget, saying it is pleased to see the Scottish income tax rate unchanged and calling for a long-term roadmap for business taxes.
CBI Scotland Director Hugh Aitken said: "Companies will also welcome the business rates review and the CBI looks forward to working with the Government ahead of its conclusion to ensure rates remain competitive. But companies will be seeking urgent clarification from the Government on the proposed increase to the large business supplement and other reliefs, which could affect investment intentions.
"Elsewhere, while firms back further investment in the modern apprenticeship programme concerns remain about the impact of the new UK levy. They will want assurance that resulting revenues from businesses will be ring-fenced for apprenticeships."
The SNP are putting reform and growth at the core of the Scottish Budget, rather than an ideological driven austerity agenda. #ScotBudget
— Stewart Hosie (@StewartHosieSNP) December 16, 2015
UK manufacturers are underprepared for the future
Despite 86% of UK manufacturers being confident about the future, almost a quarter do not plan for the implementation of new technologies (22%) and do not have personnel succession plans put in place for their staff (24%), according to a survey by FANUC UK.
Other key findings from the report include:
• SMEs are more likely not to have a succession plan in place with over a third (35%) admitting they don't plan for staffing
• The main obstacle to the success of the business is competition in the market (18%), closely followed by UK economic conditions (14%) and international economic conditions (12%)
• Manufacturers are investing in and reliant on technology with almost a third (31%) of UK manufacturers planning to invest more in manufacturing technology in the next two years
• A third (33%) of all manufacturers in the UK said they have become more dependent on technology over the last year, with 89 percent of manufacturers agreeing (46%) and strongly agreeing (43%) with the statement that "keeping up with new technology is important to the success of my company"
• Production line automation is the most important technology to their business (50%) followed by IT (39%), and telecommunications (7%).
• The main drivers behind technological adoption are business owners (38 per cent) and customer demand (37%)
Technology shaping the future
1 cloud
2 mobile
3 Internet of things
4 cognitive computing
5 advanced manufacturing pic.twitter.com/tmabT2UIlu
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) December 15, 2015
Birmingham City Council chooses Obillex solution to help SMEs access finance
Birmingham City Council has announced that it has made a £500,000 investment in a solution that offers its small to medium-sized business suppliers access to finance quickly and more cheaply than generally available.
The City Council has taken a stake in supply chain finance specialist, Obillex, which it recently appointed to provide a new supply chain finance technology platform. Birmingham has been attracted by its potential application in large buying organisations across the country and the boost it can give to local, regional and national economies.
The Obillex supply chain finance system leverages the City Council's creditworthiness to attract funding from investors to allow rapid payment of suppliers' invoices. The cost of the finance is kept low as investors are willing to take a small return on each transaction due to the potential high volumes involved and the low risk based on the Council's good credit rating.
Premier member Obillex appoint new board member as it promises to shake up finance market
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— Birmingham Chamber (@BrumChamber) October 15, 2015


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It would make a good paper weight, a noise maker, you could swing it around by it's cord and bash stuff, or strip it for parts (at least the cord). the motor still works so maybe you could gear it down and connect it to a mobile or some other form of mechanical art with wood gears or something. -- In the end, when your life flashes before your eyes, will you like what you see? |

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my 1990 chevy lumina 3.1 ltr v6 all of a sudden died on me while driving then it wouldnt start at all. the fuel pump works the starter works it has compression so i thought spark. so i wiggled the wires and there was some wires that looked a little burnt then all of a sudden the car would start when moving the wires so i bought new wires and a new coil pack and new plugs but now it still wont start. any suggestions
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This is a piece called:The Fairy Opera, which is a beaded purse pocket.This is part of my fabric purse pockets series. I've branched out of paper pockets and headed for fabric.The purse is made from a small greyish bead bag, which I added a wire bead handle, my signature faires, real vintage opera program from my collection, fairy images and findings such as: enamel pins, ribbons, beads, glitters, etc.
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Whilst browsing the Internet for ladies parading around in their panties I stumbled over a great source for anyone who has a panty fetish. It was a dating site called FindAFuckBuddy.org. The site offers free full membership to women but basic membership to guys, something to do with ensuring plenty of female members. I will be honest, there is not a lot to see until you have registered with them but once you have WOW.
Unlike normal dating sites this one doesn't concentrate on love and romance, it is aimed at women who want no strings sex, years ago it used to be called a one night stand, now it seems fuck buddy is the term they prefer to use.
The basic male membership means you can read all the adverts and view the images the women upload, that is all you need though as nearly all the women upload images of themselves in their panties. The best part though is the women are more than willing to send you more images when you ask nicely.
Cute Teen 18+ Panties
I am not sure if it is the pert ass or the cute tight panties that I find more appealing on this 18 year old. It does make a pleasant change to find a teen in a pair of full back panties instead of the obligatory thong. The writing on them reads; "I love junk food", "I love music" and "I love me" well I love those panties and I also love what is inside them.
Tight Floral Full Back Panties
The view from below looking up at a very pretty pair of floral print full back panties covering a stunningly sexy ass. Proof if you ever needed it that full back panties can be and are often a bigger turn on than a skimpy thong, well I think so anyway. Don't get me wrong, I do love seeing a hot woman in a sexy thong but then I do also love a round full ass in a pair of full back panties too.
If you saw these panties hanging out on the washing line or in the laundry drawer you would be forgiven for thinking that they belonged to your mates mum, not quite granny knickers but probably not overly appealing to many of us as on their own they are nothing special however… Worn by the right female figure and they are transformed into something very lustful, hands up if you honestly wouldn't go here if given the opportunity.
Black Lace Panties And Stockings
Is there a better way to start your day than the sight of a sexy milf with her legs parted showing off her black lace panties and stockings? Not only is she showing off her fine lingerie, is that a slight cameltoe parting her fine layer of pubic hair that I can see? I believe it is although the pattern on the lace of her panties makes it a little deceiving.
I am finding less and less women are now wearing stockings and suspenders, is it just the world that we live in now, has everything become so frantic and fast paced that they just do not have the time? I do love it when a woman dresses to thrill her man, I just wish more would take a leaf out of this ladies book.
Legs Spread Wide Open – Black Panties
I have seen some legs wide apart images before but not many are as good as this one. I think it must be the angle and the clarity of the image that does it for me. I usually prefer to see more of an outline of the vulva however I will make an exception on this occasion. I just find this pose so appealing and it does give me the urge to wish for a sniff which leads me on nicely to how I discovered or where I found this image.
I discovered it while working on a new site that I have been asked to contribute to. The site is all about men and women who like the smell of worn panties. Yes a panty sniffing fetish site that covers all aspects from those who like to sniff worn panties to men who enjoy facesitting and women who also enjoy the aroma of a used pair pf panties. If you would like to visit it or have an interest in this fetish yourself then the link is in the right hand menu under blogroll.
Loose Fitting Panties
If you asked most guys what do they prefer loose fitting or tight fitting panties I would hazard a guess they would nearly all say tight fitting; there is noting better than a little cameltoe to brighten your day. I would normally agree however I wouldn't mind passing the owner of these panties as she sunbathed on the grass.
This image belongs to a female (obviously) sunbathing in her back garden, it was sent in by her boyfriend, I cropped out the top half and yes she was topless and yes she was a hot and I don't mean from the sunshine. How some guys are fortunate enough to have a woman or a partner in their life who is not just fit looking, they have one who loves to tease and please.
I fail to understand why so many women cannot grasp the simple fact that men like looking at them in sexy panties. We all hate big granny style panties, we don't care if they are comfortable. Well those women cannot complain if us guys start looking for a bit of naughty fun away from home, I know of a great place as well: www.discreetdate.co.uk.
The site offers basic free membership to all guys and premium upgraded membership to all the ladies that join, this keeps a decent balance between male and female members. As the name suggests, the emphasis is on no strings attached hook-ups. Many of the women are married, some are single and they just want to have naughty fun with anyone ready and willing.
