05.05.04
SportsNight
Boy… Having this boxed set would sure save me from having to download all those episodes. Just think how much faster our net connection would be…
Welcome Wired Readers
Welcome to you Wired readers who are here via the Blogging with the Newton article. Here’s an example of an entry that was authored and posted via my Newton.
I use a Newton MessagePad 2000 with NewtsCape and NetHopper to surf the web. I’m using a Lucent WaveLan Silver wireless card to do all of my syncing and surfing. More info on my Newton at my other site.
05.03.04
Cholesterol and Testosterone
Taken from BodyBuilding.com:
Testosterone is a 19-carbon steroid hormone produced primarily by the Leydig cells of the testes (in men) and the ovaries (in women). Smaller amounts are produced in the adrenal glands of both sexes. As a “steroid”, testosterone belongs to the androgen class of hormones that also includes dihydrotestosterone (DHT), dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), androstenedione, and androstenediol. Six other classes of steroid hormones exist, including estrogens, progestins (some female contraceptives are made of these), mineralocorticoids (which help control water balance), glucocorticoids (mainly anti- inflammatory compounds), vitamin D, and bile acids.
In men, approximately seven mg of testosterone is produced each day, and blood levels range between 300 and 1000 ng/dL (10-28 nmol/L). Females, on the other hand, produce about 1/15th of this amount, leading to average blood levels of only 25 to 90 ng/dL (1 -2.5 nmol/L). All steroid hormones are derived from the sterane ring structure, composed of three hexane (6 carbon) rings and one pentane (5 carbon) ring.
[R: and that’s just to get us started…]
Source Divergence Potential
It’s not an error count or a mistakes/per time unit or goofs.
It’s “Source Divergence Potential”.
Will that fool anyone? Maybe if I only refer to it as SDP?
05.01.04
Web Motivations Part 1
A concept that’s been rolling around in my head for a couple of years has been this concept of “Motivation” and how it relates to web design and web site architecture.
Below is a story of Motivation from the perspective of a web site’s owners.
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04.25.04
On Children
My mom sent this to me… Is she trying to warn me off?
On Children
1. You spend the first two years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next sixteen telling them to sit down and shut up.
2. Grandchildren are God’s reward for not killing your own children.
3. Mothers of teens now know why some animals eat their young.
4. Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.
5. The main purpose of holding children’s parties is to remind yourself that there are children more awful than your own.
6. We childproofed our homes, but they are still getting in.
Advice for the day: be nice to your kids. They will choose your nursing home one day.
And finally, if you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: “Take two aspirin” and “Keep away from children.”
04.23.04
Claims vs Facts
Wow, that’s about as cut and dried as you get: Claims vs facts regarding Dr. Rice’s testimony before the 9/11 Commission.
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04.19.04
Classic Support Line
I was calling tech support for a large web hosting company (let’s call them “LarthEink”) trying to figure out the access information for a new client who knows nothing about their 5-years-old account. In the course of trying to get simple information like the name of the FTP server to use, I came across a spilt-brain situation.
You are about to see a prime example of the split-brain. First we have the trained-to-do-these-steps part of the brain setting up the start of the sentence “Can you give me the last four digits of the credit card…”
But the other part of the mind which I’ll call the what-did-that-person-just-say part of short term memory came up with the ending “…that was lost?”
After that my what-did-that-person-just-say section of brain just crinkled up and spontaneously combusted.
04.18.04
Anger and Frustration
Reading and reading.
Reviewing the numbers again.
Everything’s “normal”.
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I keep going through the list’s archives and recent digests. I see others with far worse symptoms, but everyone with a real name for their malady.
Comparing to others’ situations, mine is easy to live with physically. But add in that idiopathic term and it’s like I get stuck in a loop. Effect without a Cause.
“Seek and ye shall find” indeed.
04.13.04
Preparing to Resolve Conflicts
Here’s a framework for conflict resolution. I’m thinking of expanding this further.
- Recognize
- Respect
- Relate
- Resolve
The four R’s here are stges that you can use to work through conflicts in ideaologies, methods, or other issues. This framework scales well from person-to-person conflicts up to small and large group conflicts and beyond.
Recognize: The first step is two fold: Recognizing that there is a conflict and recognizing the individual elements that are part of that conflict. Whether it’s a difference in background, vocabulary, or group or personal history, everyone brings to the table a certain amount of baggage.
Respect: Do what it takes to understand how the opposing side has come to this point: each of the elements from the above step will lead people to different conclusions. Respecting these conclusions is the important part of this step. You do not have to agree with them, simply understand that this is where the other side is at.
Relate: Taking that respect to the next level means understanding it personally. Relate the context and the conclusions from the previous steps to examples from your own life: some issues such as abandonment, frustration, and resentment are nearly universal. Putting the opposing parties’ into perspective can give you the start of understnading, but stepping into their role or situation can provide clarity in the perspective.
Resolve: Now you have the foundation for communicating in an open and understanding manner with the opposing side. By having gone through these steps each side can express themselves through their own words and understand shared concepts that trancend the specific situations.