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Ooooo maybe I could get my cricket fix at the Arms....

Love how the folks in the article say bike commuters won't use the trail, but in the comments here are all sorts of bike commuters saying they'll use it. :)

FYI: It's "Hear, hear!" from British Parliament.

And I find it ignorant like Melvin that the only revenue will be property taxes, utilities and sales taxes. I never said I have a crystal ball, all I said was your property taxes will go up and up and up...

"The biggest sources of revenue for the city are property taxes, sales taxes and the utility tax"

With no large businesses or corporations in the area, you're property taxes will go higher and higher and higher....

Xobni is slow and crashes frequently.

I see the facebook integration as a hack.

And why does their CEO look like a muppet?

"clearly she is very smart". Not necessarily so.

She had no business deal experience prior to google. As a "strategy" person at usweb cks I can speak from personal experience, that is not a business strategy role.

Nothing in her resume or background would indicate competency or interest in the underlying mechanisms for BD. Other than her looks.

Also, why go to Kellogg for finance and strategy? She was at UPenn for gods sake. If she was interested in finance she wouldve taken finance at Wharton. Instead she majored in marketing and then left a top finance school without a finance degree to a marketing MBA program but decided to focus on finance? Huh?

She is a fraud. And jumping to facebook tells me facebook is yet another phony gravytrain pseudocompany. Let me guess is fb going to do another reverse Dutch auction of it's stock to hide it's murky financial arrangements?

Oh brother. I can never understand why noobs are so anxious to share their theories with everyone. Why???? If you are a first year medical student would you go to a surgeon's blog and start telling him/her how perform an apendectomy? Would you share your theories of RNA/DNA transcription with a geneticist if you were a first year biology student? If you were a first year civil engineering student or even an E.I.T. would you go to a P.E. and tell him how to design a bridge? It's crazy. Why then do people who don't even understand the basics of EWP go around sharing their wave counts with the world? I swear you see this on every goddamn blog and msg board!

Lurk, read and learn. When you grasp the basics then (maybe) start sharing your theories. Is that so hard?

Looks good Kenny. I think your reasoning is valid. Although dis-allowing W3 based solely on NDX is a borderline criteria, I think you are right to do so.

I'd be interested in hearing what will happen to existing routes, now... some of us use those routes for places between here and downtown, not just rapidride straight to downtown....

Good analysis.

No doubt about it.

Kenny there's a typo in your comments. Assuming you are saying we are at point 1 in the 1938 chart then it should read 11 days to correct 50% not 61.8%.

What the @#%()$#* is someone doing with DELICATE DATA on a laptop? IN A BAR? Financial industry rules and *federal regulations* are: none of that data should be on laptop/phone/PDA etc!!! And if you had to have it on a laptop for some bizarre reason, you would NEVER take it out with you or left it in a car - it went directly home. Certainly I'd never leave it unattended in a bar! Sounds like her company needs to take another look at their data security processes or their next audit findings are gonna hurt. Great big red flags for me, there, I'd certainly question using her company's services after hearing about this!

Sunset Hill is innundated with sirens again tonight, and the 911 page has multiple units out with "rescue rope" at 3200 54th. What's up? Sirens going strong for a long time now - I'd check it out myself but am stuck with a twisted knee!

SIGH. They never came for the recycling bin, which all their new literature told me would be picked up from my house yesterday. Like Nubbee, mine was full to overflowing. Calling today when I get a break from work....

One good thing about the hard times, and brother believe me, we haven't even tasted the face of the anvil yet, but whatever salvation there is to be found surely comes in the form of rediscovering our morality, our humaneness and human decency.

That was a great story.

I'm more than happy to pay more for this - I've cut my garbage amount by 50% with all the new recycling and yard waste options, and hope to move to the micro-can for garbage soon. So it will end up costing me about the same after this change. Friends in other cities would KILL to have our services! They have to drive their recycling etc in their OWN CARS to the dump. Now that's not pleasant - or good for the environment, and you can't even recycle much there, just newspapers and cardboard and glass bottles.

Just wanted to check, when Tracy winked wasn't half of her head only present? That could make a wink into a blink which is slightly different.

Wow. I haven't seen you write anything of value in quite a while. Welcome back.

You're right, of course about Facebook. However it's a dangerous lesson for most. Not everyone is a visionary like Zuckerberg. You can get it seriously wrong if you think you know more about what your customers need than they do.

Agreed - I'm astonished more of the businesses aren't open during the Farmer's Market. Always have wanted to have lunch at Madame K's with friends after shopping at the market, and we never could! The businesses that are open during the market, I make sure to find the owner and tell them how much I appreciate it, and that many months, it's the only day I'm in that part of Ballard to shop at their store!

Has anyone tried this? What's the battery life on the iPhone like?

This type of thing is not a problem for MS SQL Server or Oracle. I guess users of mysql are finally figuring out that even though mysql is good for small php based sites it just doesn't have the power nor the features which are needed in large scale systems. Of course users of mysql don't want to admit that so they keep on using it and inventing ways to get around its limitations.

In corporate environment that is not possible. It must be possible to access the DB using standard query operations, tables must be normalized etc. Also normally there aren't that many db admins around so you can't use hacks and non standard ways because the db must be easy to maintain. So when you are deadling with db with tens or hundreds of millions of rows ms sql server and oracle are the way to go (there are few others but those are used by most).

I have seen some attempts to use mysql/postgre in large scale systems and they all have failed. Sure they can get it up and running but there are too many problems. You can get around runtime problems by writing scripts and making hacks into the db itself. That would be actually pretty easy but once you have actually maintain the db (constant changes because of business requirements) it becomes nightmare.

Eventually those systems (running mostly on linux and unix) decided to use oracle (some even ms sql server even though they didn't have any windows related software). Mysql is still in use in test/dev environments but in production it is always oracle or ms sql server. Some unix based solutions actually use only ms sql server because the dev tools and admin tools are so good. The performance is not an issue. In some cases oracle is faster and in some cases ms sql server is faster. The difference is not huge. I personally think that ms sql server (especially 2008 and 2005) are best products from MS.

I can't believe I paid for access to TPRWeb -- such a waste.

Though I am a lifelong Democrat, I oppose "keeping families in their homes". People bought homes they knew they could not afford. I did not do that. I am against being forced to pay for their excesses when I was responsible. Only in cases of fraud or predatory practices should the government be involved in saving homeowners.

In addition, home prices need to be allowed to fall further, until they get to the point where people can actually afford them. They should not be propped up by govt handouts, again at the expense of responsible people, but going to irresponsible companies and buyers.