Anyway, take a look for yourself, if you don't fancy a no strings shag date there are lots of local women on the site who have uploaded both naughty images of the naked variety and in their panties as they place themselves into the shop window so to speak.
If you are a regular to this blog you will know that I love yellow panties and that I do prefer seeing lingerie that sits tight against the flesh simply because I find it more erotic. Although these panties are far from being tight against the flesh they are yellow and it does look rather inviting down there.
Could you imagine how warm and moist these would be after spending a day against that shaved vulva, I wouldn't mind offering to peel them off after a days wear. I think this might be the first image of have featured where the panties are actually pulled away from the body to expose all. I usually prefer seeing a nice tight pair of panties or a cameltoe, I guess I just fancied a change today.


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Chris Lee. Anthony Weiner. Are we seeing a curious trend in New York politicians?
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Both of these guys like to take their clothes off and send the pictures to people they do not know. Lee took a picture of his bare chest, sent out into the ether, and resigned.
Weiner took a picture of his weiner, and refuses to quit.
Either way, what is it about NY reps and the tendency to expose themselves inappropriately?
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A pdf copy of sources for Psychology.
A pdf copy of Evaluating Information Sources.
The more you know about a topic, the more you know what to look for-- and what to ignore.
Searching is a process you have to do over and over, using what you find-- or don't find-- to guide the direction of your search. Keep track of your searching and what you have tried.
One way to find ideas for psychology topics is to see what has already been written. It helps to understand how new knowledge enters the world.
Psychological research is first reported by researchers in academic journals and books. As interest in a topic grows, there begins to be a group of scholars who begin to connect with each other in a pattern you can see. The pattern emerges in who they cite or refer to in their work.
This is called an invisible college and if you are going to write about a topic, you should get some awareness of who these scholars and their works are. Some scholars rise to prominence and have research that most other scholars refer to as the most accepted research. These are the big names you should know.
So, we need to look in two different directions-- at the foundation works, the most accepted research, and the very new research to see who is being cited most now.
The example search I am going to do here is for Cognitive behavioral therapy for anorexia nervosa.
I have two things right off that I want to make sure I have a handle on-- the therapy and the condition.
Step One:
For the therapy, I want to get a good working definition and see what is the most accepted research on it. Subject encyclopedias are great for this. Through the library home page links to Subject Guides , specifically Online Reference Resources, I can use a program called Reference Universe to find articles in reference books.
I'm going to start with the therapy and get a definition of cognitive behavioral therapy.
From Reference Universe, I find an article in the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
The article has the qualities I want to see in an informational source: a) it's a signed article in an edited source; b) it's fairly recent; c) I know I can get back to it or refer someone to it.
I can use the information in this article with some confidence to evaluate other sources, for instance, a Google search on cognitive behavioral therapy. I'm using the Google search to get more ideas for information sources and a better understanding. For instance, the Wikipedia article has details and links I will follow up on. I won't use it in my final presentation, but it looks like a great springboard.
But, most of the results I'm seeing through Google look more like thinly disquised advertisements rather research. I need to push on and get back to published research.
Step Two:
I can use the same process for anorexia nervosa, go to Reference Universe and find a source. It turns out that Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed. will work well for this, too.
Step Three:
Now I want to find material that puts these two concepts together. Research articles tend to focus on very narrow aspects of a topic rather than an overiview. If I'm lucky, I might find a book that gives more context to the topic.
I was in the catalog getting to the e-books, so this gives me the idea to try cognitive behaviorial therapy AND anorexia as keywords.
In the Diamond catalog, I do a keyword search on Cognitive behavioural AND anorexia. Looking at the table of contents, both of the books I get as a result look likely. The Library of Congress call numbers also point to sections of the library that looks good for browsing for this topic: RJ506.E18 A565 2007 and RC552.E18 O47 2003
Step Four:
Now I want to get into research articles on this topic. I know from past experience that I can just dive in and play around with the results until I see some sort of pattern, the same way I would with a video game. Sometimes this gets to be overwhelming and I need something like cheat codes to make sense of it.
I know from reading lots of research articles that almost all scholarly papers begin with a review of the literature in order to establish how the research written about in the article contributes to new knowledge by reviewing what has been done before. This is one reason you should look for the latest research on a topic that is close to the one you have in mind-- to find out who reaserchers are basing their research on.
I also know that there are certain types of scholarly publication that pull together lots of research on a topic: literature reviews, which note but usually do not evaluate research; and, meta-analysis or best practices literature, which brings together lots of research to try to establish patterns in research or rate of success. Regardless of the conclusions, these can be valuable sources for seeing the big picture withi regard to research and gathering citations without starting from scratch.
I'm going to start with literature reviews to see if there is something recent out there:
Annual Reviews Online publishes long, detailed literature review on different topics once a year. I search the Psychology section for CBT AND anorexia. I might also try Cognitive AND anorexia
This gives me some ideas to explore, but not quite what I'm after.
I'm now going to use PsycINFO [via EBSCOhost] and search for cognitive AND anorexia AND literature review. The results are disappointing. I'm going to try just CBT and anorexia This is looking better. I have to start reading the research, but I have a better idea what I'm looking for.
I'm seeing now the other type of literature that brings lots of research together: ones that use the term Evidence-based or meta-analysis. I could try narrowing the search using these as well, for instance, cognitive AND anorexia AND evidence-based. But, for now, the number of results for recent articles looks maneagable. So, I'll dive in.
Step Five:
I'm going to read the literature looking primarily at two things, the introductory literature review and the list of cited references. I'm looking for patterns of who or what keeps getting cited.
Step Six:
I now have the names of some key papers and authors. I want to use these to find more research by searching who has cited these in their papers. The research database Web of Science can be useful for this-- if the topic is covered in journals that are cited the most in the field. Sometimes this doesn't work.
To start with Web of Science, I want to do a topic search on CBT and anorexia to see how well it is covered. Then I want to use search features such as Related Records and Citation Analysis to find more articles. The "times cited" count of an article tells me how important it is to other researchers when the article has been published and available for some time (rather than just published.)
Other Starting Points
Academic Search Premier is a database that searches for articles from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers across all academic disciplines. For articles about psychology topics, it finds articles in these publications that are generally pretty interesting: Scientific American and Scientific American Mind, Psychology Today, and Current Directions in Psychological Science.
The New York Times Health Research is a good place to look for ideas and names of researchers, particularly under the Mind and the Behavior sections.
Shankar Vedantam's NPR science reports on human behavior is also a good source of interesting research.
Once you have a grasp of your topic, be open to looking for it mentioned anywhere. For instance, looking at news on the CNN.com site, I came across a nice description of schema therapy, a variation on CBT, on the Oprah site linked from CNN with the title Love traps to avoid. It gave me some names of researchers from the experts the journalist consulted for the article.


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awesome finds Mel! keep em coming!
perfect! did you see my recent post on Wolf Blitzer interviewing an Atheist?
totally made my day!
Terrific ... I have a SWELL theme park I'd like to sell you, then. Only problem is: it's a real Mickey Mouse operation...!
I know you were kidding ... that's why I'm gonna give you a REAL GOOD PRICE for it!
