No Longer so Welcome?
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It's sad to think that in four short years we have gone from declaring "the world is welcome here" to having the mayor of Salt Lake City effectively telling the president of the United States to "go home." All the goodwill created by being gracious hosts for the Olympics was shattered in one day.
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Editorial: Laid-off IT workers who think they're doing people a favor by dissuading them from entering the IT profession need to look beyond their own disenchantment.
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By The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 5--As it is with most reasonable people, my views on some things have evolved.   For example, when I was a little kid, I hated naps.   So when word came on Aug.
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Could other potential suitors be entering the picture?
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The most painful kind of generosity are the promises you cannot fulfill. The people who were once so grateful then turn on you, and your self-esteem is sure to take a beating.  Many years ago, in a fit of generosity, Dave Winer offered to host all early-bird adopters of editthispage.com free hosting of their weblogs. This included php.weblogs.com. Well Dave Winer recently announced that he was closing down the weblogs.com and editthispage.com websites. He no longer runs a company that can support these sites and they are a personal and financial strain on him.   I was disappointed, but I had no expectations that Dave would do this in perpetuity.  My momma taught me to keep my expectations low when it comes to free things. After all, Dave and I have never met, and I've only exchanged a couple of emails with him.   I had a feeling that something like this was going to happen because the site has suffering from poor performance this past month. So my contingency plan was to ship the weblog to a commercial hosting service like weblogger if need be. During the weekend, just before the site was cut off, and before any announcement by Dave, I moved my most important open source project to sourceforge, to http://adodb.sourceforge.net/.  Today I got an email from Lawrence, Userland's webmaster:  Subject:   php.weblogs.com  From:      "Lawrence Lee" deleted#userland.com Date:      Wed, June 16, 2004 1:46 am  To:        jlim#natsoft.com Priority:  Normal  Mailer:    Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510   We'll be continuing to host php.weblogs.com, we made special arrangements with Dave to keep it running.  Lawrence   I didn't ask for special treatment, so this is a pleasant surprise. Apparently the people at Userland decided to host this weblog and Dave emailed me, saying he had nothing to do with this decision. Of course I don't expect this offer to be permanent either, and I will deal with that when the time comes. The website's performance is still terrible though, and I have no expectations about this either.  For those who ever wondered what the icon below each post means, it's a graphic emoticon of how i feel. I think the jazz singer Billie Holiday is an appropriate image for this post; her songs are always bitter-sweet. It sure feels like Stormy Weather or Come Rain or Shine.  I would also like to thank those of you who emailed me privately about this issue. RSS seems the best  way to access this web-site at the moment, as it continues to go down at random times.
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It's the season to be slighted, isn't it? With so many invitations flying around, it is inevitable.
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It seems that Microsoft&#39;s new upgrade to Windows is making some people nervous. That&#39;s not surprising, as home and office computing environments are just not as friendly as they used to be due to viruses and spyware. Even the software we ...
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Do I offend? I must. Why else would immigration restrictionists be trying to pull the plug on commentaries like this one?
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Life & style: How can I help my son to come out? He feels unable to tell his father or colleagues, and fears losing his friends who know him as heterosexual.
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In our "Notebook:Iraq" blog: how gratitude has gone away.
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An American institution is in danger of fading away.
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10:18 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:  Please be seated.  Thank you all for coming.  Welcome. Mr. Vice President, members of my Cabinet, Laura and I are please you could join us on this special occasion.  We're delighted to welcome our distinguished honorees, as well as their families and friends to the White House.  Thanks for coming. ...
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On a recent political round table on CNN, Ann Coulter took a swipe at Canadians, saying that we should consider ourselves "lucky that [we] are allowed to exist on the same continent" as the US.     Alright, Ann, this isn't the first time that an American has denied our right to exist. It's been going on for most of US history. But let's say, for the sake of argument, that we exist at the USA's continued sufferance. If we're that much trouble, why not do what your implications in those statements suggest.    Invade. You're bound to do better than you did before.    Just remember that last time, someone  burned the White House down.
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By Carrillo-Hermosilla, Javier; Unruh, Gregory C  Today the situation u very different. Tools such as...
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It seems that every few years there are attempts to push for greater acceptance, so it's reasonable to ask what's different this time?
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Seldom has someone insisted on privacy more while behaving in ways that guaranteed him less. There are places we&#39;re not supposed to go, but we&#39;re continually being dragged
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The human beings behind the business headlines can sometimes become lost.