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Forum topic by rance | posted 09-26-2011 06:03 AM | 18288 views | 0 times favorited | 6 replies |
Topic tags/keywords: question sketchup design I have two separate components that I want to join together. However, I want to be able to easilly treat them as separate parts in the future. I don't want the join to be of a permanent nature. Is there some kind of smoothing feature I can apply to hide the seam between the two components? -- Backer boards, stop blocks, build oversized, and never buy a hand plane-- |
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Select both items, then make them a group (right click, select make group). To separate them, select the group and explode (right click, explode). |
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The seam will be there if they are 2 separate components grouped together. If you are using a part calculator then that is the way you will have to live with Otherwise copy both components to an area away from your drawing. Make them both unique, by right clicking and then click make unique. Explode both, join them together and then recreate as a compoent with a slightly different name. That's the only 2 options I see, live with it or combine them. |
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I tried selecting both and then Soften/Smooth Edges. That works if I uncheck Smooth Normals and raise the Angle past 90 degrees. However, then I can no longer Push/Pull the individuals. You are right, I may just have to live with it. Keeping them separate makes for easier modifications in the future, but I thought I saw someone in a video a long time ago smooth out the seam between two objects. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Let me just tell you what my goal is. I design a rectangular box. I want some crazy joint on all four corners. For example, let's say Dovetails with a box joint in the middle. I would like to be able to build one set of Pins, and one set of Tails, then copy these to the other 6 board ends. Yeah, I can copy/paste them but I'd like to speed up the whole process. I thought If I built each side as two boards end to end, then I could 'build' my joint in one corner, and all 3 other corners would magically appear as built since they are simply copies of that same component. Does that make sense? -- Backer boards, stop blocks, build oversized, and never buy a hand plane-- |
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Rance – You're givin me a headache! But I do want to see this creation when you get it built -- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm |
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Rance: Join the two components and make a group as suggested. Next open group for editing and then open one of the components for editing and hide the edge you want hidden. Then do the same thing for the next component. Keith -- Keith |
#6 posted 10-07-2011 08:05 AM |
You're right. Thanks Keith. :) Another little birdie told me the same thing by email the same day you replied. You guys rock. I knew there was a simple solution. -- Backer boards, stop blocks, build oversized, and never buy a hand plane-- |
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The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association has announced the nominees for the 2009 Dilys Awards, given to the mystery title of the year which the member booksellers have most enjoyed selling. The Dilys Award is named in honor of Dilys Winn, the founder of the first specialty bookseller of mystery books in the United States, and is presented at the Left Coast Crime mystery convention.
These are this year's nominees -
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellroy
The Dark Horse by Craig Johnson
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson
The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan
Congratulations to all of the nominees, with a special note to two authors. Louise Penny is a friend, and Authors @ The Teague will be hosting Alan Bradley on April 1 when he tours for his new book, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag. Congratulations!
Monday, January 18, 2010
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- Elizabeth Spann Craig/Riley Adams said...
There are still some books on this list that I need to read!
I'm excited for Louise. Loved her book!
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- Lesa said...
Like you, Elizabeth, I haven't read many of these books. I loved The Brutal Telling, too.
- Jen Forbus said...
Count me in as three for loving THE BRUTAL TELLING. I also loved THE DARK HORSE. Both books were on my list of favorites for 2009. Congrats to Louise and Craig. Boy Howdy!!
- Lesa said...
As soon as I saw your name pop up, I knew which two books, and authors, you were rooting for! I know how much you like Louise and Craig, and their books. Good luck to both of them! - 5:52 AM
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Scott Peacock's Homemade Baking Powder
Peacock's palate is sensitive to the metallic back note of flavor in commercial baking powders, so he makes his own for his buttermilk biscuits. It takes practically no time to put together.
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- Yield: Makes 3 tablespoons
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Combine cream of tartar and baking soda in a small bowl, and sift together 3 times through a fine sieve. Store baking powder in a clean, dry, airtight jar at room temperature, away from sunlight, up to 6 weeks.


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About "All paths lead to one place : Zion" by label
All paths lead to one place : Zion
Design by label
Very nice .
It's great and all but are there many white rastas on this site?
Really cool label! Just like always. The Lion from Zion. I like the stencil/graffiti feel.
Heey y, muchacho de monterrey,
tienes diseños increibles,
desde el DF saludos,
sigue impresionando vato!
Gracias Mr.Gorsky, es bueno saber que hay mexicanos por estos rumbos. Salu2
There is a vulture in the design somewhere. Can you find it?
Would this shirt be made of iron, by any chance?
Hecho de hierro, verdad? :D
Perfect illus!
beautiful. i love it. definitely a five.
oh man label, this is totally cool, i love the way this illusion works!
lions are pretty much the coolest things ever. 5$
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Entertainment Books now only $15!
Entertainment Books are now only $15 with free shipping! For those that don't know, these are big coupon books with coupons for restaurants, activities, stores mostly local to your area. They usually have a page of $5 Safeway coupons for us that makes the book pay for itself :).
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Third Thursday: Social Media in PR Meetup – Recap
Well, I had planned to write a short recap on yesterday's innaugural Third Thursday: Social Media in PR Meetup, led by Mike Manuel and Jeremy Pepper, that featured TechCrunch's Michael Arrington, but there really is no need when Jeremy comes through with an audioblog of the event. Check it out!
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These Dark Chocolate Butterfinger Cookies are for the serious chocolate lover in you. Make sure you have a big glass of milk ready for when that cookie craving hits.
Let's talk about fashion for just a minute. How many of you have heard of a Spankz? Basically it is a very tiny undergarment that squeezes the life out of you so you can look good in your clothes.
I found a couple cute dresses a few months ago that I really liked, but they were just a teeny tiny bit too snug. I had high hopes that I would stick with the exercise routine, and I would give up eating cookies, so I decided to buy them. Yeah…neither of those happened in time for me to wear the dresses without help. Time to go shopping for a Spankz. I was curious how well they really would work. My daughter and I headed to the mall with some friends. After having a great lunch and some fun shopping, we headed to Kohl's to see if we could find the undergarment that I was looking for. After I picked myself up off the floor from sticker shock, I grabbed a few sizes to try on. How can something so small cost so much money? It's crazy!
Just so you know, I had a complete workout in the dressing room. I worked up a sweat just trying to wiggle in and out of those torture devices. These things cause emotional and physical distress. Emotional because you feel like a huge whale trying to get your body into a piece of clothing that looks like it was made for a 10 year old. The physical distress comes from sweating buckets while you are supposedly on a fun shopping trip. Exercise and shopping should never go in the same sentence.
Want to know something that should go in the same sentence? Dark chocolate and Butterfinger ! That is one combo that should go together all the time. My daughter always gets this combo when we go to Coldstone Creamery. She never changes what she gets. This made me thing of putting the two things together in one delicious cookie.
Let me just tell you, this dark chocolate cookie was absolutely perfect. They were rich and soft and full of Butterfinger candy chunks. I suggest making sure you buy milk when you buy the rest of your ingredients. They may be rich, but they were just right to dig into after a traumatic shopping trip 🙂
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Dark chocolate cookies filled with Butterfinger candy bars. Grab a glass a milk to have with these delicious cookies.
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup dark cocoa powder (I used Hershey's)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 cups chopped Butterfinger Bars
- In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugars until creamy. Add the egg, milk, and vanilla and beat again. Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Slowly beat into the butter mixture. Stir in the Butterfinger pieces by hand.Refrigerate dough for at least 30 minutes.
- Roll the dough into 1 - 1 1/2 inch balls. Bake on a baking sheet lined with parchment or a Silpat. Bake at 375* for 8-10 minutes. Cool on the pan for a few minutes, then remove to a wax paper lined counter. Cool completely. Store in a sealed container on the counter. Makes 48 cookies.
Other cookie recipes that we like to make in our kitchen:
Almond Joy Chocolate Chip Cookies


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Why Hypercard Had to Die
Update: Click here if you would like to try HyperCard yourself.
I was a Hypercard child – though our friendship was brief.
Our seventh-grade class was led into a room full of brand-new Macintosh Performas. The day's lesson was a crash course in the use of an uncomplicated yet marvelous program. With it, one might persuade a computer to do anything and everything – or so it seemed to a child with the attention span to appreciate the wonder. Half a dozen of us were invited back a week later; and then again, and again, for several delicious months.
Among these pupils, I was the only one who had already dabbled in programming. Compared to the familiar ROM BASIC of my family's second-hand Commodore 64, the HyperTalk language seemed clunky and comically verbose. And yet there was something magical, something oddly enthralling about Hypercard as a whole. The ease with which a mostly-blank screen could be turned into an interactive, living, breathing graphical toy of my own creation was astounding, exhilarating, and addictive.
After the final week, I and one other schoolboy were driven to a distant office building, where we were asked to present our unremarkable creations in front of a darkened lecture hall. The latter was full of somber-faced, suit-wearing adults idly tapping away on costly Apple portables. With their lukewarm applause, the adventure came to its rather boring end. Lacking true English fluency at the time, I never learned exactly who was behind this brief departure from the braindead routine of my early schooling. And without regular access to a Mac (given its expense, it may as well have been a Cray as far as my family was concerned) I could not return to this fascinating plaything. My development as a programmer continued as it had begun, almost entirely Mac-less and Hypercard-less.
Though almost unknown to the sniveling digital trendoids of today, HyperCard was and is one of the most loved software products ever created. It was quite possibly an inspiration for the World Wide Web. Among its satisfied users one could even find the rich and famous.
When Steve Jobs returned from exile to rule Apple again, he let HyperCard wither away and die. Why?
In order to answer this question, it is necessary to actually power up an old Mac (or an emulator) and try HyperCard on your own skin.
Even today, there is still a wealth of HyperCard-related material on the Net, but I was unable to find a compact "Hello World"-style walkthrough example. So I created one: a very basic "four function" calculator. The materials needed for this recipe were:
- Basilisk
- A copy of HyperCard
- (Optional) A HyperTalk manual. I fished mine out of a dumpster when I was an undergraduate student.
- Around half an hour of time. Most of it was spent arranging the screenshots and writing their captions.
Without further delay:
Create a new HyperCard stack:
Now give it a name and save it:
Now you have a fresh stack, with a blank card:
Create a field:
Double-click on it and give it the title "lcd":
Re-size the field to reasonable dimensions:
Create a button:
Double-click on it and then click on the Script button in the properties dialog:
Below is the HyperTalk script that we will attach to the numeric and operator keys of our calculator. It does only one thing: append the text of the button's name – be it a number or an operator – to the calculator's "screen." The name is going to be something like card button "5″. So if we want to append the number five when the "5″ key is pressed, we will need to take last whitespace-delimited word of the button name — "5″ — and perform an "eval" on it, yielding the number 5. The "value of" operator is simply the HyperTalk equivalent of Eval.
Save the button's script:
We will give each button the appropriate name:
Copy the button as many times as needed to create the calculator's numeric keys. There is no need to change the buttons' scripts, only their names.
Create the operator keys in the same way:
Now, we will need an Equals key. Create a new button:
Give it the name "=":
Now, let's give it its script. We will need to use HyperTalk's Eval again:
Now let's actually try using the calculator. Switch to HyperCard's "finger" operation:
Now enter an arithmetic expression which makes use of all four arithmetic functions, and click the "equals" key:
The result will appear:
This is a quite useless calculator without a "Clear" key. Let's add one:
The script for the "Clear" key:
There is nothing surprising about what the "Clear" key does:
We now have a very simple four-function calculator.
Having seen what you just saw, do you now know why Steve Jobs killed HyperCard?
Well, you probably don't. And I don't either. Obviously the man is dead and will tell no tales. But perhaps we can figure out the "why."
Does anyone really believe that Mr. Jobs genuinely "thought you could do everything in Cocoa and ProjectBuilder that you could do with HyperCard" ? He was far too intelligent a man to believe any such thing. One may as well say that you could do everything with a magnetized needle and a steady hand that you could do with a text editor. Or that you could do anything with Roman numerals that you could do with Arabic numerals. Or that you could do anything in INTERCAL that you could do in Common Lisp. And so forth. Jobs was almost certainly familiar with HyperCard and its capabilities. And he killed it anyway. Wouldn't you love to know why?
Here's a clue: Apple never again brought to market anything resembling HyperCard.
Despite frequent calls to do so. Despite a more-or-less guaranteed and lively market.
And I will cautiously predict that it never will again.
The reason for this is that HyperCard is an echo of a different world. One where the distinction between the "use" and "programming" of a computer has been weakened and awaits near-total erasure. A world where the personal computer is a mind-amplifier, and not merely an expensive video telephone. A world in which Apple's walled garden aesthetic has no place.
What you may not know is that Steve Jobs killed far greater things than HyperCard. He was almost certainly behind the death of SK8. And the Lisp Machine version of the Newton. And we may never learn what else. And Mr. Jobs had a perfectly logical reason to prune the Apple tree thus. He returned the company to its original vision: the personal computer as a consumer appliance, a black box enforcing a very traditional relationship between the vendor and the purchaser.
Jobs supposedly claimed that he intended his personal computer to be a "bicycle for the mind." But what he really sold us was a (fairly comfortable) train for the mind. A train which goes only where rails have been laid down, like any train, and can travel elsewhere only after rivers of sweat pour forth from armies of laborers. (Preferably in Cupertino.)
The Apple of Steve Jobs needed HyperCard-like products like the Monsanto Company needs a $100 home genetic-engineering set.
The Apple of today, lacking Steve Jobs — probably needs a stake through the heart.
Either way, expect no HyperCard (or work-alikes) from Apple. But how about other vendors? What about open-source projects? Nothing there, either. Oh, there is no shortage of attempts. And all of them are failures for the same reason: they insist on being more capable, more complexity-laden than HyperCard. And thus, none of them can readily substitute for it.
And if you think that XCode, Python, Processing, or the shit soup of HTML/Javascript/CSS are any kind of substitute for HyperCard, then read this post again. And if you continue to think so, then you might be an autistic typical software "engineer," and please don't waste your time commenting here. Sink back into the cube farm hellpit from whence you came.
Otherwise, sit down and contemplate the fact that what has been built once could probably be built again.
Corrections and Edits:
1. Steve Jobs did not kill the Lisp Machine version of the Newton, but did kill the entire Newton project.
2. All of the comments pointing out that HyperCard was already obsolete when Steve Jobs killed it are missing the point. Jobs deliberately killed its community by refusing to maintain the product or even release the source. He could have released the source to the welcoming hands of tens of thousands of enthusiasts. All of the modern HyperCard clones (all of them substantially more complex and therefore inferior to the original) do not add up to a HyperCard community. It is an elementary "tower of Babel" situation. "Critical mass" in user communities is a well-known phenomenon. I am sure that it was not unknown to Jobs. What he truly succeeded in killing was not so much the basic concept of HyperCard but the community.
3. The various HyperCard clones and HyperCard-influenced software lack HyperCard's radical simplicity and the resulting explorability. Explorability of the "master of all you survey" variety matters. All of the extra features in a more feature-rich system like SuperCard (or even VB) are not harmless. There is a fundamental difference, especially for a child, between a system which you can fully wrap your mind around and one with countless mystery knobs.
4. Everybody pushing Javascript, Python, Wx/Qt, Cocoa, and other abominations as "HyperCard replacements" simply does not remember being a child. And/or lacks a creative bone in his body. And/or is a malicious idiot.
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I am releasing a step by step tutorial in using the "shit soup of HTML/Javascript/CSS" to emulate the core concepts of HyperCard.I think you will find it interesting.
Ah, Hypercard. I remember those days. On PC, IIRC.
I'm reminded of how Flash (Pre-Actionscript 3) got me into my degree. The fact that I can make quick graphic objects with very light scripting was awesome…
But I see your point about kitchen-sink-y alternatives to Hypercard.
Though I have to ask, do you have a particular ordered list of how close they are to the ideal Hypercard solution? Perhaps along with criticisms?
When I 13 or 14 I learned BASIC, specifically QBASIC, and that was plenty graspable, in fact I wrote a calculator program a lot like this one when I was in junior high. Looking at the code you posted above, it looks straightforward, but it's also not that clear what it does. The verbosity, at least for me, hurts the readability, and the use of "it" is, well, really vague. I thought the code for the = button was actually pretty funny– you're taking something out and then putting it back in, what's the point of that? Of course you explained that "the value of" evaluates an expression, and I probably could've figured it out, but a kid wouldn't know that and probably wouldn't have a basis for getting to the conclusion that's what that does. I have no idea how someone who's never programmed is supposed to come up with any of this besides the buttons. I also see a lot of buttons and controls and menus in the pictures above that you didn't talk about– I've heard of HyperCard before and I've read up on it a little, but that's it, so these are "mystery buttons" to me. In fact I still have no idea why all of this is called a card or it's in a stack or what exactly that means or why it's helpful or necessary (it was some time ago when I read up on it). The point is that even with this setup there's a lot you'll have to explain to someone not familiar with programming. Aside from the click-and-drag placement and sizing of things, and picking things from a list, it really doesn't seem easier than other ways of doing this, and add-ons, extensions, IDEs, front-ends, and even whole dedicated programming languages are out there that make that possible now. I think either you picked a bad example or this was ahead of its time but not as revolutionary as you think.
Pick up a copy of Danny Goodman's The Complete HyperCard Handbook and read the first chapter. That will stop you moaning about things. Hypertalk is by far the easiest programming language that has ever existed. What is "it"? Well… perhaps you need a pair of glasses… or revise your logic-solving capacity. In one script you see the code: GET THE VALUE OF CARD FIELD "LCD"… and then the next line says PUT THE VALUE OF IT INTO CARD FIELD "LCD"
And yes, well… your comment, Sir, is ill-informed, and hence you jump to poorly based conclusions. The remark about the script in the "=" (equals sign)-button shows that your grasp of basic programming is also lacking. A break-down, just for you: The second line of the script calculates what you entered into the field and the result is automagically stored in the global variable "IT". And with the next line you put that calculated value back into the field called "LCD", hence removing the things you put into it with the buttons, replacing the result for it. Just like you would when hitting the "="-button on a REAL calculator. Try doing that in any other language with so little code.
Loved your article – as I was building the Austrian HyperCard Community 25 years ago. And I love your conclusion.
After HyperCard came SuperCard and MetaCard. MetaCard became LiveCode and runs on OS X, Win, Linux, iOS and Anroid. Now, LiveCode should become OpenSource, but to start, some help is nedded. See here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1755283828/open-source-edition-of-livecodeBy the way: old HyperCard Stacks can be converted to LiveCode and an old adventure could go on…
LiveCode IS the new HyperCard
They want to completely rewrite the code so it can be taken care of by a community. This is really a dream come true – I hope it gets some of the old elegant simplicity mentioned in teh article.
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This was a really great article, other than the toxic bit calling people "autistic" near the end. :/ No ableism please.
Regarding releasing Hypercard's source code you have to remember that many programs from that time were written in 68k assembly and sometimes the compilers had bugs to where they would run on OS versions up to a certain point and then wouldn't compile on anything past that point.
For example, Appleton (the author of World Builder) had to use a ResEdit hack to get his program to run on 32-bit clean systems in 32-bit mode as the version of the compiler he used had a bug and a later versions of the same compiler wouldn't compile the code for some reason.
Similarly, Bill Atkinson said that Hypercard had more assembly language than QuickDraw and that quickly became an update nightmare as shown by the how you wound up using XMCDs to get around many of the limitations of hypercard.
Back when Copeland was still being planned an Apple representative explained to our local Mac Users Group that part of the problems was the System OS was filled with "black box" code that was the result of compiled code being patched after the fact–sometimes by code compiled in another language or worse via ResEdit.
So in the old days you wound up with code that no one really knew what it did thanks to patches via long defunct compilers or undocumented tweeks with ResEdit. It is possible hypercard was in this state and required a full rewrite to go into the future (as Duke Nukeum Forever showed demos don't mean anything).
By the time Jobs came back no one wrote in 68K assembly anymore and if it like Wotld Builder was dependent on bugs in a particular compiler that no longer existed then releasing the code couldn't have done anyone any good.
I started using Hypercard in high school, when it was released, and throughout all 4 years of college studying computer science at NYU. It was beautiful, and powerful, and elegant, and was the fastest way to create desktop software. I still miss it — the tools of today are amazing for professional programmers, but really don't address that middle ground.
I think Steve killed it because it just didn't fit in with his worldview. Apple didn't really make money off of hypercard — Bill Atkinson actually made Sculley promise to not charge for it. (Apple eventually did at the ened of its lifecycle, but irrelevant..)
Hypercard was a hobbyist tool for a hobbyist software community. Jobs needed the mac to have professional tools for hobbyist media communities — which was a good move for Apple's business. More people are into video and websites than stacks.
Releasing the code wouldn't have been that useful either, though I wish he had. The code was super-optimized for ancient macs in 2-bit color, crazy old processors, and thimbelfuls of memory. Trying to make it run on modern hardware would have required a total rewrite. It makes me sad that none of the rewrites have done well, though.
Thanks for this walk down memory lane. HC was an oldy but goody.
IMHO by the time Steve came back Hypercard had become so badly spaghetti coded that he was basically performing a mercy killing; technically version 2.0 (1990) was even LESS of a upgrade then System 8.0 was over 7.x. In fact the debugger as well as stack dependent XCMDs and XFCNs kludges to allow color and video to work had to wait until version 2.2
I should point out Hypercard was only free with a new Mac, otherwise you payed $50.00 for it. The problem is that it was the stacks that really separated the free and commercial versions so it was insanely easy to access Hypercard's full power without paying or messing around with the application itself.
If you look at what Jobs also got rid of (Newton, Cyberdog, and OpenDoc) it seems that he was focused on putting wasteful and ultimately dead end project out of their and everybody's else's misery.
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Excellent article. This expresses my own feelings about HyperCard and the wilful neglect from Jobs. Simply releasing what code there was and giving his blessing to open source development would have been a magnanimous act.
It seems to me that as apple have grown so their relationship to their user base has changed from the status of valued and enthusiastic partners to straight out the box consumers.
I cannot think of a single comparable piece of software that was so loved and supported for so many years and embraced so enthusiastically for its simplicity, accessibility and usability – that was allowed to die. Make no bones about it – Jobs killed HyperCard as blatantly as putting kittens in a bag and throwing them into a canal and then denying culpability.
Whatever HyperCard's imagined limitations its ability to open up programming to novices and enthusiasts remains unsurpassed its potential for creativity was unfulfilled .
Interestingly it was an article about another accessible rout to programming that led me to this page. A big move in education as of today …….
"Lorna and her classmates, who range in age from 4 to 7, are taking part in a pilot study here at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, to see how young ScratchJr, a spin-off of the Scratch programming language. Scratch was invented to teach students as young as 8 how to program using graphical blocks instead of text. Now even children who haven't yet learned to read or write are getting in on the act."
"Tools like Scratch aim to address what their developers see as a lack of computer programming instruction in schools today."
HyperCard was the answer to that problem .
Apple continue to produce excellent product but they are evolving into another Microsoft. Steve Jobs saved "his" company but Apple should remember that it's fan base kept it breathing until jobs performed CPR
I remember the sheer fun of having the opportunity to actually put together working program's in HC.
From stacks to automate school reporting to an Alphabet Stack for my daughter incorporating a full colour paint program and spelling and number games. Great Fun.Your article is spot on, as is your conclusion.
Paul Flockhart
Steve Jobs had been clear that he took decisions considering if the present day were the last to be lived fully then what must be achieved for fulfillment. Unfortunately during his exile from Apple the Web had already happened, so after returning he had to let go of Apple's side of hyperstuff for the Webkits for keeping integral vision ahead for Apple's developers.
He just declared, & had he been around the HyperCard certainly would have given tough time to HTML. HTML5 has audio & video objects & browsers have pdf flash plug-ins, all ripped-off from the basic notion of hypercards.. -
What a great article! It captures exactly the feeling I had with HyperCard. Oh how could HyperCard be the iPad killer app! Thanks for this article.
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I think there may be a present-day tool vaguely like HyperCard in a completely different domain: RPG Maker.
RPG Maker has some of that magical feeling where a beginner can grab it and start whacking out a game using a hundred premade high-level objects and functions that allow for low-level tinkering, while never requiring it, as I understand to be some of the problem with the shit soup.
If I'm mostly focused on the story, I can toss in the generic Fighter and Mage characters, and RPG Maker will supply default names, portraits, and skills for these characters. If I want to edit any of these, or create my own characters from scratch, I can. If I want to make them change during the course of the game, I can do that too.
If I want to place a treasure chest (one of the most common events in your typical RPG), I can. But the "treasure chest" in RPG Maker is a composite of icons, script, and numbers that can be edited so that the treasure chest might contain more or less gold, refill itself over time, disappear on being opened, or use slightly different graphics, and each of these can be modified separately by me without my having to concern myself with the others – or I can concern myself with exactly none of them, and place a treasure chest containing a healing potion in mere seconds.
Perhaps I'm on a tangent now, but I find it very good that the Easy-Bake Treasure Chest isn't a hard-coded, special doodad for use by idiots, but is a normal doodad of the sort one might make if creating a treasure chest out of regular code events, and when analyzed, breaks down into the usual modular components.
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I use and program HyperCard on a daily basis on my Macintosh with native Mac OS 9.2. There is no replacement. I have tried them all. In an effort to move past hypercard, I taught myself JavaScript, HTML, CSS and RE. I even made a stack that converts a card into an HTML page. The beauty of HyperCard is that it can be programmed to convert itself. My converter even translate HyperTalk into JavaScript. The calculator example you made is an easy translation that works out of the box. HyperCard would have been dead if it continued to evolve. HyperCard is still alive on my Machines!
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I started working with HyperCard in 1990 in late middle school. I soon took a liking to programming it. It was the reason I wanted my parents to buy me a Mac. I moved on after school still in love with Apple, the Mac OS, and HyperCard. Supercard just didn't cut it. I got a job nearly two decades ago working for a small mail order company that barely made a million in sales. This company had no computers at all. Within a year I had singlehandedly computerized the entire company with HyperCard. Initially it was shipping, then customer database, then invoicing, then accounting. In 2000 we started a website and I used HyperCard for that with the help of a cool product called LiveCard, which dynamically served your stacks over the web. It worked pretty good. Today HyperCard has built that small company into two corporations each with annual sales in the quarter billion. HyperCard still serves our customer database, invoicing, shipping, accounting, payroll, and government record filing. I've developed the only government-certified HyperCard version of the post office mailing software including barcode generation and printing. Some functions have been offloaded to Linux servers running Runtime Revolution and LiveCode. When HyperCard is given too much load to a dual-core G5 running OS 9.2 I convert the scripts to revolution and execute them on the Linux server and return the result to my stacks via HyperHTTP XCMDs. HyperCard is still the gears powering hundreds of millions of dollars annually at my company. As long as our bank of G5 machines holds out we will always find a use for HyperCard.
Sounds all good but I fear that's why Jobs let it die, the arse.
You've clearly used it for what it was made for and I'm sure Bill Atkinson would be pleased to see it's use. Unfortunately for everyone else Steve Jobs wanted to control everything and everyone. I guess that's why he let it die so he could sell you the system you made yourself with Hypercard.
It's a shame because although I hate Apple, Hypercard did look really useful.
Although I hate Apple and never liked Jobs (even more so after reading his book), I've been watching the old Computer Chronicles episodes and the HyperCard ones popped up. Having done programming before but having also grown bored of it I thought Hypercard looked great. It would be great for kids today in school but also everyone.
I've just searched for an alternative, can't believe there isn't one it's madness. I can see why Jobs let it die. Him being the controlling arse he was I assume didn't want people writing their own mini apps with it.
Its surprising none of the generous of phone app developers haven't thought of making a clone, they'd rake it in if they sold it real cheap. But then no doubt Apple would come a long and sue them for copyright and lost earnings, ignoring the fact they haven't used or sold Hypercard or any clone in years.
eh. the various replacements that are actually HC-like look fine to me.
Roger Wagner's HyperStudio is aimed at K-12 audiences and does an excellent job of keeping the key attributes of HyperCard enumerated here alive and well. I'd really like to know whether you think so too and why or why not.
The re-making of HyperCard at Apple may be coming in the very subtle form of Automator, AppleScript, iBooks Author and iAd Producer which can develop HTML widgets for iBooks Author w/o coding.
Finally, HyperStudio is able to produce HTML web apps/o coding and HyperStudio Author is able to export TML widgets for iBooks Author.
Thus, the ghost of HyperCard is still here with us because there is still a hunger among non-programmers to be able to make things with their computers that are interesting or useful. There is even a HyperArduino aspect of HyperStudio for the K-12 "maker movement." -
What we need to consider is the difference between "interactive before the Internet" and "interactive after the Internet".
The web browser became the only legitimate viewport through which to have interactive experiences. The mobile device became only only other legitimate viewport.
This was a relatively lo-fi experience in comparison to what we had in the early 1990s. But the Internet prevailed not by quality, but by quantity. All business models changed toward "number of views", "number of clicks", and we have what we have now.
Ask anyone in the software world today, if a desktop application with "interactive content" makes business sense if it can't be delivered through a browser window. You will get a unanimous "no". It's better to make ten million people skim over a page of broken crap for a fraction of a second, than to sell some media to a few paying customers.
I used Hypercard in Highschool just for mind-mapping. There is absolutely nothing on the market today that will in a very simple and intuitive way let me create simple note cards and organize them into stacks. Yes, there are programs like evernote and Onenote but they lack the simple elegance that hypercard had and still don't really accomplish what I want.
I just want to take historical notes like: 55 Million ago: Mammals first appear on earth. 10,0000 BC Modern Humans appear: 2016: David Bowie Dies. Now take all my cards and order by time-line.
So simply but I can't find a single app anywhere that will let me do this! So stupid I'm about to go back to paper notecards.
If I were a developer I would make a new hypercard–it would be my life's mission.
Morgan said:
>> IMHO by the time Steve came back Hypercard had become so badly spaghetti coded that he was basically performing a mercy killing
This is rank speculation. The state of the source code of HyperCard 2.x was irrelevant to the decision of whether or not to proceed with a reimplementation.


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Barbour won't run for the presidential bid in 2012, but he'll take Sanford's post. Oh the irony is killing me softly.
Just what the RGA needs to spruce up their image... one southern replacing another... the Republican party... the party of the South.
Haley Barbour was RNC Chairman..........has been a two term govenor working with a Democrat house/senate.........he knows what he is doing.............actually might be a break for the Repubs
Yet another rich, fat, angry, white male becomes a mover and shaker in the Republican party. Good by 2010 and 2012.
Has Haley ever been abroad? With a "broad"?, Profess "Family Values"?
GOP 2010, Whooppee You Can Count On.
How are the mighty fallen. It boggles the mind when the self-righteous bigots bite the dust. It behooves us all to walk humbly, and do not pretend to be far removed from the pain and hurts of others.
The GOP is doing a bang up job! I mean really, they are champs at all these sexual scandals. Maybe they should run on that platform. Oh wait, no aren't they the ones that are championing marriage and virtues and faith and devotion, and all things "good" and conservatism? Wow, thanks for giving us another path to staying in the driver seat for the next 8 years at least!
Great...when do we get to hear about HIS extramarital affair, illegal payoff or drug problem?
One of the best governors in the country? I thought that was supposed to be Sarah Palin?
Barbour makes me sick. I didn't think we had blatant racists running around in prominent positions in this day and age, but I was definitely wrong. His ties to white supremacist groups should disqualify him from any position of power in either party.
Why not Palin? Isn't she more popular than he is?
Ha Ha!
Barbour is another great example of the 'old' Republican party!
THEY ARE STUCK IN THE OLD SOUTH 1950s !!!!!!!
Frying pan into the fire...
...Barbour's just another, more severe case of confederacy gone wild!
...Mississippi should be involuntarily seceeded from the union...
...then invaded to free its minority population...
This sounds like an inside job. Barbour took over a little too fast for it to be completely clean.
the party is once again reinventing itself in these perilous times with harley barbour assuming the leadership position at the RGA – i mean nothing says welcome to the party of the 21st century like a red-faced southern sixty-something year old white male, arms wide open.
It is either insanity or rather ignoramus upbringing how this lot of hairbrained politicians that are supposed to be exemplary Americans get elected to the posts that they manage to somehow weasel their way into nowadays. This does not say a lot for the mentality of the US population that votes them into office. Either Americans are the dumbest humans on the planet, or to put it mildly their priorities are much like those in inhabitants of third world countries. Just where is American pride today? Someone please answer that question where it could be implanted in the brains of the American populace. Enough said? I doubt it.
"I didn't think we had blatant racists running around in prominent positions in this day and age"
Of course there are Steph! Just look at Robert Byrd.
GOP Joins the new lineup on Comedy Central. The new "christian" value, cry alot when you get caught and God will forgive you. Laughing all the way to 2016 and beyond.
This is a joke,,,the whole thing...
RGA wasted no time throwing Sanford under the bus, deservedly so...but this guy..come on...wonder if his sheet is at the cleaners.
I thoght Palin was the darling of the party...so why not her...tells you something of what the good old boys in the party think of her.
This is just a big joke....
J Wills: I couldn't have said it better myself. The GOP is pitiful. They should just Rove – oveR 😦
What a malfunctioning joke of a party the GOP has become. These people should be kept as far away from decision-making as possible.
As an independent who lothes year idea of another republic in the House, this is a great and glorious day! Let the rhino purging continue! Remind me again, where did all of the Katrina money go? Oh yeah, Mississippi. Have a great ride Mr barbour on the sinking ship known as the republican party. Please
Politicians have no ETHICS, Republicans and Democrats. Vote them all out in 2010 and 2012. If you have to vote for your party, vote out the incumbent.
The GOP is self destructing. The list of potential GOP presidential candidates, while not impressive or credible, seems to be gettting shorter.
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Furthermore, whatever emotional battles you face now, your Savior is well able to sympathize with you. He understands your weakness and is ready to help or nourish or strengthen you in whatever temptation you face: "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin" (Heb. 4:15).
You face temptations to doubt God's plan, to doubt God's goodness, to take matters into your own hands, to settle for less than God's best for you, to fill your life with substandard and superficial entertainment to numb yourself from the deeper issues in your heart. And yet, "For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help [succor, nourish] those who are being tempted" (Heb. 2:17-18).
On a practical note, I highly recommend The Path of Loneliness by Elisabeth Elliott. I have at times had the attitude that I am a victim of my circumstances, and I look for anything to medicate me to put me out of my misery. Distract me. Give me hope that something is going to change. But whatever you do, don't make me really think about my reaction to this stage of life. If that's your attitude, don't read this book. But if you refuse to play the victim and instead stand ready to face head-on what God does for us through pain, loneliness and personal loss, this book is a good companion on that journey.
Elliot calls it a "severe mercy." Loneliness, loss, pain, suffering. It is the severest form of God's love and mercy. It is "not good" that we be alone. Death, loss, sickness—these are the result of the fall of man and sin on the earth. And yet God in His sovereignty governs the fallout of these pains. Sin bombs our lives, but God guides the ashes to the ground—like the fireman to the rescue, He clears the path to the one door of escape. And then the bomb becomes not simply a force of destruction but the avenue to see God's providence and hand of provision more clearly. It becomes a "severe mercy."
You will never hear me minimize the pain you experience at this stage of life. But if there is one thing I've learned from godly older single friends, it is that we cannot wallow. We are not victims.
We cry out to God. We weep when we struggle. We are honest with ourselves and our church body about our burdens and struggles. But after all is said and done, we echo with the apostle Paul, "We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body" (2 Cor. 4:8-10).
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My son just turned 16. He left home when I was at work. He says he needs to get out of this house. He is staying with friend.. Can I force him to come back home?.. He seems to think our rules need to change, he dosen't get his way so he leaves. Any advice?
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View replies byFrancine - posted on 08/22/2012
In Canada the legal age is 16, in the states depending where the person lives, the legal age is between 16 and 18. As parents I do understand it gets frustrating dealing with teens, my boys are 20 and 14. At one point my 20 year old wanted to go live with his friend who he thought his parents let him do whatever he wanted, and I said Ok see if the grass is greener elsewhere. Within 3 days he was back home because he thought his friend's mother was more strict than I am. I'm not saying this is what you need to do but for us it helped with him understanding that it's not always better somewhere else.
Francine956 - posted on 08/21/2012
Jenn this is a tough situation. Michelle is right about the fact that legally you are still responsible for him b/c he is a minor. However, I don't know if just sending out the cops to fetch him will solve the problem. I would try and talk with him to find out what he sees as the problem. I would also contact the parent of his friend to make sure that it is alright that he is there for the time being. This is such a hard age for teenage boys, I have a 16/13 year old and it is a tough time for them as they try and figure out how to become a young man. If you really want to help the situation I would ask him to come home to discuss what he feels needs to change. Perhaps there are some compromises that can be made. Create a contract, this way it shows him that you are willing to make these compromises but still have expectations that you need met. Each of you sign it and agree to have regular meetings to discuss how things are going and if there should be any changes. Your son is trying to figure out things as he grows, I think by allowing him to have some control over what he sees as an issue will help you both. Make sure you explain that you are willing to make these compromises as long as he shows that he can handle the responsibilities and be honest with you. I hope my experience helps you in some way, from one parent to another...
Michelle - posted on 08/21/2012
legally he is still a minor and you can call him a runaway and the cops will go pick him up and bring him home
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Jones blows 6 run lead
Todd Jones just came into a 6-0 game and blew the lead in his inning. He gave up hits to the likes of Geoff Blum, Darin Erstad, and Jose Cruz Jr before a game tying shot by J.R. Towles. It's only Spring, but this just goes to show when Todd Jones is bad, he is really bad. For those who are into counting statistics, this doesn't count as a blown save because a six-run lead is not a save situation. If save percentage meant anything to anybody, hopefully this revelation makes you rethink.
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Maybe Jonesy was working on his change-up.
I laugh to keep from crying. - March 4, 2008 at 4:31 PM
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i wonder if hillary is coming with bill... she can start making plans for 2012 and 2016
Hahaha, Fernando wins this comment thread, without question! Captain Planet... Heh.
Freedom for all to tell their opinions. But some posts are motivated through HATE philosophies. Anyway time will heal the American bad thinking!
Bravo, Mr. President!
His recent actions are causing me to recall why I voted for him in 2000 – for the past several years, I tried to rationalize it away as temporary insanity.
He deserves enormous credit for the manner in which he's handling this transition, particularly during these extraordinarily challenging times.
Wait a minute. I just voted in the cnn. story of the year and I see in the results that the war in Iraq is not in the top 10. My son is in Iraq as I type and the 45,000 voters don't think that Iraq rates in the top 10 news stories. Now this is Bush's failure. What a disgrace. That pompous moron struts around the White House and my son is risking his life in Iraq for NOTHING!!!!!!!
Hey Mesa.......The reason the Dems got so many elected in 2006, is beause the voters could see what was happening to our great country. They just didn't have enough Dems to get their work done. So now, with more Dems and PE Obama, we all have hope that CHANGE will happen. Get real, Mesa.
I think Obama is giving the media some catnip while we all wait for W to leave.
I also want to comment on Obama picking Warren to deliver the prayer – Obama is no fool. I personally distrust Warren after the "cone of silence" debacle, but Obama realizes that Warren, for better or worse, is the upcoming leader of the Evangelical movement, and after the extremists and hypocrites they had in the past Warren is actually a breath of fresh air on most issues. Obama realizes that one day when he needs help with things like fighting global warming, guys like Rick Warren will come in very handy.
This also makes it a lot harder for windbags like Rush Limbaugh to spread their hate to the Evangelicals, who are a large part of the 30% who still like Bush. If Obama can split the Evangelicals from the Republican party he will have achieved a HUGE Democratic victory for the future. All you lefties who don't trust Obama need to start thinking a few steps ahead – politics is chess, sometimes his moves are not obvious, but one day you'll say "ah haaa".
If something can document a low IQ, is the gloating and mentioning the shoe issue using any excuse to do so, There seem to be a lot of people on this blog proud of their lack of intelligence !
Of course, they are doing exactly what the SADRist or AL QAEDAs intended when sending this patheic Iraqi to the Press conference


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I'm celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day today - and the blog's fifth anniversary!
What a fast year - hard to believe it's already time to celebrate such an argh-picious occasion! When I looked back last year, it was with amazement and surprise at how the blog has grown. Only a year later, and the pageviews for the blog have gone up over to 83,000 views (from 32,000 over the first four years!). That astounds me.
Thank mateys for sticking with the blog and being part of my library family online. It means the world. Now back to plank-walking!
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I snuffled into Mom's grocery bag before she could unpack it, and pulled out a big, gorgeous bone from Castor & Pollux, via our favorite market, Tilly and Salvy's Bacon Street Farm.
So I received my Valentine gift early, but that just means I can be chewing on it while checking out the competition during Mondays's hound group at the Westminster Dog Show. Two new breeds are crowding the hound field this year: the Bluetick Coonhound and the Redbone Coonhound. My breed, of course, the venerable American Foxhound, first entered the field in 1877, the very first year the show was held.
Unfortunately, we have never won Best in Show. Hounds rarely do: remember the big to-do when Uno the Beagle won in 2008?
Perhaps it has something to do with my breed's lack of affinity for grooming (see my recent piece on pedicures). Certainly it has nothing to do with our natural beauty. I cannot predict, alas, a BIS (the au courant know that's Westminster shorthand for Best in Show) this year, but were I a candidate, things surely would be different.


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a professional user from Germany writes:
Maybe I am wrong to give a comment on this synth only owning it for a few days, but anyway this is what I think about it: there is no doubt that the Oberheim Matrix 6R is a good sounding analogue synth ... there is also little doubt that software synths and VAs nowadays are coming very close to the old analogue sound while lacking the special character and ease of use of some analogue synths. Well, this synth is also lacking this certain ease of use and its sound-character is not quite up to date, I think. I own a Juno 106 and must say that despite its limited capabilities the Juno sounds much better compared to the Matrix 6R, at least in my opinion ... the presets of the Oberheim are a pleasure to listen to if you like to remember "the old days" ... those days when people tried to imitate a bass guitar or brass or strings with analogue synthesizers instead of creating new sounds (I remember John Cage complaining about these people´s lack of imagination in an essay written in the 1950s). And though I am sure that you are able to progam really good, new sounds using the Oberheim Matrix 6R, why should you spend so much time if you can easily do it with other equipment, which is not really expensive, too, but offers additional capabilities the Oberheim Matrix 6R doesn´t offer - like the big variety of sounds of some software-synths or the ease of use of a Roland Juno?
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Despite what some of you kids are saying I think the Matrix 6 is a very cool synth. It's a pain in the ass to program but we are synthesist get over it.Try programming a DX-7 and then I'll listen to you cry. I bought mine for 175.00, I did it EEEEE EEEEEbay. But seriously I would have paid more. Ok I'm lying but it is cool, the strings are warm,the brass is okay, but I think it's strength lies in it's semi modular capabilities. But you know what the real cool thing about it is? When I play a gig I can take it and my Matrix-1000 and leave my OB-8 at home Ahhhhhh aint it cool?
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Such warmth in this Killer machine, and so underrated. I will NEVER sell this synth. Great for bass (303 style easy) and 80's patches GET 1 NOW
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Very impressive synth! Although i had them all, the flexibility of this synth is stunning. For editing i suggest Sounddiver, the GUI is the one and only downside.. But the sound! the sound fixes everything. Especially when you get down and start to program your own. It does Juno, Jupiter, Prophet and even Moog imitation, and much better than those virtual analogs synthi's. The sound is alive!
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I've owned this keyboard for two days but as i'm pretty used to programming i've already discovered a lot of it. I would be more happy if i'd payed less for it. About 400$ is a little too much I think. Sure, there are BIG soundshaping possibilities but the sound is not that fat that I'd like it to be. I little silent somehow. But I've discovered it has a unison/mono mode which can be used to create very powerful monoleads. What about twelve voices in unison!! Just modulate the DCO's slightly by an LFO and set the LFO triggermode to "free" so that the voices aren't played exactly in tune and o'boy, that IS fat! But i'll come to my point here; There are many software synthesizers today which sound much better than this oldie. I don't care about they're digital, just listen and compare and don't THINK about if the source is digital or analog. I have just discovered NI Reaktor which is one of the fattest, most flexible synths I've EVER tried!! And when you compare prices you'll maybe understand my disappointment. This is NOT a bad synthesizer, not at all! But you get fatter sound much cheaper than this! Don't listen to the analog-loving nerds! I think software will take over in the music-production industry! Sad but true!
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Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Off to get married
This will be my last post for a little bit as I'm off on Friday to get married on Tuesday. So here I'm sharing a few things that have been given to me over the last week or so. Firstly, a beautiful card from Geraldine, a longtime reader of this blog - too bad I didn't have time to persuade K to buy a top hat. I love the sparkles on my wedding dress and the pink flowers!
When I got into work today, I could barely see my desk for balloons, banner and confetti on the chair. Not quite sure what the readers thought, but a lovely send off. My colleagues also gave me a beautiful cardboard cakestand and some cupcake cases and bunting which I am sure will feature on the blog soon!
The centrepiece of the workplace celebrations was my fantastic knitted wedding cake, knitted for me by Alison, one of my colleagues. Isn't it AMAZING? I'm only sorry that my photo doesn't quite do it justice. We spotted it in the Knitted Cakes book that I wrote about last year. What a work of art - I am so impressed by it. I MUST learn to knit properly...
Big thanks to all of the blog readers who have left messages on my wedding reading post, listened to me moan on twitter, sent e-cards, and even a magazine to read on the plane!
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- Geraldine27 July 2011 at 18:29
I love the knitted wedding cake, calorie and gluten free!
Looks like your colleagues pulled out all the stops for this very special occasion.
Wishing you and Ken every happiness in your married life together.
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Credit Suisse reported its biggest-ever quarterly loss yesterday after it pleaded guilty and paid $2.6bn (£1.5bn) to the US Department of Justice over aiding tax evasion in May.
"I want to reiterate that we deeply regret the past misconduct that led to this settlement and that we take full responsibility for it," its chief executive Brady Dougan said. He went on to say the deal had not destroyed customer loyalty.
"The continued trust and support of our clients helped us mitigate the impact of the settlement on our business."
The bank, Switzerland's second biggest, which employs 7,500 people in London, made a loss of Sfr749m (£487m) in the three months to June. Even without the DoJ deal, profits were down 13 per cent at Sfr882m.
Mr Dougan said: "During the quarter, we continued to see good momentum with clients, while at the same time making further progress in winding-down our non-strategic units."